CarbonatedPastaSauce
@CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world
- Comment on If Christians were real, they’d be lining up to post for their sins (not trying to avoid judgement). 1 day ago:
Pedantry is definitely the best way to engage with rage bait disguised (poorly) as a showerthought.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
Counterpoint: It’s like food, because it fulfills your need but it’s only temporary. You’re gonna need more food tomorrow.
- Comment on What is your favorite retro wargame? 5 days ago:
Man I haven’t played Close Combat in probably 27 years but I instantly recognized that screen shot. Great game!
I still play C&C Generals and Supreme Commander fairly often. Not sure I’d call them retro but they are pretty old!
- Comment on When making recommendations to someone getting into a genre we know we usually recommend them the best examples of it... 6 days ago:
Gotcha! I always just considered it a genre of movies I watch, but of course there are as many genres of anime as regular movies have.
- Comment on When making recommendations to someone getting into a genre we know we usually recommend them the best examples of it... 6 days ago:
Or they end up seeing the best part of it, and it’s all downhill from there.
That’s what happened with me and anime. First thing I ever saw was Akira, sometime around 1992. Very, very few anime movies have even come close to measuring up to that first experience. So I actually don’t have a lot of interest in seeing much new stuff in that genre anymore.
- Comment on Did I just dream this? Wasn't some kind of Steam app available on PlayStation some time ago? 1 week ago:
There are some websites that say you can stream from your PC to your PS5 using Remote Play, but I’ve never tried it.
- Comment on Is Catholic dating culture often mistaken for incel-style pessimistic desperation? 1 week ago:
It’s where you try to find a partner that hates themselves as much as you do.
- Comment on Assuming the world is a simulation 1 week ago:
Nothing matters and we’re all going to die. Nobody will remember or care about anything we did. Everything that will ever exist will eventually die a cold death due to entropy. So just have fun and be nice to each other until it’s over.
This applies whether it’s a simulation or not. The end result is the same.
- Comment on Mark Zuckerberg Thinks You Don't Have Enough Friends and His Chatbots Are the Answer 1 week ago:
That is one of the sickest burns I’ve read in a while.
- Comment on 13 Creepy Things Your Smartphone Knows About You 1 week ago:
Buy a faraday bag and keep your phone in it at all times unless you’re using it or sitting at home. That’s what I do.
It’s extreme, but I don’t see any other defense except not having a phone.
- Comment on Would you rather have a pet dinosaur or a pet dragon? 1 week ago:
Nope. I’m good.
- Comment on McDonald’s reports largest U.S. same-store sales decline since 2020 1 week ago:
In the early 80’s my mom left my abusive father, with 3 kids in tow, and managed to buy a (shitty) car, rent a (shitty) house, and feed all three of us with a waitress job at Golden fucking Corral (paying for child care while she was at work, too!), and all the while not getting a dime in support from dear alcoholic dad. It wasn’t easy but it was possible. That’s no longer true.
I have watched the world become impossible for younger people to thrive in, and it’s really depressing.
- Comment on Does humanism lead to tolerance paradox? 2 weeks ago:
No. People who call out the ‘tolerance paradox’ are misunderstanding social tolerance. Tolerance of other humans is part our social contract to live with each other without violence. If you abandon the social contract by being hateful or violent to others, you are no longer protected by it. There is no paradox.
- Comment on The Pentagon is the best shape for a large buildings as long as all surrounding buildings are also Pentagons 2 weeks ago:
My high ass was like ‘wait they put tile on aircraft?’ and after accepting that I just assumed it messed with airflow or the Bernoulli effect.
Then I was like, ‘Oh’.
- Comment on How come id Software / Bethesda have never sued Bungie / Microsoft over the similarity between Doomguy and Master Chief? 2 weeks ago:
Sure, but they had to start somewhere. Reach is the 6th Halo game.
- Comment on How come id Software / Bethesda have never sued Bungie / Microsoft over the similarity between Doomguy and Master Chief? 2 weeks ago:
Green is the universal color of soldiers. The regular soldiers in Halo were wearing green. Master Chief’s armor was green because he was a soldier. It made perfect sense to me.
