*snaps gloves*

The force is about to be with you.

It’s coming out of his pants.

It’s not a hose.

HyperX Cloud Alpha is the most comfortable I’ve used - could wear those all day, no pressure points. Sound quality is fantastic, largely due to the closed-back design.

And if you’re not already familiar with the difference between open- and closed-back headphones, definitely learn it! Something not often discussed in headset articles is how YOU sound when wearing them. It’s a bit weird to describe, but you ofc hear yourself when you speak, and something that alters how you’re supposed to sound can be jarring as fuck.

The you sound when you speak without having anything on your head or in your ears, would be most comparable to open-back headphones.

If you plug your ears and then speak, you’ll sound weird, and hearing yourself sound weird can make speaking feel weird.

…idk if I’m doing a good job putting this to words. For real, just stick your fingers in your ears and start saying a few sentences, you’ll hear what I mean.

I did NOT know the difference when I got my HyperX’s, and it took a while to get used to speaking with them on. Had I known the difference, I probably would have looked for an open-back model instead. I love em now, but again it did take a bit to get there.

Most of my Steam library is shit I have no intention of ever playing. I’ve bought a TON of bundles that contain one game I actually want that justifies the entire purchase; one or two that look like they have some potential, so I’ll bookmark them for a rainy day; and like 15 digital turds that I now have the key to, so… why not, might as well activate.

The ‘unplayed math’ is comically bad in my case.

Love me a meme with variable text color to maintain contrast against a changing background.

“unicycle”

Well, here’s hoping.

Witcher III sets a pretty fucking high bar, and Cyberpunk doesn’t leave me with much faith that CDPR still has the chops.

Cautiously looking forward to it.

Hell yeah! I’ll definitely be giving this a shot!

Does this come with a quick key for hiding a thread?

The only thing I miss from that other site / RES is being able to scroll by just hitting H, H, H etc for ‘hide’, stopping to actually enter a thread, or skip it to read later.

The benefit being that I’d hop on a couple hours later, and those posts would still be hidden.

With Lemmy, I see a LOT of the same threads. Some of its because of reposts to different communities, but a lot of it’s because the stuff I already sifted through is still lingering the next time I hop on.

Weird how everything happens ‘quietly’ lately.

There’s a false dichotomy about about storing #DogShit in your refrigerator: don’t do it, or just smear it all over the entire interior.

I can’t speak to other appliances, but refrigerators offer a third option: partitioning the dog shit. This can be for anyone with a refrigerator.

• You can select a dedicated area for the dog shit, like the vegetable drawer; users will know it’s full of dog shit because of the warning provided by the smell.
• People who don’t open the vegetable drawer won’t have to see the dog shit.
• You’ll have to manually open the vegetable drawer to access the dog shit.

Basically, it puts the dog shit in quarantine, without taking up all the interior space for your food.

I like that option for our refrigerator, social.poop, and it’s the one we voted to implement earlier this year.

We know that dog shit already hosts biohazards (e.g., Giardia). We know that some reasonable folks have already stepped in it while attempting to dodge some other kind of shit.

This option makes it clear that dog shit isn’t safe to store in your fridge, while allowing coprophiles to do exactly that.

Every household will implement the option that makes sense to them, of course.

This is gonna seem off topic at first, but bear with me:

I vaguely recall a study that was focused on motorcycle collisions/fatalities/etc, trying to piece together common factors in an effort to steer production away from features that resulted in motorcyclists from being hurt or killed.

Color of the motorcycle was one of the things they looked at, thinking that harder to see colors would correlate with more collisions - after another vehicle would hit a motorcycle, the driver of that vehicle would commonly say things like “I didn’t see him!” or “He just came out of nowhere!” so they figured visibility is a big factor. An unexpected finding was that white motorcycles were hit by other vehicles WAY less frequently than other colors, even compared to like neon orange and other super high visibility colors.

Turned out that not seeing the motorcycles wasn’t really the issue, but a subconscious thing our brains do with threat assessment. Cars, trucks, etc on the road pose a mortal threat to each other, so our brain focuses on those automatically. Motorcycles… might get a nasty dent from hitting one, but that’s about it, so relative to larger vehicles, your brain just doesn’t give a fuck about motorcycles unless you’re consciously thinking about them (so, takeaway from this post: make a habit to consciously think about motorcycles when doing things like changing lanes!)

White motorcycles were the exception because they looked enough like cops that they crossed that threat assessment line: running into someone who has the authority to take your freedom away is apparently enough for your subconscious to categorize it the same as things that could feasibly kill you if you run into them. (takeaway #2, of you’re considering buying a motorcycle, maybe shoot for white)

So about the propane tank on the bicycle… if drivers think your bike has the potential to become a bomb, you bet your ass they’re going to give you more space and respect than literally every other cyclist on the road.

It doesn’t even have to be a propane tank, it just has to look like one. You could shape a chunk of styrofoam and slap an explosion warning sticker on it and get the same effect.

Shit, you could even make false propane tank saddle bags to give the other drivers a healthy bit of fear, while giving you a nice sealed container to stow all your crap in. There’s potential here!

“I also have nothing to hide, but the assumption that everyone who wants to log every detail of my life isn’t doing so with malicious intent, is dangerous.”

Would there be a way to make a new community that acts as a kind of graveyard for content from deleted communities?

XYZ times out and gets auto deleted; all of its threads move to the graveyard. Disallow new threads in that community except by transfer from a deleted community; but allow new comments within those so that they still have potential to generate content from folks who landed there from a search.

Clean up derelict communities without actually losing anything - win win.

That's the scary part about Twitter.

Most companies turn the burn up slowly. Musk took one look at the frogs, then turned the stove up to max, hired a technician to hold a welding torch up to the base of the pot, hired a chemist find an additive for the water to increase its boiling point and heat retention, pissed in the pot, and is actively pouring gasoline all over the kitchen with one hand while flipping the frogs off with the other.

And the frogs are just taking it.

What message does that send to YouTube?

I was worried we'd be seeing waves of this kind of anti-user aggression from large websites. My hypothesis is that twitter is running an active experiment to see just how user-unfriendly you can make something with an established userbase / what level of profitability corresponds with what level of fuckiness.

YouTube n' friends have been watching from the sidelines and picking their own jaw up off the floor after seeing just how much the average user will bend over and take.

…which all makes me absolutely LOVE to see communities like this. Yo ho, motherfuckers!

I have like 4 different ad blockers installed now because of that. Seems to do the trick. :p

which may or may not be your cup of tea.

Really wish there was a coherent structure to political labeling.

Follow a prefix-root-suffix system or something - one glance at name should give you some idea of where they land on the political spectrum and what their identity is built on.

Check out Enderal if you haven’t already.

It’s a total conversion mod, but it’s in the steam store (free) as a standalone game.

Playing Enderal is the closest you’ll get to reliving your first play of Skyrim, when you didn’t know every quest, character, and draugr hole like the back of your hand.

Fair warning: combat is completely revamped, and OP builds in Skyrim like the sneaky archer will get you steamrolled in Enderal.