ZombiFrancis
@ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Anon wants tendies 4 days ago:
- Comment on Why do so many people regardless of whether their reasonings are justified or not pinpoint South Park for ruining a generation of millenials? 1 week ago:
There was an odd period of time in America where a large portion of the population got their political information and social awareness from the Comedy Central television network.
The Daily Show, Colbert Report, and South Park.
- Comment on A slain officer who acted heroically gets booed. He was a Marine veteran. Really great culture. 1 week ago:
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Definitely just the name too.
- Comment on The light at the end of the tunnel is getting much closer. KEEP PUSHING 1 week ago:
The crazy thing is just how popular socialism is across America. Deep rural red America can be quite supportive of socialist policies in practice.
They just don’t like the words. The language is poisoned. So they keep listening to the chorus that condemns the words they don’t like. Their perception is flat wrong and based on specific lies, but that’s a hurdle that has to be contended with, and why it’s so complex to discuss.
- Comment on Quite a quirky design 😄 Can anyone guess the right way to open it? 1 week ago:
Push it to the limit. (Crash the gates!)
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
The equivalent of the prostate gland in female bodies, the name escapes me at the moment, secretes into the bladder when stimulated.
- Comment on Anon is 23 2 weeks ago:
Definitely can be, though I walked into a rural health department who had paper applications. They didn’t use online applications as a screening method. Got the job that month. They were also a weird teamsters union department, and probably wouldn’t have hired me if I weren’t white. So the mileage definitely varies.
(And yeah I processed paperwork 80% of my time there.)
- Comment on Anon is 23 2 weeks ago:
I don’t just mean the admin jobs though. There’s some field jobs, especially in water (drinking and waste, which I followed) and food (inspecting restaurants I avoided.) Health departments, for example, are in need of staff across the country, especially after the 2023 culling of covid funding. Public service is retiring fast.
- Comment on Anon is 23 2 weeks ago:
If you got the degree you can land a basic government job that isn’t in a major city. Process permits for 20 an hour in a small town easily. And the smaller more rural towns don’t usually require a degree and will consider someone who will just live in town.
And from there you can work you way up way better than any corporate environment.
- Comment on Three developers' different philosophies on difficulty for their games 2 weeks ago:
But hey, I don’t actually eat hot sauce.
Then it was probably a poor analogy to use.
Best I can say is you mentioned people being ‘conditioned’ to eat hot sauce or not. The experience of extreme hot sauces is largely about how each person react to the same sauce. Each experience is different because the conditioning is different for everyone, which is the whole point.
Fromsoft games are the same way. They don’t have any calibration for conditioning because it’s all about how well (or if) you can condition yourself to able to experience it.
- Comment on Three developers' different philosophies on difficulty for their games 2 weeks ago:
I’m just going to have to restate the exact same analogy and hope you get it this time.
I am just trying to engage with the context of your points. I used Hot Ones to build on it and offer a counterpoint: the games are about how you tackle the spicy mountain, which by design is the same as everyone else’s spicy mountain.
Giving me access to mild hot sauce does not reduce your access to the extra spicy stuff. Letting me reduce the Guardian Ape’s health by half in my save file does not reduce the Guardian Ape’s health in yours.
All true and fine.
It just ensures that we both have an equivalent experience to each other.
Fundamentally we have not. An ‘extra mild’ The Bomb Beyond Insanity, that is an actual palatable smoke flavor, is just not the equivalent experience as suffering through the real deal.
But, for the record, it’s 100% appropriate to clown on people who suffer those million scoville hot sauces on their food like it is an enjoyable culinary experience. Don’t play the game if you don’t have fun, and no one should suffer the fools who think you should.
- Comment on Three developers' different philosophies on difficulty for their games 2 weeks ago:
So with the Hot Ones analogy. The show is about interviewing guest tackling the challenge of hot sauces.
People tap out, and that’s a part of the show. There’s challenges within the show as well: (no milk, etc.)
