Malgas
@Malgas@beehaw.org
- Comment on Why I Believe Printers Were Sent From Hell To Make Us Miserable - The Oatmeal 3 days ago:
The old tractor-feed dot matrix printers never had great print quality, but they were built like tanks.
- Comment on [XKCD] 3085 About 20 Pounds 4 days ago:
I wonder if this was inspired by a koan:
A monk asked Tozan, “What is the Buddha?”
He replied, “Three pounds of flax.” - Comment on Colony building sim Mountaincore is now free to play and open source 2 weeks ago:
So is this a Dwarf Fortress knock-off?
- Comment on What's the worst instance of plot armour on characters you've seen in TV? 3 weeks ago:
I feel like Handmaid’s Tale deserves a mention. Throughout the series we see June’s peers swiftly mutilated or killed even for minor offenses.
June herself, past a certain point, is Gilead’s public enemy number one. Which would be fine if they wanted to tell the story of her as an activist in exile, or a resistance leader who always manages to escape by the skin of her teeth. But no, she keeps getting caught and nothing ever comes of it.
- Comment on BRASSICAS 2 months ago:
🔫🌼 Always has been.
- Comment on I watched Arrival (2016), there was a lot more to it than I was expecting 2 months ago:
It’s also featured on a two-part episode of LeVar Burton Reads.
- Comment on 10 Must Know Tips to Not Destroy Your Straight Razor - YouTube 3 months ago:
And also, if you should happen to drop it, always remember that a falling knife has no handle.
Better to destroy your straight razor than your hand.
- Comment on Sand Boa 3 months ago:
Bishlamek gurpgorp!
- Comment on Ancient Chinese RPG The Bustling World is, in fact, all of the genres, from city builder to life sim 4 months ago:
I haven’t.
The Matchless Kungfu certainly looks like Wuxia Kenshi, but I haven’t actually gotten around to trying it.
- Comment on Ancient Chinese RPG The Bustling World is, in fact, all of the genres, from city builder to life sim 4 months ago:
I had fun with it. Can be a bit slow and grindy, as forming a build involves finding the right (randomly generated, periodically refreshed) techniques and studying them. And there’s a big power jump in each area so this process has to be repeated regularly.
I initially got into it when looking for something like Wandering Sword, but as a M&B- or Kenshi-style open world, which it’s not exactly that.
- Comment on Ancient Chinese RPG The Bustling World is, in fact, all of the genres, from city builder to life sim 4 months ago:
Tale of Immortal […] doesn’t even work if you don’t have your system set to Chinese
I’ve played it (in English, on a US-English Windows install) and I don’t remember having to do anything like that.
- Comment on A ton of bollocks, more like 4 months ago:
The pints thing actually has the same cause as I was talking about above: The British standardized around the Elizabethan ale gallon, while America used the Queen Anne wine gallon.
- Comment on A ton of bollocks, more like 4 months ago:
The long (British) and short (American) ton are both 20 hundredweights. The American hundredweight is exactly 100 pounds, while the British hundredweight is 112. You tell me which of those is more reasonable.
That said, both units did, in fact, come from Britain. The old Imperial system often used the same name for different units depending on what was being measured and for what purpose. Both countries passed laws to simplify and consolidate these measurements in the early 19th century, but in many cases chose different versions to standardize on.
- Comment on Fallout 76 Ghoul Experience Detailed by Bethesda 4 months ago:
I felt similarly after Fallout 3. I think that universe just isn’t for me
Out of curiosity, have you played any of the non-Bethesda Fallout games? Because the Fallout-nees of FO3 (haven’t played 76 or 4) is a paper-thin veneer composed of random elements from previous games jumbled together in ways that make no sense.
- Comment on Reactor goes brrr 5 months ago:
- Comment on The world is ending but here's a side quest - will RPGs ever solve their urgency problem? 5 months ago:
I don’t want to diminish slavery in any way
Speaking of the ambiguity of language…
- Comment on I thought it was an easy question ... 5 months ago:
Or, in either field (formal language theory bridges both) it can mean any string of symbols, letters, or tokens.
- Comment on Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy 5 months ago:
The point is there’s no statistical difference between rolling one die an infinite number of times, rolling an infinite number of dice once, and rolling an infinite number of dice an infinite number of times.
- Comment on pump up the jamz 6 months ago:
When Pump Up the Jam was first broadcast, audiences feared it was real, and that jam would be pumped into their homes.
The lyrics give clues to the location of a buried golden hare that has never been found.
- Comment on The Atoms Family 6 months ago:
Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s ass.
- Comment on xcoffee 6 months ago:
Hence error 418.
- Comment on Can anyone help me identify this Xbox controller? 6 months ago:
but it seems too good quality to be custom work and is definitely an official controller.
- Comment on He's just lucky I guess 6 months ago:
This conversation is gastro-etymology, BTW.
- Comment on That's Quackers 6 months ago:
Well obviously this flower is pollinated by ducks.
- Comment on Jazz hands 7 months ago:
“3.6 violinists. Not great, not terrible.”
- Comment on reDUcTIon iS gAIn 7 months ago:
Right, like the guy with the negatronic brain isn’t going to be evil. Come on!
- Comment on PC gaming fan Steven Spielberg says he "can't do controllers," prefers keyboard and mouse 7 months ago:
Then you get things like GTA or Saints Row, where whether I want to be using kb+m or controller changes based on whether I’m driving or on foot.
I’ve long thought that the ideal control scheme would somehow incorporate both a mouse for camera control, the sheer number of buttons you get from having your off-hand on a keyboard, and also analog inputs for things like movement/steering and vehicle throttle.
- Comment on Poggers 7 months ago:
There’s a running gag in archaeology that variations on “ritual purposes” actually means “I have no idea what this was for”.
That said, there has historically been a connection between certain divination practices and games of chance, so this could easily be both.
- Comment on Covert Racism in AI: How Language Models Are Reinforcing Outdated Stereotypes 7 months ago:
Shit in, shit out. That’s AI.
“On two occasions I have been asked, – “Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?” … I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.”
—Charles Babbage, on his analytical engine, 1864
- Comment on We lost Keanu 7 months ago:
Finally, a worthy sequel to 5nowdog5.