Underwaterbob
@Underwaterbob@lemm.ee
- Comment on When did a movie misrepresent the country or city you live in? 2 hours ago:
Robert Eggers’ The Lighthouse is set next to a real life lighthouse in my hometown. I used to go crawl around on the rocks so much so that I recognize some of them in the trailer. I haven’t watched it yet since I don’t find much time for movies anymore. I’m really looking forward to it. Horror movies also happen to be my thing, but my to-watch list is huge at this point.
- Comment on Meet my new puppy: Ass! 1 week ago:
Donut
Not bad.
- Comment on And it went Gold 2 weeks ago:
Daft Punk weren’t really very good songwriters, but they made up for it by being fantastic producers.
- Comment on Every base is base 10 2 weeks ago:
I like that the alien has 4 fingers. Fitting!
- Comment on Pills (Take Two) 2 weeks ago:
Smaller quantities shouldn’t be too hard to sell. 16.5 million worth would definitely be a bit of a logistical problem. I’m sure a bank would help you out with an amount that large.
- Comment on Pills (Take Two) 2 weeks ago:
Your average shoebox is 3523.513.5 cm, or 11103.75 cubic centimeters. The density of gold is 19.3 g/cm^3. You can fit 11103.7519.3 = 214302 grams of gold in a shoebox. One gram of gold right now is $77.78 US. That’s 21430277.78 = over 16.5 million US. There are things significantly more valuable (but not more fungible) than gold, too. The Pi million pill is completely moot. Or just take both, I guess.
- Comment on who's tried it? what does it taste like? 3 weeks ago:
Radler has recently made its way to Korea. I bought some once not knowing what it was. While drinking, I couldn’t figure out why I wasn’t getting a buzz. I thoroughly checked the can and found out it’s got 2-3% alcohol. Needless to say, I haven’t bought it since.
- Comment on party poopers 5 weeks ago:
Early periods, kids are tired. Late periods, kids are distracted because freedom is near.
- Comment on Come on, science! 5 weeks ago:
Haha! Thanks. I don’t know about that. Some of it was actually fun. Recording on a plane was surprisingly cathartic.
- Comment on arthropods 5 weeks ago:
Sorry to tell you that my particular location is pretty much irrelevant. Centipedes and roaches are just about everywhere. The further north you go, the safer you are.
- Comment on arthropods 5 weeks ago:
We’ve got some pretty big centipedes around here, and they’re one of very few animals I slaughter ruthlessly without remorse. I have a hammer for the express purpose of braining them. Fuckers don’t need an excuse to bite you, they just do. And, they love bedsheets, clothes, etc. Ironically, we also have house centipedes, and they get a pass. They’re hideous, sure, but anything that eats cockroach eggs (another one I kill without remorse) is A-OK in my book.
- Comment on Come on, science! 5 weeks ago:
It’s great! It’s got two in-app purchases. The mixer is invaluable! I didn’t find much use for the extra time stretching options that came with the other plugin, but that’s probably due to the way I compose. I make loops out of one-shot samples. If you’re sampling entire loops, those are probably quite useful as well. Each plugin is only $5 or so. So $15 for everything Koala Sampler has to offer. Totally worth it!
- Comment on Come on, science! 5 weeks ago:
I used Koala Sampler. It’s a great piece of software. I did eventually end up finishing arrangement and mastering on PC, though.
- Comment on What kind of institutional gaslighting is this? 5 weeks ago:
TIL I’ve been a “quiet quitter” my entire life.
- Comment on Come on, science! 1 month ago:
As someone who does audio production as a hobby, and recently made an album using mostly Android, I can tell you that audio routing in Android is an absolute nightmare. Basically, Android (at least my Android devices) doesn’t give you access to any settings at all, it just assumes that you use the default settings of whatever you happen to plug into it.
