Soggy
@Soggy@lemmy.world
- Comment on Trying to find a messenger bag at Amazon 5 days ago:
Timbuk2 isn’t as good as they used to be. If you can find a used one it’s worth it, I’ve had mine for like twenty years, but I wouldn’t gamble on one made in the last five years. (They closed all their physical stores and cut costs on manufacturing by moving offshore)
- Comment on Sooo... This is happening on Imgur 6 days ago:
Well it started with a genocidal colonial project. Then it started with the repression of class revolts like Bacon’s Rebellion. Then it started with the framing of a union of states that gave extra representation to rural slave-owners because their economic production was important. But it all started when those rural slave-owners wanted to make sure that new territorial expansions (remember, genocidal colonial project) also allowed slavery. Later it started when Lincoln was assassinated and his successor, Andrew Johnson, gave up on Reconstruction so the seditious slave-owning traitors weren’t held accountable for the sedition or slavery and were allowed back into seats of political power.
- Comment on I just learned 37% of Americans fear vaccinating their dog will cause the dog to develop autism. 😐 6 days ago:
Good thing it’s extremely preventable thanks to modern medicine. We should all be so lucky that our greatest fear is 100% avoidable through easy life choices.
- Comment on What's going on with Quentin Tarantino? 1 week ago:
And it’s different from all the times other directors have an actress take her top off?
- Comment on Do you cheat in video games? 2 weeks ago:
Honorless swine! Screen-looking is an offense of the highest order!
- Comment on Why do some Americans "feel ashamed" for being American even when it's not their fault? 2 weeks ago:
This is kind of the plot of Armored Core if you also made it a cyberpunk corporate dystopia.
- Comment on Gaming Pet Peeves 3 weeks ago:
I do not want to have to sit through every cutscenes I already know by heart.
Forget it, there’s no way you’re taking Kairi’s heart!
- Comment on When you wake up, how long does it take for your brain's "OS" to "resume from hibernation"? 3 weeks ago:
“Tummy hurts, gonna hard reset the situation and see if it helps.”
- Comment on Don't like the 'left liberal bias' of cited and sourced Wikipedia articles? Not a problem, our lord and savior Elon is introducing Grokipedia. 4 weeks ago:
All the tech fascists steal words. Palantir is from Lord of the Rings.
- Comment on Never buying milk from Walmart again 1 month ago:
I don’t think I’ve ever seen non-homogenized milk in a jug like that.
- Comment on Never buying milk from Walmart again 1 month ago:
Milk is so easy to tell if it’s spoiled, no reason to throw it out without a sniff test.
- Comment on Why are people using the "þ" character? 1 month ago:
The explanation I heard was that “ghost” stuck around because “Holy Ghost” was in the printed bibles and people didn’t question that authority.
- Comment on Why are people using the "þ" character? 1 month ago:
At least use thorn AND eth to distinguish the unvoiced and voiced (respectively) if you’re going to bother at all.
- Comment on Did it really used to be common for guys to go to a bar every night like in Cheers or The Simpsons? 1 month ago:
Many Native American cultures did not know about alcohol before it was introduced by Europeans, same in Australia and New Zealand. The many deleterious effects of colonization are certainly “a significant element in their cultural development” but maybe not in the way you intended.
- Comment on Game developers desperate for you to join their Discord "server" 2 months ago:
they’re not public
This is a huge issue, honestly. Discord’s search function is awful and you have to find the right server before you can even try to find the information. Any standard search engine can find a post in a classic forum.
Also, scrolling through giant pages of constantly updating chatter is a miserable interface. Split it up into pages!
- Comment on Game developers desperate for you to join their Discord "server" 2 months ago:
That’s just the Twitch brainrot. People that want forums back (including me) do not want to be in a room with 13k people. That’s not a community.
- Comment on Kindergarten forced to back down after proposing to charge parents $2,200 for their own children’s art 2 months ago:
Considering how little disposable income most Americans I know have, you must be truly fucked.
- Comment on 'Borderlands 4 is a premium game made for premium gamers' is Randy Pitchford's tone deaf retort to the performance backlash: 'If you're trying to drive a monster truck with a leaf blower's motor, you're going to be disappointed' 2 months ago:
When was the last time Randy Pitchford got through a day without being a prick?
- Comment on 'An embarrassing failure of the US patent system': Videogame IP lawyer says Nintendo's latest patents on Pokémon mechanics 'should not have happened, full stop' 2 months ago:
That doesn’t seem to be true. Patents are listed foremost among types of IP in multiple sources.
- Comment on 'An embarrassing failure of the US patent system': Videogame IP lawyer says Nintendo's latest patents on Pokémon mechanics 'should not have happened, full stop' 2 months ago:
How are patents not intellectual property?
- Comment on 'An embarrassing failure of the US patent system': Videogame IP lawyer says Nintendo's latest patents on Pokémon mechanics 'should not have happened, full stop' 2 months ago:
cough UBI cough
- Comment on 'An embarrassing failure of the US patent system': Videogame IP lawyer says Nintendo's latest patents on Pokémon mechanics 'should not have happened, full stop' 2 months ago:
My point is that people make stuff even without a profit incentive.
- Comment on 'An embarrassing failure of the US patent system': Videogame IP lawyer says Nintendo's latest patents on Pokémon mechanics 'should not have happened, full stop' 2 months ago:
Pretty neat how capitalists invented art and it isn’t at all an intrinsic part of the human experience since at least 40,000 years ago.
- Comment on It Turns Out, Steam’s Adult Content Ban Has Been Plotted For A Year And Is Spearheaded By One Of Project 2025’s Leading Voices 3 months ago:
I’ll happily blame all religion, thank you. Nobody should build a worldview where an unaccountable (and imperceptible) third party is responsible for moral decisions.
- Comment on My son got Nikes so he doesn't get teased. 5 months ago:
I was always a weird kid and had gotten tired of most if my peers in elementary school, so when the cruelty ramped up in middle school I was already ignoring most of what was said or done around me. Most of the fighting was wannabe gang shit so it was easy to avoid. There was a guy I would have punched in the mouth, when he threw a book I was reading in a urinal, but he was quite literally twice my size.
- Comment on The signatures are still coming and it's already making an impact 5 months ago:
Only server browser, no matchmaking.
- Comment on Is anyone else not feeling that patriotic for July 4? 5 months ago:
The “every single American is culpable and therefore my bigotry is excused” energy is getting wild.
- Comment on Square Enix acknowledges Expedition 33 success as inspiration for next Final Fantasy as turn-based is still beloved by gamers 5 months ago:
That part is like only like five fights against humans and robots, the only tricky part is the kicky robots will ruin you if you save them for last. And you’ve been without Yuna for a bit by that point so somebody (Kimahri or Rikku) should be filling in the healer role already. It is a weird and kinda weak story sequence but I think the game starts improving after that point.
- Comment on Are drink coasters for people who frequently spill their drink or have trouble drinking without dribbling down the cup? 5 months ago:
Plane or sand it smooth and refinish it. Probably you would need to strip and refinish the whole thing to blend it in but that is an advantage to wooden furniture.
- Comment on Nexus Mods Sale Sparks Concern in Modding Community 5 months ago:
Nobody should be obliged to host bigotry. That’s not “censorship” in a way that matters.