rikudou
@rikudou@lemmings.world
- Comment on Why do each gaming fraction (pc, consoles, mobile) hating each other? 3 days ago:
Just stream it over LAN.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
I beg you pardon? We admins have been chosen by gods! /s
I see other reasons for censorship, like blatant propaganda by authoritarian countries, like what Russia does all the time.
- Comment on Best general ebook reader for Android? 1 week ago:
Librera FD, hands down the best reader on Android.
- Comment on CNC 1 week ago:
Hmm, expected something more impressive.
- Comment on How can a US state block porn? 1 week ago:
That’s really hard to do over https.
- Comment on CNC 1 week ago:
CNC = consensual non-consent, basically roleplaying being forced into sex.
The other CNC is a machine for creating physical stuff using computer. Like a laser cutter or a 3D printer. No idea what the actual meaning of the abbreviation is.
- Comment on Fucking idiots 2 weeks ago:
Me to the fish:
- Comment on I need someone to help me identify this shark plz. Spotted in the wild. Maybe a new species. 2 weeks ago:
That’s Sphyrna derpi!
- Comment on Many developers leave GZDoom due to leader conflicts and fork it into UZDoom 3 weeks ago:
Well, I personally don’t give a shit whether something is made by a human or a machine as long as the code is performing well and is readable.
Lucky for you and me both, AI is nowhere near capable of replacing a developer.
Learning new things is still needed, AI is good for mediocre tasks that need no real intelligence, but anything else still needs a human.
- Comment on Are there video media (e.g TV shows, Movies, anime, video games, youtube videos, etc...) with a majority of the dialogue in an fictional language? 3 weeks ago:
The Gollum game has a paid DLC for Sindarin (Elvish), though the game is pretty horrible.
- Comment on Who's your favorite female protagonist in a video game? (Add pic of character in response) 3 weeks ago:
That’s why she was so memorable to me, she was kinda relatable - a regular common person, you don’t get that much in protagonists.
- Comment on just one more bro 3 weeks ago:
So that’s how matter won over antimatter.
- Comment on just one more bro 3 weeks ago:
Not if the universe is inside the genie.
- Comment on Who's your favorite female protagonist in a video game? (Add pic of character in response) 3 weeks ago:
Jesse Faden, hands down the best.
- Comment on Can Mac apps be emulated and run on Windows? 3 weeks ago:
Not sure about the current status of WSL1, but basically all new features are only developed for WSL2.
- Comment on Can Mac apps be emulated and run on Windows? 4 weeks ago:
IIRC, WSL is a VM, albeit one tightly integrated and very fast.
- Comment on An apple a day, ... Ah well, fuck it. 4 weeks ago:
One would hope only on the exterior, because otherwise… Ouch.
- Comment on beans 🫘 4 weeks ago:
That organism came from space, we’re all aliens.
- Comment on it's time 4 weeks ago:
Fuck Kenny, all my homies hate Kenny.
- Comment on Hurr hurr hurr 4 weeks ago:
Well, you kinda can’t know what fossils looked like based on the skeleton. What everyone thinks dinosaurs look like is vastly different from what they most likely looked like.
Relevant meme:
- Comment on An apple a day, ... Ah well, fuck it. 4 weeks ago:
he was attracted to all kind of women, regardless of texture physics
I too am impartial to the texture physics of women I date.
- Comment on Block chain to stop AI scams. 4 weeks ago:
That seriously can’t ever work on the technical level. You can simply remove metadata from an image.
To be able to even remotely be able to do what you want, you’d have to create a new image format where this is unremovable and make it impossible to convert such images to other formats.
That would probably need to involve DRM, I don’t think it’s possible without that. And still there would be people who’d either crack your DRM or simply caught the direct output of the graphics card and they’ll have your image in an editable format.
In short it’s impossible to do.
- Comment on Block chain to stop AI scams. 4 weeks ago:
And you can’t ever post process images.
- Comment on Turns out a relatively important plot point in The Witcher games shouldn't exist at all, so says the books' author 5 weeks ago:
The “important plot point” is Witcher schools. And I’ve been saying it for over a decade they’ve overblown them in the games.
