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[–] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 68 points 1 year ago

chelsea-stare I sleep in a big bed with your wife

[–] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 49 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

He doesn't even sleep next to a real gun, it's a replica from Blade Runner or something.

edit: Deus Ex: Human Revolution, at least his taste in games isn't as bad as everything else about him.

[–] Aryuproudomenowdaddy@hexbear.net 40 points 1 year ago (1 children)

He's apparently spent hundreds to thousands of hours playing Diablo 4.

[–] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 42 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I changed my mind about his taste in games.

[–] Egon@hexbear.net 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Also he ran a trash build in Elden Ring

[–] mustGo@hexbear.net 25 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] take_five_seconds@hexbear.net 17 points 1 year ago

level 111 vigor 31 ????

[–] Egon@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I haven't even played the game, but I remember it being so shit that it spread outside of the soulsborne sphere.
Can you explain what's going on? Apparently he has some trinket that shows he's a doofus?

[–] mustGo@hexbear.net 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I haven't played elden ring as much as the other games, but here are some things:

  • Having two shields on the same arm gives you the weight penalty of both shields with almost no benefit.
  • He has a bow equipped, but no arrows. Arrows are free, there is no penalty to equipping them.
  • He has two swords equipped in the same hand, both do magic damage and are about the same speed I think? Almost no benefit switching between them.
  • I don't know enough to comment on the trinkets
  • He doesn't have the health or mana flasks on the hotbar, only the customized alchemy flask that has only 1 use per rest.
  • His equip load is nearly maxxed out, which means he doges very slowly with few iframes and a heavy controller vibration every time he hits the ground.
  • Having most of his stats in magic makes it really weird that there is no mana/FP flask on the hotbar. Like does he only summon his 3 spirits to fight and only cast one FP-bar of spells?

I also heard that he posted this very early after the game came out and he is in the winter/mountain biome which is kind of late game. That implies he put a lot of hours in to get there with this build and was in fact not working his 20h grindset a day at tesla.

[–] Egon@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago

Lmao being a scrub is apparently a permanent state of mind

[–] barrbaric@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I don't know enough to comment on the trinkets

Radagon's Soreseal boosts all physical stats at the expense of lowering damage resistance. He's using Rogier's Rapier and Moonveil, both of which have predominantly INT scaling, making this mostly useless; the vigor will be cancelled out by the increased damage taken and likewise he's using the endurance to wear heavier armor which cancels out. The str does nothing, moonveil has B dex scaling at +10 so that's maybe doing a tiny amount.

The turtle talisman boosts stamina recovery a little. It's fine, but also not really enough to matter. Long gone are the days of the Chloranthy Ring.

Graven school boosts spell damage, which is actually good (assuming he casts spells, which...).

Crimson amber medallion +1 gives +7% HP, which is okay, but there are definitely better options.

Other fun facts:

  • You can only summon one spirit ash at a time so there's 0 reason to have 3 on the hotbar
  • Crystal darts on hotbar??????
[–] AMBER_BOT@hexbear.net 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] barrbaric@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago

So true bestie.

[–] WittyProfileName2@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Crystal darts on hotbar??????

Worth having quick at hand if you're doing any dungeon with those little gargoyle things in 'cos it makes them attack each other. Useless in any other situation 'cos they don't scale well enough with int to be worth the focus they also consume when thrown.

That said, I don't think Musk knows this.

[–] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, but you know he thinks he's gonna be Adam Jensen and that's just funny

[–] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Grimes divorces him and all his kids disown him: I never asked for this!

[–] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Honestly surprised he's going for Neuralink and not the implanted sunglasses

[–] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 23 points 1 year ago

Implanted Oakleys would be chefs-kiss for him.

[–] poppy_apocalypse@hexbear.net 24 points 1 year ago

The fact that you've got "Replica" written on the side of your guns. And the fact that I've got "Desert Eagle .50" written on the side of mine, should precipitate your balls into shrinking, along with your presence. Now fuck off!

[–] happybadger@hexbear.net 40 points 1 year ago

I love when one of his goober serfs does this, not realising that they need him as much as he needs them. He's so fundamentally unlovable that he can't even buy it as the wealthiest man on earth, while End Wokeness is a generic 4chan Nazi who has zero niche to replace being a sycophant with. It kills one bird with a stone while a second bird dies inside.

