SpunkWorks_Scientist's recent activity
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Comment on What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them? in ~games
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Comment on Who here leaves a review? in ~life
SpunkWorks_Scientist Link Parentyeh, just not that artistic but I have some ideas 😄yeh, just not that artistic but I have some ideas 😄
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Comment on Who here leaves a review? in ~life
SpunkWorks_Scientist LinkI don't usually leave a review but my photographs are quite popular on google maps for some reason. Lately I've taken to taking pictures of local bus stops and uploading them to the stop in maps...I don't usually leave a review but my photographs are quite popular on google maps for some reason. Lately I've taken to taking pictures of local bus stops and uploading them to the stop in maps and most of them get featured, it's hilarious lol
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Comment on The Lakers select Bronny James in the second round of the NBA draft in ~sports.basketball
SpunkWorks_Scientist LinkIt's basically like a rider but instead of m&M's and champagne in a dressing room it's drafting the star's son..It's basically like a rider but instead of m&M's and champagne in a dressing room it's drafting the star's son..
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Comment on Los Angeles’s mayor was contemplating a mask ban. She just got Covid. in ~society
SpunkWorks_Scientist LinkA mask ban in liberal LA.. the nation is moving so far to the right it's scary even if expected by astute political observers and historians.A mask ban in liberal LA.. the nation is moving so far to the right it's scary even if expected by astute political observers and historians.
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Comment on The Steam Deck now has over 5,000 Verified games in ~games
SpunkWorks_Scientist Link ParentThat was exactly it, hidden way in the options lol. Thanks so much for the tip. I'll get more life out of this thing yet!That was exactly it, hidden way in the options lol. Thanks so much for the tip. I'll get more life out of this thing yet!
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Comment on The Steam Deck now has over 5,000 Verified games in ~games
SpunkWorks_Scientist Link ParentThanks, that could very well be it, I'll give that a crack.Thanks, that could very well be it, I'll give that a crack.
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Comment on The Steam Deck now has over 5,000 Verified games in ~games
SpunkWorks_Scientist Link ParentIt does but I can't ever get it to work.It does but I can't ever get it to work.
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Comment on The Steam Deck now has over 5,000 Verified games in ~games
SpunkWorks_Scientist Link ParentThanks, definitely going to look into it more.Thanks, definitely going to look into it more.
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Comment on The Steam Deck now has over 5,000 Verified games in ~games
SpunkWorks_Scientist LinkAnyone using it with a dock hooked up as a home thetre PC? I usually use a small windows rig hooked up to the TV, but the video card finally shit the bed after over a decade of use! I've thought...Anyone using it with a dock hooked up as a home thetre PC? I usually use a small windows rig hooked up to the TV, but the video card finally shit the bed after over a decade of use!
I've thought about replacing it with the steam deck. Basically it just needs to stream video from a web browser and be able to torrent.
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Comment on The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom | Announcement trailer in ~games
SpunkWorks_Scientist (edited )LinkOh my sweet Jesus YESSSSSSS. I really thought they had given up on us top down fans.. the 3d games just don't do it for me, and likely never will. All of the top down games could release today,...Oh my sweet Jesus YESSSSSSS. I really thought they had given up on us top down fans.. the 3d games just don't do it for me, and likely never will.
All of the top down games could release today, almost as is, and they would be top of the class in most every respect save the small modern quality of life changes here and there. The same just can't be said for the 3d games like OoT. They need proper remakes. Don't get me wrong though, I loved the LA remake, but there are current games which try to mimic the art style of the original. The tight controls in Alttp are better than most games that release today.. the only exceptions are probably LoZ 1 & 2.
So yeh, I'm super stoked by this, and we get on play as Zelda? Oh hell yes.
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Comment on I'm really tired of trying to be understanding to my right-winger friends in ~talk
SpunkWorks_Scientist Link ParentFair enough, no offense intended. Don't do what I did though and cut people off completely (within reason, of course), always give them an out through talking, a chance to walk back their crazy...Fair enough, no offense intended. Don't do what I did though and cut people off completely (within reason, of course), always give them an out through talking, a chance to walk back their crazy beliefs in a safe space.. that is apparently the best way out of these rabbit holes our friends and families are finding themselves in. Many of us didn't know or realize that until it was too late.
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Comment on ‘Baby Reindeer’s’ alleged ‘real Martha’ sues Netflix, demanding at least $170 million in damages in ~tv
SpunkWorks_Scientist LinkIt could be very telling that she didn't include Gadd in the lawsuit, especially if there isn't a separate law suit opened against him, because discovery could be very telling... She says she...It could be very telling that she didn't include Gadd in the lawsuit, especially if there isn't a separate law suit opened against him, because discovery could be very telling... She says she couldn't possibly send so many emails in the time frame alleged, but we've all seen way crazier on the internet, and I believe that she was texting Gadd's email address. I used to email pictures directly from the text message app all of the time for work purposes and is a lot faster than opening the email app, hitting compose, etc.
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Comment on <deleted topic> in ~life
SpunkWorks_Scientist Link ParentYeh I guess that is true lol.Yeh I guess that is true lol.
