starman2112
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- Comment on nets 1 day ago:
The average person cannot make the connection between the food they eat and the animal it was. People act so appalled by the torturous conditions in animal farms, and then stop at McDonald’s on their lunch break to pick up some chicken nuggets, totally unaware of the irony
- Comment on Sun God 3 days ago:
My turn to post the Technology Connections link
- Comment on Sun God 3 days ago:
My favorite fun astronomy fact is that a transit like this (Venus, but still) is how we managed to figure out our distance to the Sun in the 1700s
The accuracy is incredible. They determined it to be 93,726,900 miles. This is within the bounds of our perihelion (≈91,000,000 miles) and aphelion (≈95,000,000 miles). Even more precise than Eratosthenes’ estimation of the size of the Earth
- Comment on Observer 1 week ago:
I feel like calling it an “observer” is the worst thing since Ben Franklin decided to name positive and negative electrical charges. “Observer” implies that it’s someone watching the thing, when really it’s just the light interacting with something.
- Comment on ‘The tyranny of apps’: those without smartphones are unfairly penalised, say campaigners 1 week ago:
fintech that handles direct money services
Even more succinct and accurate than how I would have described it lol
Cashapp is also sort of an entirely online pseudo bank. There are places that let you deposit and withdraw cash, but they’re like two steps above Bitcoin ATMs
I do know people who have these fully online banks though. It’s so much worse than just using a credit union. Imagine having to pay to pull cash out of your bank account
- Comment on ‘The tyranny of apps’: those without smartphones are unfairly penalised, say campaigners 1 week ago:
I mean I use Cashapp, but I could also not use it and my life wouldn’t be much harder
- Comment on ‘The tyranny of apps’: those without smartphones are unfairly penalised, say campaigners 1 week ago:
Can’t your purchases be tied to you via credit/debit card number? I mean obviously you can use cash, but I don’t see a lot of people using cash
- Comment on place yer bets 1 week ago:
I find the XCOM comparisons funny because the game actually tilts the RNG in the player’s favor and people still think it’s unfair
- Comment on "A Certain Scientific Railgun" 4th Season Announced with New PV 2 weeks ago:
That’s an interesting take. Personally, the Sisters Arc is when I got really enthralled by the show
- Comment on How does this pic show that Elon Musk doesnt know SQL? 2 weeks ago:
I mean you can check my math, I just added up all the births per year in this article
www.usatoday.com/story/money/2020/…/111928356/
Rounding to one significant figure, it’s 311.9 million people born in the US since 1933. Adding an average of 4 million births per year since then, it’s 335.9. I rounded up to 350 to bring it to a nice round number
- Comment on How does this pic show that Elon Musk doesnt know SQL? 2 weeks ago:
I don’t think we’ve gone through 999 million options yet. Only about 300 million people have been born since 1933, so even if we add all 127 million US citizens alive in 1935, that’s still less than half of the possible social security numbers.
The reason we’ve likely reused numbers is because they weren’t randomly assigned until like 2011. Knowing that I was born in 1995 in Wichita, KS, you could make an educated guess at the first three digits of my SSN
- Comment on imagine 3 weeks ago:
No they don’t. There’s never been any lawsuits filed for accidentally growing GM crops
- Comment on US Bill proposed to jail people who download Deepseek 3 weeks ago:
They also can’t amend the constitution via executive order or report US citizens, but watch them try it anyway
- Comment on El Salvador's Bukele offers to jail American prisoners, says Rubio 3 weeks ago:
I love it when my government jails me and then ships me to a foreign country for my prison sentence, far from the nearest US court
I’m sure El Salvador has a wonderful prison system totally free from corruption… Oh. Oh no.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
A) Visit the country you want to support
B) Stop buying so much stuff
I’m not trying to throw any shade at you, but it’s kind of sad when the the question isn’t “how do I get by without buying stuff,” but rather “what can I buy more of to improve the situation?”
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
Wait. I can’t go to Canada, buy a jacket for 20 CAD, and bring it back to the US without paying a tariff on it?
- Comment on unless it’s really really funny 4 weeks ago:
And remember kids: thanks to the FOIA, it’s not a crime to own or distribute TM-31-210 and TM-32-201-1
At least, not yet. Get em while you can!
- Comment on Pro-Life Texans Gather In Austin To Rally Against Abortion | News Radio 1200 WOAI | San Antonio's First News 5 weeks ago:
The idea of a community with the Gadsden flag celebrating an attempt to restrict right is as hilarious to me as ever
- Comment on Fucking pigeons 1 month ago:
Pigeons spend a long time in the nest, so if they survive long enough to leave, they’ll basically look like regular pigeons
At least, that’s what they want you to think
- Comment on Fucking pigeons 1 month ago:
Kinda, not really. In the wild, pigeons build their nests on cliffs, so they really only need just enough nest to keep the eggs from rolling off. That’s why they make dopey lil stick piles instead of proper bowl-shaped nests
- Comment on 'Green' Scottish Ferry Emits Far More CO2 Than Old Diesel Ship 1 month ago:
Yes, and a freight train consumes more fuel than a Ford F150. That’s a naive way of looking at efficiency
- Comment on Here's a hot take about Sekiro 2 months ago:
It seems to me that Sekiro is most enjoyed by people who didn’t like the rest of the Fromsoft lineup. I’m finding the combat less dull than Bloodborne’s, primarily because I’m taking an active role by parrying instead of dodging all the time. I find the parrying very rewarding, in the sense that it tickles that part of my brain that likes the shiny flash and the TING
is it just the fast paced combat and grappling hook that helps it?
