rumschlumpel

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it a pattern that every time a movie, show or animation that doesn't have a white person as the protagonist is attacked by right-wingers?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  With the level of detail that’s used for most anime faces and the wild (by Japanese standards, anyway) hair colors, it’s usually pretty much impossible to tell without context whether a character is meant to be asian or european.

  On a more ideological level, Japan was allied with Nazi Germany and committed a lot of atrocities back then, and they always had strong anti-immigration policies and an advantageous position to enforce them (island nation, difficult language etc.).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Avowed Launches As Steam's # 1Top Seller In The US And Worldwide⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  What does Battlenet even do for a single player game? And I thought Battlenet was exclusive to Blizzard games … ?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Avowed Launches As Steam's # 1Top Seller In The US And Worldwide⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s pretty much impossible to replicate the tactical combat of an isometric CRPG in a first person game, so yeah, it’s definitely more similar to a Elder Scrolls. Though it looks like the combat in Avowed is at least somewhat intricate and entertaining (a low bar that Elder Scrolls games keep missing).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Avowed Launches As Steam's # 1Top Seller In The US And Worldwide⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I expect Avowed to be a worse game than PoE 2 for my taste, which is one of my favourite games of all time! Definitely worth playing those, especially since Avowed is set only a few years after PoE 2.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Avowed Launches As Steam's # 1Top Seller In The US And Worldwide⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m going to play it, but I’m certainly not buying it for 70€.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A whole lot of people picked up a shovel for A Game About Digging A Hole⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Fun game, but it makes me nauseous after like an hour, and I haven’t experienced this in any game I’ve played so far. Something about the way the digging process is animated seems to trigger me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨sterile rot⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  BTW, human tissue might not be targeted by a bacteriophage virus, but our gut is filled with beneficial bacteria. This is why people get the runs from antibiotica and why there’s shit transplants.

  Most viruses are probably not surviving the acid bath that is our stomach, though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is 33⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No he’s able to keep up physically if he’s obese and unemployed right after dropping out of highschool …

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is 33⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Bullshitting seems like a social skill to me…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is 33⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Drug trade seems ill-advised if you have that little social skills. Where do you get your drugs? How do you avoid getting stabbed etc. by your buyers and the people who sell to you? A lot of these people are aggressive and carry weapons, you really don’t want to be the type who doesn’t have the social awareness to avoid pissing them off accidentally.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do smokers specifically seem to be disproportionally bad for littering?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  At least some of them probably genuinely believe that. Maybe we should replace some of the gore pics on cigarette packets with information about environmental effects …

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do smokers specifically seem to be disproportionally bad for littering?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Where I live public ashtrays are very common in public places. The littering is not as bad as it could be (used to be worse before public ashtrays were common), but lots of people still litter in those areas.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do smokers specifically seem to be disproportionally bad for littering?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe it’s because smokers already have to make the decision to blow toxic smoke around - it’s pretty much an inherently anti-social activity nowadays, so the step to littering your smoking trash isn’t that big. Maybe related to broken window theory?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What happens if a found missing person with amnesia is mistaken as someone else ?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Roommates pay rent and buy their own food.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What happens if a found missing person with amnesia is mistaken as someone else ?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  AFAIK complete amnesia is rarely permanent, so it would probably fix itself most of the time if there’s no serious compounding issues.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wobble Wobble⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Weird, we’re experiencing the opposite in Europe.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You could've had it all!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Even without weed, they still had Bob Marley and reggea in general.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You could've had it all!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Rastafari isn’t actually that cool, especially not when it comes to gay people. They are also strongly opposed to oral and anal in heterosexual couples and are generally quite patriarchal. Have a read: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rastafari

  Also, afrocentrism is one of its core ideas, which makes it pretty weird when white people convert to it (e.g. Gentleman, a German reggea singer).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨it's exactly what you'd expect.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I looked up ephedrine, as far as I could tell the side effects were quite heavy compared to caffein or cocaine (though cocaine makes up for it by being very addictive).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨it's exactly what you'd expect.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  TIL classical Europe had cocoa and synthetic amphetamines

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨it's exactly what you'd expect.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Hm, which of these are actually stimulants (i.e. substances that increase alertness)? The ones I know seem to be depressants, painkillers and hallucinogens, which seem less useful immediately before battle than stimulants.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨it's exactly what you'd expect.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Now I want to know what kinds of stimulants were available to Roman-era Germanic people!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How would you describe a power-lifter-type physique specifically?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Stocky, stout, barrel-chested? I’d say “buff” would fit, too, it definitely allows more leeway for bodyfat content than words like “athletic” or “ripped”. Also just the good old “very strong”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨nuclear⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  century-long legacy

  At least millenia, might be epochs (million years) …

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mitochondria⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It would probably make more sense to ask the bio teacher for sex ed than economics.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You're beautiful.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As Mythbusters proved, you can polish a turd!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Being a dinosaur⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  aggressive cluck

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  People feel that their quality of life is going downhill and the propagandists presented an easy scapegoat to distract from the rich.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨morons⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “white” is an increbibly malleable category, anyway. At one point, the Irish (who are generally even lighter-skinned than the English) were considered non-white. Nowadays, most people would consider Italians and Spaniards white, and there’s quite a few hispanic people who both look white and consider themselves white (due to being descended from European immigrants). There’s a similar dynamic in India, southern Indians are often darker than ‘black’ americans while many north Indians could pass as southern europeans.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The internet, every October⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I suppose we have pumpkins, too. At least this holiday is pretty fun, even if no one actually celebrates it here (there’s little chance it gets adoption here, where I live we even have a hard time getting into carnival, even though that holiday has native tradition).

  Anyway, late August christmas sweets are way better than any Halloween-themed food or drink.