[–] reaper_cushions@hexbear.net 39 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Just to get it out of my system: To address Brutus directly, Caesar would have employed the vocative case, which would be “Brute”.

[–] TankieTanuki@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

He didn't want to appear pro-vocative.

[–] Gorillatactics@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Your name changes based on tense? That's rude.

[–] Owl@hexbear.net 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Nominative - Brutus got on his horse.

Genitive - He got on horse Bruti. ("He got on Brutus's horse" - look I don't know how to make that look right in English)

Dative - He gave the horse to Bruto.

Accusative - The horse bit Brutum.

Vocative - Brute, get on the horse.

Ablative - He stole the horse from Bruto.

Think that sucks? The plurals are Bruti, Brutorum, Brutis, Brutos, Bruti, and Brutis.

[–] CrispyFern@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Fascinating, but also kinda dumb. I'm glad that language is dead.

[–] huf@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

it's dumb because it's done wrong. indoeuropean cases are just stupid as fuck.

look at how it works in hungarian or finnish, those are sensible systems.

[–] Egon@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Isn't Finnish the language with 38 verb tenses or something mad like that?

[–] GenderIsOpSec@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Järjestelmällistyttämättömyydelläänsäkäänköhän

Translation

the unsystematic nature of the system

Järjestelmä is system everything else is added on top of that

[–] theposterformerlyknownasgood@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

New punk band name dropped

[–] huf@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago

more like 15-20 i think, but yeah. but they're far more regular and behave more like prepositions do in english.

the worst part of IE cases isnt that there's so many of them (there arent, the most ever is like 8-9 and that's in ancient languages i think), it's that each little case marker means a multitude of things at once. see above how it ending in -i means it's one of multiple possibilities, and each time that lone little -i is marking both case and number together.

so for the above Dative example, hungarian would have (contrived, yes, i know):

Odaadta a lovat a Brutusznak - He/She gave the horse to Brutus. Odaadta a lovat a Brutuszoknak - He/She gave the horse to the Brutuses.

the -nak signifies the dative (more or less). the -(o)k is the plural. so a plural in dative is -oknak. it's not some third thing, it's just a concatenation of the individual suffixes marking number, case, etc.

[–] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago

Cases for nouns, not verb tenses.

Czech still does this

[–] huf@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

if he said anything at all, he said it in greek, and didnt call him by his name, so no. the latin thing is a shakespearean invention i think.

[–] Egon@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago

If we're going for realism he'd probably not be saying a whole lot after he got stabbed for the umpteenth time, even if the knife was led by his adoptive son

[–] btbt@hexbear.net 35 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Ok but imagine being married to Mark Zuckerberg for over a decade, like the dude literally doesn’t have a personality what would you even talk to him about

[–] oregoncom@hexbear.net 33 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I mean he's a robot but from what I can tell he and his wife met in college and have a normal relationship. She probably has the same personality tbh.

[–] CTHlurker@hexbear.net 23 points 1 year ago

Zucc met his wife at Harvard, so I assume that she is about as blank of a person as he is, which would make for a very harminious relationship

[–] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 27 points 1 year ago

He’s a billionaire. And I’m sure she’s made millions doing whatever she does. They’re having freaky sex somewhere on an island in front of their bodyguards and there’s probably illegal activity going on anyway.

There was a user here who apparently worked in the Silicon Valley scene and claimed that his wife was present at sex parties hosted by the nerds there

[–] Egon@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago

Dorky shit I suppose. They probably quote Monthy Python at each other.

[–] kleeon@hexbear.net 31 points 1 year ago

looking into this

[–] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 29 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

My ancestors are grimacing at me, sex-haver. Can you say the same?

[–] odmroz@hexbear.net 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why would he acknowledge this and own himself so hard?

[–] Des@hexbear.net 18 points 1 year ago

because he's talking to the all-emcompassing spacegod in a floating void while he looks at his phone screen through a tiny stretched pinprick of external experience after blasting 200mg of keta-forte in solution up his nose

[–] Thordros@hexbear.net 24 points 1 year ago
[–] Raebxeh@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago
[–] HonestMistake_@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago

Is this real?