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@Sludgeyy@lemmy.world
- Comment on Human experimentation, one way or the other. 2 days ago:
- Comment on In Pokemon Red and Blue, you're storing your pokemon in Bill's PC, not Bill's highly available georedundant cloud. One brown out and all your critters are gone. 4 days ago:
They get turned into red light when going into pokeball. They get stored as red light. No need for tubes to store ball.
Since the masterball exists that must mean you keep the masterball on you always and just pull the pokemon out with any connected PC.
- Comment on Makes you think 🤔 🦵☕️ 1 week ago:
Same for me!
- Comment on Breaking: BAD 1 week ago:
That’s some sound logic right there
You convinced me Breaking Bad is perfect
- Comment on Breaking: BAD 1 week ago:
Of course the story didn’t have to happen in any specific way. It’s a fictional story. It can be written in anyway. Doesn’t even have to be realistic
Walt could have had to make a rocket so he could transport meth to the moon because Tuco is on a moon base and really wants some.
From my 2.5ish season watching experience, Pinkmen was the only character I enjoyed from the show. I’m not saying that I hated his character or acting. But the premise that Walt was with Pinkman to begin with. The whole show hinges on that idea and Pinkman becomes more and more important to the show.
Breaking Bad doesn’t have many “likable” characters but it is a basic story about the characters.
A story with an amazing plot would still be good with subpar actors. Breaking Bad with worse actors would be totally insufferable.
- Comment on Breaking: BAD 1 week ago:
You want a more plausible storyline than anything else? You like Breaking Bad because the storyline is realistic?
A smart guy infiltrating the DEA and using their information in a cat and mouse game sounds interesting to me
It’s a fictional story
- Comment on Breaking: BAD 1 week ago:
“The story happened that way so that’s the only way it could have happened”
Walter was a high school science teacher with no friends, how would he have gone about looking for someone to sell meth for him?
Once again everything is stacked against Walt. Always another road block. Episode after episode.
They had to give him a complete dipshit to work with because a semi-competent person he knew would have been a “boring” story.
Maybe show interest in the DEA and ride around with his brother-in-law to secretly collect intel. Ends up getting a job for the DEA but basically an inside guy.
Let me go find the drop out high school student I knew and cook meth in an RV. Is definitely not a thing an intelligent person would choose to do. Sure if they are forced to like in the story, but that doesn’t make it right or enjoyable.
- Comment on Breaking: BAD 1 week ago:
You’re telling me that it is a requirement to be a Complete Dipshit to have underground connections?
I get that is how the show sold it and I guess you believed it
There’s just no way for Walt to become Heizenberg without Complete Dipshit
Let’s just ignore the fact that the writer planned the Complete Dipshit to die a handful of episodes into the series
Again, EVERYTHING in the show is designed to make cooking/distributing meth challenging. They had to make Complete Dipshit useful because he “had” to be in the story.
- Comment on Online age-verification tools spread across U.S. for child safety, but adults are being surveilled 1 week ago:
I feel like you’d have to be a serious “hacker” kind of person to be anonymous on the internet.
Majority of people use their phone. I’m sure the government right now could tell who I actually am if they wanted to know. I wouldn’t be surprised if someone on Lemmy could even figure it out.
Home WiFi?
Let me go sign up for a VPN with all my info…
I mean is it all really worth it?
I could be in the minority but I would rather watch tailored ads than hear another medication commercial.
Do I care that “they” know what kind of YouTube videos I watch? Do I even care what kind of porn I watch?
I am all for privacy and freedom don’t get me wrong. I think we should fight.
But it does feel like we have lost the fight. What’s wrong is we have to worry about what the government will do with that information.
We make a big deal about giving Pornhub our information but gladly hand it over to Amazon. Hell people would probably send in blood to get free 2-day shipping.
- Comment on Breaking: BAD 1 week ago:
That was my problem with the show too.
Smart person decides to cook meth…
Step 1: Partner with complete dipshit
Step 2:
Step 3: Profit
It’s not hard to cook meth especially if you have a science background.
EVERYTHING in the show is there to make cooking meth harder because if it wasn’t hard it would be a completely boring story.
- Comment on DVDs are the new vinyl records: Why Gen Z is embracing physical media 3 weeks ago:
Distance and size makes the most difference.
If you’re sitting ~7’ back from a 50" TV it really doesn’t matter if it’s 720, 1080, 4k, or 8k.
You have to be right up on it to tell or have a huge screen.
Nicer TVs do have better color and contrast that you can tell from any distance. But generally you have to have something to compare it to for it to really matter. Dark scenes on a poor quality TV can look awful.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
My favorite thing is “We wouldn’t have had the technology to go to the moon in 1969”
So Apollo 12 (1969) 14 (1971) 15 (1971) 16 (1972) 17 (1972)
Were all fake too?
So we faked the first moon landing and then proceeded to fake 5 more moon landings in 3 years?
That sounds real smart
- Comment on Get on my level 4 weeks ago:
Do you know what relativity means? You keep saying it
A 6 or 7 year old child is ~120cm
Average person 160cm to 170cm
Relatively, a 3:4 ratio
For a tall person at 200cm (6’6") that would be the same as 150cm
Average woman is 160cm
Yes a 200cm person standing next to a 150cm person looks like an adult standing next to a child height wise. Yet to them a 150cm person is much taller than 120cm. 1 foot difference.
