Phineaz

@Phineaz@feddit.org

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨At this year's big speedrunning fest, Elden Ring bosses will be defeated with the power of saxophone⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Sucks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bottom of the Ocean⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Dang, you were faster

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bottom of the Ocean⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Wouldn’t the bottom of the ocean NOT be water?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The amount of people your age is only going down with time.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Debatable, considering that with relativity and all one might age slower, thus pushing into a lower age braked.

  Disclaimer a: Great shower thought! Disclaimer b: I am really bad a physics, make me rip if needed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Come to Biotech!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Seemingly pointless tasks such as washing sand!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨well, at least I wasn't the only one to wonder⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Toxicologists and medical scientists looking for data on humans suddenly having to learn Japanese (or German) …

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sore loser Kamala STILL hasn't admitted she lost as world waits for concession speech and Biden stays silent⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I … you do know that it has benn, like, two days? One day? I don’t know when you folks are done over there. If you think “ah, Trump still does not recognise the election, but Harris is just as bad!” then I don’t think we have a further basis for discussion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sore loser Kamala STILL hasn't admitted she lost as world waits for concession speech and Biden stays silent⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Damn, what a loser. At least Donald Trump never refused to admit his defeat for a good four years, and instead ceded right after the polls were closed, right?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is voting before the deadline in US elections referred to as 'early voting'?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, yes of course I would, but solely because I somehow voted for Trump.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Truly a tragedy of our times⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s … actually very high quality!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨WIRED: Neo-Nazis Are Fleeing Telegram for Encrypted App SimpleX Chat.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t mean to imply anything, but this post was listed maybe one scroll away from the piracy community welcoming everyone to SimpleX. Unfortunate timing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come LED Light Bulbs only last for about 2-3 Years?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Something to remember: thicker filaments, while they do last longer, worsen the ratio of light to heat.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Climate change⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They’d … switch to metric?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"rebellious"⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s going to be very hard having the same opinion for all of these (somewhat abstract) instances - considering how wildly incompatible some of these are.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Corn 🌽⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, alright thanks for clearing that up. I understand the meme now, although I still struggle with the … unusual use of terminology. But yes, it very much makes sense to show teosinte then!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Corn 🌽⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I … what? This is such a gigantic leap, going from Teosinte to modern day mazie and calling it a GMO, what is it even suppoed to mean? We shouldn’t use domesticated plant? I am seriously scared by the lack of what I consider to be general knowledge of breeding in the general population, have people stopped going to school in the last 5 years?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨dopamine detox⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  People did WHAT?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘It made me cry’: photos taken 15 years apart show melting Swiss glaciers⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thing is, they already have their explanation: Alpine glacial recession was caused by mountain warfare in WW1, beacuse they blew literal hole in there. That destabilised it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When creating a story, how many black characters can I create without them calling the story woke?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  To give a serious answer: As many as the story requires. The same thing goes for any ethnicity. If neither the story nor the character nor any of their dialog require it, not describing a character by their ethnicity is a valid (albeit somewhat harder) choice. This way, anyone can read and imagine the story with what they are familiar with. Now don’t get me wrong, you can absolutely assign every character a full set ranging from emotions and values to physical attributes and ethnicity - but you don’t necessarily have to state that “Jade” has dark/light skin. Simply describe the character on a different level. This is complicated, but beautiful if done with cultural identity: Someone from a community of turkish guest workers may have a very pragmatic and hands-on approach at their job but be somewhat hands-off in the household, until they have guests (Chosen from an arbitrary pov, this is not grounded in experience). If you wish to determine what ethnicity a character has, first ask yourself: is it important/does it influence them? If no, try to leave it out maybe? If yes or you absolutely want to know it, rolling dice is a valid option: Check the distribution in the chosen community and simply roll. From what I know many authors base characters, settings and scenes on some kind of real-life example, so naturally one might base the ethnicity on the same example.