wizardbeard

joined 2 years ago
[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 9 minutes ago

As a relatively new father (my daughter is around 2.5 years old), you have plenty of time. They'll be a loving little lump for a while.

What she has loved so far:

  • Bluey (a beautiful show about parenting in disguise as a kids show)
  • Mister Roger's Neighborhood (all episodes available on archive.org, but they have to be reorganized/renamed at least for Kodi tagging)
  • The Mhppets Show (and anything else muppets)
  • (Modern) Mickey Mouse Clubhouse (cg show, and Clubhouse+, the short renewal)
  • Dragon Prince
  • Sesame Street
  • Moana (2 to a lesser extent)
  • Finding Nemo/Dory
  • Lion King
  • Little Mermaid
  • Bedknobs and Broomsticks
  • Mary Poppins
  • Aladin
  • Frozen (and all the spinoff stuff)
  • Mickey Donald and Goofy: Three Musketeers (this is her current obsession, probably watched it 10 times in the last week)

I'll come back and edit this with my own shows later.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 hours ago

My toddler took a bowl and a wooden spoon and made "nativity soup" this morning. The true trinity of the bowl, the spoon, and the holy broth.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Um, yes. You get most of the great stuff about the other holes, plus a tongue that can do all sorts of wonderful things, the mouth can vibrate if they make noise while you're in there, your partner has more control over tightness etc.

There's also the aspects of submission to your partner, and the fact that like all oral, they aren't getting direct stimulation themselves from it. They're doing it for you because they just want you to feel great.

It's pretty hard to get a completely unenjoyable blowjob, but the ceiling on how great one can feel is fucking astronomical.

It's one of those things where you can end up chasing the "high water mark" of the best one you've had for decades. I hold on to vivid memories of one I had eighteen years ago. I find that sex can be similar, but seems to be easier to reach the heights of your best times because you have more personal control. Blowjobs rely entirely on your partner, and most people don't enjoy getting pointers on technique, especially in the moment.

So the mindblowing, life changing ones are rare. But it's almost always fun.


I don't think most people wonder why women love recieving oral, so I'm kind of surprised people would be confused about blowjobs, lol.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

My understanding is that it specifically is a reference to the tanks at the Tianenmen Square massacre.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 hours ago

It's not hard to understand.

Dessalines and Nutomic, the two lead lemmy devs, think that Tianenmen Square didn't happen. They think the genocide currently going on in China of that particular group of muslims (Uighyur or something like that, I can't spell it right) is actually a social program for their own good. They think that Ukraine is legitimately filled with Nazis in their government and military and that Russia is rescuing the poor populace from their oppressors.

Effectively, China and Russia can do no wrong. Dessalines in particular regularly bans people from lemmy.ml who say otherwise.

The term "tankie" is in reference to the tanks China drove over people during the Tianenmen square massacre.

 

Someone gifted this to my wife and I after our successful IVF. Still haven't put our photos in it, and everytime I see it I giggle.

Miracle Love Baby sounds like some magical girl anime shit.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Lol, do you think blue officials would do different? It's the one thing they all agree on, surveillance. They'll take the opposition side whenever they aren't in power, but they'll forget that the moment they win.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

I wonder how the last guerilla ground war America was in went.

Now give the guerillas even more weaponry and an absurdly larger landmass to inhabit.

The answer is that it wouldn't be possible.

I fucking love all you non-US folks who think it would be in any way easy.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 5 hours ago

They took the completed game and worked backwards to the underlying code that makes all of it work. They confirm it's an exact match by using the code they worked backwards towards to make the game again and confirm they have an exact match to the orginal game file(s).

Once this is done, it is possible to change literally anything about the game, as you have access to the code that makes it work. One of the most popular things to do is to replace the parts of the code that are specific to the console it was originally made for with code that can run on PC. This results in an accurate PC version of the original game. After that, other coders usually dig into the PC "version" to add all sorts of easy modding support.

This has already been done with Super Mario 64, Ocarina of Time, and Star Fox 64, and they all have easily moddable PC versions now. This has resulted in things like Render96 and Ray Tracing support for SM64, a bunch of bug fixes and an insanely deep randomizer for OoT, and discovery of cut levels and entire game modes partially left in the game code that had only been mentioned in interviews in Star Fox 64.

It's also worth noting that similar projects exist for a whole bunch of other games. The Pokemon Emerald Reverse Engineering project has allowed all the absurd new romhacks with new features like Mariomon and Too Many Types 2, with Pokemon having 3 types and a total of like 70 types in game. Similar (but technically different under the hood) projects for Sonic Unleashed and the Jak series on PS2 have resulted in great moddable PC versions of those as well.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

The AI companies have already been very open about how the plan for monetizing the chatbots is to offer seamless ads integrated directly into the output text.

