VindictiveJudge
@VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world
- Comment on Is there or has there ever been information illegal to possess or have? 10 hours ago:
Beginning of internet memes? Maybe. I’d have to look up when that happened. Beginning of memes as a whole? That would be off by several thousand years at a minimum, just going by ones archaeologists have already found.
- Comment on 'My Advice to Users Is to Accept Reality and Tune, or to Not Play' — Randy Pitchford Is at the 'Get a Refund From Steam' Stage of the Borderlands 4 PC Performance Backlash 11 hours ago:
I could be wrong, but doesn’t he own the company?
- Comment on xkcd #3142: -Style Pizza 1 day ago:
In particular, it’s a very East Coast thing. While we have the mom-and-pop pizzerias on the West Coast, there aren’t styles of pizza named for West Coast cities and we just don’t have that pizza rivalry that the other coast has. There’s California-style pizza, but that’s named for a state rather than a city, and as soon as you leave California it’s easier to find almost any other kind of pizza.
- Comment on What D&D alignment would my character(s) be? 1 day ago:
Really, the problem is labeling that axis law-chaos in the first place when it’s really order-chaos. We’re pretty much stuck with it now, though.
- Comment on Who plays like that x_x 5 days ago:
2 and 3 do the same diagnostic routine, and Reach asks you to look at a building in the distance.
- Comment on GN's GPU smuggling documentary is finally back up after being fraudulently DMCA'd by Bloomberg. Go give them a watch to try to make up for the lost traction! 6 days ago:
This is exactly my experience with their dice sets. I got the transister dice, but I think the cat dice use the same box.
- Comment on Amid Palworld Lawsuit, Nintendo Patents a System for Summoning a Character 1 week ago:
You made a comment that is typically meant with complete seriousness without any indication you were joking. PETA, for example, has an entire anti-Pokemon campaign built on the premise that Pokemon is animal cruelty.
- Comment on Amid Palworld Lawsuit, Nintendo Patents a System for Summoning a Character 1 week ago:
Microsoft, Sony, EA, Activision, or Square Enix would be my guess.
- Comment on Like a heart 1 week ago:
I don’t think ducks typically use tampons.
- Comment on AOL announces September shutdown for dial-up Internet access 2 weeks ago:
I use some as coasters.
- Comment on Sony is releasing a new PS5 console, but it's a downgrade 2 weeks ago:
Only for backwards compatibility titles. PS5 titles have to be run off of either the integrated storage or an M.2 SSD.
- Comment on Immortals must be riddled with cancer thanks to gene errors in their dna replication. 2 weeks ago:
I wonder if it just takes longer to become a problem? I would expect (and someone correct me if I’m wrong) that a tumor likely grows at roughly the same rate regardless of body size. A 3cm diameter tumor likely just isn’t as big of a deal when you mass 100,000kg.
- Comment on xkcd #3134: Wavefunction Collapse 2 weeks ago:
Well, there’s not really any randomness, we just can’t ever have enough data to determine exactly what will happen. Which is why we have the Uncertainty Principle. If we both had a functioning Grand Unified Theory and total knowledge of all the particles in a system, we could simulate what would happen in the system with perfect accuracy.
- Comment on More action than RPG, Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 struggles to convince after a few hours' play - EuroGamer 4 weeks ago:
Not sure if this is what they’re talking about, but they made an ARG called Tender as part of the early VTMB2 promotion stuff. You had to do stuff within a fake dating app called Tender that was made in-universe to help vampires find feeding targets.
- Comment on Has cancel culture gone too far? 4 weeks ago:
Kane is Cain, probably.
- Comment on They don't make 'em like they used to 5 weeks ago:
The handle is torn up, too.
- Comment on Southern USA core. 5 weeks ago:
Can actually be done without any inbreeding. For instance, if a man has children with two women who are sisters, the children would be paternal half-siblings and maternal cousins. Used to be fairly common when arranged marriages and dying in childbirth were normal. Wife died, but the marriage ties are important so you marry her sister.
- Comment on Funny 1 month ago:
Likely depends on jurisdiction. Should be legal in Oregon. Less sure about Missouri.
- Comment on Iron 1 month ago:
What about just telling them that the meth is laced with birth control now?
- Comment on 🐀🔥🔥🔥 1 month ago:
Chocolate isn’t sweet, it’s bitter. You have to add a lot of sugar to get the sweet chocolate we’re familiar with. The Mayan and Aztec versions of hot chocolate were more like a spicy coffee than the sweet drink we have now.
- Comment on In the olden days, when people got married a lot younger, there were probably lots of grandparents in their thirties 1 month ago:
Median lifespan was also fairly close to ours even though the average was way down. High infant and child mortality rates skews things.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
The Batman: Arkham, Metro, and Mass Effect games are also impacted.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
While the 5090 will run the latest games great, it will struggle with many older games due to the RTX 50 series having dropped 32-bit PhysX support. RTX 40 series cards are nearly as powerful and have 32-bit PhysX, if backwards compatibility is a concern.
- Comment on It bothers me when cat memes refer to the pictured cat as "he," but I can tell from its coat pattern that it's female. I may know too much about cats. 1 month ago:
Male calicos need to be XXY instead of XY. They’re almost always female, with males being very noteworthy. Only 1 in 3000 calicos is male.
- Comment on The Epochalypse: It’s Y2K, But 38 Years Later 1 month ago:
2038, not 2028. We have twelve years to fully migrate to 64-bit time.
- Comment on Everything is a problem 1 month ago:
The standard optical audio jack was developed by Toshiba.
- Comment on hubris go brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr 1 month ago:
Cochrane also invented warp drive to get laid.
- Comment on The Star Wars Outlaws flop - Guillemot blames waning interest in the franchise 1 month ago:
Anything with a cohesive narrative would have been better than the sequel trilogy, including Dark Empire. Hell, Abrams did Dark Empire anyway, he just compressed it into a single film along with ESB and ROTJ because he’s never had a single original idea about Star Wars.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Another weird thing is anti-loitering devices hurt my ears, and those aren’t supposed to affect people older than 20.
That assumes that your hearing is damaged at the average rate. Don’t blast your music or TV and wear hearing protection when using a lawnmower or other loud device and you can keep hearing those high pitched sounds into your thirties.
- Comment on xkcd #3115: Unsolved Physics Problems 2 months ago:
So you’re saying that if I stop feeding my mogwai after midnight I should be able to plug in my USB devices on the first try?