KoboldCoterie
@KoboldCoterie@pawb.social
- Comment on A gourmet meal 1 day ago:
Tablejoth?
- Comment on Oh nuts! 2 days ago:
How can anyone possibly not like them?
- Comment on Oh nuts! 2 days ago:
Grey squirrels are native where I’m at; even here, a lot of folks dislike them. They just can’t catch a break.
- Comment on Oh nuts! 2 days ago:
I suppose that makes them quite a bit less endearing. I’ve only ever lived in places where squirrels are native, and never really understood the animosity towards them.
- Comment on Oh nuts! 2 days ago:
I never had a problem with this. I think squirrels are as interesting to look at as birds are, perhaps moreso. I mean, look at the acrobatics this little guy has to perform just to get at that feeder. Unlike the birds who just fly down like it’s nothing. He’s putting in the effort, let him have the fuckin’ payoff.
- Comment on How do you feel on Kirby games? 1 week ago:
I loved them as a kid for exactly that reason. I was not good at video games in the NES era, and Kirby was the one game I could actually beat. It was cool not just replaying the same 2-3 levels over and over again for hours.
- Comment on What challenge from a game isn't worth completing and what challenge from a game is worth completing? 1 week ago:
Achievements (for me, at least) are just a reason to spend more time with a game that I enjoy. In most cases, I have trouble enjoying a game if I don’t have goals to work towards (either game-imposed or self-imposed). If I finish the main part of the game, and am not tired of it yet, achievements give me goals that I can follow if I want to keep playing.
Definitely agree that there’s too many games that have achievements that are just in no way worth the time and aren’t even fun as an auxiliary goal, though. The best ones are the ones that get you to do things you otherwise wouldn’t (e.g. playing a non-standard playthrough of the game). The lazy ones (‘Kill X enemies, Earn Y dollars’) are just busywork or earned ‘automatically’ while doing other things and add nothing.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Well, I’d agree with you that the least colored one is the best for drinking. That doesn’t make it good for drinking, but better than the other options, which are markedly worse.
This is purely speculative and not based on real-world experience.
- Comment on who's gonna tell him? 1 week ago:
Hey, since nobody’s answered you yet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K-hole
- Comment on AI Is Scheming, and Stopping It Won’t Be Easy, OpenAI Study Finds 1 week ago:
Stopping it is, in fact, very easy. Simply unplug the servers, that’s all it takes.
- Comment on US Senator proposes bill permitting AI data centers to bypass federal power rules via off-grid energy infrastructure development 2 weeks ago:
Honestly, if they made it a requirement that it has to be 100% clean energy, this could actually be a net positive, but of course they won’t because it’s Trump and he’s got a boner for coal and oil.
- Comment on Hostile architecture 2 weeks ago:
Maybe it’s intended to let a homeless person give two handjobs at once. Did you ever think of that?
- Comment on If tomato is a fruit then lasagna is a fruit tart. 2 weeks ago:
You know… Lasagna is sauce, cheese and vegetables on a dough base.
Lasagna is a pizza.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
I’m not familiar with nor am I equipped to comment on the natalist PoV, but I will comment on your argument:
Gun violence isn’t even in the top 10 leading causes of death in the US. You’re more likely to die in an auto accident or to cancer or heart disease or diabetes or a number of other things than due to gun violence. If you’re trying to present a serious argument here, you might want to consider actual statistics.
- Comment on Zootopia 2 weeks ago:
It’s telling that searching for “Nala bedroom eyes” gets you plenty of screenshots of it immediately.
- Comment on Zootopia 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Zootopia 2 weeks ago:
I mean, if you just watch the scene that’s linked there it makes it pretty clear. Nick (the fox) is pretending to stalk and kill Judy (the rabbit) by biting her neck. This specific frame is her intentionally over-acting dying after the reveal that it’s fake.
- Comment on Zootopia 2 weeks ago:
They knew what they were up to.
- Comment on The boy who was relentlessly bullied by his uncle 2 weeks ago:
This one weird trick Death doesn’t want you to know about!
- Comment on Are Crows just the reincarnation of cranky goths? 2 weeks ago:
Clearly they’re thinking of en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crow_(1994_film).
- Comment on The forbidden fourth leche 2 weeks ago:
Jackasses? Sir, that’s just good strategy. What would you do? Bid $650, just to be sportsmanlike? The Price Is Right is serious business, you either go for the throat or you go home empty handed.
- Comment on Dell says the quiet part out loud: Consumers don't actually care about AI PCs — "AI probably confuses them more than it helps them" 2 weeks ago:
The majority of computer users aren’t particularly computer savvy.
- Comment on What should the next President of the United States do? 3 weeks ago:
I was going to about say codify laws for them not to be messed with, but even codified laws can still be messed with. There must be a new way to instill laws that not even Congress can touch and fuck with. That no President after this one can touch. That no Supreme Court of any kind can touch.
This absolutely should not be a thing. Imagine if the founding fathers had done this to codify e.g. slavery in this manner.
Instead, we have the constitution. The closest thing to what you’re describing is a constitutional amendment. It’s not immutable, though (as evidenced by the fact that a constitutional amendment is a thing that can actually happen).
- Comment on Media zombies would be largely harmless if they lacked teeth and claws. 3 weeks ago:
According to this source, adult male bengal tigers weigh 380-580 lbs. Pretty sure it could just run into you at full speed and do plenty of damage.
- Comment on Rushmore 3 weeks ago:
I was so much happier not knowing that.
- Comment on Rushmore 3 weeks ago:
He should be there watching it happen. Right up close.
- Comment on Rushmore 3 weeks ago:
If anyone put the idea in his head, there is no doubt in my mind he’d try to have himself carved into it. I firmly believe the only reason he hasn’t is because he hasn’t remembered it exists.
- Comment on Just keeping my buoyancy in check. 3 weeks ago:
Sure, but how does it work?
- Comment on Reddit to lemmy reposter 4 weeks ago:
The problem isn’t content, it’s engagement on the content. Folks complain that niche communities have no engagement, just a bunch of posts by a single person… but it feels like 95% of the time, if I comment on those posts, there’s no reply, not even from the OP, and that discourages further posting.
If you’re willing to engage on everything you post, I don’t see the harm in it, but at that point, why even use a bot? Why not just find content you like (or have the bot notify you of content), then post it yourself as an actual human?
- Comment on Random idea: a federated alternative to Amazon Prime built from independent shops? 4 weeks ago:
I had a horrible Amazon experience 3 or 4 years ago and haven’t shopped there since, so I’m probably remembering the time when it did work.
