luciferofastora
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- Comment on there is a special place in hell for these scientists 11 hours ago:
I guess I…kinda lost the plot a bit when I wrote the second part, eh?
I think I got where you were going, I was just saying that someone trying to find a way around the legal restrictions indicates they’re not actually concerned about ethics, just about not getting in trouble for it. In that context, the problem “How do I do this in an ethically acceptable manner?” is “solved” with the answer “I don’t care”.
Generally, laws are the standard solution to ambiguities. Ethics are a murky and often subjective topic, so it makes sense to form some sort of common agreement on what is okay and what isn’t. And where there are laws, there are gonna be cunts proving exactly why we had to write it down in the first place…
- Comment on there is a special place in hell for these scientists 18 hours ago:
I simplified for comedic effect. You’re absolutely right that the “compromise” would be finding some humane and ethical solution, but “The most effective and direct way of finding out is cruel and callous” isn’t quite as snappy.
I guess my point is that sometimes even if it’s illegal you can get away with it if done correctly, with ruling party aligned stated goals…or you have access to a shit tonne of money and powerful friends.
That kinda dodges the conflict by not engaging with ethical concerns at all. I feel like calling it a solution would be morbid, but it does make the problem stop being a problem…
- Comment on there is a special place in hell for these scientists 20 hours ago:
Science and Ethics — the age old enmity between “I wanna know” and “I’m not allowed to find out”
- Comment on big facts 5 days ago:
I’ll show you some nice vibrations ;-)
- Comment on i unapologetically love male pits 1 week ago:
Love that you found something that works for you, and a person to do it with!
Now I wonder what things I might like that others find gross
- Comment on Liminal Space 1 week ago:
Plant eyes in our brain, to cleanse this ghastly idiocy!
- Comment on Why you shouldn't annoy the butler 1 week ago:
I wouldn’t have recognised the guy, nor the context, nor did I know about the heisy or the damaged jewels. This is just a lot of interesting context without which the joke wouldn’t have made any sense.
In such cases, explaining the joke actually makes it funnier. Thanks!
- Comment on the kind of dad i have tried to hook me up with a man in his 50s when i was 16 2 weeks ago:
“I want you to succeed! By selling your body! But only to one specific person, of course, otherwise that would be a bad thing.”
Something along those lines?
- Comment on Video game romances need to evolve beyond lore dumps 2 weeks ago:
B²G3 romances seem shallow and kind of transactional because it is a mix of characters who don’t know each other having a whirlwind romance in a relatively short period of time.
Add the sense of “we don’t know how much longer we have” and the general dramatisation of High Fantasy and you have one hell of an intense honeymoon phase.
After that, the game doesn’t really cover how your relationship plays out, aside from that short party epilogue. Sure, your shared experience may make for a strong start, but the arguments, the differences, the difficulties adjusting to one another while also grappling with the trauma of what you went through and the challenge of finding your place in this new world… there’s a lot left open that just doesn’t fit in this game’s frame.
- Comment on Video game romances need to evolve beyond lore dumps 2 weeks ago:
It would also accommodate some Aces I know that just find the concept unappealing at best and repulsive at worst. Having to click through scenes you don’t wanna see to get to the good stuff is just annoying, and the impression that your relationship is only “complete” once you do the deed obviously also isn’t great.
Conversely, decoupling sex from romance could help destigmatise it, particularly in monoamorous games. You don’t need to be fully committed to someone to do the special thing with them (though obviously cheating when you are committed is a bad thing). People who do it more casually aren’t being irreverent about something sacred. There needs to be consent, there needs to be trust, maybe make the player “earn it” in some way, but normalise the notion that it’s a thing people can do.
Either way: make it an option, not an obligation.
- Comment on Rage for the machine? 2 weeks ago:
Punk ain’t no religious cult
Punk means thinking for yourself
You ain’t hardcore when you spike your hair
When a jock still lives inside your headNazi punks, Nazi punks, Nazi punks: fuck off!
Nazi punks, Nazi punks, Nazi punks: fuck off!– Dead Kennedys
- Comment on Young gamers in Japan may not be forming the same attachment to Final Fantasy or Dragon Quest because modern dev cycles are as long as their childhood, users theorize - AUTOMATON WEST 2 weeks ago:
But also, what’s wrong with having any of those things?
Nothing. I’d take more good games instead of fewer hyperrealistic ones, if I had to choose, but those features themselves aren’t anything bad.
The compulsion that every game has to have them, that’s what’s annoying, particularly when it comes at the price of putting developers under pressure.
I’d argue it’s better to have those things with less developer crunch.
If we are to have them at all, yes, less crunch is better.
We don’t need children to form “attachments” to video game franchises. That just breeds loyalty to corporations.
The loyalty to corporations is a bad thing, absolutely, but I can also see how forming attachments can be nice. I very much enjoy my attachments to various movie or game franchises.
The shitty part is that these franchises are linked to corporations. I like Star Wars, but fuck Disney.
We need games that are developed with love and care by developers who treat their employees and customers humanely. Whatever that looks like, we want that.
Absolutely. Grand games should get the time and care they warrant. Commercial pressure is poisoning game development and has been for way too long already.
