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sp3ctr4l

@ sp3ctr4l @lemmy.dbzer0.com

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as alive as you need me to be

  • X rays

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  • You sound like you got lost trying to go to a comedy show, ended up at the Mothership on Schaub night, and laughed because everyone else was laughing.

  • YouTube Premium just got more expensive again: now $16 a month, or $27 for families

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  • ... people pay for youtube?

    ... you know you can just block the ads, right?

    ... and you don't need a propietary app to get youtube on a tv?

  • Given the recent uproar about AI usage in rsync a PSA: maintainers owe you nothing

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  • Enjoy maintaining your hard fork!

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  • The mechanical donut spline path calculator knows where it is at all times. It knows this because it knows where it isn't. By subtracting where it is from where it isn't, or where it isn't from where it is (whichever is greater), it obtains a difference, or deviation. The spline path calculator uses deviations to generate corrective commands to direct the spline path of the mechanical donut from a position where it is to a position where it isn't, and arriving at a position where it wasn't, it now is. Consequently, the position where it is, is now the position that it wasn't, and it follows that the position that it was, is now the position that it isn't.

  • Elder scrolls

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  • That reminds me.

    Haven't whipped my llama's ass in a while.

  • Cars are like horses: people will soon realise EVs are just better, claims VW boss

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  • Donald Trump.

    World's most contemptible belligerent asshole, and also, unintentionally, world's most effective EV salesman.

    Does anyone think... gas prices... are going to meaningfully go ... down, in the future?

    If so, well I know a guy who can offer you a timeshare on a bridge he sublets from a travelling used car salesman.

    ... the best bridge.

  • Good point

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  • goddamnit, lol

  • Probably the most sweat-inducing user input verification code in history.

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  • brb, jettisoning my recycling into the mobile external containment vessel, prior to scheduled rendevouz.

  • Probably the most sweat-inducing user input verification code in history.

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  • Either way, well done, you've certainly understood the assignment.

    ... but it takes two, to make a 00.

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  • Yep, I don't have a response to that.

    Probably should not have asked.

  • "Nobody's making games for the retired people" – The growing yet underserved market for grey gamers

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  • Ok brb making a game about being a self righteous asshole boomer who is always correct and its actually everyone else's fault that he has no friends and his wife and kids dont speak with him.

    Call it Boomer Shooter, but its not an FPS, its actually primarily a series of small adventure/puzzle levels with complex branching dialogue options.

    You get points for shooting down ideas you either didn't think of first or don't like because they might imply that you aren't perfect.

    The rules are made up and the points don't matter beyond a high score at the end of the bad ending.

    The good ending happens when you don't get that many points, despite the game constantly handholding you and telling you thats what you should focus on.

    There, enjoy your retirement.

    EDIT:

    The DLC will add the ability to play as a privileged white woman who gets points for morally policing everyone around her but herself, spreading misinformation, and guilt tripping people who trust her.

    EDIT 2:

    In case I'm not being clear enough, a Boomer that wants a video game for their enfeebled retired ass can fucking make it themselves, and/or possibly think about why it is the case that the industry has enshittified to the extent that it has.

    Who is it exactly thats in charge of all these enshittifying gaming companies again? Oh right yeah, its your 401ks, teaching children how to love their gambling addiction, so that you can retire well.

    I mean, it can't be that hard, right? To make a toy that satifies Boomers? Just bootstrap it yourselves, I'm sure you'll discover that if you just shake a few hands and burn a few hundred million dollars, it's just about showing up and doing the job well, or something.

    ... you want a Boomer game?

    It already exists, its Candy Crush, its Words with Friends, its Scrabble Go, its Solitaire.

    That's not even an insult, that's just literally market research data.

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  • Things we can thank Hillary Clinton for:

    As best I can tell, the term 'UAP'.

    ... and of course, the snizz snuke.

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  • Would you want what your ribcage comes out of to bend significantly?

    Might take your breath away, or break your heart, or both.

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  • You like looking at her coccyx, don't ya?

  • A CEO told employees they won't get raises in 2026 because the budget is going to AI

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  • My napkin math results in 'further than a guillotine'.

  • Home Cooked Meal [Teddy]

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  • Hey.

    HEY!

    You like food, doncha?

    You'll get better at it, just take it easy.

  • Probably the most sweat-inducing user input verification code in history.

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  • I was going to rejoinder this with a quip about 'presumably neither shaken nor stirred', but given that this was clever enough to stunlock me for ~12 hrs, I guess just 'bravo!'

  • Make some noise!

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  • Hard disagree.

    Many/Most people become dishinibited in enthusiastic crowd enviornments. They become more suggestible, trusting.

    Its a huge part of how group religious gatherings work.

    A large concert is in many ways a secular, mass ritual gathering.

    I think you could do something like this a considerable number of times.

    How many people 'let loose' and do something they wouldn't otherwise normally do, at a concert?

    All of those people would be likely to both keep attending these kinds of events and also fall for the exact same schtick, unless or untill a very, very broad social backlash essentially shamed them into not doing so.

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  • Is there... a word... for... 'exposed to the void of space for a prolonged period of time'?

    Yeah I know fossilized isn't the right word, as thats generally a process that requires water... but i dont know how to say 'space fossilized'.

    Dehydrated and Irradiated ... ?

  • Active listening

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  • Its respect.

    If you can reiterate it... you were actually paying attention.

    Just saying 'oh neat!', you're being flippant, in comparison.