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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can a reasonable person genuinely believe in ghosts?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I haven’t seen compelling enough evidence to believe in the supernatural.

  That said, we do seem to be well on our way to engineering ghost-like phenomenon. People will set up LLMs and generative AI systems that imitate dead people, if they haven’t already…

  No ghosts IRL? No problem! We’ll make ghosts!

  Thanks Humanity. 🙄️

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which game have you been most patient for?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I just played it recently for the first time. Took me about 50 hours from start to rocket launch (the win condition) in the default, recommended free-play campaign + a few more hours before that to go through the tutorial stages.

  Haven’t tried the Space Age expansion yet, so not sure what to expect there on time commitment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Say no to BAYES⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Is this a Bayeskisser meme? 😛️

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What was your social media path?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  IM-based: AIM+MSN+etc… -> IRC -> Google Talk -> SMS -> (nothing for many years) -> Slack (for work)

  Web-Based: forums (esp. GMC) -> Digg -> reddit (mainly) + HN (sometimes) -> kbin -> lemmy

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨she also happens to be best girl⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Haven’t played it personally, but discussions on VNDB suggest it’s an average to good nukige.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does google decide to log people out of all their google accounts all at once with no warning?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I use container tabs for that. Makes it easy to keep two logged in accounts side-by-side.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Our memes⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ghost of Lemm.ee?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Looking back through your history, that’s a post by a user local to your instance. You can see it because you’re on the same instance.

  If I understand how federation works correctly, posts don’t go directly to the instance a community is on when they are made. They are created locally on your own instance, and then federate out if/when they can. Since you’re both on the same instance, you can see the post and interact with it, but the post and your comments are (presumably) stuck in a queue trying to federate to the now defunct instance. Since lemm.ee is gone, it can’t federate out, so other people don’t see the post/comment on their instance.

  I think that’s what’s going on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You put works like Mushoku Tensei, Steins;Gate 0, 5cm Per Second, Re:Zero in your Good to Great tiers. Frieren has some similar aspects and might land in a similar range for you. Seems a bit odd to reject it without even trying it just because it’s popular.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How on earth do I fix my trackpad?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  if anyone knows a better solution to sharing videos that doesn’t involve making accounts, please let me know!

  You can upload small files (under 200MB) to catbox.moe

  I don’t know how to fix your trackpad issue though. Sorry.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨theoretical considerations on identity management⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  BlueSky uses AT Protocol which is similar to how you break things down: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AT_Protocol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2026, Week 06]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I recently managed to get a physical copy of Evangelion. Most of the discs work, so I’m watching through the series now for the first time. The only disc that didn’t work when I tested them is the one that has something called “Evangelion:Death(True)2” and the End of Evangelion movie plus some bonus content – this is an AACS issue rather than physical damage so there’s hope that I can watch it eventually, just… not now.

  I was told that the ending theme has been changed. The copy I have has an instrumental piano piece instead of the various “Fly Me To The Moon” versions on animethemes. It’s not clear to me what the title of the ending piece on my copy is, and the version on my discs isn’t listed there.

  I was expecting some weird stuff from this show, naturally – the later parts of it are infamous for that, even though I don’t know exactly what I’ll encounter yet – but, even still, the casual presence of the penguin was a surprise.

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Digital picture frame from a monitor or TV?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Should be trivial to set up something like that if you’ve got parts you want to work with. Any desktop with an automatic background switcher should be able to cycle through images in a directory you specify on a timer. Set up your favorite remote access software (SSH, Samba, NFS …) and you’re done. If you want more control over the behavior, you could script up something custom with a little more effort – but it’s still not particularly hard to implement something like that.

  Watch out for burn in on the screen if you’re leaving it on all the time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can we make federation less dependent on domain names?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Instances go down a lot – often permanently. e.g. kbin.social, lemm.ee, etc.

  When an instance goes down, it takes out all the user accounts and communities on it, and it’s hit or miss if you can find copies of the posts on other instances.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Year refund⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LE TITS NOW⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “Colder than a witch’s tits!”, as some of my relatives are fond of saying.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are your favorite RPG maker games?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Demons Roots is probably the best RPG Maker game I’ve played that was actually playable as an RPG. (So, not counting things like To The Moon which other people have already mentioned.)

  I wasn’t a fan of most of the sexual content in Demons Roots, but taking the whole thing as basically a giant love letter to fucked up doujinshi stories – i.e. to unpolished indie writing with wild genre bending plot twists in addition to the hentai stuff – I can accept it for what it is. The game has that RPGMaker wabi-sabi; it’s not especially well-crafted software… but the combat was OK (unlike a lot of indie RPGs), the music was good – a mix of original and mostly well chosen asset packs (I still listen to some of it occasionally!), and, without getting into spoilers, it did a couple of very memorable things…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What challenge from a game isn't worth completing and what challenge from a game is worth completing?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Most games have trophies designed by some corporate drone and consist of a handful of trophies giving for completing the storyline and the rest for token actions that you’ll inevitably do while playing.

