punkwalrus
@punkwalrus@lemmy.world
Linux nerd and consultant. Sci-fi, comedy, and podcast author. Former Katsucon president, former roller derby bouncer. punkwalrus.net
- Comment on Air: Where did that bring you? Back to me. 11 months ago:
I am not a gamer so my fans only spin up when the vents clog with dust or I am doing some high end rendering. I’d never do water cooling because a leak could kill everything. I have lived through floods.
- Comment on Christopher Nolan Calls Zack Snyder’s ‘Watchmen’ a Film ‘Ahead of Its Time’: It Should Have Been Released Post-‘Avengers’ 11 months ago:
Yeah, while the movie had its flaws, notably pacing, my wife and sister lost it at “big blue penis,” and I was like, “what? THAT was what you focused on?”
I still felt the movie was pretty true to the message and had some memorable scenes and lines.
“None of you seem to understand. I’m not locked in here with you. You’re locked in here with me!”
- Comment on How do some people "read lips"? 11 months ago:
Similar for me: when my hearing started to go in my 30s, the doctor said “you already know how to lip read.” I didn’t believe him until he showed me “am I saying ‘top’ or ‘cup’?” and if he had his mouth covered, I couldn’t tell which one he was saying.
- Comment on How to stop thinking about an interaction from my past? 11 months ago:
I grew up with pretentiousness like this. Lot of upper middle class twits who wanted to be upper class. I used to get their goat with a kind of backhand kindness.
“You know about ABC?” Where ABC is a question about a topic he claims to be an expert in.
“If you don’t know how to ABC, you aren’t very educated.”
“Ah, I see you don’t know either.”
“I never SAID that! But I have neither the time nor patience to explain it to you.”
“Let me ask around, and we can find the answer together.”
“I KNOW the answer!!!”
“Not well enough to explain it, though. But that’s okay, we can learn that to. Let’s ask this guy. Hey, my colleague and I were wondering if you could explain ABC…”
Oh my god, this makes their pompousness positively FUME with rage.
- Comment on Do guys that tip cam models hundreds of dollars week after week think that model actually likes them? 11 months ago:
Well, they may like the attention and validation it brings. I knew someone who was asexual that had a lot of dotcom money. He loved to go to Vegas and gamble. He knew the house was stacked against him. He knew that the girls who sat on his lap only liked him for his money. He still loved the attention he got when he tipped big. I saw him tip a waiter $200 on a $150 meal. He LOVED it. And why?
“I used to be poor. I was a nobody. Now I make people happy with my money, and I feel good about myself.”
Can’t beat that.