JakenVeina
@JakenVeina@midwest.social
- Comment on Is there a mechanism in the USA to undo presidential pardons years later if political corruption has been proven as motivation to give these pardons? 1 day ago:
I don’t think so. As far as I’m aware, it’s never come up before. The way it would play out, I think, would be something like…
- Future president issues an EO or whatever rescinding the pardon. This doesn’t really accomplish anything, though. It’s really just a signal to the DoJ that the president proooobably wants them to pursue charges against the individual in question. Which they’ve probably already discussed directly.
- DoJ brings charges against the individual.
- The individual, files a motion for dismissal of charges, on the grounds of the prior pardon.
- The judge hears arguments from the DoJ about why that pardon should be considered invalid, and rules one way or the other. If I had to guess, I’d say most judges would rule that the existing pardon can’t be overturned, as it’s a power defined explicitly in the Constitution, and overturning pardon’s isn’t.
- Regardless of the ruling, the decision gets appealed and escalated through the appeals court system to work out the final outcome.
- Comment on How do you sleep at night? Please respond with a number 1 week ago:
#1, usually.
- Comment on same shit every day, on god 2 weeks ago:
Just that “power plant” I think most people associate with large enclosed facilities that house power generating equipment, which doesn’t quite describe wind and solar farms. Hence that most people refer to them as “farms”.
- Comment on same shit every day, on god 2 weeks ago:
I dunno if “power plant” quite fits for solar and wind. Definitely for Hydro, though.
- Comment on He a little confused, but he got the spirit 2 weeks ago:
Alternatively, maybe a bunch of the letters just got sold since the message was made.
- Comment on How Lina Khan Is Busy Striving To Maximize Mamdani's Power 4 weeks ago:
Khan, who spearheaded some of the Biden administration’s worst efforts to disrupt free markets with heavy-handed government intervention, repeatedly tested the limits of FTC power, and attempted to do through an executive agency things that should have been left to Congress.
Loooooool. Democrats finally have someone willing to turn just a little bit of the Republicans’ own tactics against them, and they’re already whining about it. If Congress (state or federal) doesn’t like they laws she’s abusing, they can get off their asses and fucking DO something about it. See how well it goes over with New Yorkers when they lower prices for shit, and enforce consumer rights, and Congress tries to pass laws to undo it.
- Comment on I hate it when people use pictures showing the condiments only on top of a hot dog. 4 weeks ago:
That’s the precise reason that you eat a hotndog the same way.
- Comment on Everything must go 4 weeks ago:
As in, they’re going to end operations in the US? Great news! Wish it could’ve happened sooner.
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I’m aware this likely means nothing of the sort.
- Comment on Are there good Movies, TV Shows, Anime, with wholesome family (particularly parent-child) relations? 1 month ago:
Bob’s Burgers has got to be the #1 here. One of the most loving families in television history.
Avatar - The Last Airbender might be a contender. If you can tolerate some entirely NOT wholesome dynamics alongside all the wholesome ones.
The Owl House also comes to mind.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Grats!
- Comment on How would you quickly describe Lemmy to a non-fediverse person? 1 month ago:
Social media, but it’s setup lile e-mail, so there’s no one single company that owns everything or enforces universal rules. Anyone can do their own hosting and still communicate with everyone else.
- Comment on Who's your favorite female protagonist in a video game? (Add pic of character in response) 2 months ago:
Commander Shepard.
- Comment on jsjjsjs 2 months ago:
Dare I ask which one is actually from the game?
- Comment on Happy 20th anniversary to the Corrupted Blood incident! 2 months ago:
Also, if you like videos: youtu.be/EB3jOD2wjUc
- Comment on This is a real post from the official DHS account on X 2 months ago:
God bless ICE
I mean, yeah, they’re gonna need it to stay outta hell.
- Comment on Hollow Knight Silksong (mod recommendations) 2 months ago:
Yeah, I’m well versed in Team Cherry’s habit of hiding stuff behind the edge of a body of water.
- Comment on Hollow Knight Silksong (mod recommendations) 2 months ago:
I’m definitely overstating for effect, but yeah, to me, the game very much feels like they wanted to cater to the inhuman speedrunning and challenge running crowd from Hollow Knight, and made things unreasonable for causal/average gamers.
