GraniteM
@GraniteM@lemmy.world
- Comment on Yay, sponsored emojis! 19 hours 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 2 days 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 4 days 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 5 days ago:
Diogenes has entered the chat
- Comment on Anon pets a dog 1 week ago:
“It was one time!”
- Comment on Is there music I haven't heard because I only speak English? 1 week 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 week ago:
Take this over to Church of Thighentology.
- Comment on Claw 1 week ago:
Little bit of bedbug in there, too.
- Comment on Caption this. 2 weeks ago:
Six fish enter! One fish leaves!
- Comment on What are some of the biggest continuity errors in Star Trek? 2 weeks 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!! 2 weeks ago:
Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny.
- Comment on Guess I'm not sleepin tonight 3 weeks ago:
This, but it’s the most basic chemistry of life itself:
- Comment on borger 3 weeks ago:
Or even make your own passive amp out of a few bucks’ worth of PVC.
- Comment on Ever mix of episodes titles? 3 weeks 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? 4 weeks ago:
Cocaine doesn’t even begin to cover what happened during Zardoz.
- Comment on Anon is a gamer 4 weeks 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 5 weeks ago:
I didn’t know this had a sequel!
- Comment on Haxxed 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on wriggidy wrekt 5 weeks ago:
Perhaps it was a plaster cast replica of the real fossil itself.
- Comment on We're so back 1 month ago:
- Comment on The bosses are never going to just hand workers a 32 hour workweek. 1 month ago:
Thanks, Industrial Revolution…
- Comment on Evolution 1 month ago:
A lot of aerodynamic designs seem to look a lot like the world’s fastest birds.
- Comment on dont do it 1 month 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? 1 month 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? 1 month 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! 1 month ago:
Compromise and call it a broth.
- Comment on My shopping list: Coal 1 month ago:
The artist here is Brom, and he’s so fucking good. Gives Goth Boris Vallejo vibes.
- Comment on Theories on Theories 1 month ago:
- Comment on Theories on Theories 1 month 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? 2 months 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?”
