SolOrion

@SolOrion@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My mom tells me I should cut dad off for cheating on her, am I a bad person for not wanting to do so?⁩ ⁨⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  No. That doesn’t make you a bad person. Frankly, I think it’s awful that she’s asking you to, but I imagine she’s going through some things herself at the moment.

  I think you have the right take here already- your relationship with your dad wasn’t the one impacted.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can I replace honey with maple syrup?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  …can I get that granola recipe? That sounds fantastic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There's a noticable influx of trans kids in my job. Are there any topics I should avoid or considerations I should take into account when training them?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The only one that confuses me is “they”, but it’s still refering to just one person. Luckily I don’t know anyone like that, because that one I’m sure I’d constantly accidently fuck up.

  I ran into a person a long time ago on Lemmy that asked that people use ‘its’ as pronoun. So it/its. Even for second person- so not you/yours, it/its. Absolutely broke my brain.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do people care so much that their friend or family member’s partner is attractive and not just loving?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not about being open and honest. It’s about that not being relevant. Your opinion on how someone looks isn’t relevant, helpful, or necessary unless it’s directly asked for.

  There’s nothing awkward, nervous, or repressed about not going out of your way to open your mouth and make someone feel bad about themselves. You can simply not fucking say something that crosses your mind.

  “Brutally honest” people are incredibly annoying. They think they’ve discovered a social cheat code so they can get away with being an absolute ass because they’re just an Honest Person™.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are the ethics behind purchasing a book from an author you don't agree with?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Lots of sexual assault allegations. I wasn’t a fan even before all of that came out so I didn’t follow it too closely.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is it okay for shit to go down the drain but not food?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not unique to Japan/Korea, you can definitely get it in the US. Fryaway is at least one brand of it, but I’d be shocked if you couldn’t get others.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It depends? Video can get across an explicit concept easier for me. If I’m learning something that I’ll struggle with, I find that video is usually a better bet for me.

  For fiction, I prefer books because it can get a lot more across. It’s not even just that they cut corners or parts of a book, sometimes a book will have the protagonist basically run an internal monologue, or just notice something in a particular way that conveys a lot of information in a way that a movie or show can’t really do as seamlessly, if at all.

  Video is better for showing details and small things, but I can fill in the blanks myself- I find it really frustrating when authors don’t let me fill in the blanks. I don’t need the entire feast described in depth to me, I don’t give a shit how the pig is coated in honey and the desserts look delicious unless the reveal is that the pig is poisoned and the desserts went bad last week.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No need to hurt me, GOG :(⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I just went through what’s on sale, I didn’t verify the release dates or anything.

  Kerbal Space Program is a great time. It’s the kind of game where it either grabs you and doesn’t let go, or you’ll drop it pretty fast.

  I liked Sunless Sea, but then you really just have to give a game an Eldritch aesthetic and I’ll probably be there for it.

  The Escapists is a neat game to play with some friends.

  Fallout 4 has some flaws, especially if you’re a fan of the previous games, but it’s a decent game anyways.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨$80 for Borderlands 4 too costly? Randy Pitchford says, "If you're a real fan, you'll find a way to make it happen"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah, that’s true! Anything with flavor text- red text in the description- is an exception to the normal rarities.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨$80 for Borderlands 4 too costly? Randy Pitchford says, "If you're a real fan, you'll find a way to make it happen"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If it ain’t a purple I can basically guarantee it’s shit. Just keep the rarity order in mind, and you can generally assume anything that’s less rare than what you have is also worse. One of the load screens in BL1 or BL2 said When Grandma Burps Patrick Obeys- White, Green, Blue, Purple, Orange. Got absolutely burnt into my brain.

  But hey, if it’s stressful fair enough. I think they’re fun games, but they’re nothing is for everyone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨$80 for Borderlands 4 too costly? Randy Pitchford says, "If you're a real fan, you'll find a way to make it happen"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not like I need to do the math to figure out which gun is better and why. Find something with green arrows? Hold E to equip it immediately. If I use it for a bit and aren’t a fan I’ll just swap back to what I was using before and mark it as junk so I sell it next time I buy ammo or fill my inventory.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How are Americans so outgoing and extroverted and how can I become the same?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hello, I’m an American and I’m probably as shy and sociall awkward as you lol.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is coal and fossil fuels still used?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Swapping entirely to renewable energy is cool and all but not as easy as “just use a bunch of solar panels???” The issue is that most renewables are some mix of a: unreliable, and b: geographical.

  Wind isn’t going to be blowing 24/7 in most places, so wind is unreliable. The sun isn’t always shining in most places, so solar power is unreliable. Hydro is amazing if you have it, but it isn’t the kind of thing you can just build anywhere. Geothermal is also great if you have it, but again isn’t the kind of thing you can just build.

  Meanwhile, the power grid requires reliability. It’s incredibly important.

  Also, like other people have said: coal/gas are cheap and ubiquitous. Both of those words might as well be synonyms for ‘more money’. Realistically, that’s the primary reason.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Games on my PC start stuttering pretty badly when they aren't the active window for a while. Have to close the game and restart to resolve the stuttering issue. What exactly is causing this?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Reinstalling windows is hardly a laborious task, but even then my main point was that buying a 32GB SSD is pointless when you can get much larger ones for extremely cheap. Even if you don’t use it as a boot drive, more fast storage is never going to be a downside.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Games on my PC start stuttering pretty badly when they aren't the active window for a while. Have to close the game and restart to resolve the stuttering issue. What exactly is causing this?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You could add an SSD specifically to serve as a pagefile location and nothing else, in which case you could just get a small cheap one (a 32GB SSD would be more than enough for 16GB of RAM)

  Honestly, assuming OP isn’t somewhere that the market for PC parts is extremely wonky compared to the US, if you’re going to get an SSD you might as well go ahead and get one big enough to serve as a boot drive. A 256gb SATA SSD is ~$20, and should be fine for that purpose. It probably won’t have DRAM at that price point, but realistically it’s not really necessary and still going to be a night and day upgrade over an HDD.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it normal to be constantly scared about how your friend will react to anything about you?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Okay, so: is it because you reasonably expect that from your friend? Have they given you reason to expect these things? Or is it more just an anxiety thing? Like, you know it’s not a reasonable fear, but your brain still won’t let go?

