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- Comment on Indie games using retro graphics 3 days ago:
The Last Door (1 & 2)
Darkside Detective
Thank me later.
- Comment on This will be YouTube in 2025 1 week ago:
you are definitely overestimating people.
- Comment on Young Women Are Fleeing Organized Religion. This Was Predictable. 1 week ago:
You could also call a volcano a frog. Makes just as much sense, but you could call it a frog.
- Comment on Young Women Are Fleeing Organized Religion. This Was Predictable. 1 week ago:
I do believe these still tell their followers what/how to believe. A belief system is a religion. And there are Hindu and buddhist extremists acting as a group committing hate crimes
- Comment on Young Women Are Fleeing Organized Religion. This Was Predictable. 1 week ago:
Religion is always organized. That’s the definition of it. It’s organized belief. Take away the organization (= rules on how to believe / act), and you’re left with personal beliefs.
Fuck all religions :)
- Comment on POV: Iceland 1 week ago:
underrated.
- Comment on Choose your difficulty 1 month ago:
each to their own :)
- Comment on Choose your difficulty 1 month ago:
Namibia, Kenya, Mauritius, Ghana, Botswana, The Gambia, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Uganda, Malawi, Equatorial Guinea.
- Comment on Choose your difficulty 1 month ago:
There’s a bunch of African countries I would rather live than the US, although maybe not exactly South Africa or Congo…
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 1 month ago:
No, sorry, eating meat is not the same as murder, it’s just nature.
You can acknowledge it’s murder while accepting it’s also a part of nature (at least in the original hunting context). Breeding defenseless livestock in captivity, in order to slaughter them for food, that’s murdering a social creature.
I occasionally eat meat, but at least I am not lying to myself about what it means for the creature whose meat I eat.
If you tell yourself that animals have no capability to enjoy life, to be happy and play, and therefore have a right to live, then you need a reality check,
Eating any kind of animal is not wrong in terms of our nature and how our planet works, but if we have options without suffering from malnutrition (and by now we do), I applaud every person who chooses to go meat-free out of empathy.
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 1 month ago:
Eating meat is murder though. Just of a different species, and a normal thing in nature, hence not objectionable per se. But killing for meat is still taking a life of a living and feeling being. If people choose to avoid that, and alternatives are available, that is great. For those who wish to continue eating meat, it must be transparent where it came from to make an informed decision, and we would need regulation / legislation that forbidsalll those livestock factories that cause suffering for more profit.
- Comment on Anyone else? 1 month ago:
I think the connection to the cast that the viewers had at that point was exactly what made the scene so impactful.
It would have had the exact same type of storytelling impact (obviously not that of disgust) to show the bat swing, show the shocked looks, but cut away for the gore.
Taking it out on the whole team seems a bit much, though.
It’s not like I can do anything about it. They’re not likely to care that I consider them despicable human beings.
- Comment on Anyone else? 1 month ago:
I disagree. I despise everyone involved for not distancing themselves in public from that torture porn. If they didn’t know it before, they did afterwards & chose to roll with it.
- Comment on Anyone else? 1 month ago:
an example of a extremely well done surprise/twist.
By committing a non-punishable act of abuse against the audience? I don’t think so. What this was to the regular viewers was what it would be to expose kids to whatever PG-18 content in the middle of their favorite animated cartoon.
- Comment on Anyone else? 1 month ago:
yeah, as I argued, it wasn’t the gore per se, but about the emotional violence and disrespect towards the viewers that made me despise the team of that series. Gore is shown in splatter movies (Halloween, Scream, …), but in those you don’t have an emotional build-up to like a character. Protagonists are killed in thrillers / movies / series that build them up first, but then there’s no direct gore. The crossover is what makes the director and everyone complicit a piece of shit.
- Comment on Anyone else? 1 month ago:
I don’t hate, but I honestly despise everyone of “The Walking Dead” team, regardless of whether they were actors or production team, who were complicit in the emotional violence against their viewers when Neegan brutally murdered protagonists that the audience had grown attached to for seasons.
And I do not object to the killing of the protagonists, if that’s what the writers wanted. I object to the way in which it was portrayed, breaking the rules of the genre and the unspoken agreement with an audience that there are different ways in which violence is portrayed depending on context:
The rule that was broken here is that the actual gore happens off-camera and is only implied, maybe the after-effects are shown. Gore on-camera in the zombie genre is only allowed between humans and zombies. Zombies are by definition subject to their instincts, whereas a human killing another human is cold-blooded murder in this scenario, and it is not needed for the story / suspense to show the actual gore - only the lead-up and an aftermath, or maybe an “artists depiction” - like “screen goes blurry” similar to the first murder.
