MelodiousFunk
@MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net
- Comment on Science has gone too far 4 hours ago:
Thanks. Just imagine if someone had dropped their phone on the train.
- Comment on Day 341 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 8 hours ago:
- Comment on Lamp. 8 hours ago:
Username checks out.
- Comment on Badluck 1 day ago:
I’ll take a hug over a kid any day.
- Comment on The Elder God 1 day ago:
For the non-believers:
- Comment on Most of the audience of Nickelodeon's Kids Choice Awards have no idea why slime is a thing. 1 day ago:
I had a crush on Christine when I was like 7. Pepperidge Farm remembers.
is no longer an audience member for anything Nickelodeon-related
- Comment on :-) 5 days ago:
I don’t think I’ve thought about this episode in like 30 years. Yet I can hear the line like it was yesterday.
- Comment on Google is intentionally throttling YouTube videos, slowing down users with ad blockers 5 days ago:
A lot of my favorites are already on Nebula. I’d ask the rest to follow but that would require a google account.
- Comment on After attempts at Lord of the Rings and Star Wars anime, one producer is "pissed off" by Hollywood requesting everything be turned into an anime: "There are too many works to check out" 5 days ago:
If Hollywood buys out much of the anime industry
Sony has quite a head start on this already, Hollywood be slackin.
- Comment on How would I pop a bag of popcorn on the microwave? 1 week ago:
Has anyone seen Frank Bennedetto? He might be able to help with the popcorn sitch. Also, he still owes me five bucks.
- Comment on "Sad thing to be, nonsensical thing to want to be" 💔🥀💔🥀 1 week ago:
Irish people were among the most oppressed white minorities back in the day.
Most of the Irish Americans I know are just keen on dishing it back out to whatever Other they can target. I’m also related to most of the Irish Americans I know, so take that as you will.
- Comment on *pat pat pat* 1 week ago:
What flavor is it?
- Comment on Me too. 1 week ago:
I’m near neither of those places, but both birds are regulars in my neighborhood. It’s kinda cool. Sure bears boring old robins and sparrows.
- Comment on minor tomfoolery 🛻💨🎶 3 weeks ago:
Even the undercarriage looks like it hasn’t fully loaded into the environment.
- Comment on Forbidden Tech 4 weeks ago:
except for the AC compressor, which the generator actually would have had enough power to run, but not to kick-start.
This sentence triggered my PTSD. Imagine, if you will, a world where executives insist that datacenter AC be put on UPS battery. A world where those same executives declare that a different datacenter is just fine running at 95% power capacity because “it’s not 100%.” A world where inrush current does not exist. Except it does exist, but all professional advice is ignored until there are consequences. And even after such consequences are realized, one of those same executives still tries to run his home sump pump off of a desktop UPS during a power outage, pops it immediately, then goes and gets another from the office, which also pops immediately.
The sign in OP’s post will always be relevant somewhere.
- Comment on I'm so tired. 4 weeks ago:
At this point I’m convinced that the terrors are persisting out of spite for me, personally.
- Comment on It's Breathtaking How Fast AI Is Screwing Up the Education System 4 weeks ago:
if you’re in academia you should be able to produce a five paragraph essay.
So, K-12 is “academia” now?
Being able to produce a narrative is an essential life skill.
Lots of essential life skills are difficult for lots of people. Something we get reminded about every time it comes up by people who have no clue what they’re talking about yet see fit to tell others what they should and shouldn’t do, and how to feel about it.
The world isn’t going to cater to you
No fucking shit.
your self diagnosed executive dysfunction
I’m sorry Dr. Jackson, I’ll have to let my old neurologist, psychologist, neuropsychologist, and psychiatrist know that The Internet told me that the assessments I had done at ages 23 and 44 are all in my head.
learning to adapt is probably a useful habit.
You’re right! I’m just going to do that instead of being in constant psychological agony. Where were you all of my life? ❤️ If only I had someone talking down to me saying Just Do The Thing over and over again, from childhood onwards, life would have been so much easier.
🤡
- Comment on It's Breathtaking How Fast AI Is Screwing Up the Education System 4 weeks ago:
…so you just gonna leave everyone in suspense? The internet loves armchair psychology!
- Comment on It's Breathtaking How Fast AI Is Screwing Up the Education System 4 weeks ago:
Hi,
I would have failed every single one of your tests. Not because I don’t understand the material, or the English language, but because structured writing, to this day, makes me seize up. Blank space is one of my biggest triggers for executive dysfunction/PDA. Turning everything into a cookie-cutter essay is just a different form of trying to fit everyone into the same box. More selective than making everything multiple guess, but no better. I feel bad for your students.
Signed,
Former “gifted” kid (with then-undiagnosed AuDHD) who got sick of bad teachers 30+ years ago
- Comment on I'll go first 5 weeks ago:
Road trip! To Altoona!
- Comment on Oof 5 weeks ago:
If it makes you feel any better, this all happened 20+ years ago.
- Comment on What's the worst spelling you've seen? 5 weeks ago:
Anferny.
- Comment on World Bank says Saudi Arabia and Qatar have paid off Syria's outstanding debt 5 weeks ago:
Someone forgot to switch accounts.
- Comment on Oof 5 weeks ago:
What happens if your school loses accreditation
Ooo ooo I know this one! That’s when you get a letter in the mail saying the feds have taken over your loan, the month payments start being due, and literally no other information. And then you call them and ask where to send payments and they say to send it wherever you had been sending it, seemingly missing the part where they just took over the loan. And then life happens and you realize you haven’t made payments. So you call and get the same runaround. And then you call later and give them an address update when you move, ask them about paying, and get treated like you have three heads. And then a few years later you get a very angry letter that the loan is in default. So you call and explain, and the person on the other end treats you like human filth, barely stopping short of using obscenities. So you hang up to let your anger simmer down, call back, and speak with “a manager.” Explain the whole thing top to bottom. That’s when you find out that when they took over your loan seven years ago, they immediately put it into the delinquent bin even though it was quite fresh at the time. And everyone you’ve talked to since just assumed you were a deadbeat.
Then you pay off the loan total using a credit card (because it’s thousands of dollars and you’re broke) and pay the interest again.
- Comment on Bungie appears to have plagarized an artist's work and style in their extraction shooter "Marathon" according to this Bluesky post 5 weeks ago:
Look at you with your fancy PowerPC model. We had to make do with a 68040 and we liked it!
goes outside to yell at the clouds to get off of his lawn
- Comment on Let's put an end to the discussion; what is the best way? 5 weeks ago:
I only line dry my clothes when I think they need to be seasoned with some guano.
- Comment on Let's put an end to the discussion; what is the best way? 5 weeks ago:
Better put the bread box in the cupboard, just to be on the safe side.
- Comment on Like it ever gonna happen 5 weeks ago:
This is much easier (and infinitely more socially acceptable) than misreading the situation and getting labeled a creep etc.
- Comment on A last-minute SteamOS update has saved Doom: The Dark Ages on Steam Deck, and it runs surprisingly okay-ish 5 weeks ago:
I’m getting a headache just thinking about it.
- Comment on A last-minute SteamOS update has saved Doom: The Dark Ages on Steam Deck, and it runs surprisingly okay-ish 5 weeks ago:
I have fond memories of Hexen. But most of those are overridden by it being the unfortunate game where I finally realized that first person games make me motion sick.
“Oof, I don’t feel so hot. Let me keep playing to keep my mind off of it. Maybe a bite to eat. Back to the game, I’m fine, I’m fine, I’m…” running to the bathroom and honking up everything I just ate and then some until I’m dry-heaving. I didn’t eat hot dogs for a good five years after that.
