dillekant
@dillekant@slrpnk.net
- Comment on when the old geezer in front of you shits his pants 2 days ago:
- Comment on Anon is 23 2 days ago:
If you want to be lifted up, I always go back to Ursula Le Guin. Read, there are answers.
- Comment on *laughs in Dutch* 4 days ago:
Oh man, this is so confusing. I’ve been pronouncing it Vin Van Gooly gooly gooly gooly Goff
- Comment on don't worry 5 days ago:
The Identity Matrix is only for squares.
- Comment on Three developers' different philosophies on difficulty for their games 6 days ago:
Itagaki’s comment here reminds me of Malmsteen’s “more is more”
- Comment on white monsters 1 week ago:
Don’t say “Leave Brittany alone”, say “Brexit”.
- Comment on white monsters 1 week ago:
'tis Brittania, peasant!
- Comment on Gotta make sure your watching its back 1 week ago:
I thought the reason people side with Depp is because there are recordings of Heard mocking him for reporting abuse and admitting to hitting him, that he initiated the split, and that she gave an op-ed that suggested he was the sole abuser.
Basically all of this analysis relies on ignoring a bunch of evidence and reading into what Heard’s said. There is a shockingly long explanation of this point by point, something which is necessary only because of the time it takes to detangle “Heard sounds shifty”. Remove the suppositions, and it really just sounds like Heard is trying to save her relationship.
Secondly, primary or retaliatory, there’s a clear imbalance of power. This is a big part of what “me too” was about. It seems as soon as you’re of legal age, all manner of coercive power become meaningless to the public. “Me too” was about “well, no, I wasn’t necessarily raped as such, but there was a clear power imbalance that pushed me into decisions I wasn’t comfortable with”. It also discussed the idea of “the perfect victim”, where women essentially get the blame in a two-sides issue. IIUC Heard was barely upper middle class, and Depp has an enormous pool of wealth. There’s a clear power imbalance here.
Thirdly, and this goes back to the “I’m not on either side” part, the less you know the more susceptible you are to the organised campaign against Heard. That’s why people do these memes. That’s why I ended with: well if it’s both sides are bad, then why is Depp somehow beloved and forgiven and Heard is still mocked several years later?
- Comment on Mmm chikin tindies 1 week ago:
There goes my hero…
- Comment on Gotta make sure your watching its back 1 week ago:
It’s interesting there’s a sharp line between what women and men believe here. Sadly, not knowing the details makes the propaganda more likely to work. Heard and her lawyer were stupid, but that doesn’t change what likely actually happened:
- The dog shit the bed, because of course it did it had a problem with bowel control. The fact that Depp’s team have managed to convince people of this ridiculous idea shows just how effective propaganda can be.
- Heard was raped and abused
- You would have to believe that Heard lied to her own therapist for months to manufacture this. Occam’s razor, no, it happened.
The reason people don’t like Heard is:
- She seems shifty
That’s it.
Here’s a video talking about it. To anyone still on Depp’s side: Maybe don’t support abusers? Maybe don’t support their narratives if you think everyone’s a scumbag? Where are the Depp memes?
- Comment on The real Odyssey 1 week ago:
Super bunny hop literally did a video about this. Not satire.
- Comment on Saab or Your mom 1 week ago:
skip rocks eat box.
- Comment on Alternative medicine 1 week ago:
It’s not alternative medicine though? It’s like regular medicine but instead of it being prescribed he just thought he’d ingest some based on his own whims.
- Comment on *Entombed starts playing* 2 weeks ago:
Brown people take their shoes off outside the house?
- Comment on *Entombed starts playing* 2 weeks ago:
This meme is bullshit. She’s too tan for me to be wearing shoes inside her house, much less her room.
- Comment on Barnaby Joyce claims Australia is a ‘Christian nation’ and says many First Nations people would agree 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Unlike Count Binface, joke parties can’t run in Australian elections — and that’s serious 2 weeks ago:
For Fusion, IIUC each of the parties individually had enough members (though maybe marginal), that’s why they could run candidates in the past. You need the members to be cashed up enough to be able to run a candidate though. So for senate, realistically you need 3, and that’s $6,000. If the party support is distributed around Australia, like Fusion’s is, you must run 3x a number of states, and that adds up fast.
- Comment on Unlike Count Binface, joke parties can’t run in Australian elections — and that’s serious 2 weeks ago:
Sadly, it costs so much that even serious non-joke parties cannot run. Just running candidates can cost as much as a new car.
- Comment on Corinne Busche, director of Dragon Ave: The Veilguard, departs BioWare 1 year ago:
Let’s start with the word “blame”: Veilguard isn’t bad on the whole. It’s possibly good, even. I think a lot of the problem with how it’s been received is that it’s not “Bioware good”, which can be a disappontment even for a good game, especially after coming down from Baldur’s fucking Gate 3, a once in a generation game.
