adam_y
@adam_y@lemmy.world
- Comment on What is something that keeps you up at night? 2 days ago:
Being old.
I used to be able to sleep endlessly.
Now I find myself awake early in the morning, despite having gone to bed rather late. And I’d like to go back to sleep but I can’t.
I miss it.
And this isn’t even about needing to get up to pee. That’s apparently something I still have to look forward to.
- Comment on Not enough teachers, children turned away: Schools 'can't cope' with population boom 3 days ago:
We are currently witnessing falling numbers in the primary phase
So there’s no population boom.
Most of this article is talking about a speculative boom that might happen and what that could mean.
Meanwhile all of the current problems are attributed to not enough staff and chronic underfunding.
What an awful shitty article posing as journalism.
- Comment on If I'm not ready, I won't be ready! 1 week ago:
- for context…
I’m neuro divergent, I guess, but not ADHD. If anything I’m the opposite. I can focus of things incredibly well. I can prioritise and actuator tasks rather well.
However, you give me a dentist appointment at 2pm and I’m up at 7.30 with my coat on by 8, sat at my kitchen table until mid-day when I walk to the dentists and awkwardly stand outside for nearly an hour because that’s what I’m doing.
- Comment on If I'm not ready, I won't be ready! 1 week ago:
Hang on… Is this an ADHD thing? Damn.
- Comment on Nintendo omits original Donkey Kong Country Returns team from the remaster’s credits 2 weeks ago:
Here’s that vague statement in full:
“We believe in giving proper credit for anyone involved in making or contributing to a game’s creation, and value the contributions that all staff make during the development process,”
- Comment on My hearing is already fucked. Mwap 2 weeks ago:
Dums and Boses
- Comment on oopsie 3 weeks ago:
No you don’t.
- Comment on oopsie 3 weeks ago:
I think the default comment, even here, is “I disagree”.
Folk have mistaken contraryism for discourse and argument for engagement.
- Comment on Horizon Zero Dawn and Helldivers 2 are getting movies plus a Ghost of Tsushima anime is coming 3 weeks ago:
Starship troopers > hell divers > hell divers movie > hell divers movie the video game > hell divers movie the video game extended universe books
Can’t wait for the franchise to get massive, overblown, ubiquitous and then die off in subsequent TV spin-offs.
The Marvel Way.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
“I’m a little bit upset with the person of low IQ that lives down the road. He’s always fussing around his car as if it is more impressive than it is. He is certainly full of underserved confidence”.
Also, Scots is a distinct language. Not an accent.
- Comment on Caption this. 3 weeks ago:
Why is the frontman of talking heads being given a medal by the dude from Bram Stokers Dracula?
- Comment on Mildly McInfuriating 3 weeks ago:
Fair.
The rat bastards.
- Comment on Anon doesn't wash 3 weeks ago:
Here’s the wild thing. Back in my lab days we used to do a practical with first years that shows how easily bacteria can become aerosolised when washing things.
It isn’t just your sink that needs nuking.
- Comment on Anon doesn't wash 3 weeks ago:
Washing chicken really doesn’t help. It actually increases your chances of poisoning.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
This is a precise punctuation zone.
We only allow the use of a single “?” here.
Please correct before continuing on your way, sir.
- Comment on Mildly McInfuriating 3 weeks ago:
How did they make sure you got a speeding ticket? Seems like an over-reach even for a multi national corporation.
- Comment on Elon Musk makes 23 posts urging King Charles III to overthrow UK government 3 weeks ago:
Deeply unserious man.
- Comment on This seat reservation doesn't reserve any seats 1 month ago:
Any seat you want
Provided that someone doesn’t have a specific seat booked.
- Comment on EXCLUSIVE - Ubisoft Wants to Change the 'Far Cry Formula' with Far Cry 7 and Maverick 1 month ago:
The side stories were mostly absent and not interesting at all.
Then
I did the story for Far Cry 6 and some of the side stuff in about 12 hours, then uninstalled the game
Come on pal, I don’t disagree, it felt the weakest of the series… But this feels like you wanted to dislike the game before even playing it. Plus, you can’t really criticise something as being absent if you just chose not to engage with it.
You’d use a big ass gun upgraded with special armor piercing bullets, shoot a regular dude right in the head and he would just shrug it off and keep going.
Yeah? I had the opposite problem. Using the first rifle you get with a silencer and some armour piercing rounds you could one shot every enemy with a head shot. Took away a lot of the fun by making me have to ignore that and use different guns that were substantially weaker just for some fun firefights.
- Comment on Germ Blaster 1 month ago:
Cool.
From the conclusion:
This may have implications in some industrial and clinical settings as well as in immunocompromised individuals.
- Comment on Germ Blaster 1 month ago:
Going to need to see your citations for that assertion, sir.
- Comment on wtf Cambrian 2 months ago:
Don’t mean to make this all serious but sure you could talk about how god or a designer was just playing around or you could think about how the environment and the selective pressures were different during this period of the planet’s history.
- Comment on ‘Wicked’ and ‘Gladiator II’ collide in theaters 2 months ago:
The cinema industry is trying so hard to make “glicked” a thing.
It is sort of embarrassing. Not least because they lean back on weak stereotypes about film viewers, their gender and their expectations from films.
- Comment on Anon meets up with a girl 2 months ago:
Dude, the use of “mongoloid” is not cool.
You know what it means, right?
- Comment on Feral Science 2 months ago:
Best moment of Disco Elysium for me.
- Comment on Nuclear Demonology 2 months ago:
I just sighed so hard I put my back out.
Just because you don’t know something doesn’t mean it is untrue.
See also, “this is new to me therefore I have discovered it”
This is like reverse appropriation and is just as bad.
- Comment on Like Fleetwood Mac? Get ready for 3 months ago:
Fleetwood Mac and cheese.
Yeah, OK. I’m in.
- Comment on Why did it take so damn long for humanity to "learn" how to draw/paint realistic images? 3 months ago:
I do find it interesting that folk think Renaissance art is realistic.
I’m being a little glib, but the truth is that we are still looking at hyper-idealised bodies.
The main difference,I suspect, is the use of perspective rather than drawing on a flat plane. In a way it took a leap of imagination to make things look more “realistic” whilst sculpture was merely (again, said with a certain smirk) just mimicking what the artist could see and feel in the real world.
That is to say that sculpture is reproduction whilst drawing is representation, and with representation you need to be able to take some pretty big leaps for both the artist and the viewer to work these things out.
- Comment on Probably 3 months ago:
This is so on form for UCLAN.
- Comment on The internet, every October 3 months ago:
Pretty sure we had Halloween before the US even existed.
Admittedly we had to carve turnips.
Some still do.
