Rakonat
@Rakonat@lemmy.world
- Comment on Checkmate Atheists! 1 week ago:
The world’s largest unisex public urinal.
- Comment on Anon thinks there is a bicurious double standard 1 week ago:
While I there is a kernel of truth about the whole gay men stereotype I can’t say I ever met a girl who would date or dumped a guy if she learned he had a bi/gay phase. The only thing that comes close was the guy who got dumped cause he cheated on his gf with her gay best friend.
Hell I had a girl actually try to hook up with me because she heard a rumor I did something with a twink (I hadn’t) and wanted set up some weird love triangle with her bi twink friend. I backed away from that one cause it was clear the guy crushed bad for her and there was no way that relationship was going to end with everyone walking away content.
- Comment on Big Balls Clapped 2 weeks ago:
Is that his story or is there actually witnesses to his claim that aren’t teenage prostitutes that beat the shit out of him?
- Comment on Power Word: OBEY 3 weeks ago:
It’s start with ONE THING
- Comment on Solar is now 41% cheaper than fossil fuels, UN report shows 4 weeks ago:
Worth noting lot of industry experts in renewables and outside of it criticize LCOE for not properly taking inflation and total life cycle costs into account. It’s still a useful number but never let it be more than a single data point in determining which form of energy is cost effective balanced against environmental impact.
- Comment on They even got their own island 5 weeks ago:
He calculated the odds, but boy he was bad at math.
- Comment on They even got their own island 5 weeks ago:
Some girl when I was in middle school, 14ish, used to get picked up by some tatted up 20 something, pretty sure he was at least 25 but no idea. We thought he was like an uncle or something. Nope, turns out he was her boyfriend. Pretty sure that guy went to prison for meth related activities.
- Comment on After 18 years, a surprise Half-Life 2 update makes it once again possible to beat a honking train on Highway 17 5 weeks ago:
I thought it was strange on steam that it was so hard to get across when I was sure when I played it on Xbox that I basically did it first try no sweat.
- Comment on I turned 30 yesterday but I look 18. Nobody believes me when I tell them my age. What do I do? Do I date a 20 year old guy or a 35 year old guy who looks twice my age? 5 weeks ago:
Find a person who makes it worth getting out of bed every morning and they feel the same about you. Everything else is crap.
If you still want advice from a stranger on the Internet about dating advice, in your situation I’d probably be looking for people closer to my age than not. But if some 20-22 year old says and does everything that puts a smile on your face, then go for it.
- Comment on Does anyone else find it suspicious that there wasn't any criticism on here about Stop Killing Games until after it hit 1.4M signatures? 5 weeks ago:
There’s always been criticism but until now it’s been low level insiders and nobodies like pirate software. And the reasons the publishers and big names that would be affected did SKGs didn’t say or do anything until now because they didn’t want to give it any oxygen. They were smart enough to ignore it because they knew if they said anything it’d rile up a shift storm. Which is exactly what Pirate Software did so he’s probably got a lot of people on both sides pissed at him for being too narcissistic to shut up and let the movement die.
Now that it has enough signatures to be taken seriously you’re going to see the fire hoses open up and a lot of misinformation spread about how the movement would make the gaming industry unviable for the current model. Now is the point where if you are an EU citizen that you write and call your representatives who would consider this issue and help write the law if it did pass on how important it would be to you personally to not allow game companies to revoke your ability to utilize a game you paid for.
- Comment on You can drive 74 hours and still be in Germany. The American mind can't comprehend this. 1 month ago:
None of these a reasons the store, which posts it’s own prices and barcodes, can’t just include the total on the tag, or better yet set the price to the nearest whole number (or division of .10/.25) and take the tax out of that full amount. I know because I live in the midwest, I worked in retail/grocery store and our store piloted a test program of doing exactly that. Customers were incredibly happy and our overall sales actual went up because people who didn’t normally shop with us started to because it was easier to budget.
We got shut down by corporate beancounters who were freaking out because we were supposedly making less money. Except our sales and profits were up for the 8 weeks we demo’d the program and 4 weeks after we were forced to stop sales dropped below our year-on-year average. Literally forced to stop a program that benefited the customer and retailer because corporate greed couldn’t tolerate the customer not being screwed.
- Comment on The Steam controller was ahead of its time 1 month ago:
On the steamdeck maybe, on the steam controller they are only r1/l1 buttons, I tried many times to change them and the software can’t different them
- Comment on The Steam controller was ahead of its time 1 month ago:
I don’t think the idea was mature enough. Yes it did try to innovate and do new things but it also was trying very hard to be familiar to an audience that was never going to embrace change while not changing enough for a new audience to develop around it. I would compare it to the Dvorak keyboard, a device that offered only marginal improved efficiency and use while requiring the user to completely relearn from the ground up and have to fight muscle memory for those who used the popular medium it meant to replace. And in the end, most people said it wasn’t worth it.
I was initially intrigued by having buttons on the bottom of the controller, where your fingers naturally would be thus freeing your thumbs to stay on the pad/sticks. And imagine my frustration to realize those rear buttons are just extensions of triggers already on top. Huge missed opportunity imo that a redesign could have given dedicated buttons on the back of the controller to each finger and expand the possibilities for input combos a player can perform.
