GraniteM
@GraniteM@lemmy.world
- Comment on Over a hundred thousand Dune Awakening players got swallowed by the sandworm | Massively Overpowered 5 days ago:
Praise to Shai Hulud. May his passing cleanse the world.
- Comment on I.... what? 1 week ago:
Is it not normal to think about what I would do if I was diagnosed with rapidly-developing irreversible dementia, or if there was some horrifyingly painful apocalypse approaching, or if literally everyone I care about in the world all died and I was left all alone?
- Comment on Anon is grateful for the Punisher 1 week ago:
Be the Punisher.
Want to make cool skull logo out of burning cars.
Can’t really see the parking lot from above.
Just sort of pace out the outlines with gasoline, hope you get the proportions ruby.
Comes out like this:
- Comment on Palworld confirms ‘disappointing’ game changes forced by Pokémon lawsuit 2 weeks ago:
Horizon Zero Dawn would have been awesome with a nemesis system, especially if it was applied to the robo-dinosaurs. You could have the in-universe justification that a particular robot uploads its consciousness upon death and downloads into a new body, and now it remembers how you killed it before and it will adapt accordingly. Start having epic robots that know you, and you have to keep an eye out for them, but also upon being destroyed they could dispense better scraps.
- Comment on Is it true that femboys are "fetishized" by right-wingers or something like that? Or is my friend(who told me this) tripping balls? 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Original 'Star Wars' Cut Will Be Shown at a Theater for First Time in Decades 5 weeks ago:
George Lucas is one of a handful of people on the planet where you can accurately say “They ruined my childhood.”
Like, if you’re a massive fan of the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles but hate the most recent incarnation, you can still go back and watch the original. Lucas has gone out of his way to make that more difficult for Star Wars fans. It’s an impressive level of aggression and back-stabbery for the people who made him wealthy to begin with.
- Comment on This gay tortoise is older than the word “homosexual” 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on Anon is a statistic 1 month ago:
In any given year, more than half of all gun deaths are suicides, so really it should read…
'>Go back inside
'>Shoot self
- Comment on IT'S NOT A COINCIDENCE 1 month ago:
Also keep an eye out for people complaining about “globalists” and “coastal elites” because you’ll find that the majority of the time, that means Jews.
- Comment on Come study linguistics!! 1 month ago:
- Comment on High-risk 1 month ago:
Looks like he’s trying to avoid the Helvetica Scenario.
- Comment on Anon is waiting for Japan 1 month ago:
So it’s exactly like my year 2000, too!
- Comment on danger noodles 2 months ago:
Yyyyyawwwwwnnn
- Comment on AI will replace us all... trust me 2 months ago:
I’m out of the loop. Is this ball balancing image a political metaphor with which I’m not familiar, or is this just demonstrating the weird arbitrary limitations put on AI image generators?
- Comment on Scarlett Johansson Wants Marvel Fans to Let Black Widow Go: ‘Let Her Have Her Hero Moment’ 2 months ago:
They got her early. She had a few solid credits to her name when she did Iron Man 2, but the smart MCU move at that point was to recruit young-ish talent and get them signed on for multi-movie contracts relatively cheap. Hopefully what we all get out of that sort of arrangement is that talented actors make enough MCU money to go off and do whatever out-there artsy stuff that creatively appeals to them and fosters their talents, rather than having to plug away in garbage movies just to pay the bills.
- Comment on Trump revokes collective bargaining rights at TSA to crush union 2 months ago:
Boss: I’ve decided to pay you shit wages and expect you to work nightmare hours.
Union: We’ve all banded together and would collectively like to tell you that we prefer better wages and more reasonable hours, or else we will strike.
Boss: I’ve decided you can’t do that, or else.
Union: Yes, or else, indeed. That’s the core concept here.
Call his fuckin’ bluff, or else you don’t really have a union at all.
- Comment on Which movie do you feel has the most wasted potential? 2 months ago:
My theory is that Jupiter Ascending was supposed to be a trilogy, but the studio would only approve one movie with a wait-and-see approach to the second and third installments, and the Wachowskis just said “Fuck it,” and crammed 6+ hours of plot and world building into a two-hour movie.
- Comment on Does it make sense to buy a lifetime supply of honey? 2 months ago:
The idea did occur that I’d better be damn sure that I like whatever honey I’ll be eating for the rest of my life.
