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- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Uh… 😶🌫️
- Comment on Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors 1 week ago:
What about non-human visitors?
- Comment on New AI System Uses Wi-Fi to See and Track People Through Walls - The Researchers 2 weeks ago:
TBF, that’s about as “new” as 5G, though. Even earlier, if radio waves count as “wifi” in this regard. Ever since in-home transmitters were widely adopted, this has been not only possible but quietly deployed by various intel ops. I mean, FFS, even some fire depts use similar for S&R as it bypasses obscuration by smoke, etc. 😅🤓
- Comment on Community to honor Lemmy users/Fedi users who have passed away 2 weeks ago:
Can we keep it respectful, though? 😅
- Comment on Are there any games you don't play as it was intended to be played? If so, what game and how? 2 weeks ago:
Back in the early Sim days (~97?), I lived with a bunch of friends in a duplex and shared one house computer (always on, seeding, etc.) that had a perpetual session running. Any housemate at any time could pop down to check on their Sims, some more than others. Me, though? Not at all.
It took them months to talk me into it, and even then I gave in, exasperated. So, I decided to be the weird house. Started with a second floor on stilts/pillars and made the first floor a hedge garden & statuary promenade with a pool out back. At first, it was funny to see the random burglars have no idea what to do with a front door that opened directly to stairs —and that’s only if they found the front door before wandering into the hedge maze. IIRC, they despawn eventually (environmental effect, not actual Sims), but I didn’t expect the neighbors to wander over and into that maze…
Quite a while went by before I logged in again to check on my crime family, and it was really only inspired by a few housemates complaining the game was losing their Sims or something. When I looked in on my house, I soon found their Sims… A couple of them had yet to succumb to their neglect, but most died of starvation and/or fire inside the unintentional maze under my house.
Oops 😅🥹
- Comment on New Clues Suggest San Andreas and Cascadia Faults May Produce Synchronized Earthquakes 2 weeks ago:
Buckle up! 🤘🏼🌈
- Comment on Psychedelic beer may have helped pre-Inca empire in Peru schmooze elite outsiders and consolidate power 3 weeks ago:
Perfect season for that ancient Monster Mash recipe. Hand it over.
- Comment on Psychedelic beer may have helped pre-Inca empire in Peru schmooze elite outsiders and consolidate power 3 weeks ago:
Perfect season for that ancient Monster Mash recipe. Hand it over.
- Comment on US | White House official inadvertently reveals plans to send elite army unit to Portland 3 weeks ago:
Then they’d be “cyclone rangers” 🤣🫡
- Comment on This mycelial network grew in a line 4 weeks ago:
TBF, all “rainbows” are circles the planet bisects, and this seems like a section of a much larger ring. Super cool. 🥰
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
Back in the day, when my school’s library switched from a physical card catalog to digital kiosks, a few of us geeks might’ve installed PoP1 & 2 on the server and obfuscated it so that we could, at any point in the schoolday, get a hall pass to the library and “research” whatever “homework” via hotkey at any terminal on the network. (originally intended to only work on said kiosks, but the “IT” dept was 100% abacus-trained, so why not?)
We learned so much that year. ✊🏻
- Comment on 'Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' Producers Promise Season 4 Will Be Better 1 month ago:
I, for one, loved Season 3, NGL. 🤷🏼♂️
- Comment on Evoland 2, a wonderful mix of games and homage to old games 1 month ago:
Except for the 2D run & jump section. Fuck that whole bit.
- Comment on User "threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works" is banning users for downvoting his posts. 1 month ago:
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- Comment on Murdoch family settles dispute on control of media assets 1 month ago:
Was it a suicide pact? Please, let it be a suicide pact. It’s what the world deserves, and you know it.
- Comment on Deportation? There's an app for that. 1 month ago:
I wonder how many burner phones one could automate to run down the last of Jan 6ers before the whole thing puckered to whence it came?
- Comment on ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Cast On Their Characters’ Fates, Nudity, And Not Getting A Musical Episode 1 month ago:
Some of them even ship without being as finished as originally advertised/implied, too… 🤔
- Comment on Finished Inscryption two days ago and I am absolutely amazed (minor spoilers) 1 month ago:
Shhhh 🤪
- Comment on Finished Inscryption two days ago and I am absolutely amazed (minor spoilers) 1 month ago:
Seconded!!🥰
- Comment on Brazil must urgently combat contemporary forms of slavery, UN expert says 1 month ago:
Contemporary? That implies it ended at any point. 🖕🏽
- Comment on First time seeing a tree mushroom grow upward 1 month ago:
It’s easier when the tree doesn’t.
- Comment on "Through the Lens of Time" was one of the silliest episodes yet [Spoilers] 1 month ago:
gets iced for no good reason like Yar
Hey, now. There was a reason, it was just off-cam. 😜
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 1 month ago:
This one has been a go-to for me since it came out. I keep coming back between other releases, and it’s pushing hours logged on par w/ Skyrim, at this point (excl. VR hrs, ofc)
- Comment on Bethesda planning a Starfield space gameplay revamp to make it more rewarding 2 months ago:
The simple fact that quality mods abound for exactly this is why I can’t GAF about Bethesda finally getting around to maybe beginning to “fix” this glaring issue. 🤷🏼♂️
- Comment on Research shows ‘compliment sandwich’ no longer effective 2 months ago:
Frankly, it’s always seemed to me like a polishing of the turd inherent to “Nothing matters before the ‘but’.” It’s exactly that old bullshit, plus another pandering half-thought at the end. The shit sandwich is the fastest way to lose my interest, much less respect. 🤌🏼
- Comment on Research shows ‘compliment sandwich’ no longer effective 2 months ago:
Plot twist: it never was 🖕🏽
- Comment on Attempted another Trek meal: Andorian cabbage soup and Norellian twist bread. 2 months ago:
Oh, c’mon. You know ol’ Cap’n likes a bit o’ au lait in his morning cuppa. 😉
- Comment on Jonathan Frakes Surprised ‘Strange New Worlds’ Star Trek Spoof Was Controversial; Talks Directing ‘Academy’ And More 2 months ago:
I’m not here to make friends
Oh, phew. This’ll be a short conversation then. Good.
- Comment on Attempted another Trek meal: Andorian cabbage soup and Norellian twist bread. 2 months ago:
Are the tablecloths in case Jean-Luc pops by? 🖖🏼
- Comment on Jonathan Frakes Surprised ‘Strange New Worlds’ Star Trek Spoof Was Controversial; Talks Directing ‘Academy’ And More 2 months ago:
You said “all of the live action shows” and then proceed to cite two that are a decade old, and one that’s complete shit anyhow. Followed by an admission that you “don’t follow live tv”.
How high are you, exactly? 🤦🏼♂️