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- Comment on If only we knew... 2 days ago:
It was pretty hostile but there was a lot of democratic process and the key thing was the ratcheting up over a good 10 years before they really went for power. They would take small pieces of power and grow their control incrementally until they had too much momentum for any other group to deal with them. Also some groups thought they could use them to their advantage and reign them in when things were sorted. They were getting the highest votes but it was a mixture of a lot of things and they pretty quickly stopped being democratic votes after the first few elections. Lots of propaganda, a large amount of coercion at least initially, some blindness and unforeseen consequences but a decent portion of the population supported the whole thing. At least that’s my understanding.
- Comment on Trump says Hamas will be 'eradicated' if group breaches Gaza deal 6 days ago:
What happened to your th key?
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Yeah hunt is great, love the atmosphere, the tools, the learning curve and the stupid interactions. Hunt loss is pretty minor though, takes maybe a few alright rounds to get the fun perks and then you can just buy whatever gear.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
I’m pretty sure there’s nothing you can buy that has any effect on gameplay so idk where you got P2W from.
- Comment on predatory giraffes 2 weeks ago:
Beak things
- Comment on Harsh 2 weeks ago:
There are a lot of ways to shoot for the moon that don’t end with anything close to an orbit. Though it’s pretty hard to get out of orbiting the sun from here…
- Comment on Harsh 2 weeks ago:
Relative is the only fast that matters
- Comment on Big Brother just got an upgrade. Starting December, Amazon’s Ring cameras will scan and recognize faces. Don’t want to be in their database? Too bad — walk past a Ring and your face can be stored... 2 weeks ago:
Pretty sure you can record and photograph people from public spaces without seeking consent here (UK) because there’s no reasonable expectation of privacy.
- Comment on BlueSky has drama so the Fedi-Marketers are waking from their slumber 2 weeks ago:
It does just kinda work
- Comment on Borderlands 4's latest update aims to deliver more performance fixes, ends up causing more stuttering for some 4 weeks ago:
UE5 can do some very neat things but it’s overkill for most games
- Comment on Would-be City of Heroes successor, Ship of Heroes, decides to launch the MMO with a $45 price tag and a $15 monthly subscription and it's, er, going about as well as you'd expect 4 weeks ago:
Tbh with FFXIV you only have to buy the 2? Most recent expacs and you can play free up to 70/100 and the accompanying story stuff without. It doesn’t do the limited time free trial anymore.
- Comment on 'Windmill': China tests world’s first megawatt-level airship to capture high winds 4 weeks ago:
It’s because the regulatory bodies are captured by the interests of the fossil fuel companies
- Comment on 'Windmill': China tests world’s first megawatt-level airship to capture high winds 4 weeks ago:
Enough wind redirection could affect weather patterns. But we won’t run out of wind, spoiler but wind power is just indirect solar power.
- Comment on arriving 5 weeks ago:
Not with that attitude
- Comment on 'Borderlands 4 is a premium game made for premium gamers' is Randy Pitchford's tone deaf retort to the performance backlash: 'If you're trying to drive a monster truck with a leaf blower's motor, you're going to be disappointed' 5 weeks ago:
My complaint about borderlands 3 was the cringe main antagonists. Like I’m happily shooting stuff and they hop in with painfully mediocre snippets of whatever they’re supposed to be doing. Also they killed off one of the best characters. The gunplay felt nice, the music and graphics were good. I didn’t have any real technical issues.
- Comment on Every time I make biscuits from a can 1 month ago:
Here in the UK you can get some home-bake pastry tubes that look identical to that and you also twist open them. Things like a roll of proto-pan au chocolat or the big raw cinnamon roll. You just slice them up and cook
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong is out now on Steam - and it broke Steam servers for 15 minutes and counting now 1 month ago:
Wellp, I have started playing the first silksong again finally after getting stuck in the mantis boss thing. Also I bought this one…
- Comment on Big Surprise—Nobody Wants 8K TVs 1 month ago:
3070 is enough for most stuff at 4k 60 medium. Not all the newer stuff though.
- Comment on Big Surprise—Nobody Wants 8K TVs 1 month ago:
4k 25" was worth it for me but I only spent about £140 on it so YMMV it’s nice but not essential and after 1080p the extra pixels only add so much
- Comment on Big Surprise—Nobody Wants 8K TVs 1 month ago:
4k is nice but at 1440p the diminishing returns are pretty obvious doubt 8k is somehow going to change that
- Comment on Grocery Chains Are Passing Trump Tariff Costs on to US Consumers With Higher Prices: Report 1 month ago:
Why do you have a .22 for hiking though?
- Comment on T-Rex Burger 1 month ago:
So it’s not t-rex meat?
- Comment on anons brother has some strong opinions 2 months ago:
Yeah, I actually kinda like brutalism
- Comment on The forgotten war on the Walkman 2 months ago:
Honestly on the bus or train it’s kinda nice to just be in a bubble. Obviously you still need to be aware to some degree but I remember my college bus trips being a nice isolated time most days.
- Comment on Trump Secures Peace Deal Where Putin Gets Ukraine During The Week While Zelenskyy Gets Weekends And Two Weeks In The Summer 2 months ago:
It’s sad that their date didn’t seem to work out, I imagine trump will be taking things out on everyone again shortly.
- Comment on GET FISHBOARDED IDIOT 2 months ago:
Sounds like this guy never pushed their nose through a glass tank and snorted fish before
- Comment on "Made in Abyss" New Film Series Announced with Visual 2 months ago:
The world building is fascinating but it’s ruined by the random sexual moments.
- Comment on I bought a £16 smartwatch just because it used USB-C 2 months ago:
The joys of not understanding ionising radiation
- Comment on Emma Watson banned from driving for speeding 3 months ago:
Better we get frustrated than kill people. If councils make money off of you being a brainlet then that’s a good thing.
- Comment on the unseen worlds 3 months ago:
I got a full spectrum converted nex6 in April so I’ve been looking around at filters