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  • … Err … no? Or you have very raw fabric clothing or something else is up, bud.

    Or do you mean you normally used no underwear when working out and it isn’t that long ago (months, not years) since you had the procedure. Then yeah, there is a difference. But it all err… should work out.

    Speaking as one to the other if you catch my drift. Be happy you did it bud, the pain was just the one of the nasty other complications possible.



  • RedredmetomemesAutism proof
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    9 days ago

    I just love MiG’s. Why? Because the ruskies just rawdogged everything. They saw the F16 with all that fancy fly by wire stuff and made a nimble MiG without any real computer assisted flying with the fulcrum. You have the fastest plane with the SR-71? Well fuck that, here , we’ve put an after burner on that MiG-31 so big it more or less matches the SR-71 speed. It just burns through the engine in one flight and the airframe also takes a big hit when you use it but who cares about costs, we’re commies.

    Soviet aerospace engineers man. You just have to love them. They really used that hammer logic (hit it harder!) on everything.

    Or the approach which led to the hind heli. What? You need a gunship and you need a troop transport? What do you say, the Americans have pinpoint precision on that superCobra and that shiny Apache thingy?

    Here, i’ve made it big so it can fit a lot of troops. I’ve added some large wings so you can fill her up with all kinds of low tech Rockets so you don’t need pinpoint precision. Just point and click in the general direction and everything over there is annihilated. Yeah, that goes for that tank and that family of twelve 100m further down the street where you didn’t aim at as well.

    But, they aren’t us anyway so… And next to that the fucker is really fast for such a big helo…

    The design principles are so fantasticly wack. Matching (try to) western computertech with low tech solutions.


  • RedredmetoGamingWhat game changed your life?
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    11 days ago

    Games, books and movies don’t change your life. At most it makes you think about something a little deeper. A little longer.

    Life events change your life. A child. Death. Life. Love. Hate. War. Hope. Loss. Peace. Safety. Destruction. And money. Or lack of.

    The most impactful game I played, which story I still really remember after 25 years? Homeworld. Hiigara. Our home.


  • The exact workings im not familiar with but it’s called “leveraged buyout” where the net worth of the firm which is bought is the collateral.

    So … you buy firm A with money you lended. When the sale gors through all belongings of firm A are yours! So you sell them off, you know what? You want to make a profit so you sell EVERYTHING.

    Now firm A is but a husk of it’s former self. So now is the time to put it in some holding company or something. Now the husk of firm A is indebted to you.

    Oh noes! It goes bankrupt! With your investment firm as the biggest lender to it!


  • Thats a very shallow take on reality you have here.

    Sure, being a good owner means providing care, safety, food, entertainment and most of all: love.

    But still, its a dog. (Or cat. Or rabbit or whatever.)The moment the situation could sink you financially, that is the moment you pull the plug, take the hit, the pain and move on. You have that choice with an animal. And 9 out of 10 times it’s the best option for everyone, including the animal.

    You don’t hurt something, create more suffering just because you can’t take the loss.

    Looking at the last year of my Fathers life we all (himself first and foremost) wished we had that humane option as well. Fall to sleep. Float away painless. But alas, for humans we don’t have that option. For reasons no sane people can explain we humans must cruelly endure a lot of pain, mental stress and indignation in that final period.

    And we should not extend that cruelty (because thats what it is, most life prolonging “final” care in our seniors) to our pets.

    Accident? Broken paw? Appendicitis? Or similar fixable stuff? fix it!

    Liver or kidney failure? Heart disease? Cancer? Brain damage? (Partial) Paralysis?

    Nah. Don’t hurt it and yourself more. Take the loss.



  • Redredmetomemessorry for the commercial
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    Not him but:

    Risk of rain (returns) Hades 1/2 Nebulous fleet command Star sector Homeworld 1, cataclysm (emergence), 2 Battletech (!!!) Spaz 1 (not 2!) Mechwarrior 2 Mechwarrior 5 mercs/clans Terraria FTL Steamworld games (all) Cortex command (interesting pile of shit) Kerbal Etc… So much.

    More or less mainstream games: Helldivers2 (!!!) Xcom (ufo: enemy unknown) Xcom Xcom 2 Civilisation Etc…

    With Games, like with all art, it’s impossible to point to 1 or two which are the best. I’ve read many books, watched many films, series, plays, listened to music and played a lot of games… i can’t just pick one or two which where “the best”. I can name a bunch which where great though.


  • RedredmetomemesGetting a dog vs getting a cat
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    Tried it twice. Couldn’t get a dog from the shelter. Why? We weren’t married. (?) The both of us worked 4 days. We had a child.

    So we shrugged it off, waved and snuggled with the sad doggies and never came back.

    And we just bought a puppy. No rules. No problems. Now, 20+ years later we’re on to our third very happy dog.

    Anyway: a lot of shelters do their best to scare people away. And they succeed.







  • Oh, you sweet summer child…

    Up to the 90s my friend. Then 3.5 floppy"s took over (1.44 MEGAbyte!) then came zip (100MB) but only for rich people, then it became the era of CD and later dvd burning. Internet was not measured in mbits back then and most of the time not even in kbits. The internet was not a valid delivery system. It was slow and very expensive. Also the first memory cards (CF) around the millennium and from there it went on to the 10s and around there you got the pivot to what we have now.

    Tape is still around in computing; its cheap, it’s cheerful, dependable and has quite a throughput. Seeking on it is still horrible though. But anyway, watching a real mechanised tapelibrary do it’s thing backing up computer systems is still mesmerizing.


  • Not only good videogames. Good art in general. Music, text, movies, tv series and videogames all go for the “mid” nowadays. Offend noone, include everything and everyone and above all: make no hard choices which others haven’t done already.

    Which results in data driven hollow 1000 in a dozen AI “caught in the algorithm” trash. Just look at most what comes out of Netflix “studios” these days. It will be the end of them.

    And you hear it in music too: everything sounds the same these days. Everything.

    And you see the same in writing: more and more generic stuff. The big names pump out more and more of same-ish stories. Say what you like about Prime Stephen King for example, but what he wrote during his crazed coke/whiskey fueled years… It was original. And weird.


  • RedredmetoTechnologyOur Channel Could Be Deleted - Gamers Nexus
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    “small.”

    Make no mistake. Gamers Nexus is a multi million dollar company.

    Sure, Bloomberg is much, much bigger. But while gamers Nexus is the underdog, it’s not the toothless underdog. That little fucker will bite in bloomberg’s ankles before it dies and tbf: it looks like it’s already yapping and took it’s first bite.


  • RedredmetoAsk LemmyDo you feel sad for people born today?
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    You are born in the very very very best stretch the human race has ever known.

    We have solutions for almost every problem which exists today.

    Wars are at an historical low point.

    Chances are good you’ve never been even experienced war first hand.

    Housing is expensive, yes. But chances are you’re reading this on a couch or bed in a home, heated (or cooled), with a working stove, light at night and a fridge with edibles in it. And lets not talk about your immediate almost unrestricted access to all of human knowledge.

    That would be unbelievable, impossible even during 99.9% of human history. (Or somewhere near this figure)

    You should stop doomscrolling and start reading the real human history.

    All of human knowledge at your fingertips. And this is what you chose to distill from it.


  • RedredmetoLemmy Shitpostsponsored by raycon
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    I’ve a creative air thingy headphone. Great device. It comes with the sweetest asian female voice you can imagine.

    So yes. It’s so Lovely. It’s the voice accompanying all your (manga) waifu dreams.

    Too bad you can’t really understand what she says. But who cares, right?