FooBarrington
@FooBarrington@lemmy.world
- Comment on Why is it when I watch a movie at home? It seems like I have to go deaf just this way. I can hear the audio of somebody speaking compared to the explosions and other special effect sounds? 3 hours ago:
One director recently even stated he wanted dialog to be difficult to understand in certain scenes (I forget what movie).
It was Christopher Nolan with Tenet.
Yes, I’m still salty about it, and no, I won’t watch another of his movies in the cinema.
- Comment on Religion 2 days ago:
That friend was me
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong Dev Fuels Nintendo Switch 2 Direct Fever With a Picture of a Chocolate Cake 2 days ago:
- Comment on Religion 2 days ago:
I want you to know that’s cool with me!
- Comment on The Mummy is a masterpiece 2 days ago:
- Comment on Religion 2 days ago:
I’ll tell you the same thing I told a friend that was too deep into W40K: you can enjoy the characters without making the lore a central part of your life!
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong Dev Fuels Nintendo Switch 2 Direct Fever With a Picture of a Chocolate Cake 2 days ago:
Don’t get me wrong, I sincerely hope it does come out soon! But I’ve been on the hype train long enough to no longer get my hopes up. Instead, I’ve reached the true hype nirvana: There is no Silksong. There never was any Silksong. It’s merely a collective delusion.
- Comment on No trousers Day today in London 2 days ago:
It’s a Fooey original
- Comment on No trousers Day today in London 3 days ago:
We do not do the things we do because they are easy. We do the things we do because I am hard.
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong Dev Fuels Nintendo Switch 2 Direct Fever With a Picture of a Chocolate Cake 3 days ago:
I can’t wait for April 2nd. Few things are as fun as seeing the Silksong community get disappointed over and over again
- Comment on Good morning I choose redneck air conditioner. 3 days ago:
Must be really good shit, considering how many of them will die doing this
- Comment on For work-sore hands 5 days ago:
Get a jar or tube today!
- Comment on "2 bedroom" AirBnB. 1 week ago:
- Comment on *Removed by Moderator* 1 week ago:
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- Comment on Any Roguelike/Roguelite suggestions? 1 week ago:
FTL is amazing, especially with the multiverse mod. Basically a fan-made DLC, maybe even a 1.5-quel.
- Comment on Elden Ring Nightreign - Network test registration starts today! 1 week ago:
Darn, would have loved to be a part this time around, but got no consoles. Oh well, videos will have to suffice :)
- Comment on So many options, such excitement 1 week ago:
Hence monocles
- Comment on We overpaid you and need you to pay back $.23 1 week ago:
But let them keep 10%!
- Comment on This official video from my Canadian English math course only has subtitles in Vietnamese 1 week ago:
Why don’t we use “express” as an attribute modifier?
This girl sexy express 😏
- Comment on Anon is a winner 2 weeks ago:
That’s still nowhere near unexplainable enough to be impossible to study. You’ve described the god’s behaviour as “sometimes alters reality when prayed to by a devout follower” - if it’s consistent enough for this statement to make sense, that’s already a lot to study.
It might be technically studiable in the way you describe, but there’s no requirement for consistency of any kind. My statement was extra-universal, so you can’t assume that it’s discoverable intra-universally. If the result of your study is “this is behaving in completely inconsistent and random ways”, you have technically studied it, but you haven’t measured or analyzed it in any way.
You can just apply your approach to our universe. People have spent centuries attempting to measure and analyze miracles. Would you say that we have analyzed and studied the magic system by which the christian god works?
Eh. It’s sometimes fun to read stories like that (one better have fun, since most stories are like that!), but they’re… stories about worlds where there isn’t a single human with common sense or intelligence. Not just in the story itself, but in the world’s entire history, because the author didn’t realise that “people trying to seriously explore the laws of their world” is a thing that necessarily happens in realistic worlds, much like it happens in ours.
You’re still making assumptions about the magic system. Take for example the Solphons from “The Dark Forest” - super-smart subatomic machines that change the laws of physics to prevent advances in fundamental physics. Now imagine that they weren’t designed by an alien race, but instead by an extra-universal god, and there was no way to ever arrive at this knowledge (since no instruments for measuring etc. can ever be developed).
Suddenly you have a magic system that is fundamentally unstudiable, no matter the amount of humans with “common sense or intelligence”. No matter what idea you come up with to study the system, I’ll be able to come up with a way to make it fundamentally unstudiable. That’s what’s great about fiction - we’re not limited by the assumptions we have to make in real science.
- Comment on Anon is a winner 2 weeks ago:
That’s not given. Many magic systems are inherently unexplainable. Say for the example you have a system where a monotheistic god sometimes alters reality when prayed to by a devout follower. There are no measurable or manipulatable components, as the god can respond entirely differently tomorrow. A bunch of stories use a similar explanation (replace monotheistic god with primal forces/strands of fate/eldritch gods).
And honestly, the mystery of an unexplainable magic system is often what makes it magic.
- Comment on Perry, beloved donkey of Bol Park who served as the Donkey model for Shrek, dies at 30 2 weeks ago:
DONKEY, NO! :(
- Comment on Anons make the worst game ever 3 weeks ago:
Oh, Bethesda is in this?
- Comment on 20 Big Cats Die From Bird Flu at a Washington Sanctuary 3 weeks ago:
I’m only trying to explain to you why you’re getting the responses you’re getting. Ignore me if you prefer that.
- Comment on Merry Christmas to Santa's digestive tract! 3 weeks ago:
Only Americans have to pay for Santa to come visit
Happy holidays from a German :)
- Comment on Would "suggest price" be a positive option for steam? 3 weeks ago:
It’s a very unclear signal as there’s a bunch of other possibilities too. Maybe I already have a similar game I prefer, maybe I don’t like the genre, …
- Comment on 20 Big Cats Die From Bird Flu at a Washington Sanctuary 3 weeks ago:
You kinda keep jumping around regarding what your point is. First it was that caged animals caused all pandemics, and over time it has shifted to Europeans living close to animals caused all pandemics, and finally animals living close to humans caused all pandemics.
Yes, close contact between animals will increase chances of mutations - but what are we supposed to do? If your point is “industrial farming is bad and increases chances of pandemics”, most people here would likely agree. But somehow you seem to be arguing that the black death was caused by people keeping rats and fleas in cages? Mixing your messages like this doesn’t help your point come across.
- Comment on Merry Christmas to Santa's digestive tract! 3 weeks ago:
Other countries don’t have to pay him to visit
- Comment on What did everyone grab during the Steam Winter Sale? 3 weeks ago:
I’ve been playing Parkitect over the last months, it’s pretty fun! Usually I don’t stick with Tycoon games for long, but I did >10 campaign levels there.
Only bummer is that the tooling around blueprints is pretty underdeveloped (can’t sort/tag them, very inflexible), and it gets tiring to recreate all the basic decorations around food courts etc.
- Comment on Merry Christmas to Santa's digestive tract! 3 weeks ago:
