As an old fart, I actively dislike photorealistic graphics in most cases. I'm playing a game, and I kind of want it to look like a game, which generally means more surrealistic - exaggerated contrast, high saturation, low texture - than realistic. I'd rather play where the characters look like caricatures than my next door neighbor. And that doesn't even go into great games with sprite-like graphics.

Enough is enough. You've saturated the art budget, it's time to pay writers more.

Have an updoot, Offspring-fan.

acetic acid is almost as volatile as water, and the atmosphere contains a lot less of it. If you evaporate vinegar, you're likely to lose about as much - maybe more - of the acid than the water. So, evaporation is probably not a good way to concentrate vinegar.

Where I am, the $5 eggs are back down to $1.80, and the $6 milk is $2.89. Feels the same as before-times.

It's hard to find restaurant lunch under $15, which is around 50% more than 2019, and even the gyro counter added a default tip when they stopped accepting cash. That's sad, but I cook more now.

No, that's the way the fediverse is supposed to work. It would be sockpuppeting for both of your accounts, say [email protected] and [email protected], to have a conversation with each other on a third instance, say [email protected], with which both a & b are federated.

This wasn't the Nordstream pipeline. This was a Finland-Estonia pipeline and telecoms in Oct 2023.

My understanding is that Powell's charges in GA were mostly related to some voting machine shenanigans in one county. Whatever else she may have done - fake lawsuits in 49 non-Georgia states, propaganda inciting mobs, even if she had, herself, stormed the Capitol - weren't part of Georgia state charges.

Jimmy McGill is going to try every possible whining, ridiculous take to get his clients preferential treatment, though. That's why Jan 6 rioters better call Saul.

Quaint rhyme from better times. Boss is making $34 for my dime today.

Theoretically, six moderate republicans could vote for a Democratic speaker.

If they can secure their families in undisclosed locations and get extra security detail.

Asking some anonymous neighbor to remove their peanut tree was pretty funny.

But maybe more, blaming the barking dogs - complainer's own dogs - on a mysterious peanut feeder, as though squirrels wouldn't be running around the neighborhood, playing on the fences and trees anyway, is like the poster has never experienced squirrels before.

One national election every four years is enough for me. I can't even imagine what the campaigns for judges with the power to rewrite the Constitution through creative interpretation would look like, but if they can put Trump in the White House, they could put him on the Supreme Court.

Term limits. Active oversight. Maybe go back to requiring 60+ votes to confirm so the GOP can't shove the Federalist Society hack-of-the-day through with a simple majority.

It's been hard to look at all these posts about how big lemmy is and how fast it's growing, to watch the scale-up issues, and keep in mind just how much smaller it still is than reddit. According to https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/stats the lemmyverse is just now closing in on 2M users (from 750k last month), but only 70,000 of them are "active." Reddit claims 50,000,000+ daily users and 400M monthly. That's essentially 1000x larger than lemmy - that's the difference between seeing your favorite band at a stadium concert or your local pub.