chiliedogg
@chiliedogg@lemmy.world
- Comment on The light at the end of the tunnel is getting much closer. KEEP PUSHING 9 hours ago:
The superdelegate system didn’t burn Bernie. He was behind Clinton in the primaries well before the superdelegates got their vote in the Convention.
Would they have killed his nomination in 2016 if it were close? Probably. But they didn’t have to because people weren’t voting for him.
- Comment on No worries, companies of 3d printers will find out how to scam their customers soon too 9 hours ago:
Bambu is on the way to doing that.
They’ve increasingly been locking down their devices, while adding features that identify Bambu spools using RFID. Their end goal is 100% to restrict use to their filement only. And I’m sure they’ll track the use on a given spool so you can’t keep refilling it with filament from other brands.
- Comment on The gaming industry is truly messed up… 1 day ago:
Not paying the CEO a 38 million dollar bonus and instead keeping the devs on board to create future products for way less than 38 million dollars is more profitable.
- Comment on the Home Alone house then and now 2 days ago:
The outside of the house was filmed there. The inside was a set.
The Netflix show “The movies that made us” has an ep9sode about it.
- Comment on PSBLACKOUT (boycott of PlayStation) 3 days ago:
Astrobot, Horizon, God of War, Ratchet and Clank, etc.
Some of the stuff I like from Sony (Last of US, Spider-man, Returnal) gets ported to PC eventually, but Sony has announced they’re cutting back on that.
- Comment on We hate him no matter who he represents. 4 days ago:
Remember when Al Fraken had to resign for giving too much tongue on a kiss and for screwing up his hover hands when posing for photos?
Remember when Howard Dean’s career was ended over making a weird screech in a victory speech?
- Comment on PSBLACKOUT (boycott of PlayStation) 4 days ago:
There’s some stuff I’d love to experience on the PS5.
But I will not be spending nearly a thousand dollars for a set top box with limited functionality they can effectively disable when I’m no longer making them enough money.
And with SteamOS getting better and better, the convenience of a console over a PC is becoming less of a thing.
Honestly, once SteamOS has dedicated apps for things like Hulu and Netflix, I think we can really change things. Right now my parents have an Xbox where my Dad can play an occasional game, but the interface is simple enough for my Mom to open her streaming apps. Once SteamOS gets that simple, I’ll be switching them over.
- Comment on How polite 5 days ago:
The real joke for the shutterbugs was the 60mm lens on the micro four-thirds camera.
It’s for macro photography. Sample (safe) picture from the lens using the end of a ballpoint pen:
- Comment on How polite 5 days ago:
Canadian men are terrible at taking pictures of their dicks
It really is rude to compose shots so poorly.
It’s like they’ve never bothered to learn to crank that F-stop while increasing the exposure to get that shallow depth of field. It gives an illusion of depth.
I like to use a 60mm prime lens on an MFT to give it a crop-factor equivalent of 120mm.
And go with a snooted strobe to get that shadow detail. Ring flashes are lazy and have no chatacter.
- Comment on Three developers' different philosophies on difficulty for their games 5 days ago:
I think Hades/Hades did it great. Brutally difficult at first, but with an optional mode to make it easier each time you die, and full runs taking about 30 minutes.
And making failure a part of the story that allows you to maintain progression despite dying is also neat.
The only thing I’d really like to see changed is making an optional twist on God Mode where every time you lose it gets easier, but every time you win it gets harder.
- Comment on Three developers' different philosophies on difficulty for their games 5 days ago:
It’s not that I don’t appreciate a challenge. I used to love difficult games. I grew up in the NES era when difficulty was the only thing that kept games from being completed in 30 minutes.
But life moves on and we get busy. If I get 2-3 hours in a week to game it’s a miracle. I am not going to spend that time grinding a boss for hours.
But other difficult games may be fine. Specifically, rogelikes. Slay the Spire and Dead Cells are games that can be very difficult, but the games are designed to be taken on in short chunks with an entire run taking under an hour, whereas Souls-Like games expect a lot more time commitment.
