MonkeMischief

@MonkeMischief@lemmy.today

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LPT: Go get a shot, now.⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  The worm is calling the shots here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Evolution: 🖕⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh goodness, it’s mounted to his HIP. At first glance I thought this was a whole other level of parody product lmao.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨when ur higher than sagan⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  “But this supplement was just researched and developed by an exceptionally clever homeschooling mom who wanted to take on big pharma!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨do what you love⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s something I hope to bring to the table as a digital artist someday.

  I already know there’s plenty of hyper-introverted socially awkward artists who could absolutely flatten what I can do, but I feel very comfortable empathizing, working in teams, and figuring people out. I hope that’s seen as an asset some time.

  But for now, I aim to just do it for myself, and talk too much. :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨do what you love⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  “Rhinos Colleges don’t play, they freaking charge your ass.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shit like this is why we need open source printers!⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Looking at OpenWRT, good Lord I still want this for routers.

  For printers would be nice too though. I’m honestly surprised we can’t just build kit printers the same way we can build 3D printers, I mean, could we?

  Using something like Klipper but more kinda like CUPS?

  Get toner or ink in generic containers that attach to print heads? I dunno it doesn’t seem far fetched.

  I’m honestly done caring that “the normies won’t want it because everything that isn’t a smartphone with a one-button app scares them.”

  What will start as “enthusiast printer kits” should force openness on the printer industry at large.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Go on, keep them.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨🚨 PLATYPUS PSA 🚨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  On the pain scale.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨On Black Holes...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I had a few in highschool that scared me big time!

  But I had to give them back at the end of the year.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨On Black Holes...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Wish I had answers, but converse to your handle, people expressing this kind of vulnerable, raw curiosity so that we all might learn something, is exactly why I love the Internet. :D

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's a simple thing, but one good way to make games memorable is for the developers to leave you words of encouragement in the pack-in material.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I remember Star Siege and MechWarrior 3 coming with a big novella book of some sort, accompanying the manual, and Sim City 3000 came with a wire bound TOME of a book lol. RTS games would often come with big foldout tech trees and stuff too.

  The original manual for The Sims was really fun to read too because it was full of humorous witticisms at every turn.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Help.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  As a Christian Anarchist, I often find myself lonely and without a third place as well, because of what churches have become.

  Yeah, I still haven’t found a church that I felt I belonged in. I got close once, but they couldn’t pay skyrocketing rent hikes and got taken over by a larger, faker, church. One that was more about feel-good seminars and recruiting free labor volunteers than anything Jesus actually had to say.

  Churches of old in the US used to be based. People of today wouldn’t recognize them. They helped the poor and were a third place and looked out for each other, they were also pro-union, and this became a huge “Problem” for capitalists, who saw Christians as annoying leftists who didn’t share their pathological obsession with money.

  There was a VERY concerted and well documented conspiracy by the moneyed class to infiltrate and rot American Christianity into the often capitalist, Republican-talking-point drooling zombie it is today.

  Highly recommend Behind the Bastards: How the Rich ate Christianity to see just how deep this goes.

  The Church used to be a threat to these barons and tyrants and bigots, rather than their lapdogs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Help.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This reminds me of the people who genuinely fall for “romance scams”, and the scammer has all the personality and vocabulary of a wet paper bag.

  And yet somehow someone will believe they’re some hot (barely literate) U.S soldier stuck in Kuwait until they can get a flight home to meet the victim for only $2000… Wait, $1000 more… But then there’s a $500 fee… And then…

  Blows my mind…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some games with absolutely fantastic soundtracks?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I got one I’m betting we won’t find on here yet…

  Alone in the Dark 5, an incredibly ambitious game that fell short, but had some great ideas.

  One of which was how that incredible soundtrack by Oliver Deriviere drove this particular playable sequence, 59th Street .

  The whole soundtrack done in conjunction with “The Mystery of Bulgarian Voices” is absolutely stunning for an action-horror title.

  It was the best part of the game and an incredible example of meshing soundtrack with cinematic gameplay.

  . . . actually? All the stuff he does is freaking awesome, so see/listen to his other titles like:

  • Remember Me (Awesomely underrated!)
  • Obscure

  Other lesser known ones off the top of my head:

  • There Came an Echo (by Big Giant Circles. So good they used the theme in Stranger Things Season…2?)
  • Anything by Supergiant lol.
  • Oni (bungie / rockstar)

  I’ll probably add to this if I think of any more. :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨well?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Those are all really interesting factors to consider and I appreciate the response!

