sylver_dragon
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- Comment on All will eventually be revealed 6 days ago:
Part of the mythology of Jesus is that he got better. So, the cross became a symbol of his sacrifice and suffering for the followers of his religion. It’s a constant reminder of “look what you made Jehovah do by being an evil sinner.” It is also a concise icon which can be used to identify the members of the religion. And, it’s been in use for a long time now and is well recognized as a Christian religious symbol, with the original usage of crosses as torture and execution devices being mostly ignored. Perhaps back 1500 to 2000 years ago, such confusion may have made sense. These days, it’s so far removed from that context that such confusion is usually a matter of being willfully obtuse.
- Comment on workflow 1 week ago:
While slaves were almost certainly involved, a lot of the labor was likely Corvee Labor. Less like chattel slavery and more like taxes in the form of labor.
- Comment on Off topic 1 week ago:
Movie theater audio systems continued to go big blue baby boinking bonkers. Remember when the THX logo wasn’t survivable by children under 7?
- Comment on Off topic 1 week ago:
So, the solution to completely fucked up sound is to use a device to mangle that sound back into something which isn’t complete shit?
And yes, I understand it’s about the director wanting the loud sounds to be loud. But, when your art direction means that a major (if not majority) of your audience is going to have to “fix” your artistic direction, your artistic direction is the problem.p.s.: don’t mean to jump down your throat, this is just one of those things that grinds my gears. Along with the “let’s make everything too dark to possibly see” art direction which has become popular.
- Comment on I just went onto reddit to a intrest subreddit which happens to be NSFW and i got this, fuck reddit im glad i quit it. 2 weeks ago:
Try using old.reddit.com. Literally just replace
wwwwithold, or addoldin front ofreddit.com. This should take you to a version of reddit’s interface which isn’t complete trash and it usually also allows you to bypass the need to login for NSFW content. - Comment on Mmmm suppositories. 2 weeks ago:
You’re just suffering from an ear infucktion.
- Comment on It is what it is 1 month ago:
If you care about your privacy, don’t use products from a company whose entire business model is built on invading your privacy.
- Comment on User says access to ’30 years of photos and work’ in OneDrive denied by Microsoft, can't get a response after filing form 18 times — 'Microsoft suspended my account without warning, reason, or any leg 1 month ago:
A good reminder that “the cloud” is a fancy way of saying, “someone else’s computer”. If you don’t own the hardware, you don’t own the data on it. This works for large businesses because they have actual contracts and lawyers to get their data back. For everyone else, the EULA amounts to one big “fuck you”.
- Comment on Microsoft accidentally swapped Windows 11’s startup sound with Vista’s 1 month ago:
This is just Microsoft engineers acknowledging that Windows 11 is about as welcome as Windows Vista was.
- Comment on Om nom 2 months ago:
With a long, strong, flexible tongue and a reputation for eating things, one of those collaborations basically writes itself.
I was talking about his mechanics in Brawl Stars, what were you thinking about, sicko?
- Comment on What a mess 2 months ago:
Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, they will accept you for your virtue. If the gods are unjust, then they weren’t worth worshiping anyway. And if there are no gods, then at least you lived a good life to be remembered by .
- Comment on A two-player Elden Ring Nightreign PC Mod is already available 2 months ago:
It’s rather amazing that this one guy keeps churning out fixes for FromSoft’s complete inability to understand multiplayer.
That said, I do plan to try the vanilla setup first (finishing up Shadow of the Erdtree before we change over). I just worry about my wife and I dropping into a session and having some rando who either wants to faff about; or, we run into the type of toxic behavior which seems to inundate online games. We had pretty good luck with Vermintide 2, back in the day. But, with way too many years of playing WoW, we’ve also run into a lot of assholes. And we just don’t have the patience for that sort of thing anymore.
- Comment on ‘We tried and it didn’t work out’: CDPR co-founder says it shouldn’t stray from AAA open-world RPGs 2 months ago:
Well, the world should have moved on to IPv6 a long time ago.
- Comment on WaaaaAAALLLEEEeee 2 months ago:
Companies taking advantage of Linux to create locked down, proprietary systems is pretty common. For example, Android is Linux. Many smart TVs run some flavor of Linux. E.g. Tizen from Samsung is Linux based. If a company can short cut the software development process and licensing costs by using Linux, that’s often a first choice. So, my bet would be on Wall-E running on a version of Linux.
The dystopian part would be that the company locked it’s drivers behind a closed source model, and only included highly obscured binaries on Wall-E’s OS. Motors and controllers would be non-standard, requiring closed source firmware and the hardware would refuse to work with any software which isn’t signed by an original manufacturer’s digital certificate. Using an unsigned binary would blow a fuse in Wall-E’s CPU, killing him.
- Comment on Ive won a game but I'm not a gamer is there a way of donating it to lemmy somehow? 2 months ago:
it’s steam game which means there’s a key?
Maybe.
If the game is already in your Steam account, no. I can’t seem to run the actual policy down with a quick search, but games in your Steam library are not transferable.
If you have received a key in your email (It’ll be a long, alphanumeric sequence) then you can forward that to someone else, so long as it hasn’t been used by you or anyone else.
