Warl0k3
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- Comment on France runs fusion reactor for record 22 minutes 2 days ago:
We’re using graphene! Almost entirely for it’s electrical properties true, but we’re using graphene doped batteries in consumer electronics currently. We also use fusion and ITER research for a whole lot more than just power generation - plasma dynamics, just one tiny subfield concerned with physics, has applications in everything from radio transmission beam forming techniques to satellite engines to magnetodynamic modeling to the EMI shielding on your vacuum cleaner.
- Comment on Amazon's previous VP of Prime Gaming said they "tried everything" to disrupt Steam 2 days ago:
So many of their most beloved features are crazily dev intensive to maintain, and critically they’re not static. Amazon never really updates their consumer interfaces, steam is constantly adding new features and reworking their old ones across all their UX. Its just not economically feasible to pop in and replace them if you’re a publicly traded company, the shareholders would look at the maintenance costs alone and faint
- Comment on Reddit is purging NSFW subs as well as trans-related subreddits 2 weeks ago:
Don’t be a coward, jerk off on your main and your alt!
- Comment on Miku care about all fans 2 weeks ago:
Huh, thought thankyou was a cognate in ASL/JSL! More you know.
- Comment on Trump to get $25 million in settlement with Meta 3 weeks ago:
We are so screwed.
- Comment on "Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid: A lonely dragon wants to be loved" Movie New Key Visual, PV 5 weeks ago:
It’s not an absolute descriptor - the most beloved works of satire use their commentary on the original work as the base from which to build engaging original stories. This anime in particular is just very heavy handed with its satirical takes, and it concerns me that so many people either miss (or outright deny, as if it is a criticism) that part of it.
- Comment on "Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid: A lonely dragon wants to be loved" Movie New Key Visual, PV 5 weeks ago:
It’s extremely heavy handed about sexualizing the little girls in a way that constantly teases either a romantic or sexual relationship - loli content is very much a commonplace (and tbh pretty gross) thing, but it’s usually the sole focus if its the point. The sheer amount of slice of life tropes that are fit into the show, most if not all of them being taken to an extreme, would be what makes it satire. It’s a common premise, taken to extremes.
My concern with people not recognizing it as satire is a multifaceted thing. The lack of media literacy in culture is a large part of it, the number of people who unquestioningly accept the presentation of women in the show another part, the terrifying loli fans a big big part…
- Comment on "Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid: A lonely dragon wants to be loved" Movie New Key Visual, PV 5 weeks ago:
I’m really not trying to be shitty here: have you had much exposure to satire?
- Comment on "Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid: A lonely dragon wants to be loved" Movie New Key Visual, PV 5 weeks ago:
Err… Okay, so in episode one Tohru is wearing a sleep shirt with the 4chan logo on it. The little boy with the horny titty-dragon is named Shota. The lolicon girl is literally an 8000 year old dragon. The list goes on, but its a masterful satire of slice of life anime
- Comment on "Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid: A lonely dragon wants to be loved" Movie New Key Visual, PV 5 weeks ago:
Completely sincere.
- Comment on "Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid: A lonely dragon wants to be loved" Movie New Key Visual, PV 5 weeks ago:
It really concerns me how few people recognize this series as satire.
- Comment on Rainbolt never misses 1 month ago:
The only reason we americans need to know this stuff is to make sure we never accidentally end up going there.
- Comment on There’s No Dancing Around It: Apple’s Vision Pro Was An Ugly Dud 1 month ago:
It’s got good hardware, but there’s nothing being done with that hardware. The pricepoint kept there from being any broad dev support, so its basically a gimmicky paperweight that costs $3500. At least Microsoft will directly work with industry partners for Hololens development, but there’s nothing like that with Apple to help pave over the notoriously rough super-early adoption era.
- Comment on Rainbolt never misses 1 month ago:
alabama’s rep so bad there are more people that know they fuck their cousins there than there are people who know where alabama even is.
