rudyharrelson
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- Comment on A broken clock is right twice a day, but a wrong clock is just wrong. 1 week ago:
Or maybe if the clock is exactly an hour off, it’ll eventually be right when daylight saving time rolls around.
- Comment on Does it feel like the PS5's library is *severely* lacking compared to the PS4's around the same time in its lifecycle? 1 week ago:
Yeah, I think I’ve only bought one or two PS5 exclusives since I got mine around October 2020. Demon Souls remake and Horizon Forbidden West (though the latter is now available on Steam).
That said, I still think I’ve gotten a good amount of value out of the console by reaping the Patient Gamer™ rewards by picking up many of the major PS3/PS4 titles during good sales. I didn’t play many video games during the PS3/PS4 era, so I missed out on quite a few major releases. I’ve accumulated a pretty great digital library with some fantastic games for a relatively small amount of money (which, like my Steam library, I’ve only actually played a fraction of).
As an aside, probably my favorite PS5 exclusive has just been the free Astro Bot game. The haptics in the DualSense controller are frankly cool as hell, and I hope more games utilize them going forward.
- Comment on If you had to buy a new TV, what brand would you get? 2 weeks ago:
I know you asked for TV recommendations, but, if your friend is open to other ideas, they could also look into home theater projectors. I got a super cheap projector on sale a few years ago and being able to watch TV and movies on a 150 inch screen is absolutely bitchin’. I later upgraded to a higher quality projector cause the cheap one crapped out after about a year (and replacement bulbs were impossible to find due to the supply chain issues during early covid). Spent about the same amount on the high quality projector that I would have spent on a much smaller TV.
Though there’s obviously drawbacks to projectors:
- They generate a lot of heat. In the hottest months of the year, I don’t like turning it on
- You will initially blind yourself a lot by accidentally looking at it when it’s turned on. After blinding yourself a dozen or so times you’ll develop the muscle memory to avoid it.
- You gotta replace the bulbs periodically, but they last for thousands of hours. My current bulb has about 5000 hours on it and still doesn’t need to be replaced.
- Contrast is really weak compared to a TV. Need to close the curtains and not let sunlight into the room if you want to be able to see the picture clearly
- Need a big surface to project the picture onto, ideally a screen, but a blank wall works just fine.
When we moved into our house a few years ago, I saw there was an elevated alcove in the living room with a big, blank wall on the opposite side of the room. I knew right then that it would be perfect for a projector.
Movie night kicks ass. Every re-watch of Lord of the Rings is like watching it in the theater again. And Superbowl Sundays are epic on the big screen.
I have an Epson 2250 and it’s worked nicely these past few years.
- Comment on What would stop you from switching to a flip phone (or dumbphone) in 2025? 2 weeks ago:
My parents and all their friends used to use PTT with their Nextel phones. It was a super handy feature. I wonder why it fell out of style. Seemed more convenient and less tedious than a phone call for short communications.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 3 weeks ago:
Been playing Silksong a couple of hours each day since launch. It’s been a fantastic experience so far. Tough, but fair. Great pacing, which incentivizes getting good with the default moveset before expanding it with powerups.
Looking forward to putting some more time into this one over the next few weeks.
- Comment on nooo my genderinos 1 month ago:
Damn, hoisted by my own petard.
- Comment on nooo my genderinos 1 month ago:
Ah, good point; I’d forgotten that part.
- Comment on nooo my genderinos 1 month ago:
Sounds to me like this is exactly what the OP meme is referencing.
Basic math: square root only of positive numbers and 0. Advanced math: square root of anything you want
- Comment on nooo my genderinos 1 month ago:
Wolfram tells me
sqrt(-1) = iand it hasn’t lied to me yet.In what meaningful way is
i^2 = -1different fromsqrt(-1) = i? - Comment on Haters BTFO 1 month ago:
- Comment on Haters BTFO 1 month ago:
A wojak image can’t really refute anything; it’s just depicting the original poster as being a seething dumbass. It’s just an ad hominem response.
- Comment on I bought a £16 smartwatch just because it used USB-C 1 month ago:
I really like the Interactive Relationship Graph on your site. Reminds me of when I used to work with graph databases and could visualize all the information in the database as a handy graph of nodes and relationships.
- Comment on Why do people like the Punisher comics? 1 month ago:
Cause I was thinking of characters who use guns, which isn’t really Batman’s vibe (aside from his very early years)
- Comment on Why do people like the Punisher comics? 1 month ago:
It’s certainly a personal preference, but I’ll give some insight as a casual Punisher fan:
A character doesn’t need superpowers to be interesting. People can enjoy the Punisher despite him being “just a guy who shoots people with a gun” in the same way people enjoy “John Wick”, “Judge Dredd”, “Taken”, “Jason Bourne”, “Die Hard”, or any movie starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. The archetypal “one man army with nothing left to lose” story is cliched and perhaps “basic”, but can also be written in a compelling way depending on the author. Lots of different authors have written for The Punisher over the years, some being better than others.
I personally think a fun aspect of the character is his understanding that he isn’t a good guy; he (in most continuities I’ve read) hates what he has become and only does it because it’s all he knows. He doesn’t characterize it as “justice”, either. He does what he does as a means of punishment, vengeance, and retribution (and considers it a preventative measure when the criminal is irredeemably evil).
Some of his better stories explore the consequences of this judge-jury-and-executioner approach he takes. For example, killing an undercover cop who had infiltrated a gang that was on Punisher’s hit-list. In that particular instance, he was willing to let the undercover cop’s widow execute him as penance for his mistake. The widow lets him live because she doesn’t want to be like him.
