I_Has_A_Hat
@I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world
- Comment on What’s up with Myrrh being more prevalent? 5 hours ago:
This is the answer. A few days back, the Wordle word was “Myrrh”, which fucked a lot of people up because it’s an uncommon word and spelled very strangely. Because of that, people have been talking about the word a lot, which has in turn caused it to be used a lot recently. All these people talking about Baader-Meinhof are just pulling an assumption out of their ass because they don’t know the real reason.
You’re not imagining things OP.
- Comment on Is there a point we can track down when we stopped caring about doctors, nurses, teacher, etc? And thought it was a great idea to pay atheletes millions and screw everyone else? 18 hours ago:
I sure do. Of course doctors and nurses were essential because it was a health crisis. But it was grocery store workers, Starbucks baristas, Amazon warehouse workers. I remember sports teams and reality TV contestants being put in quarantine so they could safely compete. I remember it wasn’t teachers, as classes went online only for about a year and a half.
So what’s your point?
- Comment on Is there a point we can track down when we stopped caring about doctors, nurses, teacher, etc? And thought it was a great idea to pay atheletes millions and screw everyone else? 18 hours ago:
Yea, but that doesn’t fit OP’s childlike view of the world so shut up, nerd!
- Comment on After GOTY pull, Clair Obscur devs draw line in sand: 'Everything will be made by humans by us' 1 day ago:
Dude, it was 2022. AI was nothing back then. Certainly not something that people were debating the morality of at the time. It was a new tool. A developer tried it out for a few very minor assets that were only meant to be placeholders. This was’t “literally removing work from a human(concept artist)”. FFS, it probably was the concept artist who used it!
Like imagine a new type of paint comes out that’s supposed to spread on canvas better. An artist gets some and tries a few test strokes on a blank canvas, goes “huh, interesting”, and then paints over it entirely with traditional paint. Then, the public turns against the new paint. Maybe it’s made from orphan blood, maybe it causes cancer; it doesn’t matter why, but it is now heavily frowned upon to use it. An art studio displaying the original artists work puts out a claim that none of their art uses the new type of paint. Were they lying? Like, ya technically I guess, but if you can’t see the nuance and understand how such a thing could happen, then your logic is less that of a human, and more that of a machine.
- Comment on After GOTY pull, Clair Obscur devs draw line in sand: 'Everything will be made by humans by us' 1 day ago:
They already had the replacement assets created upon release, but forgot to swap them out and it was missed in QA. That’s why, pretty much as soon as they discovered it, they got it all replaced just 5 days after release.
It’s pretty common for games to mistakenly release with minor assets still as placeholders instead of the official version. Who’s really going to look at the texture of a rock and be like “Wait just a minute! That’s not the official rock texture!”
- Comment on Whats the best use for 75 dollars? 2 days ago:
Better to wait a year or two for the current cycle to hit it’s low. Or just DCA.
- Comment on Transcribed text of Samantha Fulnecky's assignment, paper, and professor's comments 2 days ago:
The irony is, if she had gotten a 35% that would have been the end of it. This whole thing blew up because she got a 0. That’s why I feel like 0’s should never be given on an assignment unless literally nothing was turned in. A 0 comes off as personal; even in cases like this where the person absolutely deserves to fail, it casts doubt on the impartiality of the grader.
But giving a 35%? Well that’s different. That’s acknowledging the person attempted the assignment, they just did a pathetically shit job at it. In some ways, it’s more humiliating than a 0, because the grader at least tried to give you some credit, but is still highlighting how fucking stupid you are.
- Comment on Devastated PC builder orders DDR5 RAM from Amazon, receives DDR2 and some weights — counterfeit 32GB kit a worrying sign of rising return and sales fraud 3 days ago:
So what exactly did you do to piss off the Amazon Returns department? Because from my experience, they are the most lenient company when it comes to returns/refunds. I’ve had stuff arrive broken, or scuffed up, or it was the wrong item, or I just plain didn’t like a product and every time I’ve been able to submit a return without having to interact with a single person.
I feel like you either have to be lying about your experience, didn’t even try to return it, or did something that got your account flagged.
- Comment on xkcd #3184: Funny Numbers 4 days ago:
Some kind of meaning behind them, huh?
Let me ask you something…
Can you count…
All the way…
To shfifty-five?
- Comment on Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 loses Game of the Year from the Indie Game Awards 4 days ago:
Frothing at the mouth
- Comment on Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 loses Game of the Year from the Indie Game Awards 4 days ago:
I’m not sure it was a lie, it’s the kind of thing that’s so minor it’s easy for someone on the marketing team to just not know about.
It’s like if a snack company put out a message saying they used no animal products and then later found out that a derivative of beeswax was used to lubricate the mechanisms in their packing machine.
If you want to be absolutely inflexible and refuse to allow any exceptions to the rules, no matter the circumstances, that’s fine. But you’ve gotta recognize the irony in that line of reasoning being more machine like than human.
