Omnificer @ Omnificer @lemmy.world

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Might need to focus group the castle design with enemies who don't charge directly at a wall.

It's white man's burden BS slipping back in, where people (like Robert E. Lee) would say "We don't want to enslave these people, it's just our duty to civilize them."

I assume it's some kind of mechanism for maintaining their cognitive dissonance.

In my opinion, when you prioritize money over values, it's just bigotry with more steps.

At least the end result is the same, even if the motivation is potentially different.

The original design of that bench is an art piece protesting the commercialization of life (although it may have been implemented seriously in some place where they missed the point).

Ironically, I'd expect a person living on the street to have actual coins capable of operating the bench more often than most people.

Way worse than break his neck, he outright accidentally shoots himself in the head.

And then it was insane that the zombies can magically tell if someone is specifically terminally ill and then will actively avoid them.

Subtitles are great for this, but also investing in actual speakers instead of a soundbar or the tv's speakers.

If the movie has multiple sound channels beyond left/right, then dialogue is usually one of those channels and can come from a specific speaker, making it less muddied than when mixed with other sounds.

If the movie doesn't have multiple channels, the speakers might still help a little just by being better quality.

For a while there was a persistent myth that black people had an extra muscle in their leg that allowed them to perform better at sports.

It's kind of similar to phrenology in trying to justify racism.

It is a little refreshing compared to blanket denial and insisting the "true" racists are the people who call him out. Or crocodile tears and insisting "that's not who I am".

But yea, still not good.

Subsistence wage is what you are thinking of, to meet basic biological necessities. A living wage allows for moderate comfort, because there is more to living than just surviving.

The "recycling" in Soylent Green is due to global warming and overpopulation causing a bunch of food scarcity. It's definitely prescient in that way, but also weird in the context of the diagram.

If it's a celestial warlock they might be a sub-contractor for the paladin's deity of choice!

Yea, blatant murder and assault isn't justifiable to most good deities or codes of ethics, even if the target pings as evil. "Oh this shopkeeper is evil? Guess he dies."

At the least, it's highly illegal most places, so even if there aren't divine consequences there'd certainly be social ones.

I think the big takeaway is that there are no sides to the matter, even if it's easier to empathize with one over the other, so the meme still stands on the empathy part.

The "antagonist" of the whole thing is that they both failed to communicate with each other. Which isn't weird, Max is a teenager experiencing a lot of stuff for the first time, and Goofy is scared for his relationship with his son, having to be a single dad, and never raising a teenager before.

The major issue at hand is that Goofy might as well be a minor deity of extreme luck (good and bad), so normal child/parent friction turns into being attacked by Bigfoot while later becoming an integral part of a huge concert.

There's also Cleo from Math StackExchange. They'd drop answers to complex problems in a couple of hours with no work shown. It took another mathematician days and several pages of work to prove out one of Cleo's answers.

One time Anakin lost R2 in a space battle and insisted on a rescue mission. He was told no, because it's a droid, and then Anakin had to explain that he never wipes R2's memory banks and R2 has accumulated massive amounts of sensitive intel for the Republic military.

What Anakin doesn't mention is the alarming amount of info R2 has on the Jedi, Anakin and Padme's personal life, Naboo, the Senate, and whatever Separatist data is in whatever systems R2 is hacking into that week.

At that point, Leia giving R2 the Death Star plans is basically par for the course.

Yea, it's always been weird to me that Batman alone is being judged for not using lethal force. If that were part of any consistent values, wouldn't every person who has had chain of custody of Joker, or even proximity to him, be morally obligated to kill him?

If random cop that has had Joker in handcuffs, or random doctor who has been treating Joker, or even every other super hero on the planet hasn't extra judiciallly executed Joker, why should Batman bear the obligation to do so?

I'd never heard of Subsync before and I've just spent the last two hours fixing so many subtitles.

I'd had good results using SubtitleEdit to offset subs and set sync points before, but this tool is on another level. I might actually need to go back and use it to polish up a few subtitles that I got mostly right, but not quite.

I would argue that this is worldnews in that (if I understand it correctly) this impacts foreign travelers too, even those simply making connecting flights.