- Comment on Thoughts?? 2 months ago:
It is extremely common for classes to require students to learn to use proprietary software. It’s a tool of the trade.
I understand that; my position is more ideological than practical. In an ideal scenario, AutoDesk, Adobe, Microsoft, etc wouldn’t be so deeply entrenched in their respective fields such that they are the de-facto tools of the trade for every business which must be learned in order to be hired. I know a given student has to learn certain proprietary tools in the current academic and professional environment. My comment was saying I would prefer this not to be the case. I am fully aware that proprietary software domination in the academic and professional spaces is not going away any time soon.
- Comment on Thoughts?? 2 months ago:
I’m no academic, but it seems wrong to me that any field would require the use of a particular proprietary software in order to do one’s homework assignments.
May Excel or SPSS be the best tool for the job? In many cases, sure! But students should be allowed to use whatever other software can also get the job done, as long as the software exports the assignment in a data format that the professor can reasonably ingest (e.g.: turning in a CSV file, which can be understood by many different kinds of software, not just Excel).
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Seems like you have perfectly valid concerns regarding the logistics of making such a move. Have you brought up these concerns with him? If so, does he acknowledge them or ignore them?
- Comment on How do I use Firefox and block YouTube ads? 3 months ago:
Ah, well that’s not ideal. I’m surprised just disabling the “Quick fixes” list resulted in ads appearing again; that didn’t happen for me. Have you tried updating the filter lists after disabling the “Quick fixes” one?
- Comment on How do I use Firefox and block YouTube ads? 3 months ago:
If uBlock Origin was working fine until recently, you can try this workaround (it worked for me when YouTube suddenly started showing me “Ad blockers are against YouTube TOS” messages):
Open uBlock settings in Firefox, go to “Filter Lists” and uncheck “uBlock Filters - Quick fixes” under “Built-in”.
Restart Firefox after unchecking it and see if it helps.
- Comment on Entirely too many questions about Mastodon. So sorry. 3 months ago:
Is it as interactive as Lemmy or is everyone kinda shouting into the void?
I’d say it’s a somewhat different kind of interactivity than Lemmy. Your typical Mastodon user won’t have many followers, but that doesn’t mean you’re “shouting into the void”. Similar to Lemmy, you can comment on (reply to) others’ posts and lots of other people can join in the discussion that way.
Is there an equivalent to communities?
Not really, but you can follow hashtags for whatever topics you’re interested in. Or follow an account for something you’re interested in (e.g.: organizations, weather, hobby news, content creators, etc)
If not, how do you find stuff you care about?
Follow people/organizations/tags that you find interesting and their posts will populate your feed.
And is reblogging the equivalent to upvoting? Is it like a like and share in one?
Not necessarily. Reblogging (“boosting” on Mastodon) is just putting more eyes on someone else’s post by sharing it; it isn’t equivalent to an endorsement per se. You can favorite posts on Mastodon, but I don’t think there’s really an equivalent to a “like” or “upvote” button.
Do they have memes there or what’s the range of content?
The range of content is as wide as anywhere else, memes and all. Can vary from instance to instance, though. (e.g.: code of conduct on mastodon.social may be different from fosstodon.org’s)
How does it compare to bluesky? I have used bluesky but the tone there is kinda shallow imo, rarely any meaningful interactions.
I haven’t used bluesky, so I can’t comment on this one.
- Comment on LEGO® Island - Online Web Port 3 months ago:
That’s super neat. I still have my physical copy of this game from back in the day. I’ve booted it up in a Windows 98 VM before, but that’s way more hassle than just opening it in Firefox.
- Comment on A reboot of the X-Files but this time Scully is always right. Everything has a totally rational explanation and Mulder slowly looses his believe in the supernatural. 3 months ago:
Her science-oriented methods break down when it comes to (in the broadest sense) “supernatural” phenomena - because they are, by definition even, outside science.
I only watched the first 2 or 3 seasons of The X-Files, so I there’s lots of episodes I haven’t seen, but this seems incorrect to me. Scully and Mulder were chasing unexplained phenomena, which are entirely within the realm of science. Humans tend to call things “supernatural” when we don’t know how to explain them (ghosts, fairies, aliens, etc), but those entities (in the context of The X-Files where they are actually real), once observed, can be subjected to the scientific method the same as anything else. Aliens in The X-Files aren’t magic; it’s just extremely rare for humans to be able to observe and study them.
- Comment on Say hello if you see this more than 6 hrs from posting 3 months ago:
Howdy
- Comment on The type of southern hospitality you receive depends on your skin color. 3 months ago:
Depends on the individual. Some people will be hospitable regardless of your skin color, but will be less hospitable based on your religion, gender, sexuality, or any number of other factors.
- Comment on Ironically, people making fun of the "Gnu/Linux" copypasta is probably one of the main ways people know what Gnu is 4 months ago:
- Comment on Comment your strangest/dumbest cursed images that you find funny for no reason 4 months ago:
- Comment on Comment your strangest/dumbest cursed images that you find funny for no reason 4 months ago:
- Comment on WTF why my filament exploded? 5 months ago:
Looks like a defense response. Didn’t sneak up behind it and scare it did you?
- Comment on I'm bored and desperately search for a proper game 5 months ago:
You might enjoy Sid Meier’s Civilization games. I’m partial to Civ 6, but they’re pretty much all in the same vein of management games.
- Comment on Elevated 5 months ago:
Thanks for the link. My first question was, “What brand, what item?”
Per the FDA, the recalled item is Cabot Creamery Extra Creamy Premium Butter, Sea Salted. The butter, which is sold in 8-ounce packages, contains two sticks of butter in a cardboard box.
