GraniteM
@GraniteM@lemmy.world
- Comment on Ripperonis 6 days ago:
Early versions of magic carpets kept arriving with charred piles of ash instead of passengers until they figured that one out.
- Comment on Picasso Moth 1 week ago:
If my understanding of brightly-colored bugs is correct, then that mouth is ultra fucking poisonous to eat.
- Comment on conservation 2 weeks ago:
It’s easier to make friends with hermit crab watchers than it is to make your friends into hermit crab watchers.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
That tens of thousands number is always brought up, but it’s an average that is affected by the actions of Spiders Georg, an outlier who should not be counted.
- Comment on banaynay 4 weeks ago:
Cab anyone attest to how these things taste? And is it possible to get one outside of Hawaii?
- Comment on Try me bitch 4 weeks ago:
Here’s the thing:
- Comment on clearly aliens 4 weeks ago:
My crackpot theory is that aliens showed up, told the Egyptians at lasergun-point to build them pyramids, but then didn’t give them any help at all. The Egyptians had to work out all the trigonometry and engineering entirely for themselves, while those lazy fucking aliens hung back and contributed absolutely nothing. Fuck those goddamn lazy aliens.
- Comment on Am I the only one who's "shorts" feed is all basically softcore porn? 5 weeks ago:
I remember when she got a sword! She’s fantastic.
- Comment on How do you keep your homes clean? 1 month ago:
We got a service. We’ve two cats, a dog, and a toddler, and no family closeby to help with child care. We did the math and decided we needed the help. It’s fantastic.
- Comment on Dr 4Chan's Medical Advice 1 month ago:
- Comment on Dr 4Chan's Medical Advice 1 month ago:
- Comment on Dr 4Chan's Medical Advice 1 month ago:
Others have already mentioned limb reattachment and anticoagulants, but if you’re interested in learning more, I highly recommend a book called Dark Banquet: Blood and the Curious Lives of Blood-Feeding Creatures. Leeches, mosquitoes, bedbugs, and vampire bats are fascinating!
- Comment on Which way, Western man? 1 month ago:
Do you want Cenobites? Because that’s how you get Cenobites.
- Comment on Plastic tea bags 2 months ago:
If you’ve got an Asian grocery store near you they’ll most likely have loose leaf. I got into pu’er tea this way and it’s fantastic!
- Comment on If Thanos had, instead of randomly wiping out 50% of all living things, he had instead in each species wiped out only the dumbest 50% what would the reaction of each avenger have been? 3 months ago:
Found it!
The essay is “Thinking About Thinking,” ©1989, collected in the book Magic: The Final Fantasy Collection.
- Comment on Anon notices what they've taken from us 3 months ago:
Obligatory, “The rise of -leigh, -lee, and -den names”:
- Comment on mentally unbalanced behaviour 4 months ago:
What do you do if there’s a prime number of test tubes, like the thirteen in the picture?
- Comment on Poster for sci-fi noir 'RESTORE POINT' - 2041, it's now possible to bring victims of a violent crime back to life by backing up their brain every two days. 5 months ago:
Great production design. A simple concept like a police procedural (but with the ability to restore from death) is familiar, but that’s not necessarily a bad thing. At this point it’s practically an entire genre trope of its own, like “aging criminal gets called in for one last job” or “extreme sports enthusiast is called upon to fight criminals.” The audience already knows the layout, so it’s an opportunity for the execution to shine, if it’s done well.
- Comment on Thoughts on fixing production mistakes in remasters? 5 months ago:
Leave them all in. Remasters are for restoring a work to as close as possible to the way it was meant to look when it was released, and nothing more. You wouldn’t look at a painting by da Vinci or Vermeer and say “Hey the perspective is off there,” or “That kind of bird doesn’t belong in that time and place,” and then “fix” the painting in the process of restoring it.
The creator(s) made a series of decisions during the original process of creation. Maybe some of them were mistakes, but they were their mistakes to make, and not anyone else’s to try and second guess after the fact. Once you start down that path, there’s nothing preventing George Lucas style special edition madness.
