Anime andrew_bidlaw • 6d ago • 100%

Is Uzumaki cursed?

That's not just second episode and it's dorky animation, the first one is dogshit too. I feel like Uzumaki just can't get a proper adaptation. And it's probably a curse we won't have a chance to lift.

Found this today and I think it's cool and true, although too shooort.

Videos andrew_bidlaw • 1mo ago • 77%

The Alt-Right in Tabletop Games [56 minutes]

I've stumbled upon that in my feed.

Ask Lemmy andrew_bidlaw • 1mo ago • 94%

Where to put a smartphone if you move fast and need it always at hand?

As I always move fast I have a problem with feeling like I loosely strapped a brick onto myself when I put my phone in my pockets, including waist and knee ones. It chaotically moves at each step and I'm tired of that. To the point I take it in my hand when I'm in a real hurry. I guess, Lemmy has a lot of people who either run or do outdoors activities and labor. What are the best positions on the body to make it move less when you walk or run? Are there some great smartphone holders, straps that you can recommend? Can I use it with casual clothes without it looking weird? I suppose the ones you place on the belt are obvious to suggest first, but I haven't seen them since the death of small button phones and current smartphones are kinda big for that to work. And no, putting it into a bag, a suitcase or a backpack wouldn't work for me for I prefer not to be dependent on carrying them on me.

Lemmy Shitpost andrew_bidlaw • 1mo ago • 70%

raw men cuisine

::: spoiler alt text A picture of a group of first Christians praying in a circle. They are in the roman Coliseum. A lion slowly approaches them. The text added over the picture reads 'VEGAN DIET'. :::

FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone posted it around a lot, and it sounds legit due to it being on the .gov site. I wanted to dig into the original version since I'm a native and have some edge in using it over my homies. Even some rewards at that, kek. Welp. Mostly it's an easily translateable basic vocab including media-specific words. I suspect it's an american or a russian-american person writing in Russian and sometimes\always using an automatic translator. And they are stupid at that, as they don't know how complex punctuation works or don't read what they post. The punctuation is kinda confusing, sometimes hinting that it's a copy paste from a translator. + *отличается от **таковой*** - is a rare turn of words that many russians fail at, just like americans fail at *they're*. I don't know many persons who can correctly put it into a sentence. That's probably a translated text since they can't handle the right placement of commas. + *ставленником* - is a weird archaic word that's sometimes used by nerds of polisci or other humane arts weirdos, it isn't used anywhere else. That's maybe a clue to who wrote it. + *нового глобалистского социализма* - sounds weird, like a direct translation from English. + Next, there is a division between the elephant and the donkey, both lowercase, without any punctuation to tell them they are referencing parties, not animals. It's fucking stupid. And not stupid as a result from an AI prompt that can produce a correct phrase, but from a literal translation of a literal translation that lost any indication of what it refers to. That's just the first picture. All of that sounds weird to my ear, and my assumption, clouded by the US gov's decision to put it onto display, is that it can be legit, but it is written by a person with a political\media background, creating a draft in English, that they lazily translated into Russian. That may be on RT employes, especially international ones. There are a handful of russian-speaking users on fediverse who can tell I'm wrong. Ah, yeah, and it really mentions 'manga' although it doesn't make any sense.

Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ andrew_bidlaw • 2mo ago • 100%

Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) and how to avoid it

Since Russia started to use DPI to block YouTube and other stuff, there arised a couple of solutions to fuck with it. I've come around this repository or, even better, the end of it's page for many cross-platform tools that may let you avoid DPI, and I've used some of them to prove they are working. https://github.com/ValdikSS/GoodbyeDPI They don't work for resources that are explicitely banned, it only undoes this one layer of blocking. As Russia didn't block YT (like Twitter) that's enough for that one usecase. It's no private VPN or something, but it may become useful in the future.

Showerthoughts andrew_bidlaw • 2mo ago • 23%

Weird links between the Tower of Babyl myth and the Twin Towers

+ Babylon is in modern Iraq, one of the countries invaded by the US in the aftermath of 9\11 + Both claimed to be the highest towers in the world + Both are in populated influential trade centers + The Babylon myth with different languages VS the War on Terror, affecting policies worldwide, growing tensions and fear in the post-USSR world, now - post 9\11 world + The pronounced reasoning behind the 9\11, told as a fatwa by Osama, starts as follows: *All these American crimes and sins are a clear proclamation of war against God, his Messenger, and the Muslims.* Not that far from what caused the abrahamic god to prank Babylon. This connection is loose, lacks context and mixes very different things together, but I haven't got a pleasure to shower any longer than that to think things out. How BS is it?

