GraniteM
@GraniteM@lemmy.world
- Comment on [Thread] Mental Math 6 days ago:
Put on some halfway decent headphones and try out the virtual barbershop.
- Comment on Larian revealed that Baldur's Gate 3 has sold 2 copies in the Vatican 1 week ago:
“I tried to find out who was playing Baldur’s Gate 3, but all I found was this worthless pile of sexual abuse evidence!” [Throws cardboard box into incinerator]
- Comment on Blue 1 week ago:
Mirrored:
- Comment on Blue 1 week ago:
No, I took it
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- Comment on Tony Todd Dies: ‘Candyman’ Star Whose Hundreds Of Credits Include ‘Final Destination’ Films & ‘Platoon’ Was 69 1 week ago:
I got his autograph at a convention once. Most celebrities fall somewhere close to the middle of the “smile, nod, sign autograph, receive money” curve. Tony Todd started asking me questions about what I was doing at the con, what sort of stuff I was looking forward to. He was sweet and kind and giving to a gigantic dork to whom he owed nothing, and he gave me a memory that I’ll cherish forever. He deserves every ounce of praise he’ll receive, and more.
- Comment on How is it that "protecting basic democracy and the rule of law, and not crowning a criminal dictator" wasn't even on the chart?! 2 weeks ago:
The American electorate:
- Comment on Is it offensive for me as a man to dress as a male version of a female fictional character for Halloween?' 2 weeks ago:
I’m just having a hard time imagining a scenario in which it would be offensive…
Plenty where it would be a little confusing. Sandra Dude O’Connor, or Susan Bro Anthony would take some explaining, at the least.
- Comment on Capsaicin 2 weeks ago:
I love sitting neck-deep in an outdoor hot tub on a cold day!
- Comment on Eat lead 4 weeks ago:
We’re doing the extra-silly speedthrough right now. Next time will be much more comprehensible.
- Comment on Eat lead 4 weeks ago:
Instructions unclear.
GotGod diagnosed with lead poisoningWell, that certainly explains the platypus!
- Comment on Anon reads a book for school 4 weeks ago:
Knocking him down won the first fight. I wanted to win all the next ones, too, right then, so they’d leave me alone.
—Ender Wiggin, Ender’s Game, by Orson Scott Card
P.S. This attitude led Ender to >!accidentally genocide an entire sentient alien species.!<
- Comment on Anon wants a cute girlfriend. 4 weeks ago:
What’s odd is that Anon is so close to achieving enlightenment. I got to a point in my life where I felt like I had no idea how to attract a romantic partner. I’d dated a few times, but each time it had kind of fell into my lap, and I never got the hang of talking to women I found attractive in a way that made it clear I was interested.
So I just gave up. I accepted that I had no idea how to get a date, and I just went about my life, pursuing things that I found interesting.
And, lo and behold, I wound up meeting the woman I would marry, albeit through the mechanism of someone straight up telling me that she was interested in me.
If you’re focused on “getting” a girlfriend, you’re thinking of a partner as a valuable object to be acquired, and you’re not enjoying your own life, and improving yourself within that life. If you don’t think of romance as a pursuit, but rather as something good that can happen within the context of living your life well, then you are much better off.
Also, you’ve really got to get it into your head and heart that women are people and not prey animals, which I’m going to be honest, it seems might be a detail that is escaping Anon.
- Comment on Cynthia Erivo calls out fans who made their own Wicked poster 5 weeks ago:
In matters of taste, the customer is always right.
Nobody but the audience gets to decide what the audience wants. Not writers, not directors, not graphic designers. If you can give the audience something they didn’t know that they wanted until they got it, so much the better for you. But if the audience just plain wants something else, then there’s no amount of cajoling or negotiation that will make them feel otherwise.
That said, I have no idea what the collective response is to either of these posters, and this does feel a bit like a tempest in a teapot.
- Comment on ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) 5 weeks ago:
Colorado River toad:
Humanity: ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
- Comment on Urticaria 5 weeks ago:
Oh, I’ve got fucking Cold urticaria. My body takes it personally if I go swimming in cold water, or don’t wear a heavy sweatshirt on a chilly day, or God forbid if my sheets are just a little bit cold and I’m not wearing wrist-to-ankle pajamas. It fucking sucks, and it didn’t even develop until I was in my thirties, so it’s not as if this something that I learned to live with so early that it’s second nature to me now. FUCK my fucking cold-activated histamines.
- Comment on Magic Mineral 5 weeks ago:
Treat your taste kindly with KENT, the cigarette with the NEW Micronite filter!
^^Micronite ^^is ^^asbestos.
- Comment on Oxbowin' 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on What's a good gift for a 2-year old? 1 month ago:
The Pop-up Book of Phobias is also great.
- Comment on What's a good gift for a 2-year old? 1 month ago:
Nothing that makes noise or takes batteries.
Board books. Toddlers are murder on books with paper pages. Stick with classics like Goodnight Moon or Dr. Seuss, or if you want something more recent the Little Owl series by Divya Srinivasan, or Calm-Down Time by Elizabeth Verdick are really good.
Playground/beach toys, like a bucket / shovel / rake set that parents can keep in the car. They’ll likely get lost, so go for cheap and sturdy over premium and expensive.
Sidewalk chalk, like the huge fat ones.
