[-] Underwaterbob@lemm.ee 3 points 22 hours ago

squirreled

It's the longest one-syllable word last time I checked. Pretty ridiculous that it is one syllable honestly.

[-] Underwaterbob@lemm.ee 22 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

In Canada, we had "Bleu Nuit". It was on at 2am, Saturday night, and played racy French movies. The only problem was the movies ran the gamut from 1.5 hour long naked lesbian makeout to a single scene with boobies somewhere in the middle. You took your chances. I swear there was one that didn't even show anything (but probably talked about sex. Dunno, I don't speak much French.)

[-] Underwaterbob@lemm.ee 17 points 2 days ago

Graphical improvements have been minimal at best for probably ten years, now. They have to do something. I mean, at least they think they have to do something to justify charging $70 or whatever for a new, AAA game these days.

[-] Underwaterbob@lemm.ee 2 points 2 days ago

And according to other posts in here, they're sentient, and property. And they let kids build them. He also happened to build the one that would be partially responsible for his downfall years later. Star Wars. The universe that keeps on giving.

[-] Underwaterbob@lemm.ee 1 points 2 days ago

So, they let kids bring sentient beings into existence. Sentient beings that are property. This opens a whole new can of beans on the Star Wars universe.

[-] Underwaterbob@lemm.ee 7 points 3 days ago

The whole Anakin-Padme romance was just awful. Weird Al's line in The Saga Begins:

Ah, do you see him hitting on the queen Though he’s just nine and she’s fourteen? Yeah, he’s probably gonna marry her someday

sums up the absurdity quite well.

[-] Underwaterbob@lemm.ee 1 points 3 days ago

Well yeah, but I was very young. I haven't re-watched the original movies in a very long time for a very good reason. I'll keep those memories intact, thank you.

[-] Underwaterbob@lemm.ee 17 points 3 days ago

Not that he couldn't have put together a droid, but that he put this very specific, very integral-to-later-events one together himself. It's ludicrously coincidental.

[-] Underwaterbob@lemm.ee 121 points 3 days ago

This was the moment I checked out of the prequels. Vader, as a child, built C-3PO? I'm supposed to continue suspending my disbelief, now? Impossible.

[-] Underwaterbob@lemm.ee 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

It's been a very long time since I watched it, but I distinctly recall being very annoyed by her character. I just checked out the Wiki, and the very first line on her personality is "[she] possesses an extremely childish and naïve attitude for her age." While not stupid exactly , is just about what I recall hating about her.

[-] Underwaterbob@lemm.ee 0 points 5 days ago

This one happened during a period when moe was more brain-dead than cute, and the sister character who is supposed to be his motivation for everything just ruins the whole show for me she acts so stupid.

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submitted 6 months ago by Underwaterbob@lemm.ee to c/linux@lemmy.ml

So, my work machine was getting long in the tooth. Occasionally not booting and requiring me to jiggle memory sticks or tighten CPU cooler screws. It was a DDR3 machine with a Xeon E3 1230V2 with 8gb of RAM (and oddly enough an RTX 2060.) The fans were getting pretty loud, too.

I had a Ryzen 2600x and 16gb of DD4 from my home PC lying around, so I bought a cheap mainboard, tore the old one out of the case, attached all the hardware to the new mainboard - including the SSD with Mint installed - and BOOM! It booted first try without issue. Even going from Intel to AMD, DDR3 to DDR4. My mind is blown!

I can't imagine how borked my machine would have been if I'd tried that with Windows.

Now, what do I do with a still-working Xeon and mainboard?!?

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submitted 9 months ago by Underwaterbob@lemm.ee to c/steamdeck@sopuli.xyz

Surely, this can't be a coincidence.

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[-] Underwaterbob@lemm.ee 140 points 1 year ago

I haven't been back to Reddit since the first day of protests.

Not gonna lie though, I miss it. The niche stuff I went to Reddit for in the first place came here during the drama, but despite an initial push to get some replacement communities going here, they've gone almost completely inactive now.

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