Uruanna
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- Comment on Randezvous 📅 21 hours ago:
The Normans just spoke French, it’s everybody else who fucked it up by going halfsies about it!
- Comment on Ligma 2 days ago:
For the record, I’m basing this on the movie, idk if the comic is fundamentally different or mostly aesthetically so.
The main difference was he didn’t nuke various cities, but created some giant mutant psychic squid and teleported it on New York, killing millions (somehow, between the splash and the dying psychic squid causing mass mind liquefaction), and making the world think they were being attacked by some space alien, rather than making Dr. Manhattan the enemy. Movie version was quite a nice twist.
Killing the people has never been proven to be a very effective way to stop a rogue government, if the government is not physically impacted by random civilians getting killed, however many of them are killed. But in Watchmen, he didn’t simply kill civilians - he faked a common threat that the governments would be afraid of to divert their attention. Space squids in the comics, Dr. Manhattan going biblical in the movie. Depends how hard the governments buy it. In the movie, Dr. Manhattan siding with that idea means he could probably sell it well enough to make it believable - giving the world an ultimatum after someone else already pressed the button. Who knows about the squid version. The conclusion given in the comics / movie is that he was kinda right as long as Dr. Manhattan said screw it and supported it (mass slaughter notwithstanding, of course). The whole premise also does rely on the inevitability of shit hitting the fan, which… yeah, world with or without superpowers, it’s hard to reject that notion. But today? Who knows if some sort of walking god nuke just glassing Moscow, Washington, and a bunch of other big capitals would even be enough to curb down the delusions of our major fascist nazi nutcases, outside of actually vaporizing the entirety of their armies, including the fascists in chief themselves in all countries.
- Comment on Ligma 2 days ago:
- Comment on Learning Japanese 4 days ago:
Doitsu means whichever, or Germany (deformed from Deutsch)
- Comment on What're your strong opinions from an aged / dead fandom? 3 weeks ago:
And the fans are once again anticipating that it’ll be Mega Man Legends 3.
What do you mean? Capcom immediately announced it as classic Mega Man 12, and showed gameplay too, no one is expecting it to be Legends 3.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Just four twenty twelve, that’s enough. We’re not savages.
- Comment on Neanderthals wouldn't be considered a person under U.S law 4 weeks ago:
Well, also yes, ipso facto? If we’re offspring of sapiens sapiens and sapiens neanderthalis, that means they had viable offsprings together, therefore they’re the same species, QED…
- Comment on Absolutely nothing 1 month ago:
Rebirth lays the groundwork for Shinra starting a world war to generate more lifestream material (anguish of war victims) and “replenish the planet” so that they can pump out more Mako, it seems to be going pretty hardcore about Shinra being pure casual evil ultra imperialist capitalist.
- Comment on Is it completely impossible to do age verification without compromising privacy? 1 month ago:
How about
Middleman anonimizer, pornhub sends the message to a middleman, the middleman puts its own token on the request, sends that to the gov, the gov responds yes/no to the middleman on the authenticity of the message, the middleman forwards the response to pornhub. The gov doesn’t see pornhub, pornhub only gets the yes/no response, the middleman only sees the message with no ID and the response.
- Comment on be a friend to the animals 2 months ago:
Are you going to try and claim that Friends is better than Breaking Bad or the first 8 seasons of Game of Thrones?
Yes
- Comment on Assassin's Creed is a "forever brand" because Ubisoft supported huge risks with it, ex director says: "Whereas, say, EA, you get these awful execs and they never made games and they came from toothpaste companies" 2 months ago:
I’m still sad they killed the 2008 Prince of Persia after the DLC, top of my list from them.
- Comment on Fictional 2 months ago:
Every base is base 10 dumdum
- Comment on Why do we still joke about setting up old wooden guillotines? 3 months ago:
You can also add jets to make it shoot down faster.
- Comment on Are the character names in most Anime real Japanese names or just made up? 3 months ago:
99.9% of anime is slice of life in real Japan with mostly real or real-ish names, what are you talking about
- Comment on Lara Croft is a Sociopath 3 months ago:
I think the writers pretty much admitted they had no plan for Trinity, seeing how their goal completely changed from immortality to apocalypse between Rise and Shadow. They were just the reason for Lara to track them across the world and stumble on ancient stuff.
- Comment on Lara Croft is a Sociopath 3 months ago:
I’m looking up the opening scene and I can’t find the therapy session itself. Maybe it was only in the trailer, I remember people thought it was weird when they released that trailer because it was unexpected at the time that this was the direction they were taking? But the game does have you find tapes of Lara’s recorded sessions talking with the therapist, like how she’s having control issues and it turns out she has become a different person in a bad way.
