VindictiveJudge
@VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world
- Comment on Smells Great 4 hours ago:
I hurt my knee; can I remain seated?
- Comment on xkcd #3157: Emperor Palpatine 1 day ago:
Who is Angelica?
- Comment on one bright second 5 days ago:
Unless, of course, that onion knight has a lot of experience in other professions, in which case they can easily punch gods to death.
- Comment on Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | Official Trailer | Paramount+ (NYCC 2025) 1 week ago:
The first and third for sure, don’t think the second will be a significant factor.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
The 360 had far less RAM than the average PC of 2010, and the engine has had a memory leak since Morrowind. I never finished New Vegas due to that, even on PC.
- Comment on At 1% 1 week ago:
The monitor has to send some data to the computer to tell it what screen resolutions it accepts. VGA, HDMI, and DisplayPort will all do that for sure. Less certain about component, composite, and S-Video.
- Comment on Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year 2 weeks ago:
Fuck yes. A slave that takes on the slave owning Templar? Sign me up all day, I want to run into a confederate camp and crush them.
Freedom Cry, the standalone expansion for Black Flag, was essentially this concept in the Carribean. You play as Adewale, a slave turned pirate turned Assassin, and liberate plantations.
- Comment on I'm tired of teen superheroes 2 weeks ago:
Cowboy Bebop and the Ghost in the Shell movies are great places to start.
Anyway, it’s not so much a change in what’s being produced as what’s being imported to the US. There was a good mix of shonen and seinen at first, but shonen sells more merch so we get a lot of it now. Just watch stuff tagged as seinen if you want more mature themes or more sex and gore.
- Comment on Superhero stories have become less about saving people and more about fighting villains. 3 weeks ago:
This has been a problem for far, far, longer than you think. The silver age definitely had it, the golden age probably did, and I wouldn’t be surprised if it cropped up in the proto-superhero stories, like Zorro. It’s a consequence of having a long-form story where the narrative’s status quo isn’t allowed to meaningfully change and characters either aren’t allowed to die or aren’t allowed to stay dead. Recurring antagonists also can have much richer characterization and more complex relationships with the protagonists, which makes writing stories about them more appealing the more often they appear.
The usual trajectory for a new superhero or new incarnation of an existing superhero is to start off with street-level problems, then get a nemesis that has strong ties to those street level problems, then have the dynamic between the two grow in prominence to eclipse all other parts of the plot. The Joker, for instance, always starts off as either a mob boss with a gimmick or a serial killer with a gimmick, not far removed from the mundane crime Batman always starts with, but always winds up with a fixation on Batman and spawns stories designed as some commentary on Batman’s no-killing rule. Again and again and again, dozens of times over the decades.
Why? Because the dynamic between the two characters tends to be fascinating and results in audience engagement.
- Comment on BREAKING NEWS: We did it, guys! 20 poptarts! 3 weeks ago:
At what point does it become a grass roots movement?
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
en.wikipedia.org/…/Advice_to_a_Friend_on_Choosing…
More seriously, some people just like older people better. Their interests or personality may make it harder to jibe with people in their own age group, but mesh well with people in another age group. Sometimes they’re ahead of the curve on mental maturity and their peers won’t catch up for a few more years, sometimes they just think they’re more mature than they really are, and sometimes they really would have fit in better if they had been born a couple decades earlier.
Personally, when I was younger, I had a hard time relating to anyone around my age and generally fit in better in conversations with people my parents’ age. As a preteen in the early 2000s, I was reading things like Dune, watching things like Blade Runner, and my music tastes included the Rat Pack. The things the adults talked about were just more my speed. This got to be less and less of a problem as I got older and my current friend group is actually a few years younger than me on average, though I do still have the occasional ‘faux old man’ moments with them.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
I love VTMB, but the gameplay was never the highlight, it was always the writing. If the story and characters are well written and it ties into VTMB1 somehow, I’ll consider the title justified. The writing is a pretty high bar, though.
