Silentiea

@Silentiea@lemmy.blahaj.zone

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  So they should get this kind of treatment, it just shouldn’t be special.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Premium Ads⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The implication being they never bought premium because this seemed inevitable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Premium Ads⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, kinda, yeah. But that’s okay: Most books are slop, too. 90% of everything is slop.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you officially pronounce a possessive like: " Travis' "?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  What a travesty

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨12 Years and $700 Million Later, What's Going on With Star Citizen's Development?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Pretty much all articles these days are “written to bait engagement”. Even the ones that are also “written for the edification of [their] readers”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Redwall meets Skyrim in this new game from Bethesda, BioWare, and Naughty Dog alumni⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There was also just released a very Redwall-y magic the gathering set, so I guess it’s in the zeitgeist everywhere

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rusted Moss is pretty good (Metroidvania)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thoughts on Axiom Verge 2?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a name for the trope where a story is high fantasy at first glance, except for it's not fantasy and is actually set in a post-apocalypse dystopian future?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So that’s the etymology

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a name for the trope where a story is high fantasy at first glance, except for it's not fantasy and is actually set in a post-apocalypse dystopian future?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Specifically the After the End variant

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a name for the trope where a story is high fantasy at first glance, except for it's not fantasy and is actually set in a post-apocalypse dystopian future?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What’s the etymology?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What GPU is inside Mall Cop Robots?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Even just a hand grenade is probably plenty. Or a particularly expensive firework.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Godot 3.6 finally released!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been waiting for Godot for so long …

  /ref

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are your favorite racing games?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I really enjoyed some Xbox game called “quantum redshift” and I’ve been trying to capture that feeling ever since. VR game called Redoubt gets close.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Seriously, what the f*** is keeping Donald Trump in this presidential race?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I didn’t know if you meant it that way, but my sleepy brain read it like a threat

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What does dying from all causes mean?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  smoking is often statistically associated with substance abuse and bad health - which increases the likelihood of major trauma events, but on the other hand smokers die earlier,leaving more old people to walk in front of vehicles due to reduced cognitive abilities)

  So what about if we control for age? Are old smokers more or less likely to get hit by a bus than old non-smokers?

  Quick, someone do an RCT.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What does dying from all causes mean?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve never survived being hit by a bus,and I don’t smoke. Checkmate, atheists.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What does dying from all causes mean?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Also you’re more likely to be milling around outside

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do I need to store this in the fridge when opened?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ohhhh, now I get it! I thought that meant it would make my cupboard colder.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the safest way for a partially disabled person in the USA to use prison for food and shelter as an alternative to dying homeless in a gutter on a cold rainy night?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If I had the money, I’d pay to watch this.

  Okay, never mind. THAT’S the most dystopian thing I’ve read all day.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon tries to be ethical⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You know, I’d be fine with it if it was God who got the credit as long as he also got the blame, but when I do something good and they start thanking God up and down, while when I make a decision they don’t like they start fuming that I am the arbiter of this darkness…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How Do You Explain to a Fully Grown Adult That Constantly Mocking Others' Appearance (Even on TV) is Toxic Behavior?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Still works in your house, but you might have to make the problematic person leave.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is land inclination included in area calculation?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s probably aware of them, but generally no. Most slippers for driving on are smooth enough to be pretty negligible unless you’re going hundreds of miles or more, in which case fives of miles won’t make much difference either.

  But if you’re traveling by bike those small slopes may make some parts of the ride significantly more difficult or easier, and for cars may impact fuel efficiency in a way much more significant than just counting the extra distance traveled. So many navigation systems will still account for slope, even if they don’t necessarily acknowledge the length of your path as precisely as you may have hoped

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Normal? What is normal in the first place?

  “Normal is what everyone else is and you are not.”

  Dr Tolian Soran to Geordi La Forge (Star Trek: Generations)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to know you'll turn out trans?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I like “realize”. I knew there was such a thing as a “sex change surgery” and even looked into it from a technical perspective because it intrigued me. It’s fantasized about moving to a new city and getting one; starting over.

  I’d heard an offhand version of David Reimer’s story as kind of a conservative horror story. I’d seen movies and tv shows make plenty of fun of people who “pretended” to be “the wrong sex”. Monty Python’s “lady penis” scene still pops into my head sometimes.

  I knew trans people existed and I’d seen a couple of people with “they/them” on their name badge. But I never really put together that those things were “real” in a meaningful way, or applicable to me and my experiences.

  So then I kind of realized what it all meant.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to know you'll turn out trans?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So often, you’ll hear trans people say they always knew. I think that’s both the case, and a bit off. My guess is that they’ve always had a feeling SOMETHING was amiss, but weren’t really able to nail down the exact feeling until, well… They started considering transitioning.

  That’s almost exactly what I was trying to say with my top level comment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to know you'll turn out trans?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree with the other replies too, but also yes. The hardest thing for some people to understand about my transition is that I don’t want to be a different person than I was before. I’m not trying to change who I am. I just want to live who I have always been where people can see it in a way they couldn’t before.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to know you'll turn out trans?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As for you: talk to trans people. See if you can relate to them.

  I second this whole thing. Consider your gender. Spend a bit of time thinking about it. If you are trans and don’t know, it’s not something that’s going to suddenly start being true, you’re just going to put the pieces together.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to know you'll turn out trans?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I can’t speak for anyone else, but I didn’t turn anything, I just found a way to say what I had already been feeling the whole time. I never felt like a “man” or a “boy” and just smiled and nodded when other people described me in those categories. I didn’t have the words, didn’t have a way to let other people know how I felt about myself until now, and still struggle with some people who still don’t understand.

  I’m not a woman because I like nail polish, dresses, or unicorns, and I’m not not a woman because I like video games, dragons, and nerd shit. I’m a woman because that’s who I am, and once I realized that was “allowed” it was the only true way to say it. I’m not a feminine man and I never was, and while I don’t think I’m a particularly masculine woman, I didn’t think “looking girly stuff” or “liking manly stuff” is ever going to define who you are. If you honestly don’t know who you are, I can see it helping you figure it out, but if you are comfortable being who you are, you don’t need to change it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is my girlfriend gaslighting me?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I was thinking the same thing.

  She asked me to murder someone. You know, couples stuff.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there any real physical proof that Jesus christ ever existed?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, no. Perhaps I’ve been misunderstood.

  If no evidence whatsoever for a claim exists, then there is no reason to favor that claim. This is an effectively rare situation, and basically only applies to things someone has made up whole cloth just now.

  Likewise, the existence of some evidence is not necessarily definitive “proof” of a claim, merely enough of a reason to consider it further (such as considering alternative explanations or how well said evidence matches what we might expect)

  In this case, there is evidence that somebody named Jesus may have existed, and however ideal that evidence may or may not be, it is about the amount of evidence we would expect to find of any given figure from his time.