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  • Sludgeyy@lemmy.worldtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•What's your next/first tattoo gonna be?
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    3 days ago

    My girlfriend has a lot of tattoos. I always get asked “Do you have any?”. No I don’t.

    I’ve been thinking of getting a little calf (cow) tattoo on my calf (leg) so I can say “Yeah I have a little calf tattoo”

    My grandmother loved cows, my grandfather loved ice cream. My other grandmother is from Finland, my other grandfather is from Mexico. So it would be a calf eating ice cream made from reindeer milk wearing a sombrero. Then it would represent all my grandparents.

    Any more ideas to add would be welcomed. My girlfriend’s favorite flower is a peony so I was also going to put that in there to help set the scene around it with some grass.

  • Sludgeyy@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.world•Gamers push back: 71% say they’re not ready to let physical games die as PlayStation and Xbox move toward a digital-only future”English
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    4 days ago

    The reasons to own one are that they’re cheaper, plug and play, you can buy and trade physical games, and the exclusive games

    The reason I’d buy another console is because of the controller environment.

    I enjoy shooting games. I enjoy sitting on my couch.

    Yet if I play on my PC with a controller it’s going to be an awful experience.

    I don’t want to sit at my desk with proper posture.

    I just want to relax and have fun. Console gives me that.

    I use to be big into Overwatch. The difference between PC and Console is huge in that game, the whole vibe of the game changes. Personally I enjoy the chaotic nature of less precise aiming. Creates interesting scenarios where you have to adapt and overcome. I’d hate it if every game was “I hope our sniper can point and click their sniper first”

  • Sludgeyy@lemmy.worldtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•Title
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    1 month ago

    Depends how you define temperature.

    “There’s no such thing as cold”

    Something at absolute zero would have zero heat.

    If you define temperature as heat then it wouldn’t have heat or temperature.

    Kind of similar to trying to measure nothing with a ruler. It says 0. There is no length, but is 0mm still a “measurement”?

  • Sludgeyy@lemmy.worldtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•Handy tip
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    1 month ago

    Memory or recall of facts. No.

    Memory or recall of life experiences. Yes.

    From my understanding people can play a “movie” of something like their last birthday party. See who was there, what they were wearing, etc.

    Unless I make note of something I’m not going to remember it. I can “subconsciously” make a note of something and recall it but I cannot re

    But other than a list of facts I have about my last birthday party, I cannot recall or experience it again.

    As for reading. There’s no difference between me reading a biology textbook or a romance novel. I read, soak up knowledge, critically think, and remember.

    I have to subvocalize to read. I’m curious on why you assumed we had to read outloud. I don’t know how other aphants read.

    Edit: Wait, subvocalize is different than inner speech is what I just read. I have to have my inner voice speak the word.

  • Sludgeyy@lemmy.worldtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•Handy tip
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    1 month ago

    Yeah took me 36 years.

    It takes actually knowing that people actually see images to know that you cannot do that.

    Counting sheep never made true sense to me. How is keeping a tally of “imaginary” sheep jumping over an “imaginary” fence supposed to help me fall asleep?

    Makes sense when you realize people do it to stop their brains from randomly sending themselves other imaginary that’s going to keep them up. It’s like choosing to turn on the TV to something you could fall asleep to is my understanding.

  • Sludgeyy@lemmy.worldtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•Language barrier
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    2 months ago

    Tonal languages are probably harder to make sense.

    When you say “Ma” in Mandarin you could mean 4 different things.

    So if I was trying to say “I like my horse” or “I like my mother” you’d say “I like my ma”. Unless you had context you wouldn’t know what I was trying to say if I didn’t use the correct tone.

    English tones give extra information.

    “I LIKE my horse” or “I like MY horse”.

    One you could like your horse, other you might really LIKE your horse.

    “I go store” vs “I am going to go to the store now”. The meaning isn’t really lost.

    English is hard because speaking it well is complex. There are dozens of way to say “walked”

    Did the man stroll down the street? Strut, marched, trudged, shuffled, stumbled, hobbled, or etc.

    Someone that doesn’t know English well would understand that the man hobbling down the street means that the man went down the street. But hobbling has the idea that the man is injured. If they were trying to describe the man limping down the road they would be thrown off thinking about how they could describe it as hobbled. “The man walked with a limp down the street” or “The man limped as he walked down the street”

    Then there’s things like “The man hobbled down Bourbon Street” now you get the idea that he is hobbling because of being intoxicated rather than injured.

    But getting the general idea is pretty simple. “Man go road”