Mirshe

@Mirshe@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Even into the later series, people had to fight to do interesting things with it. IIRC the network was skittish about Voyager because nobody would possibly be interested in a scifi show with a female lead.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there video media (e.g TV shows, Movies, anime, video games, youtube videos, etc...) with a majority of the dialogue in an fictional language?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Technically it’s a cipher, BUT it’s also perfectly constructed to work as a language (by making the cipher easier - vowels only get replaced with vowels, consonants with consonants).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there video media (e.g TV shows, Movies, anime, video games, youtube videos, etc...) with a majority of the dialogue in an fictional language?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a real language, it’s just German spoken by a person with a head injury /s

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk’s xAI joins race to build ‘world models’ to power video games⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  From what we’ve seen of him playing Path of Exile, basically, yeah. As expected from most rich assholes, he wants the prestige of being good at a game, but wants to shortcut the whole part in between where you’re not good YET.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They were made in a factory. A *bomb* factory. They're bombs.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They weren’t making bombs, apparently they manufactured explosive filler for 155mm artillery shells.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  More specifically, the story has to MEAN nothing. It has to curve REALLY CLOSE to interesting ideas and statements only to swerve away just before they actually make you think about a thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This is a real post from the official DHS account on X⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “Whitewashed tombs” comes to mind.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mr. Pope⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Catholicism IS Christianity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Has this ever happened to you?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They might’ve had one (or several) bad experiences and this is a trauma response, but even in that case, I don’t think it’s unreasonable to say “yeah sure they’ll pay their own way, I just feel safer if we have a second pair of eyes I trust in the restaurant/cafe/etc with us”. Like, you don’t gotta be at the table, but I kinda get it for the first date or two being “hey I trust this person, mind if they tag along and grab a drink at the bar to be my watchman or whatever”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Would-be City of Heroes successor, Ship of Heroes, decides to launch the MMO with a $45 price tag and a $15 monthly subscription and it's, er, going about as well as you'd expect⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Just play City of Heroes. It’s still running in private servers, and Homecoming is even doing active development on new powers and questlines.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who the fuck needs an x axis anyway⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Massaging your stats to make them say what you want is basic statistics 101.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who the fuck needs an x axis anyway⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Also, more kids are just getting diagnosed. Back when I was in school in the 90s, I was very lucky to be in a rich school district that actually taught teachers how to spot signs so they could recommend a screening, which the district would foot the bill for because they had a psychologist on staff. Now, more and more districts have people like that, and more and more teachers are taught how to spot early signs of autism (and more parents are aware of it) that kids who previously might have just been “weird kids” are actually getting diagnosed with autism.

  I won’t deny a potential environmental link, but if there is one, it’s likely more linked to fossil fuels than anything. BUT that’s hard to get traction against, and it doesn’t have a magic bullet that’ll immediately “solve” the issue.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨hyperbaric oxygen chamber⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  No, it was because of shoddy wiring causing a fire inside the capsule in an area that couldn’t be accessed easily or extinguished from the outside. The egress sequence was also very time consuming (somewhere like 90 seconds). Apollo I also was just a training module, it never got launched.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yup. The few I met at Yellowstone were approaching small eagle size.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Has this happened to you?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That doesn’t sound very shareholder-minded of you. /s

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“REGARDING THE SEARCH EFFORTS FOR MY DICK: SINCE I DIRECTED FBI PERSONNEL TO TURN THE LIGHTS ON, OUR AGENTS HAVE MADE A SECOND PASS AT THE TARGET AREA WHICH YIELDED MINIMAL AND INCONCLUSIVE RESULTS...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This would be Hel, which is sort of like “you weren’t terrible but you weren’t awesome”, although you also have Náströnd, which is a place within Hel reserved for murderers, adulterers, and those who break oaths.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Feelin the Bern?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Of course, we all know that he also has invented time travel solely to assassinate Archduke Franz Ferdinand to ignite WWI.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨THIS JUST IN: FBI suspects Kirk was likely targeted, more info to come⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, Russia’s certainly looking like they want to try at Finland again with those troop buildups, and they’re propping up a lot of armed agitators in Moldova, as well as a lot of sabotage across Central Europe (and now a drone incursion accidentally-maybe-not into Poland). Sure looks to me like if Russia isn’t an aggressor nation towards Europe, they’re doing a damn fine job imitating one.

  Do they have the troops, morale, equipment, money, or veterancy to effectively prosecute a war against a nation that hasn’t undergone serious regime change recently? My money is personally on no success, but I’m definitely willing to say that Putin will give it a try. He has leashed his entire wagon to the horse named “expansionism”, and he NEEDS some sort of victory to keep any semblance of public support, no matter how jaded his populace might be - otherwise his dictator friends might get ideas on seizing Russian lands.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Good luck!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d immediately miss one of those incredibly tall, narrow steps and break my fucking neck. No thanks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It Turns Out, Steam’s Adult Content Ban Has Been Plotted For A Year And Is Spearheaded By One Of Project 2025’s Leading Voices⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Nah, we funded both Iran and the Taliban. We even elected a guy who illegally funneled weapon sales to Iran in order to take that money and give it to Nicaraguan death squads. Arguably, without US support, neither gets the critical mass it needs to effect regime change or become anything more than an upstart.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It Turns Out, Steam’s Adult Content Ban Has Been Plotted For A Year And Is Spearheaded By One Of Project 2025’s Leading Voices⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No, but we’re doing a fantastic job exporting a lot of the doctrine and repackaging it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Family in fear after Tommy Robinson shares video of black man with white granddaughters⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, this sounds a lot like “here’s my video of the family I’m going to hate-crime.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump Secures Peace Deal Where Putin Gets Ukraine During The Week While Zelenskyy Gets Weekends And Two Weeks In The Summer⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They were a lot better before Trump 1. Then they purged literally every member of their staff that was even slightly liberal, and their humor went with them. Every so often the bat finds the pinata.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yeasty⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Also, some companies still put inedible chemicals like bleach or ammonia on their food trash to make it completely useless “as a legal measure” because otherwise homeless people who eat expired food might sue (according to the bean counters).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon learns a new spell⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Aesthetic is more important than practicality.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Could one legally get a hold of those bank bill dye security dye packs, dye your own legally obtained cash with it, and spend it places? Just to make people suspect you're secretly a bank robber.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I had to make these when I sold cellphones. So much sock money.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They're completely serious⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yup. It’s not that soft tissue DOESN’T fossilize, it’s just that the conditions to do so are much rather, and soft tissue is obviously much more susceptible to degradation before fossilization.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is Illiterate⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s different levels of literacy as well. If we take things like math literacy and functional literacy into account (things like doing your taxes or filling out government forms), something like 60% of the adult population is functionally illiterate (below a third grade level) in at least one area.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mass Effect 5 is "still in pre-production" says director as BioWare shifts full focus to the sci-fi RPG amid dev reshuffles and reported layoffs⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Nah, media companies have been doing this for years now, and now the gaming industry has figured out the “cancel something and claim the potential profits as a tax writeoff”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨pocket knife⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Why bother disposing of the corpse when they can just tell the media you were resisting arrest. Interesting fact: corpses can’t press charges.