Deconceptualist
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- Comment on Seedless Catholics Against Watermelons? 20 hours ago:
🎼 Every seed is sacred / every seed is good… 🎶
- Comment on What is a good eli5 analogy for GenAI not "knowing" what they say? 1 day ago:
You could maybe just share a meme like this one.
Some folks in the comments there share actual LLM results, a few of which are sensible but plenty that aren’t far off from the joke.
- Comment on Archaeology 4 days ago:
I think it’s more about intent and what you do with the findings. If you and your team announce your plans ahead of time, document everything meticulously, deliver the pieces to a museum or archive, publish papers and delivery seminars and attend conferences on it… it’s probably archaeology.
If you and your associates do it all in secret, sell the artifacts to some rich asshole (esp. via a fence), and cover your tracks, that seems a lot more like grave robbing.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
Exactly. It’s even easier for me to put their games on an Ignore List than for them to insert ads.
- Comment on Too soon? 6 days ago:
Huh, I’ll have to read the rest of this bizarre story. I never knew the cultists shot and killed a congressman!
- Comment on Boring ass planet 1 week ago:
Sort of? My understanding from reading a handful of articles is that Neptune has a bluish haze later that’s absent on Uranus, but it’s fairly subtle and the overall color of both is pretty similar. So it’s not just that it got oversaturated but that that particular hue got applied to the whole planet and not just as a thin layer.
- Comment on Boring ass planet 1 week ago:
How long has this guy been staring at Uranus?
- Comment on Boring ass planet 1 week ago:
Honestly it’s the shitpost community so kinda fitting. Too bad your miners won’t find much stinky sulfur after their decade+ journey.
- Comment on Boring ass planet 1 week ago:
A pip and a peep? You flatter me sir/ma’am.
- Comment on Boring ass planet 1 week ago:
Yeah so maybe both planets look hazy and dull in visible light. So what?! They’re both entire worlds, significantly larger and vastly different in climate and tilt and composition and weather phenomena than our own, and we’re lucky enough to have seen them up close with probes. They have layered structure that can be seen in other wavelengths (e.g. infrared) and so many mysteries we haven’t yet conceived. Plus a ton of moons each that are weird and fascinating in their own right. They’re not the least bit boring to a curious mind.
- Comment on Boring ass planet 1 week ago:
My anus is not.
NASA-grade pics or STFU
- Comment on Boring ass planet 1 week ago:
Serious answer: the sensors in telescopes and probes don’t work exactly like human eyes. They pick up a different range of frequencies than our cone cells in the first place, and don’t have the same sort of overlapping input curves. There’s a lot of tricks and techniques in converting an image into the same sort of thing we’d see with the naked eye. You can sorta think of it like translating Japanese into English; there’s no perfect formula and it requires some creative interpretation no matter what.
The popular images that get published all over are simplistic composites and never really reflect the actual data astronomers rely on, so that was never a hindrance to scientific progress. It suddenly made the news because a research group decided to reevaluate the old data and reinterpret it against calibrations from other equipment (e.g. Voyager probe vs. the Very Large Telescope here on Earth). There’s a general interest factor in “wow that looks so much different than the old pictures”, when the underlying data really hasn’t changed.
- Comment on Anon lives with their parents 1 week ago:
The price of living there is mental health hit points.
- Comment on Thomas Edison was the Elon musk of his era 2 weeks ago:
I forgot it was a direct quote but yeah I had J.P. in mind lol
- Comment on Thomas Edison was the Elon musk of his era 2 weeks ago:
Cost? With the awesome Kung-Fu powers programmed into your mind you can manifest epic clothes like these at will. You just have to cross your arms into a super rad X-shape while you do it.
- Comment on Let's discuss: Journey 4 weeks ago:
Happy birthday! I actually just started playing Journey for the first time yesterday, less than an hour I’d say (on Steam). The visuals and fluidity of controls are nice, nothing spectacular by today’s standards but I’m sure they were great back in the PS3 era. The beginning felt a little slow trudging through the sand until I understood how the scarf upgrades work. But then when I encountered another player it really started to click and go more smoothly. I like how the game encourages cooperation by pinging and refilling each other’s scarf energy, though I feel like progress might go slow again if I get stuck going solo next session. The puzzles are very simple but I was feeling sick so having a ‘cozy’ game was actually pretty nice.
- Comment on PROOF 5 weeks ago:
No, sorry for the mixup. I don’t know who labeled this. The shadow here was from my massive dong.
- Comment on It’s time for a hard reset on notifications 1 month ago:
BuzzKill is great for wrangling your notifications. Match a word or phrase and group them, snooze them, set special vibration patterns, whatever.
- Comment on Haunting Radiance 1 month ago:
Six fingers on that left hand. Spooooooky.
- Comment on Bean 1 month ago:
Oh! My mistake, I didn’t previously have the courage to zoom in so I didn’t notice the sad, soggy square underneath…
Thanks, I hate it.
- Comment on Bean 1 month ago:
Oh no, Brits would put it on toast for breakfast. What an abomination 🤢
- Comment on No Man's Sky Orbital Update brings full ship customisation and a complete space station overhaul 1 month ago:
That’s cool, but isn’t it also true of Elite?
Also I felt like halfway into the game there was nowhere good to go in my cool ships. I mostly went between my settlement and freighter.
- Comment on No Man's Sky Orbital Update brings full ship customisation and a complete space station overhaul 1 month ago:
Among the best space games? What the heck are you comparing it to?
IMO it’s an okay giant sandbox but terrible as an actual game.
- Comment on No Man's Sky Orbital Update brings full ship customisation and a complete space station overhaul 1 month ago:
Inch, singular I would argue. I don’t think there’s any gameplay mechanic here that can’t be mastered in 2 minutes (artificial grind notwithstanding).
- Comment on No Man's Sky Orbital Update brings full ship customisation and a complete space station overhaul 1 month ago:
No. Every single gameplay mechanic in NMS is shallow and made by someone incompetent on game design.
The engine runs well and it’s a weird giant sandbox and it gets tons of content updates. But the actual game aspects are terrible.
- Comment on Cerveza Cristal 1 month ago:
I think it tastes like chewing on aspirin. So, yeah super bitter with no redeeming qualities.
- Comment on Caption this. 1 month ago:
When I open the pantry and find that my partner ate the last snacks in the house.
- Comment on I'm Heading to Phoenix Can Anyone Recommend Anything Cool To Check Out While I'm There? 1 month ago:
GO. TO. THE MIM! it’s the Musical Instrument Museum. It’s huge, it’s incredibly well organized and informative, and it’s fun for anybody (unless you kick puppies and have no soul).
Their collection is crazy impressive and spans the whole world and pretty much all time. I never knew how many cultures had bagpipes and accordions. Or how many weird types of horns were even possible.
- Comment on That gourmet luxury blend... 1 month ago:
Do you mean… not pandering to the majority who wish you wouldn’t copulate with canines?
- Comment on I hate the term "Boomer Shooter" 1 month ago:
My dad helped me install the original Wolfenstein 3D on DOS when I was a kid. And he’s 100% a boomer (b.1947). So for that reason it always feels accurate to me.