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Roommate (by Sheri)
  • On the one hand, Ina would be a great roommate in that she never leaves her room.

    On the other hand, I'm pretty sure I recall a room cleaning stream in which a certain priestess basically just spent a ton of time throwing cans that were lying around into a bag, which doesn't sound great.

  • [Settled] The 0 Damage Fire Cape
  • I was very much expecting a death followed by a mad montage of him training up Lowlife109 followed by a victory, but no, the madlad just did it. God damn.

  • My wacky Stanly Parable-inspored game called DO NOT PRESS THE BUTTON (To Delete The Multiverse) finally reached 5000+ wishlists today!
  • I went from being glad this goofy-looking game is getting some attention to realizing I wasn't one of those 5000 wishlists already. Oops.

    Game looks like it'll be a fun little experience, I'm looking forward to it!

  • CSM 171: Fans Point Out Discrepancy Between Japanese & English Versions Of The Chapter
  • I had to double take that scene. I was like cool, head flies off, hope he's dead, chainsaw devil's here... wait a minute...

  • Advice on fixing my "whey protein soup"
  • This is cursed, and every added detail is more cursed. Holy moly.

    Usually if I throw whey protein into something and it comes out chalky the problem is not enough liquid, you may have just reduced it too far. I'd probably try adding... chicken broth? Man that feels gross to suggest, but I imagine adding milk to Chinese food would be worse.

    God speed on that diet, my man, you need it.

  • Government of Canada's response to fediverse infrastructure
  • Yeah, it's not a no, it's basically a "not our problem, everyone does their own thing." Which is fair, but they normally have no problems loading extra work on public servants even though it's not their job, so it's a bit moot.

  • Jack Black cancels Tenacious D tour and places future projects on hold after Kyle Gass comments on Trump
  • What a shame, you've contributed greatly to this conversation, you will be missed 🙏

  • Jack Black cancels Tenacious D tour and places future projects on hold after Kyle Gass comments on Trump
  • I think it's complicated a bit by the fact that this was said on stage at one of their shows. I think canceling the tour is a gross overreaction, but with the current political climate (even ignoring the assassination attempt) I can understand some hesitancy to proceed if anyone is going to be associating them with calls for political violence.

    All that said... based birthday wish, fully agree with Gass's joke.

  • Canada Anti-trans Legislature Risk Assessment Map July 2024 Edition
  • What makes Alberta the most unfriendly? Like, I wouldn't be surprised, but I don't recall any major differences between the recent legislation in any of those three provinces.

  • It's not Critical Role, it's Podcasting Itself
  • This sounds much more like the reason. 12pm-3pm, plus some time before and after to prep and commute and stuff, plus these things often run long in my experience... It easily becomes most of the afternoon. If you have anything else you need to do that day it becomes a fairly big deal.

  • "Rick and Morty: The Anime" New Trailer Announces August 15th Premiere
  • There actually is a Rick and Morty short in this style and with this director from a few years back.

    It's not exactly peak Rick and Morty or anything, but it's so surreal and weird that it's kind of enthralling: https://youtu.be/-kdltv_CSHE

  • What would you do if you won 5 Billion GBP? (6.415450 billion USD)
  • I agree with all of this. Except I would probably buy all the stupid shit I want because I have no concept of how all the stupid shit I want could amount to more than a rounding error.

  • Why don't we put butter and sour cream on French fries? They're basically like tiny skinless baked potatoes...
  • Unironically my two favorite sauces for fries. I attribute a not insignificant portion of my weight gain pre-COVID on slathering cafeteria fries with too much mayo.

  • "Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint" Anime Adaptation Announced With Key Visual
  • Oh hell yeah. The web novel is fantastic, the manwha is a great adaptation, and if they provide this a bit of care it should be a great show.

    That said, it takes a while to really get going. The physical manwha started coming out and the entire first two volumes are by and large just okay. Depending on the pacing of the first season it might not blow up the way it could or should simply because it won't be very good yet.

  • I wince every time I hear a younger person refer to it as "the late 1900s"
  • I'm 31 and it happens sporadically, but in the past couple of weeks I had one guy double-take because he figured there was no way I was that old and one lady who gave me a good ol' "keep doin' what you're doin'."

    The ego boost is necessary since my body insists on groaning every time I sit down.

  • Bae's girlfailure fried rice
  • It's the maccas nuggets, really. God bless Bae, she needs it.

  • Ladybird announcement
  • It's been almost a decade since I used C++ and had to verify, but after some quick searching around it looks like it hasn't changed a ton since I last looked at it.

    You can use smart pointers, and certainly you should, but it's a whole extra thing tacked on to the language and the compiler doesn't consider it an issue if you don't use them. Using new in C++ isn't like using unsafe in rust; in rust your code is almost certainly safe unless marked otherwise, whereas in C++ it may or may not be managed properly unless you explicitly mark a pointer as smart.

    For your own code in new codebases this is probably fine. You can just always make your pointers smart. When you're relying on code from other people, some of which has been around for many years and has been written by people you've never heard of, it becomes harder to be sure everything is being done properly at every point, and that's where many of these issues come into play.

  • Ladybird announcement
  • C and C++ require more manual management of memory, and their compilers are unable to let you know about a lot of cases where you're managing memory improperly. This often causes bugs, memory leaks, and security issues.

