ICastFist
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- Comment on spicy one 4 hours ago:
How nice of the bombs?, super sized asteroid?, to leave a neat
littlehuge mountain right in the middle of the impact zone - Comment on Why does America feel the need to control the world? Do what they say? Instead of taking care of their own problems at home? When did the US become police officer of the world and enforcer? 5 hours ago:
Nobody gave ‘murica any right, they just imposed themselves. The simple answer is imperialism. USA was always a power and money hungry bitch and has been putting nations, populations and markets under their boots (not always thru military force) for profit since the late 1800s. Yes, they’ve been an evil empire for that long. Latin America as a whole has suffered many hells so uncle sam could keep commodities’ prices super low.
- Comment on YouTube’s new anti-adblock measures 16 hours ago:
Both newpipe and pipepipe fail from time to time due to “being caught”. You can go days or weeks with them failing to load videos, then they update and things work again, until google fucks them again, rinse and repeat
- Comment on YouTube’s new anti-adblock measures 16 hours ago:
Add Real Life Lore to the Nebula list, great for understanding current geopolitics and conflicts
- Comment on Moth girls 17 hours ago:
💡
- Comment on "The wise man eschews all payments of monies, for he know in the kingdom of GOD that all was prepared" Bud 3:12 17 hours ago:
I can still drunk drive across residential and commercial zones, right? And drunk drive every other day near schools? . .
Btw, is this a reference to some billionaire running over a schoolkid or something?
- Comment on no way right 1 day ago:
Suicide bomber bombs the entrance of one of his golf courses, trump immediately nukes Teehran
- Comment on Pakistan to nominate Donald Trump for Nobel peace prize 1 day ago:
Probably not. They did give the peace prize to Obama, who was OK-ing the bombing of Lybia at the time
- Comment on Operation Narnia: Iran’s nuclear scientists reportedly killed simultaneously using special weapon 1 day ago:
The other is the world’s biggest bully and largest exporter of “freedom”, as seen in Lybia, Iraq and even Iran back in the 1950s
- Comment on Operation Narnia: Iran’s nuclear scientists reportedly killed simultaneously using special weapon 1 day ago:
It’s like that saying goes: “The law is the same for everyone, neither the king nor the beggar may sleep under a bridge.”
- Comment on A metaphor for capitalism? 1 day ago:
More than half empty and less than half full
- Comment on 10 years later, no one has replicated Rocket League's mojo 3 days ago:
But how does controlling the karts feel there? Last I tried STK (~2017), the controls felt floaty as fuck, like there was no gravity or friction between karts and the ground
- Comment on How do you think early humans survived without water bottles? Did they just live next to water sources all the time? 3 days ago:
Adding to this, some plants and fruits have high water content (watermelons and some cacti), so you could keep your body hydrated without drinking water. For hunter-gatherers, who could likely be on the move away from water sources, this knowledge was crucial.
More interestingly, baobabs, huge “fat” trees found throughout the African continent, can be used as water tanks
- Comment on American attitudes about AI today mirror poll answers about the rise of the internet in the '90s 4 days ago:
Everyone defines themselves by their role
I don’t and I bet many people don’t as well. I define myself by what I know, who I know, what I believe, like and dislike, have done and can do. Roles can be assigned, but they only serve as oversimplifications of what’s expected of people. The role of “mother” only means that a woman has one or more children. Whether said children are blood related, adopted, whether she’s a “good” or “bad” mother, whether she’s married, widow, single, etc etc, is up in the air.
Your second argument there doesn’t need roles to be answered either, or do you think only specific roles can help people? Life isn’t an RPG with clear-cut classes
- Comment on American attitudes about AI today mirror poll answers about the rise of the internet in the '90s 4 days ago:
Define “being useless”. It certainly seems that “being useless”, to you, it is either “not working” or “not creating monetary value”, which would be super ironic given that there are many jobs around the world that make the person feel useless or worse
I’d say that anyone that feels the need to define themselves “by their role” has no clue on who they are or can be, needing the rest of society to direct them
- Comment on American attitudes about AI today mirror poll answers about the rise of the internet in the '90s 4 days ago:
Nothing like comparing a technology that took more than 10 years to get “released in the wild” and had several “killer apps” built using it very early on (email, instant messaging, web pages, online games) and many companies had no idea how to get money with it, vs. a “content generator” that is run almost entirely on promises of increased productivity and profit.
