ZombiFrancis
@ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on 📡📡📡 6 hours ago:
Why does a Nazi attack a leftist org of all things? Instead of their professed hated groups: immigrants or jews? The original Nazis used those two groups as sources of communism/socialism/marxism in Europe/Germany.
The cause that Nazis, especially the actual, literal Nazis from history, have used the most to legitimize themselves is anti-communism.
- Comment on The American Dream, minus 60% 1 day ago:
The original line is that we would get tired of winning. So that’s what this is. We’re tired of winning so we have opted for losing. Lots of losing.
- Comment on Why do a lot of frozen salmon thawing instructions say to remove the salmon from the individual wrappers before thawing? 2 days ago:
Overnight thawing refrigerator fot 24 hours? Absolutely enough time. It doesn’t need fully thawed fish, just enough of a surface on the corner of the package closest to the door is enough to get it started.
If it’s there. But transferring it into an oxygen environment removes the risk, which is the goal of the packaging.
- Comment on A reminder 4 days ago:
Generally speaking, it doesn’t matter how many good months you have. You’re still 3 months out.
- Comment on Downvoted! 4 days ago:
I’m sure he said something equivalent while he wasn’t dead.
- Comment on Anon has seen it all before 1 week ago:
Credits are for future and guns, it’s coins/pieces of gold/silver when swords.
- Comment on Groceries are expensive and they're too busy talking about culture war 1 week ago:
Carlson’s dad ran Radio Free. He is generationally skilled at what he does.
- Comment on Well if that isn't just about the most evil thing you could openly admit to doing. 1 week ago:
Almost all of it is, or at least originates, from racism, at least with schools.
When public schools allowed racial integration , school choice became a mechanism for racists to pull their kids from mixed schools.
It grew into things like charter schools that are private, often religious, schools that get public funding and maintain segregation.
- Comment on What is my purpose? 1 week ago:
Oh look! A coin!
- Comment on Is it creepy when lemmings go digging through post votes to see who voted how on different posts and comments? 1 week ago:
Same goes for commenting. Sometimes it can be funny when someone goes through your post history just to quote a comment you make 2+ years ago and still be wrong.
- Comment on Uh-Oh 1 week ago:
Maybe there’s a chance it is just Mal0. You should be alright. No documented hostility.
- Comment on THCposting 1 week ago:
Storz & Bickel’s Volcano is a great device. It’s not cheap, but it’s been one of the best investments (covid stim check) I ever made.
- Comment on Simply Bananas 1 week ago:
Opinions of the guy aside, I recall it was Neil DeGrasse Tyson who made the argument that it simply is cheaper and easier to go to the moon than to fake it and maintain the coverup.
Like, we can’t keep secrets for shit, but that’s the one that stays kept?
- Comment on Hmmmm 1 week ago:
I had a friend in college who wrote a paper that religion was started by the original nerds who needed to classify and rank which level of angel and spirit.
I believe he argued the term “Angel of Death +2” is as equally valid as one name to the next across cultures and history.
I still think he was right.
- Comment on Hmmmm 1 week ago:
First they came for the minions…
- Comment on Hmmmm 1 week ago:
Dante’s Inferno is also effectively fanfiction of a socialite without any real ecclesiastical value. He wrote in the vernacular, instead of Latin, which was what made it accessible and popular.
- Comment on They really hate artists 2 weeks ago:
Art just requires practice, which is even more rudimentary than education.
Prompt engineering and sifting through slop can appear like practice to anyone who doesn’t. This, I find, is the source of the delusion and hate.
- Comment on Anon wants tendies 3 weeks 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? 3 weeks 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. 3 weeks 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 4 weeks 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? 4 weeks ago:
Push it to the limit. (Crash the gates!)
- Comment on [deleted] 5 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 5 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 5 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 5 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 5 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 5 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 5 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 5 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.
