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That ring's primary domain is domination, with other extra powers given depending on person. In the hands of someone like Gandalf or Galadriel the war would most likely have turned before the ring inevitably betrays them, or they themselves becomes as bad as Sauron.

While I do agree with what you said, none of that really detracts from Boromir's character. I personally think Faramir would be the only other Man capable of resisting the ring's temptation in that fellowship.

Vote manipulation

Hmm, I can understand how someone can be concerned about that, but personally I find it too theoretical and unlikely to matter.

Any company wanting to harvest data from the fediverse would likely just create their own instance to easily copy the databases from every major instance, private voting wouldn't help against that. I would also say that your comment would be a thousand times more damning than upvoting every comment/post critical of Musk.

If you only lurk, you will stay anonymous as long as you use an anonymous username. If you comment, you are way more likely to "leak" your opinion through comments anyway.

But those are just my thoughts, I might be way off base and lack the full range of perspectives.

To me it feels like comments are what you can actually stand behind publicly, while votes also show what you think privately. And not everyone is willing to stand behind all of their opinions publicly, often for fear of backlash or harassment.

I guess I'm just of the opinion that if someone has that concern, they should rethink how they use social platforms and maybe look into creating a more anonymous profile that suits their need better.

But now we are just down to differing opinions, which is all fine to have, I won't claim my thoughts are the best one.

I have felt the want to have a more anonymous profile from time to time since being an admin means I need to avoid controversial topics, but it isn't any more difficult than simply not engaging with it.

Votes doesn't break the anonymity is my point. You achieve anonymity by using a fake name and not sharing too much personal information in your comments. No amount of voting will reveal that fj4j2l32@instance.com is Jonathan Brown from Newcastle.

Imagine being the leader and hero of your people, groomed from the day you were born to lead and protect. You're fighting a losing war against an enemy that will brutally slaughter every Man and child they come across. You are about to lose the last line of defense in Osgiliath and your once great father is quickly losing hope, and his mind.

In a final desperate attempt you ride West to seek aid from an old ally that has set its sight on leaving you behind to an inevitable doom.

Once there, you stumble upon your one and only chance to save your people, but to your dismay the secluded people that you have protected with your people's blood for centuries refuses to give this weapon. Instead they are sending the weapon with some "children" who have never seen war on a suicide mission that everyone believes will fail.

For weeks on end as you trek through hostile land while an impossibly powerful corrupting force is slowly tearing down your mind, reminding you of your people's struggles and telling you how it alone can give you the power to save them, and the world.

And then disaster happens and the leader of the suicide mission and the only one who could lead the way dies and you're left directionless. Finally you break and try to take the weapon needed to save your people.

How are you a bad person in this scenario?

The wisest angel in the world didn't even dare to touch the object in fear of its corrupting power. The most powerful elf on Middle-Earth earned back her spot in heaven by resisting its influence once. Boromir was the only human in the group, and the one most weary and desperate by the war, the perfect target for the ring.

Boromir was a great man, but unlike the rest of the fellowship he was also human, and with that come flaws. Your characterisation of Boromir is of him under the influence of the one ring, which is unfair. Free of the ring's influence we see him as a selfless hero willing to give his life to protect the hobbits from harm.

It's a shame this scene never made it to short edition of the films.

!unethicallifeprotips@lemmy.world

I'm surprised most people are against public votes. Most people already seem to have an anonymous account via some weird username not connected to their real identity already. What difference does it make that votes can be viewed, other than for transparency during discussion?

Maybe I'm the odd one out that uses my real name on the Internet and generally try to behave/vote the same as I would in person, but it seems weird wanting a hybrid account that's private (votes), yet not private (comments).

It's against the CoC of programming.dev and we have issued warnings to abusers before. Last warning given for that was 13 days ago and was spotted by a normal user.

Just a heads up that I think you replied to the wrong comment in the chain

But now you're cherry picking food. Fish and chicken is good and healthy food, why didn't you mention those instead. Pure sugar is both vegan and gluten free, but you wouldn't call that healthy would you?

There is nothing unhealthy about gluten if your body can tolerate it. So vegan, gluten free and the opposite are all perfectly valid options for a healthy diet. You could also have an unhealthy diet within those 3 categories as well.

Neither vegan nor gluten free food is "healthier" than other food. It's a question of scale and target demographic.

It started long before that, I think ubisoft in general was hugely influential in that trend.

I think Spyro was the first mainstream game to standardise achievements, you could do random stuff in-game and it gave you a little pop up

Which one did that?

Someone can easily host a website to leak this information

Anyone with a kbin account see them by default, no need to create a special website for it

Damn, never seen a lemmy thread this weird before. People need to grow up and shed those game insecurities, let people enjoy their hobbies.

Just wanted to point out that

if you scroll All, you're going to see all.

Doesn't work the same way on Lemmy as on reddit. Some instances will filter out most politics (something OP complained about) from c/all, meaning scrolling c/all won't have you see all

Some instances, like programming.dev, hides political and porn communities by default, meaning you have to directly subscribe to see any content from those communities. So c/all isn't all for all instances.

It's the websites that requires all the memory, the browser can't magically take less memory than what a website demands.