HawlSera
@HawlSera@lemm.ee
- Comment on Based Red Dead 9 hours ago:
Outlaws is a good game though
- Comment on Don’t Look Up director says ‘half a billion people’ have now seen film despite critics 10 hours ago:
No I’ve seen the entire film, and believe that at potent a satire it is.
It fails for two reasons
- Tech bros who took the wrong message and believed they needed to bring back eugenics to save the world.
- The Bad Future sadly looks more optimistic than the one we got in real life.
- Comment on Don’t Look Up director says ‘half a billion people’ have now seen film despite critics 2 days ago:
We’re going to legalize prostitution? Have it so that you can get into any high paying job you want without a college degree while still automating the work no one wants to do? Put the smartest man in the world in charge of our worst problems, which we are acknowledging exist?
Seriously, Idiocracy is a utopia compared to reality, I will die on this hill.
- Comment on Don’t Look Up director says ‘half a billion people’ have now seen film despite critics 2 days ago:
I just wanna die and join the absolute as described in the CIA Gateway
- Comment on After shutting down several popular emulators, Nintendo admits emulation is legal 3 days ago:
It’s been proven that he didn’t do that shit, he was a weirdo, but sex did not interest him.
FBI tried to bust him for ages.
- Comment on Now give me a treat 4 days ago:
This actually isn’t far removed from the reality we already have, it’s found many of the dogs are specifically trained not to accurately detect things, but to give the reaction that allows a cop to move forward in order to create probable cause.
- Comment on Believe and be saved! 5 days ago:
This is in poor taste
- Comment on Par for the course 5 days ago:
I really wish CEOs would stop and ask “If I wasn’t the CEO, would I want this regulation to exist?”
But that requires them to have empathy.
I hate outrage bait, as you pointed out it makes us blind to the REAL danger, which is… Zuckerberg trying to get out of playing by the rules.
- Comment on Par for the course 5 days ago:
Agreed, he’s just picking which side he thinks is currently winning the cultural war… and “Woke” being universally considered a bad thing does point to the Right winning that war, but… there are Leftist Arguments against Woke as well so not really.
(Replace the word “Woke” with “Rainbow Capitalism” and you have the Leftist Argument against it)
- Comment on Par for the course 6 days ago:
I hate this, because the idea comes from Hermetic spirituality, but from a very cherry picked version of it that basically says “Be as shitty a person as you want, give into your natural inclinations and vices”
I know because I’ve seen this A LOT!
Because the actual Seventh Principle of Hermeticism does not say to do this, it actually says to balance the masculine and feminine within yourself to acknowledge both as being geniunely within you. It also encourages that the two shouldn’t be seen as opposites but rather two endpoints on a vast spectrum, the same way we see hot and cold.
But sadly too many “Gurus” somehow warped this into
“Reject femininity, see it as weakness, and be a massive chauvinistic asshole.”
When that couldn’t be further from what it’s saying.
- Comment on Par for the course 6 days ago:
It’s the old “Male is normal, Female is special” logical fallacy, he only wants to hire people who’d get hired under “Normal” circumstances
- Comment on Lubricate first pls 6 days ago:
I’m not sure that I ever have
- Comment on Anon is a winner 6 days ago:
Love it
- Comment on Par for the course 1 week ago:
Yeah that seems to be the excuse for why shitty people (like Dawkins) turn even shittier
- Comment on Par for the course 1 week ago:
New Age Psuedo-religious bullshit
- Comment on Skyrim teaches a Lemmy user about fascist propaganda 1 week ago:
True, but it means that ultimately at the end of the day the Stormcloaks are the only rational choice. The Empire doesn’t give a shit about Skyrim, only about appeasing the Thalmor, the fact that they do so reluctantly isn’t good enough.
The Empire was content to cut my head off without a trial or even knowing my charges if any existed to begin with.
What bad do we see the Stormcloaks do exactly, a bit of racism? Running some Argonian/Dark Elf Ghettos? That’s horrible and I won’t deny that it is, but the people I see killing unjustly are the Empire, and they’re largely doing it because someone’s honoring Skyrim’s Customs (Roggvir comes to mind) or because they happened to be in the proximity of the Stormcloaks.
Again, I hate apologizing for Ulfric, (Especially when I usually play a Khajit or a Bosmer meaning I’m a target of their bigotry) especially with how depressing, crazy, and bigoted Windhelm is (It’s the biggest downer town in the whole game), but the only people I’m seeing actually take lives in the name of supremacey, are the Thalmor, and the Empire when it acts on behalf of the Thalmor.