So maybe if we said “credit” instead, and I think we can say yeah she sort of can take credit for the game. They offered her game director and she took it, and she put her name to it. I know it’s a shit position to be in, but if you look at Whedon and the Justice League, he passed the “credit” onto Snyder. Busche could have done the same if she chose, but she chose to put her name to it.
Getting a game which is going off the rails back onto the rails is really tough. Kudos to her.
- Comment on Project MINI RACK - a 10" Homelab Revolution! 1 year ago:
I have a full fat rack, but I’d like to adapt the 10" onto it, is there some sort of adapter thingie to maybe go two-wide?
- Comment on Unions warn Albanese 250,000 members may abandon Labor at next election as bitter rift widens 1 year ago:
I’m sorry, this could have convinced me in the early oughties but I’m worn out now. There’s a song and dance about how powerful the Murdoch media is but firstly that’s no longer as true as it was, and most importantly, any time Labor has had the chance to shut them down, they haven’t taken it. Literally the laws which got Labor offices raided were supported by Labor. At some point I’m going to stop believing the “small target” strategy is a real strategy and start to believe that this is what Labor actually is deep down. The toothless NACC, the active protection of the perpetrators of Robodebt, making a rod for their own backs, this is just who Labor is.
There are other unions, and if I can take a minor detour, some of them, eg teachers and nurses unions are majority women, and Labor walk over them, time and time again, whereas unions like CFMEU and TWU will strike. Health and Education are being gutted from a skills perspective, and the lesson they’re being taught is that if you stand up like the other unions, you’ll get your necks cut off. COVID came and “went”, and Labor were in power for a good chunk of it, and they’ve not had the Unions or the workers backs. The majority of deaths happened / are happening during Labor in government. How many of those were Teachers? Nurses? With friends like these…
What even is the point any more? What is there to lose when unions are basically unable to stand up to their own? When Labor must shunt to the right of the coalition. Some people blame the right for the “right wing ratchet”, but to some extent this has been engineered by the left to make the right look less favourable to their voters. I don’t give a shit about Labor, I want some fucking solidarity.
- Comment on Unions warn Albanese 250,000 members may abandon Labor at next election as bitter rift widens 1 year ago:
There’s also the possibility of a split. If enough of the unions want to split, and it does look like it, it’s possible that “left Labor” and “right Labor” split into two parties.
- Comment on Unions warn Albanese 250,000 members may abandon Labor at next election as bitter rift widens 1 year ago:
Frankly Labor has been taking advantage of the unions for a very long time, consistently kneecapping them, and has been doing so back to the Hawke / Keating years. This isn’t a “compromise” anymore, because the right just keeps on taking and taking.
- Comment on Which unplayed game in your library are you most looking forward to playing eventually? 1 year ago:
I keep mine in an ever growing wishlist, which I never get back to, but it stops me from feeling like I forgot anything.
- Comment on Which unplayed game in your library are you most looking forward to playing eventually? 1 year ago:
I’ve given up. I’m going to just keep adding to wishlist and nibble on a new one every now and then.
- Comment on Proton is the Future of PC gaming. But how does it work? [Gardiner Bryant, YouTube] 1 year ago:
This is fine. I don’t mind a diversity of opinion here. I agree that Proton is a stop-gap solution, and that most older games are going to need it, and newer AAA games are not going to support Linux all of a sudden.
However, I do think that we should continue to encourage developers to create native builds when they can. Indie devs tend to do this and it’s a pretty great experience. Not only that, it often enables playing on unusual devices such as SBCs. For example, UFO 50 was made in Gamemaker, which offers native Linux builds, and it’s already on Portmaster. You basically can’t do that with Proton.
My problem is calling people who want Linux native games misguided or wrong. I really don’t think that’s helpful.
- Comment on Proton is the Future of PC gaming. But how does it work? [Gardiner Bryant, YouTube] 1 year ago:
I wish he wouldn’t repeat the idea that Proton is acceptable to game devs and Linux users shouldn’t demand native games. I’m much closer to Nick’s (from Linux Experiment) idea: That these games work as long as a company like Valve pays for Proton. The day Valve stops is the day these Proton games start to rot. For archival, for our own history, and for actual games on Linux, we should want Linux native games.
The thing is, the “no tux no bucks” crowd doesn’t advocate for other people to say the same. The proton crowd is actively telling the “no tux no bucks” people to shut up, and it’s not very nice. We need a multitude of views to succeed in the long term as a community.
- Comment on Digital Foundry: Tiny Glade PC - Beautiful RT Visuals - 60FPS on a GTX 1060! 1 year ago:
Oh wow this is Bevy and Rust?! RIP to everyone saying no “real” games are made in Rust.
- Comment on Digital Foundry: Tiny Glade PC - Beautiful RT Visuals - 60FPS on a GTX 1060! 1 year ago:
Bespoke
- Comment on The Doom mod that turns Margaret Thatcher into an undead cyberdemon has been removed by Bethesda yet again, this time for 'disobeying a ZeniMax employee' 1 year ago:
Yet another reason PC is superior.
