thedirtyknapkin
@thedirtyknapkin@lemmy.world
- Comment on Everyone should have a home server (or a friend that has one) 2 days ago:
ok, did you read the body of the post?
- Comment on Everyone should have a home server (or a friend that has one) 2 days ago:
did you try clicking the link?
- Comment on Is it? 5 weeks ago:
show a map of the land area it takes up and you might actuality convince some people it’s not lol.
it could be like milk lovers trying to call almond milk bad for the environment due to water usage. despite cow milk being infinitely worse. the propaganda machine did its job well. if you bring up non dairy milks to an American conservative in 2025, nine times out of ten they’ll feel the need to smugly tell you how terrible almond milk is and how we shouldn’t be allowed to waste all that water on it. if you try to tell them that cow milk is worse they’ll just tell you you’re wrong and that the data is lying.
i straight to showed one of them the hard numbers on how much cows are putting out greenhouse gasses and she just said “that can’t be right”. it didn’t FEEL right to her so she just didn’t believe it…
- Comment on Intel CPU Temperature Monitoring Driver For Linux Now Unmaintained After Layoffs 1 month ago:
sure, but if the us doesn’t china will.
- Comment on poaceae 2 months ago:
sure, but they also don’t call eating an apple “eating trees”. it would still be fair to call applewood based products “beaver food” or “cardboard” if someone told you to eat it.
- Comment on I love cosplayers :D, they usually have a sense of humor 2 months ago:
yeah, they are the lower level atronach. you basically blew past them.
if you go to the atronach forge at frostcrag spire you can still spawn one with some fire salts.
- Comment on Facebook is asking to use Meta AI on photos in your camera roll you haven’t yet shared 3 months ago:
some additional relevant statistics
united states barely saw 1% growth year over year in the United States and are projecting that growth to continue to slow.
India has nearly 3x the users of the United States. the u.s. is still second because it’s the country it started in, but it’s not far ahead of the 3rd and 4th place countries. India is an extreme outlier.
unfortunately they don’t break down the age demographic by region, but I’d bet that if we specifically look at daily active users in the United States the age demo would skew much older.
so, it seems like it’s similar to what many fast food restaurants have been experiencing lately. the growth opportunities in the United States dried up so the decided to push like hell everywhere else. i bet the growth they saw in India over the last decade was explosive. probably bigger than anything they had ever seen before. bigger than when it was still growing in the u.s… meanwhile they protect that over the next decade in the u.s. they’ll see maybe 8% user growth and that’s pretty optimistic.
so we probably won’t actually see much Facebook marketing in the u.s… the only way they can capture more u.s users is by buying more apps, like when they bought Instagram.
- Comment on RuneScape player pulls off a personal Shawshank Redemption: Grinds his way out of one-zone house arrest by grinding a raid 2,000 times over 10,000 hours: 'It was all worth it' 3 months ago:
it’s it’s gotta be something very difficult that no one has ever fund before.
- Comment on AI boomer trait 3 months ago:
the only reason to write that book would be for when i would inevitably get to post the “don’t create the torment nexus” meme for tons of social media impressions.
though knowing what impressions are pegs me as a creative who won’t get to post on social media from the mines.
- Comment on AI boomer trait 3 months ago:
the robots won’t be equipped to fix it. there will be no one left to tell they got it wrong.
- Comment on AI boomer trait 3 months ago:
same reason harlan ellison wrote i have no mouth and i must scream i suppose…
- Comment on AI boomer trait 3 months ago:
nah, it’s going to be the opposite.
if other computer technology has been anything to go off of then only those who lived through is adaption and watched it progress will know how to spot it. those who grow up with hard to spot ai will just accept that they can’t see it and think we’re weird for trying so hard to prove things are ai. they’ll also think we’re weird for caring.
our boomer trait will be doing art instead of asking ai to generate images and video.
