Reminder that a seatbelt cutter and glass breaker is a good investment, especially in cars like this.

I will say all the filipino memes I see are all using tagalog with the latin alphabet. Never seen this alphabet before.

Carlos also cancelled a more immediate $7 billion business plan with Starlink, which makes it closer to 30 billion lost.

Shrimp are cool

Source: https://youtu.be/UXWckTAw3JY (Saltwater shrimp depicted here but it’s from monterey and they are still cool in their own way)

Depth of field and chromatic aberration are pretty cool if done right.

Depth of field is a really important framing tool for photography and film. The same applies to games in that sense. If you have cinematics/cutscenes in your games, they prob utilize depth of field in some sense. Action and dialogue scenes usually emphasize the characters, in which a narrow depth of field can be used to put focus towards just the characters. Meanwhile things like discovering a new region puts emphasis on the landscape, meaning they can use a large depth of field (no background blur essentially)

Chromatic aberration is cool if done right. It makes a little bit of an out of place feel to things, which makes sense in certain games and not so much in others. Signalis and dredge are a few games which chromatic aberration adds to the artstyle imo. Though obviously if it hurts your eyes then it still plays just as fine without it on.

Well hopefully with the impending economic downturn the US will get their shit together… Right?

I’m decently sure profanity became known as such because of either religious reasons or class division (along the lines of peasants vs nobles from early/medieval europe) and it just became commonplace.

I would say profanity nowadays though is a lot less taboo. It’s been normalized in culture (hip hop, city culture, punk subculture) and a lot of people are less religious nowadays.

Does anyone else’s search on lemmy actually work as expected? I feel like it never finds anything really relevant. I can search for audio interfaces for example and all the first results are about software in general and not actually the hardware component.

Most of the US is a culture pot so the food I like is not really local.

The only things I can think of as a state famous thing is that San Francisco, California is known for sourdough, and Seattle, Washington is kinda known for the Seattle (Hot) Dog.

Lol I just don’t buy eggs now. I could buy any other protein for the price of eggs now

Bad press would work if there were consequences like forcing the CEO to step down

Unfortunately in today’s world corporations and their ceos can get away with almost everything

Feels like it’s been that way since the election to be honest

Lemmy has always been a political outlet, but post election has been out of hands.

I was going to say it couldn’t have been a decade but then I realized the last time I used Skype was about 2015 2016…

That sounds more like free advertisement for Signal

“Our product is banned on twitter!”

I remember hearing about some dude putting his grandfather’s inheritance on this poopcoin. Wonder how he’s doing

TF3

Both titanfall and team fortress deserves a new game in the franchise

South Korea did detain and impeach the dude, so hopefully it goes somewhere unlike where the US is now

Whatsapp is owned by meta

Not a shitty product, but the company is shit unfortunately

Aliexpress is a wrapper for alibaba that I’ve used a while (like 3-4 years)

As with most of these chinese shopping sites, you have to do your due diligence when shopping. A lot of the stuff sold are like plastic goods, which ymmv if you want or not (for example plastic wall hooks are perfectly fine imo, but maybe not for other things).

Obviously there’s issues with consumerism on these, and supporting local is better, but in this economy, I wouldn’t fault people trying to get the most bang for your buck.

(This might change in the next week in the us depending on what happens)

Literally in my first paragraph I said it was a volunteer program

If you want to argue about forced inmate labor being the modern day slavery sure but that’s not related to this program at all