If guests just ate the first wing 10 times, or it was just Sean Evans eating the wings and asking questions it’d just be a different show. (And there are shows where the guests just eat nornsl chicken wings, which is fine. They just sren’t Hot Ones.)
If Sean Evans weren’t eating the wings, however, the premise of the show is still there. Him joining in just helps the guest keep trying.
You can quit, you can not even play at all. If you’re not having fun you shouldn’t feel forced either way. Tap out, drink the milk, eat the ice cream.
At a certain point there’s going to be a “Challenge Mode: The Game” that is not conducive to an Easy Mode.
- Comment on Three developers' different philosophies on difficulty for their games 2 weeks ago:
Well, “soulslike” is a pretty garbage category, honestly. I have played a lot of games that call themselvea soulslikes, and I pretty much only trust Miyazaki with that genre.
Miyazaki’s quote is wrong for what the gaming industry labels ‘soulslikes’, but not necessarily the games he has designed and created. Because a lot of soulslikes don’t do what Miyazaki tries to do.
And I get what you mean about the game being easier as relative. But there’s also the fact that people do challenge runs in all kinds of games. It’s that drive to be challenged and do something harder, so it is not easier, is at the root of what draws people.
- Comment on Three developers' different philosophies on difficulty for their games 2 weeks ago:
Well first off, fuck them. That’s just what happens when people lose at PvP.
His quote is absolutely right, and especially with Dark Souls 1. There’s so many ways to approach the game that isn’t the meme pvp build everyone references out the gate.
- Comment on Hey looky! I'm on a list a just learned about three minutes ago! 2 weeks ago:
My instance hosts anti-communism and drone-kill footage communities so I guess we got a pass by default.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
The design is very tree.
- Comment on Microsoft Teams status 5 weeks ago:
Sounds like your boss has a boss and those checkin/nasty grams are how they measure their tasks.
- Comment on Microsoft Teams status 5 weeks ago:
There’s a natural divot on my desk that does it for me.
But I also have my outlook calendar filled with my scheduled hours so my status shows I am always busy (working my schedules hours).
So hasn’t been a problem and it’s been years.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
I sort of had this situation in a house I lived at in college. It only got weird some of the time.
There’s definitely a wide range of, uh, dignity in someone’s nudity.
- Comment on Dios mio 5 weeks ago:
Biblically accurate Nestle.
- Comment on Fingies 5 weeks ago:
Yes, and ‘pressure’ is used similarly. Think atmospheric pressure. It can lower and heighten, so a lack of pressure is low pressure, not the absence of it.
- Comment on Fingies 5 weeks ago:
Tl:dr = Because they haven’t. Yet. Maybe. As far as we know.
I think you’ve described it quite well. That’s just evolutionary biology. Any adaptation requires some kind of pressure behind it.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Sounds like sinistsr forces.
Or a bot.
- Comment on Seafood!!! 1 month ago:
Probably. It becomes a greater concern for wherever they go to the bathroom afterwards.
- Comment on Seafood!!! 1 month ago:
I can’t speak for all cats, as in felines, but domesticated house cats that humans keep as pets are derived from a desert cat originally. Not many desert fish for their digestive systems to have adapted to.
- Comment on No room for romance when there's rising and grinding to be had! 1 month ago:
writes “Protect the World from Climate Change” on the whiteboard
nods
Progress.
- Comment on Seafood!!! 1 month ago:
Kibble was ‘invented’ during ww2 as a way to get around shortages on metal for canning. But it’s essentially pemmican with below human grade standards. Works fine for dogs, manages to work well enough for cats to survive, so an industry was born even when the material shortages ended.
- Comment on Seafood!!! 1 month ago:
They don’t particularly like fish nor do they digest it well.
It is however extremely stinky and is typically the meatiest, fleshiest material they eat when they otherwisr have a life of kibble or canned foods. And for that reason they tend to ravenously enjoy tunafish.
- Comment on British police tries to arrest suspect 1 month ago:
High octane maneuver at about the 1 minute mark.
- Comment on Horror story 1 month ago:
Mars is doing the me gusta meme face.
