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  • cobysev@lemmy.worldto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneWoke Content Ruler
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    21 days ago

    Only 619 of my games were rated, but my Steam library has over 4,000 games. Dude needs to review more woke games so I can get a better indicator of my wokeness level. 😆

    By the way, only 11.55% of my rated games were not woke. 23.58% were woke, and 64.87% were slightly woke.

    I’m definitely using this curator to find some good “woke” games from now on.


  • cobysev@lemmy.worldto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneBig Biruled
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    28 days ago

    It’ll have to be my subscription list because I don’t have recommendations.

    I turned off my YouTube history and now it just gives me a blank homepage with some vaguely threatening message claiming I won’t have any recommendations until I turn it back on. Joke’s on them, I’ve been trying to get YouTube to clear the junk off my homepage for years.

    Back in the day (almost a decade ago), I would spend my free time telling every video that popped up on my homepage to not recommend that channel to me. After doing this for a few months, my homepage suddenly showed up blank! No recommendations, nothing. I took a screenshot of it at the time because I couldn’t believe that my homepage was finally clean.

    I enjoyed my clean homepage for almost a year, until they revamped the site and everything came back.

    I think it was sometime in the last year or two, they changed their homepage again and I started getting a blank screen with a notice, saying I needed to turn on history to get my recommendations back. No thanks, you just gave me exactly what I wanted!

    Their recommendations were never anything I was interested in watching anyway. I’d click on a single news video about a local accident and then all I’d get in my feed is disaster compilation videos or something.

    That’s why I have subscriptions; everything I want to watch is in my subscription list and I learn about new channels from friends. I don’t need a faulty algorithm to suggest content to me.



  • cobysev@lemmy.worldto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneagainst the rules
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    2 months ago

    When I was a teenager, “whipping shitties” was what we called spinning donuts in the parking lots with a car.

    Although you’re correct, it could be attributed to the same shenanigans on a frozen lake.

    I remember one intersection near my high school that always got extremely icy every winter… Some buddies of mine with drivers licenses loved to “whip a shitty” through that intersection. Basically, crank their wheel hard as they’re driving through the intersection and spin in a few circles while sliding through the intersection. I dunno how we never crashed a car doing that.




  • cobysev@lemmy.worldto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneIron
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    3 months ago

    My gaming setup at home is currently Neutral Good, with the regular monitor being a 48" 4K OLED monitor and the tilted one being a 28" DualUp monitor (one tall almost-square monitor the size of two small monitors stacked on top of each other). I used to be Chaotic Good, but with three regular monitors side-by-side and a tilted one instead of just two and one.

    My next goal is Chaotic Neutral, but with three monitors on the bottom row (maybe 27"-36" each?) and my giant 48" monitor on top, wall-mounted above the others.

    When I was in the US military working as an IT guy, I once worked for a Weather Squadron where every computer on the Operations Floor had the Neutral Evil setup. All four displays rarely worked at the same time; us IT guys were always fixing them. The only real fix was to unplug their monitor cable and plug it back in over and over until the computer finally detected it. Truly an evil setup.

    Some of those computers also had a fifth monitor. The Lead Desk for each section, who needed to update a digital status board, which was just a giant monitor on one wall of the room.

    Most places I worked in the military were arranged like Lawful Good. If you were really lucky, you might get a third monitor too.







  • That’s very interesting. I learned the history of my name through living descendants of my ancestors in Norway. (Two brothers immigrated to America, while a third brother stayed behind in Norway) They were the ones who told me Norway was conquered and ruled by Denmark for a while.

    Perhaps it was a mistranslation between us; I had wondered how Norway was able to preserve their country’s heritage and language while being ruled by their neighbor.


  • My family is originally from Sauda in Norway. Norwegian tradition used to be that your family name was the name of your home. If you moved to a new farm, you adopted the name of that farm as your new family name. They don’t do this anymore, as it got really hard to track genealogical records with families changing names all the time.

    When my ancestors immigrated to America, Norway was under Danish rule, as Denmark had conquered Norway at the time and was forcing Danish pronunciation on the Norwegian language. So my family name’s pronunciation of “saw-duh” became “sov-dae.”

    When my ancestors got to America, no one could pronounce my family name correctly, so they changed the spelling to be more phonetic in the English language. And that’s how I got my current family name!



  • In my 40+ years alive, I’ve never met anyone with my first name, although I know they exist; a quick Google search shows me at least a handful of people who have it.

    My last name is an Americanized spelling of a Danish pronunciation of a Norwegian farm name. There are very few people who have my exact last name, and every one I’ve ever spoken to has been a descendant of my ancestral family who immigrated to America a century and a half ago.

    Combine the two, and I’m pretty sure I’m the only person on the planet with my specific name. I’ve never had a problem making accounts with my first.last name anywhere.



  • cobysev@lemmy.worldto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneSpotted rule
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    5 months ago

    Considering its “run time” was from 2009-2016, the actual dates of the webcomic, I’m assuming it’s just categorizing it as a show because of all the flash animations included with the comic.

    There are other web series that show up as TV shows on IMDb, like The Nostalgia Critic, which has never been an officially licensed show, but have enough serialized video media to constitute a series of sorts.