CaptPretentious
@CaptPretentious@lemmy.world
- Comment on Boy Breakfast 1 day ago:
Disgusting and vile. Why do you hate yourself so much!
Pop Tarts,… 🤮
Get yourself some proper toaster strudels! Or toaster scrambles.
- Comment on I'm not sure they will 6 days ago:
'Ye’t is doing a lot there.
People notice when they get an AI generated response. If ‘looks’ professional, but that’s not what it ever comes across as. It comes across as lazy and incompetent.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
When I was a teenager, I really wanted to work in the video game industry. Really glad I don’t. I still want to learn to make video games, but I never want to work for any video game company. Especially any that have been around for say… 20 years and/or publicly traded.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
The view count was likely children. Look at cereal boxes. Look at what’s targeting kids and what’s targeting adults. Take that, apply it TicTok/YouTube/whatever. The higher view count was kids.
- Comment on Accurate 1 week ago:
- Comment on Accurate 1 week ago:
I feel most people were generally happy with her performance in Wonder Woman (2017).
- Comment on What Are These Things Called Again? 1 week ago:
They can’t legally call it a “Banana” if it’s less than 50% banana…
(joking. inspired by “cheese product” and “frozen desserts”)
- Comment on Yes, I use Debian stable. How'd you know? 1 week ago:
If she’s willing to share, I would love to read those papers.
- Comment on Yes, I use Debian stable. How'd you know? 2 weeks ago:
I used to have basically that thermostat. Slightly different model. I “upgraded” because the “smart” ones were supposed to save money. Saw my bills go up right away. Regretted the Nest Thermostat almost immediately.
And that wallet is in better condition than mine right now. Fuck it, I’ll take everything in that photo, but swap out the manual for an automatic.
- Comment on No one spells "lose" anymore 2 weeks ago:
🤓 ackchyually…
Water is not wet. Water makes things wet.
- Comment on Inviting my friends over for dinner and putting this out ❤️ 2 weeks ago:
This is the exact type of dinnerware I’d expect Delia Deetz to have.
- Comment on They call me the problem solver 2 weeks ago:
I know it’s a shitpost but it’s real advice. Far to often people will try to ‘make up’ time by driving faster or more aggressive. So not only are you stressing yourself out by leaving too late, your now stressing out everyone near you in the road watching you be a jackass.
- Comment on Following accusations, James Pond Legacy devs say no generative AI was used in creating artwork 2 weeks ago:
Don’t forget to say “make no mistakes”!
- Comment on Behold, "the whole story of Steam's economy in one picture": the top 1% of games earn 84.5% of estimated revenue, and most games barely make anything 3 weeks ago:
I don’t know if you consider them “asset flips” or not. But the number of anime/furry porn “puzzle” games released every single day, has to be throwing off the numbers.
- Comment on Behold, "the whole story of Steam's economy in one picture": the top 1% of games earn 84.5% of estimated revenue, and most games barely make anything 3 weeks ago:
Indie games pump Valve’s stock, popular or not—they should get some profit sharing even if they don’t sell IMO but that’s just me. Like a community dividend. Unfortunately, not too many people demand more from Valve.
Hopefully, by “stock” you mean available supply of games and not stock as in the stock market, since Valve is a private company and isn’t traded.
As for profit sharing… no. That would incentivise even more porn AI slop games to be dumped on there, as if that wasn’t already a problem. The “content farms” that are just going to churn out crap… would get all of the community share. And large companies would very likely ignore Steam going forward because again, potentially less profit. Unless it comes from Valves share, which that doesn’t make a lot of business sense to give up revenue in order to pay those who weren’t successful, a “participation award” of a paycheck.
- Comment on Hell yeah!!!! 3 weeks ago:
Time to get that hearing checked too
- Comment on OCUPADO! 3 weeks ago:
One time, not only did the person try the door, I yell “OCCUPIED”… then pounded on the door, then tried the handle again… somehow immediately got the attention of an employee who just fucking unlocked the door. And I’m just standing there, dick in hand like “WHAT THE FUCK”… and they were like, “oh sorry, we didn’t think anyone was in here”. Couldn’t wait one god damn minute, cause I had just walked in.
