ButteryMonkey
@ButteryMonkey@piefed.social
- Comment on Parking police 2 days ago:
Maybe there’s a specific size/resolution of image you could use to make it work, if you knew the exact distance? But I’d also think this wouldn’t work..
- Comment on Parenting advice 2 days ago:
No no that’s much better.
- Comment on What game is a guilty pleasure of yours? 2 days ago:
Random my little pony and other young kid games. Hate to admit it but even the paw patrol games are entertaining in this way.
They are short and easy, and kinda junk, nice palate cleanser, and often very cute and encouraging. You don’t know a silly morale boost until you play something that says “you’re doing great!” periodically on the easiest thing you’ve done all day. - Comment on If it were possible to travel back in time and manipulate events, we could take a book back in time and publish it before the author historicallt does... as a prank... 1 week ago:
Send down Wikipedia. Oooooooh that’d do it. And it’s probably about as close to objective as can be hoped, I know it actually isn’t, nothing can be, but it’s overall close.
- Comment on *Yawn* 1 week ago:
You saw an animal open their mouth big? Have fun.
- Comment on challenge 1 week ago:
Take a day off, or like, just quit instead.
- Comment on I've heard New Yorkers are devastated 2 weeks ago:
Why not grassroots? Let’s start the movement!
- Comment on Hard drives on backorder for two years as AI data centers trigger HDD shortage — delays forcing rapid transition to QLC SSDs 2 weeks ago:
Be a great time to set up RAID storage systems mmmmmmm I cannot waaaaait to have something resembling a backup.
- Comment on Palantir CEO Says a Surveillance State Is Preferable to China Winning the AI Race 2 weeks ago:
I wonder if this is a “Star Trek is a conservative show” sort of thing. Like he’s genuinely not smart enough to actually understand what is right in front of him.
I mean it probably isn’t, but it also wouldn’t surprise me to find out that the whole deeper meaning of the entire thing was entirely lost on such a shallow excuse for a human.
- Comment on Definitely spongeworthy 2 weeks ago:
Probably. Her standards weren’t that high; I’ve met my dad.
- Comment on Definitely spongeworthy 3 weeks ago:
Which is reasonable from what my mom told me. She agreed those were the best.
- Comment on How the Web Became Unreadable 3 weeks ago:
I hate bright screens. On my phone I used the accessibility options to set up a trigger to reduce white point, turned it down decently far, and it’s easily the best QoL adaptation I’ve ever made re: screens.
Only downside is it’s very difficult to tell what is in darker pictures. But because it’s on a trigger I can toggle it on and off very very easily.
I genuinely wish I could do the same thing with my tv with just a simple trigger.. I know I can alter the brightness and contrast and stuff but I’d have to mess with so many options, spread across so many sub-menus (fuck you, googletv OS, you suck super hard. Whyyyyyyyyyyy are there multiple settings menus????), to get it anywhere near what I want that it’s not really worth doing (I just crash it down to zero brightness, it’s adequate, I guess, but it’s no white point reduction..)
- Comment on Twinkle twinkle little star 3 weeks ago:
Do you have any links to these, or names I can look for? I’m genuinely into that sort of social norm bucking, as a comfort-in-skin-over-propriety sort of gal myself, and learning stuff (mostly any science-adjacent stuff) is my special interest - my degree and life focus is in science communication (I can’t help but infodump so I learned how to do it properly!)!
I mean naked news was(is?) super popular; why not fuck-me-branded science?
- Comment on Twinkle twinkle little star 3 weeks ago:
Is there a video of this talk? I’d love love love to see it if possible!
I like ladies in sparkly things being smart. I do it sometimes myself, anlong with bright colors and vivid patterns, and it’s wildly fun! Clothing doesn’t matter, so have fun with it!
- Comment on Male Mar-a-Lago face 3 weeks ago:
Oh my god it’s political bimboficiation.. that’s fucking fascinating.
- Comment on After police used Flock cameras to accuse a Denver woman of theft, she had to prove her own innocence 4 weeks ago:
I got pulled over the other day. The reason given was a lane change violation (which was bullshit pretense, it was right outside a very rural, but very busy, bar so this was likely actually entrapment, tho I was for sure under the legal limit - I was there to check out line dancing because I’ve never seen it before, and only had one beer in the hour I was there).
I also had a very expired registration (haven’t driven much, and didn’t realize I forgot to renew it).
But I got let off everything with a warning..? I spent days trying to figure it out because it should have been a ticket.. he didn’t even seem interested in waiting for me to dig out my insurance info (which I had, just had to get it out of my wallet).
But I have a dash cam.. and it records sound. It would have proven I didn’t violate anything, and he was recorded saying why I was pulled over so no way to flub it and say it was actually the registration all along, and thus the pretense for pulling me over in the first place was void. I’m pretty sure that’s the only reason I got off with a list of warnings rather than tickets.
