hildegarde
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- Comment on The Matrix 1 day ago:
Big pharma ruined the metaphor by changing the pill colors.
The blue pill was an antidepressant, the red pill was estrogen.
Also the main villian is a man in a suit who constantly deadnames the protagonist. The matrix is real life.
- Comment on Why have we as a society just accepted the increasingly blinding bright lights of cars? 1 day ago:
This is a US and Canada problem. This is basically a non-issue in the rest of the world.
There are two standards for headlights, one established by the UN that applies to 99% of countries. Whereas the US and Canada have the other standard that is far worse for glare.
The global standard has strict rules on glare, requiring a sharp cutoff line at the top of the beam. The american regulations do not have this. American regulations do not account for headlight height off the ground, defining alignment purely with angles. An SUV or pickup with its headlights mounted above your eyeline can legslly shine the fullest part of its lights directly into your eyes at all times. In contrast, the international regulations account for height, and require tall vehicles to incline their headlights further downward to avoid dazzling other drivers.
This problem can be solved for new cars instantly by switching to the international standard. The auto industry is international. They sell in markets with the global standard and could switch their headlights immediately after a change in the law. This is an easily solvable problem.
- Comment on How to sexualize males for a female audience? 1 week ago:
To sexualize men for women, you have to understand women.
To men, attraction is largely visual. So to sexualize a woman for a male audience means making her look attractive, and dressed in a revealing outfit. Swapping the genders doesn’t work. A visually attractive man in a revealing outfit is far more likely to appeal to either gay men sexually, or men generally as a power fantasy. To appeal to women you need a fundimentially different strategy altogether.
Consider erotic literature. Its a genre that is disproportionately popular with women. Its basically anti-porn, no visuals all story. Male characters in these stories are almost always sexualized by women for women. The attraction mostly from their choices and actions than appearance. You need a completely different approach.
Go read some smut. Talk to straight women about who and what they find attractive. You have to learn a lot about women to appeal to them. What they are looking for, and how they are looking for it is entirely different from men.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
If that’s how you feel about your penis, you should consider taking hormones about it.
- Comment on klown show 6 x-treme 5 weeks ago:
That’s just KDE. But why am I imagining a mirror dimension universe where its called CDE and all the software names are normal words with the k’s replaced with c’s.
- Comment on It's been a tough month 5 weeks ago:
You sound like someone with little to no experience with breasts. Breasts are squishy. Their shape is greatly effected by clothing. That is exactly how it works.
- Comment on Why are prop, non functioning guns way more expensive than airsoft guns? 1 month ago:
Props are low volume specialty products for professionals. Airsoft guns are high volume toys for the mass market.
A theater or film production company can afford expensive quality props, because they are an organization with an orginizarion sized budget. Airsoft guns have to be cost cut and mass produced to a low price point because they sell to normal people with human scale budgets.
Also the brown furniture on the NCR service rifle is wood. Be authentic, learn carpentry.
- Comment on Owlcat is using generative AI for The Expanse Osiris Reborn, but the final game will be "100% human made" 2 months ago:
Crude MS-Paint drawings are the best placeholder art. Scribbles can be made as fast, if not faster than AI. It shows the information it needs to show, but most importantly its incredibly obviously unfinished art that needs to be redone before release.
AI art looks pretty good at a distance without close inspection. You have to look closely and spend time to tell AI from art. Late in production when rushing for the deadline is not a point when you have the time to look closely at the assets, so AI placeholders will get missed.
Placeholders is a bad use case for AI.
- Comment on it really do be like that 2 months ago:
This girl gets it
- Comment on If the color of the Sun was orange, wouldn't the clouds and everything white also be orange? My friend is adamant that 30 years ago the "real" Sun was orange but got replaced with a white LED. 4 months ago:
The sun is white, but the atmosphere reflects and scatters blue, allowing red and yellow to pass through. You see this effect in mornings and evenings when the sun’s light passes a much further distance in the atmosphere due to its low inclination. Your logic is sound, the clouds do appear orange at that time.
The only time you can safely look at the sun enough to determine its color normally is a sunset when it is tinted orange. I can see how he might have come to this conclusion but… wow…
- Comment on After GOTY pull, Clair Obscur devs draw line in sand: 'Everything will be made by humans by us' 5 months ago:
I see no issues here. These AI tools came out during the game’s development. Its not unreasonable to try using new tools upon release. And its reasonable to be unaware of the harms of these new tools before the harms are widely reported on.
If things were as described, this seems fine. They now have a clear policy against AI. People, even in groups can be mistaken and learn and change their was, which is what appears to have happened here. I can’t fault anyone for making the occasional misstep.
So long as they stick to their commitment to not use AI.
