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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are you all looking forward to at Summer Games Fest?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Same here, either Half-Life 3 or Portal 3 would be the dream (why not both in a fancy new Orange Box?)

  Hell, a non-VR version of Alyx would make me happy! I do have access to a headset, but I get very sick very fast when I use it. Pounding headaches, nausea, it’s really bad 😒

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"And my dick fucks your wife more than you do. What's your point?"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Good for you man, that’s a really great watch 😊

  Sad little men like that are most hurt by you not being offended by them. It’s like with internet trolls; non-engagement is the best weapon. It also happens to require the least amount of energy or time. So easy, but so devastating to their ego.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered - Update 1.1 (Beta)⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Why are they so excruciatingly slow to release patches? This patch doesn’t even cover game-breaking issues, such as the bow’s paralysis perk crashing the game if you trigger the perk twice in a row. There’s a workaround where you edit .ini files to set the chance of paralysis to 0%, but most people aren’t gonna do that.

  I got 100% of the cheevos and logged 110 hours in doing so. The game crashed for me literally hundreds of times (maybe close to 1,000), and I submitted the bug reports for every one of them. I had to quicksave every minute, to avoid losing too much progress. It’s the most unstable piece of software I’ve ever used, game or otherwise.

  The game itself is great, but fuck me… almost 2 months later and they patched maybe 0.2% of the crashes and bugs every player is encountering 😒

• Why is having a lawyer present during police interviews "opt in" rather than "opt out"?
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• Consider this barrel thoroughly scrapedlemmy.world ↗
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• Why is it ok to replace -ed at the end of a word with -t in some cases? For example, why are "vexed" and "vext" both acceptable, but "thrilled" and "thrilt" aren't?
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord unveils Discord Orbs, a new in-app currency that users can earn by completing Quests, which reward participants who interact with ads⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  RIP Discord.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I hope i don't get downvoted for this⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Kids. Thank god I’m not attracted to kids. Or animals. Anything else is fair game. Feet attached to a consenting adult are fine. Don’t see the big deal. I like to spit-shine the rusty sheriff’s badge, so why the fuck would I care if someone likes a boring regular appendage like a foot? 🤷‍

  Unless there’s some angle to this non-foot people don’t understand? Like, maybe being turned on by feet is comorbid with an uncontrollable need to blast rope over any uncovered foot you see? Now that would suck.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The New York Times Just Published Some Bizarre Race Science About Asian Women⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree with the outrage, but I don’t know that using race science to combat race science is the way to attack this horseshit. Futurism essentially says “the NYT says Asians have small hands, but what the race science actually says is that hand size is yada yada etc. etc.”

  Like, is race science silly or is it not? 🤷‍ If science said that, yes, Asian women have unusually small and “nimble” fingers, it wouldn’t make a bit of difference; the entire concept is stupid and racist, not just the inaccuracy of the hand measurements. Needling over the microdifferences in index finger girth between Asians and Americans (who may well be of Asian descent themselves) is missing the whole-ass point.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Betrothal" (getting engaged) is an anagram for "at brothel".⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Bel Throat, a condition of the larynx where the sufferer is unable to speak because of nervousness/anxiety. Often suffered by brides and grooms at the altar.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I was on a leash as a kid in the early '80s 😂 I forgot all about it until I saw this post. It was just when we were out shopping or something, it wasn’t like I was tethered to a post in the back garden. But honestly, a leash on young toddlers just seems like a good idea to me, especially if you have 2 or more kids and you’re all out together. Lots of tragedies could have been avoided if little Willy and his new superpower of self-determined locomotion wasn’t able to suddenly take a sharp 45° turn and sprint headlong into oncoming traffic. Abductions would be a lot harder to pull off, too. Thinking of James Bulger, specifically 😔

  I also think it’s way nicer/less “abusive” than placing the kid in a buggy/stroller and wheeling their grumpy asses around like yer bell-ringing fella from Breaking Bad. They have zero freedom in that case, whereas on a leash they can at least walk around a bit and expend some of that crazy fizzy energy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A real American⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

