Hegar

@Hegar@kbin.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Normalize it!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It looks like it's supposed to be more greek, since the romans weren't known for fighting naked, whereas we think 'greek' and we think shirtless. Also romans weren't involved in egypt in any serious way till much later. Whereas the 'sea peoples' seem to come from roughly the sphere of mycenean influence, even if they don't all seem 'greek'.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Normalize it!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not in the late bronze age.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Normalize it!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The Mycenian Greeks probably wrestled control of Crete from the Minoans ~300 before the late bronze age collapse of greek and hittite power.

  Cultural elements and settlements of these "Eteocretans" remained, I don't think the Minoans were in any place to halt anything at that point. During the period we call collapse they seem to have been doing a lot of fleeing into the mountains.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The d&d game summoning the devil was always my favorite. Always love a d&d episode.

  Also any one where the pope is shown in league with someone unlikely - communists, jews, muslims, etc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I always took them all whenever I found them - horrible things, I love them covers it perfectly.

  But also, I wouldn't just leave a kitchen knife lying in public. Most people can be trusted to safely avoid the danger. But what if a child, or someone intent on harm found it?

  The responsible thing to do is to remove the threat from the environment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Are people not familiar with Chick Tracts? These comics are a part of the prodigous ouvre of paranoid right wing evangelical conspiracy theorist Jack Chick.

  I think his work is best understood as that of an outsider artist, like Henry Darger or a painting elephant. His work allows you to glimpse a mind outside the normal human experience.

  His work focuses on who is going to hell - everyone who's not a right wing american protestant, and many who are. It shows a strong pornographic influence - many end in a blissful face dowsed in a baptismal money-shot.

  It's meant to be used as a legitimate tool to evangelize. The worst christian lunatics leave these things in public, earnestly believing that after reading you'll realize the divinely ordained truth that freemasons will all burn in hell along with blood-drinking rothschilds and D&D players.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is suspicious⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Pfft some glitch, you have to accept a massive nerf to average height, dental hygiene, disease load and interpersonal violence. Broad spectrum subsistence has a much higher skill cap.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Such a quirky, yet inoffensive art style for my corporate shitpost⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There's a great Mac game from 1997 called Harry the Handsome Executive, where you zoom around on an office chair and weild a staple gun. The first level is you looking for a window so you can experience natural light again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Such a quirky, yet inoffensive art style for my corporate shitpost⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, it's one of my favourites too. So immediately striking. I don't think it would've occurred to me to read up on it - what's to read about? There's just the figures and the act, nothing else. But then you find out that it's somehow even more goth.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Such a quirky, yet inoffensive art style for my corporate shitpost⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Did this person depict lots of mythological figures?

  Nope! It's been a few decades since my art history lectures but my memory is (and wikipedia agrees) that he did a lot of portraits and battle scenes. IIRC his battle paintings inspired Picasso's. His late work is especially dark - madness and horror type stuff. Sinister distorted figures. They're often called The Black Paintings.

  if this is common knowledge

  Quite the opposite. This painting was used in a slide in my greek mythology class during the lecture about the titans and chronos. Then in an art history class I learned the context, which I feel is much less known.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Such a quirky, yet inoffensive art style for my corporate shitpost⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In case anyone missed the reference, this is based on a work found painted on the walls of Fransisco Goya's dining room after he died. You'll often hear it called "Saturn Devouring His Son", but the work was never titled or displayed publicly. There's really no good reason to believe that the devouring is Chronos/Saturn, that the devouree is even a child, or that either body is male.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is a good eli5 analogy for GenAI not "knowing" what they say?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Part of the problem is hyperactive agency detection - the same biological bug/feature that fuels belief in the divine.

  If a twig snaps, it could be nothing or someone. If it's nothing and we react as if it was someone, no biggie. If it was someone and we react as if it was nothing, potential biggie. So our brains are bias towards assuming agency where there is none, to keep us alive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Did Obama Becoming President Make People Hide Their Racism?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I always thought of romney as the republican's plan C. If White Supremacy fails, and More White Supremacy fails, then they might try Quieter White Supremacy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I don't like M&M's 😔⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In my family we always end this kind of recitation of woe with "and I wanted to see a snake".

  We saw a kid have a meltdown at an animal refuge when the meet-a-surprise-reptile was a blue tongue lizard. He wailed that he was tired, hungry, hot and - most of all - he wanted to see a snake.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A milkshake will work too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cyberpunk 2077 director thanks fans as the game hits a 95% positive review rating on Steam⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That reading of the character makes sense and jives with how I connect with games I play. I'll keep it in mind when I go back for a male playthrough - gonna have to romance panam eventually. Agreed choom!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cyberpunk 2077 director thanks fans as the game hits a 95% positive review rating on Steam⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh yeah, that's a great point. I admit I stalled out of my male playthrough like 1/4 through, but for sure the voice acting felt lacking compared to female V, who really does a fantastic and job and sells every situation flawlessly. Now that you've mentioned it, it seems so obvious that that's a huge part of the why female V is better.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cyberpunk 2077 director thanks fans as the game hits a 95% positive review rating on Steam⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have 50+ hours and only minor graphic glitches. A couple dead bodies standing up, the odd piece of floating loot. Nothing that seriously detracts from the experience.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cyberpunk 2077 director thanks fans as the game hits a 95% positive review rating on Steam⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I'm ~3/4s through my second playthrough and appreciating it more and more. Haven't picked up the expansion yet either.

