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- Comment on PSA: There's a free Fallout 4 mod for that Fallout Show NCR power armour Bethesda are charging $30 for as DLC 2 days ago:
I see the horse armor DLC is back with a vengeance.
- Comment on I hope hell is like a microwave so if you find the right spot, you're ok 2 days ago:
Yeah, that part ducks.
- Comment on GOG job listing for a Senior Software Engineer notes "Linux is the next major frontier" 3 days ago:
Being able to filter what works from what doesn't is a great way of weeding out possible disappointments.
- Comment on GOG job listing for a Senior Software Engineer notes "Linux is the next major frontier" 3 days ago:
Corollary: All news are old news.
- Comment on GOG job listing for a Senior Software Engineer notes "Linux is the next major frontier" 3 days ago:
I wish though they were a bit more friendly towards Proton/Wine. Knowing what games are compatible and to what degree before purchasing them would make me happier.
- Comment on I hope hell is like a microwave so if you find the right spot, you're ok 3 days ago:
I know nothing about philosophy, but the Absence of Myth is often a heavily discussed topic since last century, and iIrc there's a school of thought that I adhere that says "if you take the gods from the hearts of men, they will make new ones*".
The idea is that our brains are constantly trying to make sense of an otherwise chaotic world, and in doing so, we create (or adhere) to myth to help us keep being rational (and focus on the stuff that matters(?)).
So even those of us that don't subscribe to organized religions still have some mythos going on.
But I'm not educated enough to explain or understand well this point.*e.g. technological progress, artificial intelligence (well mostly LLM bs.), nuclear era will save us all, internet era will save us all, new-age stuff, cosmology, predestination, if we upload our conscience to a computer = heaven, etc. etc.
A link: https://gettherapybirmingham.com/on-the-absence-of-idols-on-mythopoetic-meaning-making/
EDIT: I forgot! One of the most common religious activities that we often don't recognize is playing the lottery. It seems odd, but it is a communal activity solely based in faith that a better life is possible, and it is around the corner.
But this is a faith-based activity, as anyone with some cursory statistics knowledge will tell you the odds are nought to nada.I have often been split apart between telling someone or keeping the "lie", as it seems it helps them keeping hope there is a better tomorrow.
If someone mentions their neighbor won the lottery, I would remind them the difference between empirical and anecdotal evidence.
- Comment on I hope hell is like a microwave so if you find the right spot, you're ok 3 days ago:
[...] but science's best guess is it's where you were before you were born. Nowhere.
May I have a slightly different interpretation: Everywhere.
We are made from the same stuff the Sun is made, traveling together for eons.
When we die, we just roll back to the matter is our planet.And once it dies, we will travel again together through the stars.
- Comment on I hope hell is like a microwave so if you find the right spot, you're ok 3 days ago:
I'm not sure if I want to be in a party with Pol Pot, Goebbels and Kissinger.
- Comment on I hope hell is like a microwave so if you find the right spot, you're ok 3 days ago:
utensils that are too long to reach their own mouth
Cow tools? - Comment on I hope hell is like a microwave so if you find the right spot, you're ok 3 days ago:
Or maybe we don't matter enough to be seen.
I mean, beekeepers don't know each bee individually.
In the span of time and space, our existence would be so short that it would be like looking at an individual fleck of dust in the air. - Comment on We say things like "time is money" but really the most valuable thing you have (and which everyone covets) is your attention. 3 days ago:
Children are little attention vampires, no matter how much do you give, they will always want more.
That said, fucking phones always in our hands are a disrespect to them, so while I don't give a lot of attention, mine is 100% pure*.
*Terms and agreements might apply.
- Comment on Terraria - Terraria 1.4.5: Bigger & Boulder - Available Now! - Steam News 5 days ago:
re:re:fwd:final(2)(1).pd.last
- Comment on F e e t 5 days ago:
i wish I hadn't read that.
- Comment on Bought a 3DS XL last year 5 days ago:
Same experience here, there have been a couple of interesting devices to run double screen games (AYN Thor), but it's rather expensive for having a dedicated device for just the DS and 3DS catalogues (with some hardware gaps).
- Comment on Truth hurts! 6 days ago:
Ceres is super cool though I will always have a spot for Pluto.
Makemake is rad though, so fast it warped.
- Comment on I liek tudles 6 days ago:
Thank god he didn't eat her.
- Comment on It's barely a science. 6 days ago:
I went into a nat science major because animals are cool, and end up being a bunch of statistics and unfun math. I want my money back.
- Comment on Is anyone else having a hard time sympathizing with Americans? 1 week ago:
Buddy, what you're seeing happening here might happen sooner than you think in your country. Do you think that exceptionalism and police militarization is a US only thing? Let's see what happens with all the right wing parties in Europe, from now onwards.
America is responsible for much worse crimes that occur virtually every day across the world.
Show me a rich country that hasn't been doing crimes against humanity to gain profit from it (Ireland maybe?) and yet I wouldn't blame French people for all the torture and misery they caused to Algerians or Belgians what keeps happening in Congo, koreans what South Korea is doing in Magadascar, etc. Etc. Etc.
The fact is even democratic governments like those mention here are within the spheres of influence of billionaires and it isn't like poor mucks like me have any saying nor blame for it.
I'll encourage you to transform your vitriolic hate in a productive endeavor.
- Comment on Microsoft Windows 365 goes down the day after Microsoft celebrates 'reimagining the PC as a cloud service that streams a Cloud PC' 1 week ago:
Much more like a stream of shit.
- Comment on Bomberman has a lore? 2 weeks ago:
Holy cannoli western cover art strikes again!
- Comment on "Not A Single Pixel" Of The New Ecco Game Will Be Generated By AI, Insists Series Creator 2 weeks ago:
The Yamaha chip (YM2612) really gave it a super grunge sound, perfect for games like Comix Zone.
That said, it still felt at home with new age music like Ecco's.The fact that we had a synthesizer playing live music is still mesmerizing me.
- Comment on "Not A Single Pixel" Of The New Ecco Game Will Be Generated By AI, Insists Series Creator 2 weeks ago:
I hope they make an effort with the soundtrack. For me that was a big highlight on all games (specially Sega CD).
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
He looks very well informed, up to the point he didn't even know how to write Maduro properly.
- Comment on The Best-Selling Video Games Since 2020 4 weeks ago:
Switch Sports was quite bad tbh. I'll rather play the original Wii game.
- Comment on Extremely rare East German game console from the late 1970s tested — only such device produced by communist GDR, bought for $1,000 at auction 5 weeks ago:
Lovely cassette futurism* design.
*Honestly I don't know what to call it.
- Comment on US Trade Dominance Will Soon Begin to Crack 5 weeks ago:
Well I was mostly alluding to the fact that there is a large swath of Trump voters that are surprised they were directly affected by policies they voted for.
At the same time as the President commonly pardons a couple of turkeys (out of thousands), I thought it would be a fitting allegory. - Comment on US Trade Dominance Will Soon Begin to Crack 5 weeks ago:
Bbbut some will be pardoned at Thanksgiving!
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Maybe eating more fiber and some yogurt?
- Comment on Backing up Spotify 1 month ago:
I'll strongly suggest to take out all the cheaply AI generated music from this "back up" and save themselves some space.
- Comment on Trump-appointed board renames Kennedy Center to 'Trump Kennedy Center' 1 month ago:
Maybe also add a couple of advertisers to help out: The DORITOS® FLAMIN' HOT® Nacho Flavored Tortilla Chips Trump Kennedy Center presents: