adam_y
@adam_y@lemmy.world
- Comment on Feral Science 2 weeks ago:
Best moment of Disco Elysium for me.
- Comment on Like Fleetwood Mac? Get ready for 4 weeks ago:
Fleetwood Mac and cheese.
Yeah, OK. I’m in.
- Comment on Why did it take so damn long for humanity to "learn" how to draw/paint realistic images? 4 weeks ago:
I do find it interesting that folk think Renaissance art is realistic.
I’m being a little glib, but the truth is that we are still looking at hyper-idealised bodies.
The main difference,I suspect, is the use of perspective rather than drawing on a flat plane. In a way it took a leap of imagination to make things look more “realistic” whilst sculpture was merely (again, said with a certain smirk) just mimicking what the artist could see and feel in the real world.
That is to say that sculpture is reproduction whilst drawing is representation, and with representation you need to be able to take some pretty big leaps for both the artist and the viewer to work these things out.
- Comment on Probably 4 weeks ago:
This is so on form for UCLAN.
- Comment on British travel bloggers ‘sugarcoating’ China’s Uyghur problem to the delight of Beijing: Influencers claim to be exposing 'Western lies' about Xinjiang, claiming they have not seen human rights abuses 1 month ago:
Influencers are just fleshy billboards for whoever wants them to shill.
It isn’t a job, it is a resource.
And honestly, I think we are all getting tired of seeing their burning faces and hearing their vapid takes.
- Comment on Music was better when ugly people were allowed to make it 1 month ago:
Is this showerthoughts or oldbumperstickers?
- Comment on 1 month ago:
That makes a lot of sense.
As far as I’m aware, if your TV did start to provide feedback as you played you were in for a bad time.
I guess I’m thinking more holistically. Gaming is often seen still as a visual medium, but you’ll know that the physical set up was part of the fun/not fun.
I suspect you might remember man parties and lugging gear around just to play with friends. In theory it wasn’t exactly easy, but somehow still enjoyable for it.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
And I forgot the smell and the heat too. That warm ozone thing a lot of them had going on.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Yeah, when you turned them on they frequently had push buttons with satisfying resistance and a click.
As an object they had their own tactility, often solid and heavy (as opposed to the sort of articulated physicality of most modern monitors). You could often feel the static electricity across the glass.
They even had their own sounds. The hum of warming up, the whine and clunk of being turned off.
When we talk about nostalgia it’s often the sensations adjacent to the activity that we are talking about.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
People will knock nostalgia … They see it as a sort of softness, a yearning for the past…
But what they miss is the way that it can create intergenerational connections.
That’s a really lovely thing to hear about your relationship with your dad and Ms Pac-Man.
Wait, that sounds libellous.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
I think people who played those games on CRTs originally remember the feel of the visuals. It is a rather nostalgic thing.
The filters aren’t the same, but they’re not a bad approximation. Mist of those games were not meant to be played on modern hardware and look worse for it too.
Then there will be a ton of folk who just do it because they see other people do it. That’s fine too, especially if they are enjoying themselves.
That’s the point. If the filter makes you feel happier, go for it. It’s an aesthetic choice.
- Comment on There is no history on the History channel. There's nothing true on TruTV. There's no music on music television. There's no science on the science channel. 2 months ago:
Deep.
This is now classic stoner chat.
This dude took it for a spin over a decade ago…
- Comment on No one’s ready for this: Our basic assumptions about photos capturing reality are about to go up in smoke. 2 months ago:
It’s always been about context and provenance. Who took the image? Are there supporting accounts?
But also, it has always been about the knowlege that no one… Absolutely no one… Does lines of coke from a woven mat floor covering.
- Comment on Humble Games announce ‘restructuring’, laying off entire publishing team 3 months ago:
I remember when the humblebundles were a great way to pick up some old but great software alongside some new but smaller games. A pay what you want approach and a solid reason for charity.
It hasn’t been like that in a long time. Now it is a lot of shovelware and surprisingly expensive tiered offerings.
They forgot to humble.
- Comment on With the Lindbergh kidnapping and the Earhart disappearance in the 1930s, aviation must have seemed like a cursed avocation. I'll bet the news was crazy with similar airplane news. 4 months ago:
Exckeent use of the rare but wonderful, “avocation”.
