Wrufieotnak
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- Comment on Man critical after being mauled by dog in Sydney apartment 5 days 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? 5 days 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? 1 week 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? 1 week 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 ? 1 week 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 Seeing jealous trolls try accusing artists of art theft and then mysteriously forgetting where the proof is and backpedalling once caught 2 weeks ago:
Oh for sure. Either they were jealous or can’t admit they made a mistake (and were unnecessarily antagonistic).
- Comment on Seeing jealous trolls try accusing artists of art theft and then mysteriously forgetting where the proof is and backpedalling once caught 2 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks 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? 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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? 3 weeks 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? 3 weeks 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] 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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! 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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.
- Comment on Forever Winter Update? 5 weeks ago:
It’s in early access though? That’s exactly what you can expect in an EA game (pun intended). The game is being developed right now, so you buy it to support the devs, not to play a fully finished game! And if you play it, you give the devs feedback, so they can adjust the game as is needed.
- Comment on Charlie Chaplin - Final Speech from The Great Dictator 1 month ago:
Nah, it just looked big compared to his 16 year old affair Mildred Harris.
- Comment on How huge London far-right march lifted the lid on a toxic transatlantic soup 1 month ago:
I mean, isn’t that politics in West Europe for the last 30 something years?
I can’t remember the box parties ever truly following left ideas.
- Comment on Has Charlie Kirk ever changed his views on a subject during a debate? 1 month ago:
If Christians would go back to crusading against each other like the fourth crusade, the rest of us could maybe have some peace.
- Comment on No justice, no peace. 2 months ago:
Ah thanks for explaining it, I understood it exactly backwards.
- Comment on No justice, no peace. 2 months ago:
Did you mean decrease? Otherwise that whole universe is pretty much completely dead
- Comment on The train that never came; how maglev technology was derailed 2 months ago:
No, the other commentator is right.
What they said is that you add 100 km/h, and you gain 2h when you add it to a slow train with 100 km/h, but if you add 100 km/h to a fast train with 400 km/h, you only gain a few minutes.
That is called diminishing returns.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
‘Lay yourself bare before your therapist!’ Gets a whole new meaning (or not for some of your clients ^^")
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
I really think there is a market niche that combines your two professions to finally get more men to go to therapy.
- Comment on oops 3 months ago:
Plastic are made from fossil fuels which are from primordial plants. So still organic according to your definition. Just a few hundred million years since it was alive.
- Comment on Krafton Delays ‘Subnautica 2’ Game Ahead of $250 Million Payout 3 months ago:
According to the article the old leadership wanted to share the bonus with the whole development team of around 100 people. I don’t think the motivation of the team will be great now that the publisher pushed the bonus in unreachable distance. Fucking assholes can’t even stand by their own promises.
- Comment on Subnautica 2 studio begs rioting fans for benefit of the doubt after leadership axed by owner Krafton: 'The team that has been working on the game day-to-day ... remains completely unchanged' 3 months ago:
I also find it unbelievable that the other player never experienced bugs, because I also had a lot of them during my play through.
But your list is a complete mess with a mixture of bugs and design decisions. And the latter aren’t bugs. That’s just not how it works. It would make your argument stronger, if you stay with the facts and not include your personal disagreements with game features.
