adam_y
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- Comment on Anon meets up with a girl 1 week ago:
Dude, the use of “mongoloid” is not cool.
You know what it means, right?
- Comment on Feral Science 2 weeks ago:
Best moment of Disco Elysium for me.
- Comment on Nuclear Demonology 2 weeks ago:
I just sighed so hard I put my back out.
Just because you don’t know something doesn’t mean it is untrue.
See also, “this is new to me therefore I have discovered it”
This is like reverse appropriation and is just as bad.
- Comment on Like Fleetwood Mac? Get ready for 4 weeks ago:
Fleetwood Mac and cheese.
Yeah, OK. I’m in.
- Comment on Why did it take so damn long for humanity to "learn" how to draw/paint realistic images? 4 weeks ago:
I do find it interesting that folk think Renaissance art is realistic.
I’m being a little glib, but the truth is that we are still looking at hyper-idealised bodies.
The main difference,I suspect, is the use of perspective rather than drawing on a flat plane. In a way it took a leap of imagination to make things look more “realistic” whilst sculpture was merely (again, said with a certain smirk) just mimicking what the artist could see and feel in the real world.
That is to say that sculpture is reproduction whilst drawing is representation, and with representation you need to be able to take some pretty big leaps for both the artist and the viewer to work these things out.
- Comment on Probably 5 weeks ago:
This is so on form for UCLAN.
- Comment on The internet, every October 5 weeks ago:
Pretty sure we had Halloween before the US even existed.
Admittedly we had to carve turnips.
Some still do.
- Comment on Why don't we have cool vending machines in the US? 5 weeks ago:
IIt replaces workers with robots so it would probably save money too.
And now the workers cannot afford bread.
Next move?
- Comment on Britain Backs Plan to Store Carbon Dioxide Under the Sea | Two proposals in Northern England, led by the energy giants BP and Eni, aim to establish an industry in burying emissions 1 month ago:
Britain says a lot of shit.
The fact they are suggesting this is down to Northerners is a new low.
What’s that, man in Burnley? BP can offset their horrific environmental track record by exporting their harm to the bottom of the sea?
Sure, that’s a great Idea and we love your ferret and whippet.
- Comment on British travel bloggers ‘sugarcoating’ China’s Uyghur problem to the delight of Beijing: Influencers claim to be exposing 'Western lies' about Xinjiang, claiming they have not seen human rights abuses 1 month ago:
Influencers are just fleshy billboards for whoever wants them to shill.
It isn’t a job, it is a resource.
And honestly, I think we are all getting tired of seeing their burning faces and hearing their vapid takes.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
That makes a lot of sense.
As far as I’m aware, if your TV did start to provide feedback as you played you were in for a bad time.
I guess I’m thinking more holistically. Gaming is often seen still as a visual medium, but you’ll know that the physical set up was part of the fun/not fun.
I suspect you might remember man parties and lugging gear around just to play with friends. In theory it wasn’t exactly easy, but somehow still enjoyable for it.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
And I forgot the smell and the heat too. That warm ozone thing a lot of them had going on.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Yeah, when you turned them on they frequently had push buttons with satisfying resistance and a click.
As an object they had their own tactility, often solid and heavy (as opposed to the sort of articulated physicality of most modern monitors). You could often feel the static electricity across the glass.
They even had their own sounds. The hum of warming up, the whine and clunk of being turned off.
When we talk about nostalgia it’s often the sensations adjacent to the activity that we are talking about.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
People will knock nostalgia … They see it as a sort of softness, a yearning for the past…
But what they miss is the way that it can create intergenerational connections.
That’s a really lovely thing to hear about your relationship with your dad and Ms Pac-Man.
Wait, that sounds libellous.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
I think people who played those games on CRTs originally remember the feel of the visuals. It is a rather nostalgic thing.
The filters aren’t the same, but they’re not a bad approximation. Mist of those games were not meant to be played on modern hardware and look worse for it too.
Then there will be a ton of folk who just do it because they see other people do it. That’s fine too, especially if they are enjoying themselves.
That’s the point. If the filter makes you feel happier, go for it. It’s an aesthetic choice.