Not only is AI bad it is also bad —
- Comment on Are there supposed to be other options? 5 months ago:
If you ever have to use the oxygen masks and it smells like burning don’t worry that’s normal.
The passenger masks use a chemical oxygen generator. Pulling on the mask starts the reaction. Deploying the masks would require the plane to be taken out of service to replace the generators and inspect the system.
Sadly, no airline would ever let a pilot be that fun.
- Comment on How do you "feel" gender? 5 months ago:
You can only feel what it feels like to be you, and since you’ve only ever been yourself you have no point of comparison.
I don’t think gender feels like anything. I am trans, I have been both a man and a woman and in my experience they don’t feel different. In this moment I feel like myself, just as I did a decade ago.
The things that have changed is that I no longer suffer from a crippling depression with an unclear cause. I have a range of emotions, and can feel emotions correctly. I consider my body to be part of myself.
All the above are now clearly signs of gender dysphoria, but at the time were hard to identify. The depression always has a more plausible explanation. The other two, I barely noticed I had because I experienced that my entire life.
It took me a very long time to discover that I am trans. It took a lot of self reflection to figure it out. Feelings were useless. I did think I would be happier as a woman, but that always seemed like a logical deduction than a feeling.
- Comment on Google AI summaries are ruining the livelihoods of recipe writers: ‘It’s an extinction event’ 5 months ago:
I’ve gone back to physical cookbooks from the last century. SEO slop has made the the internet useless for recipes for years, and now this.
- Comment on Ratioed 6 months ago:
Wait is that a thing? Was a supposed to sign up for notifications somewhere? No one told me.
- Comment on Years later, Arkane’s Dishonored is still a modern stealth classic 6 months ago:
Yes, its a deliberate choice.
Dishonored is a descendant of the looking glass studio, 0451 immersive sim games, such as Deus Ex. These are games have flexibility, they let you choose how you approach. You can fight, or you can sneak, or you can do both. The game succeeds on this goal, as you can have a very satisfying time with the combat or the stealth, and you can do both. You can fight your way out of failing to sneak.
The morality system gives the game reactions to your actions, gives your choices an effect outside of the level you’re currently on. It does encourage a specific play style but that is deliberate. The outsider is a malevolent force, who doesn’t care for this world. He gives you these powers that come with a cost. Getting the good ending requires to resist the temptation. That’s the point.
- Comment on Anon plays Skyrim 7 months ago:
Don’t respect the wishes of the female character, instead respect the wishes of the, presumed to be male writer. I see you.
- Comment on Fact 7 months ago:
i want to be a goth girl
- Comment on If A.I. is so fast and efficient, and CEOs are paid so much, why not replace CEOs with A.I.? 7 months ago:
Because the purpose of a CEO is wealth transfer. Controlling the company is purely incidental.
- Comment on Trump posted this in Truth. 8 months ago:
This looks like treason. Treason is fun because there are both federal and state versions of it.
- Comment on Good news. :) 8 months ago:
That’s the old washington. We’ve had plenty of updates and fixed many of the issues for the new one. Good way to remember it is that the nation’s capital is called Washington DC. DC is an Italian abbreviation for Da Capo which means from the beginning.
- Comment on Good news. :) 8 months ago:
Probably make us territories to start with full province status later. Joining Canada as provinces would be much more like Canada becoming the outer Pacific states. California alone has nearly the same population as the entirety of Canada.
- Comment on Good news. :) 8 months ago:
Good first step. We can and should do more.
- Comment on Good for plants 9 months ago:
so all music is country now
- Comment on Good for plants 9 months ago:
Since when is Mozart’s 16th piano sonata country music?
- Comment on [deleted] 9 months ago:
I would imagine they had more to go on than just the username. Its a small community, whenever someone joins for the first time the mods check their post history. I imagine they found something.
It is what the community wants. Its a comfy little space for girls to talk about girl stuff! The mods do an effective job maintaining that atmosphere.
- Comment on [deleted] 9 months ago:
I find it interesting that their objections are about the evidence used for bans, rather than claiming they were banned in error.
It’s certainly not how I would respond if I were falsely accused of bring a man.
- Comment on [deleted] 9 months ago:
You don’t have to get bottom surgery, unless you want to.
- Comment on [deleted] 9 months ago:
WomensStuff is also trans affirming so the solution is obvious.
- Comment on I am looking to broaden my youtube channels that I follow. What female channel are you following? 10 months ago:
When learning a language, you don’t do literally everything by the book. In the real world you have to figure it out and extrapolate from incomplete information, and sometimes you get it a bit wrong.
From a few minutes playing on an autotranslator, it appears that Norwegan uses the same word for male/man and female/woman. Like the noun and adjective versions are the same word with different conjugations. A Norwegan learning english as a second language can quite reasonably be unaware that there is a distinction there.