Yep, I used to have a special card I had to keep in my wallet. It had a special number for them to call, and half of it had space for me to write down details (who/what/where) in the event I couldn’t get them to call
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What’s the line between queer coding and stereotype?
Can you explain Jafar to me? Wasn’t his whole thing in Aladdin that he wanted Jasmine?
Remorhaz@lemmy.worldto [Migrated, see pinned post] Casual Conversation @lemm.ee•What's an insider secret about somewhere you used to work?English17·2 months agoNot the original post, but it’s usually speed. Manufacturing employees get pushed for more output, and usually that means that maintenance gets rushed.
A decade ago I was working somewhere with massive production machines with big rollers to pull the product through. One guy left the machine running to clean it so he could just sort of buff the rollers to clean them instead of scrubbing.
He got his arm sucked in up to his shoulder before someone was able to hit the e-stop
Ace Combat 5! The best story in the series. A man/woman/other of fine taste!
I still can’t listen to Blurry by Puddle of Mudd without thinking about this game
How is that in any way shocking?
Yeah, this is some of the least surprising news ever
They open sourced their project, that’s more than enough
Remorhaz@lemmy.worldto cats@lemmy.world•What is your cat's name, and what stupid nicknames do you call them?26·4 months agoThis is Zoe, aka Princess Zoe Peanut Butter Garbanzo
She got the name peanut butter from a delivery guy one day who was helping move in a new couch. She just went up to him friendly as can be and the delivery guy just went “hey peanut butter” and the nickname stuck.
Microbiologist here: I was taught that part of the origin of the symbol was the way a specific worm was removed, you had a stick or rod or whatever and you made a little incision where the worm is, then slowly pull it out and wind it around the rod
One of man’s first medical procedures
We had to do skits. Broke it down by chapters and each group did like a page or two. I was the son in the scene where he’s working with his dad in disguise right when Odysseus returns home and sees all the other guys trying to bang his wife
Voyager is Apollo for Lemmy. If you’re a Reddit refuge that used Apollo before the API mess, it’s literally identical because the dev open sourced the code.
Typing this message from Voyager
Remorhaz@lemmy.worldto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What's the greatest videogame of all time?1·7 months agoGoldeneye suffered from trying to exceed the N64. It’s an upgrade overall but the performance really struggles, Goldeneye didn’t really see that (prox mines excepted)
Remorhaz@lemmy.worldto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What dessert or junkfood do you always keep in stock at home?2·9 months agoThere’s a brand of pretzel “crackers” that are nice and thin like a chip, but pretzeled. They also have a buffalo flavor with a nice little zing to it
Remorhaz@lemmy.worldto Movies@lemmy.world•The 13 Most Misguided Movie Sequels Ever MadeEnglish2·9 months agoStarship Troopers 3 at least had the power armor and a banger of a song for the new Sky Marshall
Remorhaz@lemmy.worldto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•When did Microsoft stop developing Windows to be good?5·1 year agoI would be willing to bet a large sum of money that those machines are corporate owned and running legacy systems that are hanging on by a thread.
Every year someone talks about replacing Ol’ Smoky but the new system would need to go through validation and that costs time and money so they limp along for another year
Mythbusters is 50% recap, that sounds so much more enjoyable to watch. Where would I find that?
Remorhaz@lemmy.worldto Fediverse@lemmy.world•Number of monthly active Lemmy users rising againEnglish2·1 year agoNot all of them, Dystopia for example was allowed to stay as is because of accessibility features that the native app lacks. It was even working just fine during the recent outage.
Gonna give you the “wellll ackshually” here:
The original Robin Hood wore red, his hood the color of a robin, hence the name
It’s only since the Disney version everyone slaps him in green