ICastFist
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- Comment on Is it really possible to tax the rich? 2 days ago:
In my limited understanding, yes, it’s possible. But it would require significant international effort to get the super rich, the ones that can pay fabulous amounts of money to
money laundererslegal tax experts that know just the right loophole to ensure that mr. billionaire will pay only 500k in taxes rather than 10 million, because tax havens only exist thanks to certain countries’ very lax rules on banking. - Comment on Call me 4 days ago:
The Page d12 would put this straight in D&D territory
- Comment on I want to feel like a bad-ass wizard 4 days ago:
Agree on KoA. Playing a mage is super flashy with plenty of cool looking spells that make you feel like a badass wizard. The chakrams (one of the main wizard weapons) flying around look awesome, too.
- Comment on Is it mold - the diagram 4 days ago:
You can go from “on top” straight to the colors
- Comment on In the context of the leaked Warcraft II remake, do you still trust Blizzard to produce good games? 1 week ago:
I’ve long stopped caring about them, really. From what I’ve heard, the Diablo 2 remaster was pretty good, so it’s likely that Warcraft 2 might actually be a good remaster, too. It’s not like they’re promising a whole world of stuff like they did with Warcraft 3 Refunded.
Me? I ain’t buying it. BRL buying power is shit 🇧🇷 🏴☠️
- Comment on Patient gamers, what are your favorite OSTs? 1 week ago:
Unreal Tournament 2004 is my favorite OST by number of tracks that I love. It has several absolute banger tracks, like Morpheus3, Hyperblast-Redux, Convoy, Atlantis and Level11. I often keep a number of those tracks on my playlists.
Although I don’t like the game itself much (I suck at it), Cloudbuilt also has some awesome tracks, my personal favorite is Aurora. The guitar chords at the apex is just heavenly.
Rebel Galaxy has some very nice stuff to feel like a 'merican space cowboy, it’s mostly licensed music as far as i can tell.
Assault Android Cactus usually gets your blood pumping hard, which is great because the game is a pretty fun twin-stick arena. The tracks Assault and Licorice are just 👨🍳😙👌
… Come to think of it, looking at my list, I’m a real sucker for sci-fi OSTs, huh. I do want to make honorable mentions to Mass Effect (mostly 2), Skyrim and Smash Bros. Ultimate
- Comment on 🍃 🐑 1 week ago:
Lotad has entered the chat
- Comment on When Does Instagram Decide a Nipple Becomes Female? 2 weeks ago:
Doesn’t stop them from using it as the “reason” for several rules
- Comment on Be a rebel, pick up trash. 2 weeks ago:
Instructions unclear, I’m crying uncontrollably
- Comment on Be a rebel, pick up trash. 2 weeks ago:
You need the calories for the growth spurt, also to keep up with the ninja training
- Comment on Racism 2 weeks ago:
especially that one piece of shit bartender in Afterlife
Making him drink his own poison is mandatory
- Comment on Meta has suspended several Threads and Instagram accounts that track the private jets of celebrities such as Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Kim Kardashian, and Donald Trump 3 weeks ago:
Officially, “its too hard”. Realistically, they don’t do shit because those shits bring in money by paying for exposition
- Comment on ‘Stop all time wasting’: Woolworths workers tracked and timed under new efficiency crackdown 3 weeks ago:
I’d love to see that kind of bullshit being applied on the c-level, but no, it’s always the actual workers who aren’t being efficient
- Comment on Deep fried wiener 3 weeks ago:
Jokes’ on the frier, trump has nothing to put there
- Comment on Why did it take so damn long for humanity to "learn" how to draw/paint realistic images? 3 weeks ago:
Never heard of that
- Comment on Why did it take so damn long for humanity to "learn" how to draw/paint realistic images? 3 weeks ago:
Art must be something beyond capturing nature, otherwise there would be no reason for humans to do it.
