SlurpingPus
@SlurpingPus@lemmy.world
- Comment on Is there still anyway to bypass Youtube "Sign in to confirm your age" bullshit in 2026? 2 days ago:
- Comment on Is there still anyway to bypass Youtube "Sign in to confirm your age" bullshit in 2026? 2 days ago:
Hmmm, you’re right, it now tells me to “search to get started”. Guess the onslaught of total unmitigated crap as the default page for a region was rather embarrassing. That’s the downside of using the greatest common factor as the starting point.
Thankfully I have my own interests instead, and taught them to Youtube. Works like a charm.
- Comment on Is there still anyway to bypass Youtube "Sign in to confirm your age" bullshit in 2026? 2 days ago:
I understand the sentiment, but gotta say YouTube is one service that is much better when logged in. I have my history and personalization disabled everywhere except YouTube. If I open YouTube’s front page in an incognito tab, it’s wall-to-wall trash on the level of Jerry Springer. Meanwhile I’ve been getting recommendations to my precise taste for years. Lots of good music found in the recs.
I don’t even open random YouTube links from social media under my account, so as to not mess up the recommendations. Always using an incognito tab instead.
- Comment on Woke 2 days ago:
Ah, of course, Canadians must show up and fight your fight for you.
- Comment on You can just do stuff. 2 days ago:
fermenting a strong belief
On the offchance, the word you want is probably ‘fomenting’.
- Comment on WHERE THE FUCK IS THE CURSOR? 2 days ago:
Five or more monitors is typically for traders watching charts and news simultaneously. Those rake in a bit more than grunts.
- Comment on WHERE THE FUCK IS THE CURSOR? 2 days ago:
I’m vaguely sure this was already in MacOS when I got my Macbook in early 2010s.
- Comment on Just shave it bro 5 days ago:
Do they open in browser? Many Lemmy instances seem to be behind CloudFlare, so it could be that you just have some problem with connectivity to CloudFlare, but only for some of their ips.
- Comment on Why Everyone’s Picking Up a PSP Again in 2026 (my article!) 5 days ago:
Neat. Took me a while to make out the title, though.
- Comment on Why Everyone’s Picking Up a PSP Again in 2026 (my article!) 5 days ago:
Designers Republic art detected.
- Comment on Why Everyone’s Picking Up a PSP Again in 2026 (my article!) 5 days ago:
There’s also Race Driver 2006, which is a pretty good and content-rich port of ‘TOCA Race Driver 2’. SBK 09 works as a bike sim, and Colin McRae Rally 2005 is a decent rally sim. Formula One 06 is a port of Psygnosis’ frustratingly demanding PS2 game, made in-house so without particular simplification. The NASCAR game is weird but serviceable.
Vita has a few too, namely F1 2011, MotoGP 14 and the WRC series. Although the F1 game is straight up too easy if one practices the tracks.
- Comment on Why Everyone’s Picking Up a PSP Again in 2026 (my article!) 5 days ago:
Retroarch is a bit bloated for more intensive emulation, though. You can play N64 games on Vita, but they run better in standalone emulators than in Retroarch.
- Comment on One stop shop 6 days ago:
Doesn’t quite beat the “otolaryngologist and wiener sausages”.
- Comment on where? 6 days ago:
Check out his ‘An Evening with Kevin Smith’ talks. He’s actually pretty chatty.
- Comment on Are there any story ripoffs that are actually good? 1 week ago:
From what I’ve heard, ‘TMNT’ is basically a wide-reaching parody of the comic genre at the time. ‘Daredevil’ was one of the influences, just like noted in the Wikipedia article:
The concept parodied several elements popular in superhero comics of the time — the teenagers of New Teen Titans, the mutants of Uncanny X-Men and the ninja skills of Daredevil — combined with the comic tradition of funny animals such as Howard the Duck.
They developed a backstory referencing further elements of Daredevil: like Daredevil, the Turtles are altered by radioactive material, and their sensei, Splinter, is a play on Daredevil’s sensei, Stick.
Idk how you read that article to have missed that. It’s also been noted more than once before that the ‘radioactive spill’ or whatever by which the turtles are affected is supposedly the exact same incident that is Daredevil’s origin story.
