Xariphon
@Xariphon@kbin.social
- Comment on What's the point of American police saying "Show your hands" after they shot a man? 11 months ago:
Like the guys who literally get away with murder on film need an excuse.
- Comment on Thank god I don't sing publicly anymore 11 months ago:
Dude could just be poly; nothing wrong with that.
- Comment on WebMD forcing employees back to office. "We aren’t asking or negotiating at this point. We’re informing" 11 months ago:
Sounds like a whole lotta quittin' time.
- Comment on Why is propaganda frowned upon? 11 months ago:
To me I think it has to do with propaganda being dishonest about being propaganda. Regardless of whether or not the content is disingenuous, propaganda often is presented as not propaganda, and that sets people up to have a bad impression right from the get-go.
- Comment on German riot police getting stuck in the mud at a coal mine protest in Luzerath (from January 2023) 11 months ago:
Mud Wizard!
- Comment on People who dont particularly care for or celebrate Christmas, Whats your favorite Christmas song? 11 months ago:
That song is hilarious.
- Comment on Does the rest of the English speaking world generally understand what an American means when they say "soccer", or does it help to clarify by adding "football"? 11 months ago:
Goddammit... I've watched enough Bake-Off, I should've known that.
- Comment on Does the rest of the English speaking world generally understand what an American means when they say "soccer", or does it help to clarify by adding "football"? 11 months ago:
... wtf else do you call candy?
- Comment on Anon lets it rip 11 months ago:
Realizing you used to be cringe just means you are less cringe now.
- Comment on Flying used to be this magical, miraculous thing! 11 months ago:
could have*
- Comment on Adam Driver Says Kylo Ren’s Original ‘Star Wars’ Arc Got Overhauled: He Was Supposed to Be the ‘Most Committed to the Dark Side’ by the End 1 year ago:
I like to imagine Jaina Solo endlessly ribbing her brother over the absolute dumpster fire they replaced him with.
- Comment on Why isn't a wired mouse connected through the keyboard? 1 year ago:
I have a keyboard that supposedly does this. It has never actually worked as advertised.
- Comment on Is the right to abortion a "negative right" or a "positive right"? 1 year ago:
Negative right. It's freedom from interference. It's not a positive right in that it is not compelling anyone to have or to perform an abortion, only preventing uninvolved parties from interfering in the decision.
- Comment on Jonathan Frakes Returning To Direct For ‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ Season 3 1 year ago:
I forgot he even directed that one. I was more thinking of Frame of Mind.
- Comment on Jonathan Frakes Returning To Direct For ‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ Season 3 1 year ago:
So, what I'm hearing is, we're in for some really awesome / utterly mindfuck episodes.
- Comment on Is Destiny 2 Still Worth Playing in 2023? - IGN 1 year ago:
I'm torn, even now.
I was super hyped for Lightfall. And then it sucked. A lot. The writing was awful, the gameplay changes were worse, you've all heard it all before.
I want to like it. I used to, during Beyond Light. Witch Queen was kind of awesome.
I'll probably play Final Shape just to see how this storyline ends, but I'm more skeptical than hyped now.
- Comment on Does anyone drink instant coffee anymore? 1 year ago:
I do when I can't be arsed otherwise.
On a good day, I slowly simmer oat milk and water in two pans and Aeropress fresh-ground coffee to make something akin to a flat white.
Can't be arsed? Oat milk in a mug in the microwave for 1-2 min and a tablespoon of Medaglia De Oro instant espresso powder.
- Comment on [CW: Slurs] Any attempt to connect with my dad immediately turns into "Woke liberals are ruining the world." 1 year ago:
Nobody likes him because he's an asshole.
The two do tend to go together though.
- Comment on What were some movies you had to look up explanations of after watching? 1 year ago:
Came here for this, glad to be beaten to it. I've seen this movie three times and I'm still not sure I could actually explain it.
- Comment on What were some movies you had to look up explanations of after watching? 1 year ago:
Holy shit was that movie a mindfuck.
- Comment on Gargoyles Live-Action Reboot Officially in Works at Disney+ 1 year ago:
I will never not be just a little bit salty that they didn't get Patrick Stewart to voice Oberon.
- Comment on Are there any prince movies for kids? 1 year ago:
Oh yes, my wife and I catch a bunch of those shout-outs.
- Comment on Are there any prince movies for kids? 1 year ago:
Also isn't Callum voiced by the guy who was Sokka?
- Comment on Being Mean to Scabs Is Working 1 year ago:
It took me far too many braincells to realize that this headline means "being mean to scabs is effective" and not "being mean to scabs is, itself, doing work."
Maybe I need to use the sleep.
- Comment on Totalitarianism. What are the good things about it? 1 year ago:
I could be wrong here -- I haven't exactly done a long-term study on this -- but my impression is that the way young people are treated (in the US at least) sets people up for this. When you wake up is dictated. What you do with most of your waking hours is decided for you, without your input or slightest consideration. What you wear, what you're allowed to say, who you spend your (increasingly limited) time with and what you spend it doing and where, even the emotions you express on your face, can be dictated to you by others who consider themselves in the right to do so.
This continues from before you are self-aware until nearly a decade beyond the age of abstract reasoning.
By the time you're allowed to make a serious decision, others have been dictating them to you for your entire conscious life. It's no wonder people never learn how to decide for themselves. I'm reminded of Brooks from The Shawshank Redemption: institutionalized. So conditioned to having no freedom that it's terrifying rather than liberating when you finally do.
- Comment on More than half of UK children do not read in their spare time, survey reveals 1 year ago:
If it's anything like it is here in the US... what fuckin' spare time? I mean, I remember having some when I was in grade school back in the 90s, but you look at kids nowadays and it looks like every waking second is scheduled, and what isn't ... is scheduled for homework. The fuck is left?
- Comment on Destiny 2 players are pre-ordering and cancelling The Final Shape just to get an exotic gun 1 year ago:
Wait, they finally got around to explaining what the veil was? What was it?
And yeah I 100% percent wish we had gotten poison instead of janky parkour. (I will admit that baiting the Sorrow Bearer into lunging off the map with Strand jumps was fun though.)
- Comment on Destiny 2 players are pre-ordering and cancelling The Final Shape just to get an exotic gun 1 year ago:
The writing was bad. I played through the campaign four times (three normal, one ... whatever the hell hard mode was called) and I still have no idea what "the Veil" even is, why we cared about it, why we did literally anything that we did, etc.
The new Darkness element was fun but the way it was introduced made it REALLY OBVIOUS it was supposed to be in Witch Queen and just got delayed.
Game balance went out the window, to the point where people were getting one-shot mapped by Cabal rocket launchers in patrol zones.
They introduced a new raid that, while thematically fun and visually gorgeous, was un-fun to play.
Eh... the more I Think about it the more everything Chozo said covers it more eloquently.
- Comment on Destiny 2 players are pre-ordering and cancelling The Final Shape just to get an exotic gun 1 year ago:
Seriously. Lightfall was such utter schlock it turned me off to the game entirely.
- Comment on So... Can you pet a turtle throught its shell? 1 year ago:
Some of them even do a cute little wiggle to get more shell scritches.