Skua
@Skua@kbin.earth
- Comment on Does anyone else find it suspicious that there wasn't any criticism on here about Stop Killing Games until after it hit 1.4M signatures? 1 day ago:
There was also a UK petition, which has also cleared the required threshold. Are those the out-of-EU signatures you mean?
- Comment on North Korea and South Korea isn't working. Let's try West Korea and East Korea instead. 2 days ago:
The only real way to divide Korea is into Goguryeo, Baekje, and Silla. We can call them North, West, and East Korea though
- Comment on North Korea and South Korea isn't working. Let's try West Korea and East Korea instead. 2 days ago:
An unorthodox way to correct the geographical travesty of Botswana, Namibia, Zambia, and Zimbabwe being less than 200 metres from creating the world's only international quadripoint
- Comment on Interesting 2 days ago:
They're still not fully-developed, it's marbles all the way up as depicted in this documentary from 1997
- Comment on Elden Ring Player to Sue FromSoftware Over High Game Difficulty 11 months ago:
It's okay for people to not want to take several hours to learn to play a videogame. I say this as someone who has taken the time and likes this game a lot
- Comment on Elden Ring Player to Sue FromSoftware Over High Game Difficulty 11 months ago:
To be fair they're still right to say that there are no difficulty settings on that film, it's just set at fuck you difficulty from the beginning
- Comment on Elden Ring Player to Sue FromSoftware Over High Game Difficulty 11 months ago:
This is a healthy attitude. The game offers "easy mode" in the sense that you can use tools like summons, magic, just plain old grinding until you're massively levelled, and so on, but if you're not enjoying it then there's no point playing. It's okay for a game to not be for everyone and good for people to recognise that it's not for them.
I really enjoy the games but fuck me there's no way I'll ever be taking on Malenia. I could use summons and stuff, but what I actually like is the one-on-one dodging fights, so if I did I'd justbe doing it to have done it. That's fine. I just have to evaluate the game based on what I get from the rest of it
- Comment on Olympic casual GigaChad 11 months ago:
Huh, I thought that that looked exactly like a Takeshi's Castle obstacle, and sure enough the whole thing with MXC is that they repurposed Takeshi's Castle footage to make a new show? Wild
- Comment on Olympic casual GigaChad 11 months ago:
His name is Yusuf Dikeç, he was in the 10m air pistol men and mixed team events. The silver was in the mixed team event, won alongside teammate Şevval İlayda Tarhan. Despite what appears to be an exceptionally successful sport shooting career otherwise, he seems to have struggled in prior Olympic games ("struggled" relative to "qualified for the goddamn Olympics" of course) but apparently he was just on the ball this time
- Comment on I, too, like books. 11 months ago:
Half the reason our pronunciation is so weird is that a bunch of French guys took over England
- Comment on Eeeeee 11 months ago:
- Comment on Eeeeee 11 months ago:
That was the intention, yes. Thanks
- Comment on Eeeeee 11 months ago:
It's approximating the value of the actual number pi, 3.14159 etc. It's not doing anything with pi after that
- Comment on Eeeeee 11 months ago:
"e", or Euler's number, is a constant used in maths because it has useful properties in logarithms and some other things. Basically just like pi except for logarithms instead of circles. Like pi, it's an infinitely long series of non-repeating digits. The crime you have witnessed in the post is a shitload of mathematical operations applying e to e in various ways in order to get (very close to) pi. Like saying "I'm going to make 14 using only 2" and then saying (2^2^2)-2, except instead of 2 and 14 you've got e and pi
- Comment on Or meet and cheese 1 year ago:
I do not, unfortunately. I had actually never heard of that sandwich before but it looks really good. I am vegetarian, though, so it'll have to stay just looking good for me
- Comment on Or meet and cheese 1 year ago:
Green ones with garlic and lemon juice are top notch though
- Comment on Or meet and cheese 1 year ago:
I am in the UK so that would make sense. Going solely off of wikipedia's page on the romanisation of Arabic, I'd hazard a guess that the UK spelling came via French
- Comment on Or meet and cheese 1 year ago:
God damn do I love a good bruschetta
- Comment on Or meet and cheese 1 year ago:
Nice bread, some houmous and balsamic to dip it in (separately, of course), marinated olives and artichoke hearts, grilled courgette and tomatoes
- Comment on Post a prompt, have an art from this insane russian 1 year ago:
Oh my bad, I totally misunderstood what you meant. Excellent drawing though
- Comment on Post a prompt, have an art from this insane russian 1 year ago:
Small fandoms? There is a delightful youtube channel called Colganology in which an eccentric old English man documents his craft projects and whatever else is on his mind. I discovered him because of his series in which he builds a bunch of absolutely terrible musical instruments out of random bits and bobs that he has lying around. I would very much appreciate a depiction of his mighty war horns intimidating his enemies
- Comment on No, seriously, I want to know 1 year ago:
This is actually what an adult cow looks like, we just never get to see it in real life because we kill them for meat before they achieve their true glory. All of humanity used to be pescatarian, but a cult of human skaters convinced us to start eating cows so that they could win at the X Games
- Comment on What's the craziest or funniest Wikipedia outline you've seen? 1 year ago:
IP over avian carriers, yes
- Comment on What's the craziest or funniest Wikipedia outline you've seen? 1 year ago:
I like this one, but to be fair the article it is summarising was never not going to be a little silly
- Comment on What do you mean there was a coup in Bolivia? 1 year ago:
Anglicisation of golpista, I assume
- Comment on Domestication 1 year ago:
We thought we were the ones domesticating grass when we invented agriculture, but the grass isn't the one that stopped moving around all the time
- Comment on Steam Summer Sale - Top Deals 1 year ago:
Never mind the depths I was already on edge when I met the fucking crashfish
- Comment on wizard posting 1 year ago:
Power word: erektiohäiriö
- Comment on wizard posting 1 year ago:
Power word: impotence
- Comment on It's sort of apt by mistake, but it's still stupid 1 year ago:
It's actually in England, although funnily enough the part of England it's in is called Cumbria, which has the same origin as the Welsh for Wales "Cymru". So it's sort of in Wales, just not the Wales that we call Wales in English.
Anyway it's Old English torr, Middle Welsh penn, and Danish hoh. And like many British place names the pronunciation is not what you would expect at all at first glance. It's "tra-pen-uh"
