CaptPretentious
@CaptPretentious@lemmy.world
- Comment on cilanto 🌿 2 hours ago:
Every been in a public bathroom that has that pink soap. Cilantro tastes like that smells.
- Comment on I'll take a liberal. Just 86 the tofu. 2 weeks ago:
The Chadwich doesn’t even come with a side of guns. What is this weak beta shit.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Now I understand all those videos of guys thinking it’s a covid test and getting mad. That looks almost identical to a covid tester I had.
You should see a doctor for better confirmation. My understanding has been, if you see positive on the test, see the doctor for actual confirmation since various things can throw the at home testers off.
- Comment on Spider-Man 2 Debuts to 'Mixed' Steam Reviews Amid Serious PC Performance Problems 2 weeks ago:
It didn’t refer to funding. It’s marketing only. If you ask 100 what does AAA in video games, you’ll get a wide breadth off answers, because it’s not a real term, but it sounds good and people will make up their own definition or repeat one they heard.
- Comment on Select a tip 3 weeks ago:
Even if it is, at current rate, one day we’ll look back and go “remember when tipping was optional, and less than 100%, we were truly spoiled back then”
- Comment on How did a simple phone call become so problematic? 3 weeks ago:
For me I hate phone calls because it’s someone demanding I drop what I’m doing to address whatever they want. Keep in mind, 99% of phone calls I get are at work form co-workers.
The number of “quick calls” that are actually quick I can count on 1 hand, and still have room for more. I have tasks to accomplish, things to do. And I’m spread so thin between all the things I do, there’s a fair chance I’m going to forget something about what you asked/told me. If it’s in text form I can review it when I loop back to it. You need me to check/validate/run something, cool. I have record of what, when, and if I completed it. Just because you have a question does not make it an emergency on my part.
As for my phone phone, the only folks who ever call me are either telemarketers or scams. If a friend called I’d probably answer (if I have the time). But I think most of my friends are in the same boat, we have so much to do these days (non-recreation) that it’s just not easy to find time. A lot of my friends have side-hustles or a second job or are in class (like me) in order to stay competitive. When I was a kid, I remember my parents could unwind at the end of the day, friends would just come over to hang out. It just ain’t like that no more.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
I don’t know what you hope to accomplish with these memes other than pushing people to the right… Like is that the goal? Because it seems like that’s the goal. It’s a constant strawman fallacy with the same bullshit format the far right uses in their memes.
- Comment on 'Moana 2' Passes $1 Billion at Global Box Office 4 weeks ago:
With Disney, always assume sequels. They milk every IP to the ground.
- Comment on Welcome to my lair 5 weeks ago:
If those are regular old school incandescent bulbs connected to six lava lamps, and that light fixture is connected to a dimmer switch you may want to rethink that. You may want to check what the wattage for your dimmer is and if you don’t know I would recommend staying at or below 300 Watts total (more as a personal rule of thumb).
- Comment on "Family Size" has no meaning anymore 5 weeks ago:
I’m afraid to ask how little it had before, because the amount i see are rookie numbers.
- Comment on typical future ER visitor 1 month ago:
I did not and I wish I had. Today was a bad day to Internet
- Comment on I never realized this 1 month ago:
Terrible idea. People clearly already struggling at naming kids. Coming up with a family name will be endless letters making the wrong sound, random sections being ‘silent’, so many puns or references to things, corporate advertising “oh it’s the X.com family!”… Terrible, just terrible.
- Comment on What games have you sunk the most time into? 1 month ago:
I have over 6,000 hours in Dota2.
- Comment on Frostpunk creators cancel "Project 8" and lay off staff amid concerns that "narrative-driven, story-rich games" don't sell 2 months ago:
The Alters isn’t out yet. Expected release Q1 2025. It’s on my wish list because I love the demo.
Indika they were just the publisher. On top of which, maybe has a story that not everyone is interested in. I watched these guys play it, youtu.be/MuiHtAYOqgI and while it’s creative and it’s overall a fantastic game, is not one I’m going to play myself.
The Thaumaturge, again they are just the publisher. I hadn’t even heard of this one which means as the publisher they did a terrible job marketing it.
- Comment on Helldivers 2 players rip into Arrowhead for 'straight-up ridiculous' Killzone crossover prices, CEO defends the choice 2 months ago:
They hire psychologists to explicitly figure out how to better make sales. Logical thinking will not win. Microtransactions, which consists of crap you don’t need, is a billion dollar industry and has bankrupted numerous homes.
