taiyang

@taiyang@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'd also add that⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d take mine with chili and pure satisfaction in life, but that would be redundant so chili alone will suffice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Bog⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  How’d I miss that slam dunk! Edited it in, haha.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Bog⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve had the song Zombie by The Cranberries stuck in my head and because of this post about cranberries I’ve changed the line stuck in my head to this:

  *But you see, they’re on me, they are not my family
  On my head, on my head, they are fleeing
  With their fangs and their bogs, and their bogs, and their legs
  On your head, on your head, they are crawling~

  On your head, on your he-eaya-ed,
  Spi-der, spi-der, spiiiders,
  What’s on your head, on your head,
  Spi-der, spi-der, spi-ehya-ehya-ehya-ehya-eyoh- *

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I can see the confusion tbh⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  What a weird max score… as someone who grades, you generally want it in a way that gives a clean percentage, mostly for transparency and tracking for students. My class does 500 total points (thus a 5 point quiz is 1%, 100 point exam is 20%, etc.), which is what previous instructors did and helps students figure out what is needed for an A.

  But 59/59? Thats confusing af. Bet it’s out of some arbitrary total, too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨🤡 We've all been played for fools. 🤡⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Interestingly enough, I only got my PhD because the job market sucked after Bushes recession and I was promised 5 years of funding. I did get some great data analytic skills out of it, but academic positions are indeed far and few between.

  One of the main factors after my graduation a few years ago was that professors just refused to retire, leaving very new faculty positions; that changed slightly right after my kid was born but by that point I was and am ok with an adjunct part time and homemaker full time situation.

  Now it’ll mostly be a lack of funding, though, unless I leave the US. Meh.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  People giving you trouble cause he’s only 42 haven’t seen how miserably useless some grown men are when it comes to household stuff. I did similar for a while to save up for a house, but in my case he was also an alcoholic so it’s doubly difficult. Having moved out, he’s struggling to feed himself though.

  I think caretaker is the right term, though. House-anything is weird sounding, though (housewife for instance is out of favor for more gender neutral terms).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hollow Knight: Silksong - Release Date Trailer (September 4)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I thought it was gonna be a shadowdrop to, but yeah that makes sense. Two weeks might as well be today given how long we’ve all waited!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Slay The Princess - Official Announcement Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh! I’ve been putting it off because I wanted to play it along with a friend to watch but now I have an actual good reason to wait. It just seems so good!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Game prices should have increased with every new generation, former PlayStation US boss says⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, inflation exists. That said, they just use dlc and other microtransactions to recoup costs (plus in some ways production is cheaper, just not overall).

  I like to remind people that they’re taking advantage of a thing called consumer surplus. In short, any given person will spend X amount of dollars for a product, be it $60, $30 half off, or $120 collectors edition, etc. Hell, “free” gets the most heads, hence how mobile market works.

  Flat $60 (or the shift to $80) will inevitably cut off anyone unwilling to pay that price, which at a certain point is bad for business and why you get sales. Plus, most sales are digital now, so it’s not like there’s a per unit overhead. Keeping a dynamic pricing structure is simply better in spite of inflation, which obviously this former boss apparently doesn’t get.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Remember to 2FA your kidneys.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The best part of these jokes is that AI will suggest it as a solution in a couple months when you search.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Checkmate.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Lol that was my thought but someone already explained it in another comment. That said, maybe there’s a signed copy of the Book of Mormon (well, rather the ‘transcriber’, lol)… or oh oh, or maybe Dianetics. I bet that’d be worth a ton.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Secret of evermore has some gigeresque visuals. I should probably attempt to finish the game but here are some screenshots⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Looks like quite a few completionist achievements, too. Totally my thing (with a guide) although people who don’t wanna grind for a day at endgame might just want to go for the “beaten” status. Lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Secret of evermore has some gigeresque visuals. I should probably attempt to finish the game but here are some screenshots⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s wild, I was just thinking of a replay. Do you know about RetroAchevements? The achievements kind of give me goals which have helped me actually finish these games.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨beaver girls rise⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Slimegirls beg to differ.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨beaver girls rise⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You think there are multiple fungirls, but is really just one very large fungirl and the fungirls you see are just their reproductive organs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This is WAR.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sounds like a fun base rates problem, much like when you say airplanes are much safer than cars, etc. I wonder how it breaks down by vehicle, though; 2% might be cars as a whole, but trucks vs suvs vs sedans change that up and trucks, having the highest rate of dui and accident rate (after accounting for urban density) you end up with maybe a comparable 4% rate with forklifts.

  None the less, respect the forklift. They may do as many injuries per capita as an F150 but at a fraction of the speed! And in new and exciting ways!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who got that landlord money?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We manage at 50%, but we don’t have car payments or student loans and the alternative, renting, is much higher. With a mortgage, you also get equity and pay down principle, so it’s not just a place to sleep. It’s like 25% to bank and 25% into nonliquid savings.

  Renting at 50% or higher is a full loss, though. And honestly, if you have plans to travel, have kids, or just expensive hobbies, it really eats into your ability to fucking live your life.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who got that landlord money?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The fucked part is to buy a house, there’s a debt income limit because nobody thinks you can afford the payments otherwise. That limit is much lower than 2/3, a bit under 1/2 when I bought (and we were forced to buy points to lower interest to get the payment there, which could have been down-payment instead).

  It’s all very fucked.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨All will eventually be revealed⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Look, how I wish to honor Steve Buscemi is my own business.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SNAIL PRO TIPS⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My thought too. Snails in my area are an invasive species and there’s very little that can eat them. They serve no good purpose and compete with the native species, which actually are probably endangered.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨bird based storage⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, but can Doom be played via birdsong?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hey now, we don’t know if they’re taking out a substantial loan or selling his car to pay for this extremely expensive computer. Lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Now that I've got my conclusion, it's time to go look for evidence that only supports said conclusion!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This isn’t terribly believable; I’ve seen some wildly bad takes in “the literature” because there’s just so many for-profit journals that you get a ton of junk science. That, or you find something in the archives from 50 years ago.

  Now, if the professor is any good they’ll put restrictions on even that but the bar is so low we’re just happy to see a citation that isn’t a blog or made up by AI.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨feeley feels⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the feely people prefer the term “holistic.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Help prevent teenage agricultural addiction⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  What do you mean there’s no milk in my steak? I demand meat milk! lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ubisoft: Microtransactions make games more fun⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  For a second I was worried this was an Unpopular Opinion post but then I realized no one has ever actually thought this ever.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Help prevent teenage agricultural addiction⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If I saw it today, probably yes, lol. I saw Gluten-Free on a package of strawberries recently, though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Help prevent teenage agricultural addiction⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I couldn’t even tell what they meant by that panel, lol. My first thought was the “non-gmo” labeled sea salt I saw once that blew my mind.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Panama Proxima⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m sure they’re populated… by something. Roaches, probably.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do the right thing and lend a friendly hand⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Right, but he could have done the funniest thing ever and just left those kids there.