Delphia
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- Comment on What's an absolutely medium quality game? Not great, incredible or terrible or any single ended extreme. Dead medium quality 18 hours ago:
Mechwarrior online.
Free, online “shooter”, good community, runs on linux, gameplay is dated and doesnt get tons of dev support anymore but its still how I kill an evening once or twice a week.
- Comment on I know this doesn't make complete sense, but whatever 5 days ago:
Made by a convicted prolific child sex offender.
- Comment on Why are American cops allowed to be morbidly obese? 5 days ago:
Backfired big time too.
Most of the big older guys realised that walking around all day is actually a pretty low pressure and laid back gig even if you are on your feet all day and dont want to go back on the machines once they are getting like 20,000 steps a day and lose the weight.
- Comment on Why do fancy cars look fancy and cheap cars don't? Can't you just slap a Lamborghini-style chassis onto a lawnmower engine if you want? 5 days ago:
Some companies spend a lot of money on market research and trying to get ahead of trends (Mercedes Benz, Honda, Toyota) some companies disregard common sense and do what they want (Alfa, The French in general) and cheaper brands dont waste the money on price point cars. Its not an Iron clad rule but people buy a german to project wealth, you buy other euros to project style, you buy Honda and Toyota for reliability. You buy a Nissan Altima because they will finance you, you buy a Chinese car because you arent keeping it past warranty expiry anyway.
As to what sets them apart. Little things like painted brake calipers, the quality of the badging, the texture on the plastic interior, little trim pieces that stop you seeing any of the interior workings, the windscreen wipers looking “chunky”. Wheels and stance also play a large part of the image. Wide wheels simply look more expensive, as do lower profile tyres.
Then things get a little more tactile, the dull thump when you shut the door over the higher pitched clank, the thickness of the interior plastics and number of fasteners making the interior feel sturdier even though you cant see the difference, the sensation of the indicators being put on, the UI on the touchscreen…
Prestige brands also dont do trim level names/badges very often. They like letters and numbers like 330i M-Sport or c65 AMG. Lexus followed suit with the LS400. They WANT you to say “Yeah, I got the Touring package” or “I bought the AMG sports pack” and they know their owners want to do it too.
- Comment on Why are American cops allowed to be morbidly obese? 1 week ago:
Now I dont work in the law enforcement industry but I do work in an industry that has supposed fitness requirements although they arent enforced.
For us, the union told them “If they have to maintain a weight of X to remain employed. You have to pay them to hit the gym on company time or pay their gym fees and an allowance.” So the company filed that away under “fuck that”. Now if you get too fat for the equipment they just move you to a different duty, often one with a shitload of walking around.
- Comment on After hours 2 weeks ago:
Honestly its not the worst way on earth to do calorie control. My breakfast and lunch are super calorie controlled and I actually get to enjoy my evenings and I dont get fat.
Took me 2 years of dieting, tracking and effort for me to get a handle on what works for me.
- Comment on The Faculty, any day 2 weeks ago:
I really want to meet super tallented actors like Geoffrey Rush and tell them they were amazing in the most artistically devoid thing they have done.
- Comment on The Faculty, any day 2 weeks ago:
My absolute favorite scene is the Trace buster buster buster.
- Comment on The Faculty, any day 2 weeks ago:
Melvin
And I know the tone you read that in.
- Comment on Avocado 2 weeks ago:
I asked my wife if she wanted breakfast in bed… she did not like what was in her toast.
- Comment on I feel attacked 2 weeks ago:
youtube.com/@thekneesovertoesguy
Check out this guy. Now full transparency I’ve never checked his stuff out, but people who know far more than I do say he is legit and I know a few people who have used his videos to work through injuries and improve their range of motion and it worked.
Theres also some “Performance enhancing compounds” that can supposedly improve longevity and recovery that can help with joint issues but thats a whole rabbit hole and the research just isnt definitive, I’ve dabbled and I feel like they worked and know stuff but I’m not trying to advertise for that sort of thing.
- Comment on The unprompted texts I send my best friend. 2 weeks ago:
Sir this is a
Wendysshitposting community. - Comment on I knew it 2 weeks ago:
Thats somehow less than I thought.
