Sordid

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elden Ring Player to Sue FromSoftware Over High Game Difficulty⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  there’s a guy on 4chan who’s planning to sue Fromsoft Lol, no. There’s a guy on 4chan who’s saying wildly outlandish shit in order to have a laugh at anyone who takes it seriously.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fromsoft classes like⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s almost as if the Souls series was a deliberate throwback inspired by classic games and used mechanics inspired by them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fromsoft classes like⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  By this definition, Demon’s Souls is not a soulslike.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Light No Fire Announcement Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Not at all! Remember, imagination knows no bounds. You can continue making stuff up with no basis in fact pretty much forever.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Light No Fire Announcement Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Please, lecture me more about what my motivations are. Of the two of us, you’re clearly the expert on that topic. I’m dying to hear more.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Light No Fire Announcement Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I am trying to help them be happy by getting them to stop huffing hopium in industrial quantities, which tends to lead to disappointment, but they don’t wanna.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Light No Fire Announcement Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Looking forward to the silver lining of a bad event you know to be inevitable is not the same thing as actively wishing for that event to happen.

  Reading comprehension, man.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Light No Fire Announcement Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It seems that you need a refresher. I suggest you rewatch those original pre-release trailers and then try playing the game to see if it looks anything like that. I did that a few months ago, and spoiler alert, it did not. Continued support is of course praiseworthy, but it wouldn’t have been necessary if Hello Games had actually kept their promises to begin with. It boggles my mind that gamers so vehemently defend a company that took a decade longer than it should have to deliver some (not all!) of what was promised and also wasted a bunch of time and resources on bloating the game with stuff that was never mentioned and that nobody asked for. Gotta be some form of sunk cost fallacy or Stockholm syndrome or something…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Light No Fire Announcement Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  BWAHAHAHAHA! No.

  fool me once, shame on - shame on you. Fool me - you can’t get fooled again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨One million years from now...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I take it you have nothing else relevant to add to the topic. Cool. See you around.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨One million years from now...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Feel free to make up the difference by rereading those two sentences a hundred times. Maybe that’ll be enough for the point to get through.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨One million years from now...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  4000 words? Oh please, that can be done in a hundredth of that: The laws of physics are constant, and more advanced technologies have energy requirements that must be met by preceding technologies. At the same time, each technology also has to offer enough tangible benefits to be worth pursuing on its own.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨One million years from now...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Feel free to name one or two examples and show how and why they’re incorrect.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨One million years from now...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  We’re having quite a bit of trouble making that jump even with the benefits of a couple centuries of fossil-fueled industry. I find the idea of jumping directly from horse-drawn wagons to wind turbines and solar panels rather implausible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨One million years from now...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I wonder if there’d be new fossil fuel deposits by then.

  Probably not. Coal is basically trees that didn’t rot, and the reason they didn’t rot is that there were no microorganisms that could digest wood at the time. Between the evolution of wood and the evolution of organisms that could digest it, dead trees would just pile up on top of each other and sink into the ground under the weight of new layers of dead trees above them. Now that there are microorganisms that digest wood and dead trees rot away, new coal is not forming.

  Oil does continue to form in some ocean areas where there is a layer of water without any oxygen on the ocean floor. Since these areas support no life, any organic remains that descend to the bottom (mostly plankton) remain unconsumed and eventually get buried and turn into oil. But it is a slow process. Estimating oil reserves is notoriously difficult, but it seems there’s about as much left in the ground as we’ve burned in the last fifty years. So in other words, four billion years of oil formation gets you about a century or two of industry. Since the Sun is about halfway through its lifespan, that means the Earth has potentially enough juice left for one more industrial civilization. That’s assuming that those oil reserves are allowed to build up and don’t just get used piecemeal by smaller civilizations arising in between. And also assuming that that final civilization is even able to make use of that oil, which is much harder to handle than coal (extraction, refining, transportation, etc.), without using coal as a stepping stone. And also assuming that no anaerobic microorganisms evolve that can survive on the ocean floor without oxygen and consume those organic remains, which could put a stop to oil formation just like wood-eating microorganisms put a stop to coal formation. Yeah, that seems like a lot of ifs to me…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨One million years from now...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  there’s plenty of opportunity for a successor to us to reach the stars

  No, there isn’t. We’ve already used up all the easily accessible sources of fossil fuels, so whoever comes after us won’t have the energy sources necessary to have an industrial revolution and will be stuck at a pre-industrial tech level forever.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨One million years from now...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  this is rapidly becoming Reddit 2.0, just without spez

  Becoming? Always has been.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨One million years from now...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  So? Death from old age is inevitable too, that doesn’t mean I’m going to stop breathing or eating. All of life is just postponing the inevitable, but just because the inevitable is inevitable doesn’t mean we should stop postponing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨One million years from now...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  There is enough time for another intelligent species to evolve after us, the problem is that we’ve already used up all the easily accessible fossil fuels. That means they won’t have the energy sources necessary to have an industrial revolution and will be stuck at a pre-industrial tech level forever (or rather until the oceans boil off).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨One million years from now...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s cute and all, but it ain’t gonna be birds and deer who gets life off this rock once the Sun starts threatening to swallow it in a few billion years. We’re screwing up badly in the short term, but we’re the only hope Earth life has in the long term.