Sterile_Technique
@Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world
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- Comment on Madame Gasket 2 days ago:
Our boy’s all grown up! :'-)
- Comment on "You can't just have Geralt for every single game" says his voice actor, and if you think The Witcher 4 making Ciri the protagonist is "woke," then "read the damn books" 5 days ago:
Honestly, as a stopgap that just releases out of nowhere for the sole purpose of building hype for the actual Witcher 4, kinda like how Bethesda did with their random vault dweller mobile game, I’d be all for it.
Bonus points if it’s 16 bit.
- Comment on "You can't just have Geralt for every single game" says his voice actor, and if you think The Witcher 4 making Ciri the protagonist is "woke," then "read the damn books" 6 days ago:
There were multiple endings depending on the choices you make throughout the game. Same for the two DLCs.
The ‘good’ endings were in the base game she confronts the winter and succeeds, returns to Geralt as a father figure, and lives on as a witcher. Then in the Blood & Wine DLC, Geralt basically retires in his own vineyard.
- Comment on "You can't just have Geralt for every single game" says his voice actor, and if you think The Witcher 4 making Ciri the protagonist is "woke," then "read the damn books" 6 days ago:
They need to release a fake “Witcher 4” that’s just an older Geralt moping around his vineyard bitching about how his knees hurt. All of his quests would be things like pestering his workers about how badass he used to be, going to town to return a watermelon to the fruit vendor because of a mushy spot he didn’t notice when he purchased it, shit like that.
All the while, the townsfolk would slip idle chatter about crazy shit that Ciri’s doing off camera.
- Comment on Star Citizen’s new cash shop offerings provoked fresh pay-to-win and predatory monetization accusations | Massively Overpowered 1 week ago:
Start Citizen looked so fucking cool when it was announced like 15 years ago. Since then it’s dipped lower and lower every single time new info comes out.
Like, the hopefully dumbasses that got burned initially like my dumb ass did with No Man’s Sky, I kinda get… but how the absolute fuck are they still getting sales?? Are there seriously still people that don’t know it’s a scam?
- Comment on It's My Nature 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on For reference 2 weeks ago:
Banana for scale?
- Comment on this post is just 42kib 2 weeks ago:
It was posted 8 years ago, so slightly easier to gather up those relics then.
If I had to guess, the guy might have worked IT for a school or something that went through a modernization, with all the old tech going to the dumpster; got the idea and jumped on it.
- Comment on this post is just 42kib 2 weeks ago:
On the off chance you haven’t experienced the Floppotron:
- Comment on this post is just 42kib 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on this post is just 42kib 2 weeks ago:
I mean… if we reeeaaally wanna carbon date ourselves…
- Comment on My playlist, everyone 2 weeks ago:
Getting Falling in Reverse vibes.
…also this thread needs more links!
- Comment on My playlist, everyone 2 weeks ago:
…don’t leave us hanging, what did the bartender say?!
- Comment on Ancient 2 weeks ago:
“Back when I was your age in the late 1900s…”
- Comment on I don't know who The Rizzler is and Im not interested. 3 weeks ago:
50s dude could uno-reverse card that shit by breaking out the slang from his own teen years. Get all the gens conversing this way in one thread just for pure chaos-sake.
- Comment on Discord CEO steps down, replaced with former Activision Blizzard CSO as they work towards being a public company 4 weeks ago:
I want teamspeak and vent
xFire. God I miss xFire. It was better 10 years ago than any service before or since.
Iirc Yahoo frivolous-lawsuit’ed them out of existence. Q_Q
- Comment on I see you 5 weeks ago:
Hey a dopamine hit is a dopamine hit. Someone liking your post enough to upvote it is basically getting an internet first-bump. It’s not much, but getting that approval from people does feel good.
…we all have the super-power of literally administering a tiny dose of dopamine to nearly anyone in the world.
- Comment on This is so strange! Usually, they wait 15 days to elect a new Pope. We could be seeing history in the making. 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on oh yeeeeeee 5 weeks ago:
The real shitpost is always in the shitpost.
- Comment on Nintendo Switch 2 US price won’t increase after tariffs, but accessories will cost more 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on nature is music 1 month ago:
Where I disagree is that someone having a quote from a religious thing is invalid, when it’s not actively pushing to convert. Just kinda existing showing religion is there. But I guess we just have different perceptions of what passes for “down-your-throatism”.
I mean that’s something we can explore… the post is about some of the cool euphonic examples you can run into in nature or space. The top level comment I took issue with just popped in out of the blue with ‘yay god!’ …like, does the Quran or Bible or w/e say anything about the sound of the cosmos? By all means, share that - it’d relevant to at least some extent, even if it isn’t scientific.
Another approach - role reversal! Let’s say you’re really into knitting and you find some cool new design that you wanted to share with the internet; so you do. Then I pop in and say “Man, that reminds me: isn’t Satan just the coolest?! Freedom from tyranny and all that - everything just reflects back on what a quality god he is!” …your reaction would probably be akin to “…what the actual fuck? What does that have to do with knitting?” So even if I was a satanist, that wouldn’t be an appropriate time to bring it up; nor could I accuse you of being anti-satanist for pointing that out.