The water based coloring books someone else mentioned are great, too. No cleanup (beyond the occasional water spill), they can be reused, and they’re great entertainment for the car.
And yeah, like others have said, coordinate with the parents.
And if you hate the parents, get a Furby knockoff or something else that makes noise.
- Comment on Comparative anatomy 1 month ago:
“Nurse said that if I were a good lad that I should receive a lolly!”
- Comment on Assassin Bug 1 month ago:
- Comment on Anon enjoys a quiet night at home 1 month ago:
I describe fox noises as sounding like a combination of shock and pain, like someone getting unexpectedly stabbed in the back with a fondue fork at what was up until then a nice party.
- Comment on If Trump loses the election and flees to another country to avoid his sentencing in his (multiple) lawsuits, does the Secret Service have to go with him? 1 month ago:
“Big, beautiful submarine captains come up to me. Covered with muscles, muscles like nobody has ever seen before. Tears running down their cheeks. They say ‘Sir, thank you for sending us to the South China Sea! Nobody ever sent us there before!’ But I don’t get angry! I should get angry and sometimes I do get angry, but with these captains I don’t get angry. They say ‘Thank you, sir! Thank you!’ But nobody ever thought of South China before! I came up with that, but nobody gives me credit for South China!”
- Comment on If Trump loses the election and flees to another country to avoid his sentencing in his (multiple) lawsuits, does the Secret Service have to go with him? 1 month ago:
I’m just imagining being the poor sap working for a foreign power trying to extract useful information from his cottage cheese brain.
“Where! Are! The nuclear! Subs! Deployed!”
“Look, having nuclear — my uncle was a great professor and scientist and engineer, Dr. John Trump at MIT; good genes, very good genes, OK, very smart, the Wharton School of Finance, very good, very smart — you know, if you’re a conservative Republican, if I were a liberal, if, like, OK, if I ran as a liberal Democrat, they would say I’m one of the smartest people anywhere in the world — it’s true! — but when you’re a conservative Republican they try — oh, do they do a number — that’s why I always start off: Went to Wharton, was a good student, went there, went there, did this, built a fortune — you know I have to give my like credentials all the time, because we’re a little disadvantaged — but you look at the nuclear deal, the thing that really bothers me — it would have been so easy, and it’s not as important as these lives are — nuclear is so powerful; my uncle explained that to me many, many years ago, the power and that was 35 years ago; he would explain the power of what’s going to happen and he was right, who would have thought? — but when you look at what’s going on with the four prisoners — now it used to be three, now it’s four — but when it was three and even now, I would have said it’s all in the messenger; fellas, and it is fellas because, you know, they don’t, they haven’t figured that the women are smarter right now than the men, so, you know, it’s gonna take them about another 150 years — but the Persians are great negotiators, the Iranians are great negotiators, so, and they, they just killed, they just killed us, this is horrible.”
- Comment on Anon shares his dating preferences 1 month ago:
Also, this is just a really negative set of statements. “I DON’T want X, Y, and Z.” Even giving anon a pretty big benefit of the doubt and assuming they didn’t state it like “No fatties,” they aren’t really saying what they want in a partner, just a bunch of standards by which they would judge somebody.
The search for a romantic partner should involve more positives than negatives. You should have ideas about what things you like in people and yourself, and what interests and activities that you’re passionate about and would like to share with someone. If you start with a laundry list of things that you don’t like, that’s not just going to be off-putting, it’s going to be limiting you to thinking only in those terms, rather than finding something that brings you joy, and finding someone that has that in common with you.
- Comment on Threw a wrestling watch party, made special food, and was very disappointed in the outcome. 2 months ago:
There’s a tough lesson I learned about trying to get my friends into board games: It’s easier to turn gamers into your friends than it is to turn your friends into gamers. I’ve learned that some of my friends are never going to share my interests as much as I’d like, but that just means I needed to find people who were already in whatever hobby and start hanging out with them and some of them will eventually be your real friends.
Making and keeping friends as an adult is way more difficult than it seems it should be, but it’s a painful reality.
- Comment on hmmm 😈 2 months ago:
“You’ve got a little schmutz on you” just feels like the right way to tell people there’s an unspecified substance on them.
- Comment on Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered confirmed by ESRB rating 2 months ago:
With as much as they talked about the irrevocable destruction of the global ecosystem coming up in a matter of months, and then the constantly rotating day-night cycle, I imagine it would be possible to find out if your in-game time played actually was more or less than that deadline. It would be hilarious if the world was going to end in six months but then the math showed that you actually spent more than a year running around shooting the fins off of robi-pterodactyls.
- Comment on Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered confirmed by ESRB rating 2 months ago:
I’ll be honest, I played through HZD and liked it a lot, but I came away with a list of minor improvements that could have made the game better.
If anything, Forbidden West had all of those same problems and more, and it had a less interesting story. Just to talk about the quests, for instance, I found myself running in boring laps trying to get a particular resource to upgrade a particular weapon, repeating the same battle so many times that it became truly tiresome.
Then I finally upgraded the weapon… and found that by the end of the story I had a bunch of incompletely-upgraded weapons and armor that nevertheless left me so overpowered that the final boss fight was hilariously trivial. If I’d invested the enormous amount of grind to actually max out all the top-tier equipment, then the fight would have been even easier than that.
The franchise has a lot going for it, but they need to figure out their pacing.