- Comment on TIL that Jordie directed some episodes 6 months ago:
Any time I see “Directed by LeVar Burton” I know I’m in for a good time. He was fantastic at directing episodes with heavy interpersonal stories.
- Comment on Just some fun size comparisons 6 months ago:
Tough little ship!
- Comment on Enterprise-F in all her glory 6 months ago:
Seems a little bit over-greebled. Normalize those dark areas of the hull and the whole thing would look a lot cleaner.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
- No Multiplayer-focused
This probably isn’t what you meant, but I’m a huge fan of games that are obligate couch co-op games. Things like Overcooked, Lovers In A Dangerous Spacetime, or Trine where you could play it alone, but there wouldn’t be much point. Playing a game where you have to cooperate with another person is a ton of fun.
- Comment on Gene Roddenberry's first sci-fi show pitch from 1955: "The Transporter" 6 months ago:
WE DON’T TALK ABOUT THAT EPISODE.
- Comment on Where can I find recipes without the author's personal anecdotes? 6 months ago:
Open the recipe, with all the personal anecdotes and whatnot. Ctrl+F “Print”. This will take you to the print button that is nearly always right above the actual recipe. You can also download the printed recipe pdf for later reference.
- Comment on You teleport into the last game world you played. What happens next? 7 months ago:
I probably get killed by a robot dinosaur.
- Comment on What kind of upbringing makes an incel? 7 months ago:
I listened to an interview with a woman who did an in-depth study of the loose coalition of websites and social media personalities of which the incel movement is a part. She described it as “funnel shaped,” which is to say that they don’t start with the darkest, most unhinged language. They start by talking to young men who feel lonely and rejected, and they talk about how they shouldn’t feel bad about being men, how they deserve respect and status, and then it goes on from there down the rabbit hole into the really depraved stuff.
The reason this works is because a lot of young men don’t hear those initial encouraging words in a lot of other places. They hear a lot about toxic masculinity and the harm of the patriarchy, and they feel like their identities are being targeted, and they don’t have a lot of positive health male role models to turn to.
We need to have ways of talking to men, especially young men, about how they should feel good about themselves, how they should be proud of the good things they can do in the world, how they should be the best versions of themselves that they can be, and all of that in ways that don’t lead down that dark road to toxicity. It’s an incredibly wide ranging problem, and it’s not going to be easy to fix.
- Comment on Canon-friendly Klingon flags that I can fly publicly? 7 months ago:
- Comment on If Thanos had, instead of randomly wiping out 50% of all living things, he had instead in each species wiped out only the dumbest 50% what would the reaction of each avenger have been? 7 months ago:
Isaac Asimov, a very intelligent person, wrote a lengthy essay to the effect that he had no idea what intelligence was. He talked about how society would generally consider him more intelligent than the nearly illiterate man who repaired his car, and yet whenever something went wrong with his car he would go to his mechanic and listen to his advice as if it was being handed down from the mountaintop by Moses himself, because Isaac Asimov knew fuck all about car repair. He talked about how he thought that supposedly objective IQ tests were generally a series of gates designed by people already considered intelligent to keep themselves in power, and that they totally disregarded huge swaths of indispensable human knowledge and talent. Isaac Asimov, who has been published in literally every section of the Dewey Decimal System, concluded that he had no firm idea as to what exactly “intelligence” even was.
In short, how could one even define “the dumbest 50%”?
And that’s why Thanos should have made everybody half as large as they once were.
- Comment on Drew Barrymore announces talk show will not return until strike ends 7 months ago:
He was deliberately doing bizarre unwritten bits and highlighting the fact that he had no writers. Now, I think that it might have been some of the best material he’s ever done, some real weird experimental avant garde late night talk show comedy with him crawling around in his rafters and seeing how long he could keep his wedding ring spinning. But he never pretended that everything was normal or let us forget that he was on the side of the writers.