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- Comment on Why do some people say "I wouldn't want a government to dictate what I eat"? This would mean they'd be against food safety regulations, would it not? 1 day ago:
In an unregulated market, who is there to say that the ingredients even need to be listed on the box?
Every purchase can be like its own little surprise!
- Comment on Why is Almalexia called the Mad Wife by the Ashlanders? (cca. 2E) 2 days ago:
I have not played ESO so my knowledge of 2E stuff is very limited, but I did play a lot of Morrowind. Knowing what I know about Almalexia and the Ashlanders from that game:
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The Ashlanders do not accept the Tribunal as legitimate gods. The Ashlanders still worship the Daedric “anticipations” (to borrow the Temple’s term) that came before, who are Azura, Boethia, and Mephala. So they do not view the Tribunal gods highly, and would view their claims of divinity to be fabrications.
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Before becoming a living god, Almalexia was Nerevar’s wife (Nerevar being the historical 1E figure the player is a reincarnation of in Morrowind). Almalexia may not be a highly regarded figure among the Ashlanders, but her husband certainly Nerevar was. The Ashlanders believe that Almalexia, along with Sotha Sil and Vivec, murdered Nerevar with poison, and then started to claim they were gods. The Temple silences the betrayal narrative as heresy throughout most of Morrowind, but the Ashlanders exist outside of the Temple’s sphere of influence.
So since the Ashlanders see Almalexia as guilty of murdering her husband out of a lust for power, I assume this is where the “Mad Wife” idea comes into play (mad in this case interpreted to be insanity). At the very least, they know Almalexia was Nerevar’s wife, and they also know that she is claiming to be something they believe she is not, so that seems enough of a basis to call her “the Mad Wife” to me.
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- Comment on MultiVersus officially closes down and is delisted today 4 days ago:
The Nickelodeon fighter game is still available I believe, but you’re still right in that there’s still basically nothing to hold a candle to Smash Bros.
- Comment on What games are just objective master pieces? 1 week ago:
Absolute embodiment of less is more. Controls are simple but intuitive, you can beat it in one session, there’s no major payoff in the end. It’s just a game about the journey and the friends made along the way.
I still remember having my mind blown that the other figure I met after the tutorial level was not just an NPC, when I noticed their movements were too deliberate and they were solving some puzzles for me.
I made it all the way to the end of the game with that person. Never knew who they even were until their name showed up at the very end. What a cathartic experience. I’ve also never been able to achieve anything similar since then.
- Comment on What should be known before launching a voice cloning application/service? 1 week ago:
You can go in with the best intentions, but people will find a way to abuse it for malicious purposes.
- Comment on I'd choose 4 tbh 1 week ago:
Agreed, those are my only two choices as well.
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I feel like the first two are basically the same thing and are also asking for a monkey’s paw sort of scenario to happen.
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I don’t want to stop shopping because there are things I want that can’t be obtained for free.
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I’m not the tallest, but I don’t feel any particular need to be any taller.
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I don’t want my emotions regulated to always be happy, because then you basically never truly are.
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Followers are overrated and creepy.
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And I’d never want to forget an ex because I’d end up losing a lot of good memories in the process.
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- Comment on Was probably just measuring pasta 1 week ago:
Also great and valid advice.
- Comment on 53% of Israeli public opposes aid entering Gaza, new poll shows 1 week ago:
Yep. I’ve got this fantasy that someday everyone in Israel gets equal rights and they rename the country Canaan or something to highlight the shared origins of the people in the region, but I feel like that’s as likely as me being able to afford retirement someday.
- Comment on Was probably just measuring pasta 1 week ago:
Actually this. Most permanent marker comes off with alcohol. If you ever accidentally write on a whiteboard with permanent marker, just wipe it with rubbing alcohol, let it sit for a few seconds, and then wipe it again and it comes off essentially like dry erase.
- Comment on Day 309 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games l've been playing 1 week ago:
I am glad someone else noticed the painting! I had a good laugh when I saw it.
I’m almost positive the painting is supposed to be the count himself, painted either before he became a vampire or just made to look like he wasn’t a vampire.
If you’re interested in paintings, there’s a cool sidequest in Cheydinhal worth checking out.
- Comment on Draw an arrow to each temperature 1 week ago:
I do, those are definitely still temperatures.
- Comment on Draw an arrow to each temperature 1 week ago:
But there are 31 temperatures
- Comment on Fax machine 1 week ago:
Title made me think of one of my favorite videos.
- Comment on The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source. 2 weeks ago:
I guess the logic is that it’s a subsystem of Windows for the purpose of running Linux apps.
