CrayonDevourer
@CrayonDevourer@lemmy.world
- Comment on Why not just move to a gated community 5 days ago:
Gated communities were originally invented to keep black people out. Simple as that.
- Comment on 28-pound electric motor delivers 1000 horsepower 1 week ago:
Oh man, continuous 500hp at each wheel. That’s nasty to think about, lol.
- Comment on 'That's a problem': MSNBC's Mika warns Trump new data shows his popularity at record low 2 weeks ago:
He doesn’t care. He doesn’t need your approval ratings anymore. He’s blatantly said he’s gonna ignore the constitution and run for a third term. There have been so many “deal breakers” that his constituents have claimed would cause them to stop supporting him, but I haven’t seen a single one change their mind at all so far.
- Comment on 'Unlawful and Un-American': Trump Claims He Can Send 'Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines' Into US Cities 2 weeks ago:
This is straight out of Russia’s playbook. Putin taught him this.
- Comment on Snip snip 3 weeks ago:
Viral infections don’t last over the course of several months.
- Comment on They need to bring you in to feel their power over you 3 weeks ago:
If you think I’m arguing for them, I’m not.
- Comment on They need to bring you in to feel their power over you 3 weeks ago:
No, they put in a lot of money for these office buildings, and they’re sitting unused. They have leases they still have to pay.
- Comment on Snip snip 3 weeks ago:
Yes, but almost every viral infection I’ve ever had…comes with bacterial infection as an additional “feature”
- Comment on Snip snip 3 weeks ago:
It helps with the bacterial infection that I get and my sinuses are BLOODY RAW from sniffling for the last week!
- Comment on i enjoy high fructose corn syrup too 4 weeks ago:
My daughter is kind of becoming a horticulturalist and recently taught me that sumac (there are non-poison varieties) can make something akin to lemonade if you dip the berries into water and then filter the water back. They have a citric-acid-like outer shell that dissolves in water.
And we’ve eaten so many mushrooms and stuff - thanks to communities on the internet who have categorized lookalikes, where to steer clear of certain types (white mushrooms, don’t even bother. Half of them will kill you)
- Comment on Flashbacks scenes in Movies/TV should be depicted as being more blurry than present scenes, since most people can't actually remember a past event that accurately. 4 weeks ago:
They kinda do. Aren’t memories typically depicted with a kind of hazy camera filter over them?
- Comment on 1 month ago:
I thought this was linkin park
- Comment on The problem with overeating is that it feels really good 1 month ago:
The problem with overeating, is once you need to stop yourself, it’s harder to - because you still need to eat. You still need to keep doing the thing that you’ve got a problem with.
Imagine if to “stop smoking”, you had to smoke 3x a day?
- Comment on Amazon is making it impossible to remove the DRM from Kindle Books 1 month ago:
The benefits to jailbreaking it are that you can change the layout of the device, remove store icons, and just in-general tidy up the UI a bit. I haven’t seen anything game-changing from the jailbreak; like adding apps or something.
- Comment on Amazon is making it impossible to remove the DRM from Kindle Books 1 month ago:
It’s not a software problem, the Oasis has cell service.
- Comment on Amazon is making it impossible to remove the DRM from Kindle Books 1 month ago:
I’ve been slowly filling my wife’s Kindle Oasis full of pirated books over the last 2 years. I got it initially because it had internet service everywhere and I could just email her the epubs to simplify loading things.
A couple of weeks ago, even though airplane mode is always on for this thing, (so no wifi either) – this thing wipes something like 400 books from her library overnight. Granted, they were all pirated, but they’re doing some nasty stuff there. It looks like there’s renewed effort to combat this.
Sooooo, I sold it and bought her a Kobo Libra Color. Now, I just have her open up send.djazz.se – give me the 4 digit code, and I can upload books to her that way. Goodbye Amazon. Don’t let the door hit you.
- Comment on Lead 1 month ago:
There are absolutely a fuckstick worth of George Floyd memes out there like this too. I say let people have fun. There are like 8b people on this planet, and far more important people than him are dying, like the people in gaza.
