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- Comment on In the U.S. in the 1980s, kids were told by this PSA that their teeth needed exercise, so they should chew crunchy food. 2 days ago:
Fonzi and “Grease” greaser stereotypes that were popular at the time
Isn’t it funny how we look back to 80s as nostalgia, but so much of that was recycled 50s nostalgia. Has anyone ever lived through and authentic era?
- Comment on For work-sore hands 5 days ago:
That thing about being anti-bacterial is true. By simply being a barrier that microbes (and dirt, and water) can’t penetrate. For short term wound treatment, petroleum jelly is an excellent barrier for an open wound that’s not bleeding. Bandages inundated with it can keep a wound clean in the roughest conditions.
- Comment on China's internet is upset that a knock-off of its darling video game, 'Black Myth: Wukong,' is listed on Nintendo's store 3 weeks ago:
Because I’m not allowed to read the article to know if this is mentioned: a big reason why this would aggravate Wukong fans is that Nintendo is a Japanese company.
- Comment on Do you see what I see? 3 weeks ago:
Anybody notice that the cybertruck looks like a “refinement” of the taste that brought us the Aztec?
- Comment on Video Games Can’t Afford to Look This Good 3 weeks ago:
This article’s reasoning is faith based. The cornerstone assumption is that industry profits and layoffs obey the preferences of the market.
To those who follow the industry, this is demonstrably false. What follows is the lack of awareness on full display:
and even though Spider-Man 2 sold more than 11 million copies, several members of Insomniac lost their jobs when Sony announced 900 layoffs in February.
- Comment on How Tortillas Lost Their Magic 3 weeks ago:
I got a tortilla press for Xmas last year. It really is a different experience. And I’m just using plain grocery store masa.
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- Comment on Time is an unstoppable force 4 weeks ago:
You younglings won’t understand, but after about age 35, your brain filters out this kind of math and you won’t notice the meme is wrong.
- Comment on Christmas message from Batman 4 weeks ago:
If Batman were a realistic Billionaire, he’d buy Wikipedia to “set the record straight”.
- Comment on US logic for protecting the political and economic elite has no bounds 4 weeks ago:
Instead of denying the label “terrorist”, we should embrace and normalize it. It was always a rhetorical weapon for the status-quo, and we have the power to take that away.
- Comment on Tired of hearing about “The offshore team” 4 weeks ago:
The people responsible for your anxiety are not offshore, they’re upstairs.
- Comment on New superhero 4 weeks ago:
Everybody knows that Dr. Dang doesn’t have a magical robe, it’s his Mullet that’s the source of his power.
- Comment on DNA 4 weeks ago:
Science jargon has always sounded so impressive until I took anatomy.
for example, the big hole in the bottom of your skull (where the spinal chord passes through) is called the “foramen magnum” which is Latin for ‘big hole’.
- Comment on Frostpunk creators cancel "Project 8" and lay off staff amid concerns that "narrative-driven, story-rich games" don't sell 4 weeks ago:
Why does capitalist reasoning always sound like a prayer to an angry god?
We consulted the oracle and it seems that the dragon is tired of corn. So we’ve hedged our portfolio with wheat and virgins.
- Comment on Why Lemmy is the Worst Social Media Platform I Use 4 weeks ago:
It’s a pain in the ass to block all the lemmy users one by one. I’m trying to curate an experience where Lemmy is just about my posts and my comments. Like the gold standard of social media: myspace.
I’ve asked over and over for a “block every account except my own” and people just laugh at me.
- Comment on Player two has entered the lobby 4 weeks ago:
Workplace violence has always been a thing in the US. As a phenomena, it predates the era of school shootings. It’s so common that I feel comfortable predicting that this man’s motives were a personal grievance, not class warfare.
- Comment on James Gunn's Superman | Official Teaser Trailer 4 weeks ago:
Superman is perhaps the most boring character in all of fiction. It’s not even a character really, it’s is a brand.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Student loans have dulled price-point as a major consideration for choosing a school. So they compete on other non-academic stuff that tends to raise the tuition like sports, amenities, and prestige.
- Comment on After being honored at The Game Awards for helping laid-off devs, Amir Satvat says he's received 'countless' hateful messages 4 weeks ago:
This person appears to deserve recognition and respect. It is also a macabre PR stunt to defect criticism for layoffs during what’s essentially an industry party of self congratulations.
Two things can be true.
- Comment on Elden Ring Nightreign Can Only be Played Solo or as a Trio - Insider Gaming 4 weeks ago:
Summons were Dark Souls’ easy mode. In Elden Ring summons activate normal mode. Not an improvement.
Running a single-player melee build shouldn’t be a challenge mode.
- Comment on Anyone notice how Brian Thompson dies and suddenly aliens start attacking? 4 weeks ago:
While I’ve seen first hand how the powerful have attempted to manufacture consent around the CEO’s assassination, their efforts are clumsy, uncoordinated, and haphazard. Like most conspiracy theories, this one fills all the gaps in plausibility and evidence with a “they” who are hyper competent with foresight bordering on omniscience.
- Comment on It's 54 degrees Fahrenheit (12 Celsius), raining moderately hard, the rain is cold, and there's a guy blowing around wet leaves with a leaf blower. What the hell is the obsession with leaf blowers? 4 weeks ago:
If a genie told me I could erase all land-mines or two-stroke leaf-blowers, I’d choose landmines, but the silence while I considered would be uncomfortably long.
- Comment on Why do people say things like "I didn't do nothing"? 4 weeks ago:
Grade school grammar is not a proxy for intellect or education. I’ve never read an author who had half the respect for grammar that Chat GPT does.
- Comment on Skoolie from Temu. 5 weeks ago:
IDK about GMC, but the Ford and Chevy work vans I’ve driven have serious bumpers. Nothing like the spongy decorations that cars come with now. We’re talking solid steel and welded to the frame.
- Comment on I may have just missed the news on this, but i guess Assassins creed and presumably other Ubisoft games are getting Steam Achievements now? 5 weeks ago:
Games were better before achievements. Admit it, you’ve played a game in way that you actively don’t enjoy or long after you’ve lost interest, just to pop some worthless achievement.
I understand a few studios take the time to make achievements humorous or worthwhile to the actual game your playing, but that’s just another reminder that most studios don’t.
- Comment on Congratulations. 5 weeks ago:
Ive played flight sim games for years and there is nothing quite like the pedantry of online people who fly desks. Why warthunder though? is it just a matter of a huge player base? Why would people with access to good information and a passion for accuracy play an arcade game?
- Comment on Memories of a bygone era 1 month ago:
You’re all liars because no one has mentioned the smell.
Use common sense! You think nerds changed their egg out on time?
- Comment on Does anyone else think the NYPD photos of the UHC CEO shooting suspect don’t match? 1 month ago:
These are not the same person. They fit the description, and where near the scene. Police would want to talk to both regardless.
- Comment on What is the typical sentence for Hunter Biden's Tax Evasion? 1 month ago:
Nevermind the Tax stuff. I was soooooo looking forward to his gun charge going to court.
if you don’t know, he was charged with perjury because when you buy a gun you have to check a box that says you haven’t abused drugs in 90 days or some shit. With this SCOUTS, it would be hard to imagine this provision surviving a challenge. After all, if we accept that buying a gun is a right, then some government agency can’t deny you that with an arbitrary rule.
The gun nuts would be forced to choose between persecuting Trump’s enemies and gun rights.
- Comment on conditional probability 1 month ago:
It’s obtuse to treat the bear metaphor as a math problem. It’s doubly so to correct the work.