- Comment on US man pleads guilty to defrauding music streamers out of millions using AI 1 week ago:
Sounds like the botting was the problem, not the AI-generated tracks. He could’ve done the same with sounds of nature or some other shit like that.
- Comment on Are there any story ripoffs that are actually good? 1 week ago:
I remember reading that one of story shooter games had a particularly great mission where the player descends on a city from the surrounding elevation or somesuch. And I’ve heard multiple times recently that ‘The Line’ is quite outstanding with its story and gameplay. Is it the same game, by any chance? I don’t think there’s any elevation near Dubai, so probably not, but just to make sure.
- Comment on Are there any story ripoffs that are actually good? 1 week ago:
Not quite the same, but: more than a few classic films are remakes. The 1959 ‘Ben-Hur’ is a remake of the 1925 film, which itself was the second cinema adaptation of the novel, after the 1907 film.
- Comment on Are there any story ripoffs that are actually good? 1 week ago:
Speaking of Kurosawa, ‘Ran’ is based on ‘King Lear’, and also “includes segments based on legends of the daimyō Mōri Motonari”.
- Comment on Are there any story ripoffs that are actually good? 1 week ago:
Afaik more than a few of Shakespeare’s stories come from contemporary plays, he just retold them in his own manner.
- Comment on Are there any story ripoffs that are actually good? 1 week ago:
F. W. Murnau wanted to make a cinema adaptation of ‘Dracula’, but didn’t get the permission. So he shrugged, changed some details, and made the 1922 ‘Nosferatu’.
Guess what, the original Dracula wasn’t affected by sunlight. That whole trope of the vampire genre comes from ‘Nosferatu’.
- Comment on Are there any story ripoffs that are actually good? 1 week ago:
‘Apocalypse Now’ is based on Joseph Conrad’s 1899 novella ‘Heart of Darkness’, in which the events happen on the Congo river.
- Comment on The world if USA just stopped fucking with other countries for no reason at all 1 week ago:
I’ve recently listened to a podcast from late 2024, before Trump was inaugurated, and the guest expert straight up predicted that Trump would mess with Iran, because a) Republican presidents cover up their shitty performance by starting a war, and b) Iran was the weakest of available options.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Are these only visible for users that made comments in the modded subreddit? I wonder if I can make it show a summary for my own account, since I’ve gotten some weird limitations lately-ish.
- Comment on Working outside 1 week ago:
This thread is getting more ridiculous by the minute. I’m working on laptops for ages now. Most apps are simply always full-screen, as they would be on any monitor below 30". I use a stand and an external keyboard at home, but nothing is keeping me from fiddling the keys on the laptop itself. My neck can thankfully swivel up and down.
Once upon a time, when I got sick of northern winter, I went to Egypt and worked from there for two weeks. Did some walking around during the day, coded in the hotel suite for a while. Then at 18 o’clock sharp the sun falls beyond the horizon, the tourists disappear from the beach, meanwhile I walk out and sit in a beach chair with my laptop, enjoying the fresh breeze. Had a great time.
- Comment on A name more fitting 1 week ago:
‘King’ is kinda obviously Germanic.
- Comment on MEGA FLAG 1 week ago:
In Picard’s case, Tea Earl Grey Hot
Classy and tasty enema.
- Comment on MEGA FLAG 1 week ago:
Tom Stoppard already pretty much did. Watch ‘Rosencranz and Guildenstern are Dead’.
- Comment on MEGA FLAG 1 week ago:
Indeed. Wait, did you forget that your ship is a minuscule trade boat, and the whole crew is you and another guy, with none of you being specialists in teleporter repair?
You’re still a day from your destination.
- Comment on MEGA FLAG 1 week ago:
I’ve just thought of another consequence: if the waste is always teleported out, then the muscles of the bladder and the rectum are gonna become dystrophic, while the anal sphincter forgets how to loosen. In addition, the urinary tract might dry out for want of any moisture from the bladder.
Now imagine that one day your trusty crap teleporter breaks down. You’re stuck with urine and shit filling the bladder and the rectum, while both outlets are plugged from years of disuse and you don’t know anymore how to push the stuff out.
