Jax
@Jax@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Male Fantasies (by Nhim) 2 hours ago:
Building stuff comes after the final stand against all odds.
- Comment on Male Fantasies (by Nhim) 2 hours ago:
Action movie trope, first that comes to mind is Bladerunner 2049.
- Comment on Monster Hunter Wilds is getting outsold by its 4-year-old predecessor 4 hours ago:
Ah yes, I wonder why the game that goes on sale for like 10 or 15 bucks that runs on a fucking potato is outselling it’s successor.
Anyway, Omega is sick
- Comment on Dear neighbor... 6 hours ago:
Hey, you can’t just smash my trash with a hammer!
- Comment on While you were having premarital sex, I was mastering the asymptotic notation 3 days ago:
This makes me wonder, is the Big O notation connected to the square cube law in any way? Cuz Big O being named for one of the things that makes its existence impossible would amuse me.
- Comment on Yum 3 days ago:
Something tells me philosophers are typically not too concerned with attracting sexual partners.
- Comment on Relatable. 4 days ago:
So Cowboy Bebop is not a shonen. It’s a seinen. Trigun is a little odd because it shifted from shonen to seinen somewhere along its publication history.
I point that out because seinen/josei compared to shonen/shojo is more or less the equivalent of young adult fiction to children’s fiction.
Children’s fiction is supposed to be easy to understand. It should be filled with trope’s, kids can’t really empathize with things that are more complicated. Or maybe they’re at an age where they can but maybe shouldn’t, i.e. show with themes of suicide for an already teetering on depressed teenager.
All that to say that I think your family members perspective is… severely limited. Not watching Trigun because you’d rather rewatch Naruto is 100% their choice but… it’s a pretty stupid way to live your life.
“Pff, why would I watch these ninjas do magic? I can just watch space wizards do magic and fight with lightsabers. Naruto is trash, Star Wars is peak.” Or something.
- Comment on Relatable. 4 days ago:
It isn’t necessarily that tropes are bad, it’s more like once you’ve seen a trope you can recognize the pattern and once you recognize the pattern you can more or less determine what’s going to happen.
Is the Hero’s Journey a bad trope? Not at all, as you’ve said — some of my most beloved stories are structured around the Hero’s Journey. I don’t know if you’ve ever heard of Redwall, but all of the books in that ‘world’ by Brian Jacques are very close to my heart. It’s also part of why I understand that once you’ve experienced at least one or two good Hero’s Journey — you’ve more or less experienced them all.
Is it wrong to be entertained by them anyway? No, I hope you don’t think I’m saying that.
- Comment on Banana 5 days ago:
Honeybee alarm pheromone smells exactly like bananas.
If you’re a beekeeper you either already know about it or can test it. Just make sure you’re in a bee suit, they will attack you.
- Comment on Relatable. 5 days ago:
Is it? Shonen is a revolving door of tropes, you’d be hard pressed to find a shonen anime that actually shakes the formula up.
- Comment on grindset challenge 1 week ago:
This clearly states I have 30 days
- Comment on Watchdog report says American e-waste is causing a 'hidden tsunami' in Southeast Asia 1 week ago:
The atmosphere
- Comment on 'This is definitely my last TwitchCon': High-profile streamer Emiru was assaulted at the event, even as streamers have been sounding the alarm about stalkers and harassment 1 week ago:
attracts the most unhinged obsessed fans
Did we read the same message?
- Comment on Hardest piano piece ever. 4 weeks ago:
I knew Lemmy has my people.
Why yes, I would like to listen to the Metroid Prime theme for 4 hours again. What a thoughtful suggestion, thank you!
- Comment on It's official: EA is going private. 4 weeks ago:
Dude what?
- Comment on Can you think of any now? 5 weeks ago:
Who would be the arbiter of truth in this instance?
Like it’s a cool idea, just practically impossible.
- Comment on Space colonization would create so many jobs for everyone. Not great jobs but jobs. 5 weeks ago:
Well, in the books the physical differences between Earthers, Martians and Belters are very striking. Due to the lower gravity on Mars, and the even lower gravity on spinning asteroids in the belt; Earthers end up being much shorter than their counterparts. I would imagine it would result in them being shorter, and if the gravity is high enough it could completely stunt the baby’s growth in a sort of inverse to what the Belters go through.
- Comment on Space colonization would create so many jobs for everyone. Not great jobs but jobs. 5 weeks ago:
According to a quick search (memory is foggy) it is set around 2350 — humans have colonized most of the solar system. They have fusion reactors and ships capable of traveling from Earth to the Jovian moons (I think? I’m not sure if they go further). There is definitely advanced medicine regarding surviving spaceflight (i.e. performing maneuvers that put you in otherwise unliveable circumstances without drugs).
The circumstances of Earth, Mars and the Belt are delicate. Without spoiling too much, no the Belters do not have good health care.
I like the Expanse, I was a fan of the books before the show. The show is good, some aspects are better than the books — but I haven’t actually finished the show itself. Give it a shot if you’re into hard science fiction!
- Comment on Why do some gamers invert their controls? Scientists now have answers, but they’re not what you think 5 weeks ago:
Ah, so make things worse — just like MAGA
- Comment on Space colonization would create so many jobs for everyone. Not great jobs but jobs. 5 weeks ago:
If I’m not mistaken it is a developmental issue — wasn’t an O.P.A. agent tortured using the moons gravity? Or maybe they were in orbit, I’m not sure.
I’m pretty sure it’s also a major problem later on with the new planets being found — Belters have it way more rough than both Earthers and Martians. Like, to the tune of ‘get me the fuck off this rock’ rough.
- Comment on Space colonization would create so many jobs for everyone. Not great jobs but jobs. 5 weeks ago:
It is a little darker than that, as Belters can’t actually live on Earth due to their bones being crushed and broken by gravity.
Not only are they slaves, they are very much trapped in space. Well, trapped if we’re avoiding spoilers.
- Comment on Guy's, it turns it it was a Jojo's reference 1 month ago:
No I just noticed the apostrophe and not the double it 😅
- Comment on Guy's, it turns it it was a Jojo's reference 1 month ago:
Like what?
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- Comment on Aged like milk 1 month ago:
I upvoted you, I recognize what you’re getting at. I think that circumstances are so fucked that it’s still too early to tell how it will be spun, but Christianity and martyrdom certainly go hand in hand as you say.
Perhaps they’ll ‘capture’ the shooter and it will be a trans person. Idk, you aren’t wrong for thinking this is a possibility.
- Comment on Aged like milk 1 month ago:
I don’t understand this line of thought
Everyone agrees that guns should be harder to access. Everyone agrees that the U.S. is now fascist.
Why the fuck would we cede control of our guns to a govt. that’s shown it’s incapable of doing anything but subjugating us? Seriously, why the fuck does that occur to any of you sharing this thought?
It makes me think you’re controlled opposition, genuinely.
- Comment on Aged like milk 1 month ago:
A martyr for what, though? His platform has made guns a part of their identity.
- Comment on Too soon? 1 month ago:
- Comment on Palantir may be engaging in a coordinated disinformation campaign by astroturfing these news-related subreddits: r/world, r/newsletter, r/investinq, and r/tech_news 1 month ago:
I’m surprised to see a comment on a post from so long ago but yes, it was an incredibly blatant display.
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong is out now on Steam - and it broke Steam servers for 15 minutes and counting now 1 month ago:
I would argue that Blasphemous wouldn’t exist without Hollow Knight, and HK is still the better Metroidvania.
Dead Cells is not a Metroidvania game. It is a roguelike.
