Chozo
@Chozo@fedia.io
Hail Satan.
Using Mbin as a backup to my main Kbin account due to tech issues on Kbin.social. May either switch to this one permanently or abandon it, depending on how Kbin's development goes. All my active fedi accounts are linked.
- Comment on kya 17 hours ago:
I used to be really good at reflecting with the rear-view. As long as they were far enough away that I could see their windshield, I could usually land a direct hit. I've had a few instances where I'll see the sombitch slam on their brakes.
- Comment on PSA: Stop using Imgur for now 18 hours ago:
I don't believe it's FOSS, but Catbox is very simple and allows you to link directly to images/videos that you upload, with no ads and no login required.
- Comment on TV/MA 'High School' teen drama shows should be set in college and centered around young adults or adults. 18 hours ago:
Yeah, some teens experiment, but not like this.
What makes you believe this?
- Comment on How realistic is it for me to learn Japanese so that I can experience Anime better? How long would it take to learn? Has anyone attempted this? 18 hours ago:
Consuming media is a great way to supplement your language-learning, but be careful not to confuse the dialog used in anime with actual conversational Japanese. Just like how nobody actually talks like a Western cartoon character does, Japanese people don't talk like anime characters. Anime dialog is largely dramatized.
Also for what it's worth; depending on what you're watching, the English dubs have gotten way better in recent years. There's a lot of good talent in the dub scene these days, and Japanese directors are getting better at trusting the performance of western voice actors, instead of demanding that the actor sounds the way they think it should sound in English. In my experience, most dubs post-2010 are generally pretty good. Generally.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
Unless you like seminars about GNU, there's not really a lot of original media on the Fediverse that the average person would be interested in.
The Fediverse is a niche within a niche.
- Comment on Cast your spell on me 4 days ago:
Did I stutter?
- Comment on Got my pumpkin today. All ready for Halloween 5 days ago:
- Comment on Google is blocking AI searches for Trump and dementia 5 days ago:
That's an example of it specifically not working.
- Comment on Haven't they suffered enough? 5 days ago:
Has he clarified what he meant by this yet? Because it's really, really fucking weird that he said that, and that nobody even called him out for that.
- Comment on Hardest piano piece ever. 1 week ago:
This is my time.
- Comment on YouTube Music is testing AI hosts that will interrupt your tunes 1 week ago:
I'm sure the dozens of YouTube Music users out there are thrilled.
- Comment on booming 1 week ago:
Now this is a top-tier shitpost.
- Comment on Video Game History Foundation Offers Retro Magazine Subscriptions 1 week ago:
That's awesome! Sometimes I regret throwing out my milk crates full of old Nintendo Powers from the 90s. I miss flipping through those.
- Comment on Google just broke *all* third-party web clients, including yt-dlp; a full JS implementation is now required. 1 week ago:
If one day YT sets a "minimum requirements" page on their website to access their content, they've immediately ceded market share to the next upstart. Imagine if they broke viewing for all of the countless cheap (and e-waste) phones, tablets, low end IOT devices, "smart TVs", and so on because they place a requirement that the device cannot meet. Those users will not throw away their hardware - they'll migrate to the first available alternative way to watch content.
This all incorrectly assumes that there exists any viable competition to switch to. YouTube ran at a net loss for over a decade to get the reach they currently have, only because Google was one of the very few companies who could feasibly afford to do so. And most of the content people access YouTube for is only found on YouTube, so those hypothetical users aren't going to switch to a new platform, they're going to either just flat-out stop watching or will replace their devices.
- Comment on People with six fingers can get away with anything, because everyone will assume that any videos of them were AI-generated. 1 week ago:
Well that's just inconceivable.
- Comment on FCC chairman unconvincingly claims he never threatened ABC station licenses 1 week ago:
You said it on live TV, jackass. We all saw and heard you.
- Comment on Beware, another "wonderful" conservative instance to "free us" has appeared 2 weeks ago:
Okay.
- Comment on Beware, another "wonderful" conservative instance to "free us" has appeared 2 weeks ago:
You may notice that OP never provided a link to the instance. It's not an advertisement, it's a warning.
- Comment on Ever wonder why you never get hand or wrist pain holding a Hot Dog? 2 weeks ago:
Well how else would you answer a call?
- Comment on How many hands long do they get? 2 weeks ago:
This is offensively incorrect.
Deer are closer to 1.75 bicycles tall.
- Comment on Republicans put tech firms in a vise on Kirk social-media posts 3 weeks ago:
These nazis are desperate to share Kirk's fate.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
I get what you're going for, but by using a slur, you're throwing the LGBT community under the bus with Charlie. There are so many more horrible, yet accurate things we can call him; you should pick one that doesn't denigrate an unrelated group of people at the same time.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Thank you, I was trying to understand what a partially-melted, dusty candlestick was supposed to represent.
- Comment on Roblox, Discord sued after 15-year-old boy was allegedly groomed online before he died by suicide 3 weeks ago:
As they should, honestly. While those bots can be used to track down and identify predators, they have also been used for harassing and doxxing innocent users. There's little to no security oversight with those bots.
- Comment on Hollow Knight Sequel 'Silksong' Crashed Game Stores, as $20 Price Irks Competitors 3 weeks ago:
In the age of $70+ AAA games with additional costs, not everyone celebrated the consumer friendly price. Some independent game developers have expressed concern that their games may not sell as well compared to Silksong and cannot afford to charge less.
Where did this line come from? I see no mention of that quote in any of the links from the /. post, and it doesn't help that the quote doesn't cite a specific developer, either.
- Comment on He died doing what he loved. 3 weeks ago:
we should never make jokes at the expense of the dead
Charlie Kirk made a career at the expense of the dead. Fuck him, I'm glad he's dead, I'm glad it was at the hands of another and not natural causes, I'm glad that it happened right in front of hundreds of other like-minded Nazis as a reminder of what awaits them, and I can't wait to see who the next dead Nazi is going to be.
- Comment on He died doing what he loved. 3 weeks ago:
Not everybody here is American, dude.
- Comment on How come butthole scratches doesn't get infected with poop bacteria ? 3 weeks ago:
The skin on your body isn't uniform; it's at varying textures and thicknesses in different parts, and its absorbency varies in different parts, as well.
The skin around your anus is very resistant to infection due to its particular mixture of these properties.
- Comment on All in a day's work 3 weeks ago:
Why do metal keyboardists always look exactly like a metal keyboardist? Like... you all know exactly which one in this photo I'm talking about, too, right? Tell me I'm wrong.
- Comment on Signal announces a backup feature that includes 100MB of storage for texts and the last 45 days' worth of media for free, or 100GB of storage for $1.99/month 4 weeks ago:
I agree! I think the Fediverse needs more "normies" to be present around here. Not just for the sake of having more numbers and being a more popular platform, but we need difference of opinion, and it needs to be embraced much better than it currently is.
When everybody in a community agrees on 99% of things, they tend to become rather tight-knit. But whenever that 1% comes up which goes against the flow, the reactions around here tend to be quick and harsh, and the 99% of other things you previously agreed with that person on get thrown out the window all because they don't share the same opinion about Linux as you, or something.
It's not a healthy pattern for a growing community.