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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Never Gonna Give You Up⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I was there when Siamese Dream was released. I was there, man.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there any serial killers still active in the US today? With all the tech like dna, fingerprints, flock camera's etc. Would it be almost impossible to be one?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Motiveless murder/disappearance - that is, where the victim has no enemies or any reason to have become a victim of murder (e.g. robbery) - are extremely hard to solve even today. Police are much better able to capture criminals today, but they’re still batting a pretty measly average overall, and especially so in cases of motiveless disappearances. The US has ~350 million people in it, and there are enormous swathes of land that are uninhabited or are only lightly inhabited. Massive marshes, endless forests, etc. Dumping bodies in there is so effective that sometimes even serial killers who have confessed and are helping the cops locate victims’ bodies can’t find them all.

  The behaviour of killers outside of the crime itself is usually what fucks them. Bragging to people, taunting the cops, leaving calling cards/clues, or just becoming so confident and hubristic that they lower their standards and get caught for future murders through sheer sloppiness.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not Enough Hate⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Transphobic ass meme. The guy’s a cunt, don’t need to denigrate trans people to point that out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Low rating⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  My take on feets: I don’t think about them in my fantasies or anything, but if they’re there IRL, they represent a further opportunity to add to the other person’s pleasure, so I’ll have a go on them. But I don’t get turned on by the act of licking soles in and of itself. I’ve never seen a pair of feet and thought “daaaaaaaaaaamn, those are some HOT feets!” no more than I’ve seen a garden fence and thought “burn down all other fences, 'cause THIS is the one!” Although, I’m sure I’ve seen plenty of feet that caused my neutrality to dip into disgust (like my own, for example). But beyond that, I don’t think about them at all. They’re just an extra button on my controller in the indecipherable non-localised Slavic RPG that is the female orgasm.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Games with singleplayer campaigns that let me fight/kill nazis?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The Saboteur is fairly old at this point, but still holds up gameplay-wise.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Always have at least one good picture of yourself for display at your funeral memorial⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cheeseus Christ, the comments⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m so autistic that the idea of mixing any kind of food with bodily greaseholes is beyond horrendous to me, even if it’s something other than stinking cheese. Like, I’ll happily chomp on whatever bodypart you want me to, but if you first drizzle delicious syrup on it, forget it. Food and sexjuices are non-overlapping magesteria.

• Is it every aspiring chef's dream to work in a hectic high-stress kitchen? If so, why?
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Deja Vu⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not on the list, but I happened to scroll randomly onto this fella when checking:

  Line 1208: fartographer

  😆

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Matt Wales: Forbidden Solitaire is a wonderful reminder games are powerful cultural artefacts that demand to be preserved⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Great wee game, def worth checking out if you’re into that sorta thing.

• If a famous person or character's likeness is copyrighted and you need to license it to use it, could you find a real-life lookalike and say you modelled your character off of *that* person instead?
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you need a portable reader, is there any reason to choose an e-reader over your phone?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  | and they’re also easier on the eyes

  This is my main reason for preferring to read on e-readers. A book is a long-ass journey, and to be staring at a regular screen for that long can be painful business.

  I also like that there’s at least the suggestion of old-school physical connection to the book. It’s a device that does just one thing (and is very good at it as a result), and you find yourself treating it the way you used to treat a paper book. I guess it’s the same sort of “positive friction” you get when you listen to vinyl or something like that. Makes the experience a bit nicer. Like, yeah, you could open notepad on a smartphone and read the complete works of Shakespeare for free in Courier New font, having to scroll every 2 paragraphs, but who the fuck wants to do that?

  The basic form factor of the book has been perfected over centuries, and e-readers emulate it to a fair degree.

  I think most e-readers are waterproof, too 🤔 One would hope so, at least! Reading in the tub or on a beach is one of the benefits of its portability.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Suggestion: Lindsey Graham should be interred in a mausoleum behind a closet door.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Looking forward to his funeral where 200 dudes in assless chaps and sleeveless tuxedo shirts pay their respects.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This guy managed the movie theater I worked at in high school.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Lookin’ like Vic Mackey’s stunt dummy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Holy hell, Ernie.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I think Morgan Freeman is his painting of Dorian Gray. That poor fucker was born looking like an 80-year-old man.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you think that Edward Snowden is a hero?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I think what he did was heroic. I don’t know for sure that his motives were pure, like I can’t see into his soul, or know what his relationship with Russia was before doing it, but all in all I think what he revealed had to be revealed. The NSA were untethered by any sort of oversight or accountability to the public, and they proved beyond any doubt just how completely and totally an agency loses it’s fucking mind when no one’s watching. I doubt anything changed in that regard - they’ve probably just strafed into a different shadowy part of the landscape and are continuing with new/improved tools - but it at least taught us all that, yes, the government really is both capable and motivated to spy on every bowel movement and armpit sniff you perform, whether or not you’re a suspect in a crime. The mere affirmation that this sort of thing really goes on is worth having.

• How did we get "bike" from "bicycle"?
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Starmer gives tech firms ultimatum to block explicit images on children’s phones⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Google: ok i just go into settings and change 1 to 0 next to ‘kiddie porn allowed???’ hope that help

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Conservative values⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Etc. Pride march when??

