ryven

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[–] ryven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Serious question: what problems does the default keyboard have that Florisboard is trying to solve? I've never looked at the Android keyboard and thought "I wish this worked differently," except maybe when I switch languages by accident.

[–] ryven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 69 points 5 days ago (17 children)

When I need to eat but don't want to put in any effort: half a cup of rice, half a cup of lentils, two cups stock (I use veggie stock, but you can use chicken, beef, etc.) Season with whatever you have in your spice drawer that looks good. Bring the water to a boil then lower the heat to low and let it simmer covered for 20-ish minutes. It's bland but filling, lentils provide protein, it's ready in less time than it would take to get delivery, and you don't have to watch it. Rice and lentils will keep in your cabinet forever. You can get stock paste or boullion that keeps a long time too.

You can still have two beers, but now you're not drinking on an empty stomach.

[–] ryven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Oh nooooooooo! I think your dating pool might be cooked.

I finally came up with a good answer. I'd have posted about my D&D character for sure. I got into D&D when I was 11 or 12 because a friend taught me to play with his hand-me-down AD&D 2e books, and then I liked it so much he handed them down to me. In 2014 D&D 5e released, and there was a ton of hype around it because many fans really hated 4e and refused to play it (although I liked it, I appreciated that it gave an option to play a different kind of game).

So if I had a similar learning-to-play story, I'd have existed at the nexus of at least three different editions, all of which I would have liked for the way they emphasize different parts of the game. So because I was 12 my online D&Dsona would definitely have been a wizard who was an involuntary time traveler, who kept getting transported to different eras where magic worked differently. I imagine he'd have the same name that I use in video games, Ryven Toli, and that I would have roleplayed actually being him, during a point in his life where he was magically transported to 21st century Earth and none of his spells work.

If I had been exposed to the 3e rules there is about a 50% chance he would have been a gnome, because my favorite item on any equipment list is 3e's Gnomish Riding Dog. Regardless of whether he's actually a gnome, he has a dog and their name is Sherbert (or possibly Sherbet, but still pronounced with the r for mysterious reasons). His familiar is a cat, and their name may have been Belphegor because I was a fiend for stealing names from characters I liked and Belphegor is Miho's cat from MegaTokyo.

In terms of personality, I imagine that he's mostly a self-insert, but that I'm imagining myself at least 20% cooler.

[–] ryven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Judging by how long I just spent trying to remember what I liked when I was twelve, and then how long I spent trying to remember what I liked in 2014, and then trying to figure out what an alternate version of me who uses Tumblr would have liked... I feel like I'd have to reply because I thought so much about the question already, but also I think you would not get a very good answer! Although maybe knowing that someone finds this question difficult already tells you a lot about them.

[–] ryven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 1 week ago (6 children)

A few years ago I went on a date with someone I met on an app, and she mentioned that she really liked Jordan Peterson and thought he had a lot of good ideas. I got kind of mentally stunlocked because from what I know of him, she seemed like the kind of person he would hate. It turned out she had read his book, and I couldn't talk intelligently about it because I obviously haven't read it... She asked me why I seemed to dislike him and all I could say was "he seems like an ass on social media" and she said she didn't follow any of his internet stuff.

The date did not get better from there. ^^;;

[–] ryven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 29 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This image would be funnier without the caption, I think.

[–] ryven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 month ago

Does Gemini edit images? If it does my guess would be that at some point someone asked Gemini to obscure the identities of the original posters instead of doing it themselves (see: they have the same profile pic but different handles, and the reply has the wrong handle in the "replying to" section). I bet this is also why the color is all fucked up.

[–] ryven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 25 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

It depends on your sensitivity. One of my coworkers had the "genius" idea to test her pepper spray indoors and reactions from coworkers and customers ranged from "this is somewhat unpleasant" to "I can't breathe, I have to step outside." Some older customers who came in up to an hour later were still coughing.

[–] ryven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Edit: The original explanation I had here was that a laser burns pits in the CD material but that was wrong, apparently only pressed discs use physical pits in the material. The laser used in a home CD burner changes the color of a photosensitive dye on a recordable CD. So I think actually "burning" is due to a misunderstanding (which I had until I just looked it up) of how a home CD writer works.

[–] ryven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 1 month ago

taps the sign

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