TL;DR I think the controller was a valiant effort to innovate but didn’t go far enough or do anything sell enough to stick.
- Comment on I require nothing more 1 month ago:
Had to take my coffee table out of my living area to get enough room in my apt. Only other option would have been moving my pc to bedroom and tossing out my bedframe
- Comment on Nintendo faces legal action over ability to brick Switch 2s whenever they want 1 month ago:
Without online functionality, the system might as well be bricked. I’m not 100% so someone can fact check but I’m reasonably certain it will refuse to let you play any software you’ve downloaded and only allow you use physical carts without the option to update them. When 90% of a console is built around online activity, being able to remotely disable that makes the console useless.
- Comment on Bugs 2 months ago:
You need to do your part, Civilian.
- Comment on well... 2 months ago:
The genie did understand, this giant cock was his best friend and prized possession, he’s entrusted it to you now.
- Comment on It's a mysteria 2 months ago:
I’m the caveman who thought this was craft beer or something. Y’all drinking coffee cold? Scared caveman noises.
- Comment on Asmongold's Underwear 2 months ago:
Someone told me they only exist to make music for commercials and trailers and honestly that makes a lot of sense where they have some intense moments but the rest of the song is mediocre.
- Comment on Trump Orders Faster Build-Out of Nuclear Power Plants | Among a flurry of executive actions, Mr. Trump directed the nation’s nuclear safety regulator to speed up approvals for new reactors. 3 months ago:
Trump almost does something actually a good idea. Can’t wait to find out how this admin fucks it up…
- Comment on Inspired by a friends current vacation 3 months ago:
This entire post reads "I don’t know how to camp/go backpacking.
Get yourself a travel air mattress or sleeping pad, probably a better sleeping bag. Solves the lack of sleep and sore back.
Get a proper tent that’s water proof and learn how to set it up properly so water doesn’t pool under it. Make sure the vents have good mosquito netting to keep bugs our, and never have the entry unzipped a second longer than it takes to get in and out of.
For the mice, don’t have food in unsealed containers and if you’re in bear country you should be hanging a bear bag at least 100 feet (30m~ ) from you campsite, make sure cook wear and utensils are all properly cleaned too. Some newer tents even have a pouch built in near the door to seal a bag into, minimizing the chance of something deciding to make it a new home.
- Comment on Could wastewater plant simply heat up water past 500C to decompose all chemicals and output clean water? 3 months ago:
The steam you see coming off a cooling tower is not the water than went through the reactor or turbine, a secondary cooling loop is used specifically cause the plants are not allowed to release radioactive material in any form, including the cooling processes.
The real reason this idea would not work is the same problem desalination has, making clean and safe drinking water is the easy part, it’s what are you doing with all the contaminants and water products left behind that quickly becoming a concentrated pool of filth and toxins at the bottom of your heat exchanger.
- Comment on The secret German plans leaked 4 months ago:
Only a Frenchmen would care so much about an English speaker butchering their language. Oh God it already started.
- Comment on The secret German plans leaked 4 months ago:
Climate change will make Germans more like the French. “Hans, get the gewehr.”
- Comment on Ubisoft says you "cannot complain" it shut down The Crew because you never actually owned it, and you weren't "deceived" by the lack of an offline version 4 months ago:
Problem is Ubisoft games are so shit now days it’s not even worth the effort to pirate them.
- Comment on LinkedIn’s cofounder Reid Hoffman says seeking work-life balance is a red flag that you’re ‘not committed to winning’ 4 months ago:
He (and the exploitive class he is part of) want you to neglect your personal life and be productive so they can do the opposite.
- Comment on Today's Survey. One point for everything that you have NEVER DONE 4 months ago:
2 points cause we lived a couple blocks from the library so we never felt the need to own a dictionary or encyclopedia. Though really like 1.5 since my sister did have a CD from world book program that was like an encyclopedia for kids
- Comment on 'Doctor Who' Star Varada Sethu Fires Back at 'Woke' Critics: 'It Means We’re Doing the Right Thing' 4 months ago:
Nobody who enjoys Dr Who for what it is, a series of morality tales and social commentary, gives a shit about if the Dr Who is woke or if the lead is man, woman or something between, let alone their ethnicity (though for sake of continuity they better have a british accent of some descriptor.)
What long time Who fans don’t like is poorly written and executed stories, for which there has been far too many of in recent years.
- Comment on PC gamers spend 92% of their time on older games, oh and there are apparently 908 million of us now 5 months ago:
Why should I dump 60usd plus into a multiplayer focused game I’ll maybe get to play 4 hours a week during prime times that is going to shrivel up and die in 2 years time when the next big thing comes out?
Or I can play all these games enjoy, have passionate modding communities adding to the game for free on top of me picking the entire thing up for maybe 20usd on sale if not less.
- Comment on Noice 5 months ago:
That’s a fucking zoomer thing don’t you dare pin that on us.