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- Comment on Has anyone else noticed that Steam no longer requires self-updates that restart the client? 3 weeks ago:
I feel like this is probably due to the steamdeck and so much steamos functionality requiring steam to be running.
- Comment on Honey 4 weeks ago:
Okay but words are not math. Language exists solely for the purpose of communicating ideas, and if you understand the idea that someone is trying to convey and that idea is not false, but their word choice is inaccurate then you most definitely are just nit-picking, and its not in search of some greater ‘truth’ because the actual truth of the conversation is what they were intending. I feel like you’re conflating truth with accuracy. Misusing the word animal when you mean mammal is not false in the same way as saying the sky is green or the covid vaccine gives you aids. Words can also have multiple meanings, which lends itself to more than one truth. Theres the scientific definition, and as i mentioned, the colloquial usage. So if a majority of the population understands a word to mean one thing in one context and another thing in a different context, and you willfully ignore that societal understanding in favor of ‘scientific validation’, then you are again ignoring a form of truth.
- Comment on Honey 4 weeks ago:
Sure in some cases there can be an objective truth probably, although i doubt any of us is as close to it as some people seem to enjoy thinking they are. But i think what you’re missing (possibly intentionally) about my point is that if you know what someone meant then they achieved the objective of communicating, and choosing to ignore what they meant and instead focus on what they incorrectly said then i feel like you’re consciously choosing to move the conversation away from ‘truth’ and toward ‘correctness’ out of some need to feel superior. There is a time and place to correct people, but lots of people (and you may or may not be one of them) seem incapable of distinguishing when it is not the right time or place.
- Comment on Honey 4 weeks ago:
Or they don’t care because they’re using it in a colloquial sense and 90+% of people they talk to would understand their intended usage, so they resent being lectured on semantics rather than responding to the meaning behind their words.
- Comment on The 1900s 4 weeks ago:
I mean if your life started in 2005 and you didnt live through any of the 20th century, calling it the late 1900s seems totally reasonablr. You werent there when people were living through the “90s”, to you its just another bygone era that people speak about in waya you’ll never be able to relate to.
- Comment on Why 'free' proprietary software will always end in tears 5 weeks ago:
But you expect other people to use their free (literally unpaid) time to code what you want them to rather than what they care about or think is important. After theyve already made all of their work and progress free and openly available to anyone who wants to build off it. You have a fucked up view of the world.
- Comment on Is it realistic to set up a HTPC that doesn't need a keyboard or mouse? 1 month ago:
Get an air mouse remote. Theyre like 20 bucks on amazon and you just point the remote at the screen to control the mouse cursor. Mine also has media controls on one side and a full keyboard on the other, and only one set of buttons works at a tim3 based on which side is pointing up so you dont have accidental button presses. It makes it way more functional if you want to do even casual web browsing and the media controls are great for htpc apps. You can also use in browser streaming services this way too though. Honestly one of my favourite peripheral devices that ive ever bought, and super cheap and works way better than i wouldve thought for the price.
- Comment on Risky Buisness 1 month ago:
I mean yeah probably if it communicates who im talking about and why im talking about them. Theres lots of times when ill be talking about an actor and refer to them by the name of their character because i either cant remember or dont know their name, or because its more recognizable for whoever im talking to. But hugh jackman also has other accomplishments that he is known for and that he uses to further his career, its not just him marketing himself as ‘wolverine’ which is kinda the whole point. If he had never acted in anything else and did livestreams in his wolverine costume and personally sold wolverine merch and had a podcast called wolverine talks then definitely i would call him the wolverine guy. But also acting in a movie is a much bigger accomplishment than being a living meme.
- Comment on Risky Buisness 1 month ago:
And im saying its not at all accidental when she hired a publicist to promote ‘hawk tuah’ and named her ppdcast ‘talk tuah’. Its the identity shes chosen to adopt in the name of fame so she can lie in the bed shes made.
- Comment on Risky Buisness 1 month ago:
Are you serious? She brings a couple hundred dollars worth of animal food to a shelter (on a live stream) and you think thats actually something notable? She definitely got more out of the publicity and ads than she even spent making that video. Thats literally attention seeking behaviour. And yes, 99% of internet personalities are also attention seeking individuals. Anyway this discussion isnt worth my time, im not gonna give her another seconds thought.
- Comment on Risky Buisness 1 month ago:
She gave a three second interview that went viral, that shes now desperately trying to spin into merch, tv interviews, a podcast, and whatever else she can attach the ‘hawk tuah’ brand to. Thats pretty desperate. Shes like the new ‘cash me ousside’ girl, and i think its a gross side effect of our media and celebrity obsession that we shouldnt be glorifying or even humoring.
- Comment on Risky Buisness 1 month ago:
I dont want to know her name. I literally could not care less, until she does something worthwhile. For that matter, i wouldnt even ever refer to her as ‘hawk tuah’ if we werent having this conversation because shes really not worth talking about except to crtiticize her desperate attention seeking behaviour.