- Comment on If I snapped you back in time 650 years right this very second, how would you use your current knowledge to succeed? 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, this. I have medications I need. When the pair of contacts in my eyes fall out eventually, I’m functionally blind. All that aside, I’d probably starve quickly since I don’t know how to make weapons and other humans haven’t made it to where I live yet in 1375.
I’d probably look around for a couple days and then when I got super hungry just find a cliff to jump off.
- Comment on If I snapped you back in time 650 years right this very second, how would you use your current knowledge to succeed? 2 weeks ago:
You can name some upcoming events between 1375-1376 that would get you enough fame to make a living, off the top of your head?
- Comment on Trying to avoid antitrust suits, Google senior executives told employees to destroy messages 2 weeks ago:
It’s white collar crime. They’ll pay a fine which will mean nothing to them, and nobody will go to jail. That’s how it works.
- Comment on Mark Zuckerberg Says Social Media Is Over 2 weeks ago:
He should know, he’s the one that put a shotgun in its mouth over a decade ago.
- Comment on Most people in the workforce today have never had to answer the question "Smoking or nonsmoking?" 2 weeks ago:
Das ist schlecht.
- Comment on Discord co-founder and CEO Jason Citron is stepping down 3 weeks ago:
You’ve got upper management written all over you.
- Comment on Discord co-founder and CEO Jason Citron is stepping down 3 weeks ago:
We need a decent replacement for this, stat. Once they go into IPO mode it’s gonna get real shitty, real fast.
- Comment on Did the western world just suddenly go back to pretending wrestling is "real" for some reason? 3 weeks ago:
Yes I know. Real sports have “motor” in front of them. lol
- Comment on Did the western world just suddenly go back to pretending wrestling is "real" for some reason? 3 weeks ago:
Counterpoint- all sports are silly. That’s why they are called games.
I don’t dunk on wrestling fans anymore because people are free to enjoy whatever they want. But it’s always been like this. It didn’t change - you did. Personal growth!
- Comment on What do office workers actually do? 3 weeks ago:
I mostly played video games in between intense bursts of productivity to get work done.
Yes, I was doing this before remote work was a thing. You just have to be slick. I once set up a “lab” of three PCs to “test some new software” in a back room and then played Birth of the Federation on one of them while the other two ran perf counter output, for 3 months straight. This was an act of desperation to keep my mind busy. They had laid almost everyone off in the company so I didn’t have much to do, but it started a tradition that carried me all the way to retirement!
- Comment on Musician Who Died in 2021 Resurrected as Clump of Brain Matter, Now Composing New Music 3 weeks ago:
That is an important point that I missed in what I read of the article before I got grossed out. Thanks. I’m still not sure about this line of research because if (when?) they do make something that achieves a level sentience, consciousness, or even just being able to feel, will it be able to signal to us that it is happy, content, in agony, mental anguish, etc? The thought of being trapped in that situation is terrifying.
- Comment on Musician Who Died in 2021 Resurrected as Clump of Brain Matter, Now Composing New Music 3 weeks ago:
Yeah and it was just a bunch of sedated live rats pinned to little trays with their brains exposed and a bunch of shit stuck everywhere into their bodies that I had to see while working on the lab computers.
I’m not going to get into an argument about whether there’s value in animal research (I think there is) but there’s some horrifying shit that comes with it, and I’m just pointing out that I’ve directly worked with plenty of scientists that are completely unfazed by that shit. So while it may be a few cells on a mesh now, they won’t stop at that.
- Comment on Musician Who Died in 2021 Resurrected as Clump of Brain Matter, Now Composing New Music 3 weeks ago:
The hard truth is that there are a lot of completely un-empathetic scientists out there.
Some of the shit I saw them doing to animals when I worked for Baxter still makes me sick when I think about it. And I only had to go into that lab a couple times.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
The right drugs will get you a real girlfriend.