  I’ll come clean, when I wrote it, I was just making a funny, like… A “decaying vacuum” would suck less over time. . .than a black hole. Lol XD

  To your point though, less likelihood of finding other life is such a wildcard, for sure. (Less likelihood of meeting cool benevolent spacefarers…but also less likely to be spotted by something like Mass Effect’s Reapers, or accidentally bring home Xenomorphs or extragalactic pathogens lol)

  And…not being able to ever see the beginning of everything…my curious mind says that’d be such a bummer but also…oddly beautiful? I’ll have to ponder that…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨well?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, that might suck slightly less in the long run?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I LIKE CORN!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  “Hwat in cornnashun!?”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Our dancers have infinite curves⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Believe it or not, mathematics majors who didn’t put “engineer” on their resume. :(

  (This is not meant to insult anybody, aside from whomever is responsible for this “degree market value” idea.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Iconic Nvidia GeForce 7800 GTX hits 20 years old today — PS3 GPU forbearer was 'graphics champion' of performance and efficiency in its day⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Hehe me sitting here with my 9800 GTX++ wondering what the heck to do with it. 😂

  Kinda wanted to make a retro gaming machine but, sheesh I bet it’s such a power hog these days!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dead OS Walking: 30 Days on Windows XP in 2025 — fireborn⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Stability aside, I loved ME’s personalization stuff, all the themes and sounds and icons and everything they included out of the box to encourage you to make it feel like “yours.”

  I wish they had kept with that into later versions.

  Thankfully KDE fills that void for me now. :D

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Elder God⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “Everybody’s going to the party, have a real good time… … Dancin’ in the desert, blowin’ up the sun-shine…”

  –System of a Down, “B.Y.O.B”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you can't make it yourself, store bought is fine⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This made me laugh way more than it should have rofl

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Radio transmissions⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Meanwhile, the dolphins decided to sneak out the back.

  … At least they thanked us for the fish.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PLASTICMAXXING⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This sounds like a way to die in one of the Space Quest games lol.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨they come⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s more kinda pitiful. They’re just really bumbling and clumsy so you’ll occasionally just hear a little thunk against a window like a lightly thrown acorn or something hahaha.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Black Mirror AI⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I kinda feel like we’re 75% of the way there already, and we gotta be hitting with everything we’ve got if we’re to stand a chance against it…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Black Mirror AI⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think they meant that. Probably more like

  “Don’t upload all your precious data carelessly thinking it’s un-stealable just because of this one countermeasure.”

  Which of course, really sucks for artists.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Black Mirror AI⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I wonder, can I serve it ads and get paid?

  …and it’s just bouncing around and around and around in circles before its handler figures out what’s up…

  Heehee I like where your head’s at!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Black Mirror AI⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel like the down-vote squad misunderstood you here.

  I think I agree: If people made software they actually wanted , for human people , and less for the incentive of “easiest way to automate generation of dollarinos.” I think we’d see a lot less sophistication and effort being put into such stupid things.

  These things are made by the greedy, or by employees of the greedy.

  Ever since the Internet put on a suit and tie and everything became abou real-life money-sploitz, even malware is boring anymore.

  New dangerous exploit? 99% chance it’s just another twist on a crypto-miner or ransomware.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨End of 10 - Windows ten is ending. Microsoft wants you to buy a new computer. But what if you could make your current one fast and secure again?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure thing! So glad I could be helpful! :D

  I don’t blame you. It’s the only thing I’m keeping a Win10 dual-boot for right now, and to their credit, it does work quite well in Windows. We’ve had a ton of fun with our set.

  In the meantime, I’m keeping up with the project but not actively tinkering with it myself, because it’s exciting but also not quite there yet. It’s at least given me hope that it can be done though! I’m confident we’ll see significant gains sooner rather than later. Hats off to them. (Once my income stabilizes I’ll gotta pitch them some funds…)

  Envision has made it VERY convenient to get set up, but the whole process still saps more time than “Fire it up and play.” So maybe play with it at some point, but either way definitely keep your ear to the ground. :)

  I’m hoping in the future we’ll get to use it for things like Godot XR or Blender integration. :D