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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

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.

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.

I think the book you're referring to is The Girl Next Door by Jack Ketchum. That book make me sick to read, and yes, it is based on a true story. One of very few books I've ever finished with a sense of profound disgust and vowed never to return to - not because it's a bad book, on the contrary Ketchum manages to capture the wrongness of it all in compelling detail - but the subject of its story was just completely unpalatable. I was too young for that story when I read it and that was my first real taste of the sort of horrible fucked up shit that humans can do to each other. And God, there was an awful lot of horrible fucked up shit in that story. Sylvia Likens (the real life poor dead girl the book is based on) deserves to have her story told to the world but part of me wishes I didn't read it.

Are these liberals in the room with us now?

Fuck that I still unironically enjoy electro swing

Booty Swing was a gateway drug and Parov Stelar is a legendary musician

Been watching a bunch of Steve Mould myself, surprised not to see him mentioned more in this thread.

Laughs in ED-E/Boone overwatch squad

Those two will drop incoming Legion goons from outside of render range. Boone will jump-scare me with sudden camera pans to exploding Legion heads while I didn't even know combat was happening.

Red Dead Redemption 2 has been on this list since the release of the steam deck because the 3 people still trying to play that game on the deck haven't finished loading the world yet

I truly don't understand how people are playing games like Fortnite or Genshin on a phone and enjoying themselves. That's probably the single worst possible interface to play the game on, that's like showing up to a counterstrike tournament with a racing wheel. I can't even play Minecraft on my phone without getting extremely quickly frustrated and Minecraft doesn't give half a shit about your reaction time or accuracy most of the time. If you want me to play an FPS on a touch screen I'm just gonna take the L and save myself the trouble, it's not happening.

but the point I'm trying to make is that there is more than enough content here, if you look for it.

If you're looking for Linux memes, American politics, or tumblr crossposts, absolutely. Lemmy has you covered in spades. But I miss some of my more niche communities. I miss memes and discussions about Deep Rock Galactic and Guilty Gear. I miss discussing Elden Ring pvp. I miss the Warhammer 40k nerds. I miss /r/JustRolledIntoTheShop. In the meantime I've been making do (ineffectively) with Discord groups but it's not a good replacement.

I'm not going back to reddit, especially now after recent news, but even you have to admit some types of content are lacking. For certain subjects, we've got it handled. For many, many others, we just don't have the mass of users required to build that community. And in some ways that's good. Not having Lemmy become the seething mass of infinite strangers that Reddit was helps keep us more personal, more manageable. I recognize names here sometimes that I'm happy to see, that rarely ever happened on reddit. But I've had radio silence on some of my favorite hobbies and communities for about a year now and it kind of sucks. It sucks to the point that I'm frequently tempted to return to reddit just to check up on some communities, but I'm always turned away by their most recent user-hostility.

He sounds like the Technology Connections of fruit

Oh, sweet, a new RGME video. I know what I'm doing for the next half hour. Thanks for the heads up!

Mine has a habit of correcting "people" into "puerile", a word I've never used except for complaining in this context.

Seriously. Recognize a win when it's handed to you, people.

It's clearly a man pissing his name into the snow (in simplified Chinese)

They're really not that obnoxious. The folks getting their panties in wads about it are either fools, or astroturfers. You do you chief, and I for one support this. Folks get overly triggered about all sorts of stupid little shit, don't let them get you down. Someday soon a bunch of us will probably wish we did something like what you're doing.

Zefrank makes exactly the sort of content that's required to get bored kids interested in a science. He is doing us a public service.

Because when your scientific legalese is confidently wrong and then someone else tries to reference your paper for their research then you've just thrown an entire branch of science under the bus from faulty assumptions. And nobody knows what assumptions are faulty unless they start all over from the beginning.