- Comment on Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions 4 weeks ago:
People take the “extrovert” and “introvert” way to far. Instead of being an observation of behavior, they take it to extremes, try turning it into a “quirky” personality and then role-play it everywhere. All due to social media. They talk about it like people who believe in astrology talk about astrology. And then they pretend they’re super happy, when they’re actually miserable and depressed but refuse to think their “introvert” persona is the issue.
- Comment on The size decrease of fast-food over the last 5 years. 4 weeks ago:
The Hy-Vee near me, used to make the best fried chicken sandwich in town. Possibly some of the best fried chicken I’ve had from anywhere. I would regularly get a fried chicken sandwich. It was good because it was a fresh chicken breast, coated and deep fried right there. It wasn’t some Sysco frozen patty. And it was priced pretty well too to be honest.
New Management (I think at the corporate level) from my understanding, it’s not fresh chicken anymore. I would guess it’s maybe a third the weight it was, the price has gone up, and it is most definitely a frozen patty.
The one section that used to do like Cafe options, stop doing spicy tenders. And no longer lets you get anything from the cold section.
So I’ve stopped going. And I’m not the only one. Because the Hy-Vee also did burgers. But the burgers are also smaller and when I swing by and I see that there’s a lot of burgers both chicken and beef just sitting there no one touching them. Quantity and quality went down price went up.
- Comment on Absolutely 5 weeks ago:
I do believe that’s what it used to mean at one point. And it wasn’t just a livable wage as in “well, you won’t die,” like it meant something. Now, it’s simply the lowest amount these companies are legally allowed to pay you w/o using loopholes.
- Comment on Absolutely 5 weeks ago:
It’s still more than twice the price it should be.
- Comment on Which is it Lemmy? 1 month ago:
If it were in real life it would be A. And if the game engine allowed you to move portals, it would also be A.
- Comment on Which is it Lemmy? 1 month ago:
Get a hula hoop attach a camera to it. Drop hula hoop over something with it being in the middle. Did thing in hula hoop take off? No. Thing had no momentum. It’s velocity versus relative velocity.
- Comment on Teserract may be opensource, but adding myself would feel disingenuous 1 month ago:
I made the list bitches!
- Comment on Me_irl 1 month ago:
For both xbox and playstation, right now, with discs, unless your internet if faster than 200Mbps, discs are faster. Also, installing from disc has no bandwidth caps, which is common in many places.
And if you say “I have faster internet”, good for you buddy. Your experience isn’t shared by everyone around the world.
- Comment on Microsoft Teams status 1 month ago:
Micromanagement. If you go “AFK” in just 2 minutes… your boss might start asking questions. Where did you go? Why weren’t you working? All sorts of bullshit every bad manager would pull out. In a misguided attempt to try to ensure you give “110%” performance!
I had a manager years ago, she tried to enforce phone codes. She would then compile a report. Trying to determine when you were on break, when you went to use the bathroom, how much time you weren’t in the phone queue, etc. She was eventually demoted from her position for basically making enemies of everyone she managed. And that report didn’t help any meaningful metric.
- Comment on Settle a debate can potato's and noodles go together and taste great with sauce and other things? (I say it can) However my mother says two starches should never be cooked because it's too much. 2 months ago:
No sauce is fixing what you’re getting at Olive Garden.
- Comment on Valid point 2 months ago:
Perhaps its different there, Europe has far better general consumer protection policies. But in the US, generally, if someone gets your debit card info, they can drain your account and the bank won’t do anything. The money is gone.
- Comment on Valid point 2 months ago:
If you can, I’d suggest switching to a credit card and just pay it off every month. The general lack of consumer protection on debit cards is frightening. So many companies put minimum effort in protecting your data.
- Comment on The end of civilization costs $5 2 months ago:
You don’t need specialized equipment. It’s easy enough to be done at home.