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  • I played it during an internet outage in 1999 - no walkthroughs, no strategy guides, no reviews.

    I went into the game entirely blind, without having an iota of what it was.

    I thought it was a generic JRPG and Final Fantasy knockoff like every other SNES rom I'd tried before getting to it, but boy was I wrong.

  • 6th grade biology class in the United States, 2001 AD.

    The teacher slaps up a diagram of a cell and organelles.

    30-45 children all looking around the room, not exactly paying attention

    She points to the various organelles, trying to explain their purpose, the golgi complex, ribosomes..

    "And the mitochondria"

    "Is the power house of the cell"

    Children cheer in applause and repeat it, because it rhymes.

    It then enters the collective unconscious of English speakers.

    I was in the room where it happened.

  • I use Voyager for Lemmy on Android (it looks like Reddit-is-Fun), but unlike Reddit, Lemmy has no API restrictions, so you can use whatever you want, to get the design/layout that works for you best.

    Enjoy your time here and take it easy!

  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghrelin

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leptin

    TLDR: The body has a setpoint for weight which is tuned to environmental conditions and will attempt to reach it by modulating hunger.

    It takes 8-12 months for these hormones to reset, so any diet is ineffective unless permanently maintained.

    High setpoint? Prepare to be ravenously hungry all the time if you eat below your hormonal baseline.

  • Haha no, I saw that too.

    I'm beginning to recognize the "face" of psychopathy and it isn't healthy, I feel.

    Like, put me in a room with 100 strangers and I have a pretty sharp radar for billionaires and killers.

  • I have the opposite -- almost all vegetation has a taste and it's quite good.

    Basil? Yes. Garlic.. Cabbage Spinach Asparagus Broccoli Carrots! Peppers! Beets!

    I just made a huge pot of Borscht last night with beets, carrots, potatoes, cabbage, tomatoes, basil and olive oil - it's going to feed me for days!

    Feel bad for the people missing out on how tasty Earth plants are

  • There was a king once named Damocles that had a sword suspended over his throne that could come crashing down at any random moment and kill him, to remind himself of the fragility of his power, and human life.

    I have no idea how that anecdote might apply to people in power in this day and age, or why people would reference the anecdote.

    Glares at the fraying rope

  • Holy shit so many desperate prayers in one thread

    I think they can be convinced to pause their game of Jenga or Connect Four for a few minutes of structural integrity or engine failure

    The Big Man .. Big Entity has Big Priorities, you know?

  • I'm probably going to upset a few Star Wars fans with this, but in the original version that I saw of the New Hope / Ep4, both Han and Greedo have their blaster pistols drawn under the table, and Han shoots Greedo first.

    I've seen the entire internet argue about who shot first, but the irony is that if he didn't shoot first he would get shot by Greedo and the story would end right there.

    It wasn't murder, it was quickdraw. :)

  • Oh my fucking god

    It looks just like the edible white button mushroom

    I had heard stories from my parents about people foraging for mushrooms in "the old country" (the Soviet Union), villagers from their province sometimes supplemented dwindling supplies with wild forest mushrooms.

    They said they were invited multiple times to go on mushroom hunts but were afraid of traversing the forests after dusk, and they were glad they refused, because one large family served mushroom soup, and the menti (police/milita) found them all dead.

    Parents, grandparents, children, an entire family generation wiped out by mushroom soup, all dead in their chairs in the dining room.

  • TLDR: ROCM is AMD's variant for general purpose compute on GPUs, like CUDA is for NVIDIA.

    OpenAI being for profit.

    I use ROCM extensively (I write, design and train my own AIs/LLMs) and it's annoying of an acronym, especially in command lines:

     
        
    --rocm-6.6.7.2-dev1  --cuda
    
      

    But I figure it's a four letter acronym to match "CUDA".

    I also pronounce it "Rock'em" in verbal versus "Koo'dah" (Barracuda).

    Everything is about marketing and goodwill. You can just say something has "blast processing" and fail to elaborate.