captain_aggravated

@captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cat Calibration⁩ ⁨⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  My favorite bug in catOS is when an interrupt is thrown during the groom routine more than half the time the tongue doesn’t get retracted. All cats do that, I’ve seen lions do it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it possible to install my own OS on a "smart" TV? Is that a thing?⁩ ⁨⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  What I did was bought a “commercial” television that’s intended to either be put in a waiting room and tuned to Fox News all day, OR used as digital signage. It’s not quite an Arby’s menu board because it’s still obviously a television, has a tuner and such, but it has no “smart” TV in it and the backlight isn’t as “won’t survive a run of Breath of the Wild” like the TCL televisions my parents own. Then I slapped a Raspberry Pi 4 on the back with OSMC on it. Meanwhile I did replace my small form factor desktop gaming rig, so I have a Ryzen 3600/GTX1080 rig sitting unplugged under that television waiting for me to build up the gumption to switch over to it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm honestly curious what the Spiderman Elsa youtube reboots will be like when Hollywood starts selling gen alpha their childhood.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  H’okay, so. Several years ago, some weird shit happened on Youtube.

  Youtube is not designed for children under 13, nevertheless it became pretty popular for parents to just hand their children an iPad. There were creators that made a genuine effort to make healthy and wholesome children’s programming, but they were quickly outpaced by lazy jackasses who were just trying to make a buck.

  The Youtube algorithm is designed to push content to achieve maximum engagement. It’s designed with adults in mind. The viewers are toddlers, who cannot read and who respond strongly to repetitive sounds and motions, faces and bright colors. So these lazy jackasses started churning out videos with as many popular keywords in the titles as possible, so you’d get “finger family pregnant frozen elsa kills hitler spiderman” Finger family being the name of a severely ear wormy nursery rhyme thing. The videos were designed to be baby crack, there were stories of kids screaming when their iPads were taken away.

  This happened before the AI boom, but they’ve got a similar broken surreal uncanny idea cancer feel to them despite all of the videos being intentionally made by people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Guerrilla Women⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Or tricycle gear women.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Has Fast Food Gotten Worse, or Am I Just Getting Old?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Long shelf life and/or physical durability. Alton Brown made this point in an episode of Good Eats by clamping a supermarket tomato in a bench vise.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People born after 2000 have never seen the cosmic microwave background on their TV set.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Amateur radio operators are indeed allowed to transmit analog NTSC television in the UHF band. It’s most commonly done on the 70cm (440MHz) band, and a normal everyday 90’s television is all you need to receive the signals. You’d tune to what would have been cable channels 57 through 61. The use cases for this have decreased in recent years; for example you used to see hams using amateur television to send video signals from RC aircraft or model rockets, now that’s done with compressed digital video over something like Wi-Fi and doesn’t require a license. But, it’s still legal for hams to do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨fuckery⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  There are absolutely imaginary fucks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Caption this.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Please do not the CAT scan.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Potoo Potions!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Especially for emotional acting scenes. Sure use contacts for fight choreography so you don’t have to retouch every frame where he’s facing the camera but for the close ups?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Potoo Potions!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  OMG there’s an actual bird that looks that derpy? Holy shit. It looks like someone tried to bake an owl and it didn’t rise.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In the context of the leaked Warcraft II remake, do you still trust Blizzard to produce good games?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  of course not.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I got tired of killing my cactus so now I plant mint⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Even if you do manage to kill Mint, it’s probably not gone. Both my mint plants sprung back up this spring after being dead all winter.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Never mind, the solution is to close my father’s Amazon account.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Capsaicin⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Cuz there ain’t no party like a nudibranch party