- Comment on why isn't anyone calling for Trump to drop out. 4 months ago:
Someone knows their cock rights.
- Comment on What's up with all the "___punk" stuff? 4 months ago:
Oh no, I get you. I think we are a similar age.
I was at the Reading Festival in '96 and I think offspring were playing.
There was a slightly older guy stood in the middle of the crowd shouting, you call this punk… This ain’t punk. This ain’t shit.
The kids were laughing at him.
This week in Glasgow Green Day played a gig and all I saw was middle aged men and their daughters wearing matching merch t-shirts.
I’m assuming at some point I travel back in time to '96 to try to stop this.
- Comment on What's up with all the "___punk" stuff? 4 months ago:
She may be a Puncke: for many of them, are neither Maid, Widow, nor Wife.
W. Shakespeare, Measure for Measure (1623)
Damn, you really old.
- Comment on So would he call this a win or a loss? 5 months ago:
Yeah, no.
Newton was such a complex human. He seemed capable of holding many, sometimes opposing beliefs, at the same time.
Newton’s conception of the physical world provided a model of the natural world that would reinforce stability and harmony in the civic world. Newton saw a monotheistic God as the masterful creator whose existence could not be denied in the face of the grandeur of all creation.
There’s even a Wikipedia page dedicated to his religious beliefs.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_views_of_Isaac_Newton
If you are into learning about him there’s also a rather good read, The Janus Faces of Genius, by Betty Jo Teeter Dobbs, that looks into his occult work.
Furthermore, for the sake of complexity, we can look into how, when he was the warden of the mint, he became responsible for the deaths of 19 people. He turned a largely ceremonial role into a task force, chasing down forgers and sentencing them to death.
- Comment on Shoppers Drug Mart Recruiting Volunteers to Staff Stores 5 months ago:
Here’s a thing. Yes. What you say is true… But when you have legitimate paying jobs that demand recent experience in retail, then this sort of thing becomes attractive to people that just want a fucking job.
Don’t blame people for doing this, blame the system for making them feel like they have to.
- Comment on Elon Musk’s X can’t invent its own copyright law, judge says 6 months ago:
It’s a musktash.
- Comment on Using Ubuntu may give off a hipster vibes to the average PC user, but within the Linux community its has the opposite effect. 6 months ago:
Absolutely loving the replies to this.
This is how the extended Linux community wins for me.
Sure we talk shit for fun. The Arch BTW stuff, the Gentoo shade and Slackware side-eye. But its all in jest, ultimately.
Well done.
- Comment on Eagle-eyed viewers may have noticed this 6 months ago:
Just like Marvin, my mind is blown.
- Comment on Novel attack against virtually all VPN apps neuters their entire purpose 6 months ago:
“There are no ways to prevent such attacks except when the user’s VPN runs on Linux or Android.”
So there are ways.
- Comment on Phones have unique phone numbers, why dont computers have unique computer-numbers? 6 months ago:
I see you getting downvoted for a correct answer.
IP addresses are like street addresses. I can live at 10 High Street in London, you can live at 10 High Street in Ohio. Those are not the same address right? Folk confusing public and private ip addresses.
- Comment on Which RSS aggregator do you use? I cannot seem to find one that works for me. 6 months ago:
Seconded. I keep trying others. I tried feedly for a while. I also tried readyou (which I still keep on my phone)… But nothing comes as close to inoreader for doing what I want.
Also, I’ve learnt how to aggregate other feeds into a single feed to pass them into it to get around the 150 limit. Not ideal, but I’m cheap.
- Comment on Boris Johnson turned away from polling station after forgetting to bring photo ID 6 months ago:
Clown steps out of clown car, into the clown country he designed, gets back in clown car.
- Comment on Fact checked 6 months ago:
We will return the bicycle when you hand over the fekkin potatoes.
- Comment on Bark Air, a new luxury airline for dogs, launching flights in May 6 months ago:
Superb work.
- Comment on Bark Air, a new luxury airline for dogs, launching flights in May 6 months ago:
Just takes one owner with an aggressive dog and we have canine terror at 1000 feet.
Actually sounds like a fun ride.