- Comment on I saw your face in a crowded place 2 weeks ago:
I sympathise with your username. I’ve picked up a habit of using dashes too, but because LLMs are apparently trained on the same writing style that I’m compulsively imitating, that habit tends to be mistaken as an identifier for LLM-slop—an understandable confusion, given that most people don’t casually use it, but I tend to fall into linguistic patterns with little regard for the context I’m writing in. I’ll accidentally use informalities in professional writing as well, but whereas I’ll make an effort to correct my tone in professional contexts, I just can’t be arsed to apply the same diligence in a casual one.
- Comment on You must tell me, please! 4 weeks ago:
That’s a low bar to clear
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
Celsius is great for engineering because Things Happen™️ when water starts boiling or freezing. But most people aren’t engineering daily.
I’d argue that it’s more covenient to use a common scale for all applications of the same measurement than to have multiple different scales, just because that would eliminate all conversion concerns. Someone I know is in engineering school has switched entirely to using °C simply because that’s what they deal with at school anyway, to the point they don’t even write °C anymore in casual chats.
For other applications, it seems like the scales we’re used to are more or less arbitrary anyway, so that’s really just a matter of getting used to it. Some are used to calling ~70°F room temperature, others say ~20°C,
So if it matters for one case, but not so much for others, and we were to pick a single scale, I should think it would be ideal to go with the case where it does matter.
Or we just keep doing this thing where people use what they’re used to and we just quickly look it up or someone comments with the conversion and move on with our lives.
- Comment on Randezvous 📅 1 month ago:
Sorry, I just heard lawnmower, what do I do with all this blood now?
- Comment on Randezvous 📅 1 month ago:
That shit has to be intentional.
I’m pretty sure it is, but not strictly by Wikipedia. It credits some 2001 column for coming up with it.
- Comment on Randezvous 📅 1 month ago:
Are you in pain?
- Comment on You never know who you're arguing with 1 month ago:
For one, it shouldn’t matter whether the other person who’s bad at the game is a kid, a senior, impaired, a noob, a busy adult or just someone who enjoys that game without putting in the effort to become really good at it: If you’re insulting someone over a game, you should sort out your priorities. I used to do that, because I was a miserable knobhead, but it really doesn’t make the game more enjoyable and made me even more miserable.
But secondly, it’s particularly bad with kids. Yes, life can be unpleasant, and learning to deal with other people’s disapproval is important, but there has to be a better way to ease them into that.
(Beating down on the impaired is also fucked up, obviously. Life has dealt them a shit hand already, so how about making an effort to include them instead? I promise, it’s more mutually enjoyable. Few good things are as infectious as the joy of someone used to being shut out with superficial pity. That’s not relevant to the topic, but I felt it’s worth mentioning.)
- Comment on Anon uses 4chan 1 month ago:
Mold is still a culture
- Comment on PFP Evolution 1 month ago:
That, or just a general abbreviation. If doesn’t have to be a specific form of abbreviation.
Radar (Radio Detection And Ranging) also isn’t a strict initialism, or it would be called RDAR.
Phrases like etc. (et cetera), & co. (company), vs. (versus), are also generally abbreviations.
- Comment on Sad Ganymede noises 1 month ago:
Not a fan of the genea visual language and style of anime and manga. I’m happy for all who enjoy it, it’s just not my taste.
- Comment on PFP Evolution 1 month ago:
Abbreviations don’t strictly have to follow any specific logic, they just need to be understood. What you’re describing is an initialism, where you just take the first letters.
My best guess for pfp is that it’s an initialism of the first three syllables because the fourth is unintuitive, three letters was common enough back in the day of BBS and pfp was recognisable enough, while pp is fairly ambiguous. Someone started abbreviating it like this, people picked up on it, and by the time I was old enough to engage with English message boards it was the norm already.
- Comment on Sad Ganymede noises 1 month ago:
I found it interesting that Warframe, set in the Solar System (+ SciFi/Fantasy stuff) features not only the various planets (including Pluto), but also moons (Deimos, Phobos, Europa) and dwarf planets (Ceres, Eris, Sedna) and even an asteroid (though the original name isn’t known, if it ever had one). Not relevant to the topic, just came to mind.
- Comment on Sad Ganymede noises 1 month ago:
I don’t like the format generally, so I never thought I’d appreciate a kawaii-anime-style narration with interesting facts about planets, yet here we are. Where’d you get them from? Or are you drawing them yourself?
- Comment on PFP Evolution 1 month ago:
That would be the initialism, yes, but pfp isn’t an initialism.
- Comment on PFP Evolution 1 month ago:
ProFile Picture
- Comment on Give me some good ones 1 month ago:
Most people like to feel like they’re better than most. Mediocrity is an insult to them.
Blessed are the simpletons that never realise or just don’t give a fuck.
- Comment on it's so fluffy 1 month ago:
hamsterdance.io is shilling a meme cryptocurrency though
- Comment on 1 month ago:
In my opinion, there are two ways to deal with that (well, three, but the third is “shrug and find something else to do”):
Playing on easiest difficulty makes the combat a non-issue, little more than set dressing, and allows you to focus on story and exploration. The combat would still bore you, but at least it would be over quicker.
Playing on the second hardest difficulty makes combat challenging enough to scratch the same itch as Dark Souls et al. do for me, but that’s obviously a matter of personal taste. Full on Deathmarch is even better for that, but I’m not convinced it’s a good idea for a first playthrough.
If neither works for you, shame, but it can’t be helped.