- Comment on Is there or has there ever been information illegal to possess or have? 5 weeks ago:
Beginning of internet memes? Maybe. I’d have to look up when that happened. Beginning of memes as a whole? That would be off by several thousand years at a minimum, just going by ones archaeologists have already found.
- Comment on 'My Advice to Users Is to Accept Reality and Tune, or to Not Play' — Randy Pitchford Is at the 'Get a Refund From Steam' Stage of the Borderlands 4 PC Performance Backlash 5 weeks ago:
I could be wrong, but doesn’t he own the company?
- Comment on xkcd #3142: -Style Pizza 5 weeks ago:
In particular, it’s a very East Coast thing. While we have the mom-and-pop pizzerias on the West Coast, there aren’t styles of pizza named for West Coast cities and we just don’t have that pizza rivalry that the other coast has. There’s California-style pizza, but that’s named for a state rather than a city, and as soon as you leave California it’s easier to find almost any other kind of pizza.
- Comment on What D&D alignment would my character(s) be? 5 weeks ago:
Really, the problem is labeling that axis law-chaos in the first place when it’s really order-chaos. We’re pretty much stuck with it now, though.
- Comment on Who plays like that x_x 5 weeks ago:
2 and 3 do the same diagnostic routine, and Reach asks you to look at a building in the distance.
- Comment on GN's GPU smuggling documentary is finally back up after being fraudulently DMCA'd by Bloomberg. Go give them a watch to try to make up for the lost traction! 1 month ago:
This is exactly my experience with their dice sets. I got the transister dice, but I think the cat dice use the same box.
- Comment on Amid Palworld Lawsuit, Nintendo Patents a System for Summoning a Character 1 month ago:
You made a comment that is typically meant with complete seriousness without any indication you were joking. PETA, for example, has an entire anti-Pokemon campaign built on the premise that Pokemon is animal cruelty.
- Comment on Amid Palworld Lawsuit, Nintendo Patents a System for Summoning a Character 1 month ago:
Microsoft, Sony, EA, Activision, or Square Enix would be my guess.
- Comment on Like a heart 1 month ago:
I don’t think ducks typically use tampons.
- Comment on AOL announces September shutdown for dial-up Internet access 1 month ago:
I use some as coasters.
- Comment on Sony is releasing a new PS5 console, but it's a downgrade 1 month ago:
Only for backwards compatibility titles. PS5 titles have to be run off of either the integrated storage or an M.2 SSD.
- Comment on Immortals must be riddled with cancer thanks to gene errors in their dna replication. 1 month ago:
I wonder if it just takes longer to become a problem? I would expect (and someone correct me if I’m wrong) that a tumor likely grows at roughly the same rate regardless of body size. A 3cm diameter tumor likely just isn’t as big of a deal when you mass 100,000kg.
- Comment on xkcd #3134: Wavefunction Collapse 1 month ago:
Well, there’s not really any randomness, we just can’t ever have enough data to determine exactly what will happen. Which is why we have the Uncertainty Principle. If we both had a functioning Grand Unified Theory and total knowledge of all the particles in a system, we could simulate what would happen in the system with perfect accuracy.
- Comment on More action than RPG, Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 struggles to convince after a few hours' play - EuroGamer 2 months ago:
Not sure if this is what they’re talking about, but they made an ARG called Tender as part of the early VTMB2 promotion stuff. You had to do stuff within a fake dating app called Tender that was made in-universe to help vampires find feeding targets.
- Comment on Has cancel culture gone too far? 2 months ago:
Kane is Cain, probably.
- Comment on They don't make 'em like they used to 2 months ago:
The handle is torn up, too.
- Comment on Southern USA core. 2 months ago:
Can actually be done without any inbreeding. For instance, if a man has children with two women who are sisters, the children would be paternal half-siblings and maternal cousins. Used to be fairly common when arranged marriages and dying in childbirth were normal. Wife died, but the marriage ties are important so you marry her sister.
- Comment on Funny 2 months ago:
Likely depends on jurisdiction. Should be legal in Oregon. Less sure about Missouri.