frezik

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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pens in Space⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:
You’re probably thinking “it’s just carbon, nbd”, but that doesn’t mean it’s good for your lungs:

www.inchem.org/documents/icsc/icsc/eics0893.htm

“Repeated or prolonged inhalation of dusts may cause effects on the lungs. This may result in graphite pneumoconiosis”
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨kawaiiiiiii⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Didn’t Middle Earth lore say the Earth was flat, but was made spherical later? Had that happened by then?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ubisoft says you "cannot complain" it shut down The Crew because you never actually owned it, and you weren't "deceived" by the lack of an offline version⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Will they? A lot of “live service” games are failing of late.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨IT'S NOT A COINCIDENCE⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
None, this is all theory. It can still be a contradiction on paper.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨IT'S NOT A COINCIDENCE⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
It’s contradictory to imply any existing bank is socialist. Many branches are ultimately reaching for a moneyless society, anyway, so even a socialist bank would be transitionary.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨IT'S NOT A COINCIDENCE⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
They mean Jews, but they say it that way for enlightened centrists who don’t know how that phrase is contradictory on its face.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨IT'S NOT A COINCIDENCE⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
“Socialism is when banks charge you a $25 overdraft fee and rearrange transactions to force the most overdrafts” - Carl Farx
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How likely is it that Trump will be the first President assassinated since Kennedy?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Calling it now: it will be one of his MAGA supporters who feels betrayed somehow.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ubisoft says you "cannot complain" it shut down The Crew because you never actually owned it, and you weren't "deceived" by the lack of an offline version⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
When does Ubisoft realize that “you never owned it” and “you can’t complain” are arguments for not buying their next game?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨logs are for quitters⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Oh, they do, but not as the primary or secondary. You can wrap depleated uranium around the core to capture fast neutrons that are leftover from the rest of the process. Changing the number of layers is how you can dial in a desired yield.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Artist Depiction⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Any which way they go with it would be a guess based on limited information. They’re most likely going to be wrong, and if they were exactly right, we wouldn’t know it.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When someone finally gives you the back story⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
“Obiwan, I’m pregnant”

“Ahh, fuck, tell Anakin it’s his”
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sadly, Stupid Hat is also his only friend⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
As a Wisconsinite, that’s our dumb hat. He can’t have it, and we had a vote on this.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Maybe it's just a human thing.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
My thought exactly. Most of the “feminists” who do fit that stereotype ended up becoming Feminist Appropriating Reactionary Transphobes.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Maybe it's just a human thing.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Prefer the Norman Rockwell version of Rosie the Rivitor:

www.nrm.org/rosie-the-riveter/

The Norman Rockwell Museum are cowards. The photo crops out the bottom, where she’s using Mein Kampf as a footstool.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Clean butt⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
I like the bidet’s we have at home, but I don’t get the ones that are separate from the toilet. Saw this type when visiting San Juan, PR once. Their plumbing system can’t handle toilet paper very well, so it’s all bidets with a stack of washed towels.

Not only do they take up extra space in the bathroom, but are you supposed to waddle over to this thing with a dingleberry hanging out?

The one argument I’ve heard in their favor is from people with vaginas who don’t like the idea of the built-in sprayer catching bits of poop that’ll get in their cootch.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo Switch 2 Direct Megathread⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
So glad Nintendo is catching up with PC features from 20 years ago.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo Switch 2 Direct Megathread⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Open world Mario Kart is one of the last new things you could do with the series. Otherwise, it’s just updated graphics and tracks.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Virgin Physicists⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
But not really. At this level of precision, the heat from electricity passing through it would throw off the actual resistance value.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Virgin Physicists⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
That level of precision in a resistor would literally be thrown off if you breathed on it. If you actually needed that, then you need to build an extremely controlled environment around it. Even then, the heat from the electricity itself would throw it off. Maybe in a liquid nitrogen bath?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let's discuss: Grand Theft Auto⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
I also started with GTA V in the last few years. I sometimes describe it as an interactive movie rather than a game.

That’s not meant to be insulting. It’s a very well told story with perfect social satire. The characters are excellent. If you judge it the way a movie is judged, it’s very good. The one thing is that the story should have finished with the big three-way shootout instead of Franklin’s choice. Otherwise, very well put together.

As a game, though, it’s mid. There are several mechanics where they teach you to do a thing, but it never comes up again. Money is no longer a limitation after the first heist is done. Owning a business isn’t likely to be profitable for the length of a likely playthrough.

I accepted most of the morally questionable stuff. It comes with the series, and you’ll either have to accept it or not play. It’s balanced out with obvious social satire; it’s aware that this is not how people should act in real life. It’s a game for mentally mature players who understand that none of these are good people. That mental maturity doesn’t necessarily come with age.

However, I drew the line at the paparazzi storyline. Just felt too sleezy. The FIB torture bit also came close to me, but in-game, even Trevor didn’t feel comfortable with that, and he’s a monster.

Only other part I skipped was that damn yoga bit. Glad the game let you skip it while still progressing, because I don’t know what it wanted me to do.

I’m a little surprised it got so many 10 out of 10 reviews at launch. I guess the draw distances are impressive for a game that worked on the Xbox 360, and it uses those draw distances for important artistic effects. It makes it feel like a real city. But there are bugs that prevent progression years after release (albeit with workarounds most of the time), and some of the mechanics are bolted on. It’s a 9/10 movie and a 7/10 game that averages to 8/10.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Meritocracy"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
“Mike colors outside the lines, but doesn’t eat the crayon. He does his best.”
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨3's grip looks the most comfy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Pilot G2 if I must, but the real answer is a Lamy Safari.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨unleash your humanities⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
That is so utterly stupid that it shows why you should take a philosophy course.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨unleash your humanities⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
What we now call science developed directly out of philosophy.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨pain plant⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Cholula is my go-to sauce that I can get anywhere for cheap. If I can get it, Blair’s Original Death Sauce is the way to go.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨pain plant⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
You’d have to eat a lot of pure cap to kill you. Oral LD50 in mice is 47.2 mg/kg (source). For an 80 kg person, that’s 3760 mg of pure cap. Even a single mg of pure cap dropped into a pot of chili would be inedibly hot even to the most hardcore spicy food fan.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨frenly warnin⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
As a radical centrist, I must find any possible reason that someone would stick an obvious dogwhistle in their name besides being a Nazi. We can’t just go assuming the blatantly obvious.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PC gamers spend 92% of their time on older games, oh and there are apparently 908 million of us now⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Steph Sterlings’ recent video hits it directly. The big publishers see Balatro doing well, so they go copy Balatro. They spend a lot of effort looking for the next Balatro in all the wrong places. Their attempts to copy it will fail, because people who like Balatro will just play Balatro. This will continue until there’s a new indie darling dominating the sales charts, and then they’ll try to copy that.

The industry is deeply misguided.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PC gamers spend 92% of their time on older games, oh and there are apparently 908 million of us now⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
The article puts the cutoff for “old” as being 6 years or more. Officially, Factorio was released in 2020, but we all know that any other studio would have considered it done years before that.