58008

joined 3 years ago
[–] 58008@lemmy.world 9 points 18 hours ago

I was there when Siamese Dream was released. I was there, man.

[–] 58008@lemmy.world 24 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

I'm willing to bet a Steam game of your choosing that that bigot account is not run by a white American.

[–] 58008@lemmy.world 28 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I voted for a known conman convicted of 3-dozen felonies, to say nothing of his racism, sexism, misogyny, transphobia, and the fact that he's literally the most documented liar in human history. But then the bastard conned ME!?

[–] 58008@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Motiveless murder/disappearance - that is, where the victim has no enemies or any reason to have become a victim of murder (e.g. robbery) - are extremely hard to solve even today. Police are much better able to capture criminals today, but they're still batting a pretty measly average overall, and especially so in cases of motiveless disappearances. The US has ~350 million people in it, and there are enormous swathes of land that are uninhabited or are only lightly inhabited. Massive marshes, endless forests, etc. Dumping bodies in there is so effective that sometimes even serial killers who have confessed and are helping the cops locate victims' bodies can't find them all.

The behaviour of killers outside of the crime itself is usually what fucks them. Bragging to people, taunting the cops, leaving calling cards/clues, or just becoming so confident and hubristic that they lower their standards and get caught for future murders through sheer sloppiness.

[–] 58008@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I invest every penny of it in corn futures.

[–] 58008@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (14 children)

Transphobic ass meme. The guy's a cunt, don't need to denigrate trans people to point that out.

[–] 58008@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Possibly a stupid question: I know it's illegal to cover (or just not have) license plates, but this seems to only be so that they can be read by cops on the ground. Could you add little canopies to your plate so that they can be read by anyone on ground level, but not by surveillance cameras up on lampposts etc.? Or add an electronic screen in front of them that's transparent to the naked eye, but when recorded, has a weird distorting effect that garbles the image? Pretty out-there idea, but "would it be legal if it were possible?" is my main question.

[–] 58008@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Wikipedia rabbitholing is my preferred method. Start on an article about a band or genre you like, then just glance through for influences and subgenres etc., read those articles to find new band names, give 'em a quick listen on whatever platform you use (usually just YouTube for me), and continue the process as needed i.e. if you don't like what you hear for a given artist, just keep clicking till you find the next one. It sounds like it'd take forever this way, but I've found new bands I love within about 10 minutes of clicking, and this is consistently the case. Algorithms have never, ever recommended me anything I actually liked, and this is true for music, games, TV shows and whatever else. They just don't work on any meaningful level.

[–] 58008@lemmy.world 17 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Never do business with Netflix. If you have a TV series that you would actually like to have a conclusion, a video game studio you would like to produce at least 2 fucking games before you're all fired, then don't do business with Netflix. Just don't. I'm struggling to have much sympathy for creatives who get fucked like this by Netflix, because they've shown us through hundreds of examples over the years that getting fucked is the most likely outcome. It's like playing Russian roulette with your life's work just because one of the chambered rounds is actually a little flag with "JACKPOT" written on it that will pop out instead of a life-ending bullet, but the other 5 chambers all have a live round in them.

[–] 58008@lemmy.world 25 points 3 days ago (4 children)

My take on feets: I don't think about them in my fantasies or anything, but if they're there IRL, they represent a further opportunity to add to the other person's pleasure, so I'll have a go on them. But I don't get turned on by the act of licking soles in and of itself. I've never seen a pair of feet and thought "daaaaaaaaaaamn, those are some HOT feets!" no more than I've seen a garden fence and thought "burn down all other fences, 'cause THIS is the one!" Although, I'm sure I've seen plenty of feet that caused my neutrality to dip into disgust (like my own, for example). But beyond that, I don't think about them at all. They're just an extra button on my controller in the indecipherable non-localised Slavic RPG that is the female orgasm.

 

Before we get into it, let me just say that I understand that removing a major component of a dish may cause it to become something else. So cheeseless pizza may no longer technically be "pizza". To this I say: no one gives a fuck, please go officiate a spelling bee or whatever it is you do for fun, ya gatekeeping linguaFREAK.

I want to try to convince you to give cheeseless pizza a shot, because I think Big Cheese™ has been depriving humanity of the true deliciousness of pizza for millennia.

Cheese on pizza (and this includes the cheese substitutes that you might find on vegan or vegetarian pizzas) is like taking a carefully-crafted meal, flavoured and spiced to perfection, and then saying to the customer "hey, do you want me to dump a thick molten layer of bitter yellowish-white slime over everything? It'll completely overpower every other flavour on the dish, and will leave your mouth feeling weird and gross after you're done eating." and the customer is like "HELL YEAH!"