I had a problem where I’d plug in my DAC, and it would detect it and start using it, but it failed to work in the app I wanted it to work in. It took me something like two days to figure out I had to plug things in in a different order in order for them to work properly. Just infuriating, and something that would be simple to fix if they’d just give you some super simple audio routing options, but NOOO, they just have to assume that no one knows what they’re doing and try to do everything for you.
- Comment on Which song is forever linked to a movie for you now? 1 month ago:
The End - Apocalypse Now
- Comment on Garry's Mod to remove ALL Nintendo content from the Steam Workshop due to takedown 1 month ago:
History can’t sue you into oblivion for copyright infringement.
- Comment on Let π = 5 1 month ago:
Makes me miss the days of 22/7.
- Comment on Slay the Spire devs followed through on abandoning Unity 1 month ago:
Godot is awesome. I hope all the attention that has been spewed upon them thanks to Unity’s fuck up doesn’t spoil it.
- Comment on Slay the Spire devs followed through on abandoning Unity 1 month ago:
libgdx
Which is a game dev library for Java, so OP was right.
- Comment on Slay the Spire 2 - Reveal Trailer 1 month ago:
I guess it’s about time I got around to playing the first one, then.
- Comment on PROOF 1 month ago:
Yeah. The staggering amount of waste indoctrinating young children to be scientifically illiterate and unemployable just because some idiots want to believe in their fairy tales. massive sigh
- Comment on PROOF 1 month ago:
This made me briefly wonder if the flat earthers also think the sun revolves around the Earth, but then I remembered I don’t really care what they think. I wasted a not-insignificant portion of my late-20s and early-30s trying to reason with unreasonable people online. I’m done with that.
If anyone is curious where the real quacks hang out, check out evolutionfairytale.com. The forum is particularly juicy. If you are feeling particularly adventurous, try and join it and see how long it takes to get banned for “equivocating” (they love to accuse anyone advocating for real science of that one.)
- Comment on Intrusive thoughts 1 month ago:
I used to regularly mangle candles with paper clips I would heat up in the flame and then use to skewer them. There’s something super cathartic about just melting the fuck out of things.
- Comment on 400,000 species 2 months ago:
Yeah, there are any number of “But so-and-so did it so much better than the Beatles!” instances, but the thing is that so-and-so wouldn’t have even tried if the Beatles hadn’t done it first.
Take or leave their music, there’s no denying the massive influence they had.
- Comment on So sad 2 months ago:
I highly suspect it comes out the other end shortly after being ingested. Unless there are rules against that or something. Somehow, I feel like the mayo-eating professionals aren’t exactly well regulated.
- Comment on Gameplay mechanics were also a lot better with more replayability. 2 months ago:
Exactly. If people missed playing those games so much, they’d be playing those games. NES games are trivial to emulate.
And this is the ultimate in survivorship bias. Super Mario 3 is often touted as the best game of an entire generation. There are a lot of mediocre NES games.
- Comment on Gameplay mechanics were also a lot better with more replayability. 2 months ago:
You don’t miss those games, you miss being a kid playing those games.
- Comment on Have you ever seen coal in real life? 2 months ago:
In university, I got a summer job as the single caretaker of a ~200 year-old church. I did everything from plastering the cracks in the walls to mowing the lawn. Anyhow, I also had to clean out the old coal bin. There wasn’t much left, but there was some. I also found newspapers from 1914 lining the bottom. That was pretty cool. There were no services there anymore, (no electricity or running water, either) so I was alone for 8 hours a day. I managed to read War and Peace at work that summer (I picked it because it was notoriously long, and I had so much down time when there wasn’t grass to be cut.) As far as minimum wage jobs go, it was pretty great. It was also a huge turn on for my girlfriend at the time who would visit in the afternoons sometimes. Haha!
- Comment on shrimp colour drama 2 months ago:
This is worse than when I found out the blobfish is just a normal-ass fish that usually lives under lots of water pressure and had just inflated from the lack of it.