Hegar
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- Comment on Anyone else reckon Bethesda will go the way of Bioware? 15 hours ago:
simply overhyped.
Wasn't it also just not very good? Plenty of games were overhyped or rushed then their rep picked up after people's expectations leveled off, or the game was patched.
I barely ever hear about starfield, and when i do it's only about why it's not good.
- Comment on Why methadone? 5 days ago:
Yep! Really noticably better. For lots of reasons but naltrexone was certainly part of it.
- Comment on Why methadone? 5 days ago:
Unrelated to your question but a loved one of mine had a lot of success with Naltrexone to reduce addictive behaviour. It's on label for both opoid- and alcohol- use disorders, and sometimes used off label for others. It's covered by medicaid in my state so not sure how much it might be through regular insurance.
- Comment on Leaked trailer for the cancelled game Mass Effect: Universe 1 week ago:
I enjoyed andromeda quite a bit. It lacked the scope and feel of 1 and 2, the aliens should've been more alien, but gameplay was fun, jetpacks were fun. It was very worthwhile (sale) purchase.
- Comment on NOT SEEKING MEDICAL ADVICE. How does one deal with grief or loss in a safe way without turning to alcohol or drugs? 1 week ago:
Community and Daoism. Being with loved ones and reading the Zhuangzi, basically.
The Zhuabgzi spends a lot of time talking about the inevitability of change in a way I found amusing, easy to understand and profound without being mystic. It also has a bunch of odd tales that encourage thinking about things beyond the human time scale, which i found oddly comforting. Kinda like the disassociation of booze/drugs, but less unhealthy.
- Comment on What is Kratom? A friend of the family just died today. And that was the last thing he was using. Is it like K2? What type of high is it? 1 week ago:
Just wanna tag OP cause the john oliver segment linked above has some very important info.
- Comment on Report: Microsoft explored selling or spinning off Xbox division after Phil Spencer's exit 1 week ago:
to make Xbox a leaner purchase offering
Elegantly worded. So many decisions of their incomprehensible decisions suddenly make sense.
- Comment on How does one figure out what to do, after getting out and done with high school? 1 week ago:
The great thing is, you don't!
You just keep finding things that seem fun for a while until either they are not or you die.
- Comment on It used to be the easy solution to get rid of any woman that you didn't like 1 week ago:
Oh yeah, that sounds like a classic moral panic. Instigating incidents are often fictional.
- Comment on It used to be the easy solution to get rid of any woman that you didn't like 1 week ago:
A lot of people tend to imagine that witch accusations were a constant thing, but my understanding is they follow the pattern of moral panics.
Many here may remember the satanic panic that came and went in the 80s. There was a similar panic about mods vs rockers in the uk. The red scare of mccarthyism was another. A friend of mine analyzed a 2002 flare up of anti-romany sentiment and violence in italy (maybe just rome?) which also fit. Probably pogroms against jews fit the pattern too.
Moral panics are volatile - they bloom for a time and then wither. So probably there were short term bouts where anyone percieved as deviant or unwelcome was at risk of being swept up in this panic and becoming a target for hostility because a percentage of people falsely believed they posed some kind of threat.
- Comment on Sweet 3 weeks ago:
Cool! Yeah the depictions there look more realistic than this unbound guy just chilling as he is executed.
- Comment on Sweet 3 weeks ago:
It's probably a funny depiction of trepination, right?
The drilling, sawing or scraping of holes in the skull is one of the earliest medical procedures we have evidence for. It relieves pressure and brain swelling. As gruesome as it sounds, it was quite survivable and people survived multiple trepinations deep into prehistory.
Once you get hospitals in the medieval period the survival rate drops - don't be in a room of sick people when your skull has a hole in it.
- Comment on Tiddies are nice but the metric system is better 4 weeks ago:
We're not asleep we're just depressed!
- Comment on Realistically, what do people plan to do on the Moon and Mars that requires a permanent, or long term human presence there? 5 weeks ago:
Oh you know, just the kind of things they do on remote privately owned islands.
- Comment on Can I break my sense of taste? 5 weeks ago:
Smokers (of cigarettes) also dull their sense of smell so i presume it's not just a me thing. Possibly it's stronger for me for some reason like allergies or genetics or some such.
- Comment on Can I break my sense of taste? 5 weeks ago:
Smoke or go into space.
When i smoke too much weed - like as a lifestyle i mean, over the course of months - my sense of smell and thus most of taste pretty much disappears. I had to take a break from being a cupcake taster for an acquaintance because i could not possibly provide useful feedback.
Apparently low-gravity changes how mucus settles (iirc) in such a way that humans have reduced smell and taste in space. Astronauts always want hotsauce in part because everything tastes blander in space.