This is absolutely the game plan for agents.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 5 hours ago

Emmett Otter is a more recent addition from my wife, but the other three have been staples forever.

Also, Little Drummer Boy. Non-stop motion, Christmas Story is a mainstay. It was filmed in the town where my late grandpa grew up, so it was always fun to hear him talk about the places.

Beyond that, not as much tradition but still frequent: Charlie Brown Christmas, Frosty the Snowman, Santa Clause, and some variety of "Christmas Carol" (usually Mickey or Muppets, but not always).

My family always went hard into the Christmas movies.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (2 children)

You should see the last comment this guy made before this post. This is a pathetic attempt at trying to frame ~~another user because they said something he didn't like on his post asking what he could do against getting involuntarily committed.~~ edit: this is probably more likely an attempt to frame one of their terrible doctors.

This user's having a manic episode and in denial. Because drug use triggers their episodes, they're also sober for years. Except last month. And three weeks ago. And last night. You get the picture.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 6 hours ago

This whole situation seems simpler than you're letting on. You repeatedly say your episodes are triggered by drugs, and that you were high all the time last month in a comment on your previous post.

 

Honestly? That's rookie numbers.

 

Bah humbug.

 

PrefaceI'm not trying to call out the mod action of removing my post from the comm so much as I'm calling out the complete lack of mod action leading to the comm becoming shit and having the current top post by scaled, hot, and active being a post that explicitly targets another lemmy user.

That out of the way... !mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world has clearly been slipping from the purpose of the comm for a while now. Most of the posts are actually infuriating and/or political. I understand that what qualifies as either of those can be different for different people, but I feel most of this shit clearly isn't mundane or simple enough to fall under the label of just mildly infuriating.

Here's some examples from the first page right now, sorted by scaled.

While I could have sworn the sidebar had a no politics rule, it doesn't at the time of me writing this up, so politics are arguably acceptable, although I personally feel these all clearly don't match the theme of the community, violating Rule 7.

Sidebar, and expanded rule 7

A few other posts have been made calling this out.

Mod harder and [META] What actually constitutes "mildly infuriating" content?

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Beyond all that mess, we have what was the final straw for me.

Rule 1 (and less so 5), and the current top post by scaled, hot, and active.

I cannot accept that a post to mildly infuriating that targets a specific user while not even removing their username is respectful, and I personally consider it harassment (while it may not violate rule 5 as there is no call to action). Removing the username is usually the bare minimum even in the fucking reddit brigading subs, for plausible deniability.

And regardless of whatever arguments can be had about interpretations of the community's specific rules, it's a dick move. Just block the guy. It reminds me of the god awful reddit dogpiling and brigading. I don't want any of that to come to lemmy.

So I reported it, then saw the recent posts asking mods for action that got no response. I then looked at the mods.

  • LillianVS@lemmy.world (Aer) has not been active in two years.
  • STRIKINGdebate2@lemmy.world (Striker) has not been active in one year.
  • Tenthrow@lemmy.world had not appeared to be active for six days at the time I reported the post, but upon checking the community mod log was likely active two days before (assuming that the other two wouldn't be just lurking and modding for over a year).

So I did something dumb as hell. Roughly an hour after I reported it, I made my own post (now removed from the comm). I find people who make call out posts about others, and the absentee mods allowing it, mildly infuriating. Yeah, childish as shit. What's done is done.

Modlog:

Removed for "doesn't fit community", but what do you folks think? Does it really not fit when the top post is what it is? Personally I think both should be gone, lest that comm descend further into shit.

Either way, now that I have this yell into the void out of me, I'm blocking the comm. Maybe I should have made my post in actually infuriating? (kidding)

 

That is a threat.

From some back to school flyer.

 

We understand that this is a jarring and sudden change, but we're proud of our audio team's ability to create suitable replacements with such short notice. We hope that in time, these new sounds will grow to hold a place in your heart just like the old ones.

(Original post: https://lemmy.world/post/38428736)

 

I have so many great memories from childhood vacations to Mystery Flesh Pit National Park. I cant believe the disaster happened all the way back in 2007.

At least someone has been collecting and documenting everything they can find from the old place: https://www.mysteryfleshpitnationalpark.com/

I still can't make it all the way through the disaster report.

 

This ancient video has ruined this song for me. My toddler is getting into Sesame Street, so the original song is on rotation in the car for the kid friendly playlist. Hard to keep from giggling.

Post name is from the video.

 

Jerboa's not too bad, as the URL field is the same field the link to your uploaded image ends up overwriting, but I swear I see people making this mistake every fucking day. End up posting just an image when they wanted image + link.

Apologies, as I'm sure there's proper channels for this, and open source projects tend to not have the best UIs. Just shouting into the void.

 

Definitely a repost, but it fits the season

 
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