whotookkarl
@whotookkarl@lemmy.world
you’re high on mushrooms in the Viking age, the gods are everywhere
- Comment on It was nicer when Duke Nukem Forever was famous for never coming out 9 hours ago:
It’s okay, we still have The Elder Scrolls 6 and Commander Keen 7 to wait for
- Comment on Horses ARE Forever 2 days ago:
What are you going to do, just destroy an entire farrier industry? Think of the economy we can’t build roads to other cities when we need to take care of <insert things we can work on fixing today without ignoring new frontiers and technologies>.
- Comment on DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Codebase in Months, Risking Benefits and System Collapse 5 days ago:
Over 70 million including many retirees, orphans, and disabled workers. The people most in need of help and the reason that trying to run a government like a capitalist business is one of the dumbest forms of government organization ever. A quick way to radicalize someone against you is to harm their family or take their money.
- Comment on Split Keyboards Are Superior And The Reason I’m The Writer I Am Today. 5 days ago:
As long as it’s got mech switches and can run a qwerty layout I’m happy
- Comment on Civilization 7 Outlines Crucial 1.1.1 Update as It Struggles to Compete on Steam Against Civ 6 and Even the 15-Year-Old Civ 5 1 week ago:
Yeah releasing an unfinished game without any exciting new changes and adding more dlc each iteration has been killing new civ releases and burning many long term fans who get hyped for a new civ. Paradox, Ubisoft, MicroProse, etc pull the same predatory monetization shit and when the price tag is 70 USD their half baked, missing ingredients cake just doesn’t look appetizing to most.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
The requirements for justice includes truth (objective facts of reality not merely opinion or belief or rumors) for accountability, attacking education prevents an ability to evaluate if something presented confidently as truth is truth. It’s a fast track to corruption and injustice.
Putin, Trump, Erdogan, etc style of extreme right wing populist propaganda is to attack truth and prevent justice by weaponizing ignorance. They’re spreading a firehouse of distracting lies, for example staged attacks against people representing their beliefs on facebook and twitter, to a public who is at least in part unable or unwilling to critically evaluate facts of reality from propaganda lies. Another more general example is if you’re not aware of confirmation bias and how it’s used and works due to a lack of education you are going to be much more susceptible to it’s effects when used.
People aren’t necessarily getting dumber other than some temporary dips due to toxic environmental things like lead in fuel or maybe some effects of toxicity we’re not aware of yet, It’s just the people who were already susceptible to fascist rhetoric & con artists are being indoctrinated against education as either unnecessary or harmful, which makes them easier to continue to mass propagandize to with more methods that have fewer rules platforms need to follow compared to older mass media propaganda like newspapers or network TV news.
- Comment on Best game ever? 1 week ago:
That sounds like an awesome experience, I have a friend with a mame cab in their basement that I would probably spend too much time on it if I had one. I went with the cheaper option for mame and arcade legacy using a raspberry pi running batocera, but for some games it’s just not the same without the arcade controls.
- Comment on Best game ever? 1 week ago:
If I go with unique experiences as a criteria just to mix it up a bit I have a few
Playing xwing with a flight stick is really fun and one of my first gaming experiences outside of nes and arcades. Just really fun fast paced fighter combat. A close second would be everspace or Chorus on a controller.
Playing one of the big multiplayer arcade cabinets like Simpsons or X-Men was the original couch co-op with whoever was at the arcade not playing pinball or pool.
Beating your first boss in a dark souls or elden ring game feels like a big accomplishment, sometimes even more than the later ones when you’re character gets more powerful.
Going from small groups with friends to raids in an MMORPG feels like starting a whole new game, EverQuest and wow were big ones for me.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Orchard farming, just add more tree
- Comment on PC gamers spend 92% of their time on older games, oh and there are apparently 908 million of us now 2 weeks ago:
Older games = more than 2 years old? Then the same goes for readers, movie and TV watchers, etc media consumption most isn’t from the current or previous years
- Comment on BYD Unveils Battery System That Charges EVs in Five Minutes 2 weeks ago:
High tariffs on BYD in the US are to protect wealthy corporate shareholders of auto manufacturing corporations that didn’t use profits to innovate or reinvest in and instead bought back stocks, not the workers who would be happy to work on, build, supply parts for, etc affordable, economy EVs.
