Doc_Crankenstein
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- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 2 days ago:
Just finished Infernax
Amazing dark, medieval-fantasy, retro, action-platformer with some Metroidvania elements, very reminiscent of OG Castlevania, and some player choice elements that allow for multiple endings, of which there are 5: 2 basic good/evil, 2 completions good/bad, and a “redemption” route. Even has old school secrets like special characters if you input the right name and cheat codes you can find. Putting in the Konami code at the title screen even has something special.
Has a classic mode that is very unforgiving, must save at in-game stations (one at each town and every dungeon entrance) lose everything if you run out of lives and try again from the top or try to [exit the dungeon/make it back to town] to save your progress. Plus a casual mode that gives some leeway like pitfalls not being instant kills and a checkpoint in the dungeons you can save at.
Gameplay is just good old school gaming. You hit, you jump, you duck and hit low, you can find some utility spells, you talk to NPCs that have cryptic sometimes-useful-sometimes-not dialogue to figure out what to do next, all the bells and whistles.
Warning: it is very gore heavy and even though the artwork is more retro styled, it is still things like guts spilling out, faces getting crushed, limbs being ripped off, etc… So not for the squeamish.
- Comment on Bring them back!!! 6 days ago:
It is 100% capitalism’s fault. Those scientists are doing a job because we live in a society that necessitates having one to meet our basic needs.
We don’t know their individual lives or circumstances that could be forcing them to take on a position, but we do know that those circumstances only exist due to the overarching system they live under.
Your take is simplistic and just assumes that they simply have to be bad people instead of understanding the complexities of systemic forces that dictate our society.
Please, for the love of God, learn to look beyond the surface of something.
- Comment on Bring them back!!! 1 week ago:
None of it was because the scientists thought that dinosaurs were amphibians. In the lore of the books, DNA from reptiles, avians, and amphibians were used to fill in gaps in the dino DNA.
The book explains that the DNA used to fill those gap was chosen specifically for certain traits that would make for more attractive or durable creatures for the theme park, highlighting how what was being done “in the name of science” actually had nothing to do with any real scientific progress or discovery.
- Comment on Bring them back!!! 1 week ago:
Sam Neill, the actor who did the scene, has been asked about the scene before and confirmed it is 100% unintentionally foreshadowing.
It was just supposed to confirm that Grant is in fact a Luddite who struggles with tech of all sorts.
- Comment on Bring them back!!! 1 week ago:
It is bad science because there’s no reason to be doing the science at all
This just rounds itself back to capitalism being the problem because the science was being done for a reason: to generate profit for Hammond.
Bad science is usually always conducted to suit the ends of someone trying to use the results for manipulative/exploitative purposes.
- Comment on Bring them back!!! 1 week ago:
Majority of people rarely engage with any media beyond the surface to actually analyze it and come to those conclusions about the deeper themes. Most just think “well, that’s just people being people” and fail to see the social commentary.
- Comment on Bring them back!!! 1 week ago:
In the books, and movie iirc, they used DNA from all three, not just frogs, to replace missing segments of the dino DNA.
It was just that DNA used from a specific species of frog had the unintentional side effect of allowing some of the dinos to change sex (which is a thing called sequential hermaphroditism)
- Comment on Rascal Does Not Dream of Santa Claus • Seishun Buta Yarou wa Santa Claus no Yume wo Minai - Episode 2 discussion 1 week ago:
It’s kinda translation thing. It isn’t referring to puberty itself, more the mentality of someone who is pubescent.
The word it is being translated from, Chūnibyō, more accurately refers to a specific mentality which is a delusion of grandeur having hidden, supernatural powers that is common among teenagers.
- Comment on Trump despises the future because it threatens him 1 week ago:
Except it used to be … And can be again
- Comment on Black Clover Season 2 Announced (Teaser Visual) 1 week ago:
It was. Read my reply to the top comment for a bigger explanation.
- Comment on Black Clover Season 2 Announced (Teaser Visual) 1 week ago:
Black Clover’s “seasons” are weird, as the show is set up to air every week without interruption. It technically has 3 seasons consisting of 51 episodes (52 in S3) with a 4th that is 16 episodes. Yet, it is all part of the first continuous (technically there was a production delay due to COVID that resulted in a break but that’s an exception) “season” before they went on hiatus after having caught up to the manga and not wanting to make the same mistakes as FMA by making filler and deviating too far from the plot.
And that’s not even getting into the fact each 51 episode season includes multiple story arcs.
- Comment on Someone should make an anticapitalist Dexter. A serial killer who kills evil rich people. 1 week ago:
Things is, true revolutionary effort is far from exciting or interesting.
It’s literally just getting involved in local politics and forming lobbying groups with like minded people. It’s boring shit getting together with your local community to bitch about what needs to be done, how y’all will acquire the resources to get it done, and delegate who is going to do it.
Yet, that’s how all of society functions. The biggest issue with today’s society is how isolated from this process people are. We go to work and go home without ever being involved in the things that control our workplaces and homes.
- Comment on Someone should make an anticapitalist Dexter. A serial killer who kills evil rich people. 1 week ago:
Loved the first seasons of Arrow. The crossover episodes with Flash were great.
- Comment on Someone should make an anticapitalist Dexter. A serial killer who kills evil rich people. 1 week ago:
No I believe that title goes to Mao or Lenin
- Comment on Someone should make an anticapitalist Dexter. A serial killer who kills evil rich people. 1 week ago:
Star Wars: Andor is made and produced by fucking Disney.
Never underestimate the ability of capitalism to commodify anything and everything, even the dissent of the system.
- Comment on The universe has no concept of happiness or sadness. It is up to us to find things that make us happy (or sad if that's what we want). 1 week ago:
What is right for the spider is wrong for the fly.
Right/Wrong is subjective and entirely depends on the surrounding circumstances of those involved and how the action in question affects their interests.
- Comment on Frieren: Beyond Journey's End Season 2 | OFFICIAL TRAILER 2 weeks ago:
Hype!
- Comment on Having the ability to lie and manipulate with no remorse will get you much further in this world than having morals and being correct 2 weeks ago:
I mean, yea, that’s how the economy is kinda designed.
In the employee-employer relationship, the better you are as an employer at manipulating others into working for you while you retain ownership of the revenue, paying employees out percentage of what they generated as a wage while keeping the excess value as profit, is how you make a successful business.
The business-consumer relationship boils down to a transaction where you want to be the one who has the advantage on the transaction. Sellers want to sell their products for more than they’re worth while the consumers want to buy those products at a discount of their perceived value. The seller’s entire job is to manipulate the consumer into perceiving more value in their products than the base material value of the product to generate a revenue that exceeds the cost of its production to generate profit. That’s like the basis of advertising and marketing.
- Comment on Damn 2 weeks ago:
Same. Last two panels make zero sense.
- Comment on Uber Eats or something idk 2 weeks ago:
Sounds like an intrinsic flaw of monetary based economics then.
Maybe we should do something about it? It isn’t like alternatives don’t exist.
- Comment on Damn 2 weeks ago:
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- Comment on Sincerely, your literally poorest europoor. 2 weeks ago:
Someone seems to have upset a couple people with the truth.
- Comment on It used to be just weird Christians, but now everyone's pretty much on board with burning Harry Potter books. 2 weeks ago:
Except you did when you said that “any engagement, even non-commercial, has the effect of promoting the brand.”
That is assigning blame onto the consumer, as you blame them for the effect of their action. Her brand is being promoted regardless, because the industry that is “advertising” exists. Additionally, the effect from people consuming her media is negligible, as even if you boycott and spend that money elsewhere it is still just being funneled to some other bigoted owning class fat-cat doing the same shit because that is how the system is designed. It just means that she, specifically, won’t be getting the money, while just denying yourself something that you wanted, assuming you actually liked the franchise to begin with.
So the best thing to do is encourage people to find ways to bypass these systemic barriers without needing to sacrifice their own desires so that the system which enables these bigots loses its power to restrict our access to the things we need and desire unless we enable them.
- Comment on It used to be just weird Christians, but now everyone's pretty much on board with burning Harry Potter books. 2 weeks ago:
This is why we should just wholesale abandon the concept of intellectual property, which is simply an extension of the exploitative private property system.
- Comment on It used to be just weird Christians, but now everyone's pretty much on board with burning Harry Potter books. 2 weeks ago:
This just ends up with the argument of “there is no ethical consumption under capitalism”
People are gonna do what they can to stay sane and engage with the things they find enjoyable. Unfortunately, literally everything in some way shape or form contributes to the oppression of minorities, LGBT+, workers, etc…
That’s just the society we live in. So don’t blame people for being human, blame the system for exploiting our humanity and encourage the individual to find ways to bypass it, such as pirating media.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
This makes zero sense to me. It’s all just cloth. The person in a g-string & harness is, literally, less exposed. You’re conflating the context of “being exposed” and “adds to the exposure”. Those two phrases mean different things. The first is referencing how much skin is visible while the second is referring to how noticable and attention-grabbing the individual is. You would be arguing an entirely irrelevant point to what was being discussed.
Clothing being “suggestive” is entirely a subjective concept. What is “suggestive” to you might just be something the other person finds comfortable. It is also the same general logic behind “look at what she is wearing, she was asking for it” and I find that really problematic.
The underwear example is also just dumb to me. It’s just cloth. It isn’t “meant to not be seen”, it’s just there to avoid regular clothes chafing sensitive areas of the body. It being seen is irrelevant and simply a coincidence of being worn under other articles of clothing. There are no inherent, underlying implications except for what you put on them through your own bias.
This just reaffirms for me that people like to add arbitrary, subjective aspects to things and then try to assert these as intrinsic facts instead of personal biases.
- Comment on A Polish jalapeño pastry 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on I'm very Jesus-like 2 weeks ago:
People really be arguing in favor of bread and circuses without understanding it is the very thing that is keeping them from engaging in political action for change.
- Comment on I'm very Jesus-like 2 weeks ago:
Western neoliberal democracy isn’t the only option and, depending on perspective, was part of the problem by systemically enabling the rise of fascism.
- Comment on I'm very Jesus-like 2 weeks ago:
While at the same time allowing people to be systemically murdered through lack of access to necessities because someone wasn’t able to make a profit off of them.
Or are you trying to say those deaths are justified just because the state doesn’t label it as “murder”?