- Comment on Can I break my sense of taste? 5 weeks ago:
I didn't find that everything was sweet. Most things tasted normal. Beer tasted oddly sweet, citrus was very sweet, but almost everything we ate at hotpot tasted the same. Maybe spicy things were less spicy.
- Comment on Why weren't telephone lines and electrical lines not buried under ground? Which would have saved a bunch of money from upkeep and accidents? 1 month ago:
Yeah i was in high school in perth in the 90s so i remember poles disappearing.
Perth has expanded massively in the last 10-15 years, i'm not surprised initial estimates were way off. Or even less surprised than normal since i believe every single infrastructure project in history has been late and overbudget.
- Comment on I ✈️ NY (HOTA Gallery, July '26, Gold Coast, Aus) 1 month ago:
This is the biggest photo i got, sorry for the glare and not snapping the name of the artists/work.
Just south of the glare is nixon and zhou enlai meeting, above it is the redguard bugging confucius. The top right has the GDP slot machine, the zombie next to it is Empress Dowager Cixi as her grave is looted by a warlord named Sun Dianying.
The characters from journey to the west are there, tank man, mao's 4 pests campaign, the AIDS bloodbath and heaps of references i don't get.
- Comment on Why weren't telephone lines and electrical lines not buried under ground? Which would have saved a bunch of money from upkeep and accidents? 1 month ago:
In australia buried lines are fairly common. It's more expense and harder to do maintainence, but it's also way better and safer.
- Comment on I ✈️ NY (HOTA Gallery, July '26, Gold Coast, Aus) 1 month ago:
The whole thing was done in that style.
Up in machuria there was a gaunt little cartoon POW being tortured by a cartoon unit 731 doctor, little cartoon redguard telling little cartoon confucius "that's a load of useless farts", two little cartoon mushroom clouds over hiroshima and nagasaki, etc.
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- Comment on Happy Labor Day! 1 month ago:
Fake email job is great! I'd not heard that before.
Where i work, all the bosses get the day off and those of us who actually work still have to work.
- Comment on What shall I watch next? 1 month ago:
I think it's just ai, right? The MJ card says "The world deung op al" and the Home Alone one says it's from John "MLON..."
- Comment on Why does the Grim Reaper hold a scythe? Was he or she farming or something when they became the grim reaper? 1 month ago:
Linking the agricultural cycle of planting, growing, harvest with the human lifecycle is a very common metaphor.
We see this in the myth of persephone, where going into the underworld and returning (ie death and rebirth) is a metaphor for the harvest cycle. Greek mystery cults were all over this too and it's likely a pre-greek remnant from the Early European Farmers who inhabited the area before steppe-descended greek speakers began moving in.
So the association of death and harvesting probably starts fairly early.
- Comment on Is it time for eggposting 🥚 1 month ago:
I found it so satisfying!
- Comment on 📛Killdozers, Rollout!📛 2 months ago:
Caterpillar have been profitting from israel's genocide of the palestinian people for decades.
When a palestinian throws a rock at a soldier occupying their land and israel responds by bulldozing the entire family's homes in direct violation of the geneva convention, they use caterpillar equipment.
When you're engineering genocide, think caterpillar.
- Comment on Is there a website that can tell you the new names to I guess "classify" people? Like the R word, or the N word or skin color or nationaility? For ex. Is African American still acceptable and so forth 2 months ago:
Given the history of racism and colorism in the US, reducing a person of color to just their skin color can sometimes cause upset. Using a non-skin-tone related descriptor is generally safer.
- Comment on Is there a website that can tell you the new names to I guess "classify" people? Like the R word, or the N word or skin color or nationaility? For ex. Is African American still acceptable and so forth 2 months ago:
Did you use "mentally challenged" as a way to call someone stupid or were you talking about someone with a learning difficulty or developmental disability?
Most of the time if you cause offensive with your words, it's not the specific words as much as the tone, context and implication.
I grew up in australia which has a very different understanding of offensive/acceptable language. Before i say something that might be touchy, i mentally double check - is this information actually relevant? Am i saying this in good faith?
With a humble tone and a clear reason the worst response i've had was a polite "oh i think X is a better word, but yeah". Speak in good faith, people will respond with grace.
- Comment on Why do so many people regardless of whether their reasonings are justified or not pinpoint South Park for ruining a generation of millenials? 2 months ago:
they're trying to make a socialist statement
They're not though. Their politics aren't socialist, or progressive, or anything.
Their comedy is about shock and being uncomfortable. Whether the topic for the week is political, social or interpersonal the show will have a take that is designed to shock and make people uncomfortable, because there's laughs in being uncomfortable.
Claiming southpark is socialist is like claiming your fever dream was more Dengist than Trotskyite. That's just not how it works.