- Comment on American attitudes about AI today mirror poll answers about the rise of the internet in the '90s 4 days ago:
You have a very limited view of what life should, or even can be.
- Comment on Experts warn mobile sports betting could be gateway to gambling crisis for young men in New York 4 days ago:
'Round my parts, robbers just target the armoured trucks that move money to ATMs.
- Comment on Experts warn mobile sports betting could be gateway to gambling crisis for young men in New York 4 days ago:
Brazilian under a similar situation. Gambling and casinos are illegal within the entire country, but in 2018 online gambling/casinos were allowed to run ads everywhere. Every other week there’d be a new betting site throwing ads on every TV channel and tiktok/instagram influencer. Some regulation started showing up last year, people on Bolsa Familia (govt money for people in extreme poverty) were dumping that money straight into the gambling sites, but it’s too little, too late. A significant portion of the political right is now being
bribedlobbied to legalize casinos again, “It’z gun generert jerbs and tworism!!!” - Comment on Experts warn mobile sports betting could be gateway to gambling crisis for young men in New York 4 days ago:
If you make it illegal, they’ll just run back to a tax haven like so many are already doing, but at least people will be less likely to find them. If you tax them to hell, they’ll also run to a tax haven and do money laundering+tax evasion. Gambling companies are lose-lose-win for people-govts-themselves.
- Comment on Experts warn mobile sports betting could be gateway to gambling crisis for young men in New York 4 days ago:
Same energy
- Comment on If copyright existed in the classical antiquity, half the wars of the period would be fought over people illegally copying others' gods 4 days ago:
Some people consider their religion jedi, so I doubt Tolkien Estate can do anything to you ;)
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- Comment on Nexus Mods' new owners promise they won't monetise the site to death as users panic at the whiff of venture capital 5 days ago:
I miss FilePlanet. That’s where I got my first Morrowind mods many years ago
At least GameBanana still exists, though there aren’t as many uploads there as Nexus. Still good that there’s an alternative
- Comment on What's an absolutely medium quality game? Not great, incredible or terrible or any single ended extreme. Dead medium quality 5 days ago:
While I enjoy some logistics management, I’d never punish myself with that in Starfield. Most gear upgrades aren’t worth it and you can’t even craft your own weapons or suits. This isn’t Fallout where advanced machinery can be considered “lost tech” ffs
- Comment on A game you "didn't know it was bad 'til people told you so"? 6 days ago:
To me it was the 2014 Thief. I never had any proper experience with the previous games of the series, only tried Thief 3 back when my PC could barely run it, so the low fps made me give up. My short time with new Thief wasn’t bad, though I didn’t finish the game as it was on my xbox1 and I never really sat down to play anything to completion on it. Online it’s all “Thief is shit, it’s a shit game” etc. Maybe I didn’t get to the shit part, I completed maybe 4 missions?, but while it wasn’t amazing, it felt like a decent stealth game and had me more interested in continuing than Styx Master of Shadows
- Comment on Switch 2 Teardown: Still Glued, Still Soldered, Still Drifting 6 days ago:
Yeah, I’ll just buy a 3rd party joycon if it’s supposed to drift anyway, at least they last a bit longer and cost much less
- Comment on What's an absolutely medium quality game? Not great, incredible or terrible or any single ended extreme. Dead medium quality 6 days ago:
It’s interesting that Too Human began development as a PSX game, back in the late 90s. Quite a bit of development hell to go through
- Comment on What's an absolutely medium quality game? Not great, incredible or terrible or any single ended extreme. Dead medium quality 6 days ago:
Eh, debatable. I’ve played it for roughly 2 years (2004-6) on private servers and even then I knew it wasn’t “the best” or “incredible” by any means, but it was light years ahead of Tibia (which was my first taste of MMORPGs, back when the starter island was a mess with too many players and not enough rats in the sewers for people to kill and level up) in every regard. Even with higher rates and an incredible teenage patience for braindead repetition, the grind got old really damn fast, not to mention that the game penalized fucking around (no stat resets, only on the 99 rebirth) and fucking up (1% xp penalty on death hit harder and harder the higher your level).
Played for a long time on EuphRO server (3x/3x/2x), my highest level character was 75 or something close to that. I think I gave up playing altogether around the time I got a super novice to level 50 on a different, higher rate server
- Comment on What's an absolutely medium quality game? Not great, incredible or terrible or any single ended extreme. Dead medium quality 6 days ago:
The first space exploration game without space or exploration
