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  • I’ve done this with three friends, moving a couch from one part of the city to another, around 7pm at night. At first carrying seemed easy, but it soon got awkward and tiring. Then we ended up being able to very easily put it on our heads while arms kept it balanced and made excellent progress.

    Cops pulled up next to us around halfway, “Sorry guys, I have to ask. What the fuck are you doing?”

    “We’re moving this couch from one friend’s place to the other.”

    “Yep, thought it’d be something like that, but I had to ask. Be careful crossing streets.”

    Near the end, middle guy was resting it on his head too much, it burst through the fabric and he was temporarily couchhead.


  • When games are paused, this is just the timeline.

    If you truly want the game to pause, you would sit at the loading screen every time you unpaused, as you just stopped everything and it now needs to cache back in to where it was. Once it is all loaded back in, your CPU and memory loaded back up, the game can unpause. The game also has things running to prevent crashes, frame issues, memory management, etc. This is why you get a fair bit on the CPU and RAM even on the opening cinematic, it’s loaded up with all that extra stuff for environment.

    Obviously that’s not a pause feature, rather essentially what happens when you save and then load the save.





  • saltesc@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.worldWe're sorry...
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    When I arrived again in Australia, floods happened again—hm, maybe I’m the problem—anyway! Insurance companies were trying to get out of payments by saying flood damage was covered as a result of flooding from rain. And yes, rain obviously caused the flooding, but the rain occured up on mountains which then flowed down and flooded areas below.

    The government regulators got onto it straight away.

    The final attempt argument was something like “The insurances cover water coming from above, not below.”

    Regulators didn’t have a bar of it. Insurance companies had to do—get this—insurance.

    Everyone was happy except for insurance companies and the people that lost their homes and got financially held up for over a year as the insurance companies tried to find any leftover money for payouts because the rest was in funds. Of course.






  • My dog’s a bit like this. The breed’s definitely not for retrieving, so when he brings me something it’s to play tug with it, or he’s gifting it to me or just really happy and showing me. I have to be careful with his body language because if I throw something instead of praising him or showing interest, I can tell he gets confused and sad, like he failed me. But if I seem happy and interested, hell trot off with a spring in his step either leaving the “gift” with me, or still with it in his mouth happy that I think it’s cool too.


  • saltesc@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.worldAnarchy Easter Eggs
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    My friend used to climb massive pine trees late at night in a park across his street, and place traffic cones on top. No one knew who was doing it or why. Many people thought it was the local council marking the trees to be cut down which upset residents. He started noticing police regularly patrolling the area, but he kept doing it and never got caught. It made the local paper, explaining how much confusion and disruption it was causing the police and local council. He hung the article on his wall.

    Went on to become a stuntman https://imdb.com/name/nm3068647/


  • saltesc@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.worldSteam
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    You make me feel old for realising people younger than me have not ever realised this. But it makes sense now I type it… out loud(?)

    Back in my day the Steam UI was army green and you’d use it to play all the LAN games your mate had by copying their entire Steam folder over to yours a couple hours before the LAN started. And that was it. That was the “install”. You had Steam and all the HL mods like DoD and CS. Primed and ready to get noise complaints from the neighbours.






  • saltesc@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.world🤖.🌎
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    Ah, I see. We should just pass all bots through you for approval first.

    Sorry, everyone else. I know some of you liked that bot, but wazoobonkerbrain doesn’t, so it’s switched off due to “popularity reasons”. If you want to experience open internet, you’ll have to find somewhere else.