Khrux

@Khrux@ttrpg.network

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It would get old fast⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Coming from the UK is correct, it was literally an artistocratic flex at having literally useless land. I read a dissertation a few years back that also linked this to a Baudrillard style simulationist desire for the upper class not to see land with any practical value immediately besides their homes because they were resistant to accept that their wealth was exercised from any real action, and instead they’d pretend it was just a truth. But beyond the lawns were forests and fields, because they had to exist.

  When lawns were adopted by the bourgeoisie, who only had half an acre of property, it was already trendy to have the surrounding acres of the house be only lawn. The bourgeoisie simulation was to have the house surrounded by lawns as if it were to then give way to fields and forests, which of course did not exist, just your neighbours equally ugly plot of land.

  What I never understood about all of this though, is that gardens are equally cosmetic vanity. I have fond memories of the garden of my grandmother, which has a small greenhouse and two raised vegetable beds at the back, but everything else was flower beds, a pond, a summer pavillion, a small lawn, a shed and a scattering of trees and bushes. Other than the small sections for growing vegetables, it was all entirely for vanity. But it was beautiful. Hell, the small lawn was even pretty functional as the primary place to set up chairs in the sun and play ball games.

  I am British, and once this island was forest and mountains from shore to shore, with meadows and plains being rare. The lawn never made sense here, and caught on less in in the Soviet Bloc as plains become more common in nature. America is a land with far more natural plains, and the lawn is further removed from it’s original status. It’s imitating an imitation of a denial of reality, Baudrillard would have a field day.

  But I did mention, in my grandmother’s garden, playing ball games on the lawn. American sport is largely built on the suburban madness that is lawns. I’m not talking about sport born in urban centers like basketball, or sports from true rural areas, which I can only assume is rednecks drink driving, if watching US shows has told me anything, but Baseball, American Football and even golf are sports made for lawns. It’s hard to detangle lawns from middle class America without stopping middle class kids play sports in their gardens.

  One day they’ll add vegetable gardening to the Olympics and America will be saved, and Joseph McCarthy will be stuck in hell on his fucking lawn.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Off topic⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  At least I expect that from him and basically all his characters. It’s most irritating when it’s a character who should have eloquence, ht doesn’t.

  Also by extension, film / TV is the ideal medium for imperfect dialogue. The medium took queues from theatre and literature in it’s inception but there is truly no other medium suited to the imperfection of real dialogue like real life.

  Mediums which demand a high critical analysis like most paintings invite the viewer to study and puzzle over the narrative, but film has it’s roots in cinema, and lowbrow cinema at that. I don’t really mean that critically, it’s my preferred medium, but nothing expects an easily digestible narrative like film and TV.

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  I don’t think it’s inherently the mediums flaw, duration and viewing time dictates a lot.

  • A good song is intended to be listened to by the same person a few times, and as such be meditated on.
  • A good painting or photograph is often displayed in a galleries or otherwise as part of some sort of exhibit that encourages reflection and analysis.
  • Traditional musical theatre can be shallow and vibes based, but in it’s structure, it’s intending to be viewed once or twice but listened to frequently.
  • Literature typically takes days, weeks, or even months to compete, which invites a degree of analysis via it’s inventment.

  Film and TV his a wired niche. Although mainstream TV also takes days, weeks of months to compete, the vast majority intentionally invites you to consume without analysis. Mainstream film fully invites the average viewer to see it once, and anything further than that is for chance or deeper fans.

  However film and modern high budget TV is mor* e venture capitalism than art, it’s just that in it’s method of consumerism, it poses as art. This gives it its own rules, and one of those rules is that comprehension is only a useful tool when it favours creating and retaining viewers/income.

  But as it’s rose to dominate all other media, there and many, many people who enjoy film and TV without any media literacy outside of it, and therefore their only touchstone is reality. That paired with the fact that we’ve largely cracked our ability for movies to direct focus via mise-en-scène, cinematography, editing sound etc, means it’s the ideal medium to not just emulate realistic performance, but focus on it and celebrate it. This often comes with unclear dialogue.

  Then the only way for deeper fans to enjoy this mediu BBm is to re-experience it By re-exploring rit. Each additional delve, albeit short - often just an episode or feature film length - gains that viewer status unlike other mediums.

  This forces realistic dialogue to be idolised by fans bove clarity, while being irrelevant to the casual viewer. At last in my opinion.

  This is a lunatic ramble, which I’m writing at 3am in my time zone after being unable to sleep. Beyond any typos, I apologize if this is entirely incoherent or just wrong and assumptive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon tries to save money⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe it’s luck but I’ve shamelessly torrented in the UK my whole life, I wouldn’t be surprised if in the past fifteen years, I’ve downloaded a petabyte on pirated content.

  I’ve never used a VPN and the one time I got a letter from my ISP, I suspect it was a scam anyway. I have used at least 4 ISPs in this period and two mobile networks, I’ve even used public and work WiFis with not issue.

