saigot
@saigot@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Those damn woke corners. 4 days ago:
Check out formula e. It is electric race cars and they can get bonus power by driving in a particular part of the track. They used to let fans vote to give cars a boost too but i think it’s discontinued.
- Comment on If you dont have a macking cmheese, are you even based? 5 days ago:
But this post doesn’t have a description…?
- Comment on Making the shape of your favorite thing into a surf board 1 week ago:
This is why politicians rarely die in shark attacks
- Comment on Avowed Review Thread 1 week ago:
A good month for action RPGs
Seems like all the way on the other end of the spectrum of Kingdom Come deliverance 2. Might pick this up after I’m done with Kingdom Come.
the lack of stealth is a bit of a turn off for me personally, but the hand placed events and mobs seems like a big plus.
Does anyone know if the game is viable without any companions? The reviews I have seen seem to complain about them a lot and I already dislike AI teammates.
- Comment on we've been trying to reach you about your extended warranty 1 week ago:
Fixed
- Comment on Ah shit here we go again. 1 week ago:
This is why I support the metric year, 13 months of 28 days with one special day off for everyone, even the months.
- Comment on we've been trying to reach you about your extended warranty 1 week ago:
POV your canadian about to find out if Americans can count past 50.
- Comment on Oxford scientists achieve teleportation with quantum supercomputer 1 week ago:
This isn’t a first, quantum teleportation has been a thing since 1997. The breakthrough here is teleporting the information of an entire logical gate. The usecase here enables them to link multiple smaller quantum processors together so they can act as one bigger system.
- Comment on Not Americans right now 2 weeks ago:
MFW America is trying to financially crush us into submission, but we have all the eggs:
- Comment on Putting the die in diet 3 weeks ago:
That’s the average in (early) 2024. With bird flu the current commodity price is 7/dozen and expected to rise. The joke above was meant to reference the sudden and alarming spike in egg prices. Without public health intervention things could get pretty bad.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
if a meme isn’t secondhand, it’s not really a meme yet.
- Comment on This is a JOKE. Its NOT real. But how about a law that forbids masturbation 3 weeks ago:
There are many who say they are Catholics but I have no idea how many actually follow these rules.
guttmacher.org/…/guttmacher-statistic-catholic-wo…
In April 2011, the Guttmacher Institute published the results of an analysis finding that 99% of all women of reproductive age who have ever had sex—including 98% of such Catholic women—have used a method of contraception other than natural family planning.
By their early 20s, some 79% of never-married women—and 89% of never-married Catholic women—have had sex
- Comment on I think some people can't tolerate silence and need to fill the air 3 weeks ago:
For the same reason I refuse to refer to mastodon or bluesky posts as anything other than tweets.
- Comment on BRB, need more cheese 4 weeks ago:
I walk by the cheese monger and point at a cheese and say “that looks tasty what is it”.
- Comment on Yaay 4 weeks ago:
Definitely not:
spoiler
Nothing tops the Jolly Rancher story. Steve and his girlfriend Samantha went off to college in August. She went to Florida State, he went to Penn. So, she decides to fly to PA to visit him. He was really happy to see her so he decided to give her some oral action. He had done this numerous times before and he always enjoyed doing it…but for some reason, this time, she smelled really horrible, and she tasted even worse. He didn’t want to offend her though because he hadn’t seen her in months…so he put a Jolly Rancher in his mouth to cover it up, even though it didn’t do much to help. In the course of eating her out, he accidentally pushed the candy inside of her… and stuck a finger in to grab it out. He took it out, and put it back into his mouth and bit it. Only…it wasn’t the Jolly Rancher. It was a nodule of gonorrhea. As in, the blister-like structure that gonorrhea makes filled with diseased pus was the size of a fucking Jolly Rancher and the poor guy BIT it. I guess it was really dark in the room. He freaked out and started vomiting all over the place when it exploded in his mouth… He demanded to know what was going on, turns out she had cheated on him at a club like, the first week of college, and fucked some random guy and the stupid bitch had no clue what was wrong with her. She noticed a strange smell though. So now, Steve is freaking out that he now has gonorrhea of the mouth and God knows what else.
