ParadoxSeahorse
@ParadoxSeahorse@lemmy.world
- Comment on Who was your first childhood videogame crush? 2 hours ago:
I guess when you’re a kid yourself you don’t realise it’s a lot more creepy when the writers, animators etc. are 20s, 30s, 40s…
- Comment on Who was your first childhood videogame crush? 2 hours ago:
I had a save before the fmv and cried when I forgot and saved over it
- Comment on US government uses Halo images in a call to 'destroy' immigration, Microsoft declines to comment 1 day ago:
Where the Trump-as-Master Chief post is merely cringeworthy, the Homeland Security message is flat-out dangerous. Comparing immigrants in the US to a parasitic alien life form that infects and annihilates advanced societies is not deeply offensive, it’s also rooted in the worst of human history: As seen in the untermenschen of the Holocaust and “cockroaches” in Rwanda, to name a couple recent examples, dehumanizing the “other” so you can more easily inflict cruelty, injustice, and horrors upon them is hardly a new technique, and the US government’s messaging was not subtle.
You might think that using imagery from one of its best known videogames in a call to “destroy” immigrants would prompt Microsoft to action, or at least to express some small modicum of disapproval. For now, at least, you would be wrong: Rather like Nintendo, which eagerly picks copyright fights it knows it can win but kept its mouth tightly zipped when Homeland Security used Pokémon to promote violent immigration raids, a representative told PC Gamer that “Microsoft does not have anything to share on this matter.”
Unexpectedly good political commentary from checks notes PC Gamer
- Comment on Ok, boomer 2 days ago:
out of touch
no longer conversant with facts; not aware or realistic
Smells like ignorance, which isn’t ageist
- Comment on Soup 4 days ago:
marry someone who says:
- i love you
- i’m proud of you
- i’m grateful for you
- yes we can have more jasmine rice
- no 3 rice in a day isn’t too much
- yes i can make you jasmine rice again
- no 12am isn’t too late to have jasmine rice
- Comment on Why are people using the "þ" character? 5 days ago:
Autistic people of Lemmy: THEY’RE DOING LANGUAGE WRONG!!!
Also autistic people of Lemmy: ÞEy’Re DoInG lAnGuAgE wRoNg chortle
Non-autistic people of Lemmy: Hahahahaha sorry that’s the joke
- Comment on Data Centers Turn to Aviation Engines for Power Solutions 1 week ago:
Connection to grid is heavily regulated, can take ten years or more and faces heavy opposition, nobody wants this
Want data center rn
Install natural gas jet engine turbines
Profit
- Comment on Jesus hates American "Christians" 1 week ago:
I mean he was a pretty shit Jew. Fellow Jews tried to stone him to death “for blasphemy, because [he], a mere man, claim[ed] to be God” (John 10:33).
I think the hating Jews thing has nothing to do with Christianity, though, it was always just an excuse. There’s no reason Abrahamic religions should get on or not based on any scripture, it’s all just politics of the time.
For eg. having different holy days, Friday, Saturday and Sunday was all so they could share a place of worship, this is largely forgotten or covered up (literally, in some older buildings).
- Comment on Jesus hates American "Christians" 1 week ago:
I follow your logic, and it does make sense, but I think the problem might be that those arguing against you are American, not Scotsmen /s
Can we agree that there can be good and bad, or perhaps generous vs selfish Christians? Another issue is “Christian” is sometimes used adjectively, “that’s pretty Christian of you”, which is generally used to mean generous, but has nothing to do with someone’s belief in God, Jesus etc.
Probably a person’s belief in supernatural beings has nothing to do with their ethics, morality or generosity, it’s just that in some societies at certain times there are perceived correlations, and irrespective of whether these reflect reality or not, they, through deliberate conflation of religion, morality, politics etc. can color people’s opinions of those belonging a specific religion.
- Comment on Any advice for me a guy turning 18 yo old?? 1 week ago:
Hey! I was a kid
- Comment on Any advice for me a guy turning 18 yo old?? 1 week ago:
Hol up
- Comment on Sunlight special 1 week ago:
What pillock has turned a tin of chopped tomatoes on
- Comment on Sunlight special 1 week ago:
BREAFAST
Not a great endorsement
- Comment on 4chan fined $26K for refusing to assess risks under UK Online Safety Act 2 weeks ago:
They’re plum out of luck
- Comment on Bank, seriously 2 weeks ago:
Bank… Again!?!
- Comment on Tabletop convection oven 2 weeks ago:
can crunch up fried chicken quickly after thawing it with microwave
I would warn this is something you can actually go to hell for
- Comment on Who's your favorite female protagonist in a video game? (Add pic of character in response) 2 weeks ago:
2B || !2B
- Comment on Apple Banned an App That Simply Archived Videos of ICE Abuses 2 weeks ago:
fashits
- Comment on Tell me why! 3 weeks ago:
USBC came out of NBC and ABC and is the largest public service broadcaster in North America, and was once the largest broadcasting company in the world. Once publicly owned, it is now funded by a mixture of private interests and taxes, and has a government-appointed board of directors.
- Comment on Meh, I'm more of an Aragorn fan... 3 weeks ago:
Look why is the 2x2 at a larger scale the the 4x2s
- Comment on Can't have my glizzies 3 weeks ago:
Can’t help but wonder how many individual animals made up those hot dogs, and whether their living conditions were any better than that drawer. Not vegan just an intrusive thought sorry
- Comment on Mahjong Soul X Gintama Collab - Anime Preview 3 weeks ago:
Nom nom nom
- Comment on Apple has REMOVED the ICEBlock app from the App Store due to “objectionable content.” 3 weeks ago:
Sweet solution
- Comment on YSK that 55% of Gazan Children has suicidal thoughts in a 2022 report 3 weeks ago:
When you’re an autistic and your hear an autistic and you think that’s some grade a autism right there
Although could just be German
- Comment on She's got the talent 3 weeks ago:
Do we think advertising has helped evolve processed food through engendering false beliefs
- Comment on ‘My buyer’s guilt is insane. It’s $1,300 on trash’: the adults addicted to blind box toys like Labubus 4 weeks ago:
They’re still cuddly though
- Comment on #freepenisman 4 weeks ago:
Palo Verde paint fumed Penis Man artist army
- Comment on #freepenisman 4 weeks ago:
Shomer, who called the incident a “cop overreach,” later claimed he wasn’t the only one responsible, telling reporters at the time, “I’m not the original. There’s a whole Penis Man army out there.”
The penis thickens
- Comment on #freepenisman 4 weeks ago:
Ballengee isn’t the first person linked to the “Penis Man” graffiti in Tempe. In 2020, Dustin Shomer faced 33 charges, including criminal damage, aggravated criminal damage, and trespassing, after spray-painting the same phrase on buildings throughout the city.
Tempe police arrest man suspected of ‘penis man’ graffiti
Heroes
- Comment on US presidents are getting younger over time 5 weeks ago:
It’s actually flattening out rather alarmingly