Hegar
@Hegar@kbin.social
- Comment on Orcas sink sailing yacht in Strait of Gibraltar 5 months ago:
There's a similar account from the 6th century CE Roman Empire: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porphyrios_(whale)
Could be a whale, or a large orca. The story goes that it was a single creature, but I think a series of Orca attacks that got attributed to a single creature fits the evidence as easily.
- Comment on I don't like M&M's 😔 5 months ago:
In my family we always end this kind of recitation of woe with "and I wanted to see a snake".
We saw a kid have a meltdown at an animal refuge when the meet-a-surprise-reptile was a blue tongue lizard. He wailed that he was tired, hungry, hot and - most of all - he wanted to see a snake.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
A milkshake will work too.
- Comment on Cyberpunk 2077 director thanks fans as the game hits a 95% positive review rating on Steam 5 months ago:
That reading of the character makes sense and jives with how I connect with games I play. I'll keep it in mind when I go back for a male playthrough - gonna have to romance panam eventually. Agreed choom!
- Comment on Cyberpunk 2077 director thanks fans as the game hits a 95% positive review rating on Steam 5 months ago:
Oh yeah, that's a great point. I admit I stalled out of my male playthrough like 1/4 through, but for sure the voice acting felt lacking compared to female V, who really does a fantastic and job and sells every situation flawlessly. Now that you've mentioned it, it seems so obvious that that's a huge part of the why female V is better.
- Comment on Cyberpunk 2077 director thanks fans as the game hits a 95% positive review rating on Steam 5 months ago:
I have 50+ hours and only minor graphic glitches. A couple dead bodies standing up, the odd piece of floating loot. Nothing that seriously detracts from the experience.
- Comment on Cyberpunk 2077 director thanks fans as the game hits a 95% positive review rating on Steam 5 months ago:
I'm ~3/4s through my second playthrough and appreciating it more and more. Haven't picked up the expansion yet either.
I found it hits much harder with a female character. The Johnny Silverhand situation especially felt much more... metaphorically resonant? And Jackie feels more rogue-with-a-heart-of-gold when his best buddy is a woman.
Quickhacks are OP but felt correctly haxx0r, mantis blades are super fun. I enjoyed the combat well enough. Cars are meh, but it's cyberpunk so if you're not riding a futuristic bike ala Akira you're doing it wrong. And wiping out on a bike is great.
The characterisation and world building are what really shine. I was reluctant to play the corpo background but it really makes the story sing.
::: spoiler spoiler
The first time you're in a car with Judy she has a prominent tattoo that says "underwater where thoughts can breathe". Then next mission or a while later her apartment has jellyfish looking paint splotches and an aquarium. It's expanded on more explicitly later, but I really enjoy the way they pull together their characters.The scene with Takemura on the roof talking about Bakeneko is another moment that I enjoyed first playthrough and came to really appreciate a lot the second time. His food snobbery becomes quite endearing after he accidentally texts you his attempts to search for restaurants.
::: - Comment on Telegram apparently censor queer groups 5 months ago:
Quick check of the post history shows nothing but vitriol and unrealistically black and white thinking. Classic signs of depression. I hope things get better for you, but in the meantime you're an easy block.
- Comment on How do you handle family requests that you disagree with? 6 months ago:
I personally believe that preserving a false and misleading picture of reality designed to trumpet a deranged cult that is working to make the world objectively worse for everyone including themselves is not acceptable.
I would say, "Look mum I love you more than anything in the world but preserving some of these movies crosses an ethical line for me."
Of course I grew up in a house of atheist jewish academics, so making and justifying personal ethical stances that contravene wider group stances is expected behavior in my family.
- Comment on In a thousand years teachers will have a hard time explaining the origins of one of the most dangerous and ill-conceived weapons ever invented: the lightsaber 6 months ago:
Unlike in history, we don’t really lose information anymore
I wonder if this thought was also articulated by librarians at Alexandria.
- Comment on Is Boeing in big trouble? World's largest aerospace firm faces 10 more whistleblowers after sudden death of two 6 months ago:
It's very naive to think that a weapons dealer who also kills it's commercial airline passengers for profit isn't also killing whistleblowers.
- Comment on Judge mulls sanctions over Google’s “shocking” destruction of internal chats 6 months ago:
Google was accused of enacting a policy instructing employees to turn chat history off by default when discussing sensitive topics
According to the DOJ, Google destroyed potentially hundreds of thousands of chat sessions not just during their investigation but also during litigation. Google only stopped the practice after the DOJ discovered the policy. DOJ's attorney Kenneth Dintzer told Mehta Friday that the DOJ believed the court should "conclude that communicating with history off shows anti-competitive intent to hide information because they knew they were violating antitrust law.
It's perfectly reasonable to see this practice of avoiding the creation of evidence of their wrongdoing as evidence of wrongdoing, which is 100% what it is.
- Comment on With two Boeing whistleblowers dead in one month, either Boeing is actively killing them, or there are enough whistleblowers that this rate of death is not statistically significant 6 months ago:
Boeing is now killing people outside of their planes.
That's a great line!
- Comment on China unveils video of its moon base plans, which weirdly includes a NASA space shuttle 6 months ago:
Yes, getting sued for stepping on a mine like rounded corners is so good for inventiveness.
It's so strange to me that people buy this BS line about IP laws having anything to do with why we get cool new things.
Either competition fosters innovation and therefore IP laws stifle it, or protecting monopolies fosters innovation and our IP laws make sense.
