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@ ApathyTree @lemmy.dbzer0.com

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  • What advice or tips do you have which sound like nonsense but really work?

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  • Idk how much it would help you, but if you can source some fairly common stuff and do some mild DIY, you can make a cold pack/pad that “freezes” at room temp and lasts a super long time. It isn’t cold, more like cool water that stays cool. You could even make socks out of it, if you want. They would be weird and squishy and probably trigger some sort of sensory thing, but you COULD :p

    https://youtube.com/watch?v=Nqxjfp4Gi0k

  • So when you were a kid and didn't like to eat something, you'd give it to your parents. But what do you do with food you dislike as an adult?

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  • I give it to my chickens if I can’t stand to eat it myself.

  • Kinect sucks ass

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  • I love when games themselves are sort of meh, but there’s that one thing in them that keeps you hooked for hours and hours because it’s done surprisingly well for some reason.

    When I played FFX I basically stopped playing the story when I found blitzball. I’m not sure if I ever actually finished the game. It was amazing use of 3-D space that actually played really well, at least compared to what else was around at the time.

  • Ex-GOP operative's stark ultimatum on ousting Trump: 'Choose the Republic or surrender it'

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  • I suspect the population needs to see nothing happen if they vote in a blue wave, and I suspect it’s going to need to get worse.. not that I don’t support voting, but right now there’s still too much faith that the system will correct itself. If you aren’t constantly consuming political news, you might think the lip service is actually doing something, and with the constant barrage of shit, people can honestly be forgiven too since extent for not knowing exactly how things are playing out with challenges and stuff.

    It would be nice if it did correct course with voting, but I don’t think it will. At least not without a bigger shakeup (like actually progressives in place of dinos, flipping gerrymandered red districts, etc.) than 2026 midterms are likely to deliver..

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  • So what I’m hearing is.. put a bunch of random stickers for various things on your car to make them work really hard to figure out if you are worth it, instantly making you not worth it!😜

  • Big AI has PC users furious. Nvidia and Micron's weird emotional appeals make it worse

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  • It’s certainly true that the indie market is better about that stuff, but the indie market also generally isn’t considered the driver or trend-setter of the overall games market the way AAA studios are. It would be amazing if that trend shifts, don’t get me wrong, but until or unless it does, I don’t see this going well overall. It does, though, mean that people who care will still have options, and that’s good, so solid point.

    I figure the digital-only consoles are a stepping stone toward this. I’d never consider one myself because if I don’t own a copy of the game that I can sell, I’m not paying for it just in principle. But a ton of people wanted the convenience over the practicality of resale. Digital-only consoles have basically killed the physical game market going forward, since it’s been basically dead on PC for ages. I see the same thing happening with the consoles themselves. I mean ps+ already has a streaming option and a substantial portion of their catalogue is only available to play that way. I’m sure Xbox has the same thing, probably with a similar portion of content locked behind streaming from their servers. I don’t even really understand why they would do this since the bandwidth to stream is far higher than to download and play offline, so I have to assume there’s something behind it like a push toward that model. Get people used to it as an option, then make it the only option.

    And there’s nothing indie studios can really do about those big trends led by big studios/companies, except to quietly keep doing what they were already doing, and make a huge fuss about it when they get their 15 minutes like larian has done. Wake up as many people as you can sort of thing.

  • Big AI has PC users furious. Nvidia and Micron's weird emotional appeals make it worse

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  • I hope you are correct, but I don’t think you are.

    I don’t think game devs (or web devs or any dev really) even remember what optimization means, at this point. They sure aren’t going to start prioritizing it now, especially if major companies continue to be out of touch about what gamers actually want.

    I mean we have microtransactions, we have games as service, we have single player games with online connection requirements, we have games that need logins to other services, etc etc etc. no gamers want these things, but it doesn’t matter because companies do. And companies aren’t going to care if you can’t afford to play their game on your own equipment, they’ll offer you a subscription to stream it from theirs.