- Comment on Yaay 4 weeks ago:
I love the gif/image replies. It makes me nostalgic for when every thread was mostly images and gifts (not that I’d like to go back but it’s nice occasionally)
- Comment on POV: It's January 19th 5 weeks ago:
Yeah that’s kind of why people are doing it.
- Comment on Look Ma, No Batteries! Hands On With Lenovo's Self-Charging Keyboard 5 weeks ago:
Ianother problem is whatever you have that charges the keyboard, you’d need ~109 of them. I still think it’d be cool tho
- Comment on Look Ma, No Batteries! Hands On With Lenovo's Self-Charging Keyboard 5 weeks ago:
Where are you getting that number? There are many different types of supercapacitors, which cary in lifespan wlquite a bit and the conditions (mostly voltage and temp) also have a big impact. The article doesn’t specify the type of cap used.
For instance this paper tests a supercapacitor rated for 2.7V at 2.5 and 3v. At 2.5v the cap is estimated to have a lofespan of 100yrs, with 3v scenario it’s 10.
Keyboards don’t get very hot, and the voltage draw is very predictable so I don’t think designing a long lasting capacitor for this usecase is particularly tricky.
I would be worried about the lifespan of the solar panel.
- Comment on TikTok tells LA staff impacted by wildfires to use personal/sick hours if they can't work from home 5 weeks ago:
Isn’t tik tok closing down in the us in a day or so?
- Comment on Let's discuss: Assassin's Creed 1 month ago:
Not to be overly negative, but what are fans playing for these days? I only played the original 2 games and the (first?) North American one.
It seems people hate the modern stories, the gameplay is shallow at best and it’s parkour has been far surpassed by many other games by now. The games are very often used as examples of modern AAA studios having no creativity and just churning out the same game over and over. The games look beautiful and I’ve heard the educational versions are pretty useful, but what are the primary draw these days?
Again I don’t want to be a hater, that’s just what I’ve picked up from other people talking about it.
- Comment on I love magic 1 month ago:
- Comment on Remember the iconic paintings of The Last Supper? This is what it would look like if it happened today 1 month ago:
Shitpost ≠ shitty post
- Comment on Don't forget Big 3 1 month ago:
Most small vendors offer a pretty nice discount for cash (even though thats technically against cc’s tos), as soon as I started to buy almost entirely local my cash usage went way up. I do almost all my groceries in cash these days from a farmers market.
- Comment on and we thought our thing with beans was bad 2 months ago:
- Comment on No one showed up to his party 2 months ago:
It’s a bit blurry but that is definitely a NA plug in the background.
- Comment on Congratulations. 2 months ago:
And you don’t do it why exactly? It’s Wikipedia after all
- Comment on ohh ... 2 months ago:
People in those countries absolutelly aren’t going bankrupt due to being denied life-saving treatment and having to pay for it from their own pocket.
The meme has an “or” in it though. About 20% of Canadian bankruptcy is due to health and illness.Here in Canada the maximum disability in ~1500cad a month, which might pay your rent if you live in a really really cheap area. Part of the reason it’s bad like that is because it is so often compared to America, and often greatly exaggerated like in this meme.
- Comment on What happened to gaming? 2 months ago:
there’s plenty of “ugly” games here’s some I’ve played recently that came out this year:
- UFO 50: A collection of new games in the style (mechanically and visually) of the 8bit games. 8 bit graphics
- Balatro: A GOTY nominee, it’s a roguelike that is extremely loosely based on poker. modern pixel art style static images
- Children of the sun: a puzzle game where you are a sniper that bends and deflects bullets to kill whole rooms of people with 1 bullet. Graphics are pretty imo but not advanced.
- Echo Point Nova: a movement focused shooter. games plays on a potato. There is technically a a ray tracing option, but I think it’s more of a future proofing thing/a personal interest of the dev.
- Comment on [from 2020] Why Don’t We Just Ban Targeted Advertising? 2 months ago:
Ironically street signage is generally one of the more regulated forms of advertising. Those guys that spin signs were originally there to get around those laws.
