mnemonicmonkeys
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- Comment on [[TheGamer]] Valve Fremont, The Rumored Steam Console, Appears On Geekbench 17 hours ago:
Nintendo continually releases underpowered consoles and sells similar numbers to Sony without issues.
Steam (and PC gaming in general) have access to significantly more games and exist on an open ecosystem, which are already big selling points.
Not only that, the biggest things keeping people from buying into the PC ecosystem are cost and complexity. They don’t want to pay >$1k to play games and they don’t want to have to futz around with a desktop. Valve has already demonstrated they can do both with the Steam Deck.
Who cares if the PS6 ends up having slightly more performance? There’s more factors than raw performance. And those who are obsessed with performance but unwilling to put up the cash for a decent PC can just lock themselves away in the PS ecosystem. Their loss.
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong - Release Date Trailer (September 4) 22 hours ago:
Waiting to see Silksong suck on release and their fanbase getting really pissed off about it.
HK fans are really toxic to anything but absolute praise for the franchise
- Comment on Sony is raising all PS5 console prices in the US by $50, starting tomorrow 22 hours ago:
Dude, I’m from the US. I know. But the fact of the matter is that there’s shittons of poor people who voted for Trump, and they’re the ones most at risk
- Comment on Sony is raising all PS5 console prices in the US by $50, starting tomorrow 1 day ago:
That’s their fault for voting for Trump or not voting at all
- Comment on Monster taming roguelite Aethermancer from the Monster Sanctuary devs arrives September 23 2 days ago:
Nice, I’ve had this on my wishlist for ages
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong - Special Announcement Stream (starts in 48 hours) 2 days ago:
The fanbase will lose their shit with anger and I’ll be there with popcorn laughing at them
- Comment on Born too early 5 days ago:
I have no words
- Comment on xkcd #3129: Archaeology Research 5 days ago:
Repeating crossbows are abaolutely a thing though. There’s examples from ancient China. That being said, they tend to suck because they’re really low powered to make them easy to shoot rapid-fire
- Comment on 774 levels of smug 5 days ago:
“Wholesome”
- Comment on xkcd #3129: Archaeology Research 6 days ago:
The invention in question is called the “Instant Legolas” for reference
It’s possible for someone to have made one as an experiment and it not being found, but it’s also not very practical for war. Warbows needed to have 100-200lb draw weight to be particularly effective in battle. Trying to rapid-fire 5 shots from those bows would have been exhausting, and reloading the Instant Legolas was slow and would likely have reduced the total number of arrows you could fire throughout a battle. And having an extended period of time where you’re unable to fire back when attacked is a major drawback. In modern firearm training, reloads are taught to minimize the amount of time the gun is incapable of firing, as a modern example.
Another big drawback to the Instant Legolas is that the ammunition needs to be shorter, reducing its overall weight thus further limiting its effectiveness against armor. While this does have the benefit of limiting your opponent’s ability to collect your ammunition and fire it back against you, your side is then similarly limited unless your archers take the time to remove the Instant Legos from their bows in the middle of battle
The Instant Legolas would also have doubled or tripled the cost of bows and would have made them more difficult to store, which were significant problems with even extant equipment. There’s plenty of example of soldiers abandoning or selling armor in favor of something less protective aimply because said equipment made marching too hard.
- Comment on All I Want 6 days ago:
SPAESH!
I love watching that clip because you can easily tell he had a lot of fun recording it
- Comment on Me too. 6 days ago:
There’s no biological structure the creates consciousness to the ppint where you can say “if you have x, you’re conscious”, to the point where saying “humans are conscious” or even “only humans are conscious” aren’t always true. Many elephants are conscious. Some dogs are consciohs. Some humans aren’t. And no, the split between humans are/aren’t conscious ARE NOT CORRELATED WITH DEMOGRAPHIC (fuck Nazis and racists), nor is it easy to draw a line in the sand because it’s a spectrum.
It comes from having a brain that’s complex enough. Decision making process start interacting together in unexpenced ways, with subtle variations caused by genetics and history. Literally just read the wikipedia page the previous person posted and apply that same logic to brains and minds.
- Comment on xkcd #3129: Archaeology Research 6 days ago:
Sounds like what Gorge Spräve (the slingshot guy on Youtube) did. He developed a mechanism that could be attached to any bow, with multiple arrows stored for rapid fire, draw assist, holds the string back at full draw, and has a trigger mechanism. Everything was theoretically producable during the middle ages, it just was never invented
- Comment on OKBuddyGalaxyBrain 1 week ago:
Fine. You can add the repository to FDroid
- Comment on OKBuddyGalaxyBrain 1 week ago:
I’m using Futo keyboard on my phone. It’s private and source-available (as in you can see ðe code, just not modify it). It’s available on FDroid, Google Play, and as an apk
- Comment on OKBuddyGalaxyBrain 1 week ago:
but I believe it’s intentionally done to poison machine learning via scraping.
