Underwaterbob
@Underwaterbob@lemm.ee
- Comment on Stop whining. Do it yourself. 3 weeks ago:
Hmm. I made no effort to advertise at all. I came during the Rexodus last year after the API kerfuffle. Initially, it seemed promising, and I didn’t think I’d need to, but activity died down quite quickly. I’ve never moderated a community before or anything like that. I certainly don’t want to it to become a full time job. I have enough of those.
- Comment on Stop whining. Do it yourself. 3 weeks ago:
Welcome!
- Comment on Stop whining. Do it yourself. 3 weeks ago:
Welcome to the club!
- Comment on Read-onlys are cancer. Post stuff you want to see. 3 weeks ago:
To everyone saying that someone has already said what they want to say: post anyway. You’d be surprised how significant tiny differences in perspective can be.
- Comment on Stop whining. Do it yourself. 3 weeks ago:
I did. There’s almost zero engagement. My most popular thread is a meta narrative about me being in there talking to myself. There were at least two other attempts that are even more inactive. Not enough of y’all are into synthesizers.
- Comment on Wednesday it is, my dudes. 4 weeks ago:
There’s a Julia Donaldson - Axel Scheffler children’s book called “Charlie Cook’s Favorite Book” in which the sound a frog makes is “reddit”.
- Comment on hard to argue with 4 weeks ago:
I think you’ll notice both of those places have very low birth rates these days. Almost like people don’t enjoy being crammed in like sardines and having to compete in the workplace like rats fighting over the last rotting morsels.
- Comment on Alien: Romulus is getting a VHS release 4 weeks ago:
I’m sick of this magnetic tape revival! It’s happening in music, too. People releasing cassettes again. It was good for its time, yes, but it’s a shitty, failure prone medium.
- Comment on Is Lemmy an effective alternative to Reddit? 4 weeks ago:
Mine still exists, but no one posts there much. Including me. lemm.ee/c/synthesizers
- Comment on Is Lemmy an effective alternative to Reddit? 5 weeks ago:
Not for science fiction literature, guitar pedals, and synthesizers which was primarily what I went to Reddit for in the first place. There was some effort to get those communities going here back during the mass migration here from Reddit, but they’ve never really thrived. It sucks, but I’m not going back. I take a peek at r/synthesizers on occasion, and really it’s just a gaggle of self-promoting synthtubers and umpteen iterations of “what should I buy?”.
- Comment on He's just lucky I guess 5 weeks ago:
I think they mean “gastroentomology”.
Tee hee hee.
- Comment on Last channel rule 5 weeks ago:
In Canada, we had “Bleu Nuit”. It was on at 2am, Saturday night, and played racy French movies. The only problem was the movies ran the gamut from full softcore porn to maybe a single shot with boobies somewhere in the middle. You took your chances. I swear there was one that didn’t even show anything (but probably talked about sex. Dunno, I don’t speak much French.)
- Comment on Anon browses ancient memes 1 month ago:
60s-70s rock is pretty darn good, but like you say, there are a lot of people who think music begins and ends there. They’re so wrong.
- Comment on Anon browses ancient memes 1 month ago:
Yeah, for every Pearl Jam, Nirvana, or Soundgarden, there was a Counting Crows, Bush, or Ben Folds Five. Not to mention the boy bands that absolutely dominated the late 90s charts.
- Comment on Anon browses ancient memes 1 month ago:
This is most evident when it comes to music. I see loads of older musicians, producers, and listeners constantly trashing new music, when the reality is there is loads of great, new music coming into existence regularly. It’s just harder to find since the tools are so accessible now, everyone and his dog can make a “professional” sounding recording. And then, the top 40 or whatever has always just been the lowest common denominator.
- Comment on Tap on the screen 1 month ago:
It’s not supposed to do anything. It is literally a “tap” on the screen.
- Comment on Nintendo filed a lawsuit against Pocketpair, Inc. 2 months ago:
Because, like many, you can’t remember the name of that game, but just about everyone knows about Palworld.
- Comment on What are your favorite racing games? 2 months ago:
I generally hate racing games. The one I do remember playing a lot was 1990’s Stunts. It was an early polygonal game. You could make your own tracks. It’s was pretty ahead of its time.
- Comment on Rip 2 months ago:
Look up an old newspaper from say 100-120 years ago and check out the obituaries.
- Comment on Sony Increases PS5 Controller Prices in US, Europe, and More 2 months ago:
I have an XBox 360 controller lying around that still works great. I have a couple DS4s that still work great even though the rubber stared coming off the analog sticks. The one Dualsense I bought crapped out after a single year of moderate use.
- Comment on Pavlov 2 months ago:
Is Pavlova a national Australian treasure or something? Wikipedia seems unsure as to whether it originated in New Zealand or Australia.
- Comment on Pavlov 2 months ago:
My daughter was watching Bluey the other day, and Bingo wanted some “Pavlova”. I immediately thought it was some reference to them all being dogs and Pavlov.
Nope. Turns out it’s actually a dessert named after a Russian ballerina that originated in either New Zealand or Australia in the early 20th century.
- Comment on Could an American please prove me wrong? 2 months ago:
I cheated and looked up a map of Europe, and that country is named “Russia”. Haha!
- Comment on That's a big burger 2 months ago:
Accuracy is important. Precision, too. Don’t mix them up!
- Comment on That's a big burger 2 months ago:
More like hoser.
- Comment on That's a big burger 2 months ago:
EDIT: Also I tested and this burger is the same size as a Canadian one dollar coin.
You mean a Loonie.
SMH.
- Comment on Recommendation engine: Downvote any game you've heard of before 2 months ago:
Yeah, I might get back to it sometime. It is a mish-mash of so many video game tropes I love. It was just one particular instance where I forced myself through a dungeon as fast as I could, got frustrated with the boss and died a couple of times, finally made it, and wasn’t fast enough to beat the NPC that just completely ticked me off and made me put it down. Those monk trial things really tested my patience for a bit there, too.
- Comment on Recommendation engine: Downvote any game you've heard of before 2 months ago:
Long, long puzzle dungeons that encourage you to race against the NPCs. I hated that mechanic so much, I never finished the game.
- Comment on they keep ruining it but I persist 3 months ago:
I’m taller than most people. I’m always getting a facefull of spider webs. I love spiders, though. Anything that eats mosquitoes gets a pass to mildly inconvenience me now and again.
- Comment on Somehow USB disks are still the easiest and most reliable way 3 months ago:
Bangai Oh! Had custom levels you could load by playing a sound file into the mic on the DS. Wild stuff!