The second murder in said scene caught me off-guard and made me (and a lot of other people) quit watching forever. Fuck AMC, fuck the producers, and fuck the cast for exposing me to that snuff shit.
- Comment on What kind of institutional gaslighting is this? 1 month ago:
That letter is way too polite for the “go fuck yourselves” that I had in mind… I honestly think we should start actually spitting in the faces of managers of that kind that we happen to know in private life, be it family or neighbors, just show them disdain and disgust coming from people whom they have no power over.
- Comment on #justposeidonthings 2 months ago:
It’s why I’ll always remain happy with recreational diving at depths less than 40m :) Tech divers are a bit crazy imo. Sure, there’s nice views to be had (if you bring a lot of light), but it’s not worth the risk for me.
- Comment on #justposeidonthings 2 months ago:
I highly recommend using compressed air over oxygen. Nitrox 100 (pure oxygen) becomes toxic below 5 meters…
1.6 bars partial pressure Oxygen is considered unsafe / hazardous.
- Comment on Storing Files in the Walmart Chip Aisle 2 months ago:
What a dumb, unfunny, uncreative “idea”
- Comment on A handy reference 2 months ago:
Being a German, my fellow countrymen have the same problem as the French, I hear the mixup a lot in my work environment :) We use “aktuell” for currently. But yeah, I have not spoken English from quite such an early age as you, but that particular mistake I also don’t make. I feel it’s the kind of mistake that people make for whom learning the language was a “necessary evil” / chore in order to succeed professionally or accomplish some other goal. People who actually enjoy learning a language will not keep repeating the same mistake if they can regularly witness native speakers using a word differently.
- Comment on A handy reference 2 months ago:
If you are a proper stereotypical French speaker though, I bet you confuse “actually” with “currently” all the time ;)
- Comment on A handy reference 2 months ago:
As a non native speaker I almost always type “it’s” out before my brain autocorrect reminds me “that means ‘it is’” and then I have to correct it to “its” - it’s kinda counter-intuitive…
- Comment on Liking an OS isn't a personality trait ❌ 3 months ago:
Good point, however, thinking about it, I would consider those rules to be closer to AI than LLMs, because there are logical rules based on “understanding” input data. As in “using input data in a coherent way that imitates how a human would use it”. LLMs are just sophisticated examples of the dozen of monkeys with typewriters that eventually come up with the works of Shakespeare out of pure chance. Except that they have a bazillion switches to adapt and are trained on desired output, and then the generated output is formed with some admittedly impressive grammar filters to impress humans. However, no one can explain how the result came to pass (with traceable exceptions being the material of ongoing research), and no one can predict the output for a not yet tested input (or for identical input after the model has been altered, regardless how little). Calling it AI is contributing yo manslaughter, as evidenced by e.g. Tesla “autopilot” murdering people.
- Comment on Liking an OS isn't a personality trait ❌ 3 months ago:
About as infuriating: the sheer amount of braindead morons who think LLMs are somehow in any way “AI”
- Comment on Has Google’s search results drastically declined for anyone else? 3 months ago:
It’s worse: google.com has started to remove the “also available in English” button and defaults to the localized version based on IP geolocation on every call to the home page. Seriously, I wish that company every bad and rotten thing in the world.
- Comment on Samsung advertising new phone in my notifications 4 months ago:
Check for LineageOS supported devices, that’s a good start. Some tablets can runubuntu touch, I believe.
- Comment on Samsung advertising new phone in my notifications 4 months ago:
And that’s why you only buy phones where you can install a custom ROM, and then kick any poisonous bloatware and google shit off before starting to use it.
- Comment on Teams apparently can't call when using Firefox 5 months ago:
Yeah, probably a good idea. Nevertheless, I am pissed (but not surprised) to see that Firefox is getting locked out on purpose. A sincere “Fuck you” @Microsoft.
- Comment on Teams apparently can't call when using Firefox 5 months ago:
While I don’t know of course whether Google actually sells the data itself, let me rephrase my original criticism: “whose business model is based on monetizing user data - which can lead to severe privacy breaches / leaks of sensitive personal data”. Thanks for pointing that out, but I would say my prime concern remains.