Ask Lemmy andrew_bidlaw • 2mo ago • 92%

What would you make a core of a Borderlands movie for it not to suck as the recent one?

Making it 17+, changing cast and visuals don't count. Let's say it's live action with heavy CGI. What would be here for the main attraction, the plot, the cast of characters?

Ask Lemmy andrew_bidlaw • 2mo ago • 92%

What places are best for a first tatto in your opinion?

Durability-wise? Pain-wise? Covering or showing-wise? Where did you inked your first one?

No Stupid Questions andrew_bidlaw • 3mo ago • 80%

Trolley problem Pt. 2: A cancer hospital, limited funds, patients of various ages and conditions. Should there be a universal answer?

I'd assume we want everyone to survive and carry on with their lives equally. Yet, if we can't, there's a choice of distributing our doctors' time and equipments towards some of patients rather than others. Policies deciding that choice in general, if implemented, naturally smell like death. That'd organically lead to some marks for a cut-off, the obvious one is the age - like excluding 70+ patients from active treatment and supporting them as they are instead, while prefering younger folks, because they have more projected lifespan ahead of them (AND MORE VALUE TO THE REGIIIIME!). Then, there is a game of chances for recovery. Then there are biases against lung, stomack or skin cancer patients who neglected their bodies themselves etc etc etc. And we don't even touch the problem of these policies being sexist, racist or otherwise based on unscientific grounds. But if not over-generalized policies that can mark some categories as not-worthy patients, we'd then assume the power to decide is in the hands of individual doctors who do have the problems in the last paragraph, but with individual power to decide as well as individual responsibility for that (but they can ask patients themselves if they want it?). My question is: should we even seek a universal answer to that dillema? What is the beacon to navigate us here, balancing general policies and individual responsibilities? How'd we personally judge a party who'd make such decision (+ if we are their patient and we don't want to die)? I've tried my best not to suggest any answer and not to instigate any sort of an infight, but if it's not ok, please delete it.

Dude is cringe himself most of the time, but he does justice to... ehm... whatever the flying duck it really is.

Connect for Lemmy App andrew_bidlaw • 3mo ago • 100%

[suggestion] Make back arrow exit embedded browser

Today I've visited TechCrunch from a posted link https://techcrunch.com/2024/07/24/crowdstrike-offers-a-10-apology-gift-card-to-say-sorry-for-outage/ and after some reading couldn't exit it at all tapping both my back key and the back arrow on the top. Due to how inconvenient the arrow on top is, I suggest to make it the exit button that closes the browser and returns user to Lemmy at once, while usual back buttons keep acting like they are now.

Casual Conversation andrew_bidlaw • 3mo ago • 93%

[repost] Local LAN\co-op best moments

What are your stories? I'm sad I haven't had such parties for a long time, and a lack of PC games with co-op doesn't help it too. But I still treasure these times me and my friends wasted whole nights playing high on cola and doritos, and I wonder if me, now an adult, can reproduce a bit of that with my current non-playing friends, their spouses, children, etc. Just a general nostalgia and 'what-to-play-now' thread. --- I unintentionally deleted the original post, sorry.

Casual Conversation andrew_bidlaw • 3mo ago • 100%

IRL co-op\LAN gaming best moments

What are your stories? I'm sad I haven't had such parties for a long time, and a lack of PC games with co-op doesn't help it too. But I still treasure these times me and my friends wasted whole nights playing high on cola and doritos, and I wonder if me, now an adult, can reproduce a bit of that with my current non-playing friends, their spouses, children, etc. Just a general nostalgia and 'what-to-play-now' thread.

196 andrew_bidlaw • 3mo ago • 100%

thy appetite for boys has been decided

I'm ~~not~~ making rules

> Nobody's perfect, > > Gotta find a way to get through this > > For another day. > > Make the pain go away. > If you could make it hurt less > > Wouldn't you take what was needed > > To make it easier? > Yeah, I know sometimes > > I'm not all that I can be. > > It's a temporary consequence > > Of my self-medication. > Make it hurt less! > > Don't hurt less! > > Be hurt less!