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- Comment on How abnormal is it for a mother to be her son a fleshlight for his 18th birthday? 3 days ago:
A medium is plenty for a first timer.
- Comment on Lemmy is a tech literate echo chamber 4 days ago:
Careful, that’s an awfully suckable tongue.
- Comment on Lemmy is a tech literate echo chamber 4 days ago:
Exceptions don’t prove the rule, that’s always been a pithy saying. Exceptions test the rule and let you discover its bounds.
- Comment on She's a keeper 5 days ago:
I more meant that sometimes requests for help are seen as flirting, when they’re about as casual and commonplace as can be.
- Comment on She's a keeper 1 week ago:
The apartments were randomly assigned. Do you know many freshmen who got to choose their dorms? Once I was a sophomore+, I did, but that first year in university-run student housing I didn’t get to pick.
- Comment on PSA on privuhcy 1 week ago:
I judge people based on whether they can understand youtube (which you should be changing to invidious or something else anyway) urls. It’s a useful and very short way to see if people have ever paid attention to repeated patterns. The moment I saw the t=XYs, I was amazed.
- Comment on She's a keeper 1 week ago:
In a sense of understanding the wife’s perspective, proximity is just as important as the other major factors that affect how likely a relationship is to begin. There was a cool study of college students who lived in an apartment style building that showed you were most likely to begin a relationship with the person who had a door immediately next to yours. The only exception to that was for the person who had a door immediately next to the mailboxes. Proximity matters because it lets another person see you enough to form opinions based on a lot of interactions, and we all know someone who ‘shines’ despite their physical looks.
Plot twist: new neighbor was wearing a shirt that read, “I <3 dad bods,” and was already flirting (asking for help moving boxes /eyeroll) with the guy in sweatpants.
- Comment on "Pilot had to dive aggressively to avoid midair collision over Burbank airport." 1 week ago:
Everyone wants to shit on motorcycles, but it’s as much a red herring as a meaningful statement. You might as well mention that horse riding is 25x more dangerous than motorcycles. And if you really want to get into the weeds, go look up how many motorcycle fatalities are single vehicle accidents, and how many of those are due to speeding or alcohol involvement. So if you don’t drink, and don’t act like a fool, you’re really not all that badly off. Still worse than being in a steel cage for protection, but it’s not only for people “who don’t want to get old.”
- Comment on Women Dating Safety App 'Tea' Breached, Users' IDs Posted to 4chan 1 week ago:
That is not dead which can eternal lie, and in strange eons even death may die.
I think?
- Comment on Women Dating Safety App 'Tea' Breached, Users' IDs Posted to 4chan 1 week ago:
Don’t look up something called, and I’m not remembering it perfectly, ‘the number,’ in the US, anyway.
- Comment on Rain barrels are the exact opposite of "Saving it for a rainy day" 1 week ago:
Well, when you use money you’ve saved from the bank, you’re cutting a check. Barrels full of water from the sky are clearly rain checks.
- Comment on We all sleep alone soundly; Maybe the key to a happy marriage is separate beds 1 week ago:
I wish I could sleep in the same bed as my partner (forever, not just the rare nights when we try). It’s lovely to have the physical touch as I fall asleep. Unfortunately I toss, turn, and sometimes wake up in cold sweats from nightmares, so it’s better for both of us to have the separate beds.
- Comment on Adblockers stop publishers serving ads to (or even seeing) 1bn web users - Press Gazette 2 weeks ago:
Unless the lovely javascript detects that you’re trying to close the tab and hijacks that to ask you if you are sure you want to
forcefully tell them to fuck off and dieleave the page. It’s only one extra click, sure, but I remember some from the old days that wouldn’t let you close shit. Ugh, thank god for better modern standards and adblockers. - Comment on Adblockers stop publishers serving ads to (or even seeing) 1bn web users - Press Gazette 2 weeks ago:
Jesus. How are you going to get to 8.8.8.8 belt licks?
(and please, for the love of god, don’t use 8.8.8.8!)
- Comment on Adblockers stop publishers serving ads to (or even seeing) 1bn web users - Press Gazette 2 weeks ago:
Okay, I’m assuming that you are asking for evidence of the paying of adblockers to allow some ads through, and not for evidence that he fixed the typo he thought you were actually posting about?
Do a quick search for why we all now use ublock origin rather than ublock plus, and then for why we were using ublock plus rather than ublock, and then for why we were using ublock instead of adblock. There might be some adblock plus in the middle of that somewhere as well.
- Comment on Adblockers stop publishers serving ads to (or even seeing) 1bn web users - Press Gazette 2 weeks ago:
God, I can just see the wet dreams of an advertising exec now. If an australian bloke can replicate million dollar systems with $100, the advertising companies can surely wank out the money for license plate readers a quarter mile ahead of their billboard with good identification. The new electronic billboards already switch what ad they’re showing every half minute or so now, and I bet they could do what ze big boiz do with the auctioning of ads.
