Grimlo9ic

joined 1 year ago
[–] Grimlo9ic@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago

That's such a trip. Only a 6 year difference between the two of you, yet you experienced the dawn of something and they didn't, and it shapes both of your perspectives so much.

Even though it technically applies to transistors, Moore's Law has been a good barometer for the increase of complexity and capabilities of technology in general. And now because of your comment I'm kinda thinking that since the applicability of that law seems to be nearing its end, it's either tech will stagnate in the next decade (possible, but I think unlikely), or we may be due for another leapfrog into a higher level of sophistication (more likely).

[–] Grimlo9ic@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

I love this. Thank you.

[–] Grimlo9ic@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

Still grinding away at Street Fighter 6, and currently starting another run of the FFVII Remake!

[–] Grimlo9ic@kbin.social 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

In the Philippines, it's Juan and Maria dela Cruz, although those have fallen out of use due to the popularity of Western (aka US) culture. Interesting reading about every country's own names for their everyman.

[–] Grimlo9ic@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

Was about to say, man almost went full Happy Gilmore showing emotion like that on the green.

[–] Grimlo9ic@kbin.social 17 points 1 year ago

What a top-tier tip. I'm one of those people who have uBlock Origin but never knew about this. Thank you!

[–] Grimlo9ic@kbin.social 15 points 1 year ago

I try to keep an open mind, especially because I'm immigrant who has other concerns outside the US sociopolitical sphere, but this is exactly one of the things I immediately saw happening given the demographic of people paying for Twitter Blue.

 

While there's nothing inherently wrong with this, the current state of the social media meta is to purposefully stir up drama and ragebait for clicks. Now aside from just impressions and clout, people will have an actual monetary incentive to do so.

It kinda makes the idiom "any publicity is good publicity" true in a sense.

[–] Grimlo9ic@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just curious since I just got into it... what other issues did you have? If you're comfy with saying, of course.

[–] Grimlo9ic@kbin.social 15 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I'd been smoking cigarettes for 11 years and just switched to vaping 2 months ago. My lungs feel much, much better. I can walk up multiple flights of stairs/longer distances without getting winded. My mouth also no longer has that eternal burnt paper taste, especially when I wake up in the mornings.

So for the purposes of what I switched to vaping for - to ease back on destroying my lungs - vaping/e-cigs work. I used to smoke 2 packs in about a week and a half. I'd say the amount I vape now is the equivalent of 1 pack every month (I don't constantly hit it throughout the day).

I have no doubt that inhaling vapor with that density is still not good, but it's better than what I was doing previously.

As for helping to quit the habit entirely, I think that's the opposite of their goal. All these fruity flavors they keep coming out with seem like they're designed to be popped like candy.

[–] Grimlo9ic@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

+1 vote for the Dishonored games. If you want a quick showcase of what's possible in this title or the whole series, StealthGamerBR is probably one of the best people to watch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKyT19o-Nl8

[–] Grimlo9ic@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Same. I've stopped with Reddit since I've never posted there with my real name. No one knew me personally, and I didnt know anyone personally, so my switch to kbin was easy.

My real-life family and friends use Discord, Instagram, Messenger, Twitter, Viber, and WhatsApp, so I'll continue to at least have accounts on those.

[–] Grimlo9ic@kbin.social 37 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Part of the beauty and awe I get whenever I reread that famous excerpt from Carl Sagan's Pale Blue Dot is the sense of how ephemeral and delicate our existence, and even the very human concept of "existence", is. We are infinitesimally small and yet, through no fault of our own, our days, how we fill them, and the people we know hold some measure of importance to us. And it will all be gone - eventually. It's a very somber note yet it makes me feel a certain sense of peace.

"Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every 'superstar,' every 'supreme leader,' every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there--on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam."

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