captainlezbian
@captainlezbian@lemmy.world
- Comment on 19 hours ago:
It is maintained through pills and cards (potions and scrolls in other rougelikes). Pills are randomized at the start of the run, cards you have to remember what each does. But also tabletop rpgs have changed since then. 2e era fantasy Vietnam isn’t what most people want to play anymore and so while random potions still exist these days you’re more likely to be able to figure what they do before being turned into a chicken
- Comment on 19 hours ago:
Yeah i think it should be an option to turn off. And like at my most addicted I would say git gud. But I come back for a few runs every few years and while I can remember some bs like soy milk + libra breaks the game in your favor but soy milk + brimstone is fucking unplayable. There’s so many items
- Comment on 19 hours ago:
Oh yay, I can take that mod off now
- Comment on Awooga 20 hours ago:
I mean I’d heard about a cup gain as a potential side effect. I was sad I didn’t get it and only got a covid resistance.
I wonder if they could intentionally induce mild breast growth with an mrna shot. I assume if possible it’d be risky but probably on par with boob jobs as they are now
- Comment on anon discusses car dependence 1 day ago:
Yeah but you did just describe massive changes in scenery in America. You can do 12 hours of the same here for sure, the great plains are really big, but usually 12 hours of driving later the scenery has changed. It’s 14 hours from Duluth Minnesota which is on Lake Superior to Sundance Wyoming which has the devil’s tower monument and is past the great long stretches of nothing that makes up the bulk of the Dakotas. Des Moines is a city surrounded by nothing but corn and open road (with a distinct feel from the Dakotas) and is 12 hours from Memphis Tennessee which is adjacent to Appalachia. Baltimore Maryland, a coastal city on the Chesapeake Bay and near a bunch of swamps driving 12 hours west and north can get you into and out of the Appalachian Mountains (and not a short cut of them), barely dodging Pittsburgh, Cleveland, and Toledo (with an optional roller coaster detour at Sandusky) while you hug Lake Erie, do the entire border of Michigan and Indiana before landing in Michigan City, Indiana on Lake Michigan, which looks like it’s just outside Chicagoland.
And out of curiosity I checked what a cross country trip looks like, NYC to Los Angeles is 50 hours, while the longest road trip between frequent destinations is Key West to Seattle at 63 hours. The latter of these begins on a tropical island, goes through swamps, deep south agricultural areas, Appalachia, Midwestern agriculture, the Mississippi River, Midwest agriculture, great plains, badlands, Rockies, pnw valleys, cascade mountains, and ends in a rainy ass wetlands, but this one has wild disparity between day length over the year.
- Comment on Or in 2025. Looking at you, Florida. 1 day ago:
Makes sense. Unfortunately diptheria will be swelling soon
- Comment on 5 tomatoes 2 days ago:
Its 2.54 cm to the inch. Its close to 2.5 and as an engineer in America I am stuck doing that conversion a lot
- Comment on The correct way 2 days ago:
Why is your flag orientable but difficult to tell‽
- Comment on We are helping 2 days ago:
Absolutely true. However, making better personal choices does make these systemic problems easier to solve. When people know vegetarians, meatless meals become more comprehensible. When less people use piped natural gas there’s less justification to keep this utility around and reduces the scramble to buy electric appliances if it does shut down. Taking public transit where available funds further public transit, justifies its existence, incentivises more transit centered development, and lets similar places see that that service is in demand.
Capitalism and democracy respond to perceived demand. Not what you want, but what they believe that the masses are willing to act on.
- Comment on We are helping 2 days ago:
Yeah the ultra wealthy have a disproportionate individual impact on the climate, but a climate neutral world (which would still be experiencing catastrophe, we’ve passed that point) would still require lifestyle changes from everyone.
I get the frustration that people have about this, but while they have large magnitude to individual ratios we have large individual to magnitude factors. The issue is that its the sum of the products of those. It may be significantly irrelevant if you personally quit meat, but if enough people quit meat that your grocery store moves to treating meat as a specialty item then that’s a bigger blip, and if Kroger has to do that nationwide that one might show up on global warming graphs as is.
Ultimately this is going to require changing things. Removing meat subsidies will do far more than you going vegetarian, but part of how it will do that is by you and everyone else eating less meat.
- Comment on Anon doesn't like AI 2 days ago:
It also helps that they don’t understand the reality of organ reception or being an irl cyborg. Anti rejection meds make you immunocompromised. Cochlear implants sound off and require extra mental effort to process compared to biological hearing (and have less true sound). Robotic arms are heavy and inconvenient to the point many prefer simple prosthetics.