If you enjoy many toppings with lots of veg and whathaveyou, you are not getting the full experience when cheese is there cockblocking your tastebuds like an ugly friend at a bar. The sauce, the bread, the peppers, the onions, the 'shrooms, the pepperoni, they're all full of flavour and each flavour stands on its own and simultaneously complements the other flavours. Dumping a pound of cheese on top of it makes it all coalesce into a murky nondescript lump, something akin to trying to listen to music in a wind tunnel while wearing a thick deerstalker hat with the ear flaps down. It's like the difference between having an intellectually-stimulating conversation with a like-minded person, and trying to be heard as you discuss football stats with a drunk stranger in a bar where the sound system is cranked up to max volume at all times.

If you're someone who just likes a straight Margherita pizza, where cheese is very much the "main event", then this doesn't really apply. I concede that even the most delicious pizza sauce and most fancy base bread are not quite enough to blow anyone's mind with flavour if that's all you're working with. But if you like adding toppings, allow them to be the main event for one day, and when you do, give yourself over the involuntary urge to start singing A Whole New World when the flavours awaken hitherto dormant olfactory neurons that you didn't even know you had.

In many online pizza shops, you can untick "cheese" when choosing your toppings, and they'll respect your choice, and you won't receive a wellness check from the police or anything. You can do it with Domino's, and many of my local pizza places do it, too. You can also buy frozen pizzas sans cheese or cheese substitutes, although this is fairly rare (they think removing cheese means you need to replace it with some other gunk that does the same job, which is obviously not helping matters). And of course, you can make or buy bases and build your own pizza at home.

Try it. TRUST ME BRO.

#FuckCheeseOnPizza

[–] 58008@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The Saboteur is fairly old at this point, but still holds up gameplay-wise.

[–] 58008@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

If your money-haemorrhaging business model depends on the gullibility of absolute fucking morons, maybe do something else?

This is like when ad companies started talking about "personalised ads" as though that was a thing we wanted and which they begrudgingly gave to us.

If AI companies took all the RAM and GPUs they've hoarded and instead just sold them at 50% of their usual value directly to gamers and hardware builders, they'd make way more money than whatever the fuck they're doing now, and wouldn't be baking the planet in the process.

 

I assume one becomes a chef because they have a love for cooking and food and the artistry involved, but I can't think of anything more eroding to that love of the craft than the kind of working day I see chefs and other kitchen staff go through. It seems to an outsider like me that it's basically a shift-length panic attack, every day. But that can't be the case, or no one would do the job!

 
 

For example, what kind of story would Geralt the Witcher tell his kids? "Once upon a time there was some normal everyday shit that went how it always goes"?

Must be the equivalent of realworld kids saying "Daddy tell me the story about the Tesco delivery again! The one where they forgot the 2L bottle of Pepsi Max!"

 

It's kinda strange to imagine a person's face being locked out of the arts because a character or actor who looked like them got there first.

 

It's considered invasive in Indian and Pacific Ocean islands, and is native to the United States. Much to my surprise, there's no mention of Australia!

Be safe out there 💀🗡️🐌

 

TL;DR: There are two levels of annoyance here. One is the person having to use wanky language to get around censorship. The other is the person who can't help but take to the comments and complain about it, boringly, and without any attempt to offer solutions. I put it to you, good sir, that person #2 is the one who ought to give his larynx a rest.

Yeah, it's annoying to see and hear the words "unalived" and "ess ehhed" in place of "murdered" and "sexually assaulted", but they are not words people use in speech in the real world or even when talking to each other directly online. They are like "LOL"; only demented cunts (or people being ironic) walk around the real world saying "ell oh ell". No one is running down the street screaming "he's trying to unalive me, someone help!" Language is doing just fine.

People in the comments under videos which use these terms are incessantly complaining about "brainrot" being the death-knell of language. These people are tedious wankers who need to chill the fuck out and find something else to fret over, like microplastics or fascism. We all understand why these annoying terms are used, and it's not because the people using them enjoy using them. If they want their content to make it through a blunt and braindead censorship algorithm, they have no choice. We all know this. So maybe shut the fuck up about it? "Unalived" is not a hot new word being used by kids; these words are not changes to the language, they're linguistic backdoors that allow people to say what they need to say while simultaneously not triggering a censorship bot, and that's all they are.

And not for nothing, and somewhat off-topic, but literally every generation that has ever existed frets over the youth's behaviour and the way they use language. Even Plato was whining about it in exactly the same way people do today. This doesn't need to be a tradition you blindly adhere to. You can choose to not be that old reactionary fuck talking apocalyptically about the next generation and just accept that language is and always will be an organic and ever-shifting entity, and that the only people who attempt to crowbar it into a rigid relational database are grating bores and grammar nazis, or, god forbid, the French.

 

The shrink served 5 years of a 12-year sentence for the murder.

 

Patrick Walker, the founder and frontman of the band, has put out a lot of great work under the 40 Watt Sun band name in the interim, which is also worth checking out if you're into doom metal.

 

The violent jerky mannerisms, the yelling, the crazy blonde hair; it's all there!

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