olafurp
@olafurp@lemmy.world
- Comment on I have to fly back home. My brother was forcebullay taken to the hospital for thirty days do to a mental attack. My quest is I have not carry on's or anything beside the ticket. Will the TSA target me 15 hours ago:
Arresting a person for resisting arrest is some next level bullshit.
- Comment on Government? 3 days ago:
Make it heavy so it doesn’t sink. Make it make sense
- Comment on My recent experiences with big budget AAA after years of avoidance 3 days ago:
I don’t play new games a lot because I don’t want a Ubisofted ARPG game where you’re just riding an open world rail with grinding sessions in between or a generic AAA shooter with crazy system requirements. Horizon Zero dawn was pleasant play though even though it had the Ubisoft formula because.
Elden Ring was great though and I’ve heard good things of Black Myth Wukong.
I just want to have fun and experience some new fun game mechanics or with some fun exploration element or with a gripping story. Indie games satisfy my itch very well.
I’ll play the next GTA since those are genuinely just a marvel of modern technology with a story and exploration elements.
I’m now always looking for a game that’s doesn’t require 30h of filler grinding to complete. It’s crazy but Magic Archery is free on Steam and I had more fun with it than some AAA games albeit very short.
- Comment on We need a new Amazon 3 days ago:
Seconded that. Aliexpress is Amazon with longer shipping and worse return policy. They also have better reviews since they’re not mostly AI garbage.
- Comment on Government? 3 days ago:
Triangle out of metal will sink without a ballast because it’ll capsize
- Comment on Like Elon Musk, 1 in 3 bosses admit they are pushing RTO because they're so upset about wasting money on all those empty desks 3 days ago:
Yeah, too bad that a condo refit of a building is super expensive and needs some deep pockets to actually do it. Still worth the consideration if the building is a good candidate.
- Comment on how do I become the dullest, most boring coworker so this needy man leaves me alone? 3 days ago:
Seems like you tried all the regular tricks in the book. Try telling your manager or HR and see if they can do something about it. You want to work and the company does alse but this guy clearly doesn’t.
- Comment on The four horsemen of unmet financial expectations 4 days ago:
So we have kernel level anti cheat so won’t they start flagging each other?
- Comment on As a human, here is my human take on unions 1 week ago:
That’d still be a bargain. Many unions in Iceland pay 75% of psychological help, glasses and exercise subscriptions by doing some collective bargaining magic. They also provide “time shares” type of vacation bungalows and more.
All on top of higher salaries, better working hours and working conditions and will provide legal assistance in case of wage theft which my sister had to use one time.
Basically a quality of life upgrade that pays you money even though it may not say so on the pay slip.
- Comment on As a human, here is my human take on unions 1 week ago:
Union payments in Iceland are like $20 per month. I’m pretty sure union workers get at least 20 cents more per hour than non union workers to break even.
- Comment on Am I a bad person if (as left as they come) I invest in American Private Prison contractors on the assumption that Trump will go through with his deportation scheme at least to some extent? 2 weeks ago:
It’s a bit more nuanced. Buying the stock increases the stock price which makes issuing stock a better deal for the company in case they want to expand operations. It also makes stock buybacks less likely.
So if they issue stock OP is indirectly funding the company. If OP prevented a buyback and the money went into investments such as a new prison OP has an different effect. Otherwise there’s no effect.
- Comment on If you speak a second language better than your native language, would you describe your second language skill as "native" or "fluent"? 2 weeks ago:
It depends on whether you treat the answer as “like a native” or “I am a native”. The word native is etymologically rooted in “born into it”.
To sum up: You can speak a second language better than a native and have a proficiency of a native speaker without being a native speaker of the language.
- Comment on Palworld announces Terraria crossover 3 weeks ago:
Trying do ban riding fictional animals is a tall order
- Comment on What games have you put the most hours into? 3 weeks ago:
League of legends, Counter Strike and Warcraft 3 custom maps are waaaay up there.
Factorio is catching up though
- Comment on What are some video game quotes that is stuck in your head? 4 weeks ago:
My wife for hire
- Comment on Will Firefox die for good if Google is forced to sell off Chrome? 4 weeks ago:
It’s another clause in the anti trust case that paying FF and Safari for being the default search engine is anticompetitive
- Comment on Anon's uncle is sick 4 weeks ago:
Blood for the blood god. Khorne loves him
- Comment on What your coffee preparation method says about you 5 weeks ago:
KDE is an office coffee machine with billion options
- Comment on What your coffee preparation method says about you 5 weeks ago:
PopOS
- Comment on Is There A Source For Unbiased Election Results As They Happen? 1 month ago:
You can look up some exit polls but they might also not be fully accurate but give a good picture of what’ll happen. The only accurate way to get the result is to wait for the electoral committee to cunt the vote, especially in an election this tiiiiiiigtt.
- Comment on Linux hits exactly 2% user share on the October 2024 Steam Survey 1 month ago:
YEAR OF THE LINUX DESKTOP
- Comment on Anon voices his opinion 1 month ago:
Fit autistic person is silent, mysterious and a great listener.
- Comment on #notaseagull 1 month ago:
Killer whale is orca which is a predatory whale.
- Comment on Why do some men dis other men who sit to pee? (& follow-up questions) 2 months ago:
Oh shit, didn’t know that. Do you have the medical term for it so I can look it up?
- Comment on Why do some men dis other men who sit to pee? (& follow-up questions) 2 months ago:
There is an argument for standing to pee since it empties the urethra more completely compared to sitting to pee. This is mostly relevant for 40+ people since they are more likely to have any issues.
Simple trick to shit/sit and pee and still empty everything is to push on the area between dick and butthole.
- Comment on Anon becomes a "Chad" 2 months ago:
He has a dildo seat actually
- Comment on Amazon cloud boss says employees unhappy with 5-day office mandate can leave 2 months ago:
I’ve heard that this is the new type of layoffs big tech is doing. Massive layoffs that are required lower the stock price but people quitting is not news. So the best strategy to get rid of staff is to create a hostile work environment temporarily until you reach the right amount.
This is a really bad idea for long term health of a company. The people that stay are the ones that will struggle to find new jobs and the people that leave probably already have another job at a competing firm lined up.
It’s just straight up dumb but keeps the stock price high and the CEO gets his bonus.
- Comment on Do you actually care about your friend's new baby, vacation abroad or similar life events or are you just being nice? 2 months ago:
I like stories of babies if they’re not complaints. Vacation I basically think of it as ideas for my next vacation where you can ask stuff like “how was public transport?” or whatever
- Comment on Has to be the manor 2 months ago:
Castle, no pain here
- Comment on How do our brains process reality? I heard our eyes were just low-res cameras and our brains were doing all the heavy lifting in 'rendering' reality. 2 months ago:
I would believe it if someone told me that an individual rod or cone in the eye was 24fps but they’re most likely not synched up