OhmsLawn
@OhmsLawn@lemmy.world
- Comment on Suggestions? Games that won't make me feel alone? 5 weeks ago:
One of my favorite aspects of the Borderlands series (I played all of them single-player) is that they didn’t make me feel lonely.
The atmosphere is very lonely, but there’s always some radio chatter or cooky interaction that manages to lighten things.
- Comment on Anon enjoys a quiet night at home 1 month ago:
They regularly use them as a sound effect in murder mysteries.
Midsummer Murders, in particular, used the fox cry so often that I had to look up what the hell it was
- Comment on How come LED Light Bulbs only last for about 2-3 Years? 1 month ago:
Phillips warm glow are my favorites after watching technology connections. They last, and they look just like incandescent bulbs as you dim them.
- Comment on Men: What sequence do you fellow to dry your body off after showering or bathing? 2 months ago:
Me neither. They dry themselves by the time they need clothes.
- Comment on Every show with a suicide now has a disclaimer with a suicide hotline at the beginning. Is there any evidence that these warnings make a positive difference? 2 months ago:
Optics.
Sooner or later someone will commit suicide while watching your show, no matter what you do. If that episode happens to contain a suicide scene, and somebody rightly or wrongly connects the dots, you want the disclaimer to be there.
- Comment on How do you set up wake up alarm and not miss it ? 2 months ago:
2 alarms, one on the iPad, one on the phone. Full volume, spaced 10 minutes apart.
- Comment on American tourists visiting the EU, what do you think of it? 2 months ago:
Certainly. Germany is an extreme example.
- Comment on American tourists visiting the EU, what do you think of it? 2 months ago:
I’m from California, been on various trips around Spain, and France, with under a week spent in both Italy and Switzerland.
I love everywhere I’ve been. I’d be happy to live somewhere in western Europe.
I don’t know if European healthcare is better, but it’s far more civilized in its availability. I haven’t seen much difference between EU and USA for equivalent-quality grocery prices, with the exception of Zurich. I’ve found Europe to be generally safe. There seems to be more “sneaky” crime, whereas the States has more confrontational crime.
Freeway etiquette is far better in France and Spain than California. Trains, of course, are better too.
One major difference is labor laws. The EU has far more protection, but far less mobility. I remember telling a German friend that I had gotten a new job operating a fairly large power system, after working in a tangentially related field, without any additional study or licenses, and his response was “Only in America!” I hadn’t even considered that this move would be far more difficult in other countries.
- Comment on How do you ask for a haircut? 2 months ago:
You think that’s hard?
Last year my dentist/denturist asked my what I wanted my teeth to look like!
It was unreal, trying to develop an aesthetic preference for teeth. It was actually quite eye-opening. I did find that I had a very strong opinion about it. I haven’t quite gotten to the end product, but I now know what I want.
I recommend photos, but also to be careful in explaining what you like about the photo. It’s easy to latch on to one aspect of a style, not realizing that an attempt to reproduce other aspects might end up completely ignoring what drew you to it in the first place.
- Comment on America's Energy Divide: How Democrats And Republicans Feel 2 months ago:
Solar, wind, hydro, geothermal, nuclear.
- Comment on P.E.N.I.S. 2 months ago:
Oh yeah, that those initials work out so much better than the other one…
- Comment on What have you been pondering about as of late? 3 months ago:
Honestly, how to evaluate stocks for my first individual share purchases. I’ve only ever had more-or-less passive funds investments.
It’s all a bit overwhelming.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
I’ve always taken life as it came, never had a goal like being a (professional?) pianist. I’m not entirely sure what that means in this day, either.
Even if you stick with regular work, make sure you keep a list of everything you could theoretically call yourself proficient at doing. These skills can often be rallied into promotions and career changes later on, if you need to move or advance.
I’ve sold a lot of pianos from my time in estate liquidation and I do know that the inconvenience of moving them means that used pianos are often sold for essentially nothing. There just isn’t an active market for anything but the absolute best instruments. If you need an inexpensive piano, they’re out there. The best strategy is to have a piano mover on your phone. If you show up to someone’s house and tell them you can have it out on Tuesday, they’re often going to be happy to see it go.
- Comment on Is this normal for girls or just a extreme edge case? (Serious question) 3 months ago:
Any decent person would trash it afterwards.
- Comment on PSA: Libraries 3 months ago:
I only use my card for software access.
With just Libby, Hoopla, and Mango Languages, The card has saved me thousands of dollars.
- Comment on How do sport shooter bring their gear to international events ? 3 months ago:
Hunters fly with firearms sometimes. It just depends on the customs regulations. I’ve seen it at the airport. You check the bag and declare it. I’m sure there’s some amount of paperwork, depending on the country.
- Comment on Is land inclination included in area calculation? 3 months ago:
Depends on the thickness of the slice.
- Comment on Is land inclination included in area calculation? 3 months ago:
Absolutely!
- Comment on Well rested 4 months ago:
I just started Survival, and the day-cycle rhythm of playing is intense.
I love when it’s my bedtime, but there’s still a few hours of Wasteland sunshine before my character gets her full 8 hours of sleep.
The luxury I deny myself.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
Even if you like it less (dislike it more?) it’s healthier.
Shift workers have shorter lives, higher incidents of diabetes, etc.
- Comment on Why English language is sometimes "lazy", sometimes not 4 months ago:
A lot of the law related words are from French derivations AFAIK?
Yeah, those legal terms have been more-or-less common to any romance language I’ve used.
- Comment on Sanders Warns 'Absurd' Low Pay of Teachers Fueling Public Education Crisis 5 months ago:
It’s also easier to push privatization when public schools are failing.
- Comment on Don’t expect Fallout 1 and 2 remakes from Bethesda any time soon - Todd wouldn’t want to “paste over” their charm 5 months ago:
I’d just like an iOS/android port. Those games would be fantastic on a tablet with touch controls.
- Comment on Why don't electric car manufacurers put solar panels on the car roofs? 5 months ago:
In addition to weight, there’s cost. They would have to be integrated into the design, not just normal, flat solar panels, so there’s a significant cost increase. It’s no problem on a delivery van, but anything curvy is probably prohibitively expensive to develop and produce.
- Comment on How do you get into wild camping, it seems so overwhelming and a lot of information to try and gather? 5 months ago:
Another thing, OP, I don’t know what your definition of wild camping is, but keep it legal. The last thing you want is to have a ranger, police, or property owner show up to roust you in the middle of the night.
Look into camping permits and regulations, or just stay at a car camping site to begin with.
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- Comment on find the one 5 months ago:
Three Twentysix explains it brilliantly
- Comment on Massive issues with sleep and desperate for a solution. 5 months ago:
Alcohol used to wreck my sleep. I’d come home, dog-tired at 7 PM, have a few (and a few more) drinks, look up and 6 hours had passed.
I ended up burning out, and having to quit both booze and weed. It was the best thing that ever happened to me. Along with all the obvious health, psychological and financial benefits, I sleep amazingly well now.
- Comment on Conifers 💚💚💚 6 months ago:
“Everyone gets professional headshots, except for you, Red Pine. You can just send us a selfie from the McDonald’s drive through.”
- Comment on A Konami code variant in Castlevania has been discovered after a quarter of a century 6 months ago:
That’s what it said in the title, a quarter century ago.
/s