- Comment on Definitions 4 months ago:
ah yes, ignoring that is actuality a polygon, implying a closed shape with straight sides much like this ignores the “weapon” and “used for thrusting or striking” parts of the definition.
not hard to make things fit a definition when you just ignore parts of it.
- Comment on Touch grass. 4 months ago:
yeah, quick psa for passing readers.
never plant bamboo unless you either want to live in a full on bamboo first and drown out every native plant around you or are ok With spending the rest of eternity fighting for you life to stop it from spreading.
- Comment on Toilet Time 4 months ago:
they seem more common in places that are conserned about water usage. they’re basically the norm now in Colorado.
- Comment on they come 4 months ago:
from Wikipedia: “The name “cockchafer”[22] derives from the late-17th-century usage of “cock”[23] (in the sense of expressing size or vigour) + “chafer”[24] which simply means an insect of this type, referring to its propensity for gnawing and damaging plants. The term “chafer” has its root in Old English ceafor or cefer, of Germanic origin and is related to the Dutch kever, all of which mean “gnawer” as it relates to the jaw. As such, the name “cockchafer” can be understood to mean “large plant-gnawing beetle” and is applicable to its history as a pest animal”
- Comment on Common British L 4 months ago:
yeah that’s about it, but they call it as i spelled it.
- Comment on Common British L 4 months ago:
i grew up near a place that had something they called a ponza rotta.
it was the pizza equivalent of a chimichanga. it was a deep fried calzone. my high school had a tradition of trying to run a ponza mile instead of a beer mile. last one to puke after eating a whole ponza and running a mile won. only ever knew one person to actually finish the mile.
- Comment on "You can't just have Geralt for every single game" says his voice actor, and if you think The Witcher 4 making Ciri the protagonist is "woke," then "read the damn books" 4 months ago:
no, but she kind of wanted to… but it’s also way more fucked than that.
- Comment on "You can't just have Geralt for every single game" says his voice actor, and if you think The Witcher 4 making Ciri the protagonist is "woke," then "read the damn books" 4 months ago:
oh yeah, it’s been a while. details at foggy.
- Comment on "You can't just have Geralt for every single game" says his voice actor, and if you think The Witcher 4 making Ciri the protagonist is "woke," then "read the damn books" 4 months ago:
anyone who has read the books was likely surprised that ciri was the math character of any of the games when they first started coming out ::: ending of the books especially since geralt dies at the end of the books :::
ciri was more the main character than geralt for most of the book. she’s the child of destiny. she’s the young character that grows up as we follow their journey. she’s the one that finds herself and shows major character development throughout the books. the only character development geralt goes through is accepting his bond with ciri. the first two games never mentioning ciri was outright bizarre tbh. only even remotely possibly because geralt lost his memory. like, with where geralt as at by the end of the books the only thing you could possibly expect him to do on regaining his memory is frantically search for signs of his adopted daughter
to a longtime book reader my reaction to ciri being the protag of the next game was “FINALLY”
my only curiosity at this point is how much she’ll be like book ciri. does she know magic? in the books ciri goes to sorceress school and then gets trained in primal magic by unicorns and immortal space elves. can you fuck a horse? that was one of the more… questionable scenes in the book.
tangent: sapkowski’s politics occasionally bleed through in weird ways in the books. like three’s a scene where a woman finds out she’s pregnant mid way through a literal war that our band wades through on their journey to save the world. the party basically needs the woman to proceed. she does not want the child. i believe it was the product of rape. yet for some reason geralt and a literal fucking vampire convince her that abortion is wrong and she should keep it instead of drinking a potion about it. it was so randomly out of character for everyone involved. but hey, that’s catholics for you i guess… /tangent
i think they generally said that ciri lost her elder blood powers after the king of the hunt was killed right? otherwise I’m gonna be really curious how handle that as well. she should be sort of the world’s greatest sorceress otherwise. ooh, i wonder if she’ll make quips about cyberpunk and/or other worlds she’s traveled to. like, she spent Decent bit of time in Arthurian legend. she shows up briefly in Victorian London.