Maybe my bias is in having played and loved Hollow Knight first, but I NEVER felt like I was being given an unreasonable challenge in Hollow Knight. And Hollow Knight, by the late and post game, is HARD. They just managed to balance the difficulty curve so masterfully, that every escalation felt natural, even exciting.
Silksong, overall, did NOT do this for me. The early game felt obnoxiously punishing, the mid-game completely fell off a cliff into easy, once you get a handful of key upgrades, and the late game just varied all across the spectrum.
- Comment on Hollow Knight Silksong (mod recommendations) 2 months ago:
Last Judge runback didn’t really bother me. Just sprint straight out, with a few properly-timed jumps, and you skip every enemy and reach the boss in about 30 seconds.
Bilewater was nonsense, even after learning how to run it perfectly. And I LIKE Bilewater, as an area.
- Comment on Hollow Knight Silksong (mod recommendations) 2 months ago:
Agreed, the fight itself I didn’t find too difficult. Just the runback. And I got REALLY good at the runback.
- Comment on Hollow Knight Silksong (mod recommendations) 2 months ago:
There’s about 3 different “no double-damage” mods that I’ve tried, for a boss I just couldn’t be assed to try legit, anymore. They all seemed to work, fine.
There was a “respawn outside the boss room, instead of at a bench” mod that I installed for a particular boss (you can probably guess), but I can’t really speak about whether it works, cause I happened to beat it on the next try after installing.
There was an “infinite shards” mod I tried, but it didn’t work at all, and I didn’t see any others, so be wary of that one.
Referring to mods available on Nexus Mods, BTW.
- Comment on Hollow Knight Silksong (mod recommendations) 2 months ago:
To make it playable for normal people.
- Comment on Is anyone NOT steaming their Music? 2 months ago:
Yes.
- Comment on What is up with Gen Alphas love for Austin Powers? 2 months ago:
It’s a parody movie that stands on its own, even if you don’t know anything about what’s being parodied. It has a legit plot and character writing that could hold up decently well, if all the parody were removed.
- Comment on It's official: EA is going private. 2 months ago:
Oh, cool, another buyout where the buyer doesn’t have to actually pay for it, they just take out a loan and magically make the company pay for it.
- Comment on Hollow Knight Silksong Patch Version 1.0.28497 Now Live 2 months ago:
Unfortunately, the Lugoli bug is still a thing, after the patch. Saw it happen on a stream from before the patch, then got it myself a couple days ago.
FYI, supposedly if it happens, you should close out and reopen the entire game, or it will continue happening.
- Comment on Hollow Knight Silksong Patch Version 1.0.28497 Now Live 2 months ago:
Every player I know had a lot of trouble with her, because they didn’t vash their head against the Craw gauntlet first, like I did, and get Silk Storm, which makes her ADDs laughable. And fair enough, I think the Craw gauntlet is supposed to filter you until well after Sister Splinter.
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong is out now on Steam - and it broke Steam servers for 15 minutes and counting now 3 months ago:
The highly-anticipated sequel to 2017’s indie hit video game Hollow Knight. 2-time winner of “Most Anticipated Game” at the Unity Awards, and 3-time winner of “Most Wanted Game” at the Golden Joystick Awards. The most-wish-listed game on Steam, up until its release today.
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong is out now on Steam - and it broke Steam servers for 15 minutes and counting now 3 months ago:
2.5 hours and counting. 🥲
- Comment on ELDEN RING NIGHTREIGN - A high-difficulty Expedition mode, "Deep of Night," has appeared 3 months ago:
Sounds like maybe this is the “ranked mode” that rumors were going around about? Thank god, if so, the last thing this game needs is more incentive for players to be competitive against each other.
Neat concept, it sounds like. They really are just using this game as an excuse to try every new idea they have, aren’t they?
- Comment on Satisfactory to finally come to consoles November 4th! 3 months ago:
I tried it a few weeks ago. Streamed it from my PC to the living room, cause I didn’t feel like getting off the couch.
It was better than I thought it’d be, but I’m not keen on doing it again, when I have KBM available. Tough to to say how much of the discomfort is just fighting my KBM muscle memory, and how much is “game fundamentally too complicated for controller”. I only had one REAL complaint about the way a particular button/input was mapped.