- Comment on it 🆗 4 weeks ago:
I’m the opposite. My witching hour is the hour after I wake up. Apparently I don’t fart in my sleep so I wake up inflated like a parade balloon. I greet the morning with my very own rendition of reveille.
It used to be a big problem but my most recent partner was just like “just fart”, and then would giggle like a schoolboy every time I did, which took all the pressure off (literally and figuratively).
- Comment on Fight me 5 weeks ago:
I used to do it for SETI@home and a few other projects. Haven’t in a while now but maybe I will again since my server pc never shuts off anyway.
Back in the day I used boinc or some such to interface, it sort of looked like a torrent page, with progress bars on the tasks and stuff. It was kinda neat having an impact.
- Comment on similar to the word of mouth post, what game did you not expect much from but loved it? 5 weeks ago:
Balan wonderland. It looked like a dumb kids game graphically, and I never saw it cost more than $10 new. How good could it actually be?
Picked it up because why not, $10. And it’s actually a great little platformer with cute and engaging mechanics.
I wish the clock did something if you complete it; spawning the kings is a gigantic pain and very confusing for something that does nothing at all, but it’s a very cute little side project, so it should have had a purpose. The use of consumable costumes sucks. It should just be an unlock thing rather than needing to farm the level, since farming is just standing next to the spawn point, which is tedious and dumb. Other than those two minor complaints, it is really engaging and a lot longer than I was expecting. Lots of hidden stuff, great level design, and just complicated enough to make you think without being overly frustrating.
- Comment on sold my first painting 1 month ago:
Oh is that who is behind the painting? I was wondering.
- Comment on paint job 1 month ago:
She should have used grape or green apple so he could actually see the change!
- Comment on Smöl 1 month ago:
I wanted to listen to it, so I went looking.
And I am wildly disappointed that the only human-read video I could find is a freakin’ ASMR video. I can’t watch that shit.
The computer-read versions make it sound like it would make a great tongue twister memory sort of thing. I’m honestly a tiny bit surprised it hasn’t been done.
- Comment on At 1% 1 month ago:
At this point, I’m more impressed that there’s always someone ready to share the relevant xkcd, than I am that there happens to be a relevant xkcd for everything.
- Comment on Which one and why? 1 month ago:
3 looks like my grandmothers sugar spoon from one of those little jar and spoon sets
- Comment on I wonder what game they're trying to play 1 month ago:
You missed out on the tomb raider demo disc that came with PlayStation magazine (probably issue 73 based on the fact I have it and I wasn’t subscribed very long while demo discs were a thing) Same era.
If you went for a swim in the pool, and swam into the side, you’d not only get a constant intense vibration, you’d also get to see her swimming motion, and I don’t think it had breath mechanics yet (or at least she wouldn’t die in the demo zone), so you could take your time. Win win.
There was also a vibration test in the menu if you just wanted no frills.
- Comment on Truly 1 month ago:
Me too, and it reinforces how much I’d not want to actually gamble.. because no-stakes game gambling is often slanted in your favor, so if you play long enough you’ll probably hit big. It’s kinda fun.
I played one game (no clue what it was anymore) that had a “semi-realistic odds” setting with a big warning that while you’d still probably manage, you’d have to dig much further into your reserves to do so. And it wasn’t an easy win even with the setting off, it was fucking obnoxious because it was needed..
I went to a real casino a year or so ago, because it was a cheap hotel stay, and I got $10 free money for signing up and being a veteran (a demographic often plagued with gambling problems).. I played it and won $120 on the last pull, cashed out, and haven’t touched it since. It felt like a hook, because it was all done on tracking cards, and it gave me the icks big time.
- Comment on Car community shenanigans dump (open post) 2 months ago:
Did you come across a bunch of power tools where the cord screws in to the base, so it’s real easy to replace?
Like the tools come full apart, that’s insane! They also probably had guides with them to fix them!
Like I can probably still use those shock factories! I certainly do not -want- to use them, even though they almost certainly still work (other than maybe corrosion), but the documentation to repair them probably still exists and that’s amazing!!
- Comment on Car community shenanigans dump (open post) 2 months ago:
Sweet, mine is proper. TIL my basement is also a proper garage.
My grandpa was a high school shop teacher after serving in WWII, so I have an absolute gob of early power tools and, more importantly, a ton of manual tools. I love using the manual tools. They take for-fucking-ever, but they don’t intimidate me the way power tools do.
- Comment on Car community shenanigans dump (open post) 2 months ago:
They’ve got the showroom floor; it’s just for show.
The tools always look completely unused, like the antique kitchen tools my mom hung on the wall for decoration.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
I don’t speak the language but I’m pretty sure the biggest one is to measure a horse dick since it says “good for a mare” or some such.
That’s gotta be accurate, right? With that kind of benchmark?