JohnnyEnzyme
@JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social
- Comment on Why do all night show hosts sit and have their desk to the left of the interviewee? 2 weeks ago:
Could be influenced by the way in English (and various Western languages), script flows from left to right, which has some influence in our scanning things left to right in general, such as imagery, comics, etc. In such a scenario, the host is like the familiar anchor at the end of the sentence.
Not saying this is the only or prime reason, but I imagine it plays a part.
- Comment on Is the bards tale (1) really hard or am not good? 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, again– I’d just look at a walkthrough or online help guide at this point. When I get stuck on a game I’ll often use those to get past an unsolvable point, then put them away so as not to spoil the rest of the game.
Plenty of games like BT1 I solved in the day by myself, but sometimes with later replays I just don’t have the drive and energy to do it all over again. I just want to experience the fun of the game again and move on.
- Comment on Is the bards tale (1) really hard or am not good? 2 weeks ago:
Anyone else remember this game?
I remember the series (about 3-4 games I think?), which was a major jump past Wizardry and other games that tried to be more realistic, but wound up being more bloated and slow-playing.
Bard’s Tale was great because it reimagined some elements (like the Bard), used really snappy, fun animations, played efficiently, and had interesting writing.
If you’re having trouble with BT1, why not just take a peek at a walkthrough or help guide to get past wherever you’re stuck?
- Comment on It's easier to eat salad with chopsticks than with a fork. 2 weeks ago:
Chopsticks would definitely be well-suited to some, but there are many kinds of salads, so YMMV.
A spoon or soup spoon can also work best with some…
- Comment on Antimatter has been transported for the first time ever 2 weeks ago:
Whoa, that’s a pretty big BOO… oh.
Okay, thanks.
- Comment on Antimatter has been transported for the first time ever 2 weeks ago:
Not mentioned was how big the —BOOM— would be if the container jar failed.
- Comment on Pompeii's battle scars linked to an ancient 'machine gun' 2 weeks ago:
What a polybolos looked like:
https://www.google.com/search?q=polybolos&udm=2 - Comment on Has the scientific community ever reconciled with the fact global warming is going to happen and there is no stopping it? 2 weeks ago:
Thanks for explaining!
- Comment on Has the scientific community ever reconciled with the fact global warming is going to happen and there is no stopping it? 2 weeks ago:
We’re continually being defunded
Well, that’s the disaster happening in the States, but the time-stamp here suggests maybe you’re… in Western Europe? Shit, so what’s the trouble with lawyers, in this case?
- Comment on Has the scientific community ever reconciled with the fact global warming is going to happen and there is no stopping it? 2 weeks ago:
Uhhhh…. they’ve been warning us for many decades, now? (and sounding alarms)
There’s also the fact that Swedish scientist Svante Arrhenius (and others) discovered key mechanisms of the Greenhouse Effect, and CO2’s key role in such, back in the 1800’s. So you know, want to know about a science issue? Maybe ask literal scientists?
It’s not the body of relevant scientists that are letting us down, Dafty…
- Comment on YSK fuel is heavily taxed, but you can avoid the taxes and reduce waste by making your own diesel without expensive equipment 2 weeks ago:
There used to be something called a “GreaseCar” conversion kit. It would modify a diesel engine to accept cooking oil without any special preparation. The main thing would be to semi-regularly change a special filter, but that was it IIRC.
@stoptech@lemmy.today
- Comment on Interview: Rod Roddenberry Has “High Hopes” For What’s Next For Star Trek, Says New Paramount “Gets It” 3 weeks ago:
Agree with all that, but:
The problem is is Gene Roddenberry Is not who made star trek what it is.
He certainly was the one most responsible, though. Yeah, there was a huge issue of him taking credit for other peoples’ work, but it was indeed him with the vision, and him constantly perfecting scripts before he turned them over to the production team. Without him there is no Star Trek, period.
Humans are complex, and my read is that he was one of those ‘benevolent dictator’ types who was useful for a while, before everyone had enough of his shit. Berman was kind of similar from what I understand…
- Comment on Interview: Rod Roddenberry Has “High Hopes” For What’s Next For Star Trek, Says New Paramount “Gets It” 3 weeks ago:
I don’t even know what Star Trek stands for anymore. It just seems to be slogging on for money, for quite a while now.
Even in the original sense, Gene Roddenberry’s high-principled ideals was kind of sabotaged by how he actually conducted himself. That said, a lot of great stories and eps were produced along the way, IMO.
- Comment on Somewhere out there, there may be an alien life form imagining how terrible a planet with molten dihydrogen monoxide in the atmosphere might be. 3 weeks ago:
Wow, I was prepared for Martian Chronicles or maybe a PKD story, but I love it! <3
- Comment on I designed a board game (creative commons/open source) 4 weeks ago:
Can the board grow dynamically once a milestone is met? That could solve the early game issue?
