makeshiftreaper
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- Comment on metamorphosis 1 week ago:
Honestly the monkey’s paw wouldn’t have to do anything. Back when we had dinosaurs the earth had significantly more oxygen in the atmosphere which helped them be as large as they were. Most dinosaurs would probably slowly suffocate to death today from oxygen deprivation
- Comment on PayPal's Honey to integrate with ChatGPT and other AIs for shopping assistance 3 weeks ago:
I’m sure people know this but Honey is a surprisingly shitty company for such a simple product: youtu.be/vc4yL3YTwWk
- Comment on were you listening to me, νέος? or were you looking at the woman in the red dress? 4 weeks ago:
There’s an easy way to avoid this curse (nsfw comic warning)
- Comment on A question for the ages 4 weeks ago:
There’s precedent for tall:
- Comment on Hades II | Review Thread (93/100 OpenCritic) 4 weeks ago:
I remember when Hades came out and my buddy was saying it was going to be GOTY over Cyberpunk 2077 and all of us just laughed at him. I think he was on the right side of history
- Comment on Misogyny or something... Idk 1 month ago:
Look, people showing cleavage are aware it’s going to draw attention. In the same way women know if they put words on their tits you’re going to read them. There’s a difference between noticing something and staring right at it
- Comment on That's an impressive drop. Any ideas why? 1 month ago:
Your mom has been posting a lot more on Instagram recently
- Comment on what does it mean being nice to your coworkers to you? 1 month ago:
An important thing to remember is that your job represents about a third of your life and almost half of your waking life. People as a species are sociable and want to know more about the people they spend the most time around. A lot of those interactions are not inherently trying to get something from you but are rather people just being interested in the person ls around them
- Comment on Creative way to boost your business 1 month ago:
Imagine being the woman who drags herself in there, still mostly asleep, orders her coffee, gets it free?, drinks it, goes outside and sees this
That’d be pretty fucking gross
- Comment on Who is the enemy? 1 month ago:
Software Engineers hate stand-up
- Comment on What is "human husbandry" called 1 month ago:
Online dating
- Comment on Is the whole DC "cleanup" pointless? 1 month ago:
It’s not pointless, it has a very clear point: centralize the police in the single territory free from the federal/state devide, where the entirety of the government that controls the country functions, and place under the direct control of an autocratic ruler who has previously used control of this territory to avoid consequences for his crimes
The primary difference is he’s doing it in year 1 in preparation for what he’s about to do instead of retroactively in the last 20 days to try to save his ass. If that doesn’t scare the shit of of you then it should
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
I think the US infrastructure leads to a confirmation bias. There probably aren’t that many people who are actually “bad” drivers out there. The majority of people aren’t getting tickets, damaging their car, or hurting people most of the time when they drive. Our culture being so car centric however means that the actually bad drivers don’t have a choice but to be on the road. Bad driving also calls a lot of attention to itself because it’s dangerous. So when you drive you frequently see bad driving when realistically most people are just fine drivers, leading to you thinking more people are bad, and thus you must be better
That and American exceptionalism probably
- Comment on AI IS BURNING THE PLANNET!! 2 months ago:
I never said useless. Mustard Gas is really useful, State Sponsored propaganda is useful. Usefulness does not equate to goodness as much as capitalist will try to convince you otherwise
- Comment on AI IS BURNING THE PLANNET!! 2 months ago:
“It’s just the corner of the fireworks store that’s on fire, I don’t see what you’re concerned about”
AI power growth is projected to grow exponentially for a service a lot of people view as morally reprehensible and actively harmful
Spencer Weart identified the dangers of global warming in the 50s, we ignored the warnings and now people and entire species are dying. Excuse us for trying to prevent accelerating the problem
- Comment on Coffeezilla - Youtuber "Proves" People are Lazy with DayTrading 2 months ago:
The golden rule of money making tips: if this was a successful way to make money, why are they selling it to you instead of just using it to make money?
The two most likely answers:
- They’re making more money selling the idea than the idea generates
- (Far more likely) It’s a scam
Why are they introducing competition to their scheme? Why did they waste time building a sales deck and presentation when they could have been making money? If selling you money making tips is more profitable, how much money is there to be made?