I’ve used it on occasion, and not for poisoning machine learning. I’m just a nerd for history and linguistics and þink it’s neat
- Comment on OKBuddyGalaxyBrain 1 week ago:
To be honest, ðis meme is used correctly most of ðe time I see it. It just takes bit of þinking to get it
- Comment on Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 33] 1 week ago:
I just caught up to One Piece. Now I want more but they’re on hiatus :(
Don’t get me wrong, I like that the creators have switched to a more reasonable schedule. It just doesn’t make the wait much better
- Comment on Hmm which one I guess? 1 week ago:
Kinda. Not drinking stops the problem from getting worse, keto will help fix it.
Also, you would need to do full keto to get the bonus. Otherwise you won’t be going into ketosis. Only having a low-carb diet wouldn’t be significantly different from basic calorie restriction.
Also, you still need to exercise and restrict calories to lose weight on keto. For weight loss, it mainly makes the process easier; if you eat more than you burn you still won’t lose weight. I like it, it’s a useful tool, but it’s not magic.
Some extra bits of advice in case you try keto:
- Take elecrolyte supplements, especially magnesium to avoid the “keto-flu”. There aren’t many people who can get away with not taking any
- You’ll likely lose 10-12lb in the first week or two. That’s mainly water weight that you’ll gain back after going off the diet. The typical sustained weight loss is 2lb per week.
- Eat a balanced diet of real food. As in, eat a mix of unprocessed meat and vegetables. Don’t just eat nonstop jerky and “keto certified” cookies and ice cream. Make your own food from scratch as much as you realistically can.
- Comment on 🫠🫠🫠 1 week ago:
Even if it’s =180cm that’s tall for a women. Hell, that’s above average height for men in most countries
- Comment on Fan Subber 1 week ago:
My favorite example I’ve seen recently is from Yakitate!! Japan when they were making a Fist of the North Star Reference and the localizers changed “You are already germinated brown rice yeast” to “You are already bread”.
I love how the English localized version doubles as a reference
- Comment on Hmm which one I guess? 1 week ago:
And I didn’t know about keto burning belly fat better
FWIW, it’s most prominent on fat that’s already specifically in the liver, since the liver is the organ that converts fats into ketones. And it’s specifically visceral fat. Subcutaneous fat on the belly is the same as everywhere elae
- Comment on Wakey Wakey 1 week ago:
Yeah, I come up with horrible pranks. Which is why I generally don’t prank people
- Comment on Iykyk 1 week ago:
it has some pedo vibes.
Also to be fair, that’s just the MC starting off as a POS. And unlike Seven Deadly Sins, it’s actually depicted as him being a creep. Once he’s more than a few years old he starts getting his ass kicked, and he eventually grows out of it
- Comment on There is another type. Can you guess? 1 week ago:
Why not both?
- Comment on Hmm which one I guess? 1 week ago:
You both are correct, depending on the context. The first user’s point is correct when it comes to losing weight. You can’t just lose belly fat by doing a bunch of situps.
Funny enough, you actually can target losing belly fat to a degree with diet. Both alcohol and fructose are broken down via the Krebs cycle, and the fat that is the output is deposited in between (and inside of) the organs in your gut. Cutting out alcohol, fructose, and sucrose (which is glucose + fructose) will stop adding fat there. In addition, ketosis tends to cause visceral fat to be broken down for energy more than subcutaneous fat, so that can be used to target visceral fat.
Also, getting rid of visceral fat is a very good idea. Subcutaneous fat doesn’t have much of a negative effect on health unless there is a lot of it, while visceral fat can lead to organ problems like fatty liver disease.
- Comment on Crazy Right 1 week ago:
TBF, a lot of people are visually aging slower due to a combination of not smoking, less alcohol, more exercise, better diets, and better skin care. At least that’s the case for those who care.
As an anecdotal example, I’m in my 30’s and the only sign of it is the fact I’m getting some gray hairs on the side of my head
- Comment on Wakey Wakey 1 week ago:
You missed their point. They were suggesting connecting the battery to different nipple piercings, thinking that would cause the electricity to travel across the chest
- Comment on Wakey Wakey 1 week ago:
No, because that’s supposed to make them pee themselves.
This is more like painting their fingernails with Nair to chemically remove them
- Comment on "Made in Abyss" New Film Series Announced with Visual 1 week ago:
It’s also purely fiction. It’s fine to not like it, but there’s no need to get so confrontational. I’m willing to bet the vast majority of fans merely tolerate it rather than support or ask for more.