morphballganon
@morphballganon@lemmy.world
- Comment on Solar powered personal umbrella with battery? 2 weeks ago:
Solar cells are crystalline and rigid. You wouldn’t be able to fold the umbrella up and put it away. Also, as someone else pointed out, solar cells work best in sunlight… which you won’t want an umbrella for.
- Comment on Why do people hate coldplay? 2 weeks ago:
They, like many other bands, stopped doing what they were good at, to experiment. It’s not as good.
I don’t hate them, but their good albums were a long time ago.
- Comment on What's the equivalent of rose coloured glasses for always seeing something in a negative perspective? 2 weeks ago:
Trauma
- Comment on 7,818 titles on Steam disclose generative AI usage, or 7% of Steam's total library of 114,126 games, up from ~1,000 titles in April 2024 2 weeks ago:
It doesn’t take very long to look at ratings. If it’s crap it’ll have crap ratings.
- Comment on 7,818 titles on Steam disclose generative AI usage, or 7% of Steam's total library of 114,126 games, up from ~1,000 titles in April 2024 2 weeks ago:
Read reviews. Examine promotional materials. Discuss with friends.
- Comment on Valve gets pressured by payment processors with a new rule for game devs and various adult games removed 2 weeks ago:
Immersion and customizability
- Comment on Can you see magic eye pictures? 3 weeks ago:
Yes.
The instructions say don’t cross your eyes but that’s horseshit and probably why so many people fail to see them.
My method is to cross my eyes, then uncross them slowly until the 3d effect appears, then hold on that position.
- Comment on Anon does some online shopping 3 weeks ago:
Was the cookies popup really 3 years ago already?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Your sons are speaking from their experience, which may not be the same as yours.
- Comment on Why does Dairy Queen sell food? 1 month ago:
Hot eats cool treats. That was the slogan 20 years ago. Get some nuggets and a blizzard.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
He thought she was saying a small lie to get a reaction out of him. Like playing a small prank. Playfulness
- Comment on Can deliberate noise harassment still be a crime if it's done every day from 7:30 AM till 10:30-11:30 PM? 2 months ago:
Don’t pay someone to steal something. The police will view conspiracy to commit theft much more harshly than blasting music.
- Comment on My mom tells me I should cut dad off for cheating on her, am I a bad person for not wanting to do so? 2 months ago:
Your Mom is hurting and lashing out.
You don’t need to fight her battles for her. But you can support her by spending time with her. If she doesn’t appreciate that, you can stop.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Without a pic how do you know
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Depending on your gender you’re heteroflexible or homoflexible
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
When politicians make it illegal for certain groups of people to exist, that oppression kind of takes precedence over other things.
Unless you believe yourself above such peasantry.
- Comment on Every time my wife pees, she flips the lid up. Every time I pee, I flip it down. Never been discussed. Dare I say anything and break the spell? 6 months ago:
Well, if the lid is down, then the seat is also down.
The wife presumably keeps the seat down to pee, too.
- Comment on Nintendo Responds to Leaks: "Not Official" 6 months ago:
Sorry, just frustrated to see the same assumption every generation, after ever generation sees massive change. In retrospect, it’s probably new people making the same assumption, not the same people.
- Comment on Nintendo Responds to Leaks: "Not Official" 6 months ago:
SNES was top loading with receding flaps. NES was front loading with a flap cover.
Must I point out all of the changes, or can you do some critical thinking before you argue?
- Comment on Nintendo Responds to Leaks: "Not Official" 6 months ago:
No shit.
Every 5 years, chodes expect each new Nintendo console to be a copy + paste of the previous one.
It’s never happened.
- Comment on Can enough solar pannels decrease the global temps? 6 months ago:
Elaborate?
- Comment on [deleted] 7 months ago:
Corporate greed.
- Comment on Has any country actually _solved_ the housing crisis? 7 months ago:
Crises are going to continue being crises as long as the wealth inequality of people worldwide continues increasing.
Think of it like this. There’s a finite amount of money in the world. Right?
The wealth of billionaires has doubled in the last few years. That money came from somewhere. Still with me?
Ok, so… if the wealth of the wealthiest people has doubled, that amount of money they gained was previously held by the less wealthy, but it has now been consolidated into the wealthier people’s bank accounts.
So. How do we solve the housing crisis (or any crisis)? Step 1 has to be to undo the consolidation of wealth. Solving crises without addressing the consolidation of wealth is a pipe dream.
Feel free to hunt for legal mechanisms for achieving that. But I think you’ll find there are institutions and propaganda preventing those mechanisms from being effective.
- Comment on Does anyone else think the NYPD photos of the UHC CEO shooting suspect don’t match? 7 months ago:
“Very dark white almost black” you mean grey?
- Comment on Are there any actual free programs that clean up all bloat ware on a new laptop? Without them putting hidden stuff in? 7 months ago:
That looks like a great tool for activating, but where to get the OS itself?
- Comment on Are there any actual free programs that clean up all bloat ware on a new laptop? Without them putting hidden stuff in? 7 months ago:
What’s the best version of Windows, and the best place to get it?
- Comment on Joe Biden pardons son Hunter in final weeks in office 8 months ago:
This is a small step in the right direction.
However… anyone who isn’t fooling themselves knows it won’t matter by itself.
I’d be surprised if any of the Bidens are still alive in 4 years. The Trump admin has admitted they intend to go after anyone who defended the Bidens, including governors. If governors are at risk, I doubt family members are off the table.
- Comment on Half-Life 2 is currently 100% for its 20th anniversary 8 months ago:
Start with HL2 on normal difficulty. Then do 2E1 and 2E2 on normal difficulty.
Then repeat all of that on hard.
Then you’ll be where I am. Never bothered with 1.
- Comment on How do I get over fear of cooking? 8 months ago:
I’m talking about instant, like Maruchan
- Comment on At what point do you stop calling the years "two thousand and X" and start calling them "twenty X"? 8 months ago:
That happened back in Twenty Ten