- Comment on Meat flavored with a hint of fruit sounds alright. But fruit flavored with a hint of meat sounds gross. 2 weeks ago:
Sounds like pemican
- Comment on I'm gonna be really pissed if my chtistofascist parents were right 3 weeks ago:
When a denomination lies about when the apocalypse is coming they can gain more followers than they lose, look at all the offshoot denominations of Adventists/Millerites
- Comment on Ex-Amazon VP explains why rich a-holes with helicopters and personal assistants don't get why you hate your commute 4 weeks ago:
“Not evil, just disconnected”
Yes, drawing from the old adage ‘with great power comes great private jets’ or something like that
- Comment on why do some straight people deny their loved ones’ homosexuality? (keyword: SOME) 5 weeks ago:
Mostly bigoted indoctrination they are either unwilling or incapable to deconstruct
- Comment on HAPPY FLAT FUCK FRIDAY 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on Meta Says it Made Sure Not to Seed Any Pirated Books 5 weeks ago:
The real crime should be not seeding after downloading, have some common courtesy
- Comment on Projection, projection, projection 5 weeks ago:
But I got mine and this free ladder
- Comment on why do transphobes mention pedophiles/compare them to pedophiles when most trans people (as do most people) hate pedophiles? 1 month ago:
It’s projection they don’t want to remove pedophiles from their own ranks, and demonizing a scapegoat minority group they can blame their own failures on.
They really wish these articles were about trans people instead of clergy
bishop-accountability.org/…/are-catholic-clergy-m…
- Comment on I'm doing my part! 1 month ago:
It’s May 2024 data from 2022 respondents, biased towards people willing to respond to pretty long consumer surveys. I have similar suspicions you’d see a higher % from a larger sample size or reporting from video game platform and store owners who can differentiate that better than your average consumer.
- Comment on I'm doing my part! 1 month ago:
Signatures as a form of authorization I think held up the facsimile tech way past it’s best by date
- Comment on I'm doing my part! 1 month ago:
Yes, the survey summary below shows no exceptions for physical hardware vs emulation in the question
- Comment on How does this pic show that Elon Musk doesnt know SQL? 1 month ago:
This is it, relational databases are normalized under forms, deduplicate is usually a term used when talking about a concrete data set from data sources like a database, not the relational data model in the database itself.
- Comment on New Bill to Effectively Kill Anime & Other Piracy in the U.S. Gets Backing by Netflix, Disney & Sony 1 month ago:
Even if it passed making piracy super extra illegal+ it’s targeting google and cloud flare to block access to sites within 15 days that could still easily be reached outside their boundaries. It’s political theater for mpaa riaa etc industry association lobbyists to show they got something for their bribes.
- Comment on Why I am not impressed by A.I. 1 month ago:
I’ve already had more than one conversation where people quote AI as if it were a source, like quoting google as a source. When I showed them how it can sometimes lie and explain it’s not a primary source for anything I just get that blank stare like I have two heads.
- Comment on Are there any better mechanical keyboards that don't break the bank? 1 month ago:
I’ve got a pair of vortex pok3r 60%'s that I’ve used daily for around a decade with no issues, each were under 100 USD, they might have inexpensive keyboards with the features you’re looking for. Before that I used a keytronic that was built like a tank but not a mech.
- Comment on Should I get a drum kit, or a pressure washer? 2 months ago:
Don’t buy a pressure washer, rent one. You won’t need it very often, and if you do consider a business it’ll let you try one or two first before committing to a purchase. Also learning a musical instrument is really fulfilling for a lot of people.
- Comment on what was the last game you played in 2024? 2 months ago:
To the town of Agua Fria rode a stranger one fine day Hardly spoke to folks around him, didn’t have too much to say No one dared to ask his business, no one dared to make a slip For the stranger there among them had a big iron on his hip Big iron on his hip
- Comment on Magnus Carlsen: Chess champion quits FIDE tournament after being told to change jeans 2 months ago:
No, fide was complaining about pants. he left like an adult when someone is being unreasonable.
- Comment on Magnus Carlsen: Chess champion quits FIDE tournament after being told to change jeans 2 months ago:
He was the person breaking the dress code, not the person enforcing it.