- Comment on What Trump’s H-1B crackdown means for Big Tech workers 1 month ago:
Maybe now is the time for me to transition back into IT work. :D
- Comment on do you use non violent communication at the workplace? 1 month ago:
The problem with the term “non-violent communication”, is that we don’t preface things that we describe based on their lack of something.
You might as well call it “non-love communication”…get it?
We don’t call driving to work “non-violent driving”, we just call it driving.
We don’t call our jobs “non-slavery labor”. You’re practicing absurdity in order to proclaim some higher order of thinking, but you’re just being silly.
- Comment on do you use non violent communication at the workplace? 1 month ago:
Nobody is “dunking” on LGBT folks. The presented scenario is literally of a completely straight person invading those spaces.
- Comment on do you use non violent communication at the workplace? 1 month ago:
How is this bigoted? And who said I disagree with non-violent communication?
You might want to re-read what I wrote.
- Comment on do you use non violent communication at the workplace? 1 month ago:
It reminds me of people on LGBT forums going: “I’m a man, and I like women, but I don’t feel sexual attraction towards all of them, only the ones I feel a connection with; what are my labels?”…and needing to tell them “NORMAL! NORMAL IS YOUR LABEL!”.
Meanwhile everyone is like “Oh, you’re ace+/romantic”…/sigh…
- Comment on Why do some gamers invert their controls? Scientists now have answers, but they’re not what you think 1 month ago:
The difference is what you’re “pushing”. Are you pushing the scroll bar on the right of the page? Or are you pushing the page? I grew up with the scroll bar, so mouse wheel down makes page move up.
Nowadays, phones don’t even have room to display a scroll bar, so people have gotten the idea to flick upwards. If you’re on a laptop trackpad, that’s probably gonna carry over.
- Comment on Is this still on the ace spectrum or what? 1 month ago:
What you sound like is…
NORMAL
- Comment on I'm playing Gears of War Reloaded, and I have a question. Will there be some point when the Chainsaw I've had for hours actually gets explained to me? 2 months ago:
Games should allow you to discover their features, they shouldn’t be telling you directly. That’s the cool part of figuring out a new combo in Mortal Kombat, etc.
They don’t give you a clippy tooltip that says “Press Up Up Down B A Down Down to rip this bitches head off!” – You figure out the combos on your own, or with friends.
This idea of every little thing having to be presented DIRECTLY to the user is laziness. There are ways to help a user discover things narratively.
- Comment on I'm playing Gears of War Reloaded, and I have a question. Will there be some point when the Chainsaw I've had for hours actually gets explained to me? 2 months ago:
It’s so weird that players these days don’t press buttons and figure shit out on their own…do you really need a tutorial for a basic weapon?
- Comment on YSK that hand sewing is a stupid cheap hobby to get into and reduces your impact on the environment 2 months ago:
Just think through the logistics of how you would use a sewing machine to reinforce the knee of some pants or to reinforce/repair a well loved stuffy.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WO6VezZSfus
Like this – Doing knee patches, or small stuffies isn’t difficult with a proper sewing machine. You just bunch up the material to get around it.
- Comment on YSK that hand sewing is a stupid cheap hobby to get into and reduces your impact on the environment 2 months ago:
Machine sewing isn’t that much more expensive, and it’s a VAST improvement over hand sewing unless you’ve got plenty of time, and lots of boredom.
- Comment on 3D printing sites should require a printed model when uploading a design. 2 months ago:
Many of them actually do. Report any model that doesn’t have a printed picture with it and printables/makerworld will both take them down.
- Comment on 90% of Games Developers Already Using AI in Workflows, According to New Google Cloud Research 2 months ago:
I mean, it makes complete sense. Photoshop has had ‘magic fill’ for a long time and that’s basically just stable diffusion inpainting.
I’ve had a lot of customers of mine using AI tools to be able to create things they’d never have been able to hire anyone to do, or be able to learn themselves.
It’s really easy too, for an artist that only does 2D shading, etc - to convert their 2D character to 3D and get textures, while cleaning up and continuing the work. Sites like Meshy are really good for quick prototypes, and then you can swap them out later for fully produced models. Especially indie games where someone might not have the artistic chops, but they have the programming chops.