cobysev

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They just made the winning bid⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not Pixar, it’s Disney.

  Pixar got its animation start when John Lasseter got fired from Disney for promoting CG animation over the traditional hand-drawn animation. He moved over to the Lucasfilm CG studio, which was later renamed “Pixar.”

  Through Pixar (after Steve Jobs bought it from George Lucas), Lasseter and his team proceeded to not only revolutionize CG animation, but to create incredible unique stories with it. They were seen as a real competitor to Disney for a while. They only started making sequels when they started collaborating with Disney.

  Eventually, Disney realized the money to be made from CG animation, so they bought out Pixar. Now it’s a Disney product and their ideas are bankrupt once again. We don’t get original stories anymore, just a bunch of unnecessary sequels and garbage films that were probably written by AI.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Confess your sins⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe that’s it. I only watched it on DVD back in the day. It was grainy and everyone’s faces looked plastic and uncanny. You couldn’t see facial textures or wrinkles.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Confess your sins⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Where did this HD version of this meme come from? I’ve seen Monster House, and CG wasn’t that good in 2006. I’m pretty sure someone’s enhanced this image with AI.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨this is real btw⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Under a fascist regime, yes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Military Grade⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The military is definitely all about following regulations and protocol, even if they don’t make sense.

  […] the military often does stuff in a dumbass way

  I was in the Air Force when I served, but I deployed with some Marines once. Their motto, which they repeated all the time, was, “If it’s stupid, but works… it wasn’t stupid.”

  They used this as an excuse to try very dumb ways to problem solve everything. And it led to very creative ways to do things; some of which actually worked.

  But myself and a couple other Air Force folks got a kick out of watching the Marines figuratively smash rocks together, hoping to ignite a fire.

  My favorite quote from that deployment came from one of the young Corporals in my office. He had just returned from a week-long forward mission and got stuck in an airport for 24 hours before his connecting flight.

  He said, “I was so bored, I actually read a book from cover to cover! I don’t think I’ve ever read an entire book in my life!”

  I expected that to be a joke, but instead of laughing, the rest of the Marines just solemnly nodded along. Wow.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Military Grade⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yup.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Military Grade⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Former military member here. There are a couple things at play here.

  1.) The military will outline a specific requirement for specific equipment that contractors need to meet. Requirements depend on the mission, usage, tools required, etc. so “military grade” just means “we needed a specific product to perform a specific way.” This does not mean it’s good for any use. Just that it’s what we needed in the moment for a specific job.

  2.) We are required to buy from the lowest bidder. We ask contractors to build products for us that meet the specific requirements we outlined, then compare/contrast prices. Every contractor that built our product are in the running to become our supplier for that product… if they can beat every other contractor in price.

  So how does a contractor win a government contract while still making money on the product they’re selling? By cutting corners, using cheaper materials, and ensuring the product will last just long enough to meet our requirements before breaking. The cheaper they can build it, the more money they make while also selling cheaper than all their competitors.

  So “military grade” just means it’s a cheap piece of crap that met some arbitrary request the military made for a specific tool at one time. If you want quality products, avoid military grade.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the best way to tell a kid that their dog died?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  When I was 9 years old, my golden lab got hit and killed by a car.

  He was always an outdoors dog. He just showed up on our country property when I was about 3-4 years old and decided to stay there, so we vaccinated him and gave him a collar. I named him Rusty because of his coloring.

  He was an old dog at the end. Blind in one eye, hearing was going, and he had bad arthritis. He liked to just lounge around and fawn over me. Sweetest dog ever. There’s a lake across the road from my house, through a thin forested property, and he would trot down there for a swim every now and then to soothe his aching bones. One day, he popped out of the woods on his way home and got hit by a car on the road.

  My mother didn’t plan to tell me about it. She didn’t want to risk traumatizing me with my first death, so she was just going to ignore it for as long as possible. Rusty would disappear for days on end, so it wouldn’t be unusual for him to be gone for a while. Then when I’d start asking questions, she’d suggest that he probably migrated somewhere new.

  I was playing in my front yard one day when a minivan came up my driveway. A lady hopped out and handed me a small plastic bag. She said, “Here’s your dog’s collar. I figured you’d probably want it. I’m sorry for what happened to him.” Then she just hopped back in her car and drove off, leaving me staring blankly after her. ‘What was that all about?!’

  I went inside and showed my mom the bag, told her some lady just handed it to me, and asked her what happened to Rusty. My mom immediately broke down crying, which made me cry, and we both just hugged and cried for a while.

  My mom was furious that some lady just handed off a dead dog’s collar to a 9-year old instead of finding an adult. She explained what happened to Rusty and said they were going to bury his remains in our backyard. She absolutely refused to let me see him, though. She said she wanted me to remember him as the childhood friend I grew up with, not as a corpse run over by a car. I wasn’t allowed into the field out back behind my house until my dad had finished burying him.

