ZombiFrancis
@ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on With all the animals that die in the sea, is it possible they get pickled in there? 1 day ago:
There are pockets and layers of water in the ocean that behave very differently from each other. There are areas of high salt concentration that pretty much act as death horizons for many organisms. There are waters completely devoid of oxygen that suffocate organisms that get lost or stuck in it.
So, in a sense: yes. However the degree to which marine life had adapted to these conditions, the more unlikely parameter is a dead organism not being consumed by scavengers.
- Comment on spicy one 2 days ago:
Without it the value of the Suez Canal plummets. Please, think of the shareholders.
- Comment on Reminder that you do not own digital games 3 days ago:
I guess Nexon wasn’t happy with $6 million because the court found Dark & Darker wasn’t copyright infringement, but was an infringement of ‘trade secrets’.
If I remember 2023 correctly, Nexon decided to cut the game at the end of development and dumpster their work. So the devs left and finished the game on their own. Since Nexon never actually made/finished/released the game they couldn’t claim copyright.
- Comment on So um, america just started another war in the middle east. We're going to need a shit ton more memes to americans from the nightmare they are enduring. Thanks in advance... 3 days ago:
distract americans from the nightmare they are enduring
I assure you the nightmare is being experienced more acutely and directly by the people being actively bombed.
- Comment on Operation Narnia: Iran’s nuclear scientists reportedly killed simultaneously using special weapon 3 days ago:
If a state is to be held accountable for non-state actors then I do not believe Israel or the United States has any moral high ground whatsoever. Even less than if we strictly limit the scope to only state actions.
- Comment on Just curious 5 days ago:
The collective age of this comment chain is now approximately 120.
- Comment on Priorities 6 days ago:
We do a lil’ innvoation in the private sector here.
- Comment on Does Super Metroid get any better? 1 week ago:
Super Metroid is the first game I really explored breaking the mechanics and routing of progress. Perfectly timed bomb jumps, wall jumps, etc to access areas early and such. I always found that to be neat.
More recently though, Super Metroid was one of the first randomizers and an early popular speedrunning game.
I think that’d why it’s maintained a level of popularity not easily seen from the game itself.
- Comment on What are your favorite Tactical RPGs? 1 week ago:
Fallout Tactics remains my favorite Fallout.
- Comment on What are your favorite Tactical RPGs? 1 week ago:
There’s a hilariously drawn out postgame/endgame challenge dungeon type thing that’s like 100+ straight battles.
But the main game is solidly worth the full price, quite honestly. Any sale you find is just helping your budget.
- Comment on I Tried Pre-Ordering the Trump Phone. The Page Failed and It Charged My Credit Card the Wrong Amount 1 week ago:
Very plausibly what started as a FBI monitoring tool which no longer has any staff with knowledge of the program anymore.
- Comment on Study: Remote working benefits fathers while childless men miss sense of community 1 week ago:
Why can’t your workers be your workers, your family be your family, your friends be your friends?
- Comment on Only $50? 2 weeks ago:
Bladder sourced is what the study determined, with the fluid being normal urine or Skene’s gland secretion, but likely some combination.
Plausibly there could be pure glandular secretion squirt. Or urine. But likely a mix.
- Comment on NOOOOOOO 2 weeks ago:
Moral ABCs never disappoint.
- Comment on Why are American cops allowed to be morbidly obese? 2 weeks ago:
They don’t even have to pass those if they don’t want to. In portions of America it is just: win an election, appoint your friends and lackies.
A lot of departments use the admission tests to screen out candidates who might be overqualified: they specifically won’t want the best. An overwight blob is preferable to an in shape individual that might think before acting.
- Comment on Difference 2 weeks ago:
Like, just remove votes entirely at that point.
A number of communities and instances disable downvoting which helps moderate the behavior altogether. Either people agree and upvote to promote, or they GTFO and/or feel ignored.
- Comment on Difference 2 weeks ago:
Well that was the church, not the conquistadors or the spanish crown and emperor. I believe the history went along the lines of some clergy felt the conquistadors were being a little too barbaric and unchristian, so they convinced the Spanish to debate it a few decades later and eventually convinced them to take a break for a few years.
- Comment on Difference 2 weeks ago:
Most things I recall are often a lottery system of subscribers submitting requests. I was an old subscriber but I started seeing a bit of an unsettling pattern and they got increasingly porny.
I don’t blame the artist one bit though. Get that money.
- Comment on Difference 2 weeks ago:
Narrator voice: the Spaniards did not, in fact, “love” brown women.
(It took about forty years after contact for the church to declare indigenous people as actually human with the ‘Sublimis Deus’ papal bull in 1537.)
- Comment on Difference 2 weeks ago:
Centurii-chan has really captured the market on gooners that celebrate these things. The artist does it all on commissions and the requests they recieve indicate their market is genuinely into that sort of thing.
- Comment on Opinions on the internet 2 weeks ago:
It isn’t a paradox, or it doesn’t have to be. It isn’t a seemingly false or untrue statement that belies a deeper meaning.
It is a definitional and logical conclusion that a concept cannot tolerate its anathema and inverse.
Chemically tolerance means the limit at which something begins to degrade or an organism has to/begins to adapt. This is at least what I interpret with what is being brought up with tolerance of intolerance: when adaptation or degradation is required, the limits of tolerance have been reached.
- Comment on Opinions on the internet 2 weeks ago:
Insert one shibboleth, like one bit of information critically wrong intentionally. Make lists of users who point it out for HR.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Ah I see. It took me entirely too long (now) to notice the typo. I’ll have to leave it there.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
I do a lil American conjugation. Prefer it to youse, at least.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
I assume America by ‘West’ and ‘free country’? Ya’ll are teenagers and she is a minor. Until she is in an independent position and likely a legal adult I would not engage in the affairs of her legal guardians, as close as you two may be or feel.
- Comment on Guess I'm on the right track 😌 2 weeks ago:
That’s likely what’s at work with these things. I even got a few chronic haters that downvote just about everything I write, even when it’s calling out racism. They’ll downvote criticism of Nazis in the effort, even.
- Comment on In North Korea, your phone secretly takes screenshots every 5 minutes for government surveillance 3 weeks ago:
They’re likely repurposing existing mechanisms western companies already have built and use. IIRC Apple or Amazon admitted this when they clarified they weren’t ‘listening’ per se.
- Comment on Don't Look Up 3 weeks ago:
Ah the 20 upvotes to 14 down. Good ol’ reliable internet.
- Comment on WaaaaAAALLLEEEeee 4 weeks ago:
No technician on Earth will be able to debug this black box spaghetti except the manufacturer.
I do not share such faith in the manufacturer that made the black box spaghetti.
- Comment on 70% of games that require internet get destroyed 4 weeks ago:
An MMO i played from 1999-2007 shut down in I think 2017. I still remember the landscapes and landmarks and it is really strange knowing the shared experiences in those places are just flat gone. Inscribed items with messages to other players: deleted.
I have emulated the game world but only fragments were saved by collective efforts in the community before shutdown. Regardless there’s simply no people or things to interact with so it feels even more soullessly dead and empty.