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  There’s a reboot in the works, with [almost] all of the OG cast. Can’t wait.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can you scare a flamingo?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As a kid, I thought he was singing “Beelzebub has a devil for a sideboard” and I have never been able to correct it in my brain. I know what he’s actually singing, but the misapprehension is indelible. I don’t even know what I thought it meant, like he’s a demonic sideboard? A sentient set of shelves that Beelzebub stores his malevolent vases on? 🤷‍

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube viewers will start seeing ads after ‘peak’ moments in videos⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No we fucking won’t 😂

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When you count, your lips don't touch until 1 million.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  they do if u kiss me

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lab-grown teeth might become an alternative to fillings following research breakthrough⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Most of my teeth are destroyed, decades of neglect due to mental illness. I’ve been hearing about lab-grown teeth for the last 25 years and always hope it happens soon, but the progress sees to be genuine this time. I just hope it doesn’t cost insane amounts of money to get teefs grown.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does the pharmacist add these little ticks/checkmarks with a pen on my medication box?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Dr. Reddy’s hard, bulbous, throbbing capsule will take away your anxiety.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does the pharmacist add these little ticks/checkmarks with a pen on my medication box?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Ahh, so it’s like they’re reading from the order/prescription, and say “ok he needs pregabalin - tick - and it’s 300mgs - tick - and it’s hard capsules - tick”, or something to that effect?

• Why does the pharmacist add these little ticks/checkmarks with a pen on my medication box?lemmy.world ↗
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An Alarming Number of Gen Z Ai Users Think It's Conscious⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This is an angle I’ve never considered before, with regards to a future dystopia with a corrupt AI running the show. AI might never advance beyond what it is in 2025, but because people believe it’s a supergodbrain, we start putting way too much faith in its flawed output, and it’s our own credulity that dismantles civilisation rather than a runaway LLM with designs of its own. Misinformation unwittingly codified and sanctified by ourselves via ChatGeppetto.

  The call is coming from inside the house mechanical Turk!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨4chan Is Dead. Its Toxic Legacy Is Everywhere⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Quite proud to say that I’ve never ventured into any of the #chans. They frighten the fuck outta me, frankly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Liz Truss to launch her own ‘uncensorable’ social media platform⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Is it so she can say repugnant things about minorities and spread conspiracy theories about matters of public health, or is she actually concerned about Turkey’s ability to influence bsky into denying access to individuals for political reasons?

  I’m going to go out on a limb and assume she didn’t even mention Turkey in her ‘talk’.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mozilla is working on new Thunderbird "Pro" email offerings and Thundermail⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I support the general idea, but I hope they don’t go the MuseScore route and start adding popup ads in the free program for pro/paid elements. MuseScore literally has popup ads now. Insanity.

• Why did/do sites such as the pyramids in Egypt or the Roman colosseum end up in an abandoned state, only to be "rediscovered" later?
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• Pets hate the vet clinic and groomer because they smell the combined terror/anger of a thousand other animals who've been poked and prodded in that room
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• Is there some special process by which musicians/producers arrive at an agreed-upon tempo for a song recording?
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• YSK that if you hover your mouse over each segment of Wikipedia's IPA pronunciation key (typically found at the beginning of an article), it will let you know how it sounds in the tooltiplemmy.world ↗
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We're remaking Morrowind as a Skyrim mod. Here's a charity livestream we held on the weekend.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This will be my first experience of Morrowind, the original is just way too old for me to try getting into now. I’m a Philistine, I know, but I need a modern UI and interface and UX and all that jazz. Skyrim is pretty old at this point too, but it still holds up in all the important ways. So, I shall wait for the release of Skywind! (Could probably have phrased that in a slightly less flatulent way…)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Three years later, the Steam Deck has dominated handheld PC gaming⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  pls to meke stem controller 2 🥲 😻

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just another person I let down in life⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I got caught in a scam last year, but luckily I realised what was happening before any damage could be done. But during the scam, the guy (who was pretending to be my bank) heard me tell him how much was in my account. It was like £100, give or take. No savings, no other accounts. He knew I was on disability benefits. He had this info at the beginning of the conversation, and he was talking to me for 45 minutes before he gave up. For £100. I wanted so badly to say to him “you saw that I had 100 quid to my name, and you still tried to steal it from me?” 😆 These people have gotta be sociopaths.