Milk_Sheikh

@Milk_Sheikh@lemm.ee

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta profits as ads promote illegal Israeli settlements in West Bank.⁩ ⁨⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Reading the ad’s comments gave me immeasurable hope for the future tho - ain’t nobody except the most lost in the sauce reactionaries/zionists are buying the Likud/Khanist narratives being pushed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ghibli posting⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Is it ableist to not define AI art as art, when handicapped people can’t perform the same actions?

  Please reconsider this like of argument in the future, it just comes across as cynical using the disabled for arguments sake. There are plenty of blind/deaf/handicapped/motor impaired/etc people making art of various forms. Deaf musicians. Blind painters. Non-verbal writers.

  What makes art, “art” is the human creativity of original thought and intrinsic meaning, even if it is derivative. A jazz beat sampled on a rap track is art because it has social/familial meaning - beat makers often unwittingly share their childhood memories listening to their parent’s music at home. A painter may be influenced by their surreal visions, or the war and horrors they witnessed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Current 50% sale on Valheim on Steam⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Weight based encumbrance with slots, but you’ll generally cap out weight before slots. Depending on your wold seed and/or base building tolerance level, it’s either a contestant struggle or not bad to deal with - juggling stamina and food is the bigger grind imo.

  Tbh as a busy adult, there’s a select few quality of life mods that make it less tedious but still keeps the reward:challenge payoff. Some of the much more useful items can’t be taken through portals, and I’d highly recommend modding that OUT for sanity/time sink reasons.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Always guard against overrating your "talent"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you dare to unpack “the situation” you might understand more of why women ‘give it up’ or just lay there under societal/individual pressure to be sexually available. And yes, that’s an uncomfortable conversation but likely not in the way you’re imagining

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Always guard against overrating your "talent"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I can’t handle the fact that sex is complex and it’s ok to need to work on it and figure out what works for both partners

  There’s working on it, and trying to flex on Twitter. After-care is working on it. Discussing go/no-gos or dominance roles is working on it. Asking why she’s not invested is working on it.

  “You can’t handle me” is a dismissal I have seen used on the ’alphas’ who won’t take a hint that she’s not interested

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Always guard against overrating your "talent"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Imagine telling on yourself like this lmao

  I am so bad at pleasuring my partner that I have only experienced women tolerating me via starfishing

  I see no reason to question why these women aren’t more invested in sex with me; clearly she is a lazy pillow princess and not me who is the problem

  Also super gross how we’ve normalized/coerced women into “lying back and taking it” instead of asking why shes not active and engaged

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Video Game Workers Launch Industry-Wide Union with Communications Workers of America⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Same. Because if the unions can kill poisonous work demands like ‘crunch time’ and thus cause delays for polish and bug fixes by devs who aren’t sleeping at their desk from exhaustion, we all win

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you can find the oil filter, I'll give you a quarter. If you can get it out after the lube tech tightened it to 325 lbft, I'll give you sixty bucks.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The screwdriver trick is mid imo - you run a major risk of just shearing the filter body wall and now your problem is a leaky oil filter that’s much harder to grasp with other hand tools. Go buy a strap wrench that you can use to install and remove.

  Or for the very stubborn filters, these kind of tools are very much a one trick pony that only takes the filter off, but it’s a good trick - it has worked every single time for me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There’s No Dancing Around It: Apple’s Vision Pro Was An Ugly Dud⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
  6. Patent pool

  The AR market is not just entertainment, Microsoft has been failing to build a viable AR helmet for soldiers for years now, after the latest-and-greatest fight jets got them.

  Professional use too - think of how much simpler and safer ‘realistic’ training could be for deep sea commercial divers or oil rig workers. Live schematic overlays for aircraft technicians at work/in training.

  Those are a few of the applications where an absurdly high unit cost/license fee would be gladly swallowed instead by governments or business.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's next after Half-Life?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe I was a little jilted coming into Kotor 2 directly after Kotor 1 - I really enjoyed the sequel, but you can feel the cut content in some areas, whereas the first game feels ‘complete’.

