lemmyng
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- Comment on Why Vietnam Ignored Its Own Laws to Fast-Track a Trump Family Golf Complex 3 days ago:
Answer:
[Vietnamese officials] face intense pressure to strike a trade deal that would head off President Trump’s threat of steep tariffs
- Comment on Don't do Caffeine and Complex Analysis, kids 3 days ago:
For the uninitiated: www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHzdsFiBbFc
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
They’re a forum where members participate in group trolling, stalking, doxxing, and harassment of their targets.
- Comment on Netflix Renews Apocalyptic Sci-Fi Series 'The Eternaut' for Season 2 3 weeks ago:
I don’t know how far season 1 of the Netflix series goes, but the comic has two volumes. Well there’s a third fan-made volume, but we don’t talk about that one.
- Comment on Looking for a local co-op game to play with my SO (Steam Deck) 3 weeks ago:
Lego Star Wars are quite bad for motion sickness, I find.
- Comment on Neutronium would like a word. 5 weeks ago:
Such devices exist, namely stars. Neutron stars are theorized to have neutronium at their core, essentially a soup of neutrons so densely packed that nothing else fits between them - in order words, the densest theoretical material (osmium is the densest material found on Earth).
- Comment on Favorite B-Movies? 5 weeks ago:
I want room service!
- Comment on Favorite B-Movies? 5 weeks ago:
Does Big Trouble in Little China count?
Otherwise, and in no particular order:
- UHF
- Six String Samurai
- Hudson Hawk
- Repo Man
- Hobo with a Shotgun
- The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai across the 8th Dimension
- Death Race
- Dead Alive
- WolfCop
- Comment on Am I going crazy, or has people's spelling gotten awful lately? 1 month ago:
I’ve always experienced the opposite - native English speakers are horrible at spelling because they don’t have to put any effort into comprehending the language, vs non-native speakers who frequently have to take ESL tests for either academia, work, or immigration, and therefore had more exposure to spelling practice.
- Comment on Last Epoch Season 2 | Patch Overview 1 month ago:
That’s a lot of QoL improvements, specially for endgame crafting!
- Comment on Tron: Ares - Official Poster 1 month ago:
It’s Troning time!
- Comment on Does a tiny motion tracking mouse thing exist at all? 1 month ago:
Most scroll wheels use an optical sensor inside the housing to monitor the motion of the wheel. If you got paint inside the housing then it can confuse the sensor.
Question: did you take off the top of the mouse to paint it, or at least tape off any areas that needed to be protected like the scroll wheel and the bottom sensor?
- Comment on UFO Sweden (2022, dir Victor Danell) 1 month ago:
Eliminating the need for subtitles altogether
Oh yeah, this is totally going to help people with hearing problems… not!
- Comment on What is a TV show that was one of your favourites, but just went on for far too long? 1 month ago:
It’s a darn shame that Scrubs ended on season 8, but on the other hand imagine what a disaster a 9th season could have been…
- Comment on Box Office: How ‘Snow White’ Landed in Potential Bomb Territory 2 months ago:
And the uncanny CGI…
- Comment on wriggle wriggle 2 months ago:
- Comment on What TV cancellation are you most upset by? 2 months ago:
Elijah was fine. However the writer was Max Landis, and… well, he’s not a great character, turns out.
- Comment on What TV cancellation are you most upset by? 2 months ago:
Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency falls under the same category.
- Comment on World travelers 2 months ago:
Asia via the Pacific to the Americas, then a swallow grabs one and brings it to the Atlantic coast.
- Comment on Why don’t wireless connections (WiFi, Bluetooth, etc.) use anything between 2.4Ghz and 5Ghz? 2 months ago:
I remember that post from slazer2au… lemmy.world/post/19338754
- Comment on Why don’t wireless connections (WiFi, Bluetooth, etc.) use anything between 2.4Ghz and 5Ghz? 2 months ago:
When we talk about 2.4, 5, or 6 GHz the devices don’t operate at exactly that frequency, but within a band more or less on that number. For example 5 GHz is actually a set of channels between 5150 and 5895 MHz.
Why isn’t there a 3Ghz, 3.5Ghz, 4Ghz, etc?
Technically there’s 802.11y (3.65 GHz), 802.11j (4.9-5.0 GHz), etc. It’s just that several of these bands cannot be used universally across the globe, because they may be reserved for other purposes. By and the bands that end up being used are ones that don’t require licensing to operate.
Reference: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_WLAN_channels
- Comment on What TV cancellation are you most upset by? 2 months ago:
Better off Ted.
Pushing Daisies.
- Comment on 'Harry Potter' actress joins OnlyFans to pay off debt 2 months ago:
Gotta name drop for that sweet SEO.
- Comment on What’s your best “they must have had a lot of fun making this” movie? 2 months ago:
As a general thing, any Kurt Russell movie directed by John Carpenter was [according to them] a pleasure,
I can believe that, especially for Big Trouble in Little China
- Comment on tig ol bitties 2 months ago:
Also Mazinger (may be known under a different name in some countries). One of the robots (Aphrodite A) had titty missiles: tenor.com/…/afrodita-aphrodite-mech-anime-gif-168…
- Comment on What movies have you watched this week? 2 months ago:
Fight or Flight
- Comment on Why are tornado sirens only for tornadoes and not other severe storm events? 3 months ago:
Other kinds of severe weather are predictable, whereas there’s a big difference between “this pattern could develop into a tornado over the next half hour, batten down the hatches” and “A TORNADO HAS TOUCHED DOWN NEAR YOU, GET TO A SHELTER WITHIN THE NEXT MINUTE OR YOU’LL DIE!”
- Comment on Some examples of video games with an UI layout ripped off of another game? 3 months ago:
Icewind Dale did the same with Baldur’s Gate. Not just the UI, they blatantly reused a lot of the assets too!
- Comment on Potsy Ponciroli to write The Goonies sequel 3 months ago:
Based on other films that had late sequels: they’re the parents now, all boring and business like. Their kids are the ones who get into hijinks, but the parents need to reignite their sense of wonder and adventure to rescue the kids.
I think that covers about 80% of the required sequel tropes.
- Comment on Are there any better mechanical keyboards that don't break the bank? 3 months ago:
Keychron keyboards are solid and maintainable, and available in Canada. Pick a model that supports swapping switches, and start with brown switches perhaps - they’re on the more quiet end of the spectrum, but common so you won’t break the bank. Then over time you can customize it as your budget allows - different switches if browns are not the right fit for you, keycaps of your preferred colour, etc.