Uruanna

@Uruanna@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do we still joke about setting up old wooden guillotines?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  You can also add jets to make it shoot down faster.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are the character names in most Anime real Japanese names or just made up?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  99.9% of anime is slice of life in real Japan with mostly real or real-ish names, what are you talking about

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple has REMOVED the ICEBlock app from the App Store due to “objectionable content.”⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Not for the canary cry emoji

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lara Croft is a Sociopath⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the writers pretty much admitted they had no plan for Trinity, seeing how their goal completely changed from immortality to apocalypse between Rise and Shadow. They were just the reason for Lara to track them across the world and stumble on ancient stuff.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lara Croft is a Sociopath⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m looking up the opening scene and I can’t find the therapy session itself. Maybe it was only in the trailer, I remember people thought it was weird when they released that trailer because it was unexpected at the time that this was the direction they were taking? But the game does have you find tapes of Lara’s recorded sessions talking with the therapist, like how she’s having control issues and it turns out she has become a different person in a bad way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lara Croft is a Sociopath⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The third game of the reboot trilogy starts with her tracking this evil organization that’s been screwing with her family, finding the item they’re trying to steal to trigger an appocalypse, stealing it first, and almost triggering that same apocalypse because she doesn’t know what she’s doing, thinking she’s doing good. Second game also started with her tracking the same organization to figure out what they’re doing, and from that, she stumbles into some archaeology. It’s a long character arc, she learns that she can be good at figuring out ancient stuff, and she finds out the hard way that she can also fuck up badly when she doesn’t know what she’s doing. It’s supposed to end at the point where she’s mature enough to do better. We just see all the “fucking up” parts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lara Croft is a Sociopath⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The second game of the reboot trilogy starts with Lara in therapy session about how she became a thrill addict from her survivor’s guilt from the first game and how she’s liking it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lara Croft is a Sociopath⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That was very clearly on purpose, she starts panicking about the first guys she kills to survive, and near the end she’s screaming I’m gonna kill you all. That is the narrative arc. Welcome to trauma stories?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lara Croft is a Sociopath⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Have you not seen those movies that end up saying “if we kill the big bad, we’re no better than them” after mowing down countless faceless mobs

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who the fuck needs an x axis anyway⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Remember Covid, don’t report on things = they stop existing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[de] Chatting with right-wing extremist “paedophile hunters”: Group hunts down suspected pedophiles. Their fantasies also target gays, Jews, and leftists. Reporter has been reading their Signal chat⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  … To indiscriminately beat up anyone who’s not rich?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Stop Trump coalition published this video⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m a bit confused, I’m not sure if you mean the US or the UK, because both countries have done that, and both lands have been populated with that same method as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you think conservative feel the same need to burn it all down as everyone else felt when trump won again?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In the US? … Obama? (In a very big nutshell)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you think conservative feel the same need to burn it all down as everyone else felt when trump won again?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You built up your very own definition of the word while ignoring what any political conservative movement in the world actually does. You listened to someone’s argument on the concept of a definition, an idea that was stapled to a word in your head, without actually looking at factual reality. What you describe is simply not what any conservative party anywhere does.

  Starting with the idea that you are conserving something that runs well and not spending resource on frivolous nonsense that doesn’t work - just look at everything a conservative party actually funds while blocking money for anything remotely humanitarian because they claim it doesn’t work, or based on the slightest disagreement about a boundary, while being themselves the very reason it doesn’t work.

  Look at what is actually protected. And at who isn’t, based on not giving too much to someone you don’t think deserves it. Do those who already have all that deserve it?

  Starting with your environmental conservationist sensibility and reducing that you want to be a conservative is already super wild, it’s antinomic. You think you protect something from greed and selfishness, but those who who block progress are the selfish ones who hoard everything out of greed, using “this doesn’t deserve it” or “you can’t prove this works” as an excuse to keep everything. You are not safeguarding anything, and there’s zero place for environmental protection in any conservative party anywhere.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Connecticut is Jewish?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are fossil fuels vegan?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  … Chicken isn’t ~vegan~?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Medusa Relief Found on Etruscan Urn in Italy Challenges Burial Traditions⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This urn is date to the 3rd c. BCE, so it’s not very significant in saying what the original myth was. The Etruscan did already use the symbol of Medusa’s head as having the power to heal and kill as early as the 6th c. BCE, appearing on temples and such. The gorgon as a protector is also found before that in Greece, the earliest mention of her is in Homer (then the Theogony and Hesiod in the same period) where she was already a fierce guardian of the underworld and nothing else, so in that period, the Greeks and Etruscans had similar views.

