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Comment on Critics Choice Awards nominations: ‘Sinners’ dominates with seventeen noms in ~movies
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Comment on I fixed my lactose intolerance -- by chugging all the lactose in ~health
Grzmot Link ParentAs an enjoyer of milk, I'd rather do this than have to think about having lactase pills on me for the rest of my life.As an enjoyer of milk, I'd rather do this than have to think about having lactase pills on me for the rest of my life.
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Comment on I fixed my lactose intolerance -- by chugging all the lactose in ~health
Grzmot LinkOP creates a cure* for lactose intelorance through the scientific application of straight up chugging it. And by it, I mean heavily concentrated powdered milk. *Using the term cure here with an...OP creates a cure* for lactose intelorance through the scientific application of straight up chugging it. And by it, I mean heavily concentrated powdered milk.
*Using the term cure here with an artistic license. It may work for some, it might not for others.
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I fixed my lactose intolerance -- by chugging all the lactose
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Comment on The realities of being a pop star in ~music
Grzmot Link ParentAnd thank you for giving it so much thought!And thank you for giving it so much thought!
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Comment on I built an arcade cabinet for my 4 year old and need some Switch game recs in ~games
Grzmot LinkIt's been a while since I've played it, but I remember Bomb Chicken to be pretty damn good platformer. It's a game where you play a chicken that suddenly gains the ability to lay bombs, and you...It's been a while since I've played it, but I remember Bomb Chicken to be pretty damn good platformer. It's a game where you play a chicken that suddenly gains the ability to lay bombs, and you navigate through levels with that. It's a very simple gameplay loop, and I had a good deal of fun with it. It's also not too long.
It might be a bit too difficult for a 4 year old, but hey, you never know! Nowadays it's on Steam as well, but the OG release is on the Switch 1. Like many Nitrome games, it has this adorable pixel aesthetic, so if you balked at the idea of a chicken laying bombs, don't and give some gameplay videos a look!
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Comment on The realities of being a pop star in ~music
Grzmot Link ParentI'm giving her the benefit of the doubt here, but I do think she accepts that. The way that she's writing this entire thing makes it seem like from her POV it is stupid, but the stupidity gets...Is the whole situation stupid?
I'm giving her the benefit of the doubt here, but I do think she accepts that. The way that she's writing this entire thing makes it seem like from her POV it is stupid, but the stupidity gets covered over in the really fun stuff she describes, the wearing of stupidly expensive earrings that come with their own bodyguard, the driving through LA streets at night and scream and sing through an open car roof.
In a way, all these things are vapid experiences, but vapid doesn't mean that it's not fun. It just means that it's an experience without any real meaning. But not everything has to be that way. Life is about contrasts; you cannot and should not sit around all day, imitating The Thinker and ponder on the gravity of life. Sometimes, you just need to get drunk with friends and shoot the shit. Those are good, vapid memories.
Maybe I'm giving charli too much benefit of the doubt here, but I didn't read the "never really understood" that literally here. I think she means exactly what you write. Or maybe you're right, and I'm wrong, and she shields herself from grappling with the situation truly by not thinking about it. Many people live their life that way. In that case, I understand your disdain.
Thank you for your post, it was a joy to read.
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Comment on The realities of being a pop star in ~music
Grzmot LinkCharlie xcx is a British pop star that got pretty famous in the summer of 2024 with her album brat, which initiated a short-lived trend of brat summer, which even some larger newspapers wrote...One of the main realities of being a pop star is that at a certain level, it’s really fucking fun. You get to go to great parties in a black SUV and you can smoke cigarettes in the car and scream out of the sunroof and all that cliche shit. At these parties you sometimes get to meet interesting people and those interesting people often actually want to meet you. You get to wear fabulous clothes and shoes and jewelry that sometimes comes with its own security guard who trails you around the party making sure you don’t lose the extortionate earrings sitting on your lobes or let some random person you’ve just met in the bathroom try on the necklace around your neck that is equivalent to the heart of the ocean.