  I’m not sure if this a UK thing or if I’m just wildly lucky.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨7 for me⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Weirdly I’m always unfairly judgemental when I see someone in very I door wear in public. Unless it’s somewhere lawless like an airport, pajamas or super comfort sports wear in public always irks me. But on the other hand, it literally makes more sense to be as comfortable as possible and for some pointless reason, I feel very beholden to the fashion standards that make it feel weird.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Grand Theft Auto VI Trailer 2⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Back in 2013, I bought an old PS3 + GTA5 for £150 or so just to play the game, then once I had it, picked up two more exclusives, before never touching it again pretty quickly.

  Getting a console for GTA6, plus the game, this time may set me back more than my expendable income after rent and bills. It will absolutely sell consoles but I’d wager people are actually able to buy a console much less than in 2013.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cities Skylines 2, Kerbal Space 2, Planet Coaster 2, Frostpunk 2... What Went Wrong?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I had it from release and honestly, even day 1 it smoked the competition in the city sim genre, releasing with features and scale than Sim City ever had.

  The DLC often introduced more systems, but they did feel ‘extra’, the game was perfectly functional before parks or tourism or natural disasters etc.

  The reason CS:2 felt so necessary is because the first was bloated and had underlying issues in it’s simulation logic, like unrealistically inefficient driving, or a large expansion to residential areas causing all the new residents to die of old age at the same time, crippling the city. Every part of the GUI and logic just felt clunky compared to modern, polished games.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is a gamer⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I wouldn’t be surprised if basically every person with over 1k hours in a game isn’t seeking some sort of escapism, not counting the anomalies like people leaving servers running etc.

  I suppose every minute in a game is escapism of some sort, but escapism from dysphoria or something else significant, I think would be common.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon encounters magic⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Or anyone can tell anon is alone in one glance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The question no one dares ask: what if Britain has to defend itself from the US? | George Monbiot⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is what the US have encouraged Taiwan to do. Taiwan wanted to purchase a few incredibly expensive fighters and ship from the USA, but basically all war simulations just had China target these and secure a fast win. The USA instead encourage Taiwan to take the “porcupine” technique, spreading many small weapons, particularly handheld anti-aircraft type weaponry across the country. The plan is to make invasion too inconvenient. The flip side is that without a reliable way to show a display of strength, anywhere the larger aggressor does pick on (USA to UK China to Taiwan) can focus on one part of the country and reliably cause massive damage there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The question no one dares ask: what if Britain has to defend itself from the US? | George Monbiot⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The chances of a future where the UK and USA go to war where those military bases aren’t long since gone is nearly impossible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It was Steve⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There are actually 0 OSHA incidents every year, but Workplace Incident Georg has 10,000 workplace incidents each day and is an outlier and shouldn’t be counted.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨crazy to think about⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m so lucky to be born in '98 and just dodged the great aging.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK ‘one of world’s least work-oriented countries’ claims BrewDog founder - as he slams obsession with 'work-life balance'⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been told by literal Brewdog barstaff that if they know he’s coming, they need to encourage their female staff to either dress moderately or not come in, to minimise his sexual harassment.

  I don’t know how true that is, but the city I’m based in, which is pretty happy to boycott assholes is filled with people who boycott Brewdog.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon's PC works⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I built an overkill PC in February 2016, it was rocking a GTX 980ti a little before the 1080 came out, and it was probably the best GPU out there, factory overclocked and water cooled by EVGA. My CPU was an i5-4690k, which was solidly mid range then, but I overclocked it myself from 3.5GHz to 5.3Ghz with no issue, and only stopped there because I was so suspicious of how well it was handling that massive increase. I had 2TB of SSD spaceand like 8TB of regular hard drives and 16GB of ram.

  Because I have never needed to think about space, and so many of my parts were really overpowered for their generation, I have always been hesitant to upgrade. I don’t play the newest games either, I still get max settings on Doom Eternal and Read Dead 2 which I forget are half a decade old. The only game where it’s struggled in low settings is Baldurs Gate 3 unfortunately, which is made me realise it’s ready to upgrade.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The world is ending but here's a side quest - will RPGs ever solve their urgency problem?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Funnily enough The Witcher 3 is one of the games I always think of for the trope of not following the plot. Often I think of the ludonarrative dissonance specifically between Gestalt’s paternal drive to find and protect Ciri Vs Gwent.

  For large scale, AAA open world games, I mostly think of Breath of the Wild, which transparently sets itself up as being about taking as long as you need to get strong enough to save the world and Red Dead Redemption 2, which doesn’t care about the stakes of the world.

  I sometimes can’t wrap my head around the fact that Witcher 3, BotW and RDR2 were each two years apart. I don’t feel any open world game has occupied the cultural space those games did since.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A Disco Elysium successor studio has been announced for the second time today, meaning there are now 4 companies battling for the title of ZA/UM's true inheritor⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Long before ZA/UM closed, I was certain that we’d never see a new game of that quality again from the same studio.

