ProfessorProteus
@ProfessorProteus@lemmy.world
- Comment on Trump social media site brought down by Iran hackers 1 day ago:
Value gained, actually.
- Comment on There’s Good Posture, Bad Posture, and Golden Posture 4 days ago:
I see two issues with this bad boy:
- The mouse is probably better off on a level surface, and
- I don’t have the space or money for one.
- Comment on Just curious 5 days ago:
ohhhh you touch my tra-la-la
Mmmm, my ding ding dong
- Comment on What's a good instance to be on at the moment? 6 days ago:
Just gonna pitch in here, but I’m no expert. I was reading people’s reactions when that TLD was introduced, and they raised concerns over the possibility that a bad actor could spoof an address that actually downloads a .zip file to your device when you click the link, even though you may assume it’s an address to a page. No idea what a hypothetical virus could do from a compressed environment, but thats what I remember reading.
Sorry to any experts if I’m muddying the waters with a dumb take!
- Comment on Trump Mobile launches $47 service and a gold phone 1 week ago:
Coming soon: Trump™ Payday Loans! With only 470% APR!
- Comment on Trump says a 25% tariff "must be paid by Apple" on iPhones not made in the US, says he told Tim Cook long ago that iPhones sold in the US must be made in the US 4 weeks ago:
I played the trumpet for several years and I love that instrument. It’s bad enough that the names coincide; please don’t make it worse 😭
- Comment on Oop 4 weeks ago:
Thanks for the info! I’m aware of JDAM from following the invasion of Ukraine, but I wasn’t aware of the whole arming process.
Now, I may be underestimating my ignorance, but that doesn’t look like JDAM to me. Seems a bit small. Also, the fact that the pilot suddenly looks toward the wing tells me that he was expecting it to shoot out in front, and only felt the mechanical release (or do they use small explosive bolts? I’m more versed in spaceflight so that’s my only other guess 😅) and saw no visual confirmation that it fired.
- Comment on Oop 4 weeks ago:
Jokes aside, would this pose a threat other than the physical impact? I don’t know many specifics about aircraft and their ordnance, but would this missile be armed just before launch, or once it clears a safe minimum distance, as with RPGs?
- Comment on Or a shrimp 1 month ago:
Gigachad move
- Comment on xkcd #3083: Jupiter Core 1 month ago:
And these are the leading theories. Now let’s see the crackpot ones!
- Comment on Please don't stop horny 2 months ago:
I’m curious, on a legit/fanservice spectrum, where would you place Kill La Kill? It shows tons of skin, but it’s a legit part of the story. Of course it’s a dumb premise, but they lean into it anyway, and it does drive the plot in several instances.
As an aside, I enjoyed it a lot because I absolutely love Studio Trigger and their art style, but I’ve stopped recommending it to anyone because the conversation always goes in one direction. I’m not surprised, of course, but I wish people had the ability to resist fixating on that one element and appreciate the cinematography, character development, music, voice acting (including Nobuyuki Hiyama!), and all the other things that make it great…
- Comment on What's a cancelled game you really miss? 2 months ago:
Technically it was never released, but I was invited to a closed alpha (or beta?) for a game called Chroma, by Harmonix, the OG Guitar Hero people. It was a lot of fun and I’m still sad that it was canceled…
- Comment on El paso 2 months ago:
Reminds me of Mitch Hedberg’s banana joke.
- Comment on It's a cylinder 2 months ago:
Oh definitely, it’s just that when I searched the communities, the only result was on .world
- Comment on It's a cylinder 2 months ago:
I’d love to see an active expanddong community here. Looks like .world has one but it’s super dead :(
- Comment on ‘Audible enclaves’ could enable private listening without headphones. 2 months ago:
I’ve always been very curious about this technology, but I imagine that they wouldn’t be as good at transmitting high frequencies. I’m no audio engineer so it’s only a hunch of course. Do they sound comparable to a decent pair of buds in the ear?
- Comment on Chrono Trigger Is Timeless 3 months ago:
I couldn’t agree more with everything you said. It’s an indisputable masterpiece.
- Comment on It begins: Pentagon to give AI agents a role in decision making, ops planning. 3 months ago:
I fear that this will lead to so much Intel leaking that it will put War Thunder players to shame.
- Comment on Hopes of US golden age fade as investors start to worry about ‘Trumpcession’ risk 3 months ago:
It would be great if the entire GOP would be forced to wear it as well, but this is honestly much better than nothing at all, which is what I would have predicted. It’s a good start.
- Comment on What was your favorite shareware game? 3 months ago:
Yes!! And you could kind of cheese the game by pressing both fire buttons in rapid succession (down arrow and ‘d’ I think). I loved making passes around an enemy’s planet and staying just ahead of their defenses, and becoming basically an A-10 Warthog in space. It was kind of difficult since your bullets inherited your velocity so you had to shoot at weird angles 😁
- Comment on What was your favorite shareware game? 3 months ago:
I spent so many hours as a kid on my dad’s Thinkpad playing Gravity Well. It came on one of those “50 Great Games” CDs or something like that. The goal is to claim all the planets in the system, which you do by simply landing on them, then building defenses against your opponents. It’s so much fun because your ship has pretty realistic inertia and the planets have actual gravity wells. The AI opponents can be quite difficult and aggressive. Challenging and fun, with great sound effects for the time!
This screenshot is from an Internet Archive page for the game, but I’m pretty sure it’s only the shareware version. I gotta check again when I get off work!
- Comment on Texas Needs Equivalent of 30 Reactors to Meet Data Center Power Demand 3 months ago:
Please! It would be such a nice improvement!
I want to get out of here :(
- Comment on cilanto 🌿 3 months ago:
I love cilantro too, but now I have to wonder… What if we’re not the ones getting the “true” taste?
I’ll take my blissful ignorance with some cilantro on top.
- Comment on Meta approves bonuses of up to 200% of company executives' salaries as it trims stock awards for employees 3 months ago:
Meta justified the executive pay increase by stating that their cash compensation was below market rates.
“Local serial killer justified his latest triple-homicide by stating that his body count was below the national average.”
- Comment on Valve have just updated the Source 1 SDK on GitHub to the latest code based on Team Fortress 2, effectively making TF2 code source available 4 months ago:
That has been a dream of mine for well over a decade. When I (rarely) play TF2 it’s with bots only, since they have all the vanilla stuff.
I miss the times when an entire team would do a Scout rush, with only the 3 vanilla weapons, just for the hell of it. It was always complete chaos. You can do it with bots, but it’s very tedious, and they only run along the ground from node to node. Give me a dozen Scouts flying off the rooftops spamming
x5x5x5x5!Also, does anyone else wish someone would bring back his crazy legs when he does the midair jump?
- Comment on This post is in honor of [username]2 4 months ago:
Weirdly, my password was rejected because someone else used “hunter” as theirs, so I had to add a damn 2 to it, smh
- Comment on Has anybody played Foundation, the medieval city builder? Looking for a laidback game 5 months ago:
I haven’t played Foundation, but since you’re looking for laid-back and medieval, there’s a really cozy looking game I want to try called Tiny Glade that apparently has no objectives. It seems to be a pure sandbox game.
Plus, if you like supporting devs who use smaller/less-well-known engines, this one runs on Bevy, a small Rust-based engine!
- Comment on Square Enix Unveils Die-Cast Miniatures of Retro Consoles 8 months ago:
Chrono Trigger is my favorite game of all time.
Every day I pray to whatever benevolent god(s) are out there that CT is never remade/remastered.
If it is, I hope it’s everything you want it to be, but I know I won’t be touching it.
