Zombiepirate
@Zombiepirate@lemmy.world
- Comment on You can do anything at Zombocom 3 days ago:
Oh I was just joking about this janky adapter. It worked great paired with a CRT.
- Comment on ‘No One Lives Forever’ Turns 25 & You Still Can’t Buy It Legitimately 4 days ago:
Looks like it’s back up: http://nolfrevival.tk/
- Comment on ‘No One Lives Forever’ Turns 25 & You Still Can’t Buy It Legitimately 4 days ago:
Looks like the site that hosts the revival files got overwhelmed.
- Comment on You can do anything at Zombocom 5 days ago:
VGA stands for “vestigial garbage adapter” after all.
- Comment on Ready for the Steam Frame, Khronos Group announced a new OpenXR "Best Practices Validation Layer" 5 days ago:
This is the most exciting part of the announcement to me.
I had no idea x86 to ARM was so far along. That’ll potentially change the entire handheld market, especially if it’s fast enough to push frames for VR.
- Comment on Valve Announces New Steam Machine, Steam Controller & Steam Frame 5 days ago:
They work really well in third-person games for camera control. I beat Elden Ring on a Steam controller; you have a lot more speed and precision than with a stick.
- Comment on He's on a mission 6 days ago:
We rarely get snow in Texas; we get a solid sheet of ice that covers everything. The city also doesn’t plow, and nobody has snow tires because it’s only going to be a day or two.
Yeah, southern drivers don’t know how to drive (in or out of snow, really), but places like Denver and Dallas have such different experiences that it’s not really fair to compare them. It’d be like mocking Alaskins because they’re miserable in 90°F; they don’t have the AC to handle what is incredibly mild weather to me.
- Comment on The height of sophistication: the 1994 McDonald's manager collection 1 week ago:
You have to spring for the french fry cuffs.
- Comment on RIP Dick 1 week ago:
Same.
It really begins to get at the depravity of the man.
- Comment on The Guy Claiming That You Have TDS 1 week ago:
Oh that guy is a paranoid loser. I think it’s also an alt for (among many others) Universal Monk.
- Comment on The Guy Claiming That You Have TDS 1 week ago:
The implication was that they’re smarter than “the educated.”
It’s an old fascist saw that folk wisdom is better than book-learning.
From They Thought They Were Free- the Germans, 1933-45:
Because the mass movement of Nazism was nonintellectual in the beginning, when it was only practice, it had to be anti- intellectual before it could be theoretical. What Mussolini’s official philosopher, Giovanni Gentile, said of Fascism could have been better said of Nazi theory: “We think with our blood.” Expertness in thinking, exemplified by the professor, by the high-school teacher, and even by the grammar- school teacher in the village, had to deny the Nazi views of history, economics, literature, art, philosophy, politics, biology, and education itself.
Thus Nazism, as it proceeded from practice to theory, had to deny expertness in thinking and then (this second process was never completed), in order to fill the vacuum, had to establish expert thinking of its own— that is, to find men of inferior or irresponsible caliber whose views conformed dishonestly or, worse yet, honestly to the Party line. The nonpolitical pastor satisfied Nazi requirements by being nonpolitical. But the nonpolitical schoolmaster was, by the very virtue of being nonpolitical, a dangerous man from the first. He himself would not rebel, nor would he, if he could help it, teach rebellion; but he could not help being dangerous— not if he went on teaching what was true. In order to be a theory and not just a practice, National Socialism required the destruction of academic independence.
In the years of its rise the movement little by little brought the community’s attitude toward the teacher around from respect and envy to resentment, from trust and fear to suspicion. The development seems to have been inherent; it needed no planning and had none. As the Nazi emphasis on nonintellectual virtues (patriotism, loyalty, duty, purity, labor, simplicity, “blood,” “folk- ishness”) seeped through Germany, elevating the self-esteem of the “little man,” the academic profession was pushed from the very center to the very periphery of society.
- Comment on The Guy Claiming That You Have TDS 1 week ago:
People can be led by the nose if you confirm their bigotry and make them think they’re smart.
- Comment on Feminism.... Not even once folks 2 weeks ago:
I’ve found that most people who hate feminism are sad divorcees who are pissed because they couldn’t financially trap their spouse into legalized rape.
Hating equal rights for women says a lot more about you than it does about women.
- Comment on And what car did you learn in? 2 weeks ago:
An automatic transmission has many clutches inside.
- Comment on And I don't care 3 weeks ago:
That’s a lot of spaghetti-o’s.
- Comment on Ancient Teotihuacan murals reveal possible 2,000-year-old Uto-Aztecan language 3 weeks ago:
It’d be so cool to understand more about the people who lived in Teotihuacan. Cool insight by the researchers here.
- Comment on another TUI 3 weeks ago:
I’m pretty sure they’re a Donald J Musk alt.
They say the same kind of stupid shit anyway.
- Comment on Back in my day... 4 weeks ago:
It’s insane that manufacturers make smart TV remotes without a built in keyboard.
- Comment on Massive Chicken of the woods 4 weeks ago:
I’m just saying, I’d watch a horror movie with that title.
- Comment on Was the fall of Rome this stupid? 5 weeks ago:
After the murder of Pertinax on 28 March 193, the Praetorian guard announced that the throne was to be sold to the man who would pay the highest price. Titus Flavius Claudius Sulpicianus, prefect of Rome and Pertinax’s father-in-law, who was in the Praetorian camp ostensibly to calm the troops, began making offers for the throne. Meanwhile, Julianus also arrived at the camp, and since his entrance was barred, shouted out offers to the guard. After hours of bidding, Sulpicianus promised 20,000 sesterces to every soldier; Julianus, fearing that Sulpicianus would gain the throne, then offered 25,000. The guards closed with the offer of Julianus, threw open the gates, and proclaimed him emperor. Threatened by the military, the Senate also declared him emperor. His wife and his daughter both received the title Augusta.
- Comment on Great games you would recommend from before 1990? 5 weeks ago:
M.U.L.E. (1983) still holds up, though I’d appreciate some QOL improvements. It’s a multiplayer game where you develop your production and then sell your commodities at auction to the other players (or what the bank will pay as minimum). The theme song is a banger.
Sid Meyer’s Covert Action is a fun espionage game. Break-ins, wiretapping, following clues, etc. Released in 1990, so on the line.
- Comment on Taiwan refuses to move half of U.S.-bound chip production to American shores — trade discussion to be focused on Section 232 investigation for preferential deal on semiconductors 1 month ago:
Gee, I wonder why other countries would not want to move production to the US after ICE arrested the Koreans who were doing exactly that?
No way to know, I guess.
- Comment on ICE tries to kidnap random food delivery driver off the street. He jukes them on a foldable bike. 1 month ago:
I liked this guy when I didn’t know the full story. But now that I know that he was yelling at the fascists on the street I love him. Thanks!
- Comment on GOG expands their Preservation Program to include Gothic 1 & 2, Mortal Kombat Trilogy and more 1 month ago:
I would love to play Gothic 2 with German audio and English subtitles. The English VO is maybe the worst acting I’ve ever heard, but I’ve heard the game is amazing. I know a bit of German, but not enough to keep up with a whole game.
- Comment on ICE tries to kidnap random food delivery driver off the street. He jukes them on a foldable bike. 1 month ago:
You can tell the cowpoke in the cowboy hat is an expert tracker.
I’m sure this delivery guy was super dangerous, you can tell by the way he was out in public without lilly-white skin.
- Comment on Was it worth it? 1 month ago:
Conservatives think that assistance to the less fortunate should come from charity instead of the government.
Mainly because this gives them direct power over people: they can indoctrinate people and control poor people when the threat is starvation and homelessness.
- Comment on Lara Croft is a Sociopath 1 month ago:
I don’t read many comics, but there was a Wonder Twins run by Mark Russell that was amazing.
The villain had a plan to scramble everyone’s identity on Earth, so one day you could wake up and be in a horrible economic system. His thinking was that with the deadline approaching, people would have to work to make the world more fair for everyone.
Spoiler
The world leaders are so relieved when he’s finally caught, because they can stop wasting money on improving the lives of poor people.
- Comment on Cooking 😋 1 month ago:
Should be ginger instead of salt.
I mean, you need salt. But you don’t smell it.
- Comment on Can someone find a redeeming factor about this game? Like anything good about it. 1 month ago:
Yeah, I remembered it as one of the better C64 games. But it may have just been because I liked the movie. Maybe I’ll try it again sometime.
- Comment on See no evil 1 month ago:
Fuck this bullshit.
You can be against an evil settler-colonialist state like Israel without being a racist, conspiracy pedaling piece of shit that drives hatred and violence towards people who have nothing to do with it.
We deal with this psycho shit from the right all the time, and it’s wrong when they do it. Try having goddamn principles.
