TheRealKuni
@TheRealKuni@piefed.social
- Comment on Usually, silicone nippled showerheads aren't replaced or cleaned regularly. 6 hours ago:
The “gunk” is just mineral deposits, right?
- Comment on Filament splicing? Do any of you guys do it? 2 days ago:
Yep. I think other manufacturers do this with multi-material units, too. It’s a really clever way to handle the issue and one of my favorite features of the AMS. Spool running low? Just throw a second one on there, tell the printer they’re the same material, and bam. Wake up the next morning to an empty spool and a completed print.
- Comment on Anyone else fotklift certified? 2 days ago:
How much cough medicine was involved in the creation of this video?
- Comment on Anyone else fotklift certified? 2 days ago:
- Comment on Hashtag spiritual hashtag truth 1 week ago:
He does such a good job. I wish he’d be a bit less clickbait-y, but I understand private equity investment means he kinda has to play the game, like many other very good YouTube channels (Veritasium springs to mind).
- Comment on Hashtag spiritual hashtag truth 1 week ago:
Like the flight where the pilots got lost above Kathmandu and flew right into a cliff like driving into a wall.
(I saw an Air Disasters/Mayday/Air Crash Investigation episode about that one years ago and it really stuck with me. Recently Mentour Pilot did a good episode about it.)
- Comment on What game is a guilty pleasure of yours? 1 week ago:
Starstruck Vagabond, Yahtzee Croshaw’s game.
It’s a well-designed game, and he documented much of the development process on YouTube. It has a dopamine-laden primary gameplay loop that involves either manually piloting your ship around a star system to complete missions, or letting the autopilot fly while you run around your ship making repairs as needed.
I wouldn’t say it’s fun, but it’s not necessarily supposed to be fun, in the way that Papers Please is not meant to be fun. It’s mostly about the living as a star freighter pilot. What plot there is is driven by other characters coming in and interrupting the drudgery.
But I love playing it before bed. It winds me down nicely. And it’s perfect for the Steam Deck.
I used to use Stardew Valley as my wind-down game but I found I was staying up much later because “just one more day-itis” sets in. Starstruck Vagabond I can just save and put down whenever.
- Comment on challenge 2 weeks ago:
You don’t need wood glue? Just the toothpicks?
- Comment on Screw your zodiac sign, tell me... 2 weeks ago:
Patternless. Plain white. Which works well, because if you break a plate you don’t have to worry about whether they still make that pattern.
- Comment on Love’s a two-way dream 2 weeks ago:
(Sorry, I didn’t intend to write an essay here. It just sort of happened. This is a subject I have some amount of passion about.)
I can see where you’re coming from. I’m probably a little triggered by the word. I find the idea that any use of or participation in another culture is “appropriation” to be problematic.
Culture and language (which are largely inextricable from one another) are meant to be shared. That’s their entire purpose. If you participate in aspects of someone else’s culture in a respectful way, that isn’t appropriation. Appropriation, rather, is one part of the broad spectrum of behavior with regard to other cultures.
Humans do this innately. We adjust our manners of speech and behavior subconsciously to better reflect that of those around us. We are social creatures and by nature will act like those we interact with.
Societal views operate on pendulum swings, going from extreme to extreme around the nuanced truth. We went, as a society, from “acting however you want about other cultures is fine, even if it’s offensive,” an unhealthy extreme, to “participating in a culture not your own is not okay and is always offensive,” an equally unhealthy extreme. We like extremes because they are easy to categorize and require much less brainpower to contemplate. They are mental shortcuts our brains make.
But the world doesn’t operate on those extremes. The world is a nuanced place.
An example: a Nigerian-American opera singer was telling me about a time he was teaching a spiritual to a choir of white people. He corrected them when they said ‘they’ instead of ‘dey,’ saying, “The West African slaves who sang these didn’t use the ‘TH’ sound, it didn’t exist in the languages they had grown up with or the accents they had handed down. The proper way to approach this song is to sing it like they would. So you should say ‘dey’ instead of ‘they.’”
But this idea made many of the white singers uncomfortable, because we have shifted to seeing that type of cultural mimicry as offensive. I have seen white people even suggest that they shouldn’t sing spirituals at all, an idea that same Kenyan-American singer found silly. Singing is a way that humans connect with one another, and the best way to do it is to do it as genuinely as possible. It’s a shared experience. But where we are as a society these days, we find that uncomfortable.
And it’s understandable we do, because the extreme, blackface minstrel shows, is rightly seen as horribly offensive. But accurately performing a spiritual is so far removed from the horribly offensive and inaccurate mockery that were minstrel shows that the comparison isn’t a useful one.
We should strive to understand context, strive to be respectful, but also strive to share in the culture of others in constructive ways.
- Comment on FOX BREAKING NEWS ALERT! 2 weeks ago:
Yeah but the steak breakfast Crunchwrap (with extra creamy jalapeño sauce) is still the best fast food drivethru breakfast I’ve found.
- Comment on Love’s a two-way dream 2 weeks ago:
The use of the word “appropriation” and “appropriated” seems unnecessary when discussing someone’s name, IMO. Especially given you also used the phrase “a celebration of the Western Australian aboriginal culture.”
The connotation of “appropriation” just doesn’t fit.
- Comment on FOX BREAKING NEWS ALERT! 2 weeks ago:
This is an old screenshot. The Quesarito, God rest its soul, has been gone for a while. And the scroll at the bottom is talking about George Floyd.
- Comment on Do you guys know how awesome a printer is that is just working? 2 weeks ago:
I must admit I love my P1S. It makes me torn, I don’t like the locked down nature of the firmware and slicer, but at the same time, their stuff is damn good for its price.