I really enjoyed the Respawn Jedi games. They’re Souls-likes with difficulty sliders that should appease anyone.
- Comment on Can anyone confirm? 1 week ago:
I prefer Y’all Quaeda .
- Comment on 1 week ago:
I’m confused.
Does that mural suggest that viruses attack female cells or that they cause cells to become female?
- Comment on Can anyone confirm? 1 week ago:
Too many Confederate flags still flying for that.
- Comment on knew a few guys like this 1 week ago:
My sister saw a black Cabbage Patch kid in Toys R Us and said “Ewww - burnt baby.”
- Comment on Yeah I see you... 1 week ago:
I’ve realized my hobby is optimizing my space to do my hobbies. If I ever get my workspace just like I want it for projects, I won’t know what to do with myself. The workshop is the project.
- Comment on Two ICE agents in plain clothes punched and tried to handcuff an Australian man at Las Vegas Airport. When they saw they were being filmed, they quickly left. 1 week ago:
But all SCOTUS has to do is simply decline to hear a case in order to prevent nationwide injunctions on clearly-illegal activities.
- Comment on Need to lose 15lbs in less than a week? I got you. 1 week ago:
So you have a place to store that food? Yeah - when I worked retail we had a fridge and a cabinet in the breakroom, but there were 200 people working in that building all having to share a single fridge and cabinet, which means they effectively didn’t exist.
But there were a couple fast food places in the parking lot.
- Comment on Has anobody seen Odyssey? 2 weeks ago:
I love me some V for Vendetta, but Zootopia is also really good at what it is. It’s meant to entertain children while also having some laughs for the parents, and Disney is really good at that shit.
- Comment on Refer to the chart 2 weeks ago:
Moving right along.
Footloose and WITNESS ME!
- Comment on Refer to the chart 2 weeks ago:
Muppet. Fury. Road.
- Comment on Philosophy has peaked. Checkmate atheists 2 weeks ago:
Well I have to lave it.
- Comment on Philosophy has peaked. Checkmate atheists 2 weeks ago:
I’ve shot a lot of animals through the years. “Horny” is now how I would describe the aftermath.
Mostly it’s mild annoyance because now I have to clean it, which is a PITA.
- Comment on Finally HR does something right 2 weeks ago:
Nobody is gonna see me at work and think “sucess”, lol.
- Comment on Heh heh 2 weeks ago:
Depends if it’s an OSSF system or municipal wastewater.
If it’s septic, it just fucks the landlord.
- Comment on Finally HR does something right 2 weeks ago:
My boss and I always work through lunch and end up working after-hours.
We got a new, young person right out of college in the office, and my boss and I have been very clear that she is not expected to work extra or skip lunch, and not to use us as examples. And if other employees mention that she doesn’t work as much as we do, we correct them and explain that she’s the one doing things right and not us.
We want the next generation to be better than us when it comes to work-life balance.
- Comment on It's rigged 2 weeks ago:
But the withdrawal rate shouldn’t be based on contribution. A safety net that only provides for people who are already rich didn’t make any sense.
- Comment on Being poor is expensive 2 weeks ago:
That’s not true if you have bad enough credit or are a migrant worker. There’s an entire check cashing industry based on taking advantage of people who can’t get bank accounts and charging outrageous fees.
- Comment on It's rigged 2 weeks ago:
But social security isn’t supposed to be a retirement plan. There’snot supposed to be a “return” on individualinvestment. It’s meant to be a social safety net. Therefore it’s fine for rich people to get less out of it.
It’s also why the retirement age when it was instituted was 2 years above the average American lifespan. It was only meant to cover retirees who had lived longer than expected that they didn’t want dying in the street.
But our lifespans got longer, so the number of people collecting social security as a retirement plan skyrocketed.
And the solution for the time being is simple: remove the $184,000 cap.
- Comment on not getting it™ since 2024© 3 weeks ago:
The 196 community has an (unenforced) rule that you must post every time you visit, so they’re posts that are following the rule.
