Wrufieotnak
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- Comment on who was the aggressor in cold war? 1 week ago:
I mean Cuba was a crisis and dangerous for sure, and the USSR pushed it to the near breaking point, but I still find it funny that the USA got nervous when strategic rockets were close to them, something that was true for Moscow nearly the whole time.
- Comment on who was the aggressor in cold war? 1 week ago:
Both sides were the aggressors in general and each side had moments where they were the more active part leading to confrontations.
I don’t think the cold war can be described as one single conflict with a clear aggressor, which is the whole point why it is called a cold war.
I’m not knowledgeable enough if there are statistics about which side was more in the wrong or did more aggressor stuff.
But for me, knowing that the USA did the Iran and CIA stuff while the USSR did Afghanistan and KGB stuff is enough for me to decide both were elitist assholes that didn’t care for normal humans but just wanted to increase their own power.
- Comment on Is this true for Germans? 1 week ago:
True, and it still doesn’t include that the boot industry has no interest in building proper snow safety but just to make it as cheap as possible and if the boots fail, the state should pay you for your wet and cold feet.
- Comment on Is this true for Germans? 1 week ago:
No, your example is wrong.
It’s like saying nobody should go into the snow because it can’t be 100% ensured that all shoes are snowready.
- Comment on How come laptops or pc's don't have a "webcam" facing both ways instead of just the user? 1 week ago:
Because tablets are not normal PCs, but rather big smartphones, which are expected to have cameras.
- Comment on What do other languages use for "magic" words; or names and titles in fantasy and sci-fi novels or cinema? 3 weeks ago:
While you are right in general, Fullmetal Alchemist isn’t an example of glorifying Nazi Germany. The country is a military dictatorship, they committed a genocide while conquering a neighbouring region and are not portrayed as the good guys. The war and genocide was shown to have long lasting bad effects both on the victims and the perpetrating soldiers. And the leadership is literally working for the big bad.
Just wanted to clarify, as this is one of the few examples where they play the Nazi card straight instead of going: “nice uniform and marching music”.
- Comment on ¡! FREE REFILLS !¡ 3 weeks ago:
These things are mostly used for dry, waterfree solvents.
We do proper science here, which explodes and/or becomes useless if it sees even one water molecule. So no, no water! Begone with your aquatic sin!
- Comment on Tyranny: Recommended starting character with a mind to story, not ease of combat? 3 weeks ago:
I would also advise to go with magic, since you can generate your own spells here, which is really fun. And you will have a high Lore stat, which will help you experience more lore background of this fantastic works.
- Comment on Any games I missed in the last 21 months? 4 weeks ago:
Hollow Knight: Silksong
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2
Still wakes the Deep
Indika
Blue Prince
Hades II
Another Crab’s Treasure
Animal Well
- Comment on 'Architects of AI' named Time Magazine's Person of the Year 4 weeks ago:
True, but the picture tells a story on its own.
- Comment on Change my Mind 4 weeks ago:
You are right, but Bloodlines 2 is a bad example. I only heard bad things about that game prerelease, more advertisement would not have convinced me to buy it. And the fans were rather taken aback by the changes to gameplay, namely focus on action and removal of RPG elements.
- Comment on Greed is Destroying the World - Drew Gooden 5 weeks ago:
Again: in the past they couldn’t, even if they tried, fuck up the whole biosphere of our planet as we are doing right now.
So no, not same as always. The underlying principle yes, but the scale was physically not possible before.
- Comment on Man critical after being mauled by dog in Sydney apartment 2 months ago:
Honestly I’m just glad it’s the owner themselves this time and not an innocent bystander.
It is a deserved fate for the owner, even if he did everything correctly. For the reason you said.
- Comment on If "James Bond" is a codename, would a hypothetical female operative filling the same role receive the same codename? 2 months ago:
The number was reassigned because Bond was not in the MI6 at that time, yes.
- Comment on When you attempt to get visas or citizenship status, you usually need legal documents from your home country, but what about dissidents who fled, and their government refuses to issue papers? 2 months ago:
Can you give me directions where that planet is with the same countries?
- Comment on When was the last time you actually laughed while playing a game? 2 months ago:
… It took your comment for me to reread the other one and yes, that does make more sense.