Now if there were a “Yes-Man” option like New Vegas where I told the Empire to fuck off (btw, it’s the Blades, people from the Empire, that tell you to kill Party Snacks at the end of the game, while the Greybeards, people of Skyrim, who acknowledge that’s a horrible idea and will never forgive you if you even think about it), and told the Argonian Dock workers “You have nothing to lose but your chains my comrades!”
I’d take it everytime.
God even in my power-fantasy I’m a slave to Lesser Evilism. I hate everything.
- Comment on Checking in 1 week ago:
A SEER WARNS OF A DEADLY FATE!
- Comment on Who can relate? 1 week ago:
The struggle is real
- Comment on Yet they know what dishware I'm looking for... 1 week ago:
Depressingly True…
- Comment on Skyrim teaches a Lemmy user about fascist propaganda 1 week ago:
To be fair, Morrowind needs mods to even be PLAYABLE
- Comment on Skyrim teaches a Lemmy user about fascist propaganda 1 week ago:
The more I hear about Starfield the more I’m glad Baldur’s Gate 3 blew it out of the water.
- Comment on Skyrim teaches a Lemmy user about fascist propaganda 1 week ago:
Sadly no, and that’s a real problem because as racist as the Stormcloaks are… They do seem to be the lesser evil given that the Empire is actively working with the Thalmor and will even force changes to major world religions just to appease them, and the Thalmor are far FAR more bigoted than the Stormcloaks, going full mask off on wanting to enslave anyone who they can’t genocide away.
The Stormcloaks do not like foreigners in their country and if you’re an Argonian or an Elf they REALLY don’t like you… But their main point, that the Thalmor want to criminalize their very culture and kill them are, is valid, if it wasn’t then the Stormcloaks would be the clear villain.
I kinda wish the Thalmor weren’t part of the plot, because the twist of the underdog rebel group being evil and the big scary empire being good is actually a genius subversion of expectation.
- Comment on In fact he is still the president. 1 week ago:
- Comment on Checking in 1 week ago:
The uploaded image is “Too large” but it was screen cap from Sonic Underground
- Comment on Yet they know what dishware I'm looking for... 1 week ago:
because that shitstain literally just catfished some random guy and murdered him in cold blood purely to stroke his ego, but the story literally feels like a dark comedy.
It gets worse, that was actually the second victim. The first one got away and refused to report it fearing he would be judged as unmanly for not being able to fight back. If he had simply called the cops, the second guy didn’t need to die.
- Comment on Yet they know what dishware I'm looking for... 1 week ago:
My constant paranoia about getting in trouble for shit I didn’t do is why I don’t do crime.
- Comment on Yet they know what dishware I'm looking for... 1 week ago:
Funny story, there actually was a killer who murdered his girlfriend because she was pregnant and didn’t want an abortion.
In order to cover for this, he found out exactly how long it’d take to get to her house and back, recorded him playing GTA for that long.
He was found out because cameras on the street found him walking near her house, during the “live” event.
There were also bugs in the stream where the message “Time to die” showed up (in the context of an “ad” for a James Bond film), which were just his little way of bragging about his crime, like he was the Riddler or something.
He did too good a job with his timing, because the “glitch” happened pretty much exactly at the time of death.
I’ve seen enough of these “Perfect Murder Fails” go wrong, and it’s usually people who think they’re more clever than they really are pretty much giving all the evidence to the police.
I know of another where a film maker rented an old house, made it look like a stereotypical serial killer’s lair, filmed part of a low budget horror movie on it, and then killed a guy there.
Lemme lay down some flash non-fiction written in first person to tell you how that went
“See, it looks like a murder happened here, but the brilliant part is: It’s a set for a movie that I can prove I’ve been making! Meaning I can just not clean up after my own killing and hide in plain sight! Aaaaaand they’re testing the fake blood I used because it doesn’t look or smell anything like costume blood… And I left my manifesto cleverly disguised as my script in the car that they can now search because the blood tested positive for being real blood, meaning probable cause. I’ll just say it’s my own blood and I wanted it to be realistic! That can salvage this! Oh right tests like that also kinda tell you who’s blood it is, meaning they know it’s the victms… and my “script” describes the victim’s wounds so perfectly it can’t be coincidence… Wow, I’m fucked.”
- Comment on Anon buys a TV without researching 1 week ago:
Yeah, tried to play Dead By Daylight that way and it basically made skill checks impossible.
- Comment on There's fucking ads in board games now 1 week ago:
Yes, that’s the one, unfortunately it kept being flagged as misspelled. In retrospect, portmanteaus are probably not considered real words by spellcheckers.
- Comment on Learning a new language is easy! 1 week ago:
For the longest time I believed Germany had no comedians, then someone told me that Mystery of the Druids was meant to be satire of English Police.
Then I was like “Okay that explains a lot.”