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- Comment on The last thing Brian Thompson saw before he died 1 week ago:
I’m glad someone else is calling this out. He seemed so thoughtful and methodical previously.
So for the guy to get busted because he eats in a public place, while a huge manhunt is ongoing, and he happens to have on his person: the gun, the fake id previously used, and a manifesto expressing his motive? It’s ridiculous! He could have tossed the gun into a body of water anywhere on his route outside NYC and it would never be found. And why reuse the same ID if you had several? Why not burn the associated IDs after they’ve been compromised?
It doesn’t make sense to me. I’ve seen suggestions that this could have been a state hit, maybe to destabilize the country further? Would our spooks make up a lazy narrative to cover up for their spooks?
- Comment on The Talos Principle: Reawakened | More Than a Remaster | Coming Early 2025 1 week ago:
Nice! I’m playing through TP2 right now and it’s great fun, though I did enjoy the mystery of the first more I think. How many laser puzzles does a person need in life though?
- Comment on NYPD's most wanted 1 week ago:
Surely some of these are fannon? Also, do the robots next!
- Comment on Claim Denied 2 weeks ago:
Live by the dollar, die by the dollar
- Comment on It’s Friday, Black Friday, Everybody Go Shop on Friday 3 weeks ago:
As Abraham Lincoln famously warned, “Don’t believe everything you read on the Internet!”
- Comment on But thats all Dan Harmon 4 weeks ago:
Thish posht… isht very intereshting, what ideology can we ashsume from it?
- Comment on Anon walks home in the city at 2 AM 5 weeks ago:
Eh possibly, but many of the women I’ve slept with have told me that I make them feel safe and that it’s a huge turn on for them. Shocking, I know, that people might want to feel secure before they get intimate.
- Comment on Anon walks home in the city at 2 AM 5 weeks ago:
As a tall man who likes to walk at night, I have long understood that women alone at night do not wish to encounter me. So when I happen to find myself following a woman down the street, I will either slow down, cross the street, or stop and look at a sign or something for a minute to give her some space.
In a dangerous and shitty world, a person has to find subtle and quiet ways to express care, compassion, and solidarity. It costs me nothing to make a woman feel safer.
- Comment on it’s hard being a twisted fucking cycle path 1 month ago:
I like how I know this story didn’t happen anywhere close to me since: no one calls them “cycle paths”, we hardly have any “bike lanes” anyway, and we definitely don’t have any trains to ride while discussing biking.
Now, if this had been a story about guns, trucks, and psychopaths, it would have been very relatable.
- Comment on Interview — Nana Visitor and Open A Channel: The Women Of Star Trek (Part 2) 1 month ago:
The book is very good! I happened to catch wind of it right after it came out. Its a great mix of Visitor’s personal experiences in TV, and her research and interviews with many women who’ve worked in Trek over the years. She writes well and the stories are both personal and educational about the history of the show and the medium.
- Comment on DayZ creator reveals a "Kerbal Space Program killer" with kittens and challenges license owners to sue him 1 month ago:
I’m making fun of the common practice, exemplified by Bethesda, of leaving bugs in their games for the modders to fix. The joke, in this case is that Rocket Werkz is leaving an “unfinished feature” in that is a Hard Problem in physics. There isn’t a general, easy solution to the N-body problem.
- Comment on DayZ creator reveals a "Kerbal Space Program killer" with kittens and challenges license owners to sue him 1 month ago:
One reachier goal is to add an n-body physics system. […] RocketWerkz say there’s a “small chance” of RocketWerkz developing such a simulation internally - they’re currently trying to hire somebody with a PhD to apply the requisite high-density brain-magic - but it’s likely this will be left for modders to figure out.
The next Bethesda game is just going to have a bug dependent on solving the Reimann conjecture, smh, always waiting on the modders to solve the company’s intractable math mysteries.
- Comment on What does baobab *wood* look like 1 month ago:
Found a few things:
A carved and polished table, shows color and cross section well.
A wiki for a minecraft clone that already has baobob wood.
Following another poster’s advice, here’s a cross section of one cut down.
In other depictions it often has little holes in it, which seems like a thing that happens to some baobob wood, otherwise it kind of just looks like medium color wood with some dark bands.