  The evolution that we know better developed in the Perseus myth through the 6th and 5th c. BCE, which is later than her early Greek appearances but fairly soon after the Etruscan use of her. And it’s only as late as the Roman poet Ovid that we get Athena punishing Medusa into a hero-killing monster. Perseus also has influences from Babylonian Marduk and Tiamat, with one 6th c. BCE Corinthian vase where he throws rocks at Cetos with Andromeda behind him - it’s almost a straight copy of a common depiction of Marduk killing Tiamat, except the rocks were stars. I’m not sure if we know where the Medusa-killing myth was inspired from, but the “old witch controling seasons and healing and killing and turning people to stone” also exists across European and Celtic folklore, we just don’t know how old those are. It may just be a case that the Gorgon represented fear of the unknown beyond the limits of the mortal world, and Perseus was simply a myth that represented mankind overcoming that fear, more than the usual Greek propaganda. Perseus just seems to be a mishmash of various unrelated heroic deeds that the Greeks tossed in a blender.

  But yeah, agree on Greece generally transforming foreign symbols into monsters that the Greek gods punished for their hero to kill.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tomb Raider developers Crystal Dynamics lay off more staff, say the series' future is "unaffected"⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  say the series’ future is “unaffected”

  Still dead for the foreseeable decade, is it?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Game Bundle] Duo of Justice: Ace Attorney and Mega Man⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ace Attorney seems complete, including the Investigations and Great spin-offs. Mega Man collection doesn’t have Mega Man 11 (last entry in the OG series) and it doesn’t have the Zero series (4 games), the ZX series (2 games), and the Star Force series (3 games). There’s a separate collection for the Zero series, and maybe the ZX series too. I don’t know about Star Force.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony, owner of "Naughty Dog", is suing a small game developer "Naughty Cat" in HK for trademark infringement.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Surely there must be a Naughty Bunny somewhere that could shoot that right back at them? Maybe not in video game trademarks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube might slow down your videos if you block ads⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t care, still better than the ads.

  I’ll sit for 2 minutes in front of a black screen and it’ll still be better than 45 seconds of ads.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It used to be that when most countries were or in trouble or needed help they would go to the US for help. My question is who does the US go to for help if or when needed?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Greece and Turkiye have that problem - not a war or anything but they have an open conflict about territorial waters and islands that’s been going on for a long time. No one wants to get involved.

  so I guess it depends on who in NATO the US gets shitty (shittier) with - most big countries in Europe act like they’re ready to stand up, but we’ll see if they actually get physically involved or if it’s more finger wagging. Looking at Greenland…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We Should Immediately Nationalize SpaceX and Starlink⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  From this admin? Nah. It’ll be stolen and given to, idk, Thiel ir Vance or whoever, but not nationalized, just reprivatized.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We Should Immediately Nationalize SpaceX and Starlink⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Shouldn’t be incompatible with nationalizing SpaceX and Starlink. Just give it all to NASA, actually.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FF7 Remake director ‘can’t share’ why Sephiroth looks different in new trading card, sparking Part 3 speculation⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Both arms was my first take too considering he’s specifically named the one winged angel because of the one black wing replacing his arm, but he does have a whole extra head visible behind the text, in the same way Bizarro Sephiroth had a big Sephiroth and then a tiny Sephiroth on top - the topless, black wing form sits on a cloud that sits on top of another bigger Sephiroth with white wings instead of just having 6 wings replacing his legs. With how they brought Bizarro Sephiroth in Rebirth, they could be doing the “multiple teams attacking different sections” take again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Silent Hill 2 (remake) now on GOG⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A great modern game much better than the original. Worth it even if you played the original.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Breath of Fire IV released on GoG⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  100%. Great story, great characters, classic gameplay, cool skills and spells.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Macron weighs in on Le Pen verdict for first time: ‘The law is the same for everyone’⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Let’s not forget he’s only saying that because he’s not running anymore. He was perfectly happy propping her up above all others in the last 8 years, the same way Trump was propped up, except he won (until last summer when the left came back). Everyone else on the right is mad because they wanted to do the same in the next cycle, as usual - even some on the left are also a bit unsure, probably because they also expected to do the same for themselves after Macron is gone (the left has a much better chance than the right against the far right). Hell, even his current Prime Minister is making barely veiled comments about it - the same guy (among a few others) whose party was also punished for something similar, except on a far, far lesser scale, thus without ineligibility sentencing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Elements Of Ghost of Yotei Teased⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  the team went to Japan multiple times to soak in the scenery, the culture, and more, and it was there that the crew got the idea to shift the game’s section to the northern island of Yotei, where things would be vastly different in both topography and the people who lived there.

  The site also reminded fans of a previous interview that Sucker Punch did, where one of the team members noted the new region would feature “sprawling grasslands, snowy tundras, and unexpected dangers.”

  … What? Are they saying that Yotei will actually be all of Hokkaido?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If Anime Doesn't Get an Oscar Nomination Next Year, Then Film Is Dead⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Edit: and the article also forgot to mention that Miyazaki already won two Oscars. So it’s not like Japanese animation is being fully ignored.

  First paragraph

  Not only have anime films rarely been nominated for Best Animated Feature, but of the few nominations there have been, the only winners were Spirited Away in 2003 and The Boy and the Heron in 2024.