sir_pronoun 1d ago • 0%
I watched some random small travel channels, and videos titled like "Why Vanlife sucks", which apparently has become its own genre by now. I can't find any really good ones anymore right now, though :( maybe this topic needs a community! I will post any videos I do find here, though.
sir_pronoun 1d ago • 100%
Okay so I tried and I got a hard reality check, man. I watch way too much YouTube. Even when searching for key words I'm drowning in content or not finding anything. This is destabilizing.
sir_pronoun 1d ago • 0%
For me it's a mixture of schadenfreude, having people receive their comeuppance (as another here said) and also sympathy. I have had some bad travel experiences, and just sort of go "Oooh boy, that's bad, come on, you got this! .. but you also deserved this!", as I might have deserved some of mine.
sir_pronoun 1d ago • 0%
You have won my heart with "minor animal attacks on hikers". Hello, friend!
sir_pronoun 1d ago • 100%
When you watch it with an account, yes - and even then, I'm afraid to venture down into those depths 😬 I might try for you guys 😬
sir_pronoun 1d ago • 100%
I'm trying to find some of the old videos that I watched, but it's really hard! I guess that kind of content disappears quickly beneath the thousands of similar videos.
One of my favorites back then was a dude on his expensive BMW motorcycle traveling India, and in the chaotic traffic there he had a small crash and it bent his fork, and he also got a hairline fracture on his ankle, I believe.
So, the x-ray machines in the hospital was too bad to image that fracture. So that went untreated and caused him a looot of discomfort. Also, almost nobody in India rides such expensive BMW bikes, so it took him aaages and crazy amounts of money to get a spare part for that bike shipped from Germany, and to find a tech that could install it. It was excellent suffering born from luxury. Can recommend.
sir_pronoun 1d ago • 100%
Yes, that might have been an early start into the genre for me! I fiercely love Karl Pilkington 🥲
So during COVID lockdowns I developed this guilty pleasure of watching YouTubers having miserable times, in the best case vanlife YouTubers. I'm feeling the old itch, can you help me? Do you know any videos of people on travel channels having really, really bad times? I prefer vanlife people, followed by boatlife people. But I'm open to different modes of transport. The more privileged the people and the more miserable their travels, the better. Edit: so I will give you guys something at least, can't find any of the random small stuff I watched years ago atm. The channel vagrant holiday maybe doesn't quite fulfill the criteria, because the guy is doing everything consciously, but it's a fantastic channel, and there definitely is discomfort: https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLphDhroSqrPWi6RbljtGPnl8xr0pmzyb_
sir_pronoun 2d ago • 100%
Looks like a satisfying project
sir_pronoun 3d ago • 100%
Haha, oh. Well. Will you look at that.
sir_pronoun 3d ago • 85%
This is what people need, affordable electric cars.. fuck those SUVs
sir_pronoun 5d ago • 100%
Yeah when did that happen
sir_pronoun 5d ago • 100%
But that is exactly what he recommends, using a password manager - with one time email authentication for the first login as an extra step, right?
sir_pronoun 5d ago • 100%
I'd be interested in a discussion of his points here :) those sound like valid points he's making
sir_pronoun 5d ago • 100%
You're not helping, but I sympathize (that AAF flashback is what got me unto this trail - and I got to AAF through this new Bam Margera doc that dropped on YouTube two weeks ago, maybe that will give you even more flashbacks)
There is this Alien Ant Farm song called "Sarah Wynn" about a drug using young woman. Apparently the band saw a documentary about a woman with that name and wrote the song about her. I need to know - is Sarah Lynn based on this? What documentary was the song based on? (Please help me, I am in pain from not knowing this)
sir_pronoun 1w ago • 57%
Really? This is where you guys draw the line? I mean, I tend to hate remakes and that so few original movies get made, but Event Horizon really didn't hold up well, I find. This is one that could be improved. (Though I know it would probably be made worse)
sir_pronoun 2w ago • 41%
Yes, Israel invaded Lebanon in 1982 because the PLO was attacking Israel from there.
sir_pronoun 2w ago • 31%
No, even Al Jazeera admits here that Hezbollah (or back then, rather the PLO, followed by Hezbollah later) was the first to strike.
Also, Hezbollah is funded by Iran, which is run by religious extremists that want to eradicate all Jews. Israel, however badly, has been defending itself for decades.
There are many bad actors in this conflict, on all sides, and they all need to be stopped.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/18/hezbollah-and-israel-a-timeline-of-conflict
sir_pronoun 2w ago • 17%
Yeah fuck Netanjahu, but maybe it would be a good idea to stop launching rockets at Israeli civilians
sir_pronoun 2w ago • 100%
What are the main points of the argument? Can't watch a video right now
sir_pronoun 2w ago • 100%
There's new music by Dirty Three!! Thanks 🥲
I tried duckduckgoing it for quite a bit and failed. Does anybody have an idea?
