frezik
@frezik@midwest.social
- Comment on Time to redraw America's borders in a way that finally makes sense. 2 weeks ago:
Which sports team am I supposed to root for with this map? Do you expect me to make a careful analysis of team history and current lineup? Or do I pick the one in the state I was born in like a normal person?
- Comment on The Harbinger of the Dystopia 2 weeks ago:
Discovery Zone, man. I actually feel bad for the kids that never got to experience Discovery Zone. Lasted for like 2 years. It apparently failed because they had a mountain of debt (all those plastic tubes are capital intensive buildouts) and adults had to sit around while their kids played.
I feel like if you made it work like a gym membership for your kids, and had something for adults to do off to the side, you might be able to make the numbers work.
- Comment on The Harbinger of the Dystopia 2 weeks ago:
Some of that is from white balance making the top picture look warmer, but even accounting for that, it’s a tragedy.
- Comment on The Harbinger of the Dystopia 2 weeks ago:
Le right generation
- Comment on Republican Senator callously says 'biblically, we are supposed to work' to millions set to lose health care 3 weeks ago:
A scripture so inconvenient that they had to spend a good chunk of the last 2,000 years contorting an explanation for why the obvious reading must be wrong.
- Comment on Anon turns on raytracing 3 weeks ago:
The best examples of raytracing are in applying it to old games, like Quake II or Portal or Minecraft.
Newer games were already hitting diminishing returns on photo realism. Adding ray tracing takes them from 95% photo realistic to 96%.
- Comment on Make dinosaurs weirder 3 weeks ago:
Well, a plucked bird does look pretty different. Then again, fossilized feathers for dinosaurs have been found, so it’s not like we’re completely blind to that, either.
- Comment on Anon likes trains 3 weeks ago:
Every time I take an airplane, I feel tired and worn out. I don’t want to do anything for the rest of the day except take a nap.
Trains are no problem.
The main reasons might be relatively low oxygen at altitude (cabins are usually pressurized somewhere between 1/3rd to 1/2 atmosphere) and uncomfortable seats. But I think the whole dreary process of getting on and off the airplane is part of it, too. Train stations are so much more low key, even in large metropolitan areas.
- Comment on Checkmate, Round Earthers 🌍 3 weeks ago:
But we wouldn’t see sunrise/sunset.
- Comment on Hertz, showing the difference between science and engineering 3 weeks ago:
They’re destroying humanity both physically and mentally, so I certainly hope so.
- Comment on Hertz, showing the difference between science and engineering 3 weeks ago:
I’m unimpressed by the people who use it.
- Comment on YouTube "search results" 4 weeks ago:
It’s not like they’re part of a company whose core product is search.
- Comment on Basically 4 weeks ago:
Honestly, they’d be horrified at a bunch of things, some of which are on MAGA, and some on progressives. Maybe we shouldn’t be taking the ideas of slaveowners from over 200 years ago as seriously as we do.
- Comment on Basically 4 weeks ago:
“You guys cured smallpox, and there’s people who are working against the cure?” - Also Ben Franklin, who lost one of his sons to smallpox
- Comment on I've got something special for you 5 weeks ago:
Side note: if you say you’re 6.5" long, it sounds like you really care about that extra half inch. If you say you’re 17cm, that’s just how long you are.
You’re welcome, penis owners.
- Comment on I've got something special for you 5 weeks ago:
Maybe not on mobile keyboards? Giving the benefit of a doubt here.
- Comment on Friendly reminder 5 weeks ago:
The few survivors deal with it the only way they know how: another late night orgy on your face.
- Comment on The joy of quitting a shit job with an asshole boss 5 weeks ago:
It’s very satisfying when someone who thinks they have all the power suddenly realizes they don’t.
- Comment on The Faculty, any day 1 month ago:
Dirty Grandpa. The critics who didn’t like it should be thrown into a river.
Aubery Plaza legit wanted to fuck Robert De Niro and it shows.
- Comment on The Faculty, any day 1 month ago:
Honestly, I don’t really get it. I watched it long after the hate hype had died down. I was prepared for completely awful. I got just sorta bad to OK.
- Comment on want to be a woman 1 month ago:
Legal weed ended up being the shortcut for me. My wife sometimes has to checkin after a good weed orgasm to make sure I’m alright.
Though I was actively working on being multiply orgasmic for several years before.
- Comment on Don't Look Up 1 month ago:
Takes me back to the early post-9/11 days. Not back to anyplace I wanted to be, but it does take me back.
- Comment on Amazing. 1 month ago:
I choose to believe every single word of it. The universe is more interesting if it’s true.
- Comment on I am not a builder… but that does not seem right 1 month ago:
It doesn’t apply to safety items at all. Your car will function fine without seat belts.
- Comment on IT’S THE FEDS! 1 month ago:
And then they hit the emergency shutdown, which is for when people have a plate in their head and they’re stuck to the side of the machine. That one causes all the liquid helium to be quenched, thus needing to be refilled.
There is a slower shutdown that doesn’t do that, but, you know, cops.
Every detail of that story was worse than the last, and it’s 100% on the cops.
- Comment on I'd choose 4 tbh 1 month ago:
It’s also water store. You dehydrate very quickly without constantly drinking Gatorade.
Hard to find now, but I’ve seen pictures of what people look like at extremely low (<4%) body fat. Every little detail in the muscle pops right out. It doesn’t look attractive or healthy in any way.
- Comment on It's bad man 1 month ago:
TIL Peter Thiel has a Lemmy account.
- Comment on Don't ask for more pixels 1 month ago:
Internet censorship has somehow become wider and less thoughtful than TV and movie censorship ever was. Including Hayes Code shit.
- Comment on Nearly 5 years in, PS5 sales remain neck-and-neck with PS4 | VGC 1 month ago:
If you’re not too stuck on modern AAA titles, PC gaming is cheap. Possibly the cost of the electricity coming out of the wall.
- Comment on Nearly 5 years in, PS5 sales remain neck-and-neck with PS4 | VGC 1 month ago:
I always said that about the PS2, or early model PS3s if you can get one for a reasonable price. Backwards compatibility galore.