Deconceptualist
@Deconceptualist@lemm.ee
- Comment on respect dandelions! 5 hours ago:
I’m mildly allergic so yeah they will fuck me up.
If I’m in an enclosed space with one (e.g. car) I’ll start a sneezing fit. And I assume if I eat one my mouth will itch or swell (not even gonna attempt it).
- Comment on On trees... 3 days ago:
My sister in law recently quipped that “Trees are a social construct” and at first I thought she was just being glib but now I can’t get that statement out of my head.
- Comment on This is a shit post. 3 days ago:
Huh. So they put it in one of those foil trays, like where people put hotdogs after grilling them. Seems a bit wasteful to only have one lonely log per tray. Oh well, TIL.
- Comment on vibing 1 week ago:
Any detector, even another particle: observes Quantum particle: Quit pointing that things at me!!
- Comment on Apple TV+ is painful as fuck 1 week ago:
The language thing sounds like real BS, but otherwise I haven’t had any of those issues in Firefox on Linux.
I’m still rocking an old 1080p plasma TV, but I probably would have noticed if good-looking shows like Severance, Silo, and Foundation were only rendering at 480p.
- Comment on Steam Deck / Gaming News #16 1 week ago:
Yep, I’ve read a few of the others too. Excellent stuff!
- Comment on Steam Deck / Gaming News #16 1 week ago:
You’re amazing. Format is great. I just scroll past the stuff that doesn’t interest me, but more often than not something catches my eye and I end up reading stuff I wouldn’t have clicked on (let alone waded through ads for) on a regular gaming site. That’s such a good feeling, and yeah, reminds me of the old days.
- Comment on Too pretty to eat 2 weeks ago:
That’s obviously a Monoceramisu, arguably even a Unicornimisu.
- Comment on What is your favorite indie game? 3 weeks ago:
Hollow Knight isn’t exactly over when you finish the story. There are more flights, especially Godhome. If you can beat all that you’re an incredible player.
- Comment on You know... they have a point 3 weeks ago:
Brushing your teeth is the only time you clean your skeleton.
(not technically true but fun anyway)
- Comment on ETERNAL TORMENT 3 weeks ago:
THE SAME THE FISH
- Comment on Why is electricity not part of the classical alchemical elements? (Earth, Fire, Wind, Water) 2 months ago:
Give me alchemy, give me wizardry Give me sorcery, thermatology Electricity, magic if you please Master all of these, bring him to his knees I master five magics
– Megadeth, Five Magics
- Comment on Bill Murray Doesn’t Flinch While Eating Spicy Wings | Hot Ones [20:24] 2 months ago:
What are you talking about? He asked Bill about getting bitten in Groundhog Day and the strikes at the end of Kingpin, and every fan already knows those stories are true. That’s like the lowest hanging fruit possible.
- Comment on Bill Murray Doesn’t Flinch While Eating Spicy Wings | Hot Ones [20:24] 2 months ago:
I wanted this to be so much longer! They didn’t even talk about Ghostbusters or Lost in Translation. Still pretty great though.
- Comment on Discuss. 2 months ago:
I’m not sure what there is to discuss. These seem pretty accurate at this point.
- Comment on Xenon 3 months ago:
I didn’t think to check Wikipedia for pharmacology info haha. Thanks.
- Comment on Xenon 3 months ago:
Isn’t that the same as Nitrogen, like Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works said? That doesn’t sound like there’s any unique mechanism to Xenon.
- Comment on Xenon 3 months ago:
Xenon is a drug?
Drugs.com calls it “physiologically inert” with some anaesthetic effects at high doses. Most of the coverage is about Xe-133 radiopharmacology and not what most people would think of as a “drug”.
- Comment on After Years of Struggling To Be Noticed, My Indie Game Was Covered By VICE 3 months ago:
I don’t disagree with you. But don’t you think there’s a component of it that’s like, “Hey I want to both 1) release a game and 2) put food on table”? Since 99% of players are on Windows, actually doing both kind of necessitates building for Windows first.
As Linux gamers I think we should keep going in the direction we’ve been and making it easier and easier for devs to port to Linux or run their games through Proton and so forth. It’s been amazing and my time as a player has been so good in the last couple years. If we keep showing that, more players will come over and the userbase will grow. I’ve heard from plenty of others who have ditched Windows, because gaming was their last holdout.
The big AAA publishers aren’t struggling for basic needs. We can make demands of them. But the small inside devs? Help 'em out where you can.
- Comment on I will take no arguments 3 months ago:
It was just a nibble!
- Comment on I will take no arguments 3 months ago:
Later: We all have 8 different flavors of cancer from these
- Comment on What would happen if somebody kidnapped the president? 3 months ago:
Thanks, correction added!
- Comment on What would happen if somebody kidnapped the president? 3 months ago:
It’s the same situation as if the president became ill or incapacitated in some way.
This has already happened 3 times; once for Reagan and twice for GW Bush. In these cases it was temporary.
- Comment on South Afruleca 3 months ago:
NAND and NOR are swapped. Pretty good otherwise 😄
- Comment on Think twice if once isn't working 4 months ago:
No; I died.
- Comment on Google is now forcing gemini in their gmail app 4 months ago:
Um, the profile icon is just slightly to the left now. Or did you mean something else?
- Comment on Thank you for your service 4 months ago:
Microsoft: Sees that you like this feature
Next year: “Attachment reminders are available to O365 Professional Plus subscribers. Upgrade now?”
- Comment on Learning a new language is easy! 4 months ago:
Yeah but the spelling ‘normally’ would have been updated to match English pronunciation. That’s what happens in most languages. As I understand there were two issues:
- Some dictionary writers (ca. late 1400s IIRC) wanted spellings that seemed fancier like French and Latin, which is why e.g. the silent B in plumber was added ‘artificially’.
- The printing press was invented right in the middle of the Great Vowel Shift so old spellings got “locked in” even though spoken English continued to change significantly for a long time afterward.
- Comment on Learning a new language is easy! 4 months ago:
English isn’t exactly innocent there. See knight, plumber, mnemonic, pterodactyl.
- Comment on Learning a new language is easy! 4 months ago:
That’s your issue? Not adjective declination?
I’m nearly at the end of Duolingo’s German content and spelling has mostly been quite easy (as a native English speaker). You want a spelling challenge, try French.