  So yeah, my first experience with death was with my first dog, and my mother could’ve handled it much better. But getting a good cry out with her did wonders for helping me deal with it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Batteries⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I turn 42 next month, but my body is beat up from 2 decades of military service. I’m definitely experiencing some “catastrophic functionality” myself.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Post title lol⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Elder (and just old) millennial here. I remember “lol” became a thing because cell phones became a common thing. Specifically, the old flip phones.

  Texting on them was a pain. Imagine having to type words with only a number pad. And you only had a tiny digital screen that could only fit a few words on it. On top of that, we were sometimes charged by the character. Or sometimes by the word. Depended on your service.

  Everyone was looking for the shortest way to type words and get their message across. So shortcuts like “lol,” “ily,” “wdym,” etc. became common use. As well as a variety of text emojis like :) :D :P or the fancy Japanese ones: (^^) (--;;) etc.

  As someone who spent their childhood with their nose buried in books, it bothered me to see this shorthand English everywhere. It just felt lazy to me. To this day, I’ve never typed “lol” unless I’m talking about the acronym itself.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Medicinal Big Mac⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  My first thought was, “Perry the Platypus? Where?!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon runs into his boss⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Back around 2005 or so, I was stationed in Japan with the US military. A buddy of mine parked his car on the shopping strip in front of the military base’s main gate and then walked to a bar. Later that night, intoxicated, he stumbled back to his car, intent to sleep it off in the back seat before going home.

  A gate guard saw him drunkenly ambling toward his car with a key in hand and ran after him. Busted him for a DUI on the spot. Dude didn’t even get into his car and he got a charge on his permanent military record for intent to drive under the influence of alcohol.

  I dunno how things work in the civilian sector (I don’t drink at all), but the military doesn’t play games.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨swag⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  My old ass read this as, “Do I have a drip?” and I’m scouring the image, looking for a leak somewhere.

  Goddamn kids and their newfangled Internet slang. Get off my lawn!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Witness⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  tik taks

  As a middle-aged man who’s never used TikTok before, this is how I’m gonna refer to it from now on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shitpost⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Hey, this was from Trudy & Doug’s Patreon last night, from their list of incomplete comic ideas. They’re the duo that make Oglaf comics.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Whatever you feel about Bond Films, Do you think it wouldn't be best they just ended it with the last film.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been saying it for years, but my ideal scenario for a reinvented Bond story would be to make a TV miniseries that’s loyal to the original books. A period piece, set in the 1950s that explored Ian Fleming’s original gritty, alcoholic, borderline suicidal Bond who has nothing but the next job in his life. Not the suave, charming, sophisticated womanizer and luxury sports car driver from the 1960s movies and on.

  I actually loved the Daniel Craig Bond films because it was the closest we’ve ever seen to the original version of Bond from the novels. Although I absolutely hate the end of his arc. (No spoilers)

  I also think they promoted him from rookie 00 agent to tired, grizzled old veteran way too quickly. The first film (Casino Royale) was a masterpiece; one of the best Bond films we’ve ever had, and a great modern retelling of the first ever Bond novel. But Barbara Broccoli panicked when his second film flopped hard, and spent the rest of the Daniel Craig arc trying to win back audiences instead of telling good, engaging stories.

  I think reinventing Bond as a TV miniseries would be better, because we could do multiple episodes to tell a grand story arc from the books, or a single episode for the short stories that Ian Fleming compiled. We would have room to tell a good tale without being confined to the limits of film. And it would be fascinating to see Bond in his original era, having to function off raw skill and intellect rather than gadgets.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it "weird" for kids to co-sleep with parents through their teenage years?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, see for yourself. OP specifically requested it in another post.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it "weird" for kids to co-sleep with parents through their teenage years?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I would only join my parents in bed if I had a nightmare in my own bed, which wasn’t very often. They would let me sleep between them in the middle of the bed, which made me feel safe and cozy.

  When I was maybe 7-8 years old, they started encouraging me to not do that anymore. If I had a nightmare, my mother would calm me down, talk it out with me, and then send me back to my bedroom. I never shared a bed with my parents again.

  It’s strange to me that OP started sharing a bed at 8 years old and continued into their teens. At that point, it would make sense to start enforcing independence.

  But if I recall, OP mentioned in another thread that their mother regularly insisted on expressing how much she loved them, then demanded to know if OP loved her too. So it sounds like OP’s mother has some extreme anxiety and self-worth issues, which she reinforced by over-mothering her “child” long past the stage where they should’ve been growing up and learning independence.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon makes some changes⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Coffee is acidic. If you’re brushing right after coffee, you may be damaging the enamel of your teeth (acid + scrubbing is not a good combination). And it can’t grow back; once you’ve lost it, it’s gone forever.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨wir suchen dich‼️‼️🗣️📢📢⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I used to… until I heard someone read it aloud one day.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Keep it off please!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re looking for Umamusume: Pretty Derby. It’s a Japanese video game franchise that has expanded into anime and manga as well.

  The games are all gacha games (collect items through gameplay or in-game currency). In this case, you collect and train tons of horse girls to compete in races. The original game is a mobile game, but there’s a free version on Steam that lets you play on your PC.

