toynbee
@toynbee@lemmy.world
- Comment on Cutting sucks 10 hours ago:
Great! I look forward to our friendship.
- Comment on Cutting sucks 11 hours ago:
How much do you charge for just general friendship?
- Comment on Cutting sucks 11 hours ago:
Is this a general offer? Because that offer sounds kind of incredible.
- Comment on Day 380 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 20 hours ago:
I appreciate this sentiment and find your posts enhanced by the knowledge, but can’t think of anything to enhance it.
Thank you for following up!
- Comment on Day 380 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 1 day ago:
It’s always fun to see what games you post that I recognize and which you post that require reading your post to identify.
- Comment on I wonder how many people throughout history have confused Floaters with ghosts, UFOs, or other paranormal phenomena 2 days ago:
Wait, were the yeerks hats all along?
- Comment on I wonder how many people throughout history have confused Floaters with ghosts, UFOs, or other paranormal phenomena 2 days ago:
My optometrist said not to worry unless I see a “shower of them” suddenly.
- Comment on Mice 3 days ago:
TIL why Dean Winters says “brick” to a basketball player in a car insurance commercial.
- Comment on outbreak 3 days ago:
Hmm, perhaps. Thank you.
- Comment on Mice 3 days ago:
Interesting. I could extrapolate the meaning, but I’m a bit older than your description of “outdated” and have never heard it in that context before. Perhaps j was just too unpopular to hear it.
Thanks for the edification!
- Comment on Mice 3 days ago:
Today I watched a YouTube video in which two people played a game, one person jumped, and the other said “whoa, you’ve got hops!”
At the time I took it literally, but now I see you saying the she same thing and am forced to wonder: is that a thing? I ask sincerely, not with derision.
- Comment on outbreak 4 days ago:
I’m… Not sure I get it.
- Comment on Lemmy is a tech literate echo chamber 5 days ago:
Flattered to have earned the distinction! I’m not as prolific as some, but I’m always around and have talked about my username at least five times, so it’s not surprising that you would have made note of it.
- Comment on Lemmy is a tech literate echo chamber 5 days ago:
This is an unusual way to make a “your mom” joke.
- Comment on Lemmy is a tech literate echo chamber 5 days ago:
My kid is just getting into gaming and I made sure to encourage them to game on PC for just this reason. They still prefer the console but understand a mouse and keyboard.
They can’t really read yet, but once they can I plan to start including them in my non gaming PC activities to make sure they’re comfortable in that environment.
- Comment on Lemmy is a tech literate echo chamber 5 days ago:
I had a few - not a lot, but some - user notes, but recently switched phones (and to GrapheneOS) and lost them. I used and use Connect, which does have an export/import process, but when I start it I can’t find a way to actually begin the export, i.e. generate the file.
As such, I’m stuck recreating notes by hand. Still, I enjoy creating new ones, as I just did for you, and I love the aspect of Lemmy that you described.
- Comment on Fiber 6 days ago:
No need to be annoyed. It’s true that I didn’t select the username because of the tiles, but I am aware of them and likely would have chosen the username even if that had been the inspiration. I don’t mind the association at all - it’s started lots of conversations, some more fruitful than others.
The aforementioned friend is literally the first person in over two decades who has made the correct association. Please don’t be annoyed with yourself for making a much more logical connection.
Plus, if it helps I was once wandering through Philadelphia with my eyes down and was quite surprised to find my username embedded in the street, so that was fun!
Anyway, if you’re curious, I was looking for a new username right around when the first X-Men movie came out. I watched the movie, then read the novelization and found that The Toad has the secret identity of “Mortimer Toynbee” (except in one animated show). I liked and subsequently claimed the name and it’s taken almost nowhere.
- Comment on Fiber 6 days ago:
Funny enough, ten minutes ago I was telling a friend of mine how everyone always (understandably but incorrectly) assumes I got this username from the tiles. And calls me Tony.
I don’t disagree that the tiles are silly, though there is a documentary (on hulu when I watched it, not sure about now) about how the truth is closer to them being sad.
- Comment on Fiber 1 week ago:
It’s so cool the there are people new enough to Lemmy that they don’t know that lore, but active enough to ask the question. I mean that seriously, not disparaging anyone. It really is cool.
Now let’s see how long it is until they start asking about beans.
- Comment on Fiber 1 week ago:
You remind me of my kid. Every time I say something they recognize as untrue they call me “Silly Daddy.”
Today they went to an event where they assured me they’d be swimming (a claim their mother disputed). When they got back, I asked whether they had enjoyed swimming.
“We didn’t swim, we just put our feet in the river. There was no pool. Silly Daddy!”
- Comment on Don’t Turn That Old System On, First Take It Apart 1 week ago:
Can you repeat the question?
- Comment on Hot birds in your area ifykyk 1 week ago:
Poo-tee-weet.
- Comment on twitter 1 week ago:
That, I … Uh …
Thank you for explaining.
- Comment on Humans can be tracked with unique 'fingerprint' based on how their bodies block Wi-Fi signals 1 week ago:
I hate it when commercials say "up to 100%. It’s literally a pointless metric; that could mean anything from 0% to 100%, inclusive.
- Comment on My kid got heart shaped balloons 1 week ago:
That’s probably it.
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- Comment on Taking the time to put yourself in their time period rather than just looking back at them 1 week ago:
When I was a kid I read a story - possibly Encyclopedia Brown? - wherein a counterfeiter got caught trying to sell a counterfeit coin labeled “50 B.C.” or similar. They got caught because the coin manufacturer wouldn’t have known it was B.C.
Lemmy has unlocked a lot of childhood memories I didn’t know I had and this is one of them.
- Comment on HOOOOONNNNKK-snewewewewwew 1 week ago:
When my child was young enough that they couldn’t talk but could express themself, once I put them to bed and told them it was time to sleep. They squinted their eyes to pretend they were closed and said “honk shoo, honk shoo.”
I was flabbergasted. Turns out their mother had taught them that as a kind of meditation to progress towards sleep, but I didn’t know that and briefly thought they’d manifested it on their own.
- Comment on linus tech tip 1 week ago:
Ah, I never watched the video(s) so was just going off of what I’ve read elsewhere and previously. If my understanding was incorrect, I apologize; I certainly wouldn’t want to spread misinformation. I’ll add a note to my original comment.
- Comment on linus tech tip 1 week ago:
His crew has claimed many abuses (supposedly he has been absolved, I don’t have knowledge of or an opinion on whether that’s justified).
He stole a prototype of a product then sold it for profit (“What Happened Between Linus Tech Tips And Billet Labs?” on this page).
Also on that page are other allegations of which I was unaware, most of which (at a glance) seem to be about improperly testing and/or representing products. I particularly like the one about claiming a mouse was poor quality after he failed to remove a cover from the sensor.