- Comment on China unveils video of its moon base plans, which weirdly includes a NASA space shuttle 6 months ago:
There has been a centralized bureaucratic autocracy in china since the legalist reforms of qin, a couple thousand years ago. Yes, the empire once united must divide but even during the long disunity before the sui and tang, there were multiple centralized autocratic states. Unity across all of the territory called modern china is not necessary to have a centralized state.
forcibly “united” by external forces, such as the Western powers in the 19th century, dividing up and ruthlessly controlling economic spheres of influence
Wait were western powers dividing or uniting china? You're claiming both in the same sentence. But that's kind of immaterial to my point that the centralized autocratic state has existed in china for a couple thousand years and that many important new technologies came out of the cultures governed in that way.
- Comment on Capitalists hate competition, especially when it comes to wages 6 months ago:
I love when HR goes out of their way to let you know that the company are assholes before you apply.
- Comment on China unveils video of its moon base plans, which weirdly includes a NASA space shuttle 6 months ago:
I wouldn't be looking for 'game changers' - that's a marketing phrase with no firm meaning and very low applicability to reality - all invention is just iterating on existing ideas.
We didn't see much cutting-edge tech coming out of China while they were recovering from the collapse of the imperial system and the colonial period, but now that they have more money to throw at new tech, we'll see new tech.
- Comment on China unveils video of its moon base plans, which weirdly includes a NASA space shuttle 6 months ago:
China has been a centralized autocratic state for a couple thousands years and has invented almost everything in that time.
More seriously though, it's just not true to suggest that collectivist societies or autocratic states can't invent new things. The briefest glance at history shows it's just not true.
- Comment on Bodycam video shows DA calling cop an “a**hole” after being pulled over for speeding 6 months ago:
who is most likely to seek out that power?
It's not just that assholes want power.
Having power actually causes neurological changes that reduce your capacity for empathy, making your brain more similar to someone born with psychopathy.
- Comment on Tesla’s Autopilot and Full Self-Driving linked to hundreds of crashes, dozens of deaths 6 months ago:
Plenty of idiots using a cruise control system and trusting their lives to beta software.
Using it exactly as it was marketed doesn't make you an idiot.
- Comment on Tech brands are forcing AI into your gadgets—whether you asked for it or not 6 months ago:
Why?
- Comment on Tech brands are forcing AI into your gadgets—whether you asked for it or not 6 months ago:
Who buys a new peripherals? You can get 100% functional peripherals for a couple of bucks from any thrift store.
- Comment on I want to speak to the meat manager 6 months ago:
No, that's too tender.
- Comment on California sheriff releases bodycam video of killing of boy, 15, holding gardening tool 7 months ago:
standing there having to make a snap judgment, you very likely would do the same thing
If a police officer is as likely as me to freak out and fuck up in an emergency, they don't have the required training or character to do their job.
- Comment on American veganism is like American Christianity. Sometimes fine and wholesome, especially when kept to oneself; but often a toxic, blatantly lying, proselytizing cult when in a group 8 months ago:
American vegans are either doing it because they’re morons or because they are equally aware and just as complicit
Or they don't want to hurt animals unnecessarily or don't want to be complicit in the environmental devastation that industrial scale meat production causes.
they insist on calling even vegetarians carnists for not being vegans too.
I'm a vegetarian and I've never heard vegans say that. The craziest online voices are not an accurate representation of a group.
ethical consumption under capitalism! Meatless Mondays
Wait vegans hate vegetarians AND love people who eat meat 6 days a week? You're accusing them of being fanatically doctrinal and too accepting. When you accuse a group of mutually exclusive traits, that's a sign that you're working from a stereotype and not reality.
- Comment on American veganism is like American Christianity. Sometimes fine and wholesome, especially when kept to oneself; but often a toxic, blatantly lying, proselytizing cult when in a group 8 months ago:
You said that two incredibly different things were very similar because of a single trait they share with many other things. Many people are going to point out the laundry list of significantly more important differences in contrast to the one similarity you see.
- Comment on American veganism is like American Christianity. Sometimes fine and wholesome, especially when kept to oneself; but often a toxic, blatantly lying, proselytizing cult when in a group 8 months ago:
My point is that being annoying isn't the same as being annoying and actively harmful.
If your main complaint about vegans is that they're patronizing, that still doesn't put them in the same category as say, the catholic church or the evangelical movement which have protected rapists, encouraged violence and spread hate.
- Comment on American veganism is like American Christianity. Sometimes fine and wholesome, especially when kept to oneself; but often a toxic, blatantly lying, proselytizing cult when in a group 8 months ago:
Christianity in the US actively contributes to almost every major problem facing our country whereas veganism improves the environment, reduces the suffering of some life and annoys some people. Sure, like any group of people vegans can be liable to groupthink and sometimes wrong about things. But you're ignoring a whole bunch of reality if you think both vegans and evangelicals are equally harmful.
- Comment on U.S. ‘prepper’ culture diversifies amid fear of disaster and political unrest 8 months ago:
You're living through it right now though. Increased disease, poverty, institutional break down, more conflict, more movement of peoples towards various social or environmental refugia. 'Collapse' is a process that takes decades.
- Comment on English may be a hot mess but at least we don't have to worry about this nonsense 8 months ago:
German isn't a Latin language, it's in the Germanic branch, along with English, Dutch and others. French, Italian and Spanish are Romance or Latin languages.