chiliedogg
@chiliedogg@lemmy.world
- Comment on YSK: if you dont have Kagi, the next best thing is to search DDG with date range set before 2012 (ish) 5 hours ago:
It’s really frustrating that everyone is shitty.
- Comment on Is there an endgame to Trump he is trying to obtain? Or is he making it up along the way at the cost of Americans? 17 hours ago:
I want that too, but I’ll gladly accept a toilet aneurysm today.
- Comment on Is there an endgame to Trump he is trying to obtain? Or is he making it up along the way at the cost of Americans? 22 hours ago:
I might be very okay with that last part, conditional on timing.
- Comment on Trumpers are *still* scheming to overturn the 2020 election 22 hours ago:
I’m all for it. Trump won in 2020 and was POTUS the whole time.
Which mean he wasn’t eligible to run in 2024, meaning the eligible ticket with the most votes win, and Kamala Harris is now President.
- Comment on Some people prefer corn for some ungodly reason 4 days ago:
I brought God into an argument. Your rational questions have no power here!
- Comment on Some people prefer corn for some ungodly reason 5 days ago:
42 years old, and I still thank onions should be left in the dirt. God buried them for a reason.
- Comment on Devastated PC builder orders DDR5 RAM from Amazon, receives DDR2 and some weights — counterfeit 32GB kit a worrying sign of rising return and sales fraud 5 days ago:
I stopped ordering tech on Amazon when I got a fraud twice in a month on back-to-back orders a few years back.
First was a laptop that wouldn’t start. I looked at the bottom and the scewes were mostly stripped, and once I got them out most of the components had been removed from the boards.
Second was a Spyder color calibrator. What I got instead was a iPhone 4 screen protector with a sticker slapped on with the UPC for what I’d ordered. When I tried returning it, they gave me flack for slap-tagging a return, but I was able to escalate in that case.
- Comment on Someone has a LOT of dusty computers 6 days ago:
I am indeed a very boring person.
- Comment on Someone has a LOT of dusty computers 6 days ago:
There’s also electric air blowers now that are prett6 great. My wolfbox blower is shockingly powerful.
- Comment on Word. 1 week ago:
The way it should be handled is to just let me rotate a single fucking page. It’s 2025 and there is zero excuse for that bullshit.
- Comment on Word. 1 week ago:
Want to edit the header just on page 6? Or feel like being sexy and having a single page in landscape or a different size?
Easy! Just make a bunch of separate documents, export them as PDFs, and merge them in Adobe Acrobat.
- Comment on Construction magic 1 week ago:
You could definitely kill others.
- Comment on It's quite impressive that most English speakers across the world understand each other, despite variations in accents/dialects 1 week ago:
- Comment on It will trickle down any second now 2 weeks ago:
He also has a financial interest in other rich assholes being afraid.
He started a high-dollar personal security company for right-wing billionaires called Foundation Security.
- Comment on It will trickle down any second now 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, but to them it’s super cheap to buy and arm enough of us for their protection.
- Comment on It's nothing 3 weeks ago:
Yeah - I just knew I was gonna die a few months back, and it was a panic attack. Which is weird because I’ve historically been low-stress. But between work being crazy and the world being what it is right now, things apparently got to me subconsciously.
My chest got tight, my breathing was labored, my arm went numb. It was terrifying.
And thinking you’re having a heart attack doesn’t help with the panic attack. But it was amazing how as soon as the EKG showed normal, everything started feeling better quickly. Just the knowledge that it was panic helped so much.
But you should still go to the ER in those cases, because if you assume it’s a panic attack and dont go, but turn out to be wrong…
- Comment on Shut up science!! 3 weeks ago:
Small rant, but people saying they believe in science is a pet peeve of mine. Belief has no place olin science.
You can’t “believe” in science any more than you can “know” in your religion.
Belief and faith are the realm of the unknowable. Knowledge and fact are the realm of science.
