[-] SadSadSatellite@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 1 month ago

Yeah it's a good thing homework doesn't exist.

[-] SadSadSatellite@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 1 month ago

The description of that device and subscription is so fucking stupid I'm not even mad. If you fell for it that hard, you deserve whatever they throw at you.

[-] SadSadSatellite@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 4 months ago

I mean, I like the picture, bit you could have a cat a squirrel a coyote and a horse all doing this and say all animals are the same. It's kind of just how quadrupeds stretch.

[-] SadSadSatellite@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 5 months ago

The most impactful examples to me are architecture and furniture. Art deco and nuveau buildings were beautiful, even minute details were meant to be looked at. The same goes for craftsman and machine age furniture. Everything has become so minimalist and utilitarian since the eighties.

[-] SadSadSatellite@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 5 months ago

I'm mostly face blind. I work in optical, so I remember people by their glasses and how they move/walk. I have to have seen someone numerous times before I.can memorize their face enough to identify them, and even then if they look like a celebrity even a little bit my memory will corrupt and I'll just see the celebrity in my head and forget what they look like.

I've just gotten very good at bullshitting through conversations

[-] SadSadSatellite@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 5 months ago

Sounds like what tsa should be doing. Either security is necessary or it isn't. The airport is the most classist place in the country.

[-] SadSadSatellite@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 5 months ago

I've played most of the metroid games, and i know theres a ton of nostalgia for super metroid, but to this day nothing has matched the feeling of exploration and awe from Metroid Prime. Every place in the game was so radically different, and the ability to scan and learn about the environment was so unique, and exactly what i didn't know i needed. Learning the lore and finding out what happened to the planet only by analyzing everything made the world feel like it had died, and it's death was a tragedy. All the enemies you encounter are just local animals that don't know better, or had been corrupted by pollution. That is, until about halfway through the game when you meet actually hostile, malicious intelligence, and the combat steps up exponentially.

It's fantastic. I still remember being amazed at the fogging and raindrops showing up on the visor the first time you step off your ship on Talon IV. I had never seen graphocs so good, and such attention to detail, and the game was already 4 years old.

The only game i've ever played that felt similar was subnautica, and while it had the wonder, it lacked the melancholy and insane combat.

Prime is the best in the series, hands down.

[-] SadSadSatellite@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 5 months ago

Focusing close regularly doesn't make you short sighted, not getting enough tourquoise light on your retina from staying inside makes your eye keep getting longer instead of stopping when the focal point is correct. Well, that and genetics.

And losing the ability to see near as you age has nothong to do with pressure. Your lens is constantly adding new layers to itself to stay clear, and after 40 it's become so thick the muscles that pull it to accommodate near vision can't stretch it enough. By 58 it doesn't stretch at all any more. That's why everyone eventually needs bifocals/progressives.

Don't state things as fact if your not sure of them.

Source: ABOA, NCLE, OD, I own two optical practices.

[-] SadSadSatellite@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 8 months ago

The man in question:

[-] SadSadSatellite@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 9 months ago

They've been secretly doing this for years. I switched out after I realized the weird roads they were having me take weren't to avoid traffic, but because every corner I turned at had a 7-11 on it. The roads in my area are set up like a grid, so there's many ways to get everywhere. I'm thinking like 3-4 years ago I noticed the change. I would check with my friend's phones, and notice Google would give them different directions than mine. Last weekend, a friend was giving me directions to a spot in a neighboring town, and it avoided the freeway to have me drive through the business district of both my town and the destination. I work in the town I was heading to, I know how long it takes to get there. It told us to go literally the worst way possible.

[-] SadSadSatellite@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 11 months ago

Apps have a weird power structure. They make anyone feel like a beggar. Social hobbies are a better way to meet people if you live in a reasonably populous area. I personally have interesting accessories to give people an in to a conversation that traditionally works fairly well when at an event or in public. Homemade rings, and interesting watch, inordinary boots, a cool lighter, a fountain pen, antique thrifted jackets, necklaces made of fossils, anything stand out that someone can comment on if they take an interest in you starts a conversation and doesn't require begging the upper hand for attention like dating apps do.

[-] SadSadSatellite@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 11 months ago

Oh fuck yeah I'm ready to not know what happened to my entire Saturday

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