MightBeAlpharius

@MightBeAlpharius@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are spiders turtlely enough for the Turtle Club?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Unfortunately, no… I’ve seen one of those things, and they’re honestly kind of scary to stumble across in the wild. They’re huge, and they can swim.

  I do agree that this picture looks weird, but I think it’s just a weird picture. The spider is hanging backwards, with his belly facing upwards (that little nubbin at the back of the abdomen usually angles down), but the way that he’s lifting his head to bite the turtle makes it look like his body is facing the other way. As for the ripples, it looks like he’s lifted the turtle high enough that we’re getting a shot of them without the water directly below them. The ripples look like they’re probably relatively calm water 5-10ft behind the spider, which is why they don’t match up with the action in the photo.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is the Nintendo Switch 2 the end of innovative consoles?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I never really thought about their succession of consoles, but to me, seeing them listed like that feels surprisingly additive.

  Like, the N64 had analog sticks, and the Gameboy was portable… And people liked both of those, so they released the GameCube, which had analog sticks and a handle, so you could take it to your friend’s house. They followed up with the DS’ touchscreen and the Wii’s motion controls, and when people liked those too, they bundled all of that into the Switch: it has analog sticks, a touchscreen, and motion controls; it’s a handheld and a very portable plug-in console.

  But, as they’ve done that, they’ve always pushed the limits of what they could do. As it stands, there’s not much that can be added to the Switch, so they’re releasing an improved version - like they did with the Gameboys Color, Advance, and SP. Essentially, the limiting factor isn’t Nintendo’s ability to innovate, but rather the technology available to them.

  Give it a few years for other aspects of technology to advance, and I’m sure they’ll start pushing the envelope again. They’ll probably wait until they can pack an entire console into a VR headset without a bulky battery pack, then release it with something wacky like a charging dock with a built-in projector, or something crazy like that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What metrics are deoderant companies using to calculate their "72hr protection" numbers?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They also usually use some weasel words like “up to.” That way, if it doesn’t last the full 72 hours (which it won’t), they can claim that they stated “72 hours MAXIMUM” rather than just “72 hours.” It’s basically shifts the statement from “lasts three days” to “definitely won’t last four days.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When Humans Use Water for Something, Is it Gone For Good or Does It Return To the Water Cycle?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s pretty easy to break water down, but it’s also super easy to make it - just burn anything organic.

  Usually you can’t see the water being formed, but there’s actually a really common example: car exhausts on a cold day. If you notice a bit of water dripping out of the tailpipe of the car in front of you at a red light, that’s actually the moisture in the exhaust fumes condensing on the cold tailpipe.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What the fuck⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The responses are tagged “translator,” so I ran “kde” into Google translate set on detect language… Turns out, “kde” is both a Linux thing and the Czech word for “where.”