orbitz

@orbitz@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why I gave up electronics club⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Learn a other new thing again appreciated, I don’t think I’ve heard of that one…or did years ago and memory failed hard to tell heh. Always nice to realize new things so thank you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Games that have now or will be turned 40, 30, 20 and 10 years old as of 2026⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Talk about feeling old I played almost all the games until 2006, but fewer of the list after and hardly from the 2016 one. Not trying to one up but figured good place to comment.

  It’s been a fun time seeing progression over the years, haven’t stopped playing since my first Gemini (Atari 2600 knockoff that played the same games) system. Going from 2d squares to a proper video representation has been awesome. I always enjoyed the graphic improvements the gameplay has had its ups and downs but the remembered ones did that part right.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why I gave up electronics club⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Very much appreciated, thank you I’ll never understand everything but I’d at least like to have a bit of an idea.of what I can.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why I gave up electronics club⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Always love their comics but since I don’t know crap about this stuff it’s amusing to see how this one is relevant to a meme. Wish I knew more but only so much I’ve learned so far. One day perhaps but not today.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Off the Rails⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s pretty much the radio version as well the books were pretty close on those lines.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Off the Rails⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I listen to the radio version of hitchhiker’s while I go to sleep often, if I managed to hit play in the middle of the whale’s pondering I always back up a bit. It’s one of my favourites of the entire series and not as good when played mid pondering.

  Also the line about the bowl of petunias having relevance later is quite amusing to be sure. Though I assume not thought of when written.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Christmas Animals⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What an appropriate username for a discussion of animals. Awesome.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I dunno⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Huh I just remembered the orders of arithmetic but parentheses trump all so do them first (I use them in even the calculator app). Mean I assume that’s that that says but never learned that acronym is all. Now figuring out categories of words;really does my noodle in sometimes. Cause some words can be either depending on context. Math when it’s written out has (mostly) the same answer. I say mostly because somewhere in the back of my brain there are some scenarios where something more complicated than straight arithmetic can come out oddly but written as such should come out the same.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨George Takei (TOS), Rebecca Romijn (SNW), Tig Notaro (DIS, SA) and Karim Diané (SA)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I just think that’s acceptance of all is what those rights movement really meant, they just didn’t know what it all encompassed at the time. They were fighting for everyone to be accepted and I thinks that’s what we should all hope for. Everyone is a person, everyone has their merits. Even if not all good were all people should be treated as such.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨George Takei (TOS), Rebecca Romijn (SNW), Tig Notaro (DIS, SA) and Karim Diané (SA)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s fair I just thought that there may be the one person who saw X-Men (2000) who didn’t know she was Mystique. Cause hot damn she was definitely one of the better live actions than drawn.

  Wait are X-Men not culturally relevant anymore? Shit I’m old. They had very inclusive ideals which I think is relevant these days is all for North America currently, unsure how well other western societies are doing but it appears not so great either.

  I only hope we can end up as inclusive as X-Men they understood everyone was different but wanted to coexist. Isn’t that what we all want? Sorry not directed at you personally just adding cause X-Men rock.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨George Takei (TOS), Rebecca Romijn (SNW), Tig Notaro (DIS, SA) and Karim Diané (SA)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Didn’t watch the 2000s X-Men? Romjin was Mystique, looking quite attractive of course. Mean not saying bad if you hadn’t but that’s how I remember her originally. Plus she was John Stamos wife for awhile. Keep forgetting it’s Jerry O’Connell she’s married to now who I used to enjoy from Sliders (first seasons then it gets meh). I don’t know the other two myself though, but always enjoy Takei when he’s a guest star.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Where is modern Punk?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not helpful for the question but it made me remember one book I read on Buhhism that was written by a punk artist that used to be around Ohio? Crap can’t recall the place think Akron was a city spot. Seemed like a fairly small artist from whati recall of the stories.

  It’s fun to see where punk comes up is all, was never my particular taste for sound (or scene really) but I think their messge is awesome. Think all systems need their message reflected in controversial art, may not agree with their sound but so far a lot of messages have sounded better than the status quo. And sometimes seeing what the system brings shows what may be needed for change.

  It’d be nice one day if punk couldn’t have the same message cause we did better for ourselves as society.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why did Thanos, with the power of all the infinity stones, never think to try doubling the amount of resources in the world?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Doesn’t Deadpool fit in there too? Amusing cause he’s not in ‘those’ movies. Never read those comics but just reading about Thanos, Deadpool and Death seems neat.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Emperor of overpromising Peter Molyneux says he's done with games after Masters of Albion, which is also his 'redemption title'⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yup I recall a friend telling me of all these awesome things, not what the things were anymore but articles he read of Fable, and them not being there. He has a habit of over promising features while still making a decent (sometimes awesome) and fun game but it doesn’t help when he talks up about things that aren’t in the released version.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨how do school shooters know how to use guns?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Even without much education, I was a geek in a rural location, one time a friend’s dad put a cigarette (half 3/4 done or so) on a fence cause we were having a competition and we hit them all. Mean the cigarette was only say 15 - 20 feet away but I I split it in half with a BB gun (yes no kick of course), probably luck but I was hitting the targets too and the dad figured no one would hit that one. It wasn’t a long range but I figure someone with access to a rifle should shoot fine enough if they practice even a bit if I can without access. I only shot a gun maybe a dozen times in total.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨when ur higher than sagan⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I highly recommend everyone to read up on Feynman, he is absolutely one of the genius that you can read about for modern times (well probably Hawking too). He gave me the urge to understand calculus and even if I never got there (I will probably try till I die because I wish I understood the world in a similar way), I so wish I could understand it 1/10 of he did. Also the biographies and other stories show how much he loves what he did, if we only could have many more with such interest in science. Mean maybe we do I don’t read science journals but his drive I think shows a lot.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do some people hate drinking water?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve lived where tap water tasted like shit, not quite literally but eveytime I went home I’d have to remember not to drink the tap water. Eventually that town got a better water treatment plant but I can sort of see it from that angle. We always had the big 4gallon jugs (again may not be correct but the bigger jugs that sit on top for a dispenser) for regular drinking water

  Thankfully where I moved to (many many kms away) the tap water was awesome, don’t live there now but I still do tap water over filtered for the most part. Never seems that much worse so may as well.

