teft
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- Comment on Do you ever simply not understand a piece of text no matter how many times you read it despite the fact that you understand the language and individual words? 2 hours ago:
In my second language, yes. Sometimes. I just lack the specific cultural references to understand the phrase. In english, no. Can’t say i’ve ever confused myself with a sentence unless it was meant to be confusing (eg garden path sentences).
- Comment on People who live in hot climates, how do you deal with the heat? 12 hours ago:
I live at the equator and it’s always ~28 degrees where I live. You can get almost any temperature at the equator that really isn’t a test of heat. Here in Colombia if you go to the down the mountains towards the coast or jungle it gets hotter. There the houses are built with lots of natural wind tunnel effects to keep them passively cool. When you’re outside in the heat you just get used to it. When I was in Iraq it took us a few weeks to really get used to it but even at 50 degrees you eventually build a tolerance.
- Comment on Low effort meme 21 hours ago:
Seems like a job for Captain Janeway
- Comment on Bloodletting recommended for Jersey residents after PFAS contamination 4 days ago:
Its used therapeutically for hemochromatosis which is too much iron in your blood.
- Comment on Chinese Keyboards 6 days ago:
Hangul doesnt work the same way since each character is a letter. The blocks are syllables and are automatic using rules.
- Comment on "Family Size" has no meaning anymore 1 week ago:
- Comment on "Family Size" has no meaning anymore 1 week ago:
Cantina style
- Comment on if you've had or have anger issues, how did you become a better human? 1 week ago:
Started thinking about if something will affect me in 8 minutes, 8 hours, or 8 days. Now i only get mad at things that will affect me for 8 days. My anger is from combat so it’s unreasonable which makes it easier to ignore now that i’m aware of it.
- Comment on If you can’t discriminate based on age, how are there 55+ neighborhoods? 1 week ago:
You can’t discriminate against old people. You can discriminate against young people.
Old age (40+)is the protected class, not young age.
- Comment on Infamous vs Prototype | 15 Years Later 2 weeks ago:
the looming threat that Sony patches in more dependence on a PSN login to give me pause.
Ah, yeah that could be a bummer. I play on PS5 so they already got me.
- Comment on Infamous vs Prototype | 15 Years Later 2 weeks ago:
which makes me hesitant to start Ghost of Tsushima.
I haven’t played the other games you mentioned but GoT is a masterpiece. You should really give at least the first act a try to see if you like it. Pretty much everyone I’ve had try the intro has been hooked.
- Comment on Why do airplanes have big front "headlights"? 2 weeks ago:
So they can flash them to warn the other planes about the air cops hanging out in the clouds. /s
This is what I found with a quick web search:
Planes only fly with headlights on in scenarios that call for it. Those scenarios include flights that take place in crowded air spaces, when flying below 10,000 feet, and upon takeoffs and landings. It’s also common for pilots to turn on the headlights on their aircrafts when changing flight levels, to help increase visibility to other aircrafts, and in emergency circumstances to communicate with personnel on the ground.
- Comment on The typecast continues 2 weeks ago:
Peter Stormare has been playing Russian villains for decades and he’s Swedish.
- Comment on The typecast continues 2 weeks ago:
Really any eastern european will work. It’s not like we americans usually know what foreign language is being spoken.
- Comment on What did everyone grab during the Steam Winter Sale? 3 weeks ago:
I envy you. I’ve got 1400 hours in Bg3. I love the game but i wish i could forget it to play it fresh again.
- Comment on I always read on reddit suicide watch people asking for a hit person to kill them. My question is it that easy to just post and get a PM? Or do they have to go to a bar looking? 3 weeks ago:
As if you can’t trust the hitmen from rent-a-hitman.com /s
- Comment on Destiny 2 Players Struggle To Find Fireteams As Population Drops To All-Time Low 4 weeks ago:
They all went to Marvel Rivals
- Comment on How would you describe a power-lifter-type physique specifically? 4 weeks ago:
Beefcake
- Comment on I bought an HP Laptop with 8gb of Ram...and was suppose to be 256gb SSD. I downloaded one game and its all the way down to 80. Is there any free software to download to help? 5 weeks ago:
Could be on there up to three times. Once as the downloaded archive, once as the expanded archive, and once as the installed game.
- Comment on This Op Shop seems to have ordered their secondhand books by colour for some reason 5 weeks ago:
Wildly Satisfuriating.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
I’m also a mutt. This is how i identify:
- Comment on How is this Amazon ad anything BUT a trick to get a 7 year old child to get their mitts on dad's phone and charge his credit card $13K in two clicks? 5 weeks ago:
Could be in some currency besides dollars. Colombian pesos are ~4000 pesos to the dollar and use the dollar symbol as the currency symbol. I’m sure there are other currencies that are similar.
- Comment on Are implanted subdermal trackers in SciFi movies at all a realistic possibility? 1 month ago:
Yeah but radio doesn’t like meat shields being in the way. RFID only penetrates like a few cm into people.
We could always advocate for RFID tattoos if we want to get this going.
- Comment on Are implanted subdermal trackers in SciFi movies at all a realistic possibility? 1 month ago:
We already implant subdermal RFID chips in animals and people. You just put the chip inside a non-biologically reactive substance and it’s fine.
The bigger problem is scanning distance. You’re limited to only a dozen meters or so if you’re not using an active RFID with battery. ~100 meters with a battery but then you have to change the battery every now and then.
- Comment on Obsidian's new first-person RPG Avowed channels Baldur's Gate 3 in one key way: "The core of RPGs that makes them special is missable content" 1 month ago:
I’ve played those and BG3 has much more content. Especially missable content that depends on the choices you make.
- Comment on You're Probably Wrong About Rainbows 1 month ago:
I stopped watching him when he did that iq video just to show his own iq.
Dude is a jackass.
- Comment on Obsidian's new first-person RPG Avowed channels Baldur's Gate 3 in one key way: "The core of RPGs that makes them special is missable content" 1 month ago:
BG3 is a great example simply because there is so much content you can miss. I’ve put 1300+ hours into it and I still see things I haven’t seen in any prior playthrough. Granted they aren’t large story things or quests anymore but still, even the little stuff adds up.
- Comment on In a bit of a pre upgrade slump, what do you recommend? 1 month ago:
Have you tried the Star Wars Jedi games? Fallen Order should run fine on your machine and possibly Survivor too but that might be a little much for your rig. \
They’re both wicked fun games that award exploration. I would call them souls-lite not soulslike since they are much easier than something like elden ring or sekiro.
- [Letters Live] Keegan-Michael Key reads a letter from the Smithsonian to a man donating 'artefacts' from his gardenwww.youtube.com ↗Submitted 1 month ago to videos@lemmy.world | 0 comments
- Comment on Anyone else bounce around from game to game with no clue what to play? 1 month ago:
Play Baldur’s Gate 3. It’s enormous. It’s difficult and the turn based combat is something you’ll have to get used to but it’s incredibly fun and deep.
I’ve put 1300 hours into the game because if you get bored you can just start a different character and try the story from their perspective. There are dozens of ways to complete every encounter.
