frezik
@frezik@midwest.social
- Comment on Basically 17 hours 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 17 hours 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 1 week 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 1 week ago:
Maybe not on mobile keyboards? Giving the benefit of a doubt here.
- Comment on Friendly reminder 1 week 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 1 week 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 week 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 week 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 week 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 week 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. 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago:
It doesn’t apply to safety items at all. Your car will function fine without seat belts.
- Comment on IT’S THE FEDS! 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 3 weeks ago:
TIL Peter Thiel has a Lemmy account.
- Comment on Don't ask for more pixels 3 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago:
I always said that about the PS2, or early model PS3s if you can get one for a reasonable price. Backwards compatibility galore.
- Comment on Nearly 5 years in, PS5 sales remain neck-and-neck with PS4 | VGC 4 weeks ago:
And this coming release will be the first time I’m not going to bother about a new Nintendo console going back to the original. For context, I even like the Virtual Boy. Nintendo has done everything possible to make themselves unlikable.
- Comment on Nearly 5 years in, PS5 sales remain neck-and-neck with PS4 | VGC 4 weeks ago:
Wouldn’t that imply it’s not a growing market anymore?
- Comment on Rare insults dropped 4 weeks ago:
Hate the game, not the player. Any channel that doesn’t do this shit is doomed to obscurity.
- Comment on RIP obsolete tech 4 weeks ago:
It was only a few years ago, when I ran off some Dreamcast games.
- Comment on Derek Smart unveils ACE Platform, a multi-blockchain ‘virtual town hall of engagement opportunities’ | Massively Overpowered 4 weeks ago:
Not so much mixed metaphors as throwing the ingredients in a bowl and calling it a cake.
- Comment on The onion writers crying 5 weeks ago:
Lucille Bluth says she’s friends with her Hispanic servant, “even though she’s an illegal”.
- Comment on The onion writers crying 5 weeks ago:
Going a bit meta: has the right wing poisoned this well, too? The way they Capitalize Random Words is bad, but title case in OP is valid.
- Comment on Give an inch take an inch 5 weeks ago:
If you’ve played SMB a fair amount, there is at least one that you’ve almost certainly ran into at random. It is exploited by speedrunners, but you’ve probably hit it just playing the game normally.
Pirhana plants only check the hitbox every other frame. Obviously, this is a speed optimization. At some point, you’ve probably gone right through a piranha plant that should have hit you. Speedrunners can and do exploit this, as well, of course.
An extension of this idea in other games is when you have split-screen multiplayer. In games like the OG Mario Kart, player inputs are processed on alternating frames. Which means the game has an average of 0.5 frames of input latency in multiplayer before anything else gets calculated in. (And people say retro games don’t have input lag on CRTs; these people are wrong for a lot of different reasons).
- Comment on Give an inch take an inch 5 weeks ago:
And they had bugs that were a direct result of limitations. The Minus World in Super Mario World, for example, comes from a combination of uninitialized values, how data structures are packed, and imperfect collision detection.
People don’t talk about the problems that result from doing things that way.
- Comment on Give an inch take an inch 5 weeks ago:
STOOOPPP, you’re breaking my narrative that Chrome tabs ought to fit in 8KB.
- Comment on Things are getting really crazy. 5 weeks ago:
They’ve been doing a surprisingly good job. Like “Quibbling Over Exact Definition Of Concentration Camp Sign Of Healthy Society”. We can debate if the prison in El Salvador counts as a concentration camp (IMO it very clearly is) or a death camp (IMO it is not, but we’re probably headed there), but the fact that we’re even having that debate is a very bad sign.
- Comment on Going back in time to see how the fishes and loaves trick was done 5 weeks ago:
Not sure if you’re serious. Splitting the loaves and fishes was an adult Jesus story. There’s not a lot about Jesus’ childhood in the canonical gospels, and the non canonical ones are a bit wild.