GraniteM
@GraniteM@lemmy.world
- Comment on Guess I'm not sleepin tonight 3 days ago:
This, but it’s the most basic chemistry of life itself:
- Comment on borger 6 days ago:
Or even make your own passive amp out of a few bucks’ worth of PVC.
- Comment on Ever mix of episodes titles? 6 days ago:
I was working on a Shakespeare play one time and I started keeping notes on lines that sounded like episode titles. These are all from the same play:
The Feverous Earth The Parallel Fellow The Volume of Time The Borrower of the Night A Fruitless Crown That Which We Destroy The Tender Eye The Timely Inn The Season of All Natures The Power of Man His Earth-Bound Root To Appease an Angry God In the Tyrant’s Grasp Blunt Not the Heart The Seeds of Time The Golden Round Honor Unaccompanied The Serpent and the Flower
Full disclosure: I was thinking of these as Doctor Who titles, but I think the privilege is sound.
- Comment on How to sexualize males for a female audience? 1 week ago:
Cocaine doesn’t even begin to cover what happened during Zardoz.
- Comment on Anon is a gamer 1 week ago:
Sega applied for and was awarded U.S. Patent 6,200,138 – “Game display method, moving direction indicating method, game apparatus and drive simulating apparatus” – in 2001. The mechanics in the “138 patent” describe an arcade cabinet similar to Sega’s previous arcade game Harley-Davidson & L.A. Riders (1997), but also describe the arrow navigation system and pedestrian avoidance aspects that were used in Crazy Taxi.
In 2001, Electronic Arts and Fox Interactive released The Simpsons: Road Rage, which reviews identified as being clearly inspired by the gameplay of Crazy Taxi. In this game, the player controlled one of The Simpsons characters as they drive around Springfield, bringing passengers to these destinations in a way like in Crazy Taxi. In December 2001, Sega brought Fox Entertainment, Electronic Arts, and developer Radical Games Ltd. to court over this infringement of the 138 patent. The case, Sega of America, Inc. v. Fox Interactive, et al., was settled in private for an unknown amount. The 138 patent is considered to be one of the most important patents in video game development.
- Comment on Anon has an epic weekend 2 weeks ago:
I didn’t know this had a sequel!
- Comment on Haxxed 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on wriggidy wrekt 3 weeks ago:
Perhaps it was a plaster cast replica of the real fossil itself.
- Comment on We're so back 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on The bosses are never going to just hand workers a 32 hour workweek. 4 weeks ago:
Thanks, Industrial Revolution…
- Comment on Evolution 5 weeks ago:
A lot of aerodynamic designs seem to look a lot like the world’s fastest birds.
- Comment on dont do it 5 weeks ago:
You’d be amazed what a determined meth addict with a crowbar can do.
- Comment on How is Alexander the Great so great he gets that name, but not so great that just “Alexander”doesn’t disambiguate him? 5 weeks ago:
Charles Le Magne
Charle
sLeMagneCharlemagne
Save three letters per instance of the name being used. If it’s a history of French royalty, that adds up!
- Comment on How is Alexander the Great so great he gets that name, but not so great that just “Alexander”doesn’t disambiguate him? 5 weeks ago:
“Boss, I can save you a couple of deniers’ worth of ink and paper over the course of the tome by writing Charlemagne instead of Charles Le Magne every time we refer to the great king.”
“Brilliant! You get an extra serving of gruel for lunch!”
- Comment on And toxic in large amounts! 5 weeks ago:
Compromise and call it a broth.
- Comment on My shopping list: Coal 5 weeks ago:
The artist here is Brom, and he’s so fucking good. Gives Goth Boris Vallejo vibes.
- Comment on Theories on Theories 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on Theories on Theories 5 weeks ago:
Psychology furiously staring from the corner but afraid to speak lest it be made to sit at the folding table with Astrology and Tarot readings.
- Comment on Game franchises you like, but wish were anothet genre of video game? 1 month ago:
Someone remade Portal as a browser based side scroller, and I fucking loved that game.
I played through Horizon: Zero Dawn and Forbidden West, and with how hard every NPC was flirting with Aloy, I wondered “Why isn’t this a post-apocalyptic dating sim?”
- Comment on Anon gets scammed 1 month ago:
- Comment on North America contains some of the longest continuous decididous forest records on the planet. 1 month ago:
Let this empire burn and 50+ flags fly freely
Later, in the smoldering ruins:
“I meant 🌹 🌺 ❤️ Balkanization🌈 🎂 🦄, not 🔫 💥 🔥 Balkanization 💀 🪦 💣!”
- Comment on The End of an Era 1 month ago:
If less than one percent of Nader voters (not all Florida voters, just Nader voters) had voted for Gore instead, the margin in Florida would have been wide enough for Gore to unquestionably take the state, and he’d have become president.
- Comment on I'm gonna pay you $100 to fuck off 1 month ago:
ADBS originated over fourteen years ago.
- Comment on The Art of Surrender 1 month ago:
-
Be born rich
-
Spend the rest of your life falling up stairs
-
- Comment on shiny ❍⩊❍ 1 month ago:
They are so grateful!!
- Comment on I have the power 1 month ago:
You guys like Bruce Lee movies? I saw Enter the Dragon six times.
- Comment on "Trippy" Reality 1 month ago:
The podcast “You Made It Weird,” with Pete Holmes is great. He has a lot of smart and funny people on, and the pattern is usually to start with “What’s going on with you? What are you working on? What makes you laugh?” for the first two thirds of a given episode, and then the last third is stuff like “Do you believe there is a purpose to life? Have you ever seen a ghost? Have you ever tried psychedelics?” Pete is clearly on his own spiritual journey and has a lot of heavy stuff to talk about and share, and he makes good a great conversation.
Two highlights were when Reggie Watts talked about going on a trip in a bathroom where he traveled to a parallel universe and met with a sentient planet, and when Judd Apatow talked about how ayahuasca brought him into a meeting with the embodiment of his childhood self.
I don’t necessarily want to get into psychedelics, but it’s a very interesting topic of conversation, if the person is smart enough to ask and answer intelligent questions.
- Comment on Cry cry cry 1 month ago:
What’s the over-under on Trump demanding that both things get named after him / trying to sell the naming rights, and then when the IAU says that’s not how that works, he throws a tantrum, names then after himself anyway, and starts a Legion of Doom alternate IAU chaired by himself, Steve Bannon, and Kid Rock?
- Comment on And no paper towels to use on the handle 1 month ago:
This is true. The Mythbusters episodes about double dipping tortilla chips in salsa and about leaving your toothbrush in the bathroom convinced me that the entire world is covered in an invisible layer of poo and there’s nothing I can do about it, so I’ve got to just try to accept it.
- Submitted 1 month ago to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world | 144 comments