  Really the only reason you’d drink the other tap water was cause you’re hungover…also been there. Then you remember that there’s a water dispenser somewhere in that house cause no one drank the water from the tap in the town. Even the better water wasn’t great but still noticably improved.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spaceballs 2 | Announcement⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ya heard of me?

  Who hasn’t heard of…(Stop now before I type out the script).

  He was hilarious, but I hope he knows he probably can’t do it quite the same and maybe get replaced by the novice, homogenized milk. I really got no idea what fat content of milk is used for yogurt but think you get the idea.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Loretta Swit, Margaret “Hot Lips” Houlihan on ‘M*A*S*H,’ Dies at 87⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The show lasted longer than the war did, and not nearly at the same years. Added the second bit for people who may not know. When I was young I’m pretty sure I thought it was much closer in time than it was, but it was like early 90s going to smartphones in time difference, or like a someone being born to growing to the drinking age in the US time difference from end of war to start of show. Not exact but gives an idea.

  Not correcting just adding, but I always enjoy thinking of time differences for things. The world changes quickly sometimes, except when you’re waiting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Loretta Swit, Margaret “Hot Lips” Houlihan on ‘M*A*S*H,’ Dies at 87⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Have never watched it all but did a few runs of the earlier seasons, great show and she definitely helped it be one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Into the meat grinder!⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  When Leeto got bored of the Duncans and didn’t use his prescience. Don’t mind me been listening to the Dune series for the umpteenth time again. Just the core ones of course.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If not intentially a minority and I get into a fight and I did not know they were gay, palestinian, jewish, or whatever. Can I still be charged with a hate crime? Or does one have to know first?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sometimes you may not have a choice with who fights you. I recall once in Calgary a few decided to try and fight our group and we just disengaged, but if they were adament about fighting there was little we could do. It was quite random and we’d were in our middle teens and don’t think we said anything first but it’s going back like 30 years so recollection is hazy. I think we were just walking around in the evening is all.

  So people just are looking for a fight and maybe our disinterest curbed their desire but I have no doubt there are others who wouldn’t be curbed by that and just want to beat on people.

  I do agree with the general sentiment but sometimes even if you do everything correctly the wrong outcome happens.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Damn⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As long as it took me to really comprehend the rate of change thing and understand how calculus is that, until I read that sentence I didn’t think of all the gravity parts impacting a stellar body and velocity in a direction being impacted by multiple forces. Mean I always knew the story of Newton inventing calculus for that but never clicked exactly how it related. The sad thing is it’s a sort of thing I pondered a bit on but never quite made the connection.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts?⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve used a PC with Kodi on it for my main tv for over a decade now, think I used it under it’s previous name even. I’ve had few complaints, occasionally there’s a video that won’t play but works in VLC but that’s pretty rare. Sometimes it doesn’t pick up new videos properly but that’s just expected for some file names.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨God is a dick.⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well we can’t assume we know physics completely yet (or within bounds of the question) something down the road may open an idea or ability to generate more power than we know what to do with. If this was a game we may only been on the first or second step of a technology tree. Or we just aren’t able to travel that far realistically, we have to overcome our idea of our species being singular and send out generation ships that go for ages (in human time) to explore more as a species, even if the originators (Earth humans) may never know the outcome.

  Of course if we discover that much power we’d likely annihilate ourselves anyways, least with our current society.

  I do mostly agree but I try and think of other possibilities since the universe is so vast.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cox charges you $25 if your credit card is declined⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What if I’ve been paying for years without incident? There’s a thing where I can do autopay for mobile (Canada) where it’s $10 off the bill. I always hate the idea of autopay but they’ve never overcharged a bill…so far. By years I mean it’s been over a decade now.

  Mostly curious if your stance still says no to this situation as well. I’ll guess yes, but still it’s $10 a month so adds up to almost a fast food meal these days lol.

  For no perks I definitely agree, I pay my crap on time and takes like 5 mins a month to pay online.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wait, why is the White House using Starlink to ‘improve Wi-Fi’?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There are so many better options to whatever they said, like there are so many better options for a properly run government. These days I just assume this is how the the US people (as a whole, I know many do not want this) want their government run, which is troubling but expected nowadays, unfortunately.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PC gamers spend 92% of their time on older games, oh and there are apparently 908 million of us now⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  With different mods each playthrough can be quite different too. That’s why easily modable games are awesome for their price. Of course I just like being in a big shooty mech to blow stuff up so may be biased on that one in particular.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox Boss Surrenders In The Great Console Wars⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The great one was Sega vs Nintendo, this was a sequel. A noticeable and impactful war but not the ‘great’ one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨First Image of Matt Damon as Odysseus in Christopher Nolan's 'The Odyssey'⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My favorite way to say Matt Damon for the internal laugh. Also enjoy the story of how the puppet didn’t turn out right so we got what we all laugh at for the Matt Damon puppet.