taiyang

@taiyang@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google it⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly I’m pretty sure you can already do this. Your average person is remarkably superstitious and believes in angels and demons and such, it doesn’t take much to also think they were cursed. Lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I love to send the most absurd messages I can think of to steam scammers⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re right, the prequels have dead kids, almost no women, and heck, it even has a dear leader taking over the Senate and declaring himself emporer in the name of safety. Republican wet dream.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨World Backup Day⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I should use this as an excuse to finally get a NAS setup. Maybe.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨World Backup Day⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I’m afraid the tech bros cut costs by not saving backups and removing all the old ones. Hell, all our changes are made in prod, no staging allowed here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Calm your tits⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Positive spin, he bought it from a pro-LGBTQ+ thrift store to support local causes in his area. I swear I’ve seen similar jackets at said thrift stores.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Privacy disaster as LGBTQ+ and BDSM dating apps leak private photos.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve met the type who run businesses like that, and they likely do deserve punishment for it. My own experience involved someone running gray legality betting apps, and the owner was a cheapskate who got unpaid interns and filipino outsourced work to build their app. Guy didn’t even pay 'em sometimes.

  Granted, you could also hire inexperienced people if you’re a good person with no financial investor, but that I’ve mostly seen with education apps and other low profit endeavors. Sex stuff definitely is someone trying to score cash.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If these mother fuckers are trying to make me pay for Healthcare to talk to fucking ChatGPT I swear to god ChatGPT is going to write me so many scripts for opioids its won't be funny.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Using it for education? Not this current model, not by a long shot. Granted, I’m in higher ed, but even then it’s suggestions have been so mediocre at best I’ve had to drastically modify anything it suggests to the point it’s no longer time efficient to use it.

  And believe me, I’d love it to grade essays for me but there’s no way I can trust it with that simple task yet, even with a rubric.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Great Advice⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Taco place I know sells them at 5 bucks a taco. 35 dollars of taco is enough unless you’re paying and if so, I’ll also have 7 tacos.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Skill issue⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Traditionally, yes, but I do want to note that modern takes use it to also argue for cooperation, since working with with others is good for survival and passing on genes. They also are the first to tell people how bunk the alpha male crap is, and the fact a lone wolf is a dead wolf.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bernard⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Does seem like perfect casting lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bernard⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m pretty sure Larry David played Bernie on SNL a couple times, as a guest in cold open, etc. Lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Internet forums are disappearing because now everything is Reddit and Discord. And that's worrying.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not convinced at least half of those communities trust Reddit and Discord enough to leave forums, but then again I stopped using them mostly because I haven’t had time for those hobbies. My emulation groups are still active on forums, at least.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oh NOOOO⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Adds a certain level of tension to the shopping experience, plus we know stores use slow songs to slow people down and shop more.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oh NOOOO⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  “Why did you buy a 5lb roast?”

  “Proof of a Hero started playing.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oh NOOOO⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not sure what the reaction is if Mystic Quests Battle 2 theme played at the super market. Lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oh NOOOO⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hasn’t happened to me because I listen to video game music and if my local grocer fucking started playing the Monster Hunter theme I would absolutely lose my shit.

  (Once in Japan a small shop selling pottery was playing a song from FF5 and I bought a lovely cup out of principle).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Tests 9 Ads & Only One Free Search Results On Same Page.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Gross but also… kinda curious from an A/B testing perspective to know when the user drop off happens. Kind of like, what’s the pain threshold before someone stops using shitty software. The answer really should be zero but the average user… ugh, it’s probably fucking 8 or 9 and we should be ashamed.

  Too bad is Bing so the sample size is too small for any meaningful results.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DOGE Plan to Push AI Across the US Federal Government is Wildly Dangerous⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ironically, a lot of stock trading already is done by bot, it’s a problem from a while ago. Not LLM, of course, much simpler but it’s why it sometimes goes hive mind.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DOGE Plan to Push AI Across the US Federal Government is Wildly Dangerous⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Man, I want you be at that shareholder meeting; “how about we just don’t have a CEO and pocket the savings?”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bowseris Kooparov⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Plus Bowser actually looks good topless.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hopefully, Future School Kids Will Have to Write Essays About This⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The best part is scrolling my feed for that unexpected conclusion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mario Bros and I Were Born in '85, This is What I Bought For Our 40th B-Day This Year⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Absolutely badass. I’ll make do with my shaders, but you’re living the dream.

  Got any Faxanadu?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No title⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Any loophole where you can make Jesus super fucking sexy so both you and your grandma can be happy with the wall candy?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Learn something new everyday⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s really something how when you lose one sense, the other ones make up for it. Blinddeaf folks drive by smell alone, main reason EVs have that added scent since they lack the same smell as gas vehicles.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Having a baby? Use this one weird trick!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Might I suggest a second good reason for South American countries— when nuclear war hits the US, and it will, the southern hemisphere has a shot of surviving a nuclear winter. Billions will die but mostly in the northern hemisphere, even after accounting for fallout spread.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Simple Act of Buying a Graphics Card Is the Defining Misery of PC Gaming in 2025⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think that might be my plan too, but I’m still waiting a paycheck or two before I even monitor the situation. My 2070 is fine and ultimately I just want to pass it down to a spare PC for kids to mess around on as my oldest hits 3. I know my the time I hit 5 I was playing shit like Dune 2, admittedly with hacked save files my dad setup.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FuckYourHeadlights - A community for people to organise and vent about ridiculously bright lights⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Now this is a community I can get behind, like a lifted pickup truck tailgating with his LED high beams on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord in Early Talks With Bankers for Potential I.P.O.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Another tough but not impossible migration for my crew, but there isn’t a good enough alternative yet. Plus they finally got around to fixing streaming on Linux, apparently, and I’m about to swap back once my new m.2 is installed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Even as a collector, I've never laid my hands on one of these.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I forgot the name but I did know about it! Kinda excited, Star Control III didn’t have the same vibe. Hope these posts also encourage someone to check out II, there is a fan remake you can download for free.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Even as a collector, I've never laid my hands on one of these.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hey, thanks for the 3DO shout-out, although I’m not sure it falls into the same category of failure. When my dad was getting his shit together (at least, somewhat together), he got to work with those guys before getting a more stable job. While it’s certainly true about FMV gaming, their demise in particular is attributed more to business practices, like utilizing costly third parties for hardware- ironic since they all seem to do that now.

  Many of their games hold up, though there aren’t very many and the only solid IPs got cross platform releases or ports (e.g. Gex) especially after it was clear 3DO was tanking. I think playing Star Control II on 3DO might have defined who I am as a gamer, and I highly recommend playing subsequent rereleases (it was PC only without 3DO!)