Something definitely worth looking at, although it might add more complexity.
Since it’s in the testing stage, maybe add the option to start with a smaller board, even if it can become eventually cramped. I’m still trying to memorise what everything does, and a smaller board would help for testing purposes.
I haven’t tested this as actively as I’d hoped so far, but will continue to take stabs at it, here and there. My ambition is to give you better feedback and advice, as someone who likes testing games…
- Comment on Sky Glows over Paranal Observatory 4 weeks ago:
What is the, uh… ‘laser-neon’ orange glow to the right?
- Comment on "US Person": is a red flag for financial institutions in Europe 4 weeks ago:
I hate to recommend the evil empire, but there’s a very good sub on this topic called r/AmerExit. Sometimes a community is too niche to exist on the Fediverse, and one must hold one’s nose and visit Reddit for certain content.
- Comment on YSK: You Don't Actually Have A 'Lizard Brain', Evolutionary Study Reveals 4 weeks ago:
As the article states, it was much more than just a metaphor, and more of a ‘here’s our current understanding’ thing.
And plenty of people took that seriously IME.
- Comment on Quotes 5 weeks ago:
You’re quite welcome, mate. I’m just helping myself by helping you, haha.
I see what you’re saying about spamming, but if there’s ever a time to spam? Yeah, that would be now.
- Comment on Quotes 5 weeks ago:
If it helps, here’s an online buddy of mine who started a new community 3 days ago:
https://piefed.social/c/newcommunities/p/1813767/comic-strip-editsIt already has 28 posts and 101 subscribers.
Remember to populate your new community with lots and lots of content. I.e., you can’t expect people to pitch in unless you make a notable effort to launch things off. Word to the wise…
- Comment on Quotes 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, that’s what I’ve been saying for 2.5yrs now over at my own community. XD
https://piefed.social/c/eurographicnovels
That said, most of what I write are mini-articles that take time to put together. Sharing a pic (or quote) is generally much easier, as I do across other communities, and the PieFed scheduler is aces for helping with that.
Anyway, I’ve saved a lot of quotes in graphical format over the years. This weekend, I’ll begin scanning through my media collection and begin moving all those to a separate folder, then I’ll begin helping out by posting them here. I really do love a good quote, mate. 🙂
- Comment on Why are basketball shoes so squeaky? 5 weeks ago:
It was usually concrete, as that’s what most outdoor courts are made of in the States. That’s kinda the whole point, i.e. not wooden floors.
That’s not correct about the NBA-level forces, as occasionally playing indoors instantly produced that range of squeaking sounds. Little kids produced those sounds as well. It’s just the dynamic of sneakers upon wood, essentially.
- Comment on Quotes 5 weeks ago:
I’ll join. The Fediverse needs a quote community outside of .ml, so hopefully you can keep it going.
Note that you should also follow the advice in Dave’s comment, here:
- Comment on Why are basketball shoes so squeaky? 5 weeks ago:
As a long-time streetballer I rarely got a sense of that, playing 99% of the time outdoors.
Actually, most of the bball shoes I was familiar with didn’t have that fine-line design on the soles. It was more usually geometric shapes and stuff…
- Comment on Human Zoo 1 month ago:
Fuck… sérieusement ?!
Just put ME in there, instead, as a reminder that we’re ALL naked apes, end of the day.
- Comment on This is a federated test post from a nodeBB forum. 1 month ago:
I see it from PieFed.Social. I’d absolutely love it if we got more FV content here, such as NodeBB. :D
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Really? What about it do you miss? (presuming)
- Comment on Comic Strip Edits 1 month ago:
Earlier, I noticed Dave’s top-voted comment to help get more eyes on the place:
https://piefed.social/c/asklemmy/p/1817118/dear-fediverse-why-is-my-community-not-visible-and-yes-it-s-public#post_repliesNot quite sure how that all works yet, but I guess I might need to do that for my own community, plus an upcoming one.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
You think? With those things you mention, you can make a product that pushes the right buttons, hits the right notes, and be done with it, letting it sell itself on its own from that point forward.
Now compare that to relaunching a whole platform and keeping it alive with investor money until it eventually and hopefully ‘makes it.’ Seems like a considerably different thing to me.
I’m reminded of the Arsenio Hall Show which ran from ‘89-94, did well for its time, but whose shelf life kind of naturally expired. They tried to bring it back in 2013, but cancelled it after a single season, because… nostalgia could only prop it up for so long. Or something like that.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Keeping in mind that I didn’t use Digg much back in the day, I don’t really understand the idea of re-launching a service that fell out of use in the first place.
Or if MySpace (etc) was to relaunch with modern features, could it expect to succeed out of nostalgia, or something..?