- Comment on Crucial is shutting down — because Micron wants to sell its RAM and SSDs to AI companies instead 3 weeks ago:
Yeah. They solved protien folding with ML a few years back. And I like using it for things like noise removal in Lightroom.
But so much of it has been focused on useless (at best) bullshit that I just want the bubble to burst already.
- Comment on Absolutely nothing 3 weeks ago:
I was fully prepared to hate the remake.
I played all the FF games I could growing up. I played the original when it came out, and I played IV and VI (as II and III in the US) on my SNES.
I got a PS1 instead of an N64 because I knew FFIV (didn’t know it was gonna be called VII yet) was gonna be on Playstation. I saved up my money for months to buy the PS1, and a few months later my mom (angel of a woman) went to Sears on the release day for FFVII while I was in 8th grade football practice and picked it up for me with my remaining savings.
I devoured the game. It was truly special. When a certain character left the party at the end of disc 1, I was devastated. I was and still am an unapologetic die-hard superfan of FFVII.
When I heard about the remake I was skeptical. When I found out they were taking away the ATB system and making it an action-RPG and bloating the opening chapter of Midgar into the entirety of the game I wrote it off.
But I still bought it, of course, and I have never been happier to eat crow.
The remake is fantastic. It’s an entry point to the story for newcomers that’s somehow both a retelling and a sequel that will keep old fans interested. The expanded Midgar section makes the events of the early game much more impactful as you really get to know the Avalanche crew, and everything about the production design is top-tier. The gameplay is a great balance between action and strategy that does its own thing instead of just copying what had already been done with the first game. It’s a love letter to the original while being an amazing game in its own right.
I still haven’t played the sequel, as I don’t have a PS5, but I understand it’s also excellent.
- Comment on xkcd #3174: Bridge Clearance 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, but the earth is also rotating and orbiting the sun, which is rotating around the galaxy, which is itself moving.
Top of that lorry is gonna be traveling light-years at relativistic speeds.
- Comment on Dead mosquito proboscis used for high-resolution 3D printing nozzle 4 weeks ago:
Scaling goes in both directions.
- Comment on eat the rich and go to libraries 4 weeks ago:
Yeah. I think most of them have a lifespan of like 20-30 uses per license.
- Comment on It's the only logical future, captain. 4 weeks ago:
But also Ferengi and lots of other mercantile civilizations, and we also see the individual crew members taking part in the trade/monetary economy. It’s kinda the Federation, and more specifically its government, that doesn’t deal use money.
And that’s because it projects influence through military might and soft power. It doesn’t need money.
- Comment on Scientific Exposure 4 weeks ago:
I got lucky in that my publication was through a journal that doesn’t charge money for access or submissions. It’s part of our professional organization and our annual membership fees cover the journal’s expenses.
- Comment on Forever young 4 weeks ago:
Last time I was really good at competitive shooters was in my 20s playing MW2, Left 4 Dead, and Battlefield 3. Battlefield 4 and Black Ops 1 were when I felt it shifting, and now I just don’t play online shooters anymore.
I feel like multiplayer games need a special chill lobby for verified players over 30. One where you can step aside and deal with the kids without causing issues. A space where you can call it a night without spoiling the fun because it’s 8:15 and you really need to get ready for bed.
- Comment on This comic is missing a chunk of asbestos. 5 weeks ago:
Reminds me of this:
- Comment on Hi, Jeffrey! 5 weeks ago:
Saudi Crown Prince. Trump defended his murder and dismemberment of a Washington Post journalist at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul.
- Comment on True romance, despite everything. 5 weeks ago:
It’s not about homosexuality being wrong. It’s about the hypocrisy of the Trump’s treatment of sexual minorities.
And let’s not forget that it was Clinton who signed an order to eject non-closeted homosexuals from the military.
- Comment on What is your favorite Metroidvania? 5 weeks ago:
if you haven’t played Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night you really, really should. It’s made by the creators behind the Castevania games and is REALLY good.
- Comment on What is your favorite Metroidvania? 5 weeks ago:
The Tomb Raider survivor trilogy comes pretty close.
