Hemingways_Shotgun

The mistake is attributing modern social norms onto people from thousands of years ago.

We are all products of the conventions of our times.

less than 100 years ago, certain people were grossed out by sharing a diner counter with an African American. 300 years before that, some people thought that bathing was the cause of disease since it unclogged your pores and made you susceptible.

Just because you (and I…let’s be clear) think it’s gross today, doesn’t mean we would have back then.

Source?

I don’t mean that in an “I don’t believe you” way.

I literally mean that in an “I majored in Archaeology and would be interested in reading that since it’s been more than 20 years since my knowledge was up to date.”

Dragon Age just never had the same replayability for me that Mass Effect had.

Except for the first one, which (let’s be honest) is very dated, I replayed 2 and 3 probably three or four times. And heck, I even went through Andromeda twice.

I don’t remember making it through a full replay of any Dragon Age games.

It’s not that I didn’t enjoy my single playthrough of any of the DA games, but the storyline didn’t make me want to go revisit it like a good novel or movie does.

Why finish a game when you’ve already got the in game purchases working for you?

A finished game means legal liability for bugs and performance issues. a perpetual alpha is legalese for we don’t have to do shit and people still buy expensive ships in the game."

Ah yes. Nothing like a little gross oversimplification to generate headlines.

If the shuttle didn’t exist, there are still a thousand things that would have had to go in a different direction to get a viable Mars program in the 80s and 90s. Not the least of which being that without the shuttle, and before the ISS, we would have no CLUE how to actually live in space for long periods of time.

So if we take it that we can’t go to Mars without learning how to live in space for extended durations. And we take it that in order to learn how to live in space we need to have a long duration presence there, like the ISS.

What exactly do people think was necessary to build the ISS…

You’re right boys and girls…it was the SPACE SHUTTLE.

There’s no such thing as a “non-harmful” pedofile.

Either you’re actively molesting children (yes…even teens), or you’re consuming the CP that is the result of OTHER people abusing children by forcing them to participate and worse.

You don’t get to say “its not repulsive to consume the product as long as youre not a creator of it”. Consuming the end result is still participating in it.

I can’t believe that even has to be pointed out.

I would make one hell of an ugly woman…

I was an archaeology major, hence the history thing. And I’m fascinated by the psychology of crime.

I’m far far far from a younger consumer, and I find that I too have moved almost entirely to online content, mostly in the form of True Crime podcasts and YT channels, History Documentaries, etc…

Especially in non-fiction content, there’s pretty much nothing that paid TV can offer that Social Platforms cannot. It’s the only place where I think this whole internet experiment is actually working as intended; the democratization of knowledge.

It’s a “block party”! </dadjoke>

I’ll show myself out.

Exactly my thinking as well. Super Mario Brothers was the game that made “couch gaming” popular for more than just kids. Adults were getting into it as well. I still have fond memories of my dad trying his best at it and thinking sticking his tongue out in the right direction would somehow help his jumping ability.

Without the NES, the couch-gaming scene as we know it wouldn’t exist. And Super Mario Brothers was the game that brought it to the masses.

I agree with you.

However…there’s an argument to be made that the post itself is a form of criticism and falls under the free speech rules where it regards political figures. In many ways, it’s not any different than the drawings of Musk holding Trump’s puppet strings, or Putin and Trump riding a horse together. One is drawn and the other is animated, but they’re the same basic concept.

I understand however that that sets a disturbing precedent for what can and cannot be acceptable. But I don’t know where to draw that line. I just know that it has to be drawn somewhere.

I think…and this is my opinion…political figures are fair game for this, while there should be protections in place for private citizens, since political figures by their very ambition put themselves in the public sphere whereas private individuals do not.

I don’t expect it. I just hope for it because it would be the most big-dick-energy move Zelensky can pull on Trusk.

I desperately desperately desperately want to read a headline that says “Ukraine signs rare mineral agreement with the European Union. Ukraine becomes a member of the EU and the EU gets large resources of rare minerals to supercharge their own homegrown tech industry and divest it from the United States of Trump”

I can’t help but think that there’s a Broadway musical first act closing song somewhere in there…

The fastest way to make me not download a particular piece of software is to invite me to join their discord to discuss questions and tech support.

My impression as an atheist is that there is no special sauce that makes human intelligence impossible to achieve. It will happen eventually.

Our brains are computers made of meat. Nothing more. Our thoughts, our dreams, our consciousness itself is quite literally just chemicals, hormones and synapses instead of circuits, binary code and wiring. There is no soul that would prevent true life from arising once the computing becomes powerful enough for it.

Not in a million years.

There is no such thing as a perfectly accurate touch pad “click”. Most people (myself included) tend to see their finger slip (even just a millimeter) to the right or the left when pressing down to click on a touchpad. It leads to go knows how many times that my cursor in the middle of typing has suddenly jumped to a completely different line. In fact, it’s why they implemented the option to turn off the touchpad when typing.

So now let’s introduce ANOTHER use to that part of the keyboard. Not only do we have to deal with a wandering cursor, but we have to deal with random spaces popping into existence every time we try to scroll.

Screw that.

So look…as a sometime writer, I’m all for using 12 words when 5 will do sometimes.

But this entire article is just a dozen paragraphs to say “Elder Scrolls doesn’t isn’t different enough from other fantasy series to standout, unlike Fallout, which was a fresh world on television.”

Historically:

• XCom - Enemy within (with Long War mod)
• Kerbal Space Program
• Crusader Kings 2
• Rimworld

Plasma:

“Here’s literally all the things… You sort it out, if you want. If not…whatever.”