- Comment on Risky Buisness 1 month ago:
I mean shes the one making it her entire personality, and attempting to publicize and monetize it as much as possible. Its not like a cruel nickname pushed on her by the media, she’s actively making it her brand/identity.
- Comment on God of War Ragnarök - PC Launch Trailer 1 month ago:
Somebody else also said it but the steam deck is amazing. Mid level pc performance that can handle almost all new games, and you can use a dock and have it set up just like a console. I use mine all yhe time with bluetooth ps4 controllers. Much bigger games library+being able to emulate so many older consoles makes it a no brainer i think.
- Comment on No Unyuns 1 month ago:
This specific ad is like a 15 year old meme at this point and is likely incredibly fake though.
- Comment on Is it me or is everyone in hexbear insane? 2 months ago:
This is such a bad faith comment. Im not a hexbear user but my instance is federated with them and ive interacted with lots of their posts. Go into any post on hexbear and youll see tons of examples of them disagreeing WITH EACHOTHER. they commonly have huge arguments in the comments and as long as everyone is civil and not arguing in bad faith noone gets banned and noone gets urt feelings. Stop lying and using hexbear as the lemmy boogeyman because its a bad look.
- Comment on Anon slips through a crowd 2 months ago:
It’s a great way to get through a crowded bar or concert, but I’ve amended the technique a little. I stretch my arm out and use it to telegraph where I’m headed, pushing my arm ahead of me through the gaps between people, and they tend to kinda naturally make a space with no contact necessary. I’ll only put my hand on someone’s shoulder if they’re totally oblivious or I’d otherwise walk into them, and even then you have to be subtle about the right pressure and length of touching or I could see people getting mad, but I’ve never had someone be upset with a very brief light tap and I’ve used this technique successfully to move myself and my girlfriend (we hold hands and I almost pull her along with me lol) through some tight crowds without ever ruffling any feathers.
- Comment on Loading like a 90's dell computer 3 months ago:
I usually do this anyway to a certain extent, at least I kinda rephrase what I said, in case them asking ‘what’ wasn’t because they didn’t hear me but because they didn’t understand. Then if their brain does catch up they get two different versions of my message :)
- Comment on Anon is an anthropologist 3 months ago:
I mean sure it would? That’s rhe whole point is that exponential growth quickly reaches massive quantities. Like literally after 120 days I doubt that many lilypads would fit on earth.
- Comment on Anon is an anthropologist 3 months ago:
If it takes 120 days to be covered thats a huge fucking pond.
- Comment on so dreamy wow 5 months ago:
More importantly they’re big and it takes a lot of strength to squeeze them into those tiny pipette holes.
- Comment on [QUESTION] What is the most realistic game that also can run on Linux distros? 5 months ago:
I just started playing ghost of tsushima on my steam deck and it’s fucking gorgeous even on low settings, so I assume that would be pretty beautiful maxed out too.
- Comment on Images leak of Valve's next game, and it's an Overwatch-style hero shooter 5 months ago:
No. My girlfriend and I are 140 hours in and still not finished, and I’m amazed at how smooth the coop works with the story. You can each be different places doing different things, or you can travel together, you can each have your own relationships with npcs. A lot of conversations with npcs will repeat depending on who’s talking, but important story ones won’t. As long as you mostly stick together and make choices together, you’ll have every option a single player game does.
- Comment on Steam, Epic and GMG are canceling Ghost of Tsushima PC pre-orders in non-PSN countries 6 months ago:
I mean all of these other storefronts clearly operate there with no issues so I’m pretty sure it’s actually just a Sony thing.
- Comment on Academic Rizzlers 6 months ago:
Literally no one was talking about image templates until you brought them up, and the type that you’re referencing seem totally irrelevant to this conversation about words in academic paper titles.
- Comment on The horrors we've unleashed 6 months ago:
Or hand day apparently
- Comment on Meta wants to be the Microsoft of headsets 6 months ago:
It’s that fucking readyplayerone movie. They all saw that and thought “what if everyone was obsessed with a virtual world, and there was only one virtual world that was basically a monopoly, and what if we controlled it all” without realizing how dumb that is and that competing, and likely better software will definitely end up being created organically by people who care about the end result more than they do about money.
- Comment on Anon encounters a Switch owner 6 months ago:
The lizalfos are trivial to just avoid until they swing at you, and then just spam the sword attack until they get staggered. All of the enemies in the game are trivial once you get used to their attacks. Literally just avoid, attack, repeat. I hated botw until I set durability to 10x in cemu. Also set revalis gale to infinite uses, because a player shouldn’t be punished for wanting to explore and you shouldn’t have to spend 20 minutes climbing to reach some relatively pointless summit with yet another cokerock hiding at the top.
- Comment on 2/5 7 months ago:
Having just experienced the eclipse, I have to agree with this. The 5 minutes before and after totality were really nice with the dim but still pretty bright sunlight. It was trippy.
- Comment on If only it was like that 10 months ago:
What the fuck, aren’t most buildings kept at 72? How do you exist anywhere except in a walk in fridge?