exocrinous 5mo ago • 100%
Halo 4, released in 2012, had the best graphics I've ever needed in a game. I have not been impressed with a graphical upgrade since then. I can understand the value of more powerful machines for simulation games, or to reduce loading screens, but graphics have been as good as they ever needed to be for more than a decade. In 2024, the only purpose higher definition graphics serve is to bloat file sizes and make newer games unplayable in poor regions with bad internet.
Although I will say, Horizon Forbidden West revealing the fact that many gamers have never seen a real woman was hilarious.
exocrinous 5mo ago • 100%
Halo is unique. At a time when the military shooter genre was closed in terrestrial (or at best, mars) spaces, Halo presented natural environments filled with gorgeous alien architecture that presents an ancient mystery and a sense of wonder at the scale and the age of a place. Perfectly augmented by the monk-like vocalisations, Halo defies the conventions of military shooters by putting you in a beautiful place that you have to explore, and slowly come to understand.
exocrinous 5mo ago • 100%
Wow, that triggered my trauma really bad for a split second. I used to get told that all the time when I was a kid, just because I was curious and neurodivergent. Eventually I came to see that sentence as a symbol of the poor empathy of neurotypicals for autistic people, and of ableism in general. If you said that in my house to a member of my family you'd probably start a domestic incident, because every autistic person I know has a similar experience.
exocrinous 7mo ago • 100%
So you're saying if humans invented a magic wand that could shoot lightning bolts and turn lead into gold, that wouldn't be supernatural because it's manmade?
I made peace with someone! In the past, LinkOpensChest and I had quite the aggressive tussle over whether communists should vote for biden in the general election. Proof:  If you're interested in fighting, you can go find that conversation yourself and see the full context. But this post is about positive change, which is that us two are no longer fighting! Now I just have to do the same with everyone else who has a problem with me.
exocrinous 7mo ago • 100%
lemmy.dbzero0.com is growing increasingly neoliberal https://lemm.ee/post/27031488?scrollToComments=true
exocrinous 7mo ago • 100%
tbf if I had to read a 3000 page book I'd want to skip to the good parts too
exocrinous 7mo ago • 100%
Ancient Greek views of Prometheus were mixed. Some considered him an arrogant traitor, others a tragic hero.
A lemmy.dbzer0.com admin by the handle of Unruffled, actual username [@Flatworm7591@lemmy.dbzer0.com](https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/u/Flatworm7591), posted an ableist comment today in relation to a ban decision. Unruffled's explanation for the ban is that people with narcissistic personality disorder are not a victimised demographic, and that when pwNPD claim to be marginalised, this is an abuse tactic. Wikipedia says on its page for NPD: > It is often comorbid with other mental disorders and associated with significant functional impairment and psychosocial disability.[1] People with NPD are significantly functionally impaired, and psychosocially disabled. I could bring up a half dozen corroborating sources, but I'll skip that for now. Now, the fact that people with the disability known as NPD suffer unfair hatred shouldn't be a controversial statement. A great example is the stereotype that pwNPD are abusive, and everything they do is a manipulation. This stereotype is massively damaging. In fact, if you have NPD and you look to Google for resources on dealing with your disability and improving your mental health, the first result you'll get is sources on how you're an evil abuser and resources for people who've been abused by you. This is a significant barrier to treatment. In addition to the physical difficulty of finding resources by sifting through the hate, it can provoke feelings of shame and defensiveness, and drive people to avoid or distrust all online resources about their disability. And, like autism, a lot of the disability of NPD comes from other people's intolerance. The idea that we're all abusers primes people to see and choose aggression when dealing with us. It starts fights, it gets people hurt, it turns out lives into one big punching match. The fact Unruffled engaged in this counterfactual stereotype while denying basic medical facts about a disability is troubling. It's my opinion that db0 should have a long conversation with Unruffled about sensitivity towards disabled people. Ideally, Unruffled would come away feeling ashamed of their behaviour and with a resolution to do better. But in the event Unruffled is unruffled by the conversation and unwilling to improve their behaviour, they should be banned from lemmy.dbzer0.com immediately for clear hate.
exocrinous 7mo ago • 100%
No youtubeposting for me, thanks, my time is more valuable than that.
exocrinous 7mo ago • 50%
I don't think we should pick our worldviews based on what's "ridiculous". For one thing, the very idea of determining truth as the opposite of silliness is absurd, and therefore the idea is inherently hypocritical. It instantly self-defeats and forces you to pick something else.
