shneancy
@shneancy@lemmy.world
just me
- Comment on AdNauseam is a uBlock fork that goes further: it actively attacks marketers by auto-clicking every ad before blocking 22 hours ago:
it doesn’t actually click on stuff. it “clicks” so that the advertisers’ and your digital footprint’s statistics get messed up, but you never see the results of the clicking, nothing pops up, nothing gets downloaded
- Comment on What's the community for stuff like this? 1 day ago:
oh that’s what you meant!
maybe typing it like “it will happen regardless, if you have the genetics” would avoid the confusion, because i thought the comman you get people (me) reading it wrong
- Comment on What's the community for stuff like this? 1 day ago:
regardless
- Comment on What's the community for stuff like this? 1 day ago:
have you never met an old man with hair?
- Comment on He is very determined and must be thwarted at all costs 2 days ago:
curly hair is its own entity at the top of my head. it craves moisture and oils, the only thing that can temporarily force it to behave is hair modelling clay. if i dare to blow hot air at it (yes even with the weird blower attachment) it is going to revolt against me and not curl. there’s a whole ritual i have to perform each wash, and if i don’t it threatens to make me look like i just woke up from a 12h sleep after 48h of partying
- Comment on Terraria Hive Base 2 days ago:
try out circles! there’re neat tools that help with drafting pixel art circles. a bit of a pain to build (you’ll definitely need the ruler) but it’s fun to see some spheres and domes in your world :)
- Comment on FOREX is not for the faint hearted 1 week ago:
it does yes, but currency exchange places near airports/train stations are notorious for pretty much stealing from you. Seriously, never buy a different currency near any place considered vaguely international, it can get as bad as getting half of what you’d get in a reasonable place, nowhere near as bad as withdrawing from an ATM in a foreign country
- Comment on Please dont feed the creatures 🪱 1 week ago:
i’m happy to see more people having a proper think about this, and getting rid of the learnt reaction to just say “kill all pedos”. Years ago i came to the same conclusion - that ostricising and shaming people who struggle with pedophilic desires is simply not a good idea, it pushes those individuals into isolation, and could result in them bottling up their urges so desperately that one day they become too strong.
there’s nuance in everything, and compassion is important. i’d rather have a friend who felt safe telling me about his pedophilic desires, so i could support them in therapy. than a friend too afraid to tell anyone, and fighting the unwanted desires alone
- Comment on Definitely didn't waste half an hour making this 1 week ago:
i also enjoy being able to do some shading if i wanted to draw something
- Comment on Why am I like this? 1 week ago:
i swear white clothing is a magnet for tomato foods
- Comment on Why am I like this? 1 week ago:
honestly by now my brain filters it out. i had to go back to the original post to play spot the difference for a second
- Comment on Idioms 1 week ago:
huh! słyszałem tylko drugie
- Comment on Idioms 1 week ago:
huh? what are the original idioms? i only ever heard the boar one (but the wolf version)
- Comment on They know I'm not cool, I know I'm not cool. Cool. 1 week ago:
logically you shouldn’t obviously
but there’s something in a lot of our brains that wants to be the cool adult, chill with the kids and all that. often i half knowingly make sure my hair is looking good when there’s some teenagers in a bus. it’s not logical but idk, teens are brutally honest so if they approve of your vibe (by not making fun of you) - that means you’re cool, i think?? no idea
- Comment on "Americans can't coo-" 1 week ago:
i don’t like mushrooms
- Comment on "Americans can't coo-" 1 week ago:
how to substitute the cum glazing in the recepie? i don’t have any
- Comment on You're* 2 weeks ago:
kinky play & aftercare. both amazing
- Comment on People Are Using AI to Create Influencers With Down Syndrome Who Sell Nudes 2 weeks ago:
what a brave new world we live in
- Comment on In Response to Amazon preventing to download books you bought: Some DRM free bookstores and publishers 3 weeks ago:
humble bundle at one point sold a bundle with the works of U K Le Guin, and since i’ve been meaning to read those, i bought it
all were under amazon DRM
i’m a big fan of being able to do whatever the hell i want with the things i buy so naturally, i got mad and looked for a way to un-DRM them, and i’m happy to say there’s a calibre plugin for that. i’m currently enjoying Wizard of Earthsea on my reMarkable
- Comment on Harry and Ron were always bored in class because Rowling's magic system is boring as hell 3 weeks ago:
absolutely! the One Ring is much better developed than horcruxes, i was being reductive on purpose there. The Ring is presented as integral to the story from the very beginning and acts like it, serving as a driving force for both the plot and character development for everyone involved. Horcruxes mimic similar characteristics as a literary device but fail to reach the same level of development
anyway this seems like a natural end to the topic, so let me just say thank you for the conversation :) i always appreciate a nice nerd out and analysis of media. hope you have a nice day!