- Comment on Lara Croft is a Sociopath 3 months ago:
The third game of the reboot trilogy starts with her tracking this evil organization that’s been screwing with her family, finding the item they’re trying to steal to trigger an appocalypse, stealing it first, and almost triggering that same apocalypse because she doesn’t know what she’s doing, thinking she’s doing good. Second game also started with her tracking the same organization to figure out what they’re doing, and from that, she stumbles into some archaeology. It’s a long character arc, she learns that she can be good at figuring out ancient stuff, and she finds out the hard way that she can also fuck up badly when she doesn’t know what she’s doing. It’s supposed to end at the point where she’s mature enough to do better. We just see all the “fucking up” parts.
- Comment on Lara Croft is a Sociopath 3 months ago:
The second game of the reboot trilogy starts with Lara in therapy session about how she became a thrill addict from her survivor’s guilt from the first game and how she’s liking it.
- Comment on Lara Croft is a Sociopath 3 months ago:
That was very clearly on purpose, she starts panicking about the first guys she kills to survive, and near the end she’s screaming I’m gonna kill you all. That is the narrative arc. Welcome to trauma stories?
- Comment on Lara Croft is a Sociopath 3 months ago:
Have you not seen those movies that end up saying “if we kill the big bad, we’re no better than them” after mowing down countless faceless mobs
- Comment on Who the fuck needs an x axis anyway 3 months ago:
Remember Covid, don’t report on things = they stop existing.
- Comment on Do you think conservative feel the same need to burn it all down as everyone else felt when trump won again? 4 months ago:
In the US? … Obama? (In a very big nutshell)
- Comment on Do you think conservative feel the same need to burn it all down as everyone else felt when trump won again? 4 months ago:
You built up your very own definition of the word while ignoring what any political conservative movement in the world actually does. You listened to someone’s argument on the concept of a definition, an idea that was stapled to a word in your head, without actually looking at factual reality. What you describe is simply not what any conservative party anywhere does.
Starting with the idea that you are conserving something that runs well and not spending resource on frivolous nonsense that doesn’t work - just look at everything a conservative party actually funds while blocking money for anything remotely humanitarian because they claim it doesn’t work, or based on the slightest disagreement about a boundary, while being themselves the very reason it doesn’t work.
Look at what is actually protected. And at who isn’t, based on not giving too much to someone you don’t think deserves it. Do those who already have all that deserve it?
Starting with your environmental conservationist sensibility and reducing that you want to be a conservative is already super wild, it’s antinomic. You think you protect something from greed and selfishness, but those who who block progress are the selfish ones who hoard everything out of greed, using “this doesn’t deserve it” or “you can’t prove this works” as an excuse to keep everything. You are not safeguarding anything, and there’s zero place for environmental protection in any conservative party anywhere.
- Comment on Are fossil fuels vegan? 4 months ago:
… Chicken isn’t ~vegan~?
- Comment on Tomb Raider developers Crystal Dynamics lay off more staff, say the series' future is "unaffected" 4 months ago:
say the series’ future is “unaffected”
Still dead for the foreseeable decade, is it?
- Comment on [Game Bundle] Duo of Justice: Ace Attorney and Mega Man 4 months ago:
Ace Attorney seems complete, including the Investigations and Great spin-offs. Mega Man collection doesn’t have Mega Man 11 (last entry in the OG series) and it doesn’t have the Zero series (4 games), the ZX series (2 games), and the Star Force series (3 games). There’s a separate collection for the Zero series, and maybe the ZX series too. I don’t know about Star Force.
- Comment on Anon likes a thing 6 months ago:
I see more people aware of it today, but was there a burst in pop culture with idiots that then died down? The people who talk about it today seem pretty genuine and get good reception.
- Comment on Sony, owner of "Naughty Dog", is suing a small game developer "Naughty Cat" in HK for trademark infringement. 6 months ago:
Surely there must be a Naughty Bunny somewhere that could shoot that right back at them? Maybe not in video game trademarks.
- Comment on It used to be that when most countries were or in trouble or needed help they would go to the US for help. My question is who does the US go to for help if or when needed? 7 months ago:
Greece and Turkiye have that problem - not a war or anything but they have an open conflict about territorial waters and islands that’s been going on for a long time. No one wants to get involved.
so I guess it depends on who in NATO the US gets shitty (shittier) with - most big countries in Europe act like they’re ready to stand up, but we’ll see if they actually get physically involved or if it’s more finger wagging. Looking at Greenland…
- Comment on Anon discovers cigarettes 7 months ago:
Everyone should known what addiction feels like
Everyone already knows at least sugar. And after that, coffee and alcohol.