ConstipatedWatson
@ConstipatedWatson@lemmy.world
- Comment on What side do you open a banana from? 3 weeks ago:
What is the sound of one banana clapping?
- Comment on What side do you open a banana from? 3 weeks ago:
Zatoichi approves.
- Comment on Windows 10 and its shortage of "Never shove this screen in my face again" buttons 1 month ago:
Ah, wow. So some exams are happening online, even though classes are in person! There goes a combination I had not thought about. It is annoying to still need Respondus though, even if I understand why
- Comment on Windows 10 and its shortage of "Never shove this screen in my face again" buttons 1 month ago:
Interesting (and annoying). I imagined that most exams went back to the usual pen and paper or laboratory, but there were tests written on laptops and in class long before the pandemic. I had forgotten about those!
- Comment on Windows 10 and its shortage of "Never shove this screen in my face again" buttons 1 month ago:
Wait, are universities still using Respondus?
I feel for you. It was used a lot during the beginning of the pandemic, but I thought it was dropped by now.
- Comment on You Are (Not) Immune to Social Media | The Quiet Part 2 months ago:
I haven’t watched the video, but…
(1) If I watch it, it’s on YouTube (a form of social media) so I’ll be influenced and manipulated.
(2) If I don’t watch it, it’s because I’ve read its title on Lemmy (another form of social media), so I’ll have been influenced and manipulated anyway.
Bottom line: being influenced and manipulated is everyone’s destiny, yay!
- Comment on 2 months ago:
I don’t mean to be argumentative, but I want to genuinely understand your comparison: Scottish English and American English are the exact same language (sure there are differences that can be assimilated to regionalisms), but Spanish and Portuguese are two different languages (they come from the same root ane grammar is similar, but not the same, the vocabulary is generally different (though similar sounding)).
When you compare Scottish English and American English, I tend to see a relationship more similar to Brazilian Portuguese and Portuguese from Portugal.
Cheers, mate!
- Comment on Could you stay in the roundabout indefinitely? 3 months ago:
So you’re texting while driving, uh?
We should all report you, but we’re too curious to know the source of perpetual motion that’s been powering you since May!
- Comment on Games that force you to make hard choices 3 months ago:
Hahahahaha, you’re right. My choice of words is very debatable, but it’s true that the moment you had to make a choice was implemented well and I was very concentrated in the heat of the moment
- Comment on Games that force you to make hard choices 3 months ago:
I can’t speak for the other games mentioned in this thread, but in the case of Heavy Rain it was very enjoyable that often you had to make quick decisions or the game would choose for you
- Comment on Games that force you to make hard choices 3 months ago:
Wait, what did you just say? So Half Life 3 is confirmed! Yay!
- Comment on Suing YouTube’s Science Scammers | Kyle Hill 4 months ago:
I don’t know if this YouTuber is reliable, but if he is (and the video does look well made and the guy looks wholesome), then this is disturbing and worrying on several different levels…
- Comment on Has google stopped working for finding anything? 4 months ago:
Thanks! So it’s some sort of guidelines Google and other search engines laid out which can be exploited to maximize visibility. Very annoying indeed
- Comment on Has google stopped working for finding anything? 4 months ago:
I’m late to the party and I don’t understand several things I read in the comments, so I need to ask for clarification.
What is Google’s Search Engine Optimization (SEO)? I looked it up, but the websites StartPage was giving me were not useful (probably ads or spam sites). Is finding these ads/spam sites the problem?
How is this a search engine’s fault? I mean, if the internet is now made by walled gardens and spam sites, search engines have trouble finding something really relevant, but how is it their fault?
I should add I navigate logged out on Firefox with the Ublock Origin and NoScript extensions (among others) so I at least don’t see Google’s ads.
I agree there are some searches where it’s next to impossible to find informed sites from spam ones: just a week ago I was looking for “Best Nintendo Switch games released in 2023” and I got lots of dubious blogs, and even when I got hits from IGN, GameSpot or PcMag sites, I realized I don’t know if any of these last sites are genuine or bought out (and checked the Wikipedia for more wisdom about their veracity), but how is it the search engine’s fault to not navigate through seas of crap?
When I search for academic things, Google or StartPage still seem to give me useful answers.
I have been wary about searches related to reviews about anything, but it just seemed to me the internet is a worse place now in general (because of walled gardens and spam)
- Comment on Has google stopped working for finding anything? 4 months ago:
Disclaimer: I’m late to this whole discussion and I also don’t understand some things (I don’t fully understand what SEO is and why it’s bad, though from the comments I understand it’s part of what’s making search engines worse nowadays)
Given that: I also made some searches where I wouldn’t get anything good in the first pages, but that seemed to be dictated by the amount of spam sites too, isn’t it?