I think right now most of the US doesn’t allow random API access to license plate and registration data, but I really have no idea… How much do you think companies would
bribepay for some laws to be changed about that? - Comment on Adblockers stop publishers serving ads to (or even seeing) 1bn web users - Press Gazette 2 weeks ago:
The way you word things matters. How many polls have shown the difference in opinion on ‘obamacare’ compared to ‘affordable care act?’
- Comment on Deserved honestly 2 weeks ago:
I’m imagining an italian fusion of country, where his pasta broke his heart, so his girlfriend broke it to make him feel better heart, which broke his heart again.
- Comment on UwU brat mathematician behavior 2 weeks ago:
Thado-mathocist. The real chad all along.
It makes me wonder if somewhere out there in a multiverse, a community of lisping incels all collectively draw the chad wojak as as an aramaic looking dude.
- Comment on Thoughts?? 2 weeks ago:
Heh. I actually was using SPSS in 2010 for statistics. Weird memory resurfacing there.
- Comment on Pop it in your calendars 3 weeks ago:
people liking one game in the genre is a very poor predictor of whether they’ll like another one
I love survival/building games, and so do most of my friends. Even the terrible ones are usually fun. So I’d posit that it’s the opposite with a caveat: liking one for more than its story means you’ll enjoy the others.
I think it’s more indicative of games/hobbies as a whole than the survival genre specifically. People who love the adrenaline of a motorcycle may not enjoy the thrill of going down a mile high mountain on two thin sticks, IF it was the rumble of the engine beneath them that they actually enjoyed. If it was the rush of the speed though (or in the case of survival/building games, the exploration and struggle to stay alive and not lose your stuff), then they’ll likely enjoy the other adrenaline sports.
- Comment on Pop it in your calendars 3 weeks ago:
It’s horror in the sense that Bioshock was horror, but much less so. There are some areas with ‘tension’ that you pretty quickly become accustomed to, just as you would in a game where there is a ‘progression’ of areas where each area you move into is quite difficult at first until you get the resources and build the new items from that area.
- Comment on Pop it in your calendars 3 weeks ago:
It would make sense for it to be canon in the subnautica universe. I think they were pretty much the epitome of authors with an anvil with the references to economics and governing.
- Comment on The signatures are still coming and it's already making an impact 4 weeks ago:
This isn’t paying to see a concert, play, or musical. This is buying a book for amazon’s e-reader, and them not allowing you to read the book anymore when they put out the book’s sequel.
- Comment on Steam Summer Sale is on! Discuss deals in the comments and recommend some great games! 5 weeks ago:
Well, either the thing should be done well, shouldn’t be done, or, if put in the game and it isn’t a good part of the game, it should be criticized.
They decided to put it in the game, full stop.
It was a terrible portion of the game, and I’m criticizing it. As the other fellow said, the developers put it in to craft a certain feeling, and it absolutely sucked at creating that feeling AND dragged my enjoyment of the game down.
- Comment on Steam Summer Sale is on! Discuss deals in the comments and recommend some great games! 5 weeks ago:
I mean “get away with” as in they think they can do it in a half-assed manner. In a movie, as you mentioned the director is a wannabe film director, you don’t just throw in sad music and expect the audience to ‘buy into’ the quality of the scene. You have to craft the previous scene, and set up the flow into the current scene, and have decent dialogue, decent acting, decent lighting, decent sound, etc. etc. etc. If you just half-ass it and throw in sad music, the audience is going to either realize you’re just trying to jank with their emotions in a sloppy manner, or be completely pulled out of the experience.
The walking in furi may have been okay if it was just in one section, or had waaay better dialogue rather than eye-rolling pseudo-philosophical wanking that was actually interesting to pay attention to during the walking… but making it a repeated thing? It was annoying. It ruined verisimilitude. It made me angry that I couldn’t make the character decision to just stab the dude cosplaying as a rabbit right in his rabbity face.
- Comment on Steam Summer Sale is on! Discuss deals in the comments and recommend some great games! 5 weeks ago:
I loved furi, but damn those walking sections just made me roll my eyes. Developers think they can just get away with forced slow walking to build atmosphere.
- Comment on Please remember to spread the word about this :( 5 weeks ago:
F you.
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- Comment on Judge Rules Training AI on Authors' Books Is Legal But Pirating Them Is Not 5 weeks ago:
Fuck you, I won’t do what you tell me!
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I was inspired by the sometimes hilarious dnd splatbooks, thank you very much.
- Comment on *tap tap tap* 1 month ago:
And we’re all jealous of woody the woodpecker on this glorious summer day.