thedirtyknapkin

@thedirtyknapkin@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Definitions⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  yeah that’s about it, but they call it as i spelled it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Common British L⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  redux is a synonym of remake and remaster.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Missed WIP Wed: welcome back to jellies!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨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.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  yeah, this is one of those games where there’s like 5 ways to do everything.

  i got so frustrated watching a friend play and seeing him load all of his packages into the back of a truck by hand. he didn’t want to be told how to do things so i just left him to it after trying to tell him he can do it through the menu once. then he showed me that you can use the container repair spray on your own back without unloading the boxes first… i never realized…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  you can use your binoculars or whatever they are to mark waypoints very precisely that will measure distance on the map. just stand at the zip line tower you’re building from and check with that first.

  you need line of sight anyway so it usually works pretty well for me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I’m much more excited for Avowed after hearing the team say that what makes RPGs special is “missable content”⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  yeah, different games for different folk. i find this headline promising. it makes me more interested in the game.

  for some small context my favorite games include baldur’s gate and other games like it, red dead redemption, path of exile, and civilization. games with either infinite variety in playstyle, or incredibly rich worlds to explore. ideally both.

  what are some of yours?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I’m much more excited for Avowed after hearing the team say that what makes RPGs special is “missable content”⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  damn, i just have a totally different midset about games. i don’t give a shit about achievements, i want to take time to explore and be rewarded for doing so with interesting extra content that you have to look for.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘What many of us feel’: why ‘enshittification’ is Macquarie Dictionary’s word of the year⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  i mean it was coined less than 2 years ago. you can’t expect a word like that to take off immediately. it took about a year to circulate into common use.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LOL⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  cp2077, officially.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨From moms pov⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  yeah this is a mfw format. mfw my mom is watching something Lowkey interesting and i have to pretend I’m not watching.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Time to go to the Soup Store⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I interpreted this as implying that the bits of food hiding in the water are small or pulverized.

  I understand stew to just be less watery. barely enough liquid to cover the chunks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jewel Beetles⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  it would be more like if someone intentionally painted that bottle to attract them then irritated that design using an the money in the world to perfect it. it’s almost electric horror shit if it wasn’t just another person trying to make money.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Potoo Potions!⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  always more complicated than the headlines would have you believe.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Potoo Potions!⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  because that’s actually not in the books lol.

  i honestly hate the show because it’s not at all accurate to the books either in spite of that being the bulk of their marketing. that said, the two swords things comes entirely from the games. in the books he makes comments a few times about the fancy metals in his swords helping kill monsters, but he only has one at a time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Monkey business⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  oh, that was a very different thing. in fact, i think it’s a shame that public reaction to that situation killed dolphin research.

  there’s a really really good episode of radiolab on this. the experiment was actually extremely promising and groundbreaking. they had a dolphin spending its own free time practicing making human words with his blowhole, using the water to try and make a sort of lip. rotating the blowhole in and out of the water to shape the sounds. this dolphin was able to understand spoken language and was observably getting frustrated at his inability to say what he clearly wanted to.

  the dolphin jerking thing happened because this was a dolphin actively in the throws of puberty. dolphins are intelligent, willful, occasionally evil animals. in nature they will masturbate themselves on shellfish and so other heinous sexually deviant things by human standards. the dolphin in the study was showing tremendous progress, but started showing string sexual urges. it got to the point that he was completely uncooperative. they jerked him off because he was cooperative after. there is no reason to believe the dolphin was explicitly attracted to the researcher and the researcher was said that she wasn’t attracted to the dolphin.

  this story was highly sensationalized. so much so that it completely overshadowed the fact that THE DOLPHIN COULD TALK. he wasn’t very good at it, but that’s only because he lacked the hardware. to this day no one can get funding for dolphin research because of this. it left that much of a stink on the entire field. we have made almost no meaningful progress in this field since. THE DOLPHIN COULD FUCKING TALK AND ALL WE CARE ABOUT IS HOW GROSS IT IS THAT THEY JERKED IT OFF.