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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨cis friend does witchcraft⁩ ⁨⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Lempo isn’t a fertility god, though. His areas are erotic love, sex, and sexual prowess. He is also known by the feminine name Lemmätär or Lemmetär (-tar and -tär being feminizing suffixes). It’s not surprising that Christian revisionists turned him into one of the chief demons.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon describes apple's practices⁩ ⁨⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Only a Genius could come up with a scheme that offloads the cost of their own laziness to the customer. Exactly the kind of innovation that Steve Jobs stood for.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨cis friend does witchcraft⁩ ⁨⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  “I’ll pray for you” but it’s a prayer to Lempo, god of fucking from Finnish mythology.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon describes apple's practices⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Get yourself a pocket president to legitimize everything you do and crime becomes legal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon describes apple's practices⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Battery is dead. Customer disservice can’t run diagnostics software on it because it won’t turn on because the battery is dead. They won’t replace the battery because the battery is dead. That entire cult is a fucking farce.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon describes experience⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  When we started learning about past tense (primary school, probably 6th year, amazing teacher), the first thing we learned was a list of irregular verbs. We spent at least a week just memorizing them before the regular -d/-ed verbs were even mentioned. I’d like to think it was a deliberate choice, to condition us to consider irregular verbs first when using past tense.

  That same teacher also taught us how to write and read the international phonetic alphabet. Again, she was an amazing teacher.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon describes experience⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Europe, but not an English-speaking country. No native speakers were involved.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon describes experience⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  My English-as-second-language teacher hated me because I kept correcting her spelling and vocabulary. But it was okay because I hated her right back and took every opportunity to annoy her (for the sake of rigorous accuracy, of course). Fortunately she couldn’t actually harm or sabotage me because I aced almost all of my tests and had good scores in national ESL competitions, and a sudden drop in grades would likely have been too obvious.

  The point where I’d had enough was a test about the anatomy of vehicles. She had crossed out my answer to “left side of a ship” because I’d written port or larboard (not that I expected someone with a master’s diploma to know the etymology of nautical terms, or not to confuse larboard with starboard because they looked similar), but what made my blood fucking boil was when she crossed out my answers of hood and trunk because I’d used the American words instead of the British bonnet and boot, and when I pointed out that she’d marked those same answers as correct in others’ tests, she went back and fucking changed the scores on the other tests. I told her it was “deplorable conduct for a teacher” (approximate translation, and as polite as I was going to get that day) and she dragged me to the principal for disrupting the class.

  That was the third year of high school (I think “junior” is the American equivalent). I took an option to graduate one year early from ESL, in part out of spite. I’m sure she was glad to be rid of me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon likes a thing⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  And Tolkien’s Legendarium is just a bunch of hastily-written bedtime stories, right?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon likes a thing⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m sure Fabulous Bill has a couple of attachments that would make even Slaanesh blush.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon likes a thing⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Some people are just really passionate about their tiny yellow plastic toy soldiers all having imaginary penises. The imaginary penises are important to them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  > be me
  > have violent shit
  

  I have achieved Comedy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon has a warning for incels⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Actually, Jon scores 2 by the time The Survey is conducted.

  NSFL. Seriously.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon has been bullied⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  More likely to be asbesthos sheets. Still regrettably common in former Soviet countries.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon has been bullied⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Home is where the heart is; cave is where the goon is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon has been bullied⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Are any of us okay?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon has been bullied⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  American eyes can’t bear the blinding light of the truth and they scurry back into the gooncave.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon conserves power⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Well if you want to turn this into a dick measuring contest…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon conserves power⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Your GPU might tell you to glue cheese to your pizza, but at least it’s fast!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon turns on raytracing⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They literally did this with The Witcher 3. www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZZgL3wnkmE&t=2m56s

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon turns on raytracing⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  To be fair, the “sunny California” setting and atmosphere is probably as bland and generic as it gets. It didn’t give designers a lot to work with.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon turns on raytracing⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Depends on how you define “accurate”. Even full ray tracing is just an approximation based on relatively few light rays (on an order of magnitude that doesn’t even begin to approach reality) that is deemed to be close enough where increasing the simulation complexity doesn’t meaningfully improve visual fidelity, interpolated and passed through a denoising algorithm. You can do close enough with a clever application of light probes, screenspace effects, or using a second camera to render the scene onto a surface (at an appropriate resolution).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon turns on raytracing⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you think that video is representative of the release game’s actual performance and fidelity, I have several bridges to sell you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon turns on raytracing⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Development and design can use RT all day long, that’s not the issue. They have the benefit of not having to run ray tracing in real time on consumer hardware. At the end of the day, unless they want to offload all of that computation load onto the customer forever (and I really mean all RT all the time), they’ll eventually have to bake most or all of that information into a format that a rasterizer can use.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon turns on raytracing⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, I’m sure every player spends the majority of their game time admiring the realistic material properties of Spider-Man’s suit. So far I’ve never seen a game that was made better by forcing RT into it. A little prettier if you really focus on the details where it works, but overall it’s a costly (in terms of power, computation, and price) gimmick.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon ups his fibre intake⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I can’t believe that guy is still active. Or alive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon ups his fibre intake⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You should look up reviews for the Haribo sugar-free gummy bears.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This hill...⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  THE CONTAINMENT

  IT IS BREACHED

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon notices fake advertising in video games⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  > Shadowbringers > There are fewer shadows in Norvrandt because of your actions

  On the other hand:

  > Endwalker > Literally walk to the end

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon predicts the future⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  AI would be chronically incapable of implementing actually surprising plot twists that are both unexpected and consistent with the rest of the plot (and not somehow someone back into existence). If it hadn’t been written before, an AI would never make Darth Vader be Luke’s father unless specifically prompted, at which point, why even.

  (I’ve just finished a hexalogy marathon, my head is full of jedi.)