- Comment on ghetti 1 month ago:
Spudghetti
- Comment on Big Ol' Beavers 1 month ago:
Bigger than Bieber, the old beaver brushed the broken lever while brandishing a bloody cleaver
- Comment on If you find any German words, you can keep them 1 month ago:
Auf Wiedersehen!
- Comment on Oh god please no 1 month ago:
N-O-T-C-H-M-A-N
- Comment on Ah yes, regression 1 month ago:
Going into physics was the biggest mistake of my life. I should’ve declared CS. I still wouldn’t have any women, but at least I’d be rolling in cash.
Honestly, there wasn’t all that much cash to roll in and there’s less all the time now. Plus, if you think busted equipment is bad, wait until I tell you about inheriting legacy code.
- Comment on Wink wink 1 month ago:
This is why we love the Saints. Terrible at football but at least they know how to party after the game.
- Comment on Infinite Suffering 2 months ago:
I managed until university when I left calculus and entered “Linear Algebra” and man, I really don’t like matrices.
- Comment on Subway 2 months ago:
This is just an ad for subway
- Comment on Every little thing she fries is magic 2 months ago:
I prefer the original to this pop cover.
- Comment on I am back bois 2 months ago:
Before I checked the community, I misread the ahnk as a Venus ♀︎ and thought this was a coming out as trans post. All the same, you go girl!
- Comment on I am back bois 2 months ago:
I feel like shitposts and shit posts belong here, but I guess most find it a shit shitpost.
- Comment on reddit cat subs be like: 2 months ago:
!cat@lemmy.world !cats@sh.itjust.works !cats@midwest.social !cats@lemmy.ml !catswithjobs@lemm.ee !catswithjobs@lemmy.world !illegallysmolcats@lemmy.world !oneorangebraincell@lemmy.world !oneorangebraincell@lemmy.tf !catsstandingup@lemmy.world !blurrypicturesofcats@lemmy.world
Special mentions: !aww@lemmy.ml !aww@lemmy.world
There’s also several “pets” communities on smaller instances. Feel free to post your cat communities as well, I can’t have gotten them all.
- Comment on Former Disco Elysium devs are working on a spiritual successor at new studio Longdue, though Robert Kurvitz and Aleksander Rostov aren't involved 2 months ago:
Reminds me of Diablo and how in the years after the original you’d see so many clones with “from one of the people who worked on the original Diablo.” I think Torchlight, Titan Quest, and Nox all got advertised this way at one time. I mean it’s pretty common in any industry. How many movies have you seen advertised as being directed by “the creators of hit movie whatever” and its like the 3rd unit DP in charge?
- Comment on Are there Cozy shooter games? 2 months ago:
Neon White was my suggestion as well. Ultrakill is fun but is going for a more Devil May Cry style game where score and style matter significantly.
Neon White i found a little confusing at first until I got the feel of it. Its a movement puzzle game, with some shooting. Precision and repetition are key to learning the levels and beating them quickly, and once you get into its groove, time flies by. For being a time-challenge game, I find it surprisingly relaxing and forgiving.
- Comment on Assassin Bug 2 months ago:
Good definition! I’ll often say it is a “primary unit of cultural exchange.” I consider a lot of things memes: internet memes of course, songs, scenes from movies, plot tropes, characters, basically any bit of culture that can be encapsulated and identified as a distinct entity.
- Comment on I'm going insane 2 months ago:
Huh, never saw this one but in high school I had a dream just like this. I met a beautiful woman, perfect in every way, we got married had some kids, I even got some ways into middle age. Then, I was sitting in chair and noticed that my vision seemed… blurry at the edges, in a very “vignette filter” kind of way and I immediately knew I was dreaming. Woke up just as the existential collapse started. For several years after I’d try to remember her face, what our love had felt like, any of the details that had seemed so solid and tantalizing real for those few sleeping hours.
In retrospect, a lot like that Rick and Morty episode with the life simulator game. I wonder if one of the writers ever had that dream too? Brains are weird, and I haven’t any dreams nearly that all encompassing since.
- Comment on BREAKING NEWS 2 months ago:
Thanks! I hate it!