But that’s what I mean by religious down-throatism. I’m not calling for a ban on religious content, I’m asking that religious people use the same discretion you would with any other topic. Like, I really enjoy old-school RPGs, Symphonic Metal, Indian food, (and, and, and,) but that hypothetical thread about knitting isn’t an appropriate place to post about any of those either.
I’d wager that vast majority, if not all, of the negative response this comment chain started with was from that angle. As opposed to targeted religious bigotry, which is not and should not be tolerated.
- Comment on nature is music 1 month ago:
My beef is with religious down-throatism. I don’t care if it’s Islam, or Christianity, or Satanism, or the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster.
If you want to talk about your favorite ghost story, make or visit a community for it - it has no place here.
- Comment on nature is music 1 month ago:
That verse is used to justify rape. Not just rape, but entire slave trade networks that revolve around rape. (and that’s in today’s world, not some ugly footnote in distant history)
That you personally interpret it differently is moot: people’s actual lives are destroyed over a fairy tale, and that shit is absolutely evil.
I don’t think you’ll find any slavery where rape was in practice forbidden.
Yeah no shit, that’s because slavery, and the people who engage in slavery are and always have been abhorrent, as are systems that enable slavery regardless of religious vs secular context.
- Comment on nature is music 1 month ago:
That verse is used to justify rape. Not just rape, but entire slave trade networks that revolve around rape.
That you personally interpret it differently is moot: people’s actual lives are destroyed over a fairy tale, and that shit is absolutely evil.
- Comment on nature is music 1 month ago:
Quran 4:24
حُرِّمَتۡ عَلَيۡكُمۡ اُمَّهٰتُكُمۡ وَبَنٰتُكُمۡ وَاَخَوٰتُكُمۡ وَعَمّٰتُكُمۡ وَخٰلٰتُكُمۡ وَبَنٰتُ الۡاٰخِ وَبَنٰتُ الۡاُخۡتِ وَاُمَّهٰتُكُمُ الّٰتِىۡۤ اَرۡضَعۡنَكُمۡ وَاَخَوٰتُكُمۡ مِّنَ الرَّضَاعَةِ وَ اُمَّهٰتُ نِسَآئِكُمۡ وَرَبَآـئِبُكُمُ الّٰتِىۡ فِىۡ حُجُوۡرِكُمۡ مِّنۡ نِّسَآئِكُمُ الّٰتِىۡ دَخَلۡتُمۡ بِهِنَّ فَاِنۡ لَّمۡ تَكُوۡنُوۡا دَخَلۡتُمۡ بِهِنَّ فَلَا جُنَاحَ عَلَيۡكُمۡ وَحَلَاۤـئِلُ اَبۡنَآئِكُمُ الَّذِيۡنَ مِنۡ اَصۡلَابِكُمۡۙ وَاَنۡ تَجۡمَعُوۡا بَيۡنَ الۡاُخۡتَيۡنِ اِلَّا مَا قَدۡ سَلَفَؕ اِنَّ اللّٰهَ كَانَ غَفُوۡرًا رَّحِيۡمًا ۙ
“Also ˹forbidden are˺ married women—except ˹female˺ captives in your possession. This is Allah’s commandment to you. Lawful to you are all beyond these—as long as you seek them with your wealth in a legal marriage, not in fornication. Give those you have consummated marriage with their due dowries. It is permissible to be mutually gracious regarding the set dowry. Surely Allah is All-Knowing, All-Wise.”
Summary: rape is fine so long as you enslave the victim first.
…I liked my Lord of the Rings quote better, but that was removed. I guess off-topic fiction is only allowed if it’s religious. Allahu akbar.
- Comment on nature is music 1 month ago:
- Comment on POV: You're too shy to tell the medical staff that you just woke up during surgery. 1 month ago:
Oh! Well fuck, I way misinterpreted what you were saying then.
- Comment on POV: You're too shy to tell the medical staff that you just woke up during surgery. 1 month ago:
I can’t stress enough that I’m a tech, the rock bottom of the OR foodchain, so my understanding is limited …and even if I was claiming to be some kind of doctor, I’m still just a random internet stranger, so some healthy skepticism is encouraged regardless. BUT I’ve spent most of the past decade working in rooms full of brilliant people, so I’ve picked a few things up during that time, so: some of what you’re describing is normal, like waking up during sedation, but some of it has me scratching my head. Like, there shouldn’t (dangerous word, I know) be a situation where you’re sedated and paralyzed, cuz that’s a recipe for the nightmare fuel this thread is talking about. If you wake up from sedation, you might feel groggy and like heavy limbs or not just lack the desire to move like when your alarm is going off in the morning and you’re just lying there in a state of apathy for a minute mourning the loss of your sleep… but… if you make a conscious effort to move or speak, you should (*) be able to.
And again, not saying none of that ever happened; it’d just be super abnormal to the extent of suspecting some kind of literal physiologic anomaly (which is possible!) or some kind of borderline criminal incompetence (or actual malice) on the part of your anesthesiologist.
- Comment on POV: You're too shy to tell the medical staff that you just woke up during surgery. 1 month ago:
Yeah that’s super fucked up, and kinda roots back to your right as a patient to informed consent. Office staff shouldn’t be giving any kind of medical advice - if you have a question about a med, that’s their cue to call in a nurse or doc to come talk to you.
