skulblaka

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[–] skulblaka@startrek.website 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

At this point I just feel like America deserves whatever happens to us. Our problem is obvious and won't be prevented. We have successfully completed the Roman Empire any% speedrun, it's time to pack it up before we get ourselves a Caligula.

I hold out hope that we can destroy and then rebuild ourselves, like how Germany has done for example. But those hopes aren't high and they're unlikely to come to fruition during my lifetime. We need to wipe the American political slate clean and start over from scratch but that's never ever going to happen until after the existing government literally collapses under its own weight. It will require the complete and total death of America as a nation, in order to save America as a nation. I wish luck to future generations. Me, I'm moving to Australia or Korea before it all hits the fan.

[–] skulblaka@startrek.website 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Right. There have been folks getting paid for (and enjoying) being the center of attention since culture has existed. The entire concept of cinema comes from this. I wouldn't call Rowan Atkinson or Penn & Teller "attention whores or people who only want free shit" but they are the "influencers" of their time.

The dynamic has shifted, but I don't see it as some inherently bad thing, this just reads as a "kids bad!" kind of statement.

[–] skulblaka@startrek.website 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I don't know what "right" key wording you want if not the exact model and part number.

[–] skulblaka@startrek.website 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Always trust a fat guy to have good food

[–] skulblaka@startrek.website 40 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Arise now, arise, Riders of Théoden! Dire deeds awake: dark is it eastward. Let horse be bridled, horn be sounded! Forth Eorlingas!

Arise, arise, Riders of Théoden! Fell deeds awake: fire and slaughter! Spear shall be shaken, shield be splintered, a sword-day, a red day, ere the sun rises! Ride now, ride now! Ride to Gondor!

[–] skulblaka@startrek.website 4 points 1 year ago

I was once that first year compsci student. Hanoi kicked my ass, I had to go recruit help from my smarter friends. Though to be fair the teacher didn't explain it that well and just sort of threw it at us to see which of us would sink or swim. After we all complained about it he gave us a proper lesson on recursion and it was a little easier after that but I still struggled a lot on that project. We also implemented Conway's Game of Life that semester and I preferred that project by a lot.

[–] skulblaka@startrek.website 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Older flash bulbs weren't really made for long uptime. If you were using your flashlight for under a minute looking for something it was fine but any longer than that and it would start getting really hot. Once manufacturers caught on that everyone was using apps for it (and potentially damaging their phone in the process due to heat) we got better bulbs and baked in controls for it.

[–] skulblaka@startrek.website 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Those thirteen children sure didn't sprout out of the garden, that's for sure

[–] skulblaka@startrek.website 2 points 1 year ago

Not sure. I do know new creatures are planned and coming, and player vehicles are planned. I haven't played in a couple weeks though so I'm not sure what all is out and what's still cooking.

[–] skulblaka@startrek.website 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If you zoom in on it they look like little shoulder pads that might be some form of eyespots. The pattern on the back even looks like teeth like it's pretending to be a snake or something

[–] skulblaka@startrek.website 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Nuclear suffers from the airplane fallacy where when something goes wrong it tends to go really wrong and a lot of people die at once and it makes the news. But fact is, many orders of magnitude more people have died from fossil fuel plants, mining, byproducts, and combustion. They just die slower, in smaller groups, so it doesn't get reported on as easily.

[–] skulblaka@startrek.website 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

More stuff is coming / is already out. It's actually a really well done implementation of a live service game which I never thought I'd say about anything. That does mean it has a shelf life though and the live service won't last forever, which is a bummer. I'm curious what they'll do with it once they're finished actively managing the war story. Maybe hand it over to an AI in 2-3 years.

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