Maybe someday we will have versions of some of these things that are genuinely equivalent to being abled. But I don’t know if I will live to see them.
- Comment on Anon doesn't like AI 2 days ago:
Also if they believe the outcome is inevitable in the near future it’s a certain kind of sensible to race to be first. It’s a variant on the prisoners dilemma where they can see each other racing to rat the others out in the hope that the first will get a discount on sentence length.
- Comment on bugslife 2 days ago:
The cowboy as an itinerant warrior class of Meiji era Texas
- Comment on bugslife 2 days ago:
That tracks, all westerns are communist propaganda ronin stories. 7 samurai is a Japanese take on westerns
- Comment on Trump posted this in Truth. 3 days ago:
Tornadoes, wind storms, idk if Chicago still gets blizzards but they used to…
- Comment on He comin' 3 days ago:
Saw one in a yard in anchorage. It’s like deer are in the Midwest
- Comment on He comin' 3 days ago:
Some of the most successful species on the planet are megafauna: cattle, and your mom
- Comment on How to poop outdoors in a way that won’t harm the environment and other hikers 4 days ago:
Congrats, you’re one step closer to the papacy
- Comment on The USA prided itself on a nation of immigrant, heck even the Statue of Liberty says it. When did immigrants (US citizens from the old world) become anti immigrant and why? 4 days ago:
Oh we’ve been fighting about this for centuries
- Comment on Trump posted this in Truth. 4 days ago:
The Midwest has a weird relationship with Chicago. It’s our city dammit, but it’s thought of as a shithole because of a long history of it being a shithole and also because of a long history of it being used as a byword for dangerous urban areas. People who hadn’t been there in a decade were calling it Chiraq so much that my phone recognized the word. As a teenager (late 00s and early 10s) the far right edgelords would joke about bombing it like they did about Tehran. But it’s also a costal city with all the limp wristed elite dogwhistles and homophobia. Which is a little funny because Chicago gay culture is tough as fuck. But yeah and there’s the racism which is huge and is an undercurrent of it all.
So yeah it’s the Midwest’s own Al Capone themed LA, but the sky is trying to kill you not fires and earthquakes.
- Comment on Trump posted this in Truth. 4 days ago:
Chicago is a major democratic leaning city infamous for its association with lawlessness and organized crime. Reality is that Chicago cleaned up with the other cities but it maintains a rambunctious similar to LA and Philadelphia. But it’s still got a local culture of early 20th century gangsters like Al Capone and other Italian Americans with submachine guns.
The entire great lakes region that includes Chicago had a pretty rough time from the 70s-00s, with other cities in it including Detroit, Cleveland, Buffalo, and Toronto as well as tiny hellholes of deindustrialization like Gary.
Chicago is also notably a very black city, especially by Midwestern standards. During the great migration (when a bunch of black people left the rural southern areas their ancestors had been enslaved in and went to urban areas largely in the north and west), Chicago was one of the major destinations as there was a lot of work that didn’t involve farm labor.
So yeah mocking Chicago sometimes will have racist implications (though this applies to any great lakes city when compared to the overwhelmingly white rural and suburban Midwest).
- Comment on Practice makes perfect 5 days ago:
Time of course can be modeled as the vector t-hat…
Or wait is that what dimension Q is?
- Comment on It's been downhill since 2020 5 days ago:
And that’s my theory as to how Trump won a second term. A lot of people think that 2019 is the cutoff
Personally I think it was 2015 was the last normal year for the world and my life hasn’t recovered from 2012
- Comment on Practice makes perfect 6 days ago:
So you prefer y-z coordinates?
- Comment on The planet still belongs to the dinosaurs. 6 days ago:
Idk sponges go hard dude
- Comment on Practice makes perfect 6 days ago:
Yeah well at least my wife can get laid
Yeah I don’t think I’m good at this either
- Comment on Practice makes perfect 6 days ago:
Call me old fashioned but I prefer picking fights the old fashioned way: doing shots before discussing religion with strangers at a bar.
- Comment on The planet still belongs to the dinosaurs. 6 days ago:
Yeah we’re a bit large but we’re adaptive generalist omnivores. Add canned goods and it feels likely some people would make it
- Comment on The planet still belongs to the dinosaurs. 6 days ago:
Yeah aren’t they one of the few animals that was actually a dinosaur and actually from the jurassic that people think of when they think of jurassic dinosaurs?
- Comment on The planet still belongs to the dinosaurs. 6 days ago:
Idk my ancestors survived the k-pg event