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- Comment on Masculine urge to do this 7 hours ago:
I almost always want to scream in the mirror.
Exception: the other day I was in a plane bathroom where there were mirrors on either side of me and I was listening to Muse’s “Panic Station” and whenever the backup vocals repeated words, I would swing my face from mirror to mirror while lip syncing them. It was v fun
- Comment on GARBAGEOLOGY 2 days ago:
- Comment on what’s with some adult tv shows using tiktok speak/“brainrot” or acting like the example below, wouldn’t this approach work better with children’s shows? 6 days ago:
Brainrot is a very unique kind of joke. To old people, it’s funny because “haha kids are stupid.” To middle-aged people, it’s funny because it sounds like a meme and that on its own makes it funny. To young adults, it’s funny because it’s an ironic meta joke that’s funny just because it’s supposed to be funny even though it really isn’t funny. To teenagers, it’s funny because “haha old people are stupid because “haha kids are stupid” so let’s play a prank on old people to make them think we’re stupid.” To kids, it’s funny because it’s funny to teenagers.
So I dunno take your pick. Also marketing and sales people can be notoriously up their own ass and out of touch (see the Wendy’s “memer” commercial) so who knows why they do things
- Comment on Some examples of video games with an UI layout ripped off of another game? 1 week ago:
Design, ESPECIALLY user-centric design is so difficult to get right. Epic Systems, one of the largest medical software companies in the world, has an entire research department dedicated solely to finding the optimal way to present information and options to their users. Since their users are typically old doctors who hate needing to learn new ways of doing things, this is among their highest valued divisions.
When UI designers find something that works, people are going to copy it. That doesn’t mean it’s ripped-off, it means R&D paid off.
Case-in-point video game controllers have slowly but surely converged into the ABXY, D-pad, 2xbumper+trigger pair, 2 analogue stick design with a system button and two more meta control buttons. Any ventures beyond that (index finger paddles, track pads, etc) have all found a way to fit into that schema.
Additionally, that “click the stick to see important items” mechanic that was made famous as Arkham’s detective mode has made its way into basically any game that has any sort of secondary puzzle-solving mechanic (Batman Arkham, The Witcher, Spider-man, etc). It also shows up in tactical games to let you tag items or characters of interest (Splinter Cell, Crysis, Last of Us, etc)
Furthermore, entire genres are built out of good user experiences. FPS wouldn’t exist without the slick mechanic implementations of Wolfenstein 3D and DOOM. FPS on console wouldn’t exist without Halo’s intuitive control schema which Call of Duty 2 would later improve upon and ultimately become the default console FPS layout.
Good design is hard to come by, so yeah if it’s good it will be replicated.
- Comment on Some examples of video games with an UI layout ripped off of another game? 1 week ago:
*Nintendo has entered the chat *
- Comment on What keeps Americans from being mad about the state of their country? 2 weeks ago:
I’m mad. I’m very mad. I’m also very tired of watching political movements get shut down by the people who respond with “yes, we need to do better” followed by a handful of performative actions, and absolutely no substantive change.
I believe in a general strike. Wholeheartedly. I believe it would make real change. How the hell do I organize one safely? How do I trust any of the other people online who claim to be organizing them?
- Comment on How did people end-up agreeing on the name of rivers/mountains and seas ? 2 weeks ago:
Consider the Thames river. Which one? Depends on how you read it out loud.
The “Temz” runs through London while the “Thayms” runs through somewhere in Connecticut.
- Comment on If scientists could make you immortal but could only do it by transferring your consciousness into a single video game for ever, which game would you choose? 2 weeks ago:
Spider-man 2 mainly because who wouldn’t want to be Spider-man
- Comment on For No Reason in Particular Here's a Bunch of Games Where You Kill Nazis 3 weeks ago:
There’s a lot of things you can do with a hatchet… and a Nazi -BJ Blaskowitz
- Comment on What is a metaphor you like in your language? 3 weeks ago:
One is phrased with specificity, implying the action is extremely particular. The other one makes it sound like the horse is likely to bite you if you’re looking in its mouth too closely
- Comment on Could Trump Force X To Become The Everything App For Government Payments 3 weeks ago:
“Please insert envelopes of cash to our dowse-with-gasoline machine that only sometimes randomly sparks
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
A good place to start is investigating if someone else already is (like generalstrikeus.com already is) and try to join them. Strikes are all about strength in numbers, and joining an existing effort is way more effective than starting from zero
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
The subreddit has no stickied post nor does the sidebar describe the protest. I don’t see any description of what the objective is anywhere. I’d love to participate and try to accomplish something but what is it that we’re trying to accomplish other than making noise?