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  • I was told the first line repeatedly as a teenager, and stopped wearing makeup a few years later as a result. Then I’d hear intermittent comments about how I look tired because I have thin skin around my eyes. I look tired no matter what I do. But whatever because I save a bunch of time every morning and evening, not to mention money. Holy hell is makeup expensive!

    Now as an adult nearing middle age who stopped even using hair dye, I’m starting to hear that I’d be prettier if I did my makeup/hair better.. and I just go “yeah, probably.” And shrug. I’ve accepted there’s no winning, someone will always comment, so I just do what I like. Not my problem if that makes you feel insecure enough to try to change my behavior.

  • eraser's life

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  • I also don’t recall if I ever did the stabby thing.. probably.

    But I did get my hands on one of those weird putty erasers that artists use for fine point erasure or whatever they are actually for (didn’t work very well, anyway). I used to use that stuff to make little sculptures in class. If it hadn’t been slightly elastic it would have worked very well for it.

  • Eeeeek

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  • Some phone apps do display the link url below the post body. I use voyager and it looks like this

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  • Does that include the 8 up by “moves” in the preceding paragraph?

    I assume the bolded superscript numbers are verse numbers, I know at least that much of biblical format, but then there’s that 8.

    So there’s like 3+ types of annotations and.. that’s confusing..

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  • What’s with the weird italics and random faint superscript letters? I’m not well versed on that sort of thing, but linguistically it makes no sense that I can see..? I assume some sort of index or something for the superscript but it also has numerical superscript..?

  • Ignoring the internet bill itself, how many paid online services do you have?

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  • Technically Plex is a paid service (that I wouldn’t recommend) but I have had a lifetime pass for over a decade so.. if that doesn’t count, zero.

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  • Cats don’t need to ask questions about the world because they are scientists and will figure it out for themselves if they don’t get shown the answers. They know where the snacks come from, at least in regards to their own world, that’s why they come running when they hear the package.

    They knock stuff over to see what happens. They meow for treats to see what happens. They sit on your face to wake you up to see what happens. They get into things just to see what’s in them.

    And when the result is something they want, they try it again to see if the result is consistent. Reproducible.

    That’s why the best way to get a cat to stop doing something they do to you is to ignore them. They meow to wake you up for food? They do that because it’s been working. Stop responding, and the behavior will also stop.

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  • Wow, I haven’t heard “smooth move, ex-lax” in many years. Haven’t even said it myself in at least an age.

  • How did you guys celebrate Christmas this year?

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  • Two people texted me merry Christmas. That’s it. Didn’t do anything else.

  • Meanwhile Ball

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  • Did you know you can get pint glass koozies, just like for cans?

    Eg

    We also have those nice paper sleeves for coffee cups that would do the job as well. At least where you touch.

    So it’s an already-solved problem for this application.

  • Do people actually call their parents by their name (as in First-name basis)? Have you ever done that? Or witnessed someone doing that?

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  • My step-parent has always been referred to by their first name. I was like 9 when they got married so.. it just felt better than the alternatives.

    My mother was always either mom or mother, I prefer mother now. She died in my early 20s, so I can’t discuss all my neglect-based trauma and get closure, and I deal with that by using the colder, less affectionate moniker.

    My sperm donor (father) never really made an effort to be in my life so I don’t refer to him as anything most of the time. Doesn’t come up.

    As for extended family, I don’t have much experience there either but my grandmother was nana, and my aunts and uncles are all title followed by first name, so uncle bob, aunt Cindy, that sort of thing. Cousins get dicy, because some of my cousins are my parent’s age. Anything iffy is just first names.

  • What are your favorite fake video games?

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  • I’m super into this. All of it. I don’t think it’s one thing but several and that makes it more compelling, because I’m honestly not super sure. Because I’m not familiar with any of it. It’s like reading about OS behavior on systems I’ve never touched.

    You seem to be referencing a few people or channels or something, could you provide some links to their content so I can watch it? I’m genuinely interested, and I have enough time on my hands to go searching if all you can give me is a link to the creator. This sounds like exactly the sort of phantom goodness I want more of.