Why does your mind jump to “they look like they are with a child?”
- Comment on 2 North American 4 you has been created 4 weeks ago:
Grits
- Comment on Tune a fish 4 weeks ago:
I’ll take just that cookie (You want the whole cookie)
And
I’ll take just a bit of that cookie (You want a piece of the cookie)
I made it just barely to the concert (Implies you were almost late)
And
I made it just to the concert (Implies you had something else to go to but you just went to the concert)
- Comment on Man posts his incorrect opinion online 1 month ago:
Perfection is the enemy of progress
- Comment on Man posts his incorrect opinion online 1 month ago:
You remember that one time you walked your dog into that real nice gas station bathroom?
It’s not just about dirt
- Comment on Soda pop 1 month ago:
It’s the whole “Is Pepsi fine?” Thing.
You ask if they have coke and they will say “is Pepsi fine?” Then you can say “Yes I’ll take a Sprite” and get Starry.
Like you can’t order a sprite without saying sprite. You cannot be like “I’ll take a soda” and expect sprite. Same with saying coke. You have to elaborate.
You could ask for a “coke” and accept any soda. But you’re not really calling what they are giving you coke. You just wanted any soda.
- Comment on How far do you wear your daily shoes out before bothering to replace them? 1 month ago:
These are the EVA birkenstock sandals
They ended up ripping through and not really usable anymore because the whole front flops.
- Comment on Being Trans Isn't Normal or Part of Nature...or is it...? 2 months ago:
Saying nature intended anything is naive
Chimpanzees have gang wars and eat each other. Doesn’t make it right.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Torso and appendages
Head/neck being an appendage is arguable. But basically because there are better words to describe it, not because it isn’t one.
Axial and appendicular
- Comment on Someone has a LOT of dusty computers 2 months ago:
I’d recommend one of [these](fanttik.com/…/fanttik-b10-pro-electric-air-duster…
A cheap no name brand works too but I enjoy this one. Definitely overpriced at full price but it’s on sale.
You can also pay a little more and get a duo tool that’s a tire inflator or a vacuum as well as a blower. Great for the car
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Money or currency is a way to represent value
It is a medium of exchange
Could your boss pay you in cows? Could you take those cows and trade them for a car? Yes but this would be difficult.
So if your boss gave you a cow voucher “money” and you could trade that for a car, then you wouldn’t have to lug the cows around.
It facilitates trade
Why a US dollar, or another currency, has value is a whole other question
- Comment on If Valve creates an "entry point" for living room PCs, the console-beating Steam Machines will follow, argues Baldur's Gate 3's publishing director 3 months ago:
But what you’re saying is that it is to provide people with an alternative path from windows.
Even if the steam machine had windows on it, the majority of the same people would buy it.
My point is very few people are going to buy the steam machine to get away from windows
“Steam says this works for everything I own” Purchased no matter what.
Not “I want a new PC without windows, let me try out the new steam machine”
- Comment on If Valve creates an "entry point" for living room PCs, the console-beating Steam Machines will follow, argues Baldur's Gate 3's publishing director 3 months ago:
I agree with you.
But my point is someone that bought a W10 pre-built computer is not the person looking at the steam machine saying “Maybe a different operating system would improve my experience”
- Comment on If Valve creates an "entry point" for living room PCs, the console-beating Steam Machines will follow, argues Baldur's Gate 3's publishing director 3 months ago:
Yes it does but you only get put in a crossplay lobby if your party is mixed.
On top of going against m/kb players, aim assist for controller is turned off.
It’s really not that enjoyable and highlights why controllers and m/kb shouldn’t be mixed.
It’s like talking a snowboard to a ski jump contest. Snowboards are fun and can do a lot of different things than skis. And in a contest where everyone is snowboarding it’s great. But you’ll never win a jumping contest.
- Comment on If Valve creates an "entry point" for living room PCs, the console-beating Steam Machines will follow, argues Baldur's Gate 3's publishing director 3 months ago:
Ehh
I feel like most people that really care about their operating system are more than likely going to build a PC
Most people buying a pre-built device are like Apple users “It just works”
I have an expensive PC I built but I’m a console gamer
I enjoy a comfy couch, big TV, and controller.
It’s the ease of just hitting a couple buttons and getting to play a game.
Could I hook my PC to my TV? Yes, but that would require me to move my PC from my desk.
Also things like controllers. If I hooked my PC to my TV to play something like Overwatch I’d have to play with m/kb people which I would be at a severe disadvantage if I played with a controller.
Like if Xbox overwatch allowed m/kb (yeah I know people cheat) I’d probably stop playing it.
It’s the PC gamers that always want consoles to support m/kb. Console gamers do not want to play on m/kb.
In my mind lack of m/kb is why consoles exist
People aren’t buying PS/Xbox for a living room PC. They want a console gaming experience
- Comment on Does Porn Logic sometimes happen in real life we just don't notice it? 3 months ago:
Where’s the lemon party?
- Comment on Goodnight sweet prince 4 months ago:
You’ve never seen Maximum Overdrive
- Comment on She strongly disagrees 4 months ago:
Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.
Matthew 5:17
