TheOctonaut
@TheOctonaut@mander.xyz
- Comment on what is north? 3 days ago:
Where else would you succinctly say the Weddell sea is?
- Comment on what is north? 3 days ago:
Are kids today so Vine-brained they don’t understand headline syntax? The Weddell Sea just north of Antarctica.
- Comment on women are the devil 1 month ago:
Given that she began as Christian Evangelical pop, then rose to fame with a song fetishising performative homoeroticism as “not what good girls do”, no. Quite far off.
- Comment on ‘Snow White’ Banned in Lebanon Due to Gal Gadot Being on Country’s ‘Israel Boycott List’ 1 month ago:
I think they quite literally mean former IDF soldier, Gal Godot.
- Comment on Anon's gf has unfinished business 1 month ago:
OK boys you’ve had your fun with the sectioning, there’ll be no more sectioning today.
- Comment on Anon's gf has unfinished business 1 month ago:
Well that just means you’ve got 8 seasons of Peep Show to watch.
- Comment on Switch 2 GameCube controller will only be offered to those who pre-order the console 1 month ago:
Lemmy 24/7: “if its free, you’re the product”
Lemmy on Nintendo: “Why should I pay for online play?! It needs to be free, moderated, and exist indefinitely even after the obsolescence of the product. Otherwise, I’m entirely justified in pirating everything.”
- Comment on Switch 2 GameCube controller will only be offered to those who pre-order the console 1 month ago:
A controller that is useful only when you have that online subscription to play the back catalogue, yes.
- Comment on What are people from Moscow and Versailles called? 1 month ago:
People are answering your headline but not understanding your question; the two aren’t as linked as they would be in French.
All of these are valid:
- I went to a Moscow school
- I went to a school in Moscow
- I went to a Versaille cafe
- I went to a cafe in Versaille.
- I dated a London girl
- I dated a girl from London
These sound more natural than the following: *I went to a Muscovite school *I went to a Versaillian cafe (People have been giving you the direct French for Versaillais, but English wouldn’t use fhat)
- I dated a Londoner girl.
At least for Muscovite, it retains the implication that the school is for people from Moscow, rather than the school being in Moscow. You can see this a lot more often in religion, eg. I went to a Presbyterian school - I went to a school for Presbyterians.
- Comment on Paradox date Stellaris 4.0, a "phoenix update" to attract new players and improve performance 2 months ago:
I’m pretty sure they mean The Company Formerly Known As Electronic Arts.
Because Paradox have a track record of buying studios and monetising their games in a similar way that EA monetised Maxis’s The Sims.
- Comment on "You should probably just throw it away" 2 months ago:
This is just replacing one unsupported OS with another?
- Comment on "You should probably just throw it away" 2 months ago:
Trade it in.
In other words, someone may be willing to pay you for parts, rather than you just getting nothing for it (recycling).
They are not going to recommend you use an alternative OS, and probably not because they’re worried about market share, but because they then have some responsibility for every time a person fucks up a Linux install.
- Comment on Cosmology (2025-03-12) 2 months ago:
In Ireland you can be invited straight to PhD. The whole process takes just as long though, and there isn’t a guarantee you’ll be awarded anything if not completed.
- Comment on would getting back with an ex be a bad idea? 2 months ago:
I’m not sure this even counts because the guy basically said let’s be friends and she has leapt to thinking about getting back together. This just sounds like someone with issues of their own, if dating someone who is obviously unthinking but falls well within the predicted bounds of normal behaviour for a teenager makes them think they might be a lesbian.
- Comment on Is there any hope for Ukraine to survive as an independent state now that trump is desperately wishing for a peace treaty with Russia, even bypassing Ukraine? 3 months ago:
Rockerface is Ukrainian, not American.
Being a seemingly temporary non-nation, Americans don’t always understand that people don’t usually just give up and accept conquest. If a people continue to distinguish themselves strongly enough without being literally wiped out or assimilated, they will survive annexation until the next opportunity for rebellion or freedom. Ireland resisted Britain for 800 years - a few years in the shadows of dictators until ordinary Russians grow balls/tits again isn’t necessarily the end of Ukraine.
- Comment on Wonder Woman Game is "Years Away From Release" As Warner Bros. Gaming Division Struggles 3 months ago:
How about if the idle animation is Gal Gadot in full IDF regalia singing “Imagine”?
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Quite the opposite, my workplace is pretty fun and we definitely don’t need to couch jokes in emotions for safety. Maybe this is the same thing that requires people these days to use sarcasm tags.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Please don’t wink in a work context
- Comment on Civilization 7's post-launch plans include free multiplayer and Age features and paid Ada Lovelace 4 months ago:
I’ve put hundreds or thousands of hours into every Civ game since Civ 2. I’m so fucking sad that I don’t care about this new release. I’m Irish and I can’t even enjoy Britain being relegated to DLC because somehow Ada Lovelace is a leader? Who is this game for?
- Comment on Isn't EU's "VAT" a regressive tax? Why do they have that, instead of something like, taxing the rich? 4 months ago:
No, not every purchase is taxed, and not every purchase that is is taxed at the same rate.
These rates are set by individual countries (because “Europe”, lol) and can change year to year. For example Ireland doesn’t tax books, basic food staples, children’s clothes, medicines. Heating fuel is taxed but was set to a reduced rate during the cost of living crisis. Other countries will have different priorities.
VAT ensures that even those who have a large amount of wealth accumulated without “income” also contribute to society.
- Comment on If a child went into a coma and woke up as an adult what would happen ? 4 months ago:
But nobody clapped and no atheist tried to abort him and the holy spirit did not enter her at her weakest moment
- Comment on Anon buys a TV without researching 4 months ago:
Why would this need “deliver ads over HDMI”. It’s on the telly, ie the HDMI signal has already been transmitted and now the TV itself is overlaying web-derived images in one corner, the same way it will overlay the guide or whatever when you open it.
- Comment on Anon's PC works 4 months ago:
My friend why are you acting like 5 years old is old. That’s pretty much the same console generation, never mind a serviceable age for PC hardware.
- Comment on Switching teams in middle of a match!? 5 months ago:
You said this so confidently but just to ruin your day: not everyone’s sex partners die afterwards.
- Comment on My VPN on Android fails to reconnect automatically any time the connection is interupted. Why? 5 months ago:
Terrible advice. Did you even read what he asked, about having to reconnect manually? Or did you just see “VPN” and had a story to tell?
- Comment on So is it "It just works" or "Shit just works"? 5 months ago:
The general trend of the behaviour of the userbase when it first began appearing. I’m pretty block-happy. I’m sure it’s an over-generalisation but I’ve learned over the years that I’d rather miss out than feel constantly annoyed.
- Comment on So is it "It just works" or "Shit just works"? 5 months ago:
I pronounce it “this post hidden due to instance block settings”.
- Comment on This seat reservation doesn't reserve any seats 5 months ago:
The only way to understand their comment is that they think it’s a ticket that they only printed as many as they have seats. Otherwise its a non sequitur as it doesn’t explain the purpose of printing a second slip that days you don’t have an assigned seat.
- Comment on This seat reservation doesn't reserve any seats 5 months ago:
Read the full text. This, despite appearances, is not in itself a ticket.
- Comment on Anon plays spin the bottle 5 months ago:
It sounds like he joined (sat down into) an existing game, which if this story was true, which it isn’t, because it’s 4chan, would be pretty different?