MIDItheKID
@MIDItheKID@lemmy.world
- Comment on Basic courtesy 4 days ago:
This is why I always try and find a parking spot closest to a cart corral. People go crazy trying to get a spot closest to the front of the store, but ultimately your last stop before getting in your car should be at the cart corral. Yes, sometimes this means parking further away from the front door, but I have functioning legs and walking an extra 30 feet isn’t a problem.
- Comment on Basic courtesy 4 days ago:
Nah, the Stop n Shop I go to has portable scan guns, it’s really the best. If I have to shop somewhere that doesn’t have these, it will ruin my day. For the uninitiated, it’s a portable bar code scanner with a little screen on it. You scan items as you take them off the shelf, put them in your bags, and when you are done shopping there is a “checkout” button on the gun/screen that generates a barcode. Scan that barcode at the self checkout, pay, and be on your way. It is peak grocery shopping efficiency.
- Comment on What happened to techbros from the 90s to now? 1 month ago:
Sure, but paying extra for more turbo boosts in the one race that you get to play is something new. Normally if you want extra boosts you need to learn the course or the game. On that same subject, now if you come in 1st place, you don’t even get to continue. (old man voice) back in my day, when you game in 1st place you got to go onto the next race. That was the point of getting good at the game.
- Comment on What happened to techbros from the 90s to now? 1 month ago:
Speaking of enshittification, I brought my nephew to an arcade last weekend as a birthday treat. I’m not going to get into the whole “the games are just cell phone games on gigantic screens”, there are a handful of games that are still fun and worth the tokens to play. But the worst thing I didn’t expect to see was this motorcycle racing game. It was your standard sit-and-lean motorcycle game with a throttle etc. But the surprise was that after swiping the card to play, after you choose your motorcycle, you get the option to swipe again for extra boosts. There were micro transactions. In the arcade motorcycle game. I was so mad.
- Comment on Some Older PC games I have, just wanted to share. 1 month ago:
I seriously don’t think this game gets enough credit. It basically invented the combat system used in a bunch of AAA titles today. Like the Batman games. Sure they have been refined and improved it, but it was revolutionary at the time.
- Comment on Are there any actual free programs that clean up all bloat ware on a new laptop? Without them putting hidden stuff in? 2 months ago:
Good lord how did I just learn about this? This is amazing it’s like Ninite on steroids.
- Comment on Has Fast Food Gotten Worse, or Am I Just Getting Old? 3 months ago:
What a fantastic story! I could feel the warm sun, and taste the fresh vegetables. It really brought a smile to my face. I remember growing up in the late 80’s and my parents had an old man neighbor with a garden. He used to give tomatoes to me and my siblings and we would sit on the back steps with a salt shaker and just shake some salt on them and eat them like they were apples. They were delicious! For years I have wondered if my memory was serving me wrong, or if tomatoes have just gotten flavorless over the years. I’m happy to hear it’s not just me.
- Comment on Zero to Hero 3 months ago:
Roasted broccoli squad checking in. This guy’s is missing out.
Actually most vegetables. Roast them in the oven with a tiny bit of oil, salt, and pepper. They always come out delicious.
- Comment on Nintendo Music – Announcement Trailer 3 months ago:
Cool. So now I can expect Nintendo to start a DMCA takedown campaign of all their music on YouTube, and completely destroy the playlists I made.
Coolcoolcoolcool
- Comment on Run. 4 months ago:
Nope, that’s an American Mimic. Looks like a cheeseburger but if you touch it, you are grappled and then it has advantage on attack rolls.
- Comment on What metrics are deoderant companies using to calculate their "72hr protection" numbers? 4 months ago:
Lots off stuff like that out there. Like food products that say “Made with 100% white meat chicken”. That just means that 100% white meat chicken is one of the ingredients.
Or those stupid “99c and up” stores. That’s no dollar store. That’s just a store. 99c and up is so many things.