- Comment on Not to get all religiony but why in the old testament God was all fire and brimstone and fatal consequences? But the new testament God is all about forgiveness and such?? 5 weeks ago:
I meant the character, not the name, I perhaps worded it poorly. Satan in this context is meant in the “accuser” sense. As in it’s a role in a divine court, not an entity. Anyone could be the “satan” for the specific case, it’s not a person, but a role.
- Comment on Not to get all religiony but why in the old testament God was all fire and brimstone and fatal consequences? But the new testament God is all about forgiveness and such?? 5 weeks ago:
You might find my top level comment on this post interesting.
- Comment on Not to get all religiony but why in the old testament God was all fire and brimstone and fatal consequences? But the new testament God is all about forgiveness and such?? 5 weeks ago:
Because it’s all fake. Everyone who actually reads it finds way too many inconsistencies.
That’s because it underwent some serious transformations across the millennia. Yahweh started as a storm god (basically Thor of Canaanite religion). Back then each nation in the religion had their own patron god and guess which god did the Israelites happen to have? Good old storm god Yahweh.
Over centuries the religion evolved and among Israelites Yahweh slowly took on attributes of other gods, mostly El (the all-father and creator of the universe) and Baal. First the other gods were degraded and monotheism was required, even though other gods were known to exist (you might remember the whole “jealous of other gods shtick” even though the rest of the Bible says there’s only one god).
Then the other gods were slowly edited out of the Bible, though some remains persevere (the aforementioned jealousy of other gods, some gods are even mentioned by name). If the gods couldn’t be removed because the story wouldn’t make sense, they were mostly changed into angels or other mythical beings.
It’s pretty funny rereading the Bible with this knowledge, you can clearly recognise which parts were the original Yahweh-the-storm-god and which used to be El-the-actual-creator by how he behaves in the story. When he’s all jealous, rageful and angry, it’s mostly based on the original Yahweh.
Anyway, that’s basically what Old Testament is - a bunch of edits of much older religions. IIRC Yahweh precedes even the Canaanite religion, so it’s a really old and grumpy storm god.
Now, New Testament is something else entirely, that was basically just slapped onto Judaism to have some legitimate and widely recognised vessel. Unlike the other edits, it didn’t evolve naturally over time, it was just violently slapped onto the Old Testament.
Fun fact: try finding Satan anywhere in the old testament. You won’t. Satan has been retrofit on multiple characters, but neither is mentioned directly as Satan, devil or really anything. The most famous one, the snake in the garden? Just a snake (which checks out with older religions where animals had a lot of influence). Then some morons come and say “actually, that snake was the grand adversary.” The concept of a grand adversary wasn’t really common in older religions, there usually wasn’t a Satan-like figure. Compare for example with Greek, Roman or Norse gods.
So, in conclusion, the Bible is a horrible mess of edits that were made so the religion would serve the needs of the time they were introduced in. IIRC the Israelites were having some trouble with their neighbours back when Yahweh got the promotion, so having a strong sense of nationality would really help in keeping the nation together. New Testament is even more obvious because it didn’t even really try to fit with the rest. They just tried to retrofit a few things and called it a day.
Well, this got longer than I planned, but I really like the topic and I don’t think you can do it justice in two paragraphs. If anyone’s interested, do some research, it’s honestly fascinating! For example, what’s the connection between Dionysus and Yahweh? That would be a homework for ya!
- Comment on Fun yet unknown gameplay MECHANICS? (POLL) 5 weeks ago:
Driftland: The Magic Revival is pretty unique with the tiny shattered islands you have to connect to be part of your empire.
- Comment on Will I become a bad person in a year? 1 month ago:
Time very much isn’t a human construct, it’s a physical existing thing.
- Comment on Will I become a bad person in a year? 1 month ago:
Is it? Granted, I don’t know where OP is from, but in my country 18 doesn’t change much. High school for most ends when they’re 19 or 20, so life does speed up after that, but 18 doesn’t really change anything except being allowed to drive and drink alcohol (not at the same time).