You get to enter restaurants through the back entrance and give a half smile to the head chef (who probably hates you) and the waiters (who probably hate you too) as they sweat away doing an actual real service industry job while you strut through the kitchen with your 4 best friends who are tagging along for the ride. You get to feel special, but you also have to at points feel embarrassed by how stupid the whole thing is.
You get to travel the world and see all kinds of different places and you never even have to worry about booking a single element of the travel yourself because you have an amazing tour manager to do that for you. You get to call in sick whenever you want and you never have to worry about bailing on work last minute because you know for certain that there’s another pop star out there who’s actually way more unreliable and flakey than you. Thank God.
You will also end up spending a lot of time inhabiting strange and soulless liminal spaces. Whether its the holding area of the event you’re about to enter, the airport lounge, the visa office, the claustrophobic tour bus, the greenroom with no windows, the underneath of a stage or the set build of a photoshoot or music video you’re on, you are often caught in the in-between. You’re in transit, you’re going somewhere but the journey itself takes up the majority of the experience.
Another thing about being a pop star is that you cannot avoid the fact that some people are simply determined to prove that you are stupid.
think subconsciously people still believe there is only room for women to be a certain type of way and once they claim to be one way they better not DARE grow or change or morph into something else. Also people obviously want the clicks and an opposite stance is more likely to get that.
Sometimes being a pop star can be really embarrassing, especially when you’re around old friends of family members who have known you since before you could talk.
Charlie xcx is a British pop star that got pretty famous in the summer of 2024 with her album brat, which initiated a short-lived trend of brat summer, which even some larger newspapers wrote about.
Despite substack nowadays being associated with their ultra-free-speech attitude which permitted nazis to use the platform, which is why I avoid going on the site, I made an exception here, as I found her essay quite an interesting read, and I hope you do too!
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The realities of being a pop star
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Comment on Thankful for y’all in ~talk
Grzmot LinkAs another nobody who's learned to recognize your name as a marker of compassionate, high quality discussions, cheers to you, fellow nobody. I don't celebrate Thanksgiving, but I'm thankful for...As another nobody who's learned to recognize your name as a marker of compassionate, high quality discussions, cheers to you, fellow nobody. I don't celebrate Thanksgiving, but I'm thankful for you, either way.
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Comment on Battlefield 6 developer issues report on kernel-level anti-cheat, citing success in ~games
Grzmot Link ParentThanks for the correction! Edited my original post.Thanks for the correction! Edited my original post.
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Comment on Battlefield 6 developer issues report on kernel-level anti-cheat, citing success in ~games
Grzmot (edited )LinkBattlefield 6's anti-cheat solution Javelin is similar to Riot's (in)famous Vanguard anti-cheat. EDIT: As per @DefiantEmbassy's correction, Vanguard's prerequisites are actually identical to...Battlefield 6's anti-cheat solution Javelin is similar to Riot's (in)famous Vanguard anti-cheat.
But what Vanguard does by running in the background 24/7, Javelin did by forcing users to enable secure boot, which in my opinion is a better solution.EDIT: As per @DefiantEmbassy's correction, Vanguard's prerequisites are actually identical to Javelin's, it just runs 24/7 on top. Not sure why.I'm far from a security expert, but given that multiple companies have now pivoted into using kernel level anti-cheats makes me think that against persistent for-profit cheat developers, these measures have become necessary. Remember, these cheats get offered on expensive subscriptions. For CoD I've seen prices exceed 30 USD per month, and that was years ago. Given that these cheat developers sit in countries beyond legal reach, and where 1 USD carries you much further than the local currency, they have a natural advantage and can offer pretty well paying jobs to develop these cheats. It's unfortunately become a business.
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Battlefield 6 developer issues report on kernel-level anti-cheat, citing success
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Comment on EU backs away from chat control in ~society
Grzmot Link ParentI'm generally a very pro EU person but every time this topic comes up it's just a massive head scratcher. Variants of this have been around for I think a decade now; the ferocity with which...I'm generally a very pro EU person but every time this topic comes up it's just a massive head scratcher. Variants of this have been around for I think a decade now; the ferocity with which someone is trying to get this pushed through is just surprising evry single time. I remember finishing high school and participating in e-mail campaigns to MEPs about this topic.