- Comment on There's been 7 replies to this post, but the usual chain of replies on lemmy aren't opening up. Normally l use brave browser, but when l opened my account on firefox, it's the same. Where's the bug ? 2 months ago:
Could be from somebody who is blocked by you or your instance. You could try opening the post from another Lemmy server and try to see it then.
And if the comment is blocked, then all replies are also blocked for you.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Oh for sure. Either they were jealous or can’t admit they made a mistake (and were unnecessarily antagonistic).
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
If I’m sure I saw it somewhere else, I would also speak up, BUT I would provide evidence of that. And I would ask in s different way, because it might have been that the artist just uses a new account name.
Why? Because I fucking had it with those motherfucking attention whores on this motherfucking internet.
I’m not the artist, but why should I not bring attention to somebody just stealing stuff and posting it as their own? It’s great that artist post their art for free on the internet for us to enjoy, the least (and often only) thing they should get out of that is that their user name is attached to that.
- Comment on Just in case you thought reviving dead games seemed easy enough, GOG had to hire a private investigator to find an IP holder living off the grid for its preservation program 2 months ago:
Same here, I watched the rest of the game on YouTube and the creativity is astounding. Next to try is NOLF 2, hopefully that one is better aged.
- Comment on coping 2 months ago:
Nerd!
- Comment on Are there video media (e.g TV shows, Movies, anime, video games, youtube videos, etc...) with a majority of the dialogue in an fictional language? 2 months ago:
ICO and Shadow of the Colossus don’t have a lot of dialogue, but what they have is in a fantasy language with subtitles for you to understand
- Comment on Get a bunch of Cosmic Mysteries and Noir Realities in the new Humble Bundle 2 months ago:
I played Norco and Disco Elysium, are the other games also of that high quality level?
- Comment on Did Border Control exist in previous eras? (Say, like 500+ years ago or more) Can people go to other places? If so, what does the procedure look like? Just walk across a border? 2 months ago:
Oh hell yes. There is still a lot to improve, but we shouldn’t forget what has already been gained!
- Comment on Did Border Control exist in previous eras? (Say, like 500+ years ago or more) Can people go to other places? If so, what does the procedure look like? Just walk across a border? 2 months ago:
Passports for everyone are a relatively new invention, but passports as sign of being the emissary of somebody important are much older. Paiza is one such example in the Mongols empire. Wikipedia has examples reaching into antiquity.
500+ years ago there very much was border control, at least in certain parts of the world, because every regional lord wants to control what goes into his kingdom and what leaves. I can only speak for Europe, but probably every feudal lord over the world did the same. They levied taxes on merchants transporting goods through their kingdom. That happened on border checkpoints where the big merchant routes where passing through. This is how a lot of regions got rich: by being between a source and a big buyer region and taxing the shit out of merchants.
That’s why smuggling was so attractive. Go through the official road and pay 10% of your profits or pay this nice man with the donkey 5% and he leads you through the woods on a path the lord’s soldiers don’t patrol…
Secondly, in feudal Europe 500 years ago, peasants were still often the property of their lords, they weren’t allowed to leave the country. Another reason why border control existed. So no, most normal people could not just leave and travel to another kingdom.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
“Hey ChatGPT, what word did white Americans use during the slavery times to describe their black slaves?”
Cue ragebait and “how could or say this???”
- Comment on Let's be honest about this 2 months ago:
Yeah, somehow this story travelled via school yards. I also didn’t know who that guy even was, but a big brother of a friend told us that story.
- Comment on They have a right to feel smug 2 months ago:
Not for all. But some of the big unions have them, so a lot of people get them, but not the majority of workers.
- Comment on Once again, looking for PS2 game suggestions! 2 months ago:
Regarding your second spoiler: that colossus kill definitely felt personal after that. I mean… It’s not even their fault, but I was determined afterwards.
- Comment on Can someone fact check this 2 months ago:
Just to add to your comment: calories in itself were a pretty good measurement for metabolic energy, because it is the energy needed to heat 1 gram of water by 1 °C, so something easily measurable to people at the time (roughly 100 years ago). The Joule was already proposed, but is less intuitive.