- Comment on Do you guys know how awesome a printer is that is just working? 2 weeks ago:
It’s getting closer and closer. A good modern printer is largely fire-and-forget. Still takes some know-how, but far less than it used to.
- Comment on What if tRump is Secretly bisexual but forced to be deeply ashamed of it like the rest of his generation? 2 weeks ago:
if you think someone not being genetically of Jewish decent would spare them while they were living in a practicing household, then you’d be similarly misinformed on how bigotry functions
Where did I say that, or anything like it?
- Comment on What if tRump is Secretly bisexual but forced to be deeply ashamed of it like the rest of his generation? 2 weeks ago:
Being a Jew isn’t about genetics. It’s a fucking religion first and foremost.
Oh, well in that case, Hitler still wasn’t Jewish. He was raised Catholic. Later described himself as “not a Catholic and not a Protestant, but a German Christian.”
So how do you interpret someone saying “Kind of how Hitler was Jewish”? Seeing as how he wasn’t part of the religion, and given how “Jewish” is both a religion and an ethnicity? Because I interpret that as someone saying he’s part of the ethnicity, which was long rumored, and which was very recently shown not to be the case.
Do you think Hitler really cared about lineage when he was clearing out Jewish homes?
Yes? Eugenics was a big part of Nazi ideology.
- Comment on What if tRump is Secretly bisexual but forced to be deeply ashamed of it like the rest of his generation? 2 weeks ago:
New genetic analysis has shown that Hitler had no Jewish ancestry.
He did however have Kallmann Syndrome, a genetic sexual disorder characterized by an incomplete puberty, as well as genetic markers making him more likely than the general population to have had autism, schizophrenia, and/or bipolar disorder.
- Comment on Knows more than most scientists… according to one extremely reliable source: themselves 2 weeks ago:
Also in some cases it gives them a built-in sense of community and belonging, something they haven’t experienced. The documentary Behind the Curve does a good job of pitying flat earthers rather than just ridiculing them. (Though they are absolutely subject to ridicule.)
- Comment on Do Your Part to Keep Them Alive 3 weeks ago:
They need to be deep cycle marine batteries for that!
- Comment on I knew it 3 weeks ago:
You mean the Series X?
It’s about the same footprint but much shorter.
- Comment on Steam Hardware Announcement 3 weeks ago:
My understanding of volume is awful. 3.8L sounds so much bigger than the volume described by 16.2 x 15.6 x 15.2cm. Like, my brain goes, “that’s almost two 2L bottles and those are huge!”
- Comment on Why do Republicans hate the poor so much? 3 weeks ago:
Like I said, Protestant churches come in many flavors. MANY flavors.
What you’re saying is like, “Every quadrilateral I’ve seen lately has four equal sides and four right angles, I think you’re wrong about them only needing four sides.”
Evangelicals are (generally) Protestants (although “Evangelical” isn’t really any sort of organized body but rather something people identify as), but not all Protestants identify as Evangelicals. Those who preach the Prosperity Gospel would profess to be Protestant or Evangelical, but not all Protestants or even all Evangelicals buy into Prosperity Gospel.
Again, the most progressive denominations of Christianity are Protestant. That said, so are the least progressive denominations. It’s a huge category.
- Comment on Steam Hardware Announcement 3 weeks ago:
The cube is smaller than it looks. It’s slightly bigger than the GameCube. 3D print a handle for it and it’s as portable as a machine gets!
- Comment on Steam Hardware Announcement 3 weeks ago:
1080p looks fine on a 4K (2160p) screen assuming whatever you’re using to display it (be that your machine, receiver, or the TV itself in the case of “smart” TVs) is good at upscaling. Worse case scenario it looks the same as 1080p content looks on a TV of the same size, since 2160p is literally just 4x the pixels of 1080p.
1080p can look bad on a 1440p display though, since it doesn’t go evenly in and you’ll need good upscaling.
- Comment on Why do Republicans hate the poor so much? 3 weeks ago:
Protestantism.
Protestantism is Christianity but Jesus is Replaced with Capitalism. If you’re rich, God has chosen you. If you’re poor you have definitely committed every sin.
To help the poor is therefore a betrayal of God.
That is very much not Protestantism. Protestantism is simply the branches of Christianity that descend from the Reformation in the 1500s, “Protesting” what they saw as corruption and even heresy in the Roman Catholic Church. Broadly speaking, Christianity falls into three major categories: the Roman Catholic Church (with the pope and whatnot), Orthodoxy, and Protestantism. Protestant churches come in many different flavors.
Most (if not all) of the most progressive and Christ-like churches are Protestant.
What you’re talking about is Prosperity Gospel. Which is completely antithetical to Christian theology, but that doesn’t stop greedy megachurch preachers and televangelists from pushing it onto ignorant people who know nothing about their own faith.
- Comment on Red Dead Redemption 2 overtakes Mario Kart 8 as the 4th best-selling video game of all time, boasting 79 million sales 3 weeks ago:
I totally forgot about that. 🤣
- Comment on Red Dead Redemption 2 overtakes Mario Kart 8 as the 4th best-selling video game of all time, boasting 79 million sales 3 weeks ago:
RDR2 really doesn’t need a remake. It came out in 2018, and its graphics are still pretty amazing today.
- Comment on Red Dead Redemption 2 overtakes Mario Kart 8 as the 4th best-selling video game of all time, boasting 79 million sales 3 weeks ago:
A remake of RDR1?
- Comment on Red Dead Redemption 2 overtakes Mario Kart 8 as the 4th best-selling video game of all time, boasting 79 million sales 3 weeks ago:
You don’t have to do any of that other stuff. Is ancillary. The game will reward you for it, but it’s completely unnecessary.