- Comment on Lifeprotip 4 months ago:
I prefer the term “Keister stash”
- Comment on I always get them confused. 4 months ago:
Star Wars is 100% a Space Fantasy. A boy goes on an adventure accompanied by a wizard to save a princess and become a knight.
- Comment on How is "son of a gun" an insult? 5 months ago:
Good lord. I worked in hospital IT for about 6 years and I absolutely hated WOWs. By far my least favorite thing to work on. I spent too many hours sitting on the floor swapping batteries out of those things.
Funny story it reminded me of though is that the Hospital I worked at was in a city starting with the letter S. So the acronym for the hospital was SH. So all of IT was referred to as IS (Information services) because we didn’t want to be the SHIT department.
- Comment on Borderlands is no longer the biggest box office flop of the year 5 months ago:
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- Comment on Humanity making progress like it always does 8 months ago:
Not quite correct. The 2020 image should have a car completely covered in a dust of green pollen because city planners only planted male trees for decades because female trees would produce fruit or seed and be a “nuisance” and/or create trash/animal bait etc…
But if they only planted female trees, they would never get fertilized, so they wouldn’t produce fruit anyway… Or pollen.
Worst case scenario, they would produce fruit, and cities would still smell bad and have rodent problems. But without the allergies.
- Comment on Humanity making progress like it always does 8 months ago:
There is no cow level.
- Comment on Ant smell 8 months ago:
I have really annoying hearing. I’m not sure how to fully describe it but my ears are super tuned into sounds. Very often I will be sitting with my wife or somebody else and I am like “do you hear that?” and they are like “wtf are you talking about?” and I have to be like “Shhh… That! Did you hear it?” and they are like “no wtf” and then I’m like “Wait no no… Wait… That! Did you hear it?” and they are like “Wait yeah… How tf did you hear that while we were talking? Were you paying attention?” and I’m like “No, I wasn’t because I kept hearing this noise”…
Like… Sometimes people’s voices just sound like noises and I can’t hear them unless I focus because my ears are listening to the noises around me. It can be really frustrating.
- Comment on Chicken vs Egg 8 months ago:
- Comment on Marvels Rivals requires creators to sign a contract that removes your right to give a negative review to access the playtest 9 months ago:
It’s going to be relentlessly compared to OverWatch. It’s basically an OverWatch clone with Marvel characters.
- Comment on Marvels Rivals requires creators to sign a contract that removes your right to give a negative review to access the playtest 9 months ago:
Maybe
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 9 months ago:
“You’re not wrong Walter, you’re just an asshole” -The Dude
- Comment on Voyager 1 9 months ago:
There will always be a “step further we’d love to see but won’t”
I dunno, it could be really bad out there. We like to have really romanticized versions of space exploration in our brain. Like finding I habitable planets and other intelligent life. But what if that other intelligent life is super far advanced, and also capitalists. And they figured out how to inject advertisements into brains. And they want to share their technology with us.
- Comment on Thomas Edison was the Elon musk of his era 9 months ago:
“Nikola Tesla was the electric Jesus”
- Comment on Stuck 9 months ago:
- Comment on Intrusive thoughts 10 months ago:
The call of the void. Super common and pretty interesting.
- Comment on Thousands of years ago *smoke machine activates* 10 months ago:
Short sleeve graphic tee over a long sleeve white tee, Jnco jeans, a big ass wallet chain, and some wrap around the back Sony headphones for the diskman in my Jean pockets. I was preeeeety cool.
- Comment on Which Mortal Kombat games across the years should I start with? 10 months ago:
Probably “Mortal Kombat Mythologies: Sub-Zero”. Definitely the peak of Mortal Kombat as a whole, and defined everything we know about the series.
And for the love of Christ, /s if anybody didn’t pick up on it.
- Comment on acceptable screws 10 months ago:
I don’t do electrical work. I’m usually taking the outlet covers off for painting walls. And I like to paint with the lights on.