Agree though that it’s a confusing name. I remember thinking the same thing about Windows Subsystem for Android (the compatibility layer to run Android apps in Windows)
- Comment on No dont look back! 2 weeks ago:
I am not PugJesus but maybe I can fill in context.
Odysseus: Legendary hero of The Odyssey by Homer. Odysseus famously lied to a cyclops to make him believe that his name was “Nobody”, and so when Odysseus took an opportunity to blind the cyclops and escape, the cyclops could only say “Nobody did this/Nobody is escaping” or something to that effect when he went to get help, which went ignored.
Orpheus: Another Greco-Roman mythological figure, a musician who was skilled at playing a lyre. In one myth, his wife Eurydice died, and so he set off to the underworld to find her soul and bring her back to life. He visited Hades and played some tunes, and Hades was impressed enough to strike a bargain that he would be able to retrieve her soul and guide her back to the world of the living as long as he swore not to look at her until they arrived. Things went well enough basically right up until the very end when he had one moment of doubt and looked at her, at which point she vanished back to the depths of the underworld forever.
- Comment on Not enough real estate 2 weeks ago:
Found the full statue if anyone else was curious what the whole thing looked like:
- Comment on The small scale of Lemmy's active user base is never more evident than in the absence of active members in all the sports related communities. 2 weeks ago:
Lemmy is also primarily used by super nerds who don’t care about sportsball. Not enough normies here compared to Reddit.
- Comment on Corvid testing 2 weeks ago:
Unidan has entered the chat
- Comment on GeoGuessr's Steam Release Hit With Overwhelmingly Negative Reviews For "Completely Pointless" Monetization 3 weeks ago:
No arguments here. I used to love Geoguessr when it was 100% free, but have never once paid for it since they switched to a subscription model. I just blame Google more than Geoguessr is all.
- Comment on Stop Internet Searching and Start Asking on Fediverse? 3 weeks ago:
Depending on who you ask, a lot. Or very little.
For me today, though, it was the large downtime earlier. It’s big by Fediverse standards, microscopic by Reddit standards, and as-is it struggles to keep stable uptime some days.
- Comment on GeoGuessr's Steam Release Hit With Overwhelmingly Negative Reviews For "Completely Pointless" Monetization 3 weeks ago:
My understanding is that Google charges for use of their API. The game could switch to a traditional flat price model, but the moment they stop making enough in sales to pay Google for API access, the entire game is dead for everyone.
The subscription sucks but it’s basically a requirement to continue running. Would be nice if there was any sort of open map standard with even half the street view data Google has so they wouldn’t need Google at all.
- Comment on US popularity collapses worldwide in wake of Trump’s return 3 weeks ago:
Simple answer is that the majority of Americans still either completely agree with him, or they just hate the Dems so badly they’d vote for a potato before they vote for anyone with a D next to their name.
That or we continue entertaining the January 6 type of fantasy where we believe the entire thing was rigged.
- Comment on Doom: The Dark Ages' PS5 physical release reportedly has just 85MB on disc, and Xbox isn't much bigger 3 weeks ago:
So much for physical media.
- Comment on Onion 3 weeks ago:
Shattered by someone…or something.
- Comment on Vote manipulation bots using sh.itjust.works? 3 weeks ago:
Good catch. I linked this post in the comments of that other post you linked, and it looks like the moderators have since removed the post entirely.
There was another one linking out to that same site (maybe the other post you saw as well) which I recall had an extremely misleading clickbait-y headline. It also seems to have been removed, so at least mods are staying on top of it.
Does Lemmy have the ability to automatocally block/remove posts leading to certain domains? Seems to be a common thread of these accounts trying to promote this one “news” site. Though I don’t imagine this sort of thing will stop at one site.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
I think it’s unfair to say that the US is what dictates the direction and usage of the English language. It contributed, maybe, but it’s not because of the US that English is so widely-spoken in the first place. We have Britain to thank for that.
If the US ever adopts a second language to use for trade, it will be Spanish, just by virtue of who its neighbors are and how many native Spanish speakers live in the US already.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
It’s more a reflection of global power. Before English had that standard in Europe, it was French. We still describe such languages as a “lingua franca” even in contexts where that lingua isn’t franca anymore.
Esperanto isn’t anyone’s native language by design, but it meant that there was no major global power which necessitated its use.
- Comment on [Game Bundle] Xbox Games Studio Bundle 3 weeks ago:
Ori is very good.
Would recommend playing Ori and the Blind Forest before Will of the Wisps though, the plot might seem a bit confusing if you don’t.
- Comment on Or a shrimp 3 weeks ago:
Don’t know who the heck downvoted or why, but thanks for the info!
- Comment on Or a shrimp 3 weeks ago:
Fuck that is dark, what is this from?
