MisterFrog

@MisterFrog@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What a great idea⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This was excellent. Disappointed the YT algorithm doesn’t agree

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tankie⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I assumed it was a second bag.

  I miss the days of a skillful photo edit

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Beer is for GIRLS⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This comment is way too far down.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Woops⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Back in my day, whoops had an h, which was the style at the time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Speedy Delivery⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “Magic system” is a bit of an oxymoron

  This is just the currently accepted terminology in world building: rebeccashedd.com/…/the-worldbuilders-toolkit-buil…

  I’m just extending this to sci-fi also, as have many others, because they’re basically the same thing, only that the sci-fi magic systems are vaugely based on real-life science (but vary wildly how closely).

  Think Stargate with their loosey-goosey ancients and accession, vs the much more grounded The Expanse.

  I’m just not a fan of magic systems without any rules at all.

  Hence why I find supernatural stories less interesting, which streaming services, book shops, and movie theatres, frustratingly categorise under fantasy. They are very different from sci-fi and fantasy, in my opinion.

  If your magic is purely “mysterious”, that’s boring, and lazy story-telling (In my opinion).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Speedy Delivery⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Just joking around, but yeah, I personally enjoy what I call “supernatural” stories less than sci-fi and fantasy with proper world-building

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They can't keep getting away with this⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Wait until you hear about How Vodka Ruined Russia

  Tankies ought to be frothing at the mouth about alcoholism, since apparently they love Stalin. And Stalin brought back alcoholism to Russia (Not a socialist at all, in my opinion)

  (Disclaimer, I’m in general much further left than the YouTube channel Kraut, but he makes some quite well put-together videos)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Speedy Delivery⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Soft magic systems aren’t any fun. Change my mind.

  Christianity, stranger things and paranormal activity are equally as uninteresting to me because it’s “because I said so”. Boooooooo, come up with some rules for your world.

  Can we make a new category of fiction called “supernatural” SEPARATE from sci-fi and fantasy? Thanks, that would be nice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨On dasher!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Dashing through the bush in a rusty Holden ute. Kicking up the dust, esky in the boot. Kelpie by my side, singing Christmas songs, It’s summer time and I am in my singlet, shorts and thongs. Oh

  Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way, Christmas in Australia on a scorching summer’s day, Oh, Jingle bells, jingle bells, Christmas time is beaut. Oh what fun it is to ride in a rusty Holden ute.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon thinks everyone should grow up⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Jokes on you, my parents never used physical punishment, so this hasn’t stirred me to action. So, take that!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My Religion⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Out of curiousity, which one is this?

  And whether you look under the rug, is that true in all texts of the religion?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨idk⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  www.lifeline.org.au www.beyondblue.org.au/…/suicide-prevention

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨same shit every day, on god⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Image

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hashtag spiritual hashtag truth⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Applying selection bias to the reply

  Insert inception bwwwwaoww

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This is the first useful example of fahrenheit I’ve ever heard.

  Doesn’t really beat 0°C being freezing (great for weather), in my opinion, but still nice!

  Thanks

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Does this mean the big bang happened in -273.15 BC?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hashtag spiritual hashtag truth⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I dunno, seems pretty rock solid that the majority of people aren’t praying to the Christian god, seeing as nowhere even close to a majority of people on earth are Christian.

  There are all sorts of religions out there, and many who don’t believe in religion at all.

  I do agree that all humans are prone to bias, that’s why it’s so important to be aware of it in order to mitigate it.

  The OOP making some stupid religious claims, definitely is not aware.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hashtag spiritual hashtag truth⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s because they missed the point of my comment. That it’s selection bias to claim that everyone is praying to the Christian god, when statistically, that can’t be true, even if they are praying.

  The selection bias had nothing to do with selecting the planes that crashed, but selecting planes that crashed in the US, which is a much more Christian country than many other places.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hashtag spiritual hashtag truth⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This mfer has never heard of selection bias.

  What are the bets they’re in the US, and hearing about crashes mostly in the US?

  Christianity may be the largest religion in the world, but it’s a plurality, not a majority.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FAWK BAHD! PUT THAT DART OUT!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This seems on brand haha

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  12/25/25

  I have been TRIGGERED.

  We don’t use that kind of filthy language in this house.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FAWK BAHD! PUT THAT DART OUT!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This is fairly common in various industrial sites when it’s big enough.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FAWK BAHD! PUT THAT DART OUT!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  While there are many such people, there are also many workers who are just as exploited by capitalism as you, and are just getting by, or work for a company that does work for oil companies from time to time and you don’t get to choose what projects you’re on.

  As with most things, it’s capitalism that needs to end in order to have much chance of mitigating climate catastrophe.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FAWK BAHD! PUT THAT DART OUT!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  A friend of a friend worked at a plant where someone got fired for riding around on the provided bicycles with no hands and crashed.

  Shit like this would also most certainly get you fired at any plant.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨IT'S TIME! ⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  As a vegetarian who mostly eats vegan, why is it that I find PETA so annoying?

  Without looking into it further, I’m gonna guess the same reason I find a lot of people I agree with on a number of issues so insufferable: holier-than-thou, self-congratulatory, moral crusading.

  Just existing and being willing to answer people’s questions genuinely is way more effective. I literally never bring it up, people only find out by happenstance and often ask about it themselves. If they don’t, it’s not that interesting (in my opinion).

  Anecdotally, anyway.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨challenge⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I just want to congratulate you on the excellent punny username haha

  I hope that’s not your actual name and birth year though, DATENSCHUTZ! (/jk)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We've got it all worked out⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Turbulence seems to be to be deterministic chaos, that if we had perfect resolution, and unlimited processing power, we could predict turbulent flow with precision.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Every accusation is a confession? More like everything is a confession⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  When was the last time Switzerland actively made first strikes against countries not violating your territory?

  These don’t feel equivalent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NEW TOAD ALERT⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thank you Egyptians! 𓆏𓆏𓆏

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not impressed⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Nah buddy, we all went to school, and it’s abundantly clear that in modern English, and animal is part of the Kingdom Animalia.

  So, the only people (in the English speaking world) who don’t think of insects or fish an animals, either are of a much, much older generation, or didn’t do very well in school.

  Most fucking 6-year-olds, in Australia at least, would be able to answer yes to “is a fish an animal?”.