    Safer languages manage the memory for you, or at least are able to track memory usage to ensure you don't run into problems. Rust is the poster boy for this lately; if you're writing code that has potential issues with memory management, the compiler will consider that an error unless you specifically mark that section of code as unsafe.

  • Steam Summer Sale - Top Deals
  • It is genuinely ridiculous how much content there is in this game for the price. Like, a lot of it looks like an excuse to play the same levels a dozen times with minor variations, but then there are tons of levels, lots of events, ongoing updates with new content of all types, so many different towers and upgrades to play with, community maps to add even more variety... It looks like I've played over 200 games and I have so much of the game that I haven't even touched yet.

  • Steam Summer Sale - Top Deals
  • Just to throw a few other options on the pile:

    • Valheim is more combat oriented, but is probably my favourite survival crafting game after Subnautica. You're playing vikings trying to earn their way into Valhalla. I die a lot. Very fun.
    • Planet Crafter is more chill, more jank, and more linear, but it's a survival crafting game that is clearly heavily inspired by Subnautica. You are sent to a mars-like planet to terraform it as part of your prison sentence. It's a great podcast game, just build and explore and watch numbers go up.
    • Less on the survival crafting side of things, the environmental storytelling is also really good in Outer Wilds and Return of the Obra Dinn. Very different games, but they were actually what I went to after Subnautica to scratch that itch and it worked weirdly well.
  • Why is the kibble gone? ☹️

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    Gacha is cruel

    150 pulls, so I figured one Kriemhild and no Charlemagne would be reasonable, but nooooo, here's NP3 of a servant I didn't really want and 0 of the goth waifu.

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    Welp, summer is here.

    Should have known not to get too excited about warm weather, that's on me.

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    Books @lemmy.world brenticus @lemmy.world

    ADHD: Reading hobby edition

    I just keep starting books lately. Yeesh.

    Star Wars: Jedi Apprentice: The Rising Force: I have a fairly decent collection of Star Wars books, and recently my dad gave me all his old books plus a bunch from when I was a kid. Wanting to read one but not wanting to start YET ANOTHER book that would take a week to finish, I picked this up yesterday. 9% done.

    I May Be a Guild Receptionist, but I'll Solo Any Boss to Clock Out on Time, Vol. 2: I read volume 1 last week. Blew through it. I loved it. I started volume 2 this week rather than finish off anything else. Genius move. 11% done.

    Whalefall: Library surprise! Put it on hold months ago, got an email that it was ready just before the library workers went on strike, rushed to pick it up, read a few pages. It is now in the pile. 2% done.

    A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: Sometimes I just want to read on my kobo. My kobo book for a long time has been Ulysses. Ulysses is a hard and long read. I needed a break from it so I started reading this... and am still reading it three weeks later. 54% done.

    Ulysses : I've been reading this for a long time and wondering whether I understand it, like it, or generally have the slightest clue why I'm reading it, but when I pick it up and my brain doesn't bounce I am just enthralled by whatever the hell Joyce is doing. I'll get back to it eventually. 40% done.

    The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring: I got these lovely hardcovers a while back which are beautiful, feel lovely to read, have fantastic illustrations, and my god it's just a wonderful story... but lately I've been pretty lethargic and don't want to hold a hardcover. So it's been sitting by my bedside for ages. 37% done.

    What do I start without finishing any of my other books next?

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    'Tis Time for "Torture," Princess - Ch. 220

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    Chainsaw Man – Ch.155

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    'Tis Time for "Torture," Princess – ch. 219

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    Oh you poor, naive child...

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    'Tis Time for "Torture," Princess - Ch. 218

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    How much do I need to worry about temperature for LED strips?

    'Tis the season and I figure I should finally put up some Christmas lights on the house, but ideally I'd like something I can leave up and change colours for other holidays, shots and giggles, etc. So getting some RGB LED strips sounds reasonable.

    The problem, potentially, is that it gets below -30° here pretty much every winter. I know this is problematic for batteries, and sometimes other electronics depending on the build, but for a bunch of LEDs with some sort of ZigBee controller I'm less sure.

    So: outdoor RGB LEDs when it's really freaking cold. Anything I should worry about? Any recommendations?

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    Books @lemmy.world brenticus @lemmy.world

    Web novels are the cocaine of books

    I avoided web novels for ages because I knew this would happen to me, but then a friend recommended Shadow Slave to me last weekend and god damn it my life is over.

    You read a chapter, around a thousand words. It ends on a light cliffhanger. You swipe to the next chapter. Repeat ad infinitum. Sometimes it takes me a long time to get through a longer book – I've been reading Don Juan for, like, a month now – but this? 300 chapters in a week. Around 300k words. Like nothing.

    I have over 700 chapters to go before I catch up, but then what? I can hardly imagine a world where I stop at just one series, even though it has a new chapter every goddamn day. Maybe I check out the sources for other manwha and light novels I've read. Maybe I dive into that one where Florida Man is selling bath salts in another world. There are too many options. How many years of my life will disappear into reading mediocre but addicting progression fantasy a few hundred words at a time?

    TL;DR I have a problem but at least I'm not on Reddit.

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    Pancake has one braincell and likes to suffocate it in his sleep

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