AlligatorBlizzard
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- Comment on Are there any good casual/low-stress mobile games that aren't filled with microtransactions? 8 hours ago:
Gubbins is a fun word game, it’s a one time purchase and apparently part of the profits go to charity due to Hank Green investing in it in a creative way.
- Comment on What everyone gets wrong about the 2015 Ashley Madison scandal 6 days ago:
How’d you get this picture of my Grindr DMs?
- Comment on We cater any event! 6 days ago:
This just unlocked one of my weirdest childhood memories. I played fastpitch softball as a kid, and at one away game the school’s softball field was next to a pasture. During warmups and the first several innings, we watched a guy dig a hole in the pasture. In the second inning or so, we hear a gunshot off in the distance, and the third has a truck dragging a horse corpse to the big hole. The man shoved the horse corpse into the grave, and takes three innings to bury the horse.
At the team huddle after the game, one of my teammates said an eulogy for the horse.
- Comment on Microsoft really wants Local accounts gone after it erases its guide on how to create them 6 days ago:
What instructions are you following? Last time I used Rufus on Windows, it had a graphical interface with reasonable default settings and zero messing around on the command line. (I mean, I sometimes did once I was booted into Linux, but I was using distros where that’s not unexpected.)
- Comment on Objectivity 1 week ago:
Trans people would still be a thing without socially defined gender roles. Even without gender, my sex was still wrong - my brain still told me, in times like trying to get comfortable to fall asleep, that my boobs weren’t supposed to be there.
- Comment on Yass Queen 2 weeks ago:
My professor mentioned it in the observational astronomy class I took in college. For anyone wondering, zodiacal dust is the stuff left over from the protoplanetary disc that didn’t become a planet. Any observations made along the plane of the solar system is looking through that dust and astronomers need to account for it in various ways.
- Comment on Reddit brings back its old award system — ‘we messed up’ 1 month ago:
Damn, they just can’t miss an opportunity to insult their users, can they?
- Comment on Reddit brings back its old award system — ‘we messed up’ 1 month ago:
I hate the fact that I’m only about 90% sure you’re joking.
- Comment on Twitter is officially X.com now 1 month ago:
Also it’s funny to deadname muskrat’s site.
- Comment on Satisfying Game Boy Restoration 1 month ago:
Congrats!
I recently found my game boy color with my copy of Pokemon Red in it - a fresh set of batteries and it started the game just fine, but most of the buttons are non functional. Did you need to replace the buttons, or did they just work after cleaning with alcohol?
I wonder if oxyclean will work for my lime green gbc or if something else would be better?
- Comment on Finally 1 month ago:
Damn it now I’m craving a red bean bun.
- Comment on who's tried it? what does it taste like? 1 month ago:
This is definitely a hate crime against gamers.
- Comment on The Patriarchy 1 month ago:
Also there’s lots of hot people at furry cons, at least the ones that didn’t engineer some really efficient cooling for their suits.
- Comment on xkcd #2931: Chasing 1 month ago:
I’d probably rank the international date line above sand traps, because (I think) more people have seen a sand trap in person and there’s an interesting naval tradition associated with crossing it traveling west.
- Comment on The power of AI 1 month ago:
If it’s the same one I saw, it was on a Reuters article and I didn’t think Reuters was as bad with the paywall thing?
- Comment on Colorado Passes Its Third ‘Right To Repair’ Bill 1 month ago:
I used to live in a small Minnesota town and the only liquor store was run by the city. The prices were reasonable for how rural we were, and apparently some of the profits helped with city expenses. However, there was a grocery store 15 years ago or so that apparently wanted to open in the town and also have it’s own liquor store, but the town denied their permits for the liquor store for officially unclear reasons, lol.
Getting someone else to buy it isn’t actually the only way kids get it in states with really loose liquor laws - when I was a teen, I heard of a few places, mostly gas stations, that never carded. Eventually they got busted by the cops, but they sold a lot of booze to my friends before that happened. I don’t think that’s justification for exclusively state run liquor stores though. But I bet the people working at government run stores get better benefits and more stable hours than the ones working for private businesses…
- Comment on Colorado Passes Its Third ‘Right To Repair’ Bill 1 month ago:
I grew up in Florida, where you can buy hard liquor in some gas stations, and now I live in Minnesota, which is now the last state with 3.2 beer - but we got Sunday liquor sales a few years ago (possibly because everyone in the Twin Cities would just go to Wisconsin if they wanted beer on Sunday) and now legal weed. A lot of grocery stores have attached liquor stores and it’s not a big deal, but it’s still silly.
- Comment on Morish Morals 1 month ago:
Right after being gifted a gemstone.
- Comment on Morish Morals 1 month ago:
“Hey, how’d you know I was hungry? This looks delicious!”
- Comment on The wall kisser has struck again 1 month ago:
- Comment on FTC fines Razer for every cent made selling bogus “N95 grade” RGB masks 1 month ago:
Also they were rather expensive, even if they had done what they claimed to. They became more available about the same time you could get N95s easily. I’m the kind of weirdo who thinks an RGB face mask would be cool, but I didn’t want to spend $150 (iirc) on one.
- Comment on Catholic 'media ministry' defrocks AWOL AI priest after it told faithful you can baptise babies in Gatorade and that, sure, it can totally perform your wedding 1 month ago:
There was a picture going around during the pandemic of a religious leader performing a baptism with a super soaker. So, at least in some Christian denominations, that’s totally cool. And if Gatorade is okay…
Can you baptize people with a supersoaker full of piss?
- Comment on Protocol for purging inactive moderators? 2 months ago:
The Agora might also be a fantastic suggestion for this because agreeing on an instance-wide definition, and policy, for removing mods who haven’t been active for several months might be a good idea. Beyond that, maybe some light formal policies for moderators specifically? I don’t think excessive, or any, policies for moderators beyond that of a regular user, is necessarily a good idea, but it might be an interesting question to discuss.
- Comment on It is truly magic 2 months ago:
I’ve seen the end result of someone trying to use a roundabout as a launch ramp. I don’t think their car, stuck in the middle of the roundabout, survived.
- Comment on RTX 40090 2 months ago:
I dropped the money for a decent gaming laptop a few years ago. Mostly I play Stardew Valley.
- Comment on Or we could do metric time 2 months ago:
We could all unionize and just take the first month off, set it in the deepest part of winter, January or so, and just set Christmas to be during that month. Although people might not be thrilled to move Christmas to after New Year’s.
- Comment on Or we could do metric time 2 months ago:
We should all just switch to Unix time.
- Comment on What a life to leave your children 2 months ago:
The inversion of the joke in the show makes this even funnier. If you didn’t catch it as a kid, the neighbors he’s comparing himself to, the Dinklebergs, have more material possessions because they’re DINKs - Dual Income No Kids. That’s where their last name comes from.
- Comment on Me seeing my post being removed (at least I have my muffins) 2 months ago:
I should start doing yoga again…
- Comment on You did it. The crazy son of a bitch, you did it. 2 months ago:
There’s an “illegal aliens from Mexico” joke here but I’m too stoned to come up with it.