Jordan117

@Jordan117@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon has a unique origin story⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Reminds me of this really interesting video on the Mississippi Delta Chinese community – folks who are entirely of Chinese descent but who have thick Southern drawls and names like Gilroy, and still feel like outsiders despite living there their whole lives.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US Elections question: Bernie Sanders said that the Democrats abandoned the working class, and the working class abandoned them. How is this true?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I see this claim so much, and it’s bullshit. Harris didn’t make a single policy concession to get Cheney on board. And why would she? The entire point of having her endorse was to send the message of “Trump is so dangerous that even people who disagree with me are choosing to support me.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why isn't apple a popular ice cream flavor?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe, but you definitely see more niche flavors like pistachio, coffee, mango, pineapple-coconut, rum raisin, etc. Hard to believe apple would be less popular, unless it’s more expensive to make for some reason.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why isn't apple a popular ice cream flavor?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Southeastern US. This is my first time seeing apple-anything ice cream on the shelves, from major national brands at least.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why isn't apple a popular ice cream flavor?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This particular one is apple pie, but the ice cream itself (minus the pie crust chunks) would be great on its own.

• Why isn't apple a popular ice cream flavor?
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In honor of the start spooky season (yay!), I have a question about an apparently beloved spooky meme/skit. What about "David S. Pumpkins" is so funny?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a well-constructed skit – unabashedly silly, with just the right amount of ironic detachment. I love how after Pumpkins shows up, the couple just coolly analyzes the regular monsters that were making them scream moments before. The music is ridiculous, Tom Hanks demeanor is ridiculous, the dancing is ridiculous (with a dash of sexual weirness at the end). And it comes full circle with him genuinely scaring them in the end.

  I do think that them doing sequels and trying to spin a mini-franchise out of it was stupid though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Recommendation engine: Downvote any game you've heard of before⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  ECHO (2017)! It’s an indie game with AAA-feeling production quality from a tiny Swedish indie studio that sadly went bankrupt after the game only sold a few thousand copies. I played it during lockdown on an old recommendation from MetaFilter and it has since become one of my favorite hidden gem titles.

  Trailer

  You play a bounty hunter named En (voiced by Game of Thrones star Rose Leslie) who wakes from hibernation when her spaceship arrives at a legendary artificial planet said to hold the secret to resurrection and eternal life. When she arrives on the surface, she soon discovers that its interior is a vast, abandoned baroque Palace, straight through to the core. As she wanders the infinite halls guided by her witheringly sarcastic AI London (voiced by Nicholas Boulton), she is surprised to find the Palace generates hostile clones of herself that hunt her down and copy her actions in a unique spin on the stealth genre. Gameplay consists of trying to navigate through various beautiful, byzantine concourses, collecting artifacts and unlocking elevators that lead deeper into the secret at the heart of the planet.

  You may or may not enjoy this based on how you feel about stealth games with minimalist combat, but for me the challenging adaptive gameplay combined with the evocative score, compelling voice acting, intriguing story, and gorgeous environmental/sound/UI design made this a really nice surprise. (And while the studio might be dead, I’m really hoping the plans to turn it into a movie eventually rise from development hell.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Helldivers 2 now delisted in 177 countries⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Heckjumpers

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Easter 2007: B.J. Novak Proves Cadbury Eggs Are Getting Smaller⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They updated the FAQ to say:

  As the world’s largest confectionery company, Cadbury Schweppes is committed to developing great-tasting products that consumers love. Since people’s preferences vary from market to market, so do our products. This is reflected in the broad variety of sizes and flavors of products that we offer our consumers worldwide.

  If you’re eating a Cadbury Crème Egg in the UK or Canada - nothing has changed, they’re the same size as ever. However, in the United States, our business partner, Hershey, elected to reduce the size of the crème egg.

  Cadbury Eggs remain a consumer favorite and continue to be an excellent value. We apologize for any confusion or misleading information.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there any way to reverse degrowth of the niche communities on Lemmy?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s always going to be an activity difference given the userbase gap, but it’s a mistake imho to see a slow-paced community as “dead”. As long as it has active subscribers, any post will get votes and comments from people who see it, even if it’s been weeks or months since the last post in that community. Slower-paced, but still there for whatever content gets posted.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unity adding a fee for devs for each time a game is installed, after certain thresholds⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Context: godotengine.org

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a word in English to describe someone who wants to preserve a (minority) culture against erosion from a majority culture?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Traditionalist

  Preservationist

  Anti-colonialist

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do people look at sunsets?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  When the sun is very low (nearly touching or even partly below the horizon), it’s typically shining through such a large amount of atmosphere that the sunlight is significantly weakened by the time it reaches your eyes. This isn’t always true though, for ex if the air is unusually dry, clear, or thin (such as near the poles). Good rule of thumb is that if it looks red rather than yellow or white, it’s likely safe to look at for at least a few seconds.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ELI5: What is scat? The internet one.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Hint: humans are animals, too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In its first week, Immortals of Aveum had a peak count of just 751 players on Steam.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I can’t imagine how soul-destroying it must be to put so much time and effort into a big-budget game like this only for it to flop so utterly. Even notoriously bad games sell at least a few thousand copies; being ignored is even worse. I’d say “at least it’s not an indie game,” but then most indie developers would expect their games to have minimal uptake these days.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There's Jews for Jesus, are there Christians against Christ?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Sounds like the old sky-cake dodge is wearing thin for these pieces of shit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are the most mindblowing fact in mathematics?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Euler’s identity, which elegantly unites some of the most fundamental constants in a single equation:

  e^(iπ)+1=0

  Euler’s identity is often cited as an example of deep mathematical beauty. Three of the basic arithmetic operations occur exactly once each: addition, multiplication, and exponentiation. The identity also links five fundamental mathematical constants:

  • The number 0, the additive identity.
  • The number 1, the multiplicative identity.
  • The number π (π = 3.1415…), the fundamental circle constant.
  • The number e (e = 2.718…), also known as Euler’s number, which occurs widely in mathematical analysis.
  • The number i, the imaginary unit of the complex numbers.

  Furthermore, the equation is given in the form of an expression set equal to zero, which is common practice in several areas of mathematics.

  Stanford University mathematics professor Keith Devlin has said, “like a Shakespearean sonnet that captures the very essence of love, or a painting that brings out the beauty of the human form that is far more than just skin deep, Euler’s equation reaches down into the very depths of existence”. And Paul Nahin, a professor emeritus at the University of New Hampshire, who has written a book dedicated to Euler’s formula and its applications in Fourier analysis, describes Euler’s identity as being “of exquisite beauty”.

  Mathematics writer Constance Reid has opined that Euler’s identity is “the most famous formula in all mathematics”. And Benjamin Peirce, a 19th-century American philosopher, mathematician, and professor at Harvard University, after proving Euler’s identity during a lecture, stated that the identity “is absolutely paradoxical; we cannot understand it, and we don’t know what it means, but we have proved it, and therefore we know it must be the truth”.