whotookkarl
@whotookkarl@lemmy.world
you’re high on mushrooms in the Viking age, the gods are everywhere
- Comment on Should I get a drum kit, or a pressure washer? 3 weeks ago:
Don’t buy a pressure washer, rent one. You won’t need it very often, and if you do consider a business it’ll let you try one or two first before committing to a purchase. Also learning a musical instrument is really fulfilling for a lot of people.
- Comment on what was the last game you played in 2024? 4 weeks ago:
To the town of Agua Fria rode a stranger one fine day Hardly spoke to folks around him, didn’t have too much to say No one dared to ask his business, no one dared to make a slip For the stranger there among them had a big iron on his hip Big iron on his hip
- Comment on Magnus Carlsen: Chess champion quits FIDE tournament after being told to change jeans 4 weeks ago:
No, fide was complaining about pants. he left like an adult when someone is being unreasonable.
- Comment on Magnus Carlsen: Chess champion quits FIDE tournament after being told to change jeans 4 weeks ago:
He was the person breaking the dress code, not the person enforcing it.
- Comment on 'Democrat propaganda': Marjorie Taylor Greene plans to team up with Musk to defund NPR 2 months ago:
I’ve listened for over 21 years and they have an obvious bias against unsubstantiated claims.
- Comment on It's pretty cruel, particularly for non-native English speakers, that 'lose' and 'loose' seemingly switched spellings, meanings and pronunciations with each other when no one was looking 2 months ago:
Lowe’s loose lows lose loss.
- Comment on If Nintendo went belly up today the retro community would have a field day 2 months ago:
They don’t have to stop selling their work after the copyright expires, it’s just they no longer own a legal monopoly on it after they’ve had time to get the first to market purchases. Publishers, streamers, etc all carry works in the public domain currently.
- Comment on If Nintendo went belly up today the retro community would have a field day 2 months ago:
Copyrights should be max 5 years
- Comment on Half-Life 2 peaks at 52,000 concurrent players, 20 years after its release 2 months ago:
Is half-life cyberpunk?
- Comment on USA President term limits 2 months ago:
You’re right, I thought it was hold not elected.
- Comment on USA President term limits 2 months ago:
If they followed the law as written it would go to the next person in order of succession, the congressional house speaker, because he would be ineligible to hold the office after the second term.
- Comment on Has Fast Food Gotten Worse, or Am I Just Getting Old? 2 months ago:
Not just fast food, chains and franchises in general. Local only may be more of a quality gamble when trying things out but when you find that unassuming diner or small restaurant that takes pride in their daily soups, and doesn’t do delivery or apps, and closes at reasonable times for their workers, and is usually packed on weekends, you’ve found something special.
- Comment on Calcrelatable 2 months ago:
It’s solar powered so I just wait for night time to clear it then do the next problem in the morning
- Comment on Elon's Death Machine (aka Tesla) Mows Down Deer at Full Speed , Keeps Going on "Autopilot" 2 months ago:
It doesn’t have to not kill people to be an improvement, it just has to kill less people than people do
- Comment on have you ever been given a warning or suspension for using profane language at work? 2 months ago:
- Comment on Half as Hot 2 months ago:
30°C is 303.15K, half 151.575K is a nice and chilly -121.575°C lower than any recorded temp on earth by about 21°C.
- Comment on Kroger’s plans to roll out facial recognition at its grocery stores is attracting criticism from lawmakers, who warn it could lead to surge pricing and put customers’ personal data at risk 3 months ago:
Surge pricing=price gouging, there is no difference
- Comment on Fruit Flies 3 months ago:
A time, B time, and lunch time.
- Comment on ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) 3 months ago:
If we were the aliens and came across two worlds inhabited by intelligent life I would probably be more weirded out by the one where nobody uses any mind altering substance like caffeine that are poisonous to other animals.
- Comment on Badgers 3 months ago:
No, this is wolverine:
- Comment on Do animals feel love and emotion? 3 months ago:
You may be interested in a paper Thomas Negal wrote about 50 years ago called “What is it like to be a bat?”
www.sas.upenn.edu/~cavitch/…/Nagel_Bat.pdf
It’s not just about emotional states, which we can observe the behavioral states of but don’t know what it is like to experience as other animals. It’s about experience and consciousness which I think speaks to the underlying question of when other animals experience an emotional state if we can relate it to our own phenomenology for similar appearing states.
- Comment on Steven Spielberg is ‘a big PC Gamer’ — loves shooters, and insists on keyboard and mouse 3 months ago:
I used to be kbm exclusive but there have been some pretty good controller improvements made over the years, things like hotkey layers in Skyrim UI mods or the final fantasy MMO giving dozens of unique hotkeys on a controller, and new hardware with back buttons and shoulder buttons that keep both thumbs on the thumbsticks. Can’t beat mouse for precision, but there are tradeoffs for that.
- Comment on Ubisofts stock tanked this morning ahead of the markets opening 3 months ago:
AAAA stock
- Comment on Don’t ever hand your phone to the cops 3 months ago:
When my insurance carrier stopped mailing cards they added a request to send the updated cards, pain in the ass but pretty sure most insurers are doing that now to cut corners because they aren’t legally required to send them.
- Comment on Let me at 'em!! 4 months ago:
At least 50
- Comment on stacked 4 months ago:
Everyone, or just the people who would call in to coast to coast am?
- Comment on under the ice 4 months ago:
Also Maccready’s hat:
- Comment on YouTube has found a new way to load ads | AdGuard Blog 4 months ago:
YouTube alternatives?
- Comment on Recommendations on casual GB/GBA games? 4 months ago:
Super Monkey ball Tekken 2 One of the street fighters Chess Crazy taxi Any Megamen Uniracers Doom 2 or 64 Most sonics Monkey Island if it runs scummvm games
- Comment on Weevil time 4 months ago:
Two bears fighting