- Comment on chemotherapy mother 5 days ago:
This reads like a The Other End comic.
- Comment on What are some cool infections? 6 days ago:
It’s not really an infection, but compartment syndrome is something that can happen in legs after an injury. Basically internal swelling of the muscles which starts to damage tissue once the pressure gets too high. It causes severe pain, and in some cases can eventually require amputation if left untreated.
The treatment is… brutal. It’s called a fasciotomy and fits well with the setting of pre-modern medicine as it hasn’t really changed much since the 1800’s. Basically, a doctor makes a long, deep cut, almost down your entire leg, until your leg is basically filleted open. Sometimes, multiple of these cuts are needed all around the leg. The cuts must be kept open until pressure is relieved, which can take hours or days, at which point they are structured up. I would recommend avoiding pictures if you are squeamish.
- Comment on What are some cool infections? 6 days ago:
Teratoma
- Comment on There should be more negative awards. For example: the most pathetic nation or the most monstrous person of the year. 6 days ago:
I’ve often thought about how society might be different if every year or so, we all voted on who was the worst person in the world, and then executed them. Similarly, voting for the worst company in the world and then dissolving it entirely, with executives and board members imprisoned. The absolute worst individuals and companies would have significant societal pressure to avoid being monsters. It wouldn’t even matter if everything they did was legal, it’s just a matter of public opinion.
- Comment on Neanderthals wouldn't be considered a person under U.S law 1 week ago:
Local Man Devastated to Discover Modern Laws Do Not Specifically Cover Ancient, Extinct, Subspecies.
- Comment on uhhh 1 week ago:
Does Okami-Den not count?
- Comment on Actual theft 1 week ago:
Music is free with premium, and I watch videos everywhere
- Comment on Actual theft 2 weeks ago:
And can you play videos on you phone with the screen off?
- Comment on Actual theft 2 weeks ago:
This is one of those things that I go against the Lemmy hivemind on. I cut out pretty much every streaming service and sail the high seas for most of my media.But I consider YouTube Premium worth the cost.
I got grandfathered into it when Google Music shut down and I really haven’t felt the need to change anything. YouTube music is better than Spotify. I don’t have to constantly play the whack-a-mole game of ad blockers that will inevitably break during a YouTube update. I don’t have to rely on finicky software to get videos to play in the background with my phone screen off.
Look, I get it. All these features used to be offered for free without ads. I think that more than anything is why people are so rabidly against premium, because they feel like they had that stuff stolen from them. But YouTube is a service, not a right. The cost of Premium is miniscule compared to the benefits I get from it. I use YouTube a LOT. Weather for how to videos, or ASMR, or background music, or documentaries, or podcasts. I like knowing that no matter where I use it, from my computer to my phone to the random smart TV in a hotel that I cast to, I’m not going to see any ads.
All this is based on the current services offered at the current price. If and when they start making those services shittier or increase the cost, then I will seek alternatives; but not before.
- Comment on How do you sleep at night? Please respond with a number 2 weeks ago:
Just pile more blankets on
- Comment on Usually, silicone nippled showerheads aren't replaced or cleaned regularly. 3 weeks ago:
I just pick at them with my finger while in the shower.
- Comment on Usually, silicone nippled showerheads aren't replaced or cleaned regularly. 3 weeks ago:
Picking the mineral deposits out of ones that have become clogged is so satisfying.
- Comment on I watch the first Star Trek Discovery episode, I didn't like it. 3 weeks ago:
Mariner in Lower Decks is far more immature and makes far more questionable choices, but she is a beloved character. I think Burnham’s issue is that she has the emotional stability of a high schooler. You can have immature characters, you can have characters that disrespect the chain of command, you can have characters who make lots of mistakes; but you can not have characters who have a mental health crisis every other week.
Discovery is like a Star Trek show if nearly every character was some version of Lt. Barclay; crippled by their own insecurities and forced to overcome them again and again without ever seeming to actually grow out of them.
- Comment on Shout out to my engineering homies. 3 weeks ago:
To quote Casually Explained:
“The only real question engineering students and new grads need to know the answer to is ‘When is it ok to violate your moral principles?’
…
Exactly. It has to be at least 6 figures.”
- Comment on same shit every day, on god 3 weeks ago:
And waves/tidal, but now we’re getting into the really niche types.
- Comment on What’s Hiding Inside Haribo’s Power Bank and Headphones? 3 weeks ago:
I’ve heard that claim before. Anyone have a source?
- Comment on is the peak life in 2026 is marrying a AI Girlfriend and having a AI friends? why no one wants to be social? 3 weeks ago:
Have you tried landing yourself a cute femboy?
- Comment on Drama 3 weeks ago:
There was also the fallout from startrek.website
- Comment on Obama's got jokes 4 weeks ago:
Ok boomer.