- Comment on Day 168 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots 1 month ago:
I gotta say, going into the new years, I quite respect your dedication to this.
- Comment on I think we might be leaving the "boring" part of this dystopia 1 month ago:
I think this specific one is more down to shifting cultural attitudes, but yeah broadly I certainly agree. Some people…
- Comment on I think we might be leaving the "boring" part of this dystopia 1 month ago:
The only thing I took away from reading it in elementary school was the discovery that my english teacher couldn’t identify a pedophile if given a map, a copy of the criminal indictment for pedophilia and a big flashing neon sign that reads “pedophile”…
- Comment on British Army successfully tests new drone-destroying laser 2 months ago:
Kerzap! Pow! Gersplat!
- Comment on British Army successfully tests new drone-destroying laser 2 months ago:
Nuclear submarines move over, it’s the dawning of the age of
n u c l e a r t r u c k - Comment on Narrow is the road that leads to Publication 2 months ago:
“Huh.” - my dear friend, upon discovering what would turn out to be a phenomenaltly important question in plasma dynamics about fusion occuring in ‘star mode legs’.
Research is hard :(
- Comment on What is the difference between lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works? 2 months ago:
You should really think about how a fairly straightforward reframing of your actions reads, even to you, like an intentionally negative characterization.
- Comment on What is the difference between lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works? 2 months ago:
Sure, but it does speak to that user’s definition, which is what they were talking about. And honestly, their definition is pretty much the standard. ‘A pejorative term for supporters of authoritarian regimes, particularly communist ones’ is the definition in some form across every site I’ve turned up in the thirty seconds I spent on this. It’s what everyone else in this thread appears to be using. Seems like its pretty agreed on.
- Comment on What is the difference between lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works? 2 months ago:
Ah yes, the “no u” gambit. Classic, deadly, refined. The most elegant of rebuttals.
Anyways, do you mean different views like say, someone holding different (and by your own admission, quite common) opinions about how your conduct reflects on your character…?
- Comment on What is the difference between lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works? 2 months ago:
Uh… Yeah, it does. It literally defines the meaning and the context in which the term is used. Thats… that’s how language works.
- Comment on What is the difference between lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works? 2 months ago:
Have you stopped to consider that maybe you’re just an asshole?
No, seriously, you’re whining about being called a tankie when… like dude, you’re a tankie. Half your comments are just bringing up how EU/UK support for Ukraine’s defense is a frivolous waste or similar. I doubt you think of yourself like this but to an outside observer you’re deeply toxic.
- Comment on There should be a term for people who never really returned from the pandemic's social isolation 2 months ago:
It’s pretty clear that they meant “a constant factor in our daily lives”, you really don’t need to be this hostile.
- Comment on same as it ever was 3 months ago:
There’s a pyramid with hieroglyphics carved onto the side that roughly translate to “This End Up”
- Comment on Lack Of Interest In The PS5 Pro Is Forcing Scalpers To Sell Them For A Loss 3 months ago:
Finally, a piece of good news…
- Comment on Nostalgia and remake culture 3 months ago:
You’ve a winning argument, to be sure! Not sure where I quantified how much I think hollywood influences culture but okay.
FWIW, obviously popular media both is influential and responds to culture. “Hollywood” really shouldn’t be treated as a singular entity if we’re trying for a semblance of legitimacy. This is really quickly going to fall into a discussion of the role of the audience and how that’s changed in the digital era (vs. when Aristotle first brought it up…), and neither of us care enough to suffer through thay. Suffice to say it’s not cut and dry, and beyond that I dont know any better than you do what specific impact they have (and neither do they).
- Comment on Nostalgia and remake culture 3 months ago:
This is a real Im14AndThisIsDeep meme. More people have access to platforms for their creative work than at any other point in human history, if you aren’t seeing it then you’re not really trying to find it. It’s not hollywood, but hollywood doesn’t define culture (as much as they’d like to think they do…)