taiyang
@taiyang@lemmy.world
- Comment on Do the right thing and lend a friendly hand 3 days ago:
Right, but he could have done the funniest thing ever and just left those kids there.
- Comment on Find luigi 4 days ago:
Oops, I failed and he killed another healthcare CEO. Oh well!
- Comment on He is cooked 6 days ago:
Ugh duck autocorrect.
- Comment on He is cooked 6 days ago:
SMS has a character limit, although most modern phones that still use SMS will at least give you a 3/3 thing and send all three texts at once.
- Comment on *Now you're playing with power!* 1 week ago:
No, you do not mix AR and game genie but there is a distinct absence of anything Gameboy camera/printer attachment so it’s clearly incomplete. I’d also suggest the attachment reading lamp, but I think if that magnifying attachment comes with a light that works, too. Not sure if that particular one does, though.
- Comment on If this seems exaggerated to you then you haven't worked in IT long enough 2 weeks ago:
This sounds like something out of Rusty Lake to me, but needs more owls.
- Comment on Mullvad's ads are good 2 weeks ago:
Lol, people have post-reddit PTSD if they think you’re a shill. Maybe if/when Lemmy hits the mainstream but man, we’re so off the radar most marketers have no idea this place exists.
It’s a waste of money unless you’re advertising something for Linux and/or communism… which would be a bit of a paradox, lol
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
That just sounds like… what was it called… Cleverbot? Lol
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Like NFTs before them, tech bros trying to squeeze a technology into use cases that really don’t need it.
LLMs are language models. What next, setup Stable Diffusion to do my taxes?
- Comment on cooking question 2 weeks ago:
I mean, I do like that new electronics smell. Not sure if it pairs well with the mountain dew reduction, though.
- Comment on That's the truth 2 weeks ago:
Not even just that, my stomach would make that weird gurgle sound and I’d be done for.
- Comment on For considerably less than the price of the Super Deluxe Edition of Boarderlands 4. I have almost all of Assassins Creed on one box. 3 weeks ago:
People shit on the franchise because they did kind of rush production, but honestly they hold up if it’s what you’re into. It’s just kind of sad they can’t all be AC2 quality, that was probably the best of the lot in terms of storytelling, intriguing exploration, etc. I still remember climbing into that girl’s place in the opening as Ezio.
- Comment on For considerably less than the price of the Super Deluxe Edition of Boarderlands 4. I have almost all of Assassins Creed on one box. 3 weeks ago:
Oddly, 4 does have a few cities in addition to the nautical stuff. They aren’t big name cities, but Havana, Kingston and Nassau of that period. Kind of interesting, especially right when Pirates of the Caribbean was popular.
- Comment on A Completely Natural Conversation in the NYC Reddit 4 weeks ago:
You know, use of long dash is the same kind of tell as an image having 6 fingers. Not impossible to find in human interactions but generally very rare, especially in online conversation. (I’m not even sure if my phone can do a long dash, just these fellows: —).
- Comment on I made two new communities on lemmings.world, InsanePeopleQuora and ChavLovers 4 weeks ago:
I used to contribute to Quora when I was in grad school, since I was actually learning a lot of the stuff people wondered about. Between lack of mods and their monetization schemes though, can’t do that anymore lol
- Comment on I made two new communities on lemmings.world, InsanePeopleQuora and ChavLovers 4 weeks ago:
Reminds me why I stopped going to quora. Do they just not have a way to moderate leading questions? Those people obviously know they’re just posting their BS in the form of a question, jeopardy style.
Subbed in any case. Lol
- Comment on Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task 4 weeks ago:
I like this analogy and generally avoid using GPS (admittedly it’s out of laziness lol). The most insane part to me is I live where everything is on a grid and somehow people are still impressed I can figure out how to get places, even without having been there. GPS brain is real.
- Comment on For the first time, social media overtakes TV as Americans’ top news source 4 weeks ago:
Bad news except you can’t trust TV either. Or reading the news, lately. At least regardless of the medium, general advice carries-- double check sources, learn which are credible, etc.
I just hope people are following links and not just reading headlines, right? …Right?
- Comment on Behold 4 weeks ago:
Sometimes the alt text makes the image even better. I saw one from Shen comics the other day that went above and beyond on that alt text.
- Comment on Protip: 4 weeks ago:
There is an actual belief out there that your feet get some sort of power by connecting to mother nature barefoot. It’s insane woo nonsense, but that meme lifehack literally would be something they might do, lol
- Comment on *pat pat pat* 4 weeks ago:
That’s the expression of a man who just had a random naked encounter with an albatross. It’s a mix of befuddlement and wonder.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
I hadn’t even thought about it until you brought it up. Kind of disappointed in people jumping on this like flies on shit but like… it’s 2025, so bigger things to be upset about.
In any case, apples and oranges. And PSA, if you need a Switch 2, grab em on the rebound. There’ll be used ones, likely hackable in 6 months and none of that goes to Nintendo. Don’t forget what their legal department has done in the past few years.
- Comment on Nintendo Switch 2 Hacked in 48 Hours — But Here’s Why It’s Just the Beginning 5 weeks ago:
Piracy and emulation is inevitable, although we’ll see if it’s months or years. I’m boycotting Nintendo over their legal practices, but that doesn’t mean I don’t want to play their games. It’ll be extra juicy to be able to emulate it eventually, although buying used is technically an option too.
- Comment on Police make 'mass arrests' in LA during nighttime curfew 5 weeks ago:
I really don’t want to be the one to say it, but there are opportunists that take advantage of these situations that the curfews are to impact (which, if I remember right, are supported by the city). I still remember what happened to Santa Monica not too many years ago which also resulted in a curfew. Temporary curfews are kind of a common practice anywhere in the US when there prolonged unrest.
That’s not to say it’s the protestors fault, of course; the whole situation is obviously escalated by Trump and the media. Most cities aren’t getting the same coverage and attention (and resulting opportunists). Also, still not a riot no matter how much these assholes insist it is.
- Comment on Police make 'mass arrests' in LA during nighttime curfew 5 weeks ago:
Most of the unrest is just in a small pocket of downtown in a city with millions of people. A vast majority of us are not impacted by any of this directly, although it’s still depressing to see.
- Comment on the cake is a lie 5 weeks ago:
I mean, they still do (especially with rats). But yeah, blinding kittens and giving people PTSD and such was pretty bad.
- Comment on I don't really need it but it makes me feel better about myself 5 weeks ago:
Oh please, just tuck it into your sock like the rest of us.
- Comment on YouTube’s Deliberate Indifference Exposes Kids to disgusting Content 5 weeks ago:
Honestly their algorithm seems to mostly push low quality, South Asian, and/or AI generated content lately, when randomly playing off of something like Ms Rachel or Sesame Street. Nothing disgusting, although maybe a little trippy (in AI case). My daughter really digs the Bollywood inspired kids stuff though.
- Comment on How do you keep track of what games you have played over the years? 5 weeks ago:
I’ve been using Launchbox, especially since I play emulator games. They’ve improved the efficiency of large libraries and added support for RetroAchievements, although I manually toggle completion status since I don’t always use it to launch my games so the time tracker isn’t accurate.
More importantly it let’s me hit randomize, so if I’m feeling adventurous it’ll pull a game from my backlog I might have got from anywhere.
- Comment on I always hope for a horsey 1 month ago:
Free to play players can at least restart their account until they get at least one 5* Queen, but even then it’s hard to beat the whales.