  I might owe it another play through, it has been a while

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's next after Half-Life?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And they abandoned the IP to focus on Saints Row 😥

  FS2 was the first game that really ‘caught’ my attention. Other game were fun sure and had bigger budgets or larger market appeal, but FS maintained that narrative tone of a existential struggle to survive in a cold and uncaring universe, humanity ignorantly plodding the galaxy and awakening xenophobic forces beyond our comprehension.

  FS1 is also excellent, but it’s a rare event when the sequel is hands down the better game in almost all aspects, while respecting the source material and keeping the story moving while being faithful to that original tone

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's next after Half-Life?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
  • Mirror’s Edge: wholly unique, meh story but fun gameplay. More accessible than Kreedzmod but similar vibe of first person platforming and emphasis on ‘flow’ like you’d perform irl in parkour. Get it on sale, under $10/€10 it’s worth it
  • Knights of the Old Republic: D20 based RPG set in pre-BBY Star Wars universe. Excellent story and characterization, great gameplay and progression - I’ve replayed it at least six times. If you like Mass Effect at all you should enjoy this. The sequel is worthy but not the same gem that moved the genre, but a worthy title
  • Deus Ex 1: Unmissable. Accept the inventory management jank, it’s a product of its time. Absolutely worth buying
  • Fallout 1 (and 2): Revolutionized the top down RPGs of the time, but will feel dated in retrospect. Make sure you save manually and make choices carefully, you can dead-end your play through or loose hours of progress because there’s no auto save
  • STALKER Shadow of Chernobyl: Diceroll on this title, you’ll either hate it or love it if you enjoyed Fallout 3, 4, NV, etc. Great mood and atmosphere, solid progression once you get out of the starter areas, and understand the monster’s behavior. Dont you dare join Duty tho
  • Freespace 2: Personal recommendation but nieche. “Flight sim space combat” is too simplistic yet accurate, but has excellent gameplay and story tone. Technically Descent 1 & 2 were the revolutionary games, but those have zero plot beyond arcade shooter ‘kill aliens for highscore’. Went open source years ago, and has a dedicated mod team keeping it alive and adding features.
  • Command and Conquer Red Alert: The daddy of almost all RTS games, but you’ll have more fun with Red Alert 2 imo. Story is meh, but if you go online be ready to get smudged hard by veterans.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's next after Half-Life?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  100% yes on Talos principle, and I will openly simp for Antichamber. I have never had my brain so full of fuck as that game, simply sublime progression and variety of puzzles👌

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI tool that sounds like elderly grandmother created to waste scammers' time⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  We’ve finally found it - an ethical application for deepfake AI

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI-powered weapons scanners used in NYC subway found zero guns in one month test⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Earlier this year, investors filed a class-action lawsuit, accusing company executives of overstating the devices’ capabilities and claiming that “Evolv does not reliably detect knives or guns.”

  It’s fraud. The company knows it’s unreliable and the investors know it’s unreliable, I wonder why NYC is still going to expand the trial run? 🤔

  [Mayor] Adams has touted the Massachusetts-based company since taking office in 2022.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PCB etched with toner transfer method⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m assuming you’re not super familiar with PCB fabrication? The toner transfer is a way to get small, repeatable, and precise definition of the component pads and traces - at home - without needing the expensive industrial machinery that fab houses have.

  The toner ’print’ is a negative image, placed on a sheet of copper mounted to (usually) fiberglass. Much like masking off areas when painting, the ‘print’ protects the copper surface in select areas you want to keep safe when the whole board goes into the acid bath to dissolve the unprotected copper - leaving copper only where your ‘print’ was, and hopefully no shorts/grounds.

  Definitely cool to have the ability to DIY fine pitch if you’re manually mounting SMT components or want higher board density, beats out the hand drawn permanent marker lines I’ve done in the past 😅