- Comment on It's 54 degrees Fahrenheit (12 Celsius), raining moderately hard, the rain is cold, and there's a guy blowing around wet leaves with a leaf blower. What the hell is the obsession with leaf blowers? 2 months ago:
I have an electrically blower. But I use it to clean my gutters.
- Comment on The season of giving 2 months ago:
I mean if you surround it with chicken and some Alfredo instead of marinara you got yourself a pretty nice pizza.
But that’s not what they did. They must be one of those that throws broccoli into their spaghetti. Not on the side,… in.
- Comment on The casual moviegoer is a thing of the past. That's a big problem for Hollywood 2 months ago:
I know some of those people that never stop talking or always on their phone.
I’ve asked them to stop. I’ve told them to stop. I’ve pointed out that if it was somebody else doing it, they’d be pissed off because someone else is ruining their time. They have zero fucks to give.
- Comment on What video game company/developer/publisher loves shitting on it's fans? 2 months ago:
I’ve repeatedly heard that they could operate at a loss for decades and be fine… But I’ve never actually seen real numbers to back that up.
- Comment on What video game company/developer/publisher loves shitting on it's fans? 2 months ago:
Nintendo has increasingly become a problem over there last decade. From taking down tournaments, going after YouTubers, the predatory partner program that they ran for a bit, them suing everybody in sight. Them being anti-emulation but then being found to use emulation that was created by a third party and profiting off of it.
I’ve already decided I’m not buying the next console. I’m done with that company. I look forward, genuinely, to innate file for bankruptcy. To me they’re a lot like Bizzard. Both of these companies are not the same company they were 20 years ago.
- Comment on Do you think being left-handed gives any unique qualities or advantages compares to other right handed? 2 months ago:
I did that in badminton. I’m the beginning I swapped hands when they weren’t looking. Once they caught on, of randomly swap whenever.
- Comment on Assassin's Creed Shadows Will Feature Denuvo & Account Linking + EULA also requires you to allow Ubisoft to "monitor" your RAM 2 months ago:
Can’t have you accessing skins and items they plan to sell!
- Comment on Will sucking on Ice Breakers be healthier for me? 2 months ago:
I would presume it wouldn’t matter. I don’t think icebreakers have layers and it’s just the same thing all the way through. Sorbitol, while tasting sweet, is a hyperosmotic laxative.
It may be better to address the addiction then trying to dodge the side effects.
- Comment on iykyk 2 months ago:
Actually, saying you don’t know, when you do, in the right context is a great teaching utility with kids.
They could ask like, why something is or does and while you know the answer, it’s much better to foster their curiosity and help then learn and understand instead of just giving the answer.
- Comment on Why? 2 months ago:
I mean that’s a fun speech and all but they actually address it. Look into the Heisenberg uncertainty principle. Then do a quick search for the Heisenberg compensator.
- Comment on Why did the pope announce anime mascots? 3 months ago:
And the angel said onto thee “uwu”
- Comment on If you need a stargate, there is one outside of Ashland, Ohio off of I-71. 3 months ago:
Well first you’d have to check to see if it’s a super capacitor…
- Comment on If you need a stargate, there is one outside of Ashland, Ohio off of I-71. 3 months ago:
Prove to me we already don’t. Have you seen the news!
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
I came to comment on the same thing. I remember when World Warcraft was yet to be released, most weren’t expecting it to succeed due to its silly look compared to Ultimate Online 2 and Everquest 2 coming out near the same time, and I want to say there was another big name that was expected to run the same time but it eludes me. WoW was often criticized as looking to cartoony and potentially made just for young children. Of course this was before the beta was out, and you had at most screen captures in gaming magazines.
- Comment on What is your pet peeve in 2024? 3 months ago:
People who park the wind way in the parking lot and then dive the wind6 way. I’m talking about were the lanes aren’t wide, so they’re all angled. There even arrows painted at the entrance of each lane. But there always some dipshit that pulls through, or did the dumbest maneuver you’ve seen to back into it. And then they glare at people in their way who are going the right way…
Going to the grocery store has just infuriated me with a sheer number of entitled terrible drivers. Every last one of them should be sent back to driver’s ed.