  All the anthropomorphic horse girls are based on real-life Japanese race horses (same name and hair coloring), and some of the game’s stories are based on real races too. It’s not an adult game series, if that’s what your curious about, but I’m sure there’s plenty of “fan art” in the darker corners of the Internet, if you know where to look.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Keep it off please!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think that’s the one thing that truly drew my interest with Umamusume. Every “horse girl” is named and styled after a real-life Japanese racing horse.

  If it was just an anime show/video game about anthropomorphic horse girls, I wouldn’t really care. But now I’m interested in comparing them to their real-life counterparts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Streaming didnt exist in 1970⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I cut all streaming services out of my life last year, except for Curiosity Stream, a sort of “Netflix” for educational documentaries.

  But I haven’t even been watching that in a while, so maybe I should stop paying for it.

  I just got sick of rising prices and invasive ads despite paying to avoid them. I use Plex now. I paid the one-time fee for the Lifetime Plex Pass and now I have access to all their advanced tools and streaming content, plus I can rip my movies/TV shows/music to my PC and stream them myself through Plex. No ads, no extra junk, no “are you still watching?” pop-ups. Just hit play and enjoy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  100% accurate. My wife is my best friend in the whole world.

  During COVID, a lot of married couples divorced because they were forced to spend time together at home every day and realized they can’t stand being around each other so much. Going to a job every day got them out of the house and away from their spouse/family for a few hours, which made married life tolerable.

  But for my wife and I, self-isolating at home was business as usual. We always hang out, even if we’re doing our own separate things. Just existing in the same space together makes us happy. Heck, we both retired young, so we’re now just sitting around the house all day long together. And we’re still enjoying each other’s friendship and love.

  Find someone you can vibe with on a personal level, not just someone who’s pretty or has one or two traits you want to associate with. Marrying my best friend had been the best decision I’ve ever made and it pays out tenfold as you get older together.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Subtitling a video, what is this sound called?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d need more context than a single screenshot and a second of audio. What’s happening leading up to this sound? What came right after? Can you make a video clip with at least 10 seconds of audio to pair with this specific capture? Visual cues and a bit more audio around the event will help make sense of it. As is, it doesn’t sound remotely like whimpering. Or anything recognizable.

  Also, The Amazing World of Gumball is an excellent show! I’ve re-watched it 3 times already, and I’m in my 40s. Despite being a kid’s show, it’s highly entertaining no matter your age.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day 593 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Chronologically, Metal Gear Solid 3 is the first game in the series. It shows Snake’s origin story, which leads into the original Metal Gear 1 and 2 games for the old Nintendo Entertainment System (long before the Metal Gear Solid series). So it’s a perfect place to start if you’re picking up the Metal Gear franchise for the first time.

  Metal Gear Solid ∆ is just a modern remake of Metal Gear Solid 3, so it’s basically the same thing but better graphics and controls. I read once that due to the falling out with Hideo Kojima, Konami can’t legally re-release the original MGS3 game, so a remake from the ground up was their legal compromise.

  Now Metal Gear Solid 4 is the only Metal Gear game that hasn’t been re-released on any other platform since it debuted on the PlayStation 3. But Konami plans to finally release it for PC and all modern consoles in August this year. Woo!

  I had planned to review Metal Gear Solid ∆ for my Lemmy screenshot series, but I was having so much fun with the game, I forgot about preparing a review and just played my way through it. MGS3 is my favorite of the entire franchise! There’s something rewarding about actually trying to avoid detection in a game. It’s easy to go in guns blazing, but sneaking past guards and not alerting anyone? That takes skill and dedication.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SERIOUSLY THOUGH. WELCOME TO LEMMY.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I gave up Reddit the day I moved here. Haven’t been back to Reddit since. I much prefer it here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unhinged... I'm gonna start doing that⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think I’ve ever heard him laugh.

  It’s like posting “lol” or “roflmao” in text, when your face doesn’t even change IRL. Except we’re voice chatting, so he’s using a laugh track instead of “lol.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unhinged... I'm gonna start doing that⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I voice chat with friends on Discord pretty regularly. I have one friend who, instead of laughing, will click a laugh track on our soundboard, filling the voice chat with boisterous sitcom laughter. I don’t know why, but that’s kind of unsettling.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Interestingly enough, the reason Brad Pitt is advertised so heavily is the reason I still haven’t watched it.

  Don’t get me wrong, I think he’s an excellent actor and I enjoy seeing him on screen. I just don’t understand why an F1 movie needed Brad Pitt. I’m here to watch race cars, not some famous actor behind the wheel!

  If they cast an unknown in the lead, I’d be more intrigued because I’m interested in Formula 1 racing. But putting a famous guy in the lead makes me feel like this is gonna be some dramatic feel-good fantasy story, not something more grounded in reality.

  And yes, I know this movie is just a giant advertisement for Formula 1. But that’s a real motorsport race, so I’d be more invested if the movie felt like watching a real person’s story, not an actor telling a fictional story in the setting of F1 racing.