  If A: no, that’s not normal and he’s hella toxic. Especially the online anonymity thing- what the fuck?

  If B: no, that’s not exactly normal but anxiety is a bitch sometimes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Did the western world just suddenly go back to pretending wrestling is "real" for some reason?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve never seen ‘drag race’ used in this context, and I was wondering how you were about to compare drag racing (like with cars) with wrestling.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Did the western world just suddenly go back to pretending wrestling is "real" for some reason?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Nah, at least this once it’s definitely not a US defaultism thing.

  As an American, this is the first time I’ve thought about pro wrestling in a very very long time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Did the western world just suddenly go back to pretending wrestling is "real" for some reason?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Why not? What definition of ‘athlete’ are you even using? Did you just decide this?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I feel that lines are drawn, and I'm no longer on your side.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Okay, bye.

  Also, I’m utterly shocked that an ai generated header is even a minor issue in comparison to the rest if your fallback instance of choice is Hexbear.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How can I create a Lemmy instance without coding or the use of Ethernet/router wiring?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You don’t need to be wired in order to self host things? It’s better, ofc, but far from required. You can just do it via wifi.

  My experience with self hosting begins and ends with video game servers and jellyfin, though, so maybe I’m wrong here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Given how paintball guns work, could you swap paintballs for a waterballs?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  yes. It’s a thing. mcsus.com/products/68-water-balls-tube-of-10 No clue if they’re good or not, but they exist.

  There’s also paintballs with clear paint, or reballs which are basically just rubber balls meant to be fired out of a paintball gun.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Found money. What do?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I assumed. I know it’s similar where I live, but for all I know Montana has some strangely restrictive finders keepers law where if you drop your wallet and someone else finds it you can only legally reclaim it via a duel to the death.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Bad news dominate headlines, do you think journalists will write about people behaving normally?

  This is a funny mental image.

  “Breaking news: Man gets normal sized plate a buffet. More at 11.”

  Front of a newspaper in giant bold font:

  “MAN TAKES NORMAL ROUTE HOME FROM WORK”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Found money. What do?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Where do you live? That matters, unless you’re just asking from an ethics perspective. I’m not asking you to dox yourself, country/state is plenty.

  Assuming you’re Canadian(based off your instance being lemmy.ca) technically speaking you should report in to the police, and they’ll hold it for 6 months. After that if someone hasn’t claimed it you’re free to claim it yourself. At least in Vancouver. Maybe the laws are different in other parts of Canada.

  Realistically, it’s not even $200. Probably keep it for a week or two and then tell the kid the cops couldn’t find the original owner.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Current 50% sale on Valheim on Steam⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d highly recommend modding that OUT for sanity/time sink reasons.

  No mods needed anymore! That’s just a slider now in ‘world modifiers’. It’s quite nice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's so important about keeping military operations secret?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Because surprise is important, and if the enemy has precise intelligence on what’s going to happen they can act to make it not happen. Which means that any assumptions your plans make might be outdated or even actively countered.

  To quote Sun Tzu, “All warfare is based on deception.” The lengths militaries have historically gone to in order to keep operational security or obfuscate the details of an attack is utterly absurd.

  A real world example: In WW2, ahead of the allied invasion of Sicily the British launched Operation Mincemeat. They took the body of a homeless person that had recently died, gave him an entirely fictitious service record/life, and some fake letters heavily implying that the allied invasion of Sicily was a feint and the true invasion was going to be in Greece and Sardinia. Then they took the corpse onto a submarine and let it go where the tide would take it to Spain. The Spanish shared the letters with the Germans, and the Germans then reinforced… all the wrong places. Which made the Allied Invasion of Sicily easier than it potentially could have been.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How the fuck do I find out where and when all these protests and rallies are happening?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Always been like that in my experience.

  I remember being frustrated asf as a teenager by people not understanding words or knowing how to spell things. My brother in christ, you have a phone and an internet connection in your pocket with access to basically the entirety of human knowledge. Fucking Google it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are Maries Sues hated while Gary Stus are loved?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I used to be into HP fanfiction and my god I got so tired of hearing about HPMOR. I didn’t hate it, I didn’t feel nearly that strongly. I got a handful of chapters in and put it down, but that’s reasonably normal for me. But my god you could not escape that fic. It’s fans were rabid and it’s detractors were even worse than that. If it could vaguely fit a req, they’d bring it up. And then get three replies about how it doesn’t fit the req and it’s the worst thing since My Immortal within fifteen minutes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How likely is the US government going to identify and arrest every online user who have disagreed with the current administration?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  By nature, the fediverse is hard to tie back to individuals… But if they’re looking for you individually, they can find you

  Yeah. Bonus points if your instance isn’t hosted in the US. I’m pretty sure mine is hosted in Canada, and with the way it’s going currently in a year or two Canada wouldn’t be willing to piss on the US government if it was on fire much less hand over a server full of IP addresses.