RememberTheApollo_
@RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
- Comment on Some of you are too young to know what this is 6 days ago:
I had the 52x model.
- Comment on Deal with it, Libby. 2 weeks ago:
“Hypocrisy.”
- Comment on wish i wasn't 3 15 years ago 2 weeks ago:
Icanhas and Failblog were hilarious back in the day. I think that CEO Ben whatshisname wrecked it by commercializing it.
- Comment on Deal with it, Libby. 2 weeks ago:
The same people that say the economy is shit because life’s hard and they can’t get ahead are the same ones that point out that the president says the economy is doing great whenever someone criticizes him.
- Comment on What would the next pres of USA have to do to gain back trust for America? Hold a televised event saying the last person was just a fuck up? 2 weeks ago:
Fix the American government, education system, and legal system.
Thanklessly.
It won’t be fixed in one term, probably not two, maybe see it start to work a decade after they leave office.
It’s going to take years to earn back trust, but no matter what happens, America will never have the power it used to have.
- Comment on The ultimate goatse shitpost 2 weeks ago:
A name I never thought I’d know, and will now try to forget.
- Comment on Anon was bullied 2 weeks ago:
I was into anime cartoons in the ‘80s, read Fantasy and Sci-Fi, was into computers and gaming since the Atari, and a dose of neurospicy did absolutely no favors. Likely the ND drove me to the hobbies I enjoyed because they were escapes from the shittiness of the world outside of them. Yeah, I absolutely got bullied and pushed to the fringes.
At any rate, I don’t dwell on it, but the “mainstreaming” things like IT and gaming has filled them up with assholes and jocks using them as dick measuring contests. It’s now a power play to be a CTO or IT coder or some kind of popular game streamer instead of a geek playing with computers.
It’s not the same world anymore. Probably why I haven’t used VoIP chat in any game for near a decade now. Too many assholes.
- Comment on First the frogs turned gay and now this 2 weeks ago:
I was not able to find a source I find reliable, but there are many sites that suggest elephants recognize individual humans and recognize guns as threats, and can even recognize a gun pointed at them is a threat. So if someone they don’t know has a gun, and we’ll never know if he aimed one at an elephant for funsies, they may have identified him as a threat and defended themselves by killing him.
- Comment on Traffic cameras have caught a white RAM 1500 pickup truck driving above the speed limit or running red lights more than 547 times since 2022. It belongs to an NYPD cop. 2 weeks ago:
This would seem to be the better route. Unless the owner has reported the vehicle stolen, they certainly know who is driving it and should still be responsible for letting the other person drive. Sorry, snitch them out if you don’t like thousands in fines. Deliberately using “you can’t prove it was me” while racking up fines with the expectation of getting away with it has to have some limits.
- Comment on Future 2 weeks ago:
Rush to be first with clickbait
No error checking
It’s been around for several years. It’s probably been passed around so much that the image quality degraded and someone sharpened it with AI which disrupted the text.
I saw this probably 6-7 years ago on reddit, the answer was that the appliance was attempting to download and install an update, then failing the update for some reason, so it was constantly re-downloading the patch all day.
Nothing nefarious or AI slop (other that some crappy image correction) about this.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, we’re headed toward Ubik rules alright.
- Comment on Man on a mission 2 weeks ago:
Sometimes when there’s no CoD given for a young person it’s suicide or overdose. People are more willing to share something like “after a courageous battle with cancer…” and not share something that might be considered tarnishing like an addiction.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
TBF Captain Planet is one of those programs that was made specifically to be “woke”, that’s the entire point. I mean, yeah, we can mock it for being so on the nose. Those execs were kids too at one point, watching the good guys beat the bad guys in cartoons. At some point they chose to be the bad guys.
As far as shoehorning in a female (and or other minority), I guess I’m gonna be on thin ice bringing this up… I don’t know why these execs have to force a change to an established character. That changes the story from being the story to being about the change. There are plenty of shows that have female or other minority characters that make them real, fantastically written, enjoyable, relatable characters for who they are. We need roles written for them. Just like a decently written cis male character. We need much more of that, so we can see everyone as human, real, part of our lives and normal and not some shoehorned personality that needs to be worked around. Woke is about being real as much as it is about the realization that change needs to happen. That all said, I’m not against these changes to established characters. If a young African american girl is thrilled to see a black Little Mermaid, then that’s beautiful. I’m just not happy about the possibility that the young girl grown up might later see the character as shitty corporate pandering to the community (would she be wrong?) rather than having a well-written character and an original story all her own.
- Comment on Doing the Lord's work. 2 weeks ago:
Some other societies do a better job of policing themselves via social pressure. Unfortunately in the US it’s “fuck you, you can’t make me.”
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
After decades and decades of kids consuming cartoons and comic books depicting hero protagonists who win by kindness, sacrifice, and battle cruel and greedy authoritarianism it’s hard to believe how easily these adults lie and attack a cartoon they probably watched as “woke”. I mean, what? The Decepticons are the misunderstood good guys?
- Comment on Don't blink 3 weeks ago:
TIHI. Didn’t expect that.