Hey guys, so I posted here a few weeks ago, with the idea of donating a gaming PC to a nursing home. I talked to someone in charge there today, this might actually happen. Thing is, to try this out I would probably have to supply the software (Microsoft Flight Simulator being the most important now.) As I understand it, you can only use the Flight Simulator with a Microsoft account. If I let them use my own account, that would mean a PC with my logged in account would be standing around there in the open, for anyone to access. Does anyone have any idea how to approach this in a safe manner? I wish I could just buy a physical copy and let them have it for a while, before they buy their own. But even those need a connected Microsoft account nowadays, it seems. Was also thinking of buying a used Xbox Series S (this might become the long term solution anyway), but same issue with the account, I believe. (Man, modern gaming keeps finding ways to be annoying sometimes.) P.S. If you have great game recommendations for octogenarians, bring them on!
Recently talked to a 90+ year old man in a park in front of his nursing home, guy is a former RC plane enthusiast. Can't do anything now because of his age, though. Bored all the time, sitting in the park is his highlight. Thinking of donating an old gaming PC that can somewhat run the Microsoft flight simulator. Would that be a good idea? Can the average 80-90 year old use that at all, just speaking sensorically and motor skill wise? Are there any other thoughts you have on that idea?
So I'm talking about playing previously Windows-only games on Linux, e.g. via proton. I don't know about the libraries etc that are used - is it possible for Microsoft to use some legal voodoo, for example, to suddenly end it all, and make the use of their libraries illegal (if they belong to Microsoft in the first place)? Or could there be other ways of interference?
I was thinking of something like the Duff Man theme and slapping sounds and moans, but I feel that Lemmy knows better. (Obviously, I would start texting and calling him during the next meeting)
I've been reading the same thing a couple of times lately, company x removes Denuvo from game y. What is happening? Are we returning to a state of innocence and purity?
Alright, your propaganda here over the past months has worked. I want to get into Star Trek. Where do I start? Can I take an abbreviated tour? Or do I need to go to TOS?
Hello, I love this community, but I can't stand it that so many posts don't feature the year that the artwork was made. That's such important information, just to place that piece of art in context. Maybe it can be made a requirement to include the year? What do you think?
I think it's silly to speak in full sentences to home assistants, when I really just use 5 commands most of the time. It would be snappier to make weird sounds, produced by snapping ones tongue e.g., like some African tribes use in their languages. Or any other weird, short sounds. It might be more satisfying to use, and probably funnier. Also, over the course of a few years this might find its way into everyday spoken language. Which would be wonderfully dystopian and maybe funny.
Seriously. I don't want to install something on my phone when the dev is just using a WebView, if that's what it's called. When the app is basically just a website with the browser hidden. What's the reason for that? To attach the customer? To sell the app for money? Is there more ad revenue that way? Do you reach more people? (Are there any good reasons for it, too? Security, maybe?)
I once heard that in the middle of 20th century, public transportation in the USA was widely privatized and bought by automotive manufacturers, and then wilfully left to rot, so that people would buy more cars. However, I can't find anything backing that up. Do you know whether that's true, and where I can find some sources for that?
I am in an intense love-hate relationship with Spotify. It makes good mixes for me, I have found a lot of great bands that way. BUT IT KEEPS REGURGITATING THE SAME SONGS IN THERE. I know about Song Radios and Artist Radios, so please don't recommend those. Smart Shuttle doesn't cut it, either. The best thing would be several randomness sliders. One for randomness in bands, the other for randnomness of their songs, one for genres. Please tell me some music service has implemented something like that. I am dying over here.
With all the hormones and whatnot inside. Dopamine, adrenaline, melatonin, whatever. Also, there's this Hunter S. Thompson bit on the.. pineal gland? If it had an effect on you, wouldn't it be a really messed up high, all over the place? With uppers, downers etc mixed? (Not including the emotional implications of eating raw human brains.)
Hey there, so I was turned off by all the drama at launch and waited until now to buy the game. I hear major changes are going to come soon. So do you think it's a better idea to start playing it now, or wait for patch 1.7/2.0?
When I was a child, my parents took me on a holiday to Italy. I was alone in my hotel room at night, when I heard a loud, rustling sound. On top of the couch I saw a huge praying mantis. I had never seen one before in real life, and damn, that thing was huge. With all limbs extended it must have been the size of a book. And it was loud, and it moved around a lot. It was fast. I was scared. I tried shooing it out the balcony door, but to no avail. Man, that thing was terrifying. With its huge and sharp claws, and big, bulging eyes. And it just wouldn't leave. So I looked for something to hit it with. I couldn't find anything, until I looked in the night stand drawer. There was a bible in there. I thought, what the hell, and started throwing the bible at it. I missed at first, but soon I hit. It still scurried on. It felt horrible, but I threw again and hit it again. I tried squashing it with the bible when it was unable to move, but that thing was so big, it felt much different from a normal insect. It felt like I was trying to crush a mouse. I couldn't do it. Hoping it was already dead, I scooped it up with some magazine and threw it outside. The next morning, the real horror of the situation revealed itself to me. I looked where I threw the mantis, and it was still there - and it was still moving its limbs. While it was being eaten alive by ants. So I had crippled it and thrown it to hellish tortures. Mortified, I left it there and went for breakfast. ..I'm going to hell for this, ain't I?