I mean, I use the Ublock Origin and NoScript extensions for Firefox and search logged out of Google, so I don’t get advertisements, but I agree that, depending on what I search, I need to fight through large amounts of crap to find something good. Still I don’t understand (and it’s my lack of knowledge in this) why it’s the search engine’s fault for not being the best and hiding spam sites
- Comment on Has google stopped working for finding anything? 4 months ago:
Honest question: what you’ve described is very disturbing (having to wade through lots of bot reposts), but why would this be Google’s fault (or DuckDuckGo’s or Bing’s or StartPage"s or Kagi’s)?
- Comment on Removed from sale: Peter Molyneux's Godus and Godus Wars, never finished 4 months ago:
I remember that during the development of Black & White they had a journalist writing about its development and how exciting it was going to be.
Black & White got realized, but these interviews seemed a very fishy way of hyping the game and it’s when I got wary of Molyneaux grand claims
- Comment on What is this monstrosity? 4 months ago:
It reminds me of a fattened Batman’s tumbler
- Comment on Apparently Beverly Hills Cop 4 is happening 4 months ago:
True. Star Wars complicates the question, since Episode 1 came 16 years after Episode 3, but Episode 1 is a prequel and the real sequel appeared 32 years later.
Still, this feels different since we didn’t have to wait 32 full years for more content expanding the saga
- Comment on Apparently Beverly Hills Cop 4 is happening 4 months ago:
Right! Coming 2 America appeared 33 years later and Blade Runner 2049 appeared 35 years later!
Well then BHC 4 is not that impressive anymore 😄 Let’s hope it’s at least decent
- Comment on Apparently Beverly Hills Cop 4 is happening 4 months ago:
It will be out exactly 30 years after Beverly Hills Cop 3.
Is that the longest ever between official sequels?
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- Comment on Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 Devs Say Miles Morales Is the 'Main' Spider-Man From Now On - IGN 5 months ago:
That’s a very interesting answer!
It is however true Miles hasn’t really appeared in the MCU (for teenagers and adults) nor is it made to be the main character in “Spidey and his amazing friends” kid TV series (though he’s well featured).
I suppose the Spider verse movies are good at making Miles Morales even more popular and can turn the perception, but new generations still get to see an awful lot of Peter.
- Comment on I just finished DS9, and I'm sad to know that we'll never get anything like it again 6 months ago:
Well, there is a crowdfunded documentary (which I even funded years ago) whose name is based on the last episode of the show “What we left behind” and where you can see interviews with the cast and the original writers imagine what an eight season might have looked like.
It’s nice and they remastered several scenes of the show in high definition, so it’s worth a watch.
Then you can rewatch it over and over again. I’m doing my third rewatch right now. I have only rewatched TNG once and no other series is as amazing as DS9 to me (though I have rewatched several individual episodes across all series)
I know Andrew Robinson has written a novel about Garak, A stitch in time, which I understand is well regarded and Garak is such an interesting character that sooner or later I’ll check it out.
We feel your loss, but you should celebrate because it was so well put together and it had a charm no other series really had.
- Comment on Why shouldn’t I just give up on Lemmy? 7 months ago:
I’ve been on Lemmy.World for a couple of months and I’ve been enjoying it. I’ve switched between 5 apps. Now I’m mostly on Eternity and I’m enjoying it. The whole experience for me feels like the first few times I was trying Linux out and wasn’t sure what distribution would be for me at the time. It’s true Lemmy.World has downtimes, but I am having a good experience so far. I find I’m less and less on Reddit.
It’s great you gave it several go’s. If it’s not for you now, try again in a while. Apps and instances will get better, they already have
Good luck!
- Comment on Is Netflix's One Piece good? 7 months ago:
I’ve never been able to read the manga or watch the anime for various reasons not depending on the content.
I was captivated by the trailers and watched it very quickly. I found it very enjoyable and can’t wait for a possible second series.
Not knowing the source material, I’m not sure if what I’m about to say is trivial, anyhow, I really loved how simplistic (in a good way) it is. The characters are finding out more about themselves and the protagonist wants everyone to achieve their dreams.
Everyone appears somehow one-sided and only bent on realizing their goal, but the actors give life to believable fantastic characters and you follow the fairy tale happily.
I’m not sure if I conveyed how I saw it, but I really liked it!
Netflix’s Cowboy Bebop and Death Note are hard to watch, in comparison
- Comment on Tom Scott - This library has every book ever published 7 months ago:
Right! It would have been stunning if it tried to aquire every book published in every language… Though I suppose if certain books are imported and sold, then they would show up in this library
- Comment on Is Twitter/X really going to shut down anytime soon? 8 months ago:
I still find Slashdot relevant! It doesn’t feel like it faded into irrelevance, only that it stopped growing (it reached critical need mass and that was it)