- Comment on And sir cumference, the sphere 4 months ago:
hell, the entire anti-fap movement like 5 years ago basically seemed to believe that virginity and never cumming would give guys super powers.
- Comment on Metro 2033 Redux is free to claim on GOG for the next two days 5 months ago:
redux is a synonym of remake and remaster.
- Comment on Missed WIP Wed: welcome back to jellies! 5 months ago:
could you perhaps be a little more descriptive? what is a jelly? I tried looking at your profile to see where people had asked for these in the past but this is your only post?
what exactly am i looking at here?
- Comment on Hotel prices 5 months ago:
maybe in urban areas, but rural hotels cab easily will be $90 for a cheap one.
source: i drive cross country a lot.
- Comment on One Piece will survive next generation too. 7 months ago:
it’s like a mid budget average production quality anime for a manga famed for its action sequences.
a bit like one punch man season 2. not necessarily bad, but certainly disappointing compared to the source.
- Comment on One Piece will survive next generation too. 7 months ago:
it’s still going, but the anime largely isn’t living up to the manga and the hype has already mostly died.
it’s not bad, i enjoy it. it’s just not incredible either.
- Comment on place yer bets 7 months ago:
haha, that’s why I’ve put almost 10 hours into it.
i suspect most mini games start to show their problems and biases when you spend 10 hours playing then lol. like, gwent was sick, but it really was just about stacking the most strong cards intoa single deck as you could.
caravan though… that was a great damn mini game. the interactive and believable element of needing to go around and collect old world playing cards to build out your deck did a lot to extend the game into the broader world. more than that though, it’s a genuinely playable and relatively balanced game. i happened to have a lot of incomplete card decks lying around when i grew up. eventually i repurposed those into one big deck that would get split in half to play with people irl and a randomized deck. only fantasy card game I’ve ever been able to recreate and play at home without buying anything. and it even played pretty well.
- Comment on place yer bets 7 months ago:
it’s definitely balanced towards giving you better hands.
I’ve pulled like 8 royal flushes out of it with less than 10 hours spent playing poker in there. I’ve never even seen a royal flush in other contexts.
- Comment on Reddit will lock some content behind a paywall this year, CEO says 7 months ago:
sure, but like 90% of the porn on there is just to funnel people into the creators only fans these days. this could be good for those users. if they offer better terms with a lower cut than only fans i could see it taking off. there’s no discoverablility on only fans. they basically have to advertise elsewhere. and no one wants to go to a whole different website to make a whole different account when they’re already mid jerk. conversely, not many people will go to a porn site to make an account if they aren’t already looking to get off. removing that barrier for people that already have payment info on Reddit could turn it into a 1 click transaction. if this takes off well enough they could take a lot of only fans’ customer base.
i didn’t really like it, but it makes some amount of sense. personally, i think the quality of the porn on Reddit has done down almost perfectly in line with the rise of only fans. Internet porn was at its best when it wasn’t monetized and the people making it were doing it because they felt like it and it probably got them off. now it’s just a job for most of them. a job that they often get real sick of real quick when they realize the amount of work, organization, and maintenance it requires to actually be successful on the platform. people that just did it for the love of strangers seeing them have sex didn’t have that burdens and could just upload what they wanted when they wanted. i guess it’s just like any art. it’s better when it’s not commercialized.
on the other other hand, i do think only fans and the democratization of the porn industry has been good for creators. the porn industry was exploitative and very unhealthy for the actors. they often did meth and downed copious amounts of boner pills to make it through long shoot days with numerous angles and shots. but idk… i never liked that kind of studio porn anyway. it’s just annoying that the replacement for it, which i also don’t typically like has taken over so much of the amateur space.
shit sorry… this became about the porn industry as a whole… i have many opinions on it because I used to work in the paid porn industry on the broadcast maintenance side. but yeah, this Reddit things could work out if they don’t completely fuck it up.