Soggy
@Soggy@lemmy.world
- Comment on Bees don't have lungs. 1 day ago:
Fish is a polyphyletic group. It’s a shorthand to refer to various lines of aquatic vertebrates with a similar anatomy. It’s not a clade but that’s not the only way to logically group organisms. People trot it out like a “gotcha” or just misuse it in much the same way they don’t understand speciation (or most science terminology, to be frank)
We are not fish by anyone’s honest definition, but “there’s no such thing as a fish” is the kind of attention-grabbing false revelation I hate: it’s the headline with none of the understanding to actually learn something.
- Comment on Skill issue 3 weeks ago:
“My position is so tenuous yet so important to my identity that I will not tolerate the slightest challenge.”
Alternatively, “That’s why my favorite book is Moby Dick, no frou-frou symbolism. Just a good simple tale about a man who hates an animal.”
Psychonauts is about trauma. Fallout is anti-war. FFVII is environmentalist. Samus as a woman was an intentionally subversive choice. Video games have had socual commentary for as long as it’s been able to be expressed.
- Comment on Is it better to leave a country, or stay behind to fight for it? And what about the ethics of fleeing instead of staying behind? 3 weeks ago:
Never take any risks to improve the world, that’s how things are gonna get better!
- Comment on Electoral politics doesn't get the job done 2 months ago:
Also doesn’t work when one side is supported by evidence and the others are “opinions” but given equal consideration.
- Comment on Does the US really have no instruments in case a newly elected president immediatelly and openly exposes he's a nazi? 2 months ago:
Sure, you’d end up with at least two countries because many states would just refuse to join the new republic.
- Comment on Does the US really have no instruments in case a newly elected president immediatelly and openly exposes he's a nazi? 2 months ago:
Then maybe they should have their own shithole country and stop taking our tax dollars.
- Comment on Does the US really have no instruments in case a newly elected president immediatelly and openly exposes he's a nazi? 2 months ago:
They can ignore election results though, or fraudulently certify them.
- Comment on There's fucking ads in board games now 3 months ago:
People are indeed buying Super Soakers instead of just using a hose.
The point of this comparison is that they aren’t at all the same thing. People don’t want things that barely work and few have the time to learn new skills to craft what they want in an acceptable quality. Could any able-bodied adult pick up a knife and whittle themself a spoon? Probably. Most of those spoons are going to suck though and you can get one at Target for a couple bucks. It’s a position that feels out of touch.
I’m all for taking care of what you have and repairing rather than replacing when possible, and I’d love to collectively move away from plastic crap, but saying “just learn to make bread with all the free time and functional kitchen you for sure have” helps nobody except the speaker patting themself on the back.
- Comment on There's fucking ads in board games now 3 months ago:
Flexible sure but not exactly easy. There’s a lot of choices to make at every level and many of the feats have prerequisite, earlier feats so you functionally have to plan your entire expected progression up front.
- Comment on There's fucking ads in board games now 3 months ago:
I don’t want 25 cents worth of checkerboard, I want a decent wooden object that doesn’t make me feel like I live in a dumpster. And most people want a sturdy piece of decorated, folding cardboard that will last a century if nobody spills juice on it.
Your position sounds a lot like “why do you kids need Super Soakers anyway, we have a perfectly good hose.”
- Comment on I'm pretty sure all of us have given up on any boomer giving us anything anyway 3 months ago:
“End of life care” is entirely optional. I’m not going to waste away in a hospital bed, that’s for sure.
- Comment on PEGI gives Balatro an 18+ rating for gambling imagery 3 months ago:
I played Yahtzee once and now I hustle back alley Craps foe drug money.
- Comment on When you die, what do you want to be done with you? 4 months ago:
Green burial. No preservatives, no permanent structures, just natural decay and completing the circle of life. Don’t pickle me for a funeral just get me in the ground asap.