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Comment on I'm really tired of trying to be understanding to my right-winger friends in ~talk
SpunkWorks_Scientist Link ParentYes I am familiar with that book and it is by far not the only authority on the matter, there are plenty of current experts that are calling it what it is, which is fascism, and openly do so. It...Yes I am familiar with that book and it is by far not the only authority on the matter, there are plenty of current experts that are calling it what it is, which is fascism, and openly do so.
It helps nothing to equivocate between our grandpappies fascism and this new fascism unless you are poli sci nerd other than to prolong organizing against them under a common banner that everyone understands or because on is in the extreme centrist mindset. However, if we were to get nitpicky, I call it "Conservo-Fascism" but it has enough fundamental hallmarks of traditional fascism that it is patently absurd not to label it as such. I mean for gods this is why we lose the messaging battle against the right over and over again. While there may be small intricate differences, the machinations are essentially exactly the same. Like I said prior, it is hard to call your friends and family, your neighbors fascist because of our "Western Exceptionalism" that has been bred into us since birth. Once we are in that oppressive system long enough, we start to identify with it, and then fully become it.
And one day, too late, your principles, if you were ever sensible of them, all rush in upon you. The burden of self-deception has grown too heavy, and some minor incident, in my case my little boy, hardly more than a baby, saying ‘Jewish swine,’ collapses it all at once, and you see that everything, everything, has changed and changed completely under your nose.
Don't say we didn't warn you as your friends descend into talk of concentration camps and ethnic cleansing, I have "liberal" friends who want to throw homeless people into concentration camps, what do you think average right wingers want to do? There is no going back to "normal", only to more extremes and many of us fear it will be far to late before the average person understands that everything around them has changed. Never again is literally right now..
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Comment on <deleted topic> in ~life
SpunkWorks_Scientist Link ParentHow do those of us in the corporate world have an active github account? I don't code all day and night, and IDK if I can sanitize my work code enough to make it acceptable to post on github,...How do those of us in the corporate world have an active github account? I don't code all day and night, and IDK if I can sanitize my work code enough to make it acceptable to post on github, codeberg, etc.. Private repositories? Even then, I worry what my employer would think.
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Comment on We live in a system of capitalist oligarchy in ~finance
SpunkWorks_Scientist Link ParentMany historians would tell you there is no such thing as free markets without governments.Many historians would tell you there is no such thing as free markets without governments.
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Comment on I'm really tired of trying to be understanding to my right-winger friends in ~talk
SpunkWorks_Scientist LinkBecause their fascists, learn fascism and you will understand. It's hard to think of our friends and families this way, but that is how fascism works. It's likely going to get worse before it gets...Because their fascists, learn fascism and you will understand. It's hard to think of our friends and families this way, but that is how fascism works. It's likely going to get worse before it gets better.
But the one great shocking occasion, when tens or hundreds or thousands will join with you, never comes. That’s the difficulty. If the last and worst act of the whole regime had come immediately after the first and smallest, thousands, yes, millions would have been sufficiently shocked—if, let us say, the gassing of the Jews in ’43 had come immediately after the ‘German Firm’ stickers on the windows of non-Jewish shops in ’33. But of course this isn’t the way it happens. In between come all the hundreds of little steps, some of them imperceptible, each of them preparing you not to be shocked by the next. Step C is not so much worse than Step B, and, if you did not make a stand at Step B, why should you at Step C? And so on to Step D.
And one day, too late, your principles, if you were ever sensible of them, all rush in upon you. The burden of self-deception has grown too heavy, and some minor incident, in my case my little boy, hardly more than a baby, saying ‘Jewish swine,’ collapses it all at once, and you see that everything, everything, has changed and changed completely under your nose. The world you live in—your nation, your people—is not the world you were born in at all. The forms are all there, all untouched, all reassuring, the houses, the shops, the jobs, the mealtimes, the visits, the concerts, the cinema, the holidays. But the spirit, which you never noticed because you made the lifelong mistake of identifying it with the forms, is changed. Now you live in a world of hate and fear, and the people who hate and fear do not even know it themselves; when everyone is transformed, no one is transformed. Now you live in a system which rules without responsibility even to God. The system itself could not have intended this in the beginning, but in order to sustain itself it was compelled to go all the way.Milton Sanford Mayer
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Comment on What are your favorite series that are not from the US or UK and also not popular anime? in ~tv
SpunkWorks_Scientist LinkStill the angloshpere so IDK if it's different enough but here a few: New Zealand Today is a hilarious show where you learn NZ isn't that much different from Florida. Colin From Accounts -...Still the angloshpere so IDK if it's different enough but here a few:
New Zealand Today is a hilarious show where you learn NZ isn't that much different from Florida.
Colin From Accounts - Australian comedy that is very good.
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Comment on Online anonymity: study found ‘stable pseudonyms’ created a more civil environment than real user names in ~tech
SpunkWorks_Scientist LinkI'd love to see this study replicated using something than facebook for real names, that seems an exceptionally poor choice.I'd love to see this study replicated using something than facebook for real names, that seems an exceptionally poor choice.
Had to give up on Twilight Princess about 40% of the way in, I really don't like the 3d games as much but resolved myself to try and beat the entire series. This is the first one I've put down, perhaps Ill come back to it again at the end but it's just not grabbing me, the controls are frustrating me for sure.
Next I'm on to Skald, since it looks bad ass.