- Comment on Three questions about superpowers, which is the best, and which is the worst? 2 months ago:
I’ve always liked this old Cracked video which argues that Zach Morris’ Time Out is low stakes enough to not create a superhero world but just kinda makes everything work for you
In a world without other superheroes? Rogue’s powers from X-Men are probably the worst. You can never have physical contact with other people for the rest of your life and there’s no other powers to steal. Lose/lose
- Comment on Sony calls Tencent game ‘slavish clone’ of Horizon in new lawsuit 2 months ago:
You’re citing examples from the 6th, 4th, and 18th centuries and arguably the last one isn’t even about intellectual property
Even ignoring the blatant “what aboutism” if your justification for why it’s ok to steal video game ideas is because some Byzantians were mean to you 1400 years ago just know that nobody is going to take you seriously
- Comment on Think about what today is considered next level vs what it used to be 2 months ago:
I disagree, that looks like a record player. You can see the plastic cover and what looks like part of the plate on top. There’s also a VCR and I doubt there were many instances of PS3s and VCRs being plugged into the same CRT. I don’t doubt it happened, but this is giving more late 90s/early 2000s than mid/late 2000s
- Comment on RPGs that are optionally pacifist? 2 months ago:
You’re correct, I had mixed up several of them in my memory. I think 6 is what I was thinking of where you can say “fuck your civil war, I’m out”
- Comment on RPGs that are optionally pacifist? 2 months ago:
Technically speaking Far Cry 5 meets this definition. At the beginning of the game the big bad guy arrests you and says to wait while he brings you the person you’re trying to save. If you sit there for 10 minutes doing nothing he returns with the person and lets both of you go. Most people just start murdering instead
- Comment on What was the Nazi Germany equivalent to "Ted Lasso"? 2 months ago:
Ted Lasso is feel good TV about a guy who takes his traditional skill set outside of his country to a different career (football coach to soccer coach) and different culture. It has a focus on being kind and embracing other cultures. Obviously OP is implying a cultural dissonance with this being popular given the American political landscape
- Comment on Day 370 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 2 months ago:
Dead Rising 2: Off the Record did have a sandbox mode and in my opinion was the most fun game in the series. The original had an infinite time mode but you had to get the true ending I believe to unlock it
- Comment on Why can't a liquid move faster than the speed of sound in that medium? 2 months ago:
So you’re saying I should view the speed of sound in a medium like the speed of light in a vacuum? That it’s the “speed-limit” of how a wave propagates and so trying to exceed it is impossible for a physical wave?
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- Comment on What is wrong with being "Black Pilled"? 3 months ago:
Do incels have some core complaints with validity? Yeah, online dating has been designed specifically to make the majority of people using it feel bad. There are genuine problems that men face in society that women don’t and they don’t get support for. However you can’t pick and choose the members of your ideology, only your choice to share it with them
The ultimate problem is that red/blue/black pill ideology is all rooted in the manosphere and incel culture. By utilizing their terminology you are associating yourself with a group of misogynists, racists, and terrorists
Which is to say someone who says “my MS makes my life difficult enough as is, so I choose not to struggle with dating on top of it” is different from “I’ve been blackpilled because these Stacys won’t consider dating below 8.5/10s”
There’re other points to be made with regards to being “too ugly to date”, why people dislike non-traditional sexualities, and modern dating culture. However, I’d bet if you went into the real world and talked to real people about specific struggles leading to deciding to no longer date without a bunch of internet words you would see a lot more support
- Comment on fuck the rules! 3 months ago:
I bring my water bottle to theaters and nobody gives a flying fuck. 98% of the time it is water but every now and then I do bring an alcoholic beverage and nobody ever bothers checking to make sure it’s only water
- Comment on Might be time to put your life in perspective 3 months ago:
No, it’s basically the same thing as Carl Sagan’s cosmic calendar
- Comment on If you could have any vision-related superpower, what would it be? 3 months ago:
Probably toggleable statistics. So I could choose to see information about people above their heads. Mood, age, name, net worth, and stuff like that. It’d be something I could turn on/off and choose what’s stats I want to see at any given time
- Comment on If you were to launch a rocketship parallel to the earth, on wheels, how big would the ramp have to be to get it into space? 4 months ago:
Some more physics things, every planet has a limit on how high the tallest possible mountain is based off their surface gravity, the type of rocks present in the crust, and thickness of the crust. On Earth it turns out that limit is pretty close to Mt Everest’s height. Space is still about 50 miles above Everest so I don’t think humans could build this ramp with our current understanding of physics
If you want to go to space slowly then you can just do what Felix Baumgartner did and take a special type of balloon to get into space. Unfortunately, if you’re not traveling 25,000 mph relative to the surface of the planet, you’re going to fall back to the planet. Just like Felix did
