Stalinwolf

Stalinwolf, 9 months ago

She may just be pointing out how buzzwords seem to explode throughout the internet, like when someone mentioned boiling a frog in a pot and now someone shares that exact metaphor in every 1 in 4 threads.

Stalinwolf, 9 months ago (edited 9 months ago)

I accidentally came across a Freak on a Leash the other day and was immediately transported back to the weird days of my adolescence, smoking Winstons in my friend’s trailer park and stealing Subway stickers from his dad in order to redeem a wealth of free 6" subs.

Something about the way those guitars sound just makes me feel that again. There are also hints in there somewhere of staring at a velvet mushroom black light poster while experiencing a THC-induced anxiety attack.

Stalinwolf, 9 months ago

“Can’t stop, addicted to the shin pig.” - Anthony Kiedis

Stalinwolf, 9 months ago

The Elder Scrolls IV - Oblivion is probably my best answer. Remains the only modern Elder Scrolls that I’ve only played through once with no desire to return to. Feels clunky and sluggish, the world is washed out and bland, the enemy scaling is a slog, itemization is not interesting or impactful, the UI is uncomfortable, etc. While it does a lot of things better than Skyrim, I just can’t bring myself to enjoy the experience like I did Morrowind, and I admit I’ve sunk far more hours into Skyrim as well.

Stalinwolf, 10 months ago

I really enjoyed what I played of Primal, and I hope they do more historic ones like it. One set during the Dark Ages would be sweet.

Stalinwolf, 10 months ago

I’m weird as hell in that I enjoy music, but I rarely ever sit down and listen to it. Then the other day I learn that my three-year-old discovered Bush’s Glycerine on the way home from daycare and has now been asking for it on our Google Home. I realize, “Dude, I fucking loved Glycerine.”, and immediately set to assembling a playlist over the course of three days, made up of mostly older music I grew up with. But you bet your ass I still don’t listen to it. Anyway… That’s my TED Talk on music.

Stalinwolf, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

Honestly, there are two mobile games I’ve really been blown away by: Night of the Full Moon, and Dungeon Boss Respawned. They’re very polished, very feature-complete games that are on the small and neatly contained side. For PC, Bastion is pretty damn good. Dungeon Keeper 1 and 2 as well, but it’s difficult to get those running anymore. Raft, Ori and the Blind Forest and Stardew Valley are also phenomenal.

I’m sure there are other small games worthy of mention, but I’m struggling to remember them. I usually play large open world games. On that subject, absolutely try Valheim if you haven’t.

I’ll be happy to summarize each of these games if you’d like me to.

Stalinwolf, 10 months ago

Is it first? Is it last?

Stalinwolf, 10 months ago

Valheim. Just crafted iron scale armor for the first time with my wife and it looks bad-ass as fuck. If we weren’t playing this I’d either be playing STALKER (as usual) or taking a second stab at The Witcher 3.

Stalinwolf, 10 months ago

https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/2f8f2898-6384-4d37-a107-1ef237a67b1b.png

Are we certain this isn’t some kind of reference point added to the image for whatever reason? This is suspiciously straight in alignment, as though it were added in Paint.

Stalinwolf, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

I work at a small grocery store and I’m astounded by how often people shit in our public bathroom. Our toilet is extemely popular, and as such is always ripe with the robust smell of shit. It’s clear that many of these customers have a routine.

Stalinwolf, 10 months ago

Bio-dome sold it.

Stalinwolf, 10 months ago

It looks a bit like Ryan George.

Stalinwolf, 10 months ago

Most people think that catfish listen to bluegrass, but what they don’t realize is that it’s actually reggae.

Stalinwolf, 10 months ago

I’ve never seen this before. It felt like I was watching a Joel Haver cartoon without the surreal comedy. I’ll have to watch this thing in its entirety.

Stalinwolf, 10 months ago

I can see how this would be exhausting after a while. I get a “come here” from my wife every couple of days or so when my daughter is doing something cute, or something weird is happening outside. It’s generally reserved (for the most part) for something fleeting that’s worth coming there to see.

As Tyrone from Trailer Park Boys would say, “You’re sayin’ “come here’” too many times! 80 or 90 times? That’s too many times! Once or twice is cool, but 80 or 90 times, man?! That’s too many “come heres”, know’m sayin’? That’s too many times. Once or twice is cool, but 80 or 90 times?”

Stalinwolf, 10 months ago

Eh, I’d give it a 7. It’s a solid movie. Very cinematic, great audio design, interesting characters. Goes on longer than I would have preferred but I guess they had to tell the whole story. Still, in all fairness, a 6 isn’t even a bad movie.

Stalinwolf, 10 months ago

Yeah, man. I’m with you and I’m incredibly pleased. My old experience I’ve enjoyed on reddit for years is finally back and is functionally identical, at least for the basics I missed so much.

Stalinwolf, 10 months ago

I have a wife and a three year old, so I don’t have a tremendous amount of free time these days. Still, I fill what I can with PC gaming (wife and I are playing Valheim together currently), reading fiction, and occasionally writing. Occasionally.

Stalinwolf, 10 months ago

I figure eventually here these kids are going to be old enough to get in on these co-op survival games. I hooked up my old Wii recently and my daughter loves to play Mario Kart, even it she only drives in circles and shouts, “Find me, Dad!”. We just have to get through the sleep deprivation and maybe another thousand bedtimes or so, and then hey… It’ll probably get easier… 🫠

Stalinwolf, 10 months ago

I occasionally put on old episodes at work and it’s insane how different he is. Used to have very progressive views while still exercising the ability to think critically on informations and events. Now every episode is flagged for misinformation, and he’s constantly dropping the word “woke” as if to test the waters with each guest, practically leaping out of his jeans to go on another anti-woke tangent. He’s become completely consumed by it. I suppose this is what’s bound to happen when you repeatedly surround yourself with morons like Eddie Bravo and Alex Jones.

Stalinwolf, 10 months ago

American ex-pat/Canadian permanent resident here. This is all pretty accurate in my experience, though I can’t speak on using Imperial for work-related measurements or pool temperature. Just this morning I had to describe our current bout of cool weather in Ferenheit to my friends back home, and was reminded all over again how ridiculous it is that the US still isn’t on metric. This rings especially true whenever I call my mom. Seems like I have to “Hey Google” conversions in every conversation we have. Before my dad died he would keep his weather app on Celcius to report the weather to me in metric. I honestly love that he felt compelled to do that.

It was a little weird getting used to the metric system initially, but I honestly prefer it at this point. I used to argue that you could be more precise with Farenheit, as the scale was broader. However, I’ve since come to realize that no one cares whether it was 74° or 76°.

Stalinwolf, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

My employer struggled to hire a meat guy for three years, as they only wanted to offer minimum wage without benefits. They’d score the occasional hire, but that hire would inevitably quit after a few weeks when they realized it wasn’t worth the pay. Both the store owner and the meat manager would continue to grumble about how “Nobody wants to work anymore”, rather than facing the reality that nobody wants to work for shit pay and no benefits, as evident by the multiple hires who said “Fuck this job” and took their services elsewhere. Eventually they coughed up more and wound up landing a certified meat cutter with experience. Crazy how nature do that.

I don’t know what the nobody wants to work crowd thinks the average non-contributer is doing to afford food and shelter. It’s as though they imagine these people just declare that they don’t want to work and receive government subsidies via the “I don’t want to work anymore” check-box.

Stalinwolf, 10 months ago

*Dwight Yoakum’s Razor

Stalinwolf, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

My wife and I’s top 3 on YouTube:

Internet Comment Etiquette with Eric

Ordinary Things

Brutalmoose

Plenty of others, but these are the three I always recommend to people.