MrJameGumb
@MrJameGumb@lemmy.world
- Comment on Why is it when I watch a movie at home? It seems like I have to go deaf just this way. I can hear the audio of somebody speaking compared to the explosions and other special effect sounds? 15 hours ago:
I have a sound bar/subwoofer combo that I got for free from work lol it sounds great now though!
- Comment on Why is it when I watch a movie at home? It seems like I have to go deaf just this way. I can hear the audio of somebody speaking compared to the explosions and other special effect sounds? 15 hours ago:
It’s optimized for people with 90" televisions and $5000 surround sound systems. I forget how I did it, but I turned off some surround sound setting on my Roku and it helped a lot.
- Comment on Why does it seem like Americans have become so hateful and destructive in the past years? 6 days ago:
Thanks
- Comment on Why does it seem like Americans have become so hateful and destructive in the past years? 1 week ago:
The short answer is that we haven’t really become any more hateful or cruel, however a VERY vocal minority of Americans have lost they’re goddamned minds and want to drag the rest of us down with them. Those are the people you’re hearing from and they make the rest of us look awful
- Comment on The Teletubbies when commanded to return to the earth by the omnipresent voice trumpets [Day 44] 1 week ago:
- Comment on How dangerous is alcohol, really? 1 week ago:
I hit 3 years last September! The urge never really goes away, but it gets easier the longer you stick with it!
- Comment on UUGGHHHH pick a lane ! 1 week ago:
He’s clearly very upset that no one respects his white trash bargin bin version of “modern nobility”…
- Comment on How dangerous is alcohol, really? 1 week ago:
For anyone who didn’t want to take the time to watch the whole video, the consensus is that occasional moderate drinking is essentially fine, but there’s no amount of alcohol that is somehow “beneficial to your health” in any way.
For me personally any amount of alcohol is terrible, because if I have just one beer I’ll be irritated until I get enough additional drinks that I can get blackout drunk, which is one of the reasons I don’t drink at all anymore
- Comment on If you're not attracted to anyone "in your league", but you cannot choose who you are attracted to, then what are you supposed to do? 1 week ago:
When you say that you only find people who are “out of your league” attractive, you’re basically saying that you expect the person you want to date to hold themselves to a higher standard than you are willing to apply towards yourself. Essentially you feel entitled to a partner who will work diligently to be the person you feel you deserve, but you’re not willing to do the same for them.
There are two solutions to this problem: either you can put in the effort to raise yourself to the same standards that you expect from others, or you can lower your expectations.
Stop blaming made up “leagues” for your problems.
- Comment on [Review] Nosferatu is the stuff of exquisitely erotic nightmares 2 weeks ago:
I think my biggest issue was how cartoonishly evil Count Orlok seemed. That accent they gave him made me think more of Boris Badenov than the prince of darkness. Also a lot of the characters seemed kind of one dimensional and I couldn’t really get invested in any of them. I agree it had a lot in common with the Coppola version but just more stripped down and monochromatic. By the time Nosferatu ended I just wanted to go watch the Coppola one again. I agree Depp and Dafoe were the best parts of the film.
- Comment on Would "god cum" be correct? 2 weeks ago:
It’s entirely possible
- Comment on Would "god cum" be correct? 2 weeks ago:
All substances are made of quantum particles which science can neither fully prove nor fully disprove actually exist.
- Comment on [Review] Nosferatu is the stuff of exquisitely erotic nightmares 3 weeks ago:
I just watched this movie earlier today and I don’t get the hype. I was really looking forward to it but I ended up dozing off 2 or 3 times.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
It’s a social media site, not a dating site so maybe it’s just what they say? Maybe they just want to meet other female friends? Have you never wanted to hang out with just your guy friends and do guy stuff before?
Maybe they’re just looking to make new friends and don’t want a bunch of thirsty guys hitting on them in their DMs?
- Comment on If I were suddenly banned from a community but I don't know why, how would I find out? 1 month ago:
Looking at the mod log it appears you were temporarily banned from the news community for repeatedly violating the community rules. It says the ban will be lifted in 1 day.
