Thunderbird4
@Thunderbird4@lemmy.world
- Comment on You go big, or you go home 1 day ago:
It’s weird that there’s both a scoreboard and the “live” text visible in the top corners, implying that this would have to be a broadcast in vertical phone video aspect ratio. However, the most uncanny thing I see is that everyone visible in the video is actively eating or chewing. Otherwise, I don’t see many tells and I didn’t even think to look until the commenter above you mentioned it.
- Comment on Set of various pitches of kazoos 1 week ago:
You also don’t play kazoos from the end shown. All three are facing toward the ball in the image.
- Comment on The 1996 experience 1 week ago:
- Comment on I think they finally got it 1 week ago:
Try the wheel of a large automobile. Try a beautiful house with a beautiful wife. Try asking yourself “Well, how did I get here?”
- Comment on I just saw the Ocarina of Time Remake glimpse at Nintendo Direct 6.9.2026 1 week ago:
Going from 3 C-button items to 7 makes it a whole new game. Especially Majora’s Mask, with all of the mask changes all the time. No way I could go back to just the C-buttons after that.
- Comment on That's a no 2 weeks ago:
In addition to the zipper merge arguments, also note that MOT (management of traffic) guys tend to not be the sharpest crayons in the box, nor the most diligent and responsible. I’ve seen enough “lane closed ahead” signs left up in situations where the lane was absolutely not closed, that I don’t even bother reacting until I see some cones or other indication that it actually is closed.
- Comment on Music just isn't good anymore 2 weeks ago:
I’d be very interested to see the age distribution of the people who were polled. It just says 2000 adults, but if they were all around the same age then it may not all be matters of opinion, especially for things like “political division.”
- Comment on Shame. 2 months ago:
- Comment on Never forget 2 months ago:
Even referring to them as “T9-letters” is a massive neologism. Those letters have been on telephones going all the way back to the very first rotary phones when you were first allowed to dial a number yourself without talking to an operator. Before, you’d tell the operator you wanted “Wabash 3 - 1234” and they’d connect you to number 1234 on the Wabash 3 exchange. To dial that same number when the dial telephone came around, you would dial WA3-1234, or 923-1234.
Here’s a great film from 1940 introducing people to the idea of dialing on a telephone and explaining how to use the letters: Internet Archive Link
- Comment on Anon doesn't want to be fixed 2 months ago:
It’s ok, though. All she has to do is take off her glasses and let her hair down.
- Comment on Think the fuck again 2 months ago:
It wasn’t Rick Astley’s head on Vanna White’s body that gave it away?
- Comment on GoldenEye 007: The Accidental Masterpiece Trapped in Licensing Limbo 3 months ago:
Part of that is because it wasn’t a throwaway movie tie-in game. The E.T. Atari game was appalling shit that came out the same year as the movie after a full 5 weeks of development and was definitely a throwaway tie-in. Goldeneye came out two years after the movie because the team thought it was the raddest shit ever and wanted to make it a good game. By the time the game came out, the movie was already long gone from theaters and had been out on VHS for almost a year.
- Comment on Yeah buddy... lots of other dogs... 3 months ago:
- Comment on 3 months ago:
It is the way of my tribe to not let any part of the pickle jar go to waste. All of pickle juice must also be drank.
- Comment on deez nutz save lives 3 months ago:
Gilligan-ass field hospital
- Comment on When you don't have a kid but still want to be part of the fun 4 months ago:
Originally they were there to notify first responders in case of an incident where the driver is incapacitated. You used to see them held up with suction cups so they could be removed when the baby was, in fact, not onboard. It seems like that original meaning has been kind of lost, but they didn’t start out as a “please don’t run into me” sign.
- Comment on i need sleep 4 months ago:
If lights are flickering when you record videos, you probably need to change the settings on your camera to match your country’s grid frequency. Almost every video recording device will have a 50/60Hz setting somewhere.
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- Comment on Shitpost 5 months ago:
That usage always bugs the shit out of me, to the point that I had to refer back to English classes to figure out why. It is an adjective, but it is not a predicate adjective like it’s used here. It is an attributive adjective and has to be used in conjunction with the noun that it’s modifying.
“She made good aesthetic choices.” Yes
“These flowers are aesthetic.” No
- Comment on Every new year, my hope grows thin 5 months ago:
- Comment on Thank Goodness You're Here - most absurd & hilarious game what did I just play? 5 months ago:
That guy who lives in the dumpster definitely shows full frontal nudity at a couple points.
- Comment on THIS is a real test of how old you are. If you score 20 your future is short 5 months ago:
Right, but that’s usually called a “mix tape”, not “mixed” unless that’s some kind of regional thing. I’ve never heard anyone call that a “mixed tape” before this post.
- Comment on And what car did you learn in? 7 months ago:
The overwhelming majority of automatic transmissions made in the last 85 years have had torque converters, not automatically operated clutches (referring to the primary connection between motor and driveline, not torque converter lockup clutches or transmission clutch packs). Cars that use the automatic equivalent of a manual clutch pedal have really only been practically produced in the last 15 years in the form of dual wet clutch automatics.
- Comment on sagan/sanders 1991 7 months ago:
I didn’t intend to suggest that Carl Sagan invented climate science in 1985, just that the political conversation has been clear and ongoing for decades (indeed, longer than 40 years), yet the opposing narratives continue to claim it’s unproven, and the progress remains insufficient.
- Comment on sagan/sanders 1991 7 months ago:
40 years ago.
It’s so easy to lose sight among all the gish-galloping nonsense around these topics just how long the problem has been almost fully understood and very clearly articulated. It’s absolutely devastating to think about how catastrophically the world has failed to meet the challenge he describes here in the intervening decades.
- Comment on Why not 7 months ago:
My guess is that it used to have certain words printed in red text for emphasis, but the red dyes didn’t hold up and now those words are gone. If you look between “a camel” and “without” you can see the faint shadow of the lettering.
My Wheel of Fortune guess is “if a camel can live without a drink for 3 days, who wants to be a camel?” You know, barroom humor.
- Comment on soda 8 months ago:
You know, it’s actually a lot more complicated than I thought originally. It is a satire account, and it isn’t a “real” place, but apparently a lot of the photos originate from a truck stop in Tennessee. There’s a whole internet saga around finding the actual location. Most of the photos they post are digitally manipulated in some way, including alleged AI face superimposition, but they play the satire so straight that it’s impossible to know to what extent. You may be right that it’s not whole-cloth AI generated, but it also isn’t a photo of a kid with a tub full of orange soda.
- Comment on soda 8 months ago:
Since nobody has mentioned it yet, this is from Celina 52, which is a fictional truck stop social media account that uses AI generated images like this one to satirize rural American culture. Peyton doesn’t exist.
- Comment on The confidence you get dealing with a licensed electrician 8 months ago:
He fixes the cable?
- Comment on Choose the rat poison 8 months ago:
