Ethalis
@Ethalis@jlai.lu
- Comment on Anon thinks the French are posers 2 days ago:
Meh, this is largely a debate over semantics since the mere notion of a “French people” wouldn’t have made sense at the time. “Frenchness” isn’t an ethnicity, it’s a mix of many different peoples that mixed and intertwined over the years (celts, romans, germanic tribes, immigrants from all over Europe…) and that eventually were all brought together as subjects of the french kingdom.
Normans weren’t “french” in the modern sense of the word, but then again very few people in what would later become modern France would have at that time : they all would have considered themselves “Provençal”, or “Breton”, or “Lorrain” who just happened to live in a Duchy that swore fealty to the king of France.
All things considered, William the Conqueror was a lord of the french kingdom, swore fealty to the king of France and spoke French, so he was no less (but no more, granted) French than any other of his peers. Whether you want to call him french is up to you but is largely an anachronism
- Comment on Habits of Insects 1 week ago:
Sure, that’s great but it’s not even the point. Fundamental research and other type of “useless” scientific endeavors help humanity as a whole to better understand our universe but would never be privately funded because they don’t have any concrete and immediate financial benefits. This is precisely what a government should finance, because no one else would do it and yet it’s small stuff like that that make us collectively move forward as a species
- Comment on Home Depot 1 month ago:
I think the word genre comes directly from the french word (“genre”, meaning “type”), which in the plural form is “genres”. I don’t think “genera” means anything, it’s probably a typo
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
You creates this post in order to give yourself an alibi when someone notices this game appears in your “Last games played”, didn’t you?
- Comment on Live Updates: France’s Far Right Is Denied a Majority by a Left Surge in Elections, Projections Show 4 months ago:
Better get started on your confit, at this point the official numbers show that the far right will get the third place. The Left won the election, with Macron’s center right as a close second
- Comment on How am I supposed to decide who to vote for in local elections? 5 months ago:
You should probably specify which country you’re from
- Comment on My RuneScape-inspired fitness RPG, WalkScape, has a new Closed Beta wave starting one June 1st! 5 months ago:
It’s probably less optimal than walking since I seem to get less steps in when I bike, but I can confirm it works
- Comment on My RuneScape-inspired fitness RPG, WalkScape, has a new Closed Beta wave starting one June 1st! 5 months ago:
I tried the beta a few months ago and it was great! I kinda lost interest when I struggled to find a city with the workshop I needed at the time, but I’ll try again now that a few updates have come out!
- Comment on Glorious Victory 6 months ago:
Sure, not trying to tell you how to enjoy your games at all! I was just explaining why people would want to play this specific game closer to launch rather than later
- Comment on Glorious Victory 6 months ago:
I’d agree with this statement for most games, but the best way to enjoy Helldivers 2 specifically is to play it when the playerbase and the hype is at its peak. The gameplay will still be just as good a year from now, sure, but you’d miss the emergent story being built right now
- Comment on $70 titles are doomed to go “the way of the dodo” says Saber Interactive CEO 7 months ago:
I honestly thought that was what the headline meant before reading the comments. Paying 70 bucks for a single game sounds wild to me when all my favourite games from the last few years have cost me less than 40, and sometimes less than 20
- Comment on Guinea pig production for consumption 7 months ago:
Thank you for that, my brain was stuck on “Chupacabra”
- Comment on My RuneScape inspired indie fitness MMORPG WalkScape is looking for more beta testers 8 months ago:
I’m mostly using my bike for my daily commutes these days but this looks super interesting. I’ll give it a look !
- Comment on How much for cuddles? 9 months ago:
That is the face of a man 1 BJ away from passing out
- Comment on Quizzle – Can you guess the word in fewer than twenty questions? 1 year ago:
Pretty cool game, didn’t manage to find the answer in 20 questions though
- Comment on CEO pay has skyrocketed 1,460% since 1978 1 year ago:
A company that makes a 0$ profit and 0$ loss should be considered a successful one. Such a company would manage to pay all its costs (including wages, r&d, etc.) and function at peak efficiency.
- Comment on What's the difference between communism and socialism? 1 year ago:
Sure, but Marx didn’t invent socialism. The Commune itself was massively inspired by Proudhon’s socialist ideas. Even before that, Saint-Simon’s socialism influenced some factions that took part in the French Revolution.
All that to say that yeah, nowadays Marxism is the main socialist ideology, but it’s not the only one
- Comment on What's the difference between communism and socialism? 1 year ago:
It depends a lot on what you actually mean by socialism and communism because these words can have very different meanings to different people and ideology.
As a very broad baseline, socialism is the socialization of the means of production, as opposed to the current privatization of those means. Now there are a lot of ways this could be done, and thus a lot of ways to define socialism. Some socialists want a strong State that can enforce strict rules of ownership, others want no State at all and a free cooperation between individuals, with a lot of variations in between. An anarchist, a communist, a social-democrat would all consider themselves socialists, even when they actually have very distinct ideologies.
Now communism, at least in its most recognizable form, is basically the end state of socialism in the Marxist ideology specifically. It designates a stateless, classless society in which each person contributes according to their ability and receives according to their needs. It’s basically the end goal theorized by Marx that has never been achieved yet in History.
- Comment on Why so many people get triggered about ads nowadays? 1 year ago:
Ads is never just ads. It’s primarily a business model that is fundamentally anti-consumer, because when your main remenue starts becoming showing ads to your user instead of selling them something of value, your priorities shift from trying to make a good quality product to trying to max out engagement in order to print as many ads as possible.
- Comment on What are the most mindblowing fact in mathematics? 1 year ago:
I know it to be true, I’ve heard it dozens of times, but my dumb brain still refuses to accept the solution everytime. It’s kind of crazy really
- Comment on PAYDAY 3 will use Denuvo anti-piracy technology in its PC version 1 year ago:
It’ll be on game pass so I’ll probably still test it out, but I really don’t get why a Payday game would need anti-piracy measures since the whole point is to play co-op
- Comment on The Weekly Free Talk Tuesday! Discussion - 01-08-2023 1 year ago:
I’ve started playing The Pale Beyond, and I really love it so far. It’s basically a mix of VN and a resource management game where you’re put in command of a polar expedition in a 19th century-ish fictional world, and have to get your crew through the challenges of resource scarcity, extreme cold and interpersonal drama.
My only nitpick is that it’s a bit too linear so I have to fight against my urge to savescum.
- Comment on After Work Gaming: What games do you enjoy mostly after a day of work? 1 year ago:
It’s been a few months since I played it, and I remember I really enjoyed it at the time but ended up feeling a bit limited in what I could do: after the truly magical first few hours, everything seemed to devolve into a game all about numbers and lacking actual depth. Has there been interesting updates since?