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve raises Steam Deck prices by more than $200⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  c/NoStupidQuestions style question:

  Why is making enough RAM to go around so hard now? I know the cause of it - AI cunts - but what is the actual bottleneck in the production of RAM that means it can’t be pumped out fast enough to meet demand?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The intent and impact of the word was a lot different back then, certainly so outside of the US, but still, using a subset of humanity as a stand-in for an adjective is pretty grim stuff. Shows how little was thought of them. Like if the characters had instead become white from a flour mill explosion, it’s unlikely they’d have been described as being “as white as scampering little crackers”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Must have apps⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ventoy > Rufus

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨References: [1] out of his ass⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I thought this guy was a legit scientist, but I read his recent book Quantum Supremacy and it was all shit like “with quantum computing, in the future you will be able to solve athlete’s foot”. Literally everything you can think of is going to be quantummaxxed by cubits, according to him. Need your car serviced but the garage isn’t open on Sundays? Quantum computing. Need your mother-in-law to dial down the snarky comments about your new house? QUANTUM COMPUTING. Frequently walk into a room, forget why you went in there, leave, then immediately remember why you went in the second you cross the threshold? MOTHERFUCKING QUANTUM COMPUTING!

  I’m sure he is a legit scientist, of course, but as a science communicator and terminal book-hawker, he’s no better than Joe Rogan.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We're so back⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Does Lemmy have an equivalent to the Herman Cain Awards subreddit? We’re definitely gonna need one.

• Given dogs' propensity for sniffing other animals' buttholes and piles of other animals' shit, do their noses and sinuses have specialised bacteria/antibodies that protect them infection?
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• Why is it that when the graphics driver freaks out in your browser when watching a video, the page always turns this specific shade of green?lemmy.world ↗
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨type shit⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Calling unnecessary circumcision of boys “genital mutilation” sounds frivolous because it makes it sound like you’re placing it alongside FGM in terms of its effects and severity. But it is nevertheless genital mutilation, by just about any definition you care to put forward. The men living in the non-circumcision-crazed countries of the world aren’t constantly having their blackened rotten cocks drop off from all the dick disease they’re allegedly exposed to by having an intact penis, so I don’t understand why you would feel the need to do this to your kid without a specific medical reason (of which there are very few that require surgical removal of the skin).

  “But if you don’t wash it, it gets dickcheese!” and the solution to that is slicing the fucking skin off of it? The clue is in the warning: wash it. Teach your sons to care for their wilberts. Telling them to lather up their bellend in the shower is hardly something that needs prompting anyway.

  Personal/intimate hygiene should be part of regular schooling. Not even as part of sex ex, just “how to care for your vessel” kinda shit. Don’t drink to excess, walk and move at least 10 minutes a day, stay away from illegal drugs, be careful with prescription drugs, and wash your bastard stinksausage.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Starfield PS5 players demand refunds, reporting widespread bugs and glitches that leave the game "unplayable"⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I liked Starfield (I even 100%ed the achievements on Steam). I also loved No Man’s Sky long before the shift in pubic sentiment towards it, so maybe I’m just weird. But if you’re reading this and thinking “this guy wouldn’t know a good game if it shat a voxel-based turd onto his chest”, you’re WRONG. I also loved MindsEye. So there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨cool cool cool⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I only care about other people dying. Not afraid of my own death at all, except in how I know it will affect others. If I knew no one would care or remember that I existed, I’d skip to my death like I’m off to see the Wizard.

  Being not alive is not even another state of being. There is nothing to do the “being” on either side of alivetude. It’s not like, once dead, you’re now in Phase 3 of beingosity (the first two phases being pre-alive and alive). Your energy and nutrients will serve other purposes, but we’re talking about consciousness here, and that is as fragile and malleable as a flaccid penis, and as temporary and fleeting as a decent erection.

  A way I like to conceptualise it is with this thought experiment:

  Everyone on Earth has the power of telepathy, except you. You try to explain what not being able to read or transmit thoughts is like, and the other people who do have telepathy are struggling to grasp it. “Is it like a dial tone? Or is it maybe the ambient silence when you’re in a room with nothing making noise, like the sound of your own bodily vibrations?” and you have to be like “no, it’s none of those things, because those things are all still imagining the presence of a sensory platform that just doesn’t exist in me. It’s not a faulty telepathy, it’s complete absence of it that doesn’t hint at its own absence, there is no telepathy hole in my brain that I can finger, it’s all solid and complete as far as my sense of self is concerned”.

  Death is nothing to be afraid of. Your fears and anxieties around it are all supposing the ability to retain hindsight once the process is completed, like you’ll watch the party continue without you and that you’ll miss out on things that would make you happy. You’re simply projecting yourself forward in time, perhaps imagining yourself in some weird paralysed state, uninvolved in life, but still there. You’ll have no framework within which to experience experience. So fuckin’ relax and enjoy yourself and try to make everyone else’s ride as nice as you can. That’s literally all there is to it.

  Oh, and MILF porn.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Portal 2: Community Edition goes open beta on April 17⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think it’s necessary, even from a story perspective (the game does a great job of filling in the blanks for you). It’s definitely worth playing Portal 1 though, it’s a fantastic game with perfect design even nearly 20 years later. I mean apart from engine and graphics tech, I don’t think the game could be improved upon much. Same is true for Portal 2.

  Another thing about Portal 1’s story is that it’s barely there at all. Almost all of it is incidental to the puzzles, and the story that is there is either passive exposition from the antagonist, or some very minimal environmental stuff. With that in mind, you could easily get yourself up to speed on the story going into Portal 2 just by glancing at a one or two paragraph summary, maybe with a couple of screenshots (you could probably convey everything in the story in one sentence if you’re creative with the punctuation). Portal 2’s story is much more fleshed out and interesting, though.

  Portal 1 is so old and undemanding that you could probably run it smoothly inside a VM even on a meagre PC. I don’t know what OS you’re running, but I presume it’s not Windows?