I believe in picking worldviews based on what's useful. I'm always going to change reality if it helps people.
exocrinous 7mo ago • 100%
No, that's a lie
exocrinous 7mo ago • 100%
I have seen video of IDF soldiers attacking Rabbis who were protesting the genocide. The soldiers and politicians of Israel are traitors to their religion. To equate Jewishness with the actions of Israel creates antisemitic hate, and that is what Israel is doing. Those soldiers and politicians are antisemites.
exocrinous 7mo ago • 100%
This is confusing to me. Air conditioners have been capable of heating up whatever house I lived in as long as I can remember
exocrinous 7mo ago • 77%
Nah. Only 50F to 115f is usable. What kind of weird ass datapoints are those? I mean 10C to 45C are just as random, but at least it aligns with something practical. At least I understand that 200C is twice what it takes to boil water. I have no idea how hot 400F is supposed to be.
exocrinous 7mo ago • 100%
Tribal communism
exocrinous 7mo ago • 100%
Would you jump off a bridge if everyone else was doing it? No? Then why support capitalism?
exocrinous 7mo ago • 100%
I wanna see a study on regret rates for other things that are obvious goods. What's the regret rate for wearing glasses? For learning to meditate? For getting a haircut? For taking paracetamol? For blowing your nose? For bandaging a wound?
I bet the regret rate for transition is "uniquely" low because we just don't check the regret rates for other obvious goods. Transition should be considered on the same level as wearing glasses, if the regret rate is similar.
exocrinous 7mo ago • 100%
So you must think Judaism is even worse than Christianity, right?
exocrinous 7mo ago • 100%
The washer is het coded and the washee is queer coded because the point is that hets should be nice to queers.
Lemmy is full of plenty of people who hate me for being trans and disabled. And way too many self-identified leftists who think I'm being trans and disabled the wrong way and am therefore a right wing troll. Most of the well known Lemmy instances lean communist, even if their admins can be quite socially regressive. As such I've accumulated a reputation as being a troublemaker for the left. I want to go make trouble for the right to fix my reputation. I wanna go talk shit, stir up drama, and get banned. I want the modlogs to say a bunch of open bigots hate me instead of the closet bigots who hate me now. I wanna ruin some nazis' days and call them shitheads. Where do I go on the Fediverse to go make trouble for the open reactionaries?
www.theguardian.com
> The name of the late Cambridge physicist was included in a 2015 email in which Epstein told Maxwell to offer a reward to any of Giuffre’s “friends acquaitonts [sic] family” who could prove false an allegation that Hawking had participated in an “underage orgy” in the Virgin Islands. Hawking, who died in 2018, has not been accused of a crime related to Epstein.
                     
A tidally locked planet does not rotate in relation to its sun. One side is always day, one, always night. This is caused by tidal forces pulling all planets towards this same equilibrium, so it's completely stable once it does occur..a tidally locked planet at an earthlike distance from the sun would be scorching heat on one side, freezing ice on the other. What about at different distances? Is there a band of orbital distance where the night side of a tidally locked planet is warm enough for liquid water? Or one far away enough that the day side can have oceans?
Okay, so you know the Don't Say Gay bill in Florida? The one that prohibits "gender ideology" in schools? > Classroom instruction by school personnel or third parties on sexual orientation or gender identity may not occur in kindergarten through grade 3 or in a manner that is not age appropriate or developmentally appropriate for students in accordance with state standards. The words "he" and "she" are gender identities. "Mister" and "Missus" are gender identities. It's illegal for a teacher in Florida to introduce themself as Mr or Mrs. It's illegal for a teacher in Florida to tell a student another child's pronouns, even inadvertently. > If a concern is not resolved by the school district, a parent may …. Bring an action against the school district to obtain a declaratory judgment that the school district procedure or practice violates this paragraph and seek injunctive relief. A court may award damages and shall award reasonable attorney fees and court costs to a parent who receives declaratory or injunctive relief. As far as I can tell, this is exactly the kind of situation the Satanic Temple exists to help with. All it takes is one single parent in Florida to ask the Satanic Temple's help suing a school for using the words "he" and "she" in the classroom. BOOM. Overnight, the headlines "DeSantis law forces school to use gender neutral pronouns" would appear. It would be the biggest scandal and loss of face for the Republican party in the eyes of their voters since ever. Why hasn't this already been done?
I was just banned from [!adhd@lemmy.dbzer0.com](https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/c/adhd) with the following modlog: `Harassment. Do not come to random communities for your grudges, Use the rerport button when actual issues occur`. I like ADHD memes, it wasn't a random community. But that aside, Lemmy is designed so that I can't follow this advice, because banned users cannot submit reports. So I am doing my best to follow the instructions as closely as possible, and submitting this post in lieu of a report. Stamets repeatedly called me a slur directed at people with NPD, which I have, off-community [and defended it on dbzer0](https://lemm.ee/post/20493108?scrollToComments=true). [MetaCubed also called me a slur after its status as a slur was pointed out](https://lemm.ee/comment/8052734). I ask for instance bans for both of them, because slurs directed at members of a marginalised group from outside are obviously in violation of the anarchist code of conduct. I would be submitting this as a literal report if I were able.