- Comment on The Future is Now! 3 weeks ago:
Maga bots? All they’ll want to do with them is give them guns and send them to war or shoot protesters.
- Comment on Same Shafeeq, same. 3 weeks ago:
Spending a lot of time outdoors as a kid then seeing this pic is kinda…yeah that’s how it works. Plus back in the day Discovery and other educational channels were actually educational, so you could learn about stuff you might not get to personally see.
People stay indoors and the Discovery Channel makes crap like Ice Road Truckers.
Yeah.
- Comment on I am about to learn everything. 3 weeks ago:
You forgot to make them crawl into the wing wearing breathing ppe on a hot day to seal an integral fuel tank.
On a side note, I just changed the oil and filter on a Toyota yesterday. The only pain in the ass about it is that the damn mechanics completely ignored the torque requirement and overtightened the cartridge housing. I had to use an impact to remove something only supposed to be torqued to 18 ft lb. Otherwise everything is easy to access.
- Comment on fur sure 3 weeks ago:
I mean, teriyaki steak is awesome, it’s sweet/savory, so why not.
- Comment on average red state university 3 weeks ago:
This is pretty much prime territory for the same methods Kirk used for “debate”.
Gish gallop, butwhatabout, moving gailposts, exhausting the opponent with bs, etc.
They’re all the same, they’re not there for any honest conversation. There is absolutely no way to “win” with them because no matter what objective and truthful information you offer it will be rejected or you’ll be asked to “prove” something that cannot be done in any manner acceptable to the asker.
- Comment on America 3 weeks ago:
Maybe because of the caveat “technically” giving readers easy distinction between geographic American and the American nation? Or maybe just the bad luck of hitting the hivemind wrong.
- Comment on Is there a chance America one day will elect a Progressive? Or will we keep going the elder dipshit route? 4 weeks ago:
It’ll be the progressive that gets elected to preside over the decline. Once we’ve been bled dry and the other nation(s) take the world lead, like China.
- Comment on America 4 weeks ago:
Technically she’s still American. Just South American.
- Comment on America 4 weeks ago:
There are several industries that run on 24 hour time outside of the military. Ocean shipping, aviation, and medical care off the top of my head. Want to throw a real wrench in the works? Start figuring Zulu time, especially when time changes happen at different times of the year in different countries or US states that don’t change at all.
Anyway, 24 hour time is so much easier. No making mistakes forgetting to select AM/PM when setting an alarm or reminder, for instance. Even converting it to 12 hour time takes no thought at all of you use it for a while.
- Comment on If I got in a collision with a car from the 70s with a car today, would not the 70s car win out since it would primarily be metal? If so why don't people buy more 70's cars? 4 weeks ago:
When I was a kid our car had only lap belts, and even those were optional. In the early ‘70s they had the attitude of building street tanks and that mass = safety. Doesn’t matter that the humans inside got tossed around like a hackey sack or to get an aortic dissection when hitting the steering wheel. It wasn’t until the last year of the ‘60’s that a collapsible steering column started being more common. By the late ‘70s they were starting to engineer for actual safety of the occupant. It wasn’t great at all by today’s standards, things like airbags didn’t really show up until the ‘80s, much less all the side curtain ones that are more common today.
Anyway, a modern vehicle is way better safety-wise, the debate would have to be about the speed of collision and the mass of the old car. Even though modern cars are safer, g-forces can be severe and no telling how the old car would crumple.
- Comment on Left side park 4 weeks ago:
Honestly if it were on the shore there would be no end of developers clamoring to build into the park or at least along the shore edge of the park. The park would be whittled down to a few spots with a view available to thr general public. Eventually some politician would cave to campaign donations from a wealthy developer.
- Comment on Why is gaming becoming so expensive? The answer is found in AI 4 weeks ago:
There was nothing hostile in what I said. Maybe you don’t like being proven wrog? I didn’t expect anything of you much less a hyperbolic research paper, but nonetheless you chose hyperbole and shuffled the goalposts instead of actually continuing the discussion. I never said when I bought the games, but convenient of you to arbitrarily decide how old a game is before it’s not worth it for you. Nonetheless they’re on sale by your own admission, so that blows your “rarely” out of the water while you ignore BF6 being repeatedly on sale. But I suppose you’ll make excuses about that too?
- Comment on Why is gaming becoming so expensive? The answer is found in AI 4 weeks ago:
Literally BF6 is on sale right now for 40% off. It was 50% off on some locations on Black Friday. It was 30% off 4 months ago. It was released early October. That’s 4 sales in 7 months for a AAA game.
I’ve bought Stray, Cyberpunk 2077, GTA, Elite: Dangeorus, Borderlands series, and many others all on sale and even a couple games for free.
I can’t help it if your particular games don’t get discounted, but telling me AAA games rarely do is completely wrong.
- Comment on Why is gaming becoming so expensive? The answer is found in AI 4 weeks ago:
You can buy new AAA games. Be /patientgamers. Just wait a few weeks or months after release and they almost always go on sale when companies want to boost server numbers to make quarterly reports look good. I haven’t paid release price for any AAA game in years. And it should go without saying: Do not preorder!