rumschlumpel
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- Comment on If I snapped you back in time 650 years right this very second, how would you use your current knowledge to succeed? 2 days ago:
I’ll probably die of dysentery. Just because I know modern hygiene rules doesn’t mean I’ll survive interacting with all the other people who don’t but are used to local bacteria and viruses.
- Comment on Why does it seem like everyone is so good looking and beautiful nowadays? 2 days ago:
Only one of those is actually what I’d describe as “polo shirt and sweatpants” - first one isn’t really wearing sweatpants (and doesn’t have super hairy legs like many men) and the third one isn’t wearing a polo shirt. And yeah, the look might work if you’re fit and at least know how to pick clothes that match (color and fit) both with each other and with the way your body, hair etc. look.
- Comment on Why does it seem like everyone is so good looking and beautiful nowadays? 2 days ago:
OP seems to care about appearances a lot, they’re just not good at it themselves.
- Comment on OpenAI wants to buy Chrome and make it an “AI-first” experience 4 days ago:
That really doesn’t solve the problem, like every other Firefox fork they’re completely dependent on Firefox. You can’t just make a new webbrowser just like that, and while third party developers can certainly disable some anti-features, there are limits to that and they can definitely not do the basic work that the Firefox devs do (or could do, if Mozilla had different priorities).
- Comment on OpenAI wants to buy Chrome and make it an “AI-first” experience 5 days ago:
Ideally it would be financed by user donations. Probably not that realistic for a project like this, though.
- Comment on OpenAI wants to buy Chrome and make it an “AI-first” experience 5 days ago:
Considering how little they invest into their core product compared to all the other shit and how much money the top brass earns despite declining market share, I don’t think they’re hurting for money that much.
- Comment on OpenAI wants to buy Chrome and make it an “AI-first” experience 5 days ago:
Unfortunately, Firefox is investing a ton of money into AI, too.
- Comment on "Uhh What?" 5 days ago:
Considering the voice acting for a lot of “normal” anime (for the record, I’m blaming the producers, not the actors), is it really that different? There’s a lot of “sexy” characters with mickey mouse voices.
- Comment on The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remastered revealed, it's out now and Steam Deck Verified 6 days ago:
Yawn. Call me when there’s actually a new Elder Scrolls single player game out.
- Comment on Please don't stop horny 1 week ago:
Seconded! I’d feel much better about fanservice in my anime if the characters were at least in their 20s (and no, “1000 years old being that looks younger than a highschooler” doesn’t count).
- Comment on HAVE A NICE DAY 1 week ago:
I’ll have you know that I played 50 hours of videogames last week, and I’m not even halfway done with Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous.
- Comment on Ubuntu 25.04 upgrades halted due to Kubuntu users getting a broken desktop 1 week ago:
This is why I don’t install major OS updates directly after they were released, especially not when it’s not an LTS release. Though I should probably upgrade from Ubuntu 20.04.
- Comment on There's probably some kind of deal between cellphone and pants makers to keep pockets small 1 week ago:
A lot of cellphones are unreasonably large, these days, too.
TBH I don’t like keeping stuff in my pants pockets anyway. Feels uncomfortable.
- Comment on "We have no official information on an Oblivion remake," say Bethesda, which isn't a denial, is it 2 weeks ago:
I was thinking of single player Elder Scrolls games. They did release an Elder Scrolls MMO (and Fallout MMO), I just don’t like MMOs and I don’t think that one was all that good compared to other MMOs.
- Comment on "We have no official information on an Oblivion remake," say Bethesda, which isn't a denial, is it 2 weeks ago:
Oh my FUCKING god. Would it kill them to actually release a NEW game??
- Comment on Neverway is a horror RPG Stardew Valley from one of the artists behind Celeste 2 weeks ago:
Sure, but I’d say “it’s like [game name]” or “similar to”, not “it’s a [game name]”.
- Comment on Neverway is a horror RPG Stardew Valley from one of the artists behind Celeste 2 weeks ago:
“Metroidvania” and “Rogue-like” aren’t names of existing games, though, they’re genre names.
- Comment on Instances for Portuguese and / or Italian speakers? 2 weeks ago:
If you browse feddit.org/?dataType=Post&listingType=Local&sort=…, most posts are still in German.
- Comment on Neverway is a horror RPG Stardew Valley from one of the artists behind Celeste 2 weeks ago:
Are we using “Stardew Valley” as a genre name now? That sucks.
- Comment on Instances for Portuguese and / or Italian speakers? 2 weeks ago:
The local feed looks pretty English to me …
- Comment on Instances for Portuguese and / or Italian speakers? 2 weeks ago:
If German lemmy is any indication, usually there isn’t more than one lemmy-instance per language.
- Comment on Self-Hosting A Cluster On Old Phones 2 weeks ago:
Really cool idea! Shame that none of my old devices seem to have working postmarketOS images, but I’m tempted to try this with an old phone off ebay if I can find a cheap-enough one.
- Comment on "Sorry I can't read" 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, definitely one of my least favourite hentai tropes. See also “fill the entire womb with sperm”.
- Comment on Should a movie released in 1995 be considered an "old" movie? 3 weeks ago:
That’s just not what “old” or “new” mean for media. You could maybe make that argument if the movie was made a long time ago but only released now, but that’s a very rare case. The public has already consumed the media, if it was somewhat popular you might be aware of what people thought about it, and if it was influential it might even interact with younger movies, possibly leading to you thinking that certain elements of it are overdone or old hat when this might actually have been one of the first works to have used these elements.
On top of that, the general societal context is not that of today, but of when the movie was made - few works are so timeless that this doesn’t matter at all.
- Comment on Should a movie released in 1995 be considered an "old" movie? 3 weeks ago:
‘old’ and ‘unknown to me’ aren’t the same thing and never were. When someone says they’re into ‘old movies’, they never mean that they like rewatching movies from the 2020s.
- Comment on Should a movie released in 1995 be considered an "old" movie? 3 weeks ago:
30 years is pretty old for a movie.
- Comment on Just found an interesting quote from buffy the vampire slayer for our technodystopia. 4 weeks ago:
Well, we aren’t manipulated by technology per se, but by the humans who control the technology. Could have been nice if Silicon Valley wasn’t so damn fascist. But I suppose that’s nitpicking, Giles definitely had the right idea.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, that’s fair. They certainly don’t make it easy to vote in USA, which is deliberate to some extent. Easy to forget (like I just did).
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
I think it was the votes of less than a third of eligible voters that made Trump 2.0 a reality, roughly another third just behind it, with the remainder not bothering to vote at all. I would say the often fantasized silent majority is actually not pro Trump.
That means that a third didn’t bother, though. The exact reason is up to debate, but it doesn’t say any good things about them or the political system.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Anti-intellectualism has a certain tradition in the USA, it’s kind of well-known.
A German perspective: I think Germans have always been this stupid, they’re mostly just more willing to say the quiet part out loud than they were between 1970 and 2014 (rough estimate). The difference is that the far right extremists have a popular platform now, and the mainstream parties refuse to ban either the far right party or all the media (X, Facebook, local tabloid press etc.) that’s pushing them. If this party had been around in 1960, it would definitely have been banned.