jandar_fett
@jandar_fett@lemmy.world
- Comment on Where are the good political songs? 4 months ago:
Between the Buried and Me, a progressive metal band that is considered legendary, is philosophically political in so much as that most of their albums are about the inevitable decline of humanity and the destruction of everything due to capitalism, greed, regressive ideologies etc. If you’ve never listened to them you should start with the Great Misdirect. Spotify has a live version I think and it is phenomenal.
- Comment on Are humans the only animal that wipes things off? 5 months ago:
There is a primate that washes their fruit off and it is a learned behavior. They have taught all the other in the species to do the same thing.
- Comment on Does anyone else feel like 90% of the population is stupid? 6 months ago:
Very well said. Is it even possible to quantify intelligence? I mean, you can obviously measures brain size, which they did, and that was lacking, then they measured amount of gray matter, which matters a lot more, conclusively, but there is also the fact that even losing pieces of the brain cannot stop a person from being fully functioning due to neuroplasticity, and then you have concepts like IQ tests which are verifiable steeped in white exceptionalism aka racist as hell.
- Comment on Does anyone else feel like 90% of the population is stupid? 6 months ago:
It seems like the issue is more nuanced than all that.
- Comment on Does anyone else feel like 90% of the population is stupid? 6 months ago:
Not to mention grades are about doing the work and having the discipline and organizational skills. There are plenty of people who are very intelligent, but lack both of those. US testing metrics (is that the right word?) are heavily flawed. This isn’t even bringing up the racist aspect of most institutions, including educational being headed up and formulated by white people.
- Comment on None of these anchors are real: Channel 1 plans for AI to generate news, broadcasters 6 months ago:
Hackers are revving up their fingers
- Comment on None of these anchors are real: Channel 1 plans for AI to generate news, broadcasters 6 months ago:
Uh oh
- Comment on 'There's almost nobody left': CEO of Baldur's Gate 3 dev Swen Vincke says the D&D team he initially worked with is gone, due to Hasbro layoffs 6 months ago:
I’m so ready to get the kind of polish and mastery that BG3 has applied to a new game in the Divinity universe. I haven’t finished DOS3, not by a Longshot and don’t have time to play it, but it blew me away and I think about playing it again often. I will one day. It is daunting when you haven’t played a game like that in a while, to continue on. Especially on the harder difficulties lol RIP. Larian is the GOAT game studio up there with From Software and the Zelda team imo.
- Comment on 'There's almost nobody left': CEO of Baldur's Gate 3 dev Swen Vincke says the D&D team he initially worked with is gone, due to Hasbro layoffs 6 months ago:
I have a hankering to go back to it regularly and I’m playing on the Switch so it is less smooth, but yes I am a forever fan of Larian Studioes after experiencing just a tithe of DOS:2. Hard to explain why it is so good, but the mechanics are creative, fun, and challenging. The story is epic and actually epic in scope and the characters are all so fleshed out and the voice acting is professionally done and immaculate. It is very open ended and very long but very very good.
- Comment on 'There's almost nobody left': CEO of Baldur's Gate 3 dev Swen Vincke says the D&D team he initially worked with is gone, due to Hasbro layoffs 6 months ago:
This just reads to me that Divinity Original Sin 3 is on the far horizon. YES
- Comment on Their Bionic Eyes Are Now Obsolete and Unsupported 6 months ago:
ITT: Really good story prompts…
- Comment on Their Bionic Eyes Are Now Obsolete and Unsupported 6 months ago:
Is this an original ? If so, do you write because I want more. You had me wanting to look up the book to buy it lol. Good shit
- Comment on Let's meet those headlines 6 months ago:
It took this post and recent bio classes to realize that this line refers to the hydrophilic nature of water molecules, so the reason it is a question if he gets wet underwater, is because a water molecule can’t get wet, as it’s water, and even if he isn’t a water molecule, they’re attracted to all particles including other water molecules, so the water would definitely get him.
- Comment on 'Your Turn': United Auto Workers Launches Campaign to Unionize Tesla 6 months ago:
Man is gonna fuck around and get ass-assinated.
- Comment on Pavlov's conditioning 6 months ago:
Agreed and well said. It reminds me of when someone lauds Thomas Jefferson as being brilliant and having great political ideas for America, but then someone clutches their pearls because he was a slave owner. Yes, being a slave owner is abhorrent, BUT it doesn’t negate the positive contributions. That isn’t how reality works. You can condemn the bad and accept the good when it comes to the effects of people and organizations and concepts.
- Comment on Pavlov's conditioning 6 months ago:
Quit inhaling your own farts.
- Comment on Gamers enraged at Ubisoft for injecting ads into the middle of video games 7 months ago:
Black Mirror episodes coming true or already being true is hedging into “Simpsons did it!” Territory
- Comment on Gamers enraged at Ubisoft for injecting ads into the middle of video games 7 months ago:
Talk about forgetting your roots…
- Comment on Gamers enraged at Ubisoft for injecting ads into the middle of video games 7 months ago:
If you didn’t say it I was gonna.
- Comment on Gamers enraged at Ubisoft for injecting ads into the middle of video games 7 months ago:
Late stage capitalism ruined or will ruin every corporation FTFY
- Comment on What happened to the flat earthers who demonstrated that the earth is round in the netfilx documentary ? 7 months ago:
On the other side of that coin, it is much easier for someone with a high degree of intelligence and self awareness, to perform the necessary mental gymnastics to justify bullshit beliefs…
- Comment on What happened to the flat earthers who demonstrated that the earth is round in the netfilx documentary ? 7 months ago:
Much easier to rearrange reality to fit your perception rather than alter your perception and admit that you’re possibly wrong.
- Comment on What happened to the flat earthers who demonstrated that the earth is round in the netfilx documentary ? 7 months ago:
Yeah. It’s totally the sunken cost fallacy. They mistakenly think that there is too much to lose to change their minds and cut their losses.
- Comment on Black Mirror creator unafraid of AI because it’s “boring” 8 months ago:
This. You have to baby it and then if you want it to do something different you have to tell it a hundred times in a hundred different ways before it stops producing the same stuff with the same structure with slight differences. It is a nightmare.
- Comment on ‘Baldur’s Gate 3’ Prepared for 100k Concurrent Players, They’ve Gotten 700K 10 months ago:
I absolutely adore and admire those at Larian studios. Divinity 2 is one of the best games I’ve ever played. I hope I can play BG3 one day since I don’t have the funds for a system that will run it or better yet, it becomes available on Geforce Now or something because I got a damn wedding to pay for and bills to pay!