Lvxferre [he/him] @ lvxferre @mander.xyz

The catarrhine who invented a perpetual motion machine, by dreaming at nigh

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[unfunny guy analysing the whole thing]
\ The case with "with all due respect" is a lot like Japanese 貴様 kisama: misplaced respect is interpreted as ironic and sarcastic, thus rude.

Because, like, there are a few cases where "with all due respect" is genuine, but they all involve someone in a hierarchically inferior position contradicting a superior; student/teacher, underlying/boss, etc. In those situations the expression is there to convey "I acknowledge my position, and I'm not questioning it, but I need to say my honest views".

On the internet, though? Hierarchy? Mpfffffft. [/unfunny guy]

inb4 I got the OP, on "all due respect" + no respect = "this is how much respect you deserve: ZERO!". I'm just nerding out with language.

Stages of carcinisation in primitive/non-crablike animals.

go fuck yourselves. With a rake. Sideways.

It's completely off-topic but this reminds me good old Guarani "japiro túnare", or roughly "go fuck a cactus".

...hey, Reddit, japiro túnare.

Yeah... probably "between Antarctica and the South Atlantic" would be the best reference here.

[Now it's probably not the time for me to ramble on how the Atlantic should be considered two oceans instead of one, right?]

If "north of Antarctica" isn't enough to narrow it down, here are a few tips: it's also south of the Arctic, further from the Sun than Venus, closer to the Sun than Mars. Now it's easy to find it!

As usual for Latin America, law enforcement is abysmal in Brazil, specially in matters that don't involve violent crimes. If the amount of money is small, a police report is toilet paper; if the amount of money is big, the process might take a literal decade to go through. (That is not a bug of the system - it's a feature against the population.)

For small amounts you're also "encouraged" to use the pequenas causas (small litigations) system. That basically means you, a literal nobody with zero law expertise, against a team of lawyers of the corporation/mafia/business you're suing.

So in practice the law does not benefit customers whatsoever here. At most, it'll give corporations an easy way out, when it's proven they're stealing your data: "Mr. Judge, I'll throw some money on that thing's snout in exchange for its data. It should be enough, right?" "Okay, justice has been served. Next case."

Now I'm not sure, but I think it's an edit because the font and punctuation of Catherine's quote is completely different from Dylan's. It looks like someone copypasted his signature as her quote.

I know this is an edit, but Catherine saying "Dylan" made me laugh.

I'm completely opposed to that - privacy should be seen as an inalienable right, not a commodity.

My cat almost barfed on my bed yesterday. Thankfully I noticed she was going to vomit before that, so I picked her up and put her on the floor. She wasn't exactly happy.

Wow, the analysis is great - thanks for sharing it! For me Stickerbush Symphony always evoked some sort of loneliness or melancholy...

And yes, the whole series has great music. I agree DKC2 is the best in this regard; not just because the tracks are great on their own, but because they fit really well the mood of each level. Disco Train is on its own a rollercoaster, Mining Melancholy's "mmhmm mmhmm" evoking winds and machinery, Bayou Boogie making the level sound m... mois... swampy. From other games of the series DKC1 Forest Frenzy and DKC3 Nuts and Bolts are also great. (Now thinking, the DKC3 soundtrack as a whole is a bit more industrial.)

Hard level with all the wasps

So all of them? ...sorry, I couldn't resist. (This reminds me world 4, Krazy Kremland. The hive levels are awesome!)

I remember being completely entranced by it and being unable to put it down (even though it was very difficult for me at the time).

That's something I find great on so many old games: they were hard, and yet they encouraged you to keep on trying.

found it [DKC2] to difficult and didn’t really like the new protagonist as much

Playing with Dixie is easier, so perhaps both things are related.

Donkey Kong Country was my favourite childhood game series.

The first game was a blast: fun gameplay, full of secrets and things to collect, good music, gorgeous graphics even for 2025 standards, the difficulty was just right. (A bit too hard for me back then, too easy nowadays.)

I remember when DKC3 was released in '98, I'd go to the cartridge rental shop once a week to ask the guy if they had it already. (He was extremely patient with me. That guy was a bro.) Once I finally got to play it, it didn't disappoint me at all, I loved those puzzles and it was amazing to explore the map freely. Kiddy was a bit odd, but really fun to play with, and I loved how Dixie throwing Kiddy had different mechanics than Kiddy throwing Dixie.

But by far my favourite was DKC2. Everything was perfect - they picked the formula from DKC1 and expanded it: more collectibles! Better music! Better looks! The bonuses now aren't just "find all bonuses in the level for +1%", now you got something to find in them! I can literally play the first level of that game with a blindfold, it's itched in my brain. (Fuck Bramble Blast, though. I had a hard time finding one bonus and the DK coin there. And by then my English was a bit too awful to get what Cranky said.)

Then... well, DK64. It killed the series for me. I didn't get why it wasn't fun, but nowadays I see what happened - early 3D games had clunky controls and camera, plus the whole "gotta remake the whole thing five times to get to 100%" was meh.

This shit is so widespread that it makes me automatically respect any dev [team] that puts a "no, and don't ask me again" button.

So, just for show? It sounds possible but implausible IMO; I don't think YouTube cares about that cesspool of its own comments, not even enough to set a smoke screen up.

Disgusting.

This would be sad and highly unethical if coming from some small, relatively new company, struggling to keep up. But since it's coming from a large, monopolistic and 30yo old corporation it becomes way worse.

I'm glad I stopped buying their cards. My last one is an AMD, and I'm going Chinese for the next one (a decade or so from now).

Dunno, but I don't think so. Otherwise when we broke up she would throw it on my face.

Then you get crazy people who make shit up, out of nowhere, that you've been cheating. Even when you did not. Like my ex-fiancée - goddammit it was one of the many reasons I broke up with her.

Probably not because that 30% is an average of different resources.

For example. Let's say you have two resources:

• A - 10% of the current production of A is enough for the current pops
• B - 50% of the current production of B is enough for the current pops

Both average to 30%. If you multiply the population by 3, you still have a surplus of A, but now there isn't enough B.

Another concern is that increasing the population so much would force unsustainable approaches to resource extraction. In other words: 30 billion people living fine and dandy for a generation or two, and then their descendants living in a hellhole.