- Comment on Threw a wrestling watch party, made special food, and was very disappointed in the outcome. 6 months ago:
Forced perspective? Look at the plates, the jars, the chips! It’s so clearly a pile of drumsticks, and not small ones.
- Comment on Just a reminder... 6 months ago:
Profit is theft, labor that is not compensated in accordance with its value.
- Comment on What Ticketmaster Doesn't Want You To Know: Concerts Were Cheap For Decades 7 months ago:
Make tickets non-transferable, boom no more scalpers.
- Comment on Is it me or is everyone in hexbear insane? 7 months ago:
Are the real communists kept around back with thw real scotsmen?
- Comment on Ok so coffee is made from coffee beans. And beans are *also* made from beans. Why is nobody making, like, black bean coffee? 7 months ago:
Barley tea is delicious.
- Comment on Ok so coffee is made from coffee beans. And beans are *also* made from beans. Why is nobody making, like, black bean coffee? 7 months ago:
Not nuts but very close, they’re called “achenes” (ə-ˈkēn). The only Important difference is that nuts have a thick, protective shell but we’re being specific here.
- Comment on What are some game series you would like to see revived? And if possible, which entry should the new game follow from? 7 months ago:
Specter! I should replay those games.
- Comment on What games popularized certain mechanics? 7 months ago:
Single-handedly? Nah. It pulled a lot of existing ideas together though, and it’s certainly responsible for the popularity. Another Minecraft influence is early-access.
- Comment on Welcome to 'The Great Detachment': Workers are checked out—and so are their bosses 7 months ago:
I hope it convinces white-collar workers that unions are a good thing for everyone.
- Comment on McDonald's Experience by non McDonald's patron. 8 months ago:
It’s been a while since I’ve done kitchen work but I’ve never had an automatic lifter. We just had someone being paid to cook food and watch the fryer. The issues start piling up in places that make the cashier handle front, drive-thru, fryer, whatever else all at once rather than pay an extra $150 in labor for the day.
- Comment on So is Israel just going to finish Palestine off? 9 months ago:
Aliens.
- Comment on How do you get people to wash their vegetables when you're at their house and you don't wanna seem rude? 9 months ago:
Raw mushrooms are borderline wasteful to eat. We can’t digest the chitin and cell walls so most of the nutritional value passes straight through.
- Comment on Today, it has been 6 years since The Elder Scrolls 6 teaser 10 months ago:
There’s an industry to make new guns but people just step over the skeleton in the lobby of the half-collapsed hotel the three dozen residents call “Halftower” without a drop of irony.
- Comment on Today, it has been 6 years since The Elder Scrolls 6 teaser 10 months ago:
The combat in Morrowind is intuitive if your previous RPG experience used dice and paper.
- Comment on McDonald's is getting rid of self-serve drinks and some locations may charge for refills 10 months ago:
Fast food is often the only restaurant option for people working night shifts. I used to clock out at 5am. You know what’s open at 5am, when you’re hungry but too tired to cook dinner because you’ve been on your feet for ten hours? Fast food. Maybe a diner if you’re near a truck route, but honestly that’s not much different.
It’s far from the only way society ignores the needs of people who keep everything running behind the scenes, but it sure was annoying.
- Comment on Masahiro Sakurai refused to add Dolby Surround to a Kirby game because players had to sit through the logo 10 months ago:
Sorry I’ll be explicit: I’m making fun of how pretentious you sound and can’t take anything you say here seriously. I actually agree that a monster sound system can greatly enhance a movie or game experience, but the difference depends on the specific media. I saw Fury Road three times in the theater because I knew my home system would never match the experience. Something like Star Trek TNG or My Cousin Vinny or, as the topic of this post, Kirby’s Air Ride hinges far less on the audio quality to deliver the intended content. Gatekeeping enjoyment behind speakers makes you a colossal ass.
- Comment on Masahiro Sakurai refused to add Dolby Surround to a Kirby game because players had to sit through the logo 10 months ago:
MasterHero SoccerGuy is too pure for downvotes.