  I found it hits much harder with a female character. The Johnny Silverhand situation especially felt much more... metaphorically resonant? And Jackie feels more rogue-with-a-heart-of-gold when his best buddy is a woman.

  Quickhacks are OP but felt correctly haxx0r, mantis blades are super fun. I enjoyed the combat well enough. Cars are meh, but it's cyberpunk so if you're not riding a futuristic bike ala Akira you're doing it wrong. And wiping out on a bike is great.

  The characterisation and world building are what really shine. I was reluctant to play the corpo background but it really makes the story sing.

  ::: spoiler spoiler
  The first time you're in a car with Judy she has a prominent tattoo that says "underwater where thoughts can breathe". Then next mission or a while later her apartment has jellyfish looking paint splotches and an aquarium. It's expanded on more explicitly later, but I really enjoy the way they pull together their characters.

  The scene with Takemura on the roof talking about Bakeneko is another moment that I enjoyed first playthrough and came to really appreciate a lot the second time. His food snobbery becomes quite endearing after he accidentally texts you his attempts to search for restaurants.
  :::

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chinese network behind one of world’s ‘largest online scams’: Vast web of fake shops touting designer brands took money and personal details from 800,000 people in Europe and US, data suggests⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  the operation is highly organised, technically savvy

  Of course an operation this sophisticated targets people looking to buying luxury brands for cheap, that sounds like an ideal mark.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Capitalists hate competition, especially when it comes to wages⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I love when HR goes out of their way to let you know that the company are assholes before you apply.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon revisits early youtube⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have such fond memories of the days of rick rolling. I knew these two women who were into amateur choirs and they would come up behind people at parties and rickroll them IRL.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Movie lines people laughed at in theaters despite not actually being intended to be funny?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In Alien: Resurrection I think, Ripley, goes on and on for most of the film about how she wants to exterminate aliens. My friends and I had been joking all film about how much like this one racist dipshit Ripley was in this film.

  Then in a tense close up Ripley actually uses the dipshit's catchphrase: "I don't like it". So we bursts out laughing, annoying many other patrons.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I want to speak to the meat manager⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No, that's too tender.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  "Because" often doesn't make sense in the real world where anything that happens is the sum total of multiple factors.

  Being publicly traded seems like a contributing factor, but a sole owner can still enshitify through greed or incompetence.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨American veganism is like American Christianity. Sometimes fine and wholesome, especially when kept to oneself; but often a toxic, blatantly lying, proselytizing cult when in a group⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  American vegans are either doing it because they’re morons or because they are equally aware and just as complicit

  Or they don't want to hurt animals unnecessarily or don't want to be complicit in the environmental devastation that industrial scale meat production causes.

  they insist on calling even vegetarians carnists for not being vegans too.

  I'm a vegetarian and I've never heard vegans say that. The craziest online voices are not an accurate representation of a group.

  ethical consumption under capitalism! Meatless Mondays

  Wait vegans hate vegetarians AND love people who eat meat 6 days a week? You're accusing them of being fanatically doctrinal and too accepting. When you accuse a group of mutually exclusive traits, that's a sign that you're working from a stereotype and not reality.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨American veganism is like American Christianity. Sometimes fine and wholesome, especially when kept to oneself; but often a toxic, blatantly lying, proselytizing cult when in a group⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You said that two incredibly different things were very similar because of a single trait they share with many other things. Many people are going to point out the laundry list of significantly more important differences in contrast to the one similarity you see.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨American veganism is like American Christianity. Sometimes fine and wholesome, especially when kept to oneself; but often a toxic, blatantly lying, proselytizing cult when in a group⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My point is that being annoying isn't the same as being annoying and actively harmful.

  If your main complaint about vegans is that they're patronizing, that still doesn't put them in the same category as say, the catholic church or the evangelical movement which have protected rapists, encouraged violence and spread hate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨American veganism is like American Christianity. Sometimes fine and wholesome, especially when kept to oneself; but often a toxic, blatantly lying, proselytizing cult when in a group⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Christianity in the US actively contributes to almost every major problem facing our country whereas veganism improves the environment, reduces the suffering of some life and annoys some people. Sure, like any group of people vegans can be liable to groupthink and sometimes wrong about things. But you're ignoring a whole bunch of reality if you think both vegans and evangelicals are equally harmful.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Our Flag Means Death’ Canceled After Two Seasons at Max⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  it’s the only content studios can make with zero talented people involved.

  I believe you are underestimating these studios, fine person on the internet.