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Feedback about our name: someone's concerns on sharing⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  need an instance named titfuck.gore. no one wants to cite that as a source.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam games will now need to fully disclose kernel-level anti-cheat on store pages⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Anyone who says that while wearing pants is a filthy liar.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam games will now need to fully disclose kernel-level anti-cheat on store pages⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I suppose they do suffer from the “Known in the state of Cancer to cause California” problem. A bubble level app wants in-app purchases and GPS access.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨oahsa rocks guys⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I was wearing three different kinds of PPE earlier today. Shop safety is hella rad.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam games will now need to fully disclose kernel-level anti-cheat on store pages⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I wonder if you phrased it the way the Play store does: This game wants permission to:

  • send SMS messages
  • make calls
  • know your location
  • stalk your family
  • raid your fridge
  • access, read and upload files
  • manage and add contacts
  • cup your balls
  • go through your trash
  • irritate your boss

  etc.

  Think anyone would install them?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How true is it?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t take pictures in the bathroom. 's creepy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In the era of remakes and remasters, what niche game would you like to see receive the treatment?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I would enjoy a copy of Mechwarrior 4: Vengeance with some spiffed up lighting effects, maybe the mech pack mechs included in the base game, and higher resolution copies of the FMV segments. I have my original copy but I can’t get it to run on Linux. Wonder if there’s a way to wash a CD game through Steam Play. Lutris…doesn’t function as software? It’s one of those magnetic “performance enhancing” bracelets, it doesn’t do anything but it has convinced a LOT of people it does.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In the era of remakes and remasters, what niche game would you like to see receive the treatment?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think Nintendo is capable of doing anything to Link to the Past other than ruin it.

  A lot of the Zelda games that got “remasters” mostly had their resolutions and brightnesses increased, to the point that the Wind Waker remake has problematic amounts of bloom. Makes me think someone important at Nintendo has cataracts. So if you want to “remaster” A Link to the Past, run it through an AI upscaler and turn a desk lamp on your screen.

  The few that have gotten ground-up “remakes” like Link’s Awakening…I kind of liked the art style they chose, it fit the tone of the game pretty well, going with quartets for the music is a stroke of genius, WHY DOESN’T THE FUCKING D-PAD WORK? The original game was designed for use with a D-Pad and either 4- or 8- way motion. I get that modern gamers might instinctively reach for the analog stick, but bind movement controls to the D-pad too, especially if you’re not going to bind anything else to those controls. Nintendo never doesn’t fuck this up. They made an entire console based on a revolutionary new way to fuck up the controls.

  So what you’d get out of a first-party re-release of aLttP is a blank white screen you control entirely with the gyros.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Feedback about our name: someone's concerns on sharing⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Harumph of agreement!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Feedback about our name: someone's concerns on sharing⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the same thing is why lemmy.world is as big as it is. “Well that must be the default one, it says lemmy and it’s for the whole world.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fired Employee Allegedly Hacked Disney World's Menu System to Alter Peanut Allergy Information.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Two of those are wacky japes, one of them is attempted something in the somethingth degree. Wasn’t long ago someone did actually die in a Disney park due to nut allergies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube tests removing viewer counts — here’s what we know⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t avoid low view count videos because…say I get a notification that RedLetterMedia has just published a new Best of the Worst. It’s been live for 4 minutes. Of course it’s going to have a low view count.

  I’m looking for a repair video on the specific make and model of Dell laptop I have. I’ve seen exactly two of them in existence, not a popular model. It’s going to have a low view count.

  I think it is useful information to have, it shouldn’t be entirely hidden like the downvotes are, but I don’t think it’s necessary on the home page.

  Date uploaded though…that needs to be there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The grand prize⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think I’m going to pitch it to the History channel. Maybe see if I can get Jason Murphy on board.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The grand prize⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If I understand it right, you’d get mostly cobalt that way. Carbide tooling isn’t solid tungsten or silicon carbide but carbide powder embedded in cobalt.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The grand prize⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I wonder if there’s a foundry in the world with a crucible that can hold, melt, and pour that much tungsten? To make a 5 foot solid cube.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The grand prize⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Nobody doesn’t like molten tungsten!