mushroommunk
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- Comment on What was the actual reason for the crusade against NSFW games? 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on What was the actual reason for the crusade against NSFW games? 2 weeks ago:
It was the work of Collective Shout.
They’re an Australian christofascist group trying to push right wing purity nonsense. There was one game, No Mercy, that really did push things too far. Collective Shout was able to poster child that game and pressure payment providers into pressuring game platforms to delist a lot of NSFW games.
A lot of the ultra wealth you may have noticed have a christofascist lean, so with the vocal pressure from Collective Shout it was easy for them to claim economic harm saying if they didn’t pull games there’d be a boycott or something.
- Comment on Blizzard is reviving StarCraft as an open-world shooter, but it'll be a long wait 2 weeks ago:
I’m comparing basic single player open world to live service. Not POV
- Comment on Blizzard is reviving StarCraft as an open-world shooter, but it'll be a long wait 2 weeks ago:
Is it live service? I’ve only heard open world. More Just Cause than Destiny.
- Comment on How come we don't have more sketch comedy shows, like MadTv or In Living Color? Are we just going to be stuck with SNL for our lives? 2 weeks ago:
Came in specifically to mention Dropout.tv too. SNL even snagged one or two of their writers. This is where the comedy is.
- Comment on For-Profit Health Insurance is a major cause of death in America. 3 weeks ago:
What? Satire is to make fun of human failing. This is what satire is and is for.
- Comment on For-Profit Health Insurance is a major cause of death in America. 3 weeks ago:
There’s roughly 190,000 thousand deaths annually in the US believed to be directly caused by insurance and access issues.
pnhp.org/…/estimated-us-deaths-associated-with-he…
Yes it’s an onion article but it’s not untrue, just not a specific example. So why not upvote it in general acknowledgement of the issue? They don’t need a specific example because we all know how much of a problem insurance in the US especially in part because is tied to work for most people (and, well, this is work reform)
- Comment on Are there daytime bats? 3 weeks ago:
duckduckgo.com/?q=diurnal+flying+mammals&t=fpas&i…
I didn’t dig deep or verify anything, hope you find more info. It’s a solid question.
- Comment on Are there daytime bats? 3 weeks ago:
Quick duck duck go search says The Samoan flying fox and the Azores noctule are really about it for diurnal (active during the day time) bats.
Mostly yeah flying mammals decided to fly be active at night to reduce competition vertical. (By decided I mean complex evolutionary pressures of course).
- Comment on Poetry 3 weeks ago:
That feels like an xkcd question. How fast do you have to spin to color shift things? I have no idea how the math actually works out
- Comment on Poetry 3 weeks ago:
I did think about going that way, how blue roses are the one color we really don’t have even yet.
- Comment on Poetry 3 weeks ago:
Uhhh, that’s not really how we define those terms. They aren’t blue just because they’re doppler shifted. The rose is still red. It’s still reflecting those wavelengths.
Maybe this slight edit is more accurate: Roses are red
But might appear blue Depending on their velocity relative to you - Comment on Park benches don't "open" until 10am 4 weeks ago:
Only if you’re the lawyer, everyone else needs to put a little force behind the blade of grass
- Comment on What should I do about my family? 4 weeks ago:
You can survive. It’s not always the most fun option but it’s a very valid one. I was in basically the exact same boat as you. Ihad to put up with their crap long after I wanted to because it was truly the only option I had short of being a high school dropout living on the streets.
I made it through college and then began cutting them off as much as possible bit by bit. I’m now full no contact.
What I did was focus on myself and my interests. I focused on the things I could control. I couldn’t control their garbage attitude towards my hobbies, saying they’re useless and a waste of time (which, yes, they’re hobbies, that’s kind of the point) but I did them anyways (I watched So… Much… Anime…)
When I went to college I for the most part knew who I was, my flaws and strengths, and made more supportive friends.
You’ve got this. Just remember you’re in high school now but that isn’t forever. I started living my best life well after high school.
- Comment on I either want to learn French or Italian. Which should I learn in your opinion? 4 weeks ago:
That really depends on location and what you want to do. I want to go tour Italy one day, learning French instead of Italian would be silly.