- Comment on What is a metaphor you like in your language? 3 weeks ago:
I like the horse one way more than the English saying “don’t look a gift horse in the mouth.” Yours makes way more sense
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
What is the objective here? Are we asking for something specific or just yelling in frustration into the void?
- Comment on What's the deal with male loneliness? 1 month ago:
I think therapy helps as a remediation, but it’s not preventive nor does it fully solve the problem because ultimately it’s transactional and paying someone to listen is fully different from finding someone who listens to you that you also want to listen to.
- Comment on What's the deal with male loneliness? 1 month ago:
Traditional masculinity dictates that men don’t share their feelings (with the exception of anger and aggression because that’s not a feeling that’s just being manly). Sadness, despair, loneliness, depression all will be commonly bottled up and left untreated which leads to deep-seated feelings of isolation. The cure has to be a change in social norms, including decoupling the ideas of being socially vulnerable with being feminine.
This is a gross generalization of the issue but it definitely describes my experience with it.
- Comment on your mom falls significantly faster than g 3 months ago:
“In our limited language that tries to describe reality and does so very poorly, how would you describe this situation that would literally never happen?”
- Comment on M4 Mac Mini Power Button Has New Bottom Location 3 months ago:
I do turn off my PC. But most of the time, I do it by pressing the software-based “restart” button in my OS, not by pressing the physical button on the case. Otherwise I normally use hibernate which is also software-bound and can be undone by pressing the space bar. I’m not saying I never press the physical power button or that I never turn off my computer. I’m just saying it’s in no way a big deal to have to lift up a small box sometimes to press a button like one a week
- Comment on M4 Mac Mini Power Button Has New Bottom Location 3 months ago:
I should have considered that I was posting this comment to Lemmy before posting it.
Maybe you push the dedicated power button on your computer’s case everyday but I’m very confident most users of any computer do not. And in that regard I’m including all computers - wearable, handheld, and laptops. We’re well past the age where most users feel the need to fully shutdown and boot their computers everyday, AND there are plenty of software buttons and even some physical keyboard buttons for shutting down a computer so I mean it when I say that I think most computer case’s power buttons go untouched for definitely days and possibly weeks at a time.
- Comment on M4 Mac Mini Power Button Has New Bottom Location 3 months ago:
I’m not really trying to come to Apple’s defense here as they don’t need it, but everyone reacting as though this is as bad as or worse than the mouse charging port seems to be ignoring the fact that most computers nowadays don’t need to be manually turned off or on with any level of frequency. People will push this button like once or twice a month I imagine. I don’t see why that’s the end of the world.
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- Comment on OpenAI is now valued at $157 billion 4 months ago:
When I copy and paste someone else’s work, I get called a plagiarist and get fired.
When OpenAI creates a robot that does it really really really fast, they make enough money to feed the planet hundreds of times over.
I don’t want to live on this planet any more.
- Comment on Do you still play couch coop nowadays? Which games do you recommend? 6 months ago:
A FANTASTIC underground couch co-op game is “Super Space _____” (read: Super Space Blank).
Imagine Asteroids, but everyone is controlling a cannon on the same ship, and the only means of propelling the ship is Newton’s third law. When your cannon hits an asteroid, it turns your color and when the asteroid leaves the game space the points for that asteroid go to the person whose color the asteroid is. If the ship leaves the game area, the game is over. It’s the best example of co-ompetitive I’ve ever seen.
It’s only available on Digipen’s website since it was a student project but it’s magnificent for up to 4 players
- Comment on Do you still play couch coop nowadays? Which games do you recommend? 6 months ago:
Fred & Bread looks amazing though I have not played it. Two penguins who are tied together with a rope have to climb a mountain together using nothing but each other and momentum
- Comment on Some subreddits could be paywalled, hints Reddit CEO 6 months ago:
Businesses really are just artificial mines, aren’t they?
- Comment on Perfection 8 months ago:
“How’s work’n the Ordovician era, Frankiiieee?” “‘sarright” “Poor Frankie…”
- Comment on Found a good book 8 months ago:
“Yesterday, I Asked You how do you prepare jewish-japanese meals and sex, and how do you raise wolves? Here are your best answers.”
- Comment on Tea Time 8 months ago:
This and the cube rule are the best way to make an argument for categorizing edible items
- Comment on Lords of the Fallen reboot Lords of the Fallen is getting a sequel in 2026, probably called Lords of the Fallen 8 months ago:
What I don’t get is why Deck13 kicked ass with The Surge 2, showing they really know how to iterate and improve on a core concept really well, but now this IP was taken from them to be given to a completely different team?
TBH I didn’t play LOTF but I really just want to see Deck13 make another game like LOTF or The Surge