It's truly baffling.
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Comment on Windows: Linux GPU gaming benchmarks on Bazzite in ~games
Grzmot Link ParentI concur, running Fedora with Nvidia GPU, Helldivers 2 is pretty great.I concur, running Fedora with Nvidia GPU, Helldivers 2 is pretty great.
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Comment on How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers in ~science
Grzmot Link ParentThere are a few exceptions, but I think most of those are loanwords from other languages.There are a few exceptions, but I think most of those are loanwords from other languages.
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Comment on How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers in ~science
Grzmot Link ParentI learned German first at school, and despite that language having the reputation of being more difficult and with lots of rules, it is also phonetic. I imagine that when it comes to reading, it's...I learned German first at school, and despite that language having the reputation of being more difficult and with lots of rules, it is also phonetic. I imagine that when it comes to reading, it's something the child profits off a great deal. With English you have the difficulty of spelling being very inconsistent as it relates to sound of the words, while in German every word makes sense from a spelling perspective. That makes learning to read by speaking the invidiual letters out loud much more powerful.
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Comment on How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers in ~science
Grzmot Link ParentWhat an incredibly stupid thing to say considering that the majority of languages today work with alphabets, i.e. letters that represent a particular sound. Even most languages that do not use the..."The purpose is not to learn words," he said. "The purpose is to make sense."
What an incredibly stupid thing to say considering that the majority of languages today work with alphabets, i.e. letters that represent a particular sound. Even most languages that do not use the latin alphabet still work this way, like the Cyrillic or Arabic scripts. Sure, ultimately writing conveys meaning, but that's only step 3 out of 3. Step 1 is reading, and step 2 is translating that into the language you speak in your head.
It's such simple thing to get. Kids learn speaking first, you then teach them what sound each letter represents, and you let them speak out loud each letter of a word until they get it. I really don't understand how you could ever think that trying to jump to step 3 could be a good idea? Does he think that children that grow up just sort of magically gain step 2 along the way? Most people don't figure stuff out by themselves on a topic they are not interested in. That doesn't change between kids and adults.
These motherfuckers are teaching kids to read like English as if it were using Chinese characters. What the fuck.
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Comment on The algorithm failed music in ~tech
Grzmot Link ParentI switched over to Qobuz, which is still a streaming service, but one that takes a much more manual approach to recommending music. They do also offer the ability to purchase albums entirely and...I switched over to Qobuz, which is still a streaming service, but one that takes a much more manual approach to recommending music. They do also offer the ability to purchase albums entirely and without DRM, but which you can also then stream, even if you're not subscribing. It had a similar effect. I don't think lossless streaming is any better than a good 320kbps mp3, but it's a nice bonus.
I had become fed up with Spotify mostly because it stopped being a service only for music. Their podcast push only alienated me further, since it didn't feel like I, as a music listener, was their customer any more. Asine UI decisions like "canvas" video covers, that played short gifs from music videos instead of just showing you an album cover also felt like a UX department that lacked any direction.
I toyed with the idea of doing my own streaming thing, or like you, returning to listening from local libraries on the go and then syncing when I come back home. What made me opt against setting up my own streaming was that my homelab isn't running 24/7 yet, only when someone is watching movies. Qobuz felt like a neat solution that's still very easy to use and can tide me over until my homelab is running 24/7.
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Comment on The algorithm failed music in ~tech
Grzmot Link ParentI know that last.fm has stuck around through it all somehow. Maybe I should take a look at it. It just always emphasized the social network part of listening to music and it's something I've been...I know that last.fm has stuck around through it all somehow. Maybe I should take a look at it. It just always emphasized the social network part of listening to music and it's something I've been trying to cut from my life rather than enhance it's presence in it.
I think Sinners edges out for me even though One Battle After Another is a good movie, mainly because I think Sinners is more timeless, but I also personally have an aversion to incompetent protagonists like Ghetto Pat in One Battle After Another.