- Comment on An artist says Nerf’s Destiny 2 hand cannon is a ripoff of their work 2 months ago:
The devil is in the details. Different contracts state different usages.
Often, I’m hired to make things for folk, and they own it entirely. I see these things out in the world, I sometimes see other artists hired to butcher it to fit a new purpose. But that’s OK, I account for that, and often I hand over the source files from the things I make… Layered documents etc.
However, there’s a really disturbing trend of large companies appropriating fan art and claiming that because they own the IP any derivatives belong to them too. This is far ickier.
The main thing though is credit. You’d think that giving a nod to the original artist would be nice. It costs nothing and can have a massive impact on their business.
- Comment on My word game had some weird archaic racist word as one of the answers. 2 months ago:
I’m sorry, “lenchings” is not a word in this puzzle, or the dictionary. Watch this ad to gain another credit and gave another guess.
- Comment on Tired of Influencers, TikTok Users Try ‘Underconsumption Core’ to Cut Costs 3 months ago:
Man, I’m old enough to remember when consumption was a disease.
- Comment on Humble Games announce ‘restructuring’, laying off entire publishing team 3 months ago:
I remember when the humblebundles were a great way to pick up some old but great software alongside some new but smaller games. A pay what you want approach and a solid reason for charity.
It hasn’t been like that in a long time. Now it is a lot of shovelware and surprisingly expensive tiered offerings.
They forgot to humble.
- Comment on The 15 craziest Nicolas Cage movies, ranked (including 'Longlegs') 4 months ago:
Really? No dream scenario? Do you even Nicolas Cage?
(It’s literally a film where the rest of the world dreams about his character.)
- Comment on why isn't anyone calling for Trump to drop out. 4 months ago:
Someone knows their cock rights.
- Comment on What's up with all the "___punk" stuff? 4 months ago:
Oh no, I get you. I think we are a similar age.
I was at the Reading Festival in '96 and I think offspring were playing.
There was a slightly older guy stood in the middle of the crowd shouting, you call this punk… This ain’t punk. This ain’t shit.
The kids were laughing at him.
This week in Glasgow Green Day played a gig and all I saw was middle aged men and their daughters wearing matching merch t-shirts.
I’m assuming at some point I travel back in time to '96 to try to stop this.
- Comment on What's up with all the "___punk" stuff? 4 months ago:
She may be a Puncke: for many of them, are neither Maid, Widow, nor Wife.
W. Shakespeare, Measure for Measure (1623)
Damn, you really old.
- Comment on It's real 5 months ago:
I’m gen-x and I am at the point where I don’t know if I say anything unironically any more.
(But you are spot on, slang is there, always, and it mutates as it is needed, but it isnt generational so much as sociopolitical and regional.)
- Comment on It's real 5 months ago:
Nah, its for “grizzled tanman”. You oldies just don’t get it.
- Comment on So would he call this a win or a loss? 5 months ago:
Yeah, no.
Newton was such a complex human. He seemed capable of holding many, sometimes opposing beliefs, at the same time.
Newton’s conception of the physical world provided a model of the natural world that would reinforce stability and harmony in the civic world. Newton saw a monotheistic God as the masterful creator whose existence could not be denied in the face of the grandeur of all creation.
There’s even a Wikipedia page dedicated to his religious beliefs.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_views_of_Isaac_Newton
If you are into learning about him there’s also a rather good read, The Janus Faces of Genius, by Betty Jo Teeter Dobbs, that looks into his occult work.
Furthermore, for the sake of complexity, we can look into how, when he was the warden of the mint, he became responsible for the deaths of 19 people. He turned a largely ceremonial role into a task force, chasing down forgers and sentencing them to death.
- Comment on Underrepresentation 5 months ago:
If by us, you mean American christians, then sure.
- Comment on Everyday, as an American 5 months ago:
Right you are g’vnor
- Comment on Everyday, as an American 5 months ago:
Rock it like a Brit. Most things in metric except for your height (feet and inches) and your car speed (miles per hour) and when you measure your manhood (inches… Or fractions thereof).
Also, milk is pints.
Land is acres.
And the ponies run furlongs.
- Comment on analysis 6 months ago:
I think he made it everyone’s business… I think that he might even enjoy making it everyone’s business.