For a long time, art was also the only way to portray what people and places looked like. Not all art needs to try and convey the reality, but some ancient patrons would undoubtedly have wanted portraits that looked as close to their real faces as possible. The Fayyum portraits in another comment and other explanations, such as materials being mostly handmade and paintings being unlikely to survive answer my question better, really.
- Comment on Why did it take so damn long for humanity to "learn" how to draw/paint realistic images? 3 weeks ago:
I didn’t know about those Fayyum portraits, they’re amazing!
- Comment on I rented many games solely based on their covers, only to be mildly disappointed when I got home. 3 weeks ago:
I mean, from the ad it could be any of 4123984716239 shitty games on the play store. The last one ad I remember using that was Evony, which I’m surprised still fucking exists. That piece of shit has been a meme since 2010
- Comment on I rented many games solely based on their covers, only to be mildly disappointed when I got home. 3 weeks ago:
The first game that always comes to my mind in that regard is Super Time Force Ultra. It kept showing on my steam page for weeks on end years ago, with a cartoony-looking cover and “minimalistic pixel” style for actual gameplay
- Comment on I rented many games solely based on their covers, only to be mildly disappointed when I got home. 3 weeks ago:
The name really does say it, it’s a bad street brawler.
- Comment on Baidu CEO warns AI is just an inevitable bubble — 99% of AI companies are at risk of failing when the bubble bursts 3 weeks ago:
Die almond hands, bro! We’re all gonna make it, bro!!! Trust the code, bro!!!
- Submitted 3 weeks ago to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world | 54 comments
- Comment on yes, you 3 weeks ago:
Looks like lava. Judging from the word and possible translation mistakes, I’m guessing the original pic was in spanish or portuguese (lavar is the verb for washing, so “lava” by itself could be (he/she) washes)
- Comment on X's idiocy is doing wonders for Bluesky. 3 weeks ago:
The last part I think happens because the people who are there are most likely the ones that dislike very short content, which is what Mastodon offers by default (I know it depends on instance, some allow 1k or 5k character toots), but it’s a disorganized mess. It’s a kind of service/software for fast communication that can be done better in a specific Discord server. The “good stuff” will always end up posted elsewhere, like personal blogs or websites, where it’s better organized (most of the time)
One thing that keeps people on xitter is the “it’s where I get the news”. Major news outlets aren’t on Mastodon and likely won’t be. There’s also the stuff that “you get to know before it becomes news”, which also won’t be on Mastodon because it lacks the “gossipers” and the mass of users that is needed for having people “everywhere”
- Comment on X's idiocy is doing wonders for Bluesky. 3 weeks ago:
Threads stood as much chance as Google Plus had against Facebook.
Zuckerfucker using a somewhat similar strategy to artificially boost Threads membership (login with instagram once, you can’t delete your threads account without also deleting the instagram one) speaks volumes.
- Comment on hard to argue with 3 weeks ago:
Submissive housewife is just property in the eye of the husband. “My property, I do whatever I want with it”, which also sounds eerily like slave ownership. It’s dehumanizing and women might often not be aware of that.
- Comment on Proud globohomo 3 weeks ago:
Instructions unclear, got my ass full of splinters
- Comment on Star Citizen Expose Paints a Fairly Bleak Picture: 'There's No Actual Focus on Getting the Game Done' 3 weeks ago:
NMS certainly evolved a lot, but I wouldn’t call it incredible. Also, despite the game universe being absurdly large, you can see everything there is to see visiting less than 20 star systems
All the daily quicksilver quests are a fucking chore, too.
- Submitted 4 weeks ago to showerthoughts@lemmy.world | 26 comments
- Comment on Hmmmm 4 weeks ago:
That same problem can be seen in law and it’s a lot more relevant to the average citizen than academic papers, since “know your rights” means jack shit if you have no fucking clue what the words mean.
It’s snobbish gatekeeping to feel superior to the filthy plebs