[-] stray@pawb.social 1 points 2 months ago

There's a YouTube video of a guy who I guess he and his wife did life blogs or something (I didn't watch their content, so I don't really know). He's got his recording going about the start of his day, talking about how she's sleeping in again, and then he goes to wake her, but she's fucking dead. It's like the most human thing I've ever seen on film, and I really appreciate that he posted it, even though I don't fully understand why I feel that way. It just feels important to me.

[-] stray@pawb.social 1 points 2 months ago

It looks like that's a different app, so no. OP pointed out some subtle differences though. It's roughly the same, but with the layout altered slightly. I think it probably looks like a more drastic change to those not already using the grid view; I had forgotten list was even an option.

[-] stray@pawb.social 1 points 2 months ago

According to bigcatrescue.org, black coloration is more commonly found in forested areas with less light, which seems to fit the area. Black panthers of any species are capable of producing non-black cubs, but it seems they're selected against in such environments.

He shows pictures of black cougars in the video, and they have very distinct grey markings compared to the seeming all-black of other big cats.

[-] stray@pawb.social 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

You can do that just with Firefox's syncing feature though. You don't even have to save it intentionally; so long as you're logged in on both devices it'll be listed in your history and/or open tabs.

[-] stray@pawb.social 1 points 2 months ago

You'd need the PC equivalent of a grandma with dementia for it to struggle running Firefox. Anecdotally, I game with my tab collection regularly with no issues, but here's a more scientific test: https://www.howtogeek.com/how-many-tabs-does-it-take-to-slow-down-your-browser/

But even in that case, just bookmark, save, and/or archive the pages in question? It doesn't make sense for them to maintain servers and code on a service so easily replicated by the browser itself.

[-] stray@pawb.social 1 points 4 months ago

I don't mean to argue against your point (I wouldn't know); I was just very tickled by the image of a huge beefy man on a tiny little bike.

Are bicycles built for two safe in the first place?

[-] stray@pawb.social 1 points 5 months ago

I've often thought that maybe time is like color or weight. Electromagnetic radiation exists, but color only exists as an idea in our heads, how we're perceiving and interpreting what does actually exist. Our weight is variable based on our mass and gravitational effects in our environment, rather than being an actual property that describes us. Is what you're saying about time potentially being an emergent property of entropy the same deal? Are color and weight emergent? (I'm asking both about the actual wording and also how analogous the ideas are.)

[-] stray@pawb.social 1 points 5 months ago

I think we're taking about the same thing, actually. When the maps were small 2D areas that connected at set points, I was able to learn them well without any special effort. With experience one could bypass the paintball system by having learned a monster's likely behaviors, which was extremely satisfying.

Now we have the auto-tracking features which render navigation mindless, along with maps existing in 3D and on much larger scales and interconnecting in more complex ways. When I've attempted to ignore the navigation system and do things manually I find it very difficult, which I have to assume is why they added the navigation in the first place.

My memory isn't as clear as I'd like for this kind of discussion, but I remember something like a single button being both start climbing and also jump off the thing you're climbing or something like that? And then if I wanted to jump off a cliff it was a different button from what I'd been lead to expect in other contexts? So I'd just constantly be accidentally using the wrong inputs because they were too context-reliant, and it made it extra difficult to navigate and gather. The controls used to be a lot simpler, and we didn't have any of this hookshotting around with bugs or super dogs. Saying the controls used to be simpler and 100% meaning it is hilarious coming from someone who played on PSP. How did you make me prefer the claw, Capcom? Maybe I was just used to the old way and can't adapt; I just remember things being more straight-forward in terms of actual gameplay.

I could also really do without action games bogging themselves down with lengthy dialogs and cutscenes. If I wanted to watch a movie or read a book or play an RPG I would just do those things. I don't need an epic lore motivation for stabbing dinosaurs. This series barely had dialog when it started out, and the voice lines were delightfully world-buildy and flavorful by not being any real-world language. Less was more in terms of immersion.

[-] stray@pawb.social 1 points 5 months ago

Nested drop-down menus are exactly what I miss though. In most of your screenshots there are text menus and little icons that are duplicates of menu options. I love that design, especially because I recall most programs allowing you to customize the menu bars so that you could hide whichever ones you didn't like. Little icons only is okay on desktop because you can hover over them to get more info, but on mobile your only option is to tap them.

Another feature I've been reminded of is keyboard shortcuts which can be referenced in the drop-down menus, but are otherwise not taking up any screen space at all. I love that design for people who can use it, but for myself, if the button isn't on the screen as an option, I forget it exists. This is a huge problem for me as gestures take over things, particularly on Apple products. There's no scroll bar or right click on the laptop mice; you have to use multiple fingers. And on ipads you have to double-press the one button instead of just having a hamburger button, which is a nightmare for me because I often just hold it in or end up hitting it three times. At least on Android you have the option of gestures and buttons to customize as you like.

Gimp has never not been confusing as fuck, but I think that's probably due to me not having any education in image editors in the first place. I'm lucky I can work with layers.

[-] stray@pawb.social 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

The documentary style quickly takes a back seat, but the interviews are always there and heavily used. Try Modern Family first and see of the Office doesn't hit better once you're used to the interviews there. They're brief fourth-wall breaks and not diagetic.

e: I would say if you're not having an absolute blast by the Dundees episode (I think that S2E1?), don't waste any more of your time.

[-] stray@pawb.social 1 points 6 months ago

I didn't get that far into the show because I was bored and lost in the space battles. Action scenes are always shakey cameras and me being confused about who's on what ship. I was extremely interested in the human dramas, politics, and especially the mystery of the fungal thing. The acting and dialects were really cool though, and I'd probably miss out on those unless the author does a good job writing them. Does it seem like I'd prefer reading it instead? I kind of feel like I just talked myself into trying the show again. :s

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