- Comment on don't be a coward 1 month ago:
The word is Carcinisation
- Comment on Under Trump will anything happen to my brothers Social Security Disability? He is 42 and draws it for mental illness. 1 month ago:
The only people he cares about being popular with are extreme right wing fanatics and other billionaires who are propping him up. All of these people have a weird “survival of the fittest” fetish so they probably won’t be pushing to help anyone who actually needs it
- Comment on Under Trump will anything happen to my brothers Social Security Disability? He is 42 and draws it for mental illness. 1 month ago:
It’s sort of up in the air right now. He’s made a lot of promises to not cut social security benefits, but the tax cuts he wants to give the rich and his insane tarrifs plan both threaten to deplete funding for social security within a few years. Hopefully nothing bad will happen but benefits definitely aren’t going to get any better.
- Comment on If I go to Canada can I retire there and draw SS from the US? Also can I go to Canada buy a cabin or house with a plot of land and not work? Unless I just needed some walking around money? 1 month ago:
According to Google you can live in Canada and collect US social security benefits. You will probably have to pay taxes in both countries though, especially if you’re still working. To become a Canadian citizen you have to live there permanently and pay taxes for at least three years before you can even be considered for citizenship and even then it looks like there is a lot of other stuff you have to do
Keep in mind too that social security benefits aren’t that much. Unless you’ve already saved enough to pay off this “cabin or house” up front, then you’ll most likely be paying a mortgage, property taxes, you’ll need money for utilities and groceries, AND you’ll be paying taxes to both the US and Canada. Unless you’re already independently wealthy then you’ll probably have to get either a full time or part time job.
The only way I can see this working the way you’ve described is if you’re already of retirement age and can also collect a pension from a job you already have that could help supplement your social security benefits maybe
- Comment on CENSORED!!!!!!!!!!1 1 month ago:
They forgot to include the crucial step where you reverse the polarity of the neutron flow
- Comment on Anon tries programming in Java 2 months ago:
Threads will literally punch you in the face
Like…through the monitor? How does that work? Is it an actual fist or some kind of mobile computer component?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
They probably weren’t in a huge hurry to be mods anywhere else after spending all those years working for free only to see all that hard work sold off to fill Steve Huffman’s pockets and their website destroyed by corporate greed.
I imagine a lot of them just decided to do something else after all that
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Sounds about par for the course on Reddit. That’s one of the many reasons I don’t go on there anymore
- Comment on My favorite scene 2 months ago:
Oh yeah? Well I had the titular line in Star Wars…
- Comment on Is it cheaper to use a plug-in oil radiator to eat an individual room, or run the central heater to heat an individual room and living room? 2 months ago:
If you’re basically living in one or two rooms in an otherwise unoccupied house then the space heater is probably better since you won’t have to deal with the thermostat being in another area.
If you’re going to need heat in different rooms all over the house then I’d say let the central heat do it’s job. You really don’t want to deal with running around opening and closing vents and having to warm up another room every time you need to go in there. It will be a pain in the ass and probably cost a lot more.
- Comment on Oh no peppino 2 months ago:
stealing memes
I keep seeing this come up in various forums lately, and I don’t get it… The whole point of memes is that they are heavily shares isn’t it? That’s part of the literal textbook definition of what a meme is lol
- Comment on what's stops one from scavenging the best parts of old phones and putting them into a new one? 2 months ago:
As long as you’re not selling the phone afterwards I’d say the only thing stopping you would be the skill and knowledge required to do such a thing and the necessary tools.
Keep in mind most of the parts you’re talking about are to some extent proprietary and specifically designed not to be cross compatible, so that may be a big hurdle
- Comment on Please don't crash. Please don't crash. Please don't crash. 2 months ago:
It’s supposed to be the Germans version of the “funniest joke in the world” from the Monty Python sketch they were talking about in the previous comment. I’m pretty sure they made it nonsensical because they never actually say what the English version of the joke is lol almost all of them were fluent in German
- Comment on What character that was meant to be portrayed as "cool" by the actor came across as the exact opposite? 2 months ago:
This… makes me glad I never watched that movie
- Comment on What character that was meant to be portrayed as "cool" by the actor came across as the exact opposite? 2 months ago:
Jim Carrey in “The Number 23”. It was a rare serious role for him where he was supposed to be this sort of noir edgy tough guy. The more serious he got the more comical the whole thing seemed lol