That, the simplified leveling system, the lack of a stamina bar, the healing gourd having a ton of uses between rests, and the resurrection mechanic. There’s a lot of little things about this game that makes it easier than a typical Fromsoft game, without making it trivial. It’s the perfect level of challenging for me personally
- Comment on The Progressive Left's Glossary Of Terms, 2024 Edition 2 months ago:
I’m curious, are you a Christian?
- Comment on The Progressive Left's Glossary Of Terms, 2024 Edition 2 months ago:
by Tyler Durden
<1 line into this and I already know it’s gonna be a riot
- Comment on What games did you complete in 2024? 2 months ago:
Hi-Fi Rush | 9/10
The score went up an entire point when The Prodigy - Invaders Must Die started playing. I really hope this gets a sequel.
I’m so happy I didn’t know that song was in the game. I personally rate it 10/10, a perfect blend of gameplay, story, and soundtrack, with bonus points for managing to toe the line between goofy and sincere. That part at the end (“I am a rockstar”) had me bracing for someone to point out how cheesy it was, and no one does. I love a piece of media that doesn’t make fun of you for getting invested.
I realize I need to finish more games. The only four I beat this year were
Baldur’s Gate 3 | 8/10
I’m gonna be real, the replay value is not really there for me. My wizard and my co-player’s paladin are the big damn heroes, and I have trouble getting into another character. I’m not gonna get a better ending than the one I got with _______ and ____, and it feels weird being as into Karlach as I was, and then just pushing her aside and dating someone else
Outriders | 8/10
The world needs more games like this. I love that everyone recognizes that the Outrider is essentially a god. The Russian roulette scene alone brings this up from a 7, but the rather unsatisfying ending brings it down from a 9. I don’t love that they imply some big war between the altered humans, and then ditch that halfway through. The fact that Moloch is introduced as a BBEG and then you kill him in an optional endgame side mission is disappointing. The DLC though, that kicked ass… Right up until the rather unsatisfying end, again. It’s certainly much better than the main game, which isn’t really that bad to begin with. I just want to know what the Outrider learned in that ancient vault.
Atlas Fallen: Reign of Sand | 7/10
Don’t get me wrong when I say 7/10. It’s one of my favorite games I’ve ever played, and I want more games like it. It’s hard to explain why exactly I like it so much, but I think I can sum it up with: many other games are rather exhausting, either mentally, or emotionally. This game doesn’t expect a lot from the player, except for proficiency with the simple combat system. The story is simple—there’s an evil god, you find a magic gauntlet that can maybe kill that god, action ensues. I can count on one hand the number of characters that I feel like the game wanted me to remember or care about.
It’s a fun game, solid 30 hours to 100%, 7/10 absolutely recommend.
Hellblade 2: Senua’s Saga | 7/10
It wasn’t as good as the first game. Or maybe it’s that it wasn’t as better than the first game as it could have been. A large part of why the first game was so engaging to me was the loneliness. It was just me and the furies, and the puzzles we were solving. Senua’s Saga introduces a few primary characters, and villages full of people, which dampens the furies’ affect on me. The game was also much more confusing. In the first game, it’s entirely nebulous what was real and what was in Senua’s head. You can interpret it as a literal descent into the underworld to attempt to reclaim her lover’s soul, or an entirely figurative descent into her own psyche to overcome the grief of losing him, or somewhere in between. Ironically, this makes it easier for me to parse, because there’s no apparent contradictions. The sequel makes it explicitly clear that Senua is engaging, at least somewhat, in real life. This makes it more confusing, because
Hellblade 2 spoiler
the >!giants are also explicitly a result of people’s negative emotions. So are the giants really giant? Is everything literal? I need to read some analysis.!<
Let me know if the spoiler tags didn’t work in your client. I think combining the ::: and the >!!< should cover all bases
- Comment on Patient gamers, which games have you discovered/played this week? 2 months ago:
Sadly no online multiplayer, but it is up to date alongside the PC version. There is an experimental LAN multiplayer option, but it’s apparently still very unstable
- Comment on Patient gamers, which games have you discovered/played this week? 2 months ago:
Started playing Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice this week. I may or may not have bought it because I got it mixed up with Ghost of Tsushima, so the fact that it’s essentially Bloodborne but in Japan caught me a bit off guard, but it’s not bad. There’s been three separate times now where I’ve gotten stuck on a boss, closed the game thinking “I hate soulslike games, this was a waste of money,” and then beat the boss on my first try the next day.
It seems like they took into account the fact that you can’t summon friends when they tuned the difficulty. It’s not easy by a longshot, but it’s not as impossible as other Fromsoft games.
The posture gauge is my favorite game mechanic. Having both defense and offense move the fight along makes it so much less of a slog than other soulslikes. Normally I just dart around the battlefield getting one light attack in every 30 seconds, but this game has me standing right next to the boss, actively rewarding me for memorizing telegraphs and attack patterns. It’s super satisfying.
- Comment on BACK IT UP 3 months ago:
Plus, a bunch of conservatives will see the raw milk part and die from listeria. It’s a win-win!
- Comment on Palworld Developer Reveals The Pokémon Patents Nintendo Claims It's Violating 3 months ago:
I guess I should have said we don’t make friends with them. I could have also drawn attention to the awful living conditions, but getting all Dominion-y wouldn’t have the pizzazzy oomph that I was going for
- Comment on Palworld Developer Reveals The Pokémon Patents Nintendo Claims It's Violating 3 months ago:
It definitely only got popular because of the hype re: “Pokemon with guns,” but it’s legitimately better than the game it actually copied, which is Ark. You know what’s cool about Palworld? Me and my coplayer were able to stop playing without losing everything we’ve built
Anyone who thinks Palworld is actually a Pokemon ripoff either hasn’t played Palworld or hasn’t played Pokemon