  I’m not confident any of these new teams will pull it off, but I’d rather have four attempts than one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How did gravity worked on the Death Star?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah the fact it’s called a small moon is slightly deceptive to us because our moon is absolutely huge as far as moons go. The natives of the SW universe would be used to much much smaller moons.

  For reference, our moon is 3475km across and the death star is 150km across, so it’s diameter is 23 smaller. It’s also weighed at about 900million tonnes or 9*10^14kg.

  If I’m right (which I’m likely not). g=(GM)/r² or g=(6.66710^-119*10^13)/75².

  That’s a gravity of 1.086x10^-5m/s² or if I round with pure disrespect for physics, 100,000 times weaker than earth’s gravity. Essentially it’s totally negligible compared to their artificial gravity. Hell, I don’t even think a marble on the floor would overcome it’s own grip and roll towards the center of the space station.

  My maths is almost certainly wrong somewhere here, I failed it badly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oh god, that can't be good...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t even think the back legs look too weird. One of the things I’ve found when trying to spot AI is that often actual images look weird like this just because of the angle / compression etc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨we don't talk about powerpoint⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah I don’t like Microsoft but like Office, I just run offline pirated version of their main programs. It’s like how I avoid Google for 70% of options but absolutely love Google Maps and Google Translate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is lemmy now what reddit used to be 10+ years ago?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I started regularly using Reddit in 2013 and r/funny was general low quality spam from there sites, with A LOT of reposts, basically all content was the same content on loop. r/adviceanimals was huge and was basically a mashup of shower thoughts, jokes, off my chest and general opinionated statements, and it was huge. r/f7u12 was big but already seen as declining and cringe.

  The humour here isn’t just Reddit style, the enormous amount of shitpost humour here is reflected in basically all “taking to chronically online strangers” community on the internet, from twitter to discord etc. I’d say shitpost humour outweighs all the other humour in this site.

  What Lemmy absolutely does have in common with old Reddit is the userbase being a bunch of trekie programmers. It used to be tech support on their office computers and now it’s software developers on their home Linux machines but the way people talk and act is really similar. In old Reddit days, it was so easy to assume that whoever you spoke to was in work that it was the normal assumption, and you’d see a massive uptick in porn on r/all when evening hit in America. Summer Reddit was a name given to the school kids who’d suddenly swarm the sites in the summer holidays during office hours, and the average age and humour had a noticeable shift.

  Lemmy now feels like a site of similar in their 30s but they don’t have 9-5 desk jobs where they browse Lemmy all day, so the hourly and daily trends don’t really align like they used to, now it’s all the classic trends at once as teenagers use Lemmy on their phones in school and work from home means people are shitposting and jerking off all day and night.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Every base is base 10⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Bold of you to assume I’d ever remember this counting technique. Hell I’m shocked I remember counting my fingers for base 10…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Every base is base 10⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Some people argue that it would be harder to count on your fingers but we could just surgically give everyone more?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Think Tobey planned this?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the compression has made the lighting feel unnaturally soft. It reminds me of shitty HDR or mid 2010s video game cutscene.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve’s hero shooter Deadlock leaks with screenshots, gameplay details - Polygon⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh noooo, I hate this art and design style:(

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Furiosa’ First Reactions Say It’s a Stunning Powerhouse (But No ‘Fury Road’)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I wrote an essay on this exact thing back in college. Basically every backdrop, including every mountain range the action actually took place in was totally digitally created, furthermore many of the explosions were beefed up in post production. Some obvious stuff like the sandstorm were of course CGI too. Sometimes the ground would just be reshaped a little for the aesthetics of the final shot when it’s basically just changing desert to desert.

  The thing is, practically every vehicle and person you saw was real, and most of the special effects like the explosions were real and looked incredible on the day, with things like shrapnel and the like being added in post.

  Fury Road barely used CGI for the content people care about, the stuff that’s exciting to know was done for real on location. But beyond that, it was used liberally.

  I’m happy with this approach and I’m curious to see how much the new film adheres to this choice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which is the best Lemmy app for mobile?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I love sync and it’s been my go to app for a decade across reddit and Lemmy, but I find it’s advertising and pro features far more frustrating now than ever before.

  The dev also takes long breaks but I don’t mind this as his work while he’s active is really really good and fast.

  If you already use revanced manager for YouTube or other apps, there is an ad free patch for an older version of sync which has an easy APK to seek out, which is recommend.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Take-Two Interactive shuts down the Studios behind Kerbal Space Program and Rollerdrome⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah I absolutely adored the concept and would love.to see it picked up. I discovered it after pitching to a friend Tony Hawk’s Borderlands 4 and gradually realising the proof of concept existed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lawyer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah is bet this is it. Born in 1785 is the right time to easily still live off the inherited wealth of a founded city, and even more than now, law is a particularly favourable career for members of that class to retain their wealth and enter politics.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Caption this.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Surely that would be more of a Image

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rizzler⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I suspect this is a partner of some kind considering they have access to nudes?