- Comment on Harry and Ron were always bored in class because Rowling's magic system is boring as hell 3 weeks ago:
hm i feel like the distinction comes down to vibes here. if i were to be reductive i could describe the One Ring in a similar way “it corrupts gollum, gives Frodo a quest, makes Boromir crave power and turn on his companions in a moment of weakness, and (from Sauron’s POV) hobbits destroying it is a deus ex machina”. imo horcruxes as an idea were not that bad but,
to me, the main difference here is how they’re used in the story. The One Ring is the driving force from the beginning, it’s already well established in the lore of the world, and the only surprise to the universe’s scholars is how it suddenly found itself in a hobbit’s hands. Where horcruxes appear suddenly in the second to last book (obviously not counting the diary because it’s clearly been deemed a horcrux when JKR came up with them and thought the diary fit the vibe well enough). First 4 Harry Potter books are bascially episodic, an overaching plot only emerges by the end of book 4. And LOTR is one cohesive story with a clear goal from the beginning, which allows it to unravel in a satisfying and effective way
- Comment on Harry and Ron were always bored in class because Rowling's magic system is boring as hell 3 weeks ago:
not to compre whole books to whatever JK Rowling is doing on her tweeter this week (probably transphobia but who knows) but would it be any better if she twote one day “all magic in Harry Potter comes from the divine tree, at the beginning the tree blessed few people with its world bending power of imagination, this is how wizardry began, the tree spoke latin btw.”
Besides, the story is more or less a POV of Harry’s, a pre-teen to young adult boy who is way more excited to play sports than attend his lessons. Which to me is a good enough reason why we end up knowing fuck all about the magic of his world. If the POV was Hermione’s, i’d expect there to be an indepth 3-chapter long research project about her work on a “Origins of Magic” essay for her History of Magic class. But because of the characterisation of Harry and also the tension in the story by the end, it makes sense to me why Harry doesn’t really care about how things work, but how effective they can be. The question wasn’t “wow a horcrux? incredibly rare black magic, i must study it to understand how and why it works to one day maybe be able to undo it”, the question was “horcrux huh? and it makes voldie immortal-ish? alright lads, let’s find a way to smash it”
and to answer your question - horcruxes of all things are pretty well elaborated on. Voldemort splits his soul and attaches it to objects/people. The price? A part of his soul and another person’s life. The purpose? Ability to be recreated from each of those pieces, achieving immortality-ish, as long as he has someone living to do the ritual, and his father’s skeleton still has some bones left ig. The limitation seems to be that he looks evil after being reborn? and i think there was some implication that the process is incredibly painful on the spiritual level
i think a better example would be the sorting hat because wtf is that. is that a person turned into a hat? is it an enchanted object? it can talk in your mind, can read your soul to then sort you into a house, a sword can come out of it when it feels you’re in need and worthy of it? No explanation, no described limitations, a power to read one’s mind in later books is attributed mostly to voldemort & looking at how Harry handles it it’s incredibly emotionally exhausting. how can that hat be more powerful than the most powerful evil wizard?
- Comment on Harry and Ron were always bored in class because Rowling's magic system is boring as hell 3 weeks ago:
i wasn’t really thinking of star wars, moreso LOTR if anything, the magic there is the textbook definition of “a wizard did it” and yet despite that it’s a beloved series and very few call for Gandalf’s powers to have an understandable magical system behind them. but that’s a gourmet meal of a book & the trilogy movie series, harry potter is junk food, enjoyable as long as you don’t think too hard about what the ingredients are
- Comment on I am at a loss on words 3 weeks ago:
ur whalecum <3
- Comment on I am at a loss on words 3 weeks ago:
<3
- Comment on Harry and Ron were always bored in class because Rowling's magic system is boring as hell 3 weeks ago:
yeah that’s fair. don’t get me wrong i wasn’t trying to convince you to like Harry Potter’s magic system, but you quoted “lack of rules” as a something you disliked about it so i gave a short explanation as to why that specific thing isn’t what makes HP’s magic feel shallow
- Comment on I am at a loss on words 3 weeks ago:
look again loss but it’s an optical illusion
- Comment on Harry and Ron were always bored in class because Rowling's magic system is boring as hell 3 weeks ago:
Harry Potter has a soft magic system - a system where pretty much everything can be explained by “a wizard did it”, they’re mystic and lawless (see also Lord of the Rings)
it seems you enjoy more hard magic systems like you described above, where the rules are explained, and you can more or less understand why things work the way they do (see also Earthsea by U.K. Le Guin or ATLA)
the hard/soft scale is not perfect, but it gives you a rough gist of what to expect
writers aren’t limited to just one either! Percy Jackson has a soft magic system, a lot of “a
wizardgod did it!”, where Kane Chronicles has a strict magic system bound by understandable rules (with only gods and divine interventions going above the rules) - Comment on If society goes completely cashless, bank robberies would no longer be a thing, which means there would no longer be "bank robbery" plots in future Movies/TV shows. 4 weeks ago:
you can absolutely steal data stored by banks
- Comment on Is this green or blue? 4 weeks ago:
it’s teal, it’s both