- Comment on How come Pornstars don't teach Master Classes? So the average joe or joness can improve relationships and get better orgasms. Who would be better than pornstars? 5 weeks ago:
Multiple people have now said you’re coming off aggressive and completely misunderstanding them. Maybe talk the clue that you’re not just having a slightly different opinion and are in fact aggressively arguing something different from them
- Comment on How come Pornstars don't teach Master Classes? So the average joe or joness can improve relationships and get better orgasms. Who would be better than pornstars? 5 weeks ago:
I swear these arguments would be cut off quicker if people took even the tiniest bit of logic in high school and actually thought about things in “If A, or B, then C” and such.
Do people not learn their Valid Propositional Forms anymore?
- Comment on How come Pornstars don't teach Master Classes? So the average joe or joness can improve relationships and get better orgasms. Who would be better than pornstars? 5 weeks ago:
Except all your replies are about the people who have transitioned into sexologist roles. You’re responding to negatives people aren’t asserting.
- Comment on How come Pornstars don't teach Master Classes? So the average joe or joness can improve relationships and get better orgasms. Who would be better than pornstars? 5 weeks ago:
On the flip side, you seem to think them being pornstars does indeed give them this extra knowledge that it doesn’t. They’re acting in the videos. Yes several have put in the time to acquire knowledge and transition into an educational role, but not because of magic porn knowledge.
- Comment on The Politics of Cyberdecks: Why women around the world are building their own DIY computers. 5 weeks ago:
TL:DR - they aren’t
This article was a lot about why people in general are choosing to build cyberdecks and chose to highlight women from that community, but I saw only the following quote for a “women specific” reason. Honestly the entire thing felt like they wrote bullet points they fed through an AI to make gendered
Building cyberdecks, many off-grid, can allow women and girls to feel safe, because it allows them to disconnect from the online spaces where abusers most often reach them.
- Comment on Day 762 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 1 month ago:
Oh, uh… Don’t try to understand it you say?
puts down my fountain pen and the map of the house I was drawing
- Comment on Day 762 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 1 month ago:
If you love Control, read the book that inspired it.
Read “House of Leaves”
Highly recommend. One of the best and weirdest reading experiences I’ve ever had
- Comment on It's great to see a politician that's progressive and Not a Millionaire. 1 month ago:
Another commenter explained how it was stopped, but he was only going to forgive some for people below a threshold. AOC and Sanders are trying to forgive all for everyone and make it free moving forward. AOC was very vocal about Biden not taking it far enough
- Comment on It's great to see a politician that's progressive and Not a Millionaire. 1 month ago:
AOC has argued for student loan cancellation for all and free college education for all. She and Bernie Sanders have put forth proposals to do just that. They’re just fighting an uphill battle.
- Comment on Rideshare Stimulator finally gets its genAI disclosure after much Saber-rattling, and it turns out the game also uses the tech for in-game music 1 month ago:
Sybian missed an opportunity here to make this game first
- Comment on Why put data centers in space? 1 month ago:
You’re talking about project Natick. All reports I saw was that it was actually a resounding success. The only reason I’ve seen for why it was cancelled is because it wasn’t able to be kept at the bleeding edge as they couldn’t upgrade the servers randomly. It doesn’t really compare to launching them into space which gives basically zero benefit but adds an insane amount to the cost.
- Comment on Why put data centers in space? 1 month ago:
Plus the ozone layer destruction as they re-enter the atmosphere when decommissioned
- Comment on Why do seemingly well-adjusted adults find it acceptable to loudly play tiktoks on public transport? 1 month ago:
Oh no, not without very good reason (we have had to video call a doctor friend about a stranger while out in public, that was a weird day).
In general we’re right there with you. We grumble about how it seems that since COVID people have forgotten how to be considerate while out and about.
And drive. Everyone forgot how to drive during COVID and still haven’t re-learned.
- Comment on Why do seemingly well-adjusted adults find it acceptable to loudly play tiktoks on public transport? 1 month ago:
There’s plenty of good uses. Phone speaker is real good when wife calls in the middle of an online match to double check something in a ten second call while actually at the store. I can mute my mic and take it with my gaming headphones still on.
But I’m the only one home, and, ya know, at home not public.
- Comment on "Digital Signatures" just ask you to type your name into a box now. Am I right in thinking this almost-completely defeats the purpose of a signature? 1 month ago:
Reading through these comments and I’m just now realizing something; I’ve never gone searching to see data on if cursive actually is faster on average and if so, how much. And does that handwriting improves memory fact apply more to cursive or print writing or equally just because it uses more muscles in general?
I’d imagine it would partially depend on the script chosen, ligature vs looped, Spencerian vs New American vs D’nealian etc for speed but the memory thing I’ve got no guess.