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- Comment on answer me, gregory 2 months ago:
I definitely assume that Palmetto Cheese is just ground-up palmetto bugs.
- Comment on Common Ground 2 months ago:
There’s a quote from Robert A. Heinlein that I like to bring up:
Of what use, then, are the American Communists?
They serve one function extremely useful to you and to the country, so useful that, if there were no Communists, we would almost be forced to create some. They are a reliable litmus paper for detecting real sources of danger to the Republic.
Communism is so repugnant to almost all Americans, when they are getting along even tolerably well, that one may predict with certainty that any social field or group in which the Communists make real strides in gaining members or acceptance of their doctrines, any such spot is in such bad shape from real and not imaginary social ills that the rest of us should take emergency, drastic action to investigate and correct the trouble.
Replace “Communist” with “Conservative” and the quote works the exact same way. People don’t take on awful political views in a total vacuum. Their lives and futures got messed up somehow, and in all probability by vast forces beyond their comprehension, let alone their control. And then they went looking for what felt like real answers, and someone was willing to say to them “I’ve got the solution to your problems.”
On some level, their grievances are real. They just got sold on a lie about what could be done to fix them.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
“She’s just one of the girls, she is not one of those one-in-a-million. As if to have and to hold would be holding me down with love and addiction. I think I’ve found someone, I’ve found someone to help me work it out…”
Kind of a soft alternative pop song from the mid-90s. I grew up in the northeast and listened to a lot of TMBG, Violent Femmes, and Talking Heads, so it’s possible that it’s from someone slightly adjacent to them, but it also might have just been on the pop radio station. It’s not “One In A Million” by Bosson, Ne-Yo, Aaliyah, or Trixter. I’m pretty sure I didn’t dream its existence.
- Comment on meirl 2 months ago:
- Comment on Anon wants $3 million 2 months ago:
And nobody thought to install some glass breakers on the bottom of their boots?
- Comment on Yeah I'm Bi, how did you know? 3 months ago:
Dimethylmercury is an extremely toxic organomercury compound with the formula (CH3)2Hg. A volatile, flammable, dense and colorless liquid, dimethylmercury is one of the strongest known neurotoxins. Less than 0.1 mL is capable of inducing severe mercury poisoning resulting in death.
I remember hearing the story of Karen Wetterhahn, a chemistry professor who specialized in toxic metal exposure and who was using all of the recommended precautions, who got a couple of drops of the stuff on a glove and died less than a year later.
- Comment on Yeah I'm Bi, how did you know? 3 months ago:
Don’t forget mercury!
- Comment on [Discussion] Which movie trailers were the most deceptive regarding the actual content of the movie? 3 months ago:
The trailer for Dragon Wars promised me scenes of dragons fighting attack helicopters. This scene did appear in the movie… for about thirty seconds. The rest was an incomprehensible mess of flashbacks within flashbacks and Korean folklore that amounted to very little.
- Comment on Anon visits a bookstore 3 months ago:
There are always copies of The Prophet, by Kahlil Gibran. There are always copies of The Two Towers or Return of the King, but frequently no copies of The Fellowship of the Ring. There are always copies of the Chronicles of Narnia books, but never an entire set from the same printing. The staff will always have an author that they will defend their excellent writing while acknowledging that they were horrible human beings, e. g. H. P. Lovecraft, Ernest Hemingway, and recently we get to add Neil Gaiman. If you’re very lucky, someone came in and sold a first autographed edition that’s worth $100+ but the buyer screwed the pooch and priced it at $10.
- Comment on Anon cheats through college 3 months ago:
If you go through years of education, learn nothing, and all you get is a piece of paper, then you’ve just wasted thousands of hours and tens of thousands of dollars on a worthless document. You can go down to FedEx and print yourself a diploma on nice paper for a couple of bucks.
If you don’t actually learn anything at college, you’re quite literally robbing yourself.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
I only just learned about it today, myself. I work that day, but I might be able to shift things around.
I really wish that these protests were more widely shared in advance. I want to be involved, but only getting a couple of days advance warning makes it really hard. I know that sometimes you have to act fast, but if you want your movement to succeed then you’ve got to try to consider the real lives of all of the people who want to help, but are also really limited in their time. Plan protests on weekends, and if you’ve got to protest on a weekday, then plan it way ahead of time and give everyone a chance to plan to be there. I’m sure it looks better to have one big protest with 10X people there than ten protests with 1X people attending.