If the game was sent as a gift to your Steam account using the Steam gift system. Then no, you cannot transfer it. - Comment on Ive won a game but I'm not a gamer is there a way of donating it to lemmy somehow? 2 months ago:
I would look into three things first:
- Do the terms of the prize dictate transferability? In the rules of the contest in which you won the game, was there anything about not selling or giving away the prize?
- What type of game is it? Video game, board game, card game?
- What is the delivery mechanism for the game? Some things will be easier to transfer than others. A physical copy can likely just be shipped to a new recipient. A digital key for a game might be easy to just send to the recipient. Other delivery mechanisms may or may not have a system to prevent transfer.
- Comment on ‘Elden Ring’ Movie in the Works From ’Civil War’ Director Alex Garland, A24 2 months ago:
Kinda a good fit for a FromSoft game. Lost of impressive visuals, action, and tons of clues about a story sprinkled throughout the game without actually telling a story.
- Comment on George R. R. Martin's New Announcement Has Finally Made Me Accept He's Never Finishing The Winds Of Winter 2 months ago:
This is going to go the way of the Wheel of Time series from Robert Jordan. He’ll fuck around long enough that he ends up dead before finishing the book and his estate will bring in another writer to finish it.
- Comment on How many angels can dance on the head of a pin? 2 months ago:
As many angels as actually exist.
- Comment on Xreal debuts first glasses to run Google's Android XR operating system to take on Meta and Apple 2 months ago:
Oh goodie, I missed my chance to be a glasshole last decade. Now I can miss that chance all over again.
- Comment on Microsoft starts testing ‘Hey, Copilot!’ in Windows 2 months ago:
Azure Linux. Because you still want to be beholden to Microsoft, right?
- Comment on guys what the heck theyre putting micro chips in the cheese and using blockchains to track the micro chips 2 months ago:
I don’t get why people think putting manifests on a blockchain is a good idea.
Because you can still separate many fools from their money by adding “blockchain” to whatever you are doing.
- Comment on Can't believe we have to say this but, don't use your work email for adult content 2 months ago:
I feel like I should show up to more meetings with a t-shirt saying “I read your emails”. Granted, this type of thing isn’t at the top of the list of things we’re looking for; but, if we run across it, it’s gonna get reported. Too many people don’t seem to understand that their work computer is not a personal computer.
- Comment on Seriously Jesus, who was doing that for that to be added 😭 2 months ago:
Sorry, just recognized my typo, I meant to say “I wouldn’t be surprised…”., Not sure how I missed that.
- Comment on Seriously Jesus, who was doing that for that to be added 😭 2 months ago:
It’s Yahweh’s laws but the mythology has it provided by Moses in his sermons to the Israelites. As for Christians ignoring bits of it, part of that is based on saying attributed to Jesus in the gospels (e.g. the bit from Mark I quoted above) and also the simple fact that most religions update themselves as society changes. If anything, I think the Catholic church was smart to have a leader who could receive “new revelations from God”. It lets them update canon, while maintaining the illusion that they aren’t just making shit up to stay relevant.
- Comment on Seriously Jesus, who was doing that for that to be added 😭 2 months ago:
I would be surprised if they were borrowing ideas from other cultures in the area (and vice versa). The various peoples in Mesopotamia were interacting regularly; so, some back and forth of ideas is to be expected. Though as a law code, Deuteronomy seems like it would be more home grown.
- Comment on Seriously Jesus, who was doing that for that to be added 😭 2 months ago:
Every sperm is sacred. Every sperm is good. If a sperm is wasted, God gets quite irate.
- Comment on Seriously Jesus, who was doing that for that to be added 😭 3 months ago:
Deuteronomy is originally from the Hebrew Bible. According to Jewish mythology, the book is from the sermons of Moses. Though, it’s believed to be much more recent (something like a 1000 years) than the time period where the figure of Moses (or the person(s) he was based on) would have existed. But, even taking Jewish and Christian mythologies at their word, Jesus had nothing to do with that rule. Also, Jesus probably meant for this rule to end for adherents of Christianity.
Mark 7:14-23:
14 Again Jesus called the crowd to him and said, “Listen to me, everyone, and understand this.
15 Nothing outside a person can defile them by going into them. Rather, it is what comes out of a person that defiles them.”
17 After he had left the crowd and entered the house, his disciples asked him about this parable.
18 “Are you so dull?” he asked. “Don’t you see that nothing that enters a person from the outside can defile them?
19 For it doesn’t go into their heart but into their stomach, and then out of the body.” (In saying this, Jesus declared all foods clean.)
20 He went on: “What comes out of a person is what defiles them.
21 For it is from within, out of a person’s heart, that evil thoughts come—sexual immorality, theft, murder,
22 adultery, greed, malice, deceit, lewdness, envy, slander, arrogance and folly.
23 All these evils come from inside and defile a person.”So, feel free to boil a young goat in its mother’s milk. Jesus is A-ok with that.
- Comment on [Opinion] Windows isn't an OS, it's a bad habit that wants to become an addiction 3 months ago:
It’s interesting to see something as mainstream as The Register seriously suggest folks start ditching Windows and their preferred alternative seems to be Linux. Perhaps the year of the Linux Desktop won’t forever be “next year”.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
No. Math isn’t just doing sums, or other numeric operations. Math is the application of logic to solve problems. Part of what you should be learning, is how to break complex problems into more manageable steps and then solving those steps to solve the overall problem. And this skill carries well into lots of other areas of life, even those that don’t seem immediately “math-y”.