GraniteM
@GraniteM@lemmy.world
- Comment on Skill Issue 😓 18 hours ago:
“Will no one rid me of this turbulent line cook?!”
- Comment on A new PlayStation controller patent showcases a controller with no physical buttons 2 days ago:
I can conceive of a controller with a surface like those pin art toys
with a membrane stretched over it so that you could reprogram the location and shape of the buttons at will and still have a tactile experience…
…but it would be needlessly complicated, expensive, almost certainly less functional than actual buttons, and more prone to failure. So, not really a meaningful or desirable improvement.
- Comment on How would Sam Altman have any idea what humans enjoy? 2 days ago:
Hey, quick question: will Work™ eventually include the healthcare, housing, and free time to enjoy life benefits that we’ve all been hearing so much about?
- Comment on Anon tries something new 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Patrick Stewart Reflects on 'Star Trek' at 60: Why He Wants More Spinoffs 3 weeks ago:
He tells a good story about prank calling Stewart’s wife and convincing her that Patrick was going to be getting home late that night.
- Comment on Do you think that Trump is the most hated U.S. president? 3 weeks ago:
By the general public and the world? Absolutely.
But you could make the argument that Presidents Lincoln, Garfield, and Kennedy were each more specifically hated by one particular person at a time.
- Comment on What's the weirdest thing in english? 4 weeks ago:
Adjectives in English absolutely have to be in this order: opinion-size-age-shape-colour-origin-material-purpose Noun. So you can have a lovely little old rectangular green French silver whittling knife. But if you mess with that word order in the slightest you’ll sound like a maniac.
Mark Forsyth, The Elements of Eloquence: How To Turn the Perfect English Phrase
- Comment on Loosing my religion 4 weeks ago:
Literally the same interaction between religion and reality as The Spirit Catches You And You Fall Down. Except without the language and cultural discontinuity.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
Not me. I use a red metal cup.
Insulated. Screw on lid with water-tight seal and latch. May it be the last cup I ever buy.
- Comment on Yay, sponsored emojis! 5 weeks ago:
It allows one to play 45 rpm records, which have a big hole in the middle, on the turntable most people had at home which was designed for 33 ⅓ rpm records, which have a small hole. The shape forms a gentle spring to create tension inside the 45.
- Comment on "This Is Why Preservation Matters" - 14 Years Of RPG Maker Community Content Is About To Be Erased 1 month ago:
Isn’t this basically what Archive of Our Own was founded for? They may focus on fan fiction, but it seems like one could start a conversation with the Organization for Transformative Works to add another wing for this sort of content.
- Comment on Fafo 1 month ago:
“What does this 400-room hotel need to employ a full-time plumber for? The pipes are all fine, and no one ever complains about a clogged toilet. Fire that lazy bum!”
- Comment on Anon is a child prodigy 1 month ago:
Diogenes has entered the chat
- Comment on Anon pets a dog 1 month ago:
“It was one time!”
- Comment on Is there music I haven't heard because I only speak English? 1 month ago:
Contribution: Go check out other countries’ translations of Disney songs. Disney puts in a lot of work to make sure that their foreign language singers sound as much as possible like the original and that the translated lyrics have about the same rhythm as the original. It’s deeply uncanny sometimes, a bit like having a brain malfunction where the song sounds exactly the same but you can’t understand the words.
Corollary: Can anyone recommend some good German rap? I downloaded one German rap song back in my Napster days and I loved how it sounded, but then I realized that I didn’t speak a word of German and for all I knew they were rapping some truly heinous lyrics without my knowledge, so I took it out of rotation. I’d love to have some good German rap that I wouldn’t be horrified to learn is about right wing politics or something
- Comment on Map of the vascular system of the thigh 1 month ago:
Take this over to Church of Thighentology.
- Comment on Claw 1 month ago:
Little bit of bedbug in there, too.
- Comment on Caption this. 1 month ago:
Six fish enter! One fish leaves!
- Comment on What are some of the biggest continuity errors in Star Trek? 1 month ago:
It’s not a continuity error as such, but I’m a big fan of all the technologies that by rights should have completely upended galactic civilization but then just get forgotten.
The Genesis device should be an appalling superweapon that would change the face of war.
And then those missiles from Generations that can kill an entire solar system should, too.
And the time on TNG that they stumbled on a weird transporter trick that could make it so no one would ever need to die of old age ever again.
And the Tribble blood that cures death.
And so forth.
- Comment on Flipper!! 1 month ago:
Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny.
- Comment on Guess I'm not sleepin tonight 2 months ago:
This, but it’s the most basic chemistry of life itself:
- Comment on borger 2 months ago:
Or even make your own passive amp out of a few bucks’ worth of PVC.
- Comment on Ever mix of episodes titles? 2 months 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? 2 months ago:
Cocaine doesn’t even begin to cover what happened during Zardoz.
- Comment on Anon is a gamer 2 months 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 months ago:
I didn’t know this had a sequel!
- Comment on Haxxed 2 months ago:
- Comment on wriggidy wrekt 2 months ago:
Perhaps it was a plaster cast replica of the real fossil itself.
- Comment on We're so back 2 months ago:
- Comment on The bosses are never going to just hand workers a 32 hour workweek. 2 months ago:
Thanks, Industrial Revolution…
