scutiger

@scutiger@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  He never dodged a goose. He took it straight to the face.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In the US, it's finally socially acceptable again to clap when the plane lands⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Sounds like someone leads a boring and meaningless life.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨3D Printed Steam Deck Accessories You Might Like⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I just roll up the cable and stuff the charger behind the strap anyway. It’s never been an issue for me.

  What I did find that I liked is this stand that fits in that hole. It had a hole to mount a cheap USB-C dock which I had to make a little bit bigger for the one I own, but it’s pretty convenient for me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hong Kong condemns 'attack' after Asian Games ice hockey match⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  After the game is over? That’s not something that usually happens. And sucker-punching is never tolerated. Even body checking a player who can’t see you will get you ganged up on by the opposing team.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If Walmart operates in Canada and takes all the profit back to the US, is that reflected in the trade balance?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sometimes all it takes it something unrelated (sort of) to remind us of our principles.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Non-US alternatives to digital services⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They don’t do all of what Proton does, but for email Hushmail is run out of Vancouver. The free account is quite limited in terms of space though, but it’s free.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who stole all the pies? Michelin-starred chef 'gutted' at theft of 2,500 pies.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean nobody wants to admit they eat 2500 pies, but I did and I’m ashamed of myself. The first pie doesn’t count and then you get to the second, and the third. The fourth and fifth I think I burnt with the blow torch and I just kept eating.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨vines of the animal kingdom⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s the opposite of a worm of Theseus. Each individual part becomes a new whole.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨vultures⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t need you to tell me how good my bones taste.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Patient gamers, which games have you discovered/played this week?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A lot of the jankiness is gone in the later games. DS1 feels really clunky after having played DS2 and DS3.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨To deter predators...⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Same here. Evolution doesn’t work that way. It’s basically the opposite. Species don’t evolve to solve a problem, they evolve randomly and sometimes that solves a problem for them. Or sometimes, it pushes the species into a very narrow niche where its survival is ensured as long as the current extremely precarious situation they find themselves in doesn’t change.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨And 299999999 is divisible by 13⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Your math is wrong.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨pump up the jamz⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That was the Arecibo observatory

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GORILLA GORILLA⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Which is kind of funny because of miscommunication, they thought they were naming a grisly bear.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fruit Flies⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Are you suggesting they’re not good with cheese?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you have what it takes to become a geologist?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You think you’ve got the stones to become a geologist?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Edge gets "unfair advantage", browser makers claim⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re suing because Microsoft got an exclusion from the Digital Markets Act. Google did not.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do allergies feel like for you?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Mine are similar to yours, but only two relatively short periods per year. It hits me mid-spring, and end of summer.

  As for your allergy testing, it’s likely you’re not really allergic to all of the allergens you were tested for. In many cases for those tests, if a few of the allergens trigger a reaction, then all or most of the injection sites will react rather than just the ones you’re allergic to. It helps when you can tell in the moment which one started it, since reactions happen quite quickly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rockstar Games DDoSed Heavily By Players Protesting New AntiCheat Code⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Rockstar has apparently bought FiveM.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rockstar Games DDoSed Heavily By Players Protesting New AntiCheat Code⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Rockstar have already mentioned that they are working to get the game working on Steam Deck, and by extension Linux in general.

  Shouldn’t be too hard since BattlEye is supposed to be compatible and there’s a BattlEye Proton runtime.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Cheat Code Discovered in Sega Saturn Doom After 27 Years⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  IIRC Doom didn’t have a skybox per se, just parallax ceiling textures. You could put that texture on floors or ceilings and it would show the sky texture that would not be attached to the walls.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube is Losing The War Against Adblockers⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  uBlock Origin and similar ad blockers stop YouTube ads. Occasionally YouTube changes something and ads sneak through until someone updates the filters.

  Now that Chrome has essentially neutered its ad blockers, the only option for many people is Firefox on desktop and mobile, which still has a working version of uBO.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What games popularized certain mechanics?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  At that point, what even is the purpose of defining it? It’s such a specific term that was designed to only apply to their hardware. It’s like creating a new word for a car because you added air conditioning to it.

  Sure, they had the first GPU because they coined a term that only applied to one specific product.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What games popularized certain mechanics?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The first PC that I bought myself has a TNT2 with 8mb of memory. I upgraded it some time later with a GeForce 2 and the difference was shocking.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What games popularized certain mechanics?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And also the concept of your collection of souls being recoverable from your last point of death.

  I know the “death bag” mechanic had been done before, but the disappearing cache is a core element of Soulslike gameplay that has been repeated so many times since then. It adds a sense of urgency and FOMO to the recovery of your stuff. If you die again, it’s gone for good.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What games popularized certain mechanics?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The first GPU card sold to the public was the GeForce 256 in 1999

  3dfx cards like the Voodoo and Voodoo2 were 3d accelerators that predated nVidia’s offerings.

  And even from nVidia themselves, the Riva TNT was a GPU released before the GeForce models.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AMD won't patch all chips affected by severe data theft vulnerability — Ryzen 3000, 2000, and 1000 will not get patched for 'Sinkclose'⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ignorance is not stupidity.

  Despite this being reported on tech news, most people won’t even be aware that it’s a thing because most people won’t actually read about it. And the majority of gamers probably don’t even know what a kernel is or why an anti-cheat with elevated privileges would be a bad thing.

  Most people buy their computers with Windows preinstalled and probably couldn’t tell you if the CPU is Intel or AMD.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨On Bears⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You could try, but odds are it would run away before you could get close enough.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Technically Correct⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m full of plasma, bur they never stopped me from flying.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wood smells like we should be able to eat it, but we can't.⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Cellulose can come from just about any type of plant. Cotton is almost entirely cellulose, for example.

  I don’t know what their cellulose comes from, but saying cellulose is trees is like saying milk is cheese.