I suppose when you’re rich enough to not have to think about “How will I cover the rent if I dump his ass?” Probably makes the number higher than for regular folks.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
I did 2 days once and I dont remember the hour long drive home from work at the end.
- Comment on The unprompted texts I send my best friend. 3 weeks ago:
This guy penises.
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- Comment on We're deep into the baggy era mate 3 weeks ago:
Damn right.
- Comment on We're deep into the baggy era mate 3 weeks ago:
Ive been wearing loose fit Dickies and Vans checkerboard slip ons for about 25 years now.
Being cool as fuck has never gone out of style.
- Comment on Looking at you hasan 3 weeks ago:
Speaking of strokes… Ill be in my bunk
- Comment on $80 for Borderlands 4 too costly? Randy Pitchford says, "If you're a real fan, you'll find a way to make it happen" 3 weeks ago:
This has always been my counterpoint for the Nintendo haters when they complain about price. (Although they are a shit company in several other ways) Because when my daughter wants a new switch game if its a top tier Nintendo title its going to be a finished game with zero bugs and zero concern about problematic content for me.
- Comment on Another one! 4 weeks ago:
I mean, this could be what it looks like. It could also be absolutely anything else.
- Comment on We gonna fight 4 weeks ago:
Ive noticed it a lot more on here.
Like there was a thread about real world uses for “A.I” and I said that its perfect for traffic management which triggered someone who went on a huge rant about carcentric cities and how we need to have more public transport and cars arent the answer. Like ok, I dont disagree but thats not really related to the question at all.
- Comment on We gonna fight 4 weeks ago:
Lemmy has a REALLY bad problem with people who dont actually read comments and process them. They skim read the post, see a few keywords and then argue the point that they want to argue regardless of what the original comment was.
- Comment on Anon gets a call from his past 5 weeks ago:
As a former raging alcoholic, this is a legitimate concern I have.
- Comment on Are there any TV series you gave up on, or just forgot about due to insane gaps between seasons? 5 weeks ago:
Preach.
- Comment on doctors 5 weeks ago:
If you re-ead the comment that you replied to first that there is a community of people who believe absolute bullshit which you deny in your reply to their comment but then admit they do in mine by refering to them as “extremists”
Doctors not taking health complaints of people who are carrying an excess of adipose tissue is a real thing, but so are people who refuse to accept that their weight is the root cause of many of their issues and do body positivity a disservice when they do
- Comment on doctors 5 weeks ago:
No theres absolutely people who believe that shit. Same as people who believe that Trump has all the answers, Jews are the problem and flat earth. The “fat acceptance”, “body shaming” and “body positivity” movements have legitimate positive roots but have also been co-opted by people who just want their bullshit view to be right.
Take “Healthy at every size” for example. You can have excellent cardiovascular fitness, great bloodwork and your weight isnt the cause of any health maladies but at some point at a certain body fat/muscle ratio (too high or low) is going to start to reduce the probablility of that being the case and people use these edge cases to justify their opinion. Look at Eddie Hall “worlds strongest man” he weighs 355lbs and over 6 foot tall, I havent seen his bloodwork but people will hold him up as an example that you can weigh 350+ but I also bet he doesnt need a scooter to get around wallmart.
There isnt an ideology or behavior on earth that cant be taken to a toxic place.
- Comment on Are there any TV series you gave up on, or just forgot about due to insane gaps between seasons? 5 weeks ago:
If I ever have “Fuck you money” Im going to buy the western distribution rights for a bunch of Animes, hire an editor to go through Animes, and edit out the recap of the previous episode, the title sequence, the annoying mid episode break and the next episode preview then smash the whole season into one long movie.
- Comment on skynet would be better than these clowns 5 weeks ago:
The best use case I can think of for “A.I” is an absolute PRIVACY NIGHTMARE (so set that aside for a moment) but I think its the absolute best example.
Traffic and traffic lights. If every set of lights had cameras to track licence plates, cross reference home addresses and travel times for regular trips for literally every vehicle on the road. Variable speed limit signs on major roads and an unbiased “A.I” whose one goal is to make everyones regular trips take as short an amount of time as possible by controlling everything.
If you can make 1,000,000 cars make their trips 5% more efficiently thats like 50,000 cars worth of emisions. Not to mention real world time savings for people.
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Nothings more Alpha than fucking another bloke.