  Those are basically just publicly accessible analytics for how far people typically get in a game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mount an ISO in Linux?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  As others have noted, you can use the mount command from the terminal. On Mint, you should also be able to use the Disks utility that ships with the OS if you’d prefer to use a GUI.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Flowers nut on unsuspecting bees⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Bee-kake

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2026, Week 03]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  So, I dug back into physical media a bit at the end of the year and managed to scrounge up some copies of older works that I either hadn’t seen or where my copy had issues (like parts of a few episodes skipping due to physical defects on the discs).

  One of those I haven’t seen before is To-LOVE-Ru. I don’t know how the hell I never realized this – having seen it pop up in fanart and such for a decade or so… – but the name とらぶる is obviously a transliteration of “trouble” into Japanese. So far, the writing is wonderfully stupid; I’m not expecting much out of this in the story department, but a lighthearted distraction from our extremely depressing reality is not unwelcome right now… I’ve heard the show described as “thinly veiled hentai” before, but even with that description I was still a bit surprised they actually put unobscured female nipples in the first episode. This kind of episodic ecchi harem comedy isn’t something I find bingeable, so I’ll probably be chipping away at it episode by episode for a while when I’m in the right mood for it. Hopefully I get a few good reaction shots out of it.

  For upcoming releases, I am planning to watch S2 of Frieren, but given that that’s the kind of thing I expect I’d rather want to binge, I will probably be waiting towards the end of the season to start it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks. I finally managed to get him this morning! Just barely won though. 23 HP left, Estus flask empty and used an Ember for healing late in the fight… One Ashen flask left. Used the Pestilent Mist strategy in combination with Sunlight Spears and Tears of Denial (which triggered twice, I think, during the fight) – cast using Crystal Chime+5 and unequipped my sword to stay under the 70% weight threshold. 8 Estus / 7 Ashen Estus split. SL143. Ring of the Sun’s First Born, Morne’s Ring, Sage Ring, Estus Ring. Dragoncrest shield (for fire defense) + Crest shield (for Dark defense) that I meant to switch to for the second phase, but didn’t. Armor was a random collection of whatever seemed like it might help – most significant piece was the Winged Knight Armor; I look really goofy. Started game as Deprived and played early game as Dex fighter before switching to mostly pyromancy mid-game. Highest stat is currently 40 Faith – I did some grinding to get there from 35 to free up a ring slot for an earlier strategy that didn’t work. (The 3 guys on top of the Archive are worth about ~21K souls each with my best grinding gear equipped and are vulnerable to Rapport – best grinding location I’ve found so far.)

  I’m sure the guys who live and breath this game will be like “Lol, git gud scrub” but it’s my first playthrough and I’m just happy I managed to pull it off at all. :p

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Still getting my butt kicked by Dark Souls 3. The end is in sight though. I’ve already beaten the final boss of the base game, but I’m going through the DLCs. Finished Ashes, but still stuck on the M. boss fight in the Ringed City DLC. (I’m too stubborn to just skip it – or, well, I have been so far, at least…)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the longest anime episode of all time?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  97 minutes

  At that length, I think I’d call it a movie/film even if it’s part of a TV series’s progression.

  If we’re including Japanese anime films in general, In This Corner of the World is supposedly the longest at 168 minutes for the extended version, followed by Final Yamato at 163 minutes, and then The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya at 162 minutes – according to this list on Wikipedia.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cute⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Meta: Looking for moderators

  This was originally from animepics two years ago. That was the old post’s title.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My N64 game collection. Not the most expansive but it is a lot of fun.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
  • Star Fox 64
  • Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire
  • The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
  • GoldenEye 007
  • Super Mario 64
  • Star Wars Episode I: Racer
  • Star Wars: Rogue Squadron
  • Perfect Dark

  Is that right?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Quentin Tarantino probably got into movie making after misunderstanding what film footage meant. ⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ba-dum tish! 🥁️

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does everyone put celery in soup stock?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, and they’re often used together.

  Celery is cold tolerant and can be grown/harvested in winter, IIRC. That might also be a factor in why it’s prevalent in soups?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨...⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Wait. Why the fuck are people searching for Minecraft on PornHub? O.o

  Did the Creeper Girl get, uh, more explicit in the years since she was on YouTube or something?

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does everyone put celery in soup stock?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s an aromatic vegetable: thespruceeats.com/what-are-cooking-aromatics-5223…