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I was going to say, 3 is my choice. Subtly powerful and useful. Just have to be creative, even if it isn’t actually that much faster
Brutticus@midwest.socialto Data is Beautiful@mander.xyz•The Sex Recession: The Share of Americans Having Regular Sex Keeps DroppingEnglish121·4 days agohonestly? I don’t have the time. My last two partners got fed up because I couldn’t keep up with their expectations. I either working or exhausted from work. I liked having sex and they really wanted me back, but carving time and attention to give got to be too much for me.
Brutticus@midwest.socialto News@lemmy.world•UnitedHealthcare CEO's alleged killer Luigi Mangione inspiring others toward violence, prosecutors say6·5 days agoplease, I can only get so erect
Brutticus@midwest.socialto World News@lemmy.world•Scientist makes horror prediction that the world will 'collapse in just 25 yearsEnglish1·9 days agoYou just asked what does collapse means, and I knew the answer. I certainly don’t know what it would mean for you.
Brutticus@midwest.socialto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•is there any legitimate use of blockchains?1·9 days agoI know this is dodging your point, but WotC has already divested themselves of MODO and a third party now runs it. I know what you mean, a central server going down destroys access to the game you pay for. And indeed we see that happening with plenty of live service games, to the point that its starting to weigh down the entire industry, or at least that sector of it.
But I ask, is it really that different? Various NFT projects have come and gone, and most of the NFTs people have paid for have succumbed to link rot already my guy. The average life span for a live service game is like, what? 2 years? And even the successful ones, what? Like 7? I haven’t played God’s Unchained, but I can’t imagine being a blockchain game will make any difference, especially because the games that do survive and are remembered have the following factors:
Can easily be modded/ hacked Can be easily emulated Were cherished and beloved
Deus Ex can be downloaded for free. Pokemon red and Sim Tower and Oregon Trail can be run in a browser. Breakout can be run in a search engine. As far as the comparison to MODO, those cards were fungible. When you completed a whole set, you could contact WotC to take them out of your account, and they would send you a copy of the whole set in paper. It’s why MTGOexchange was called that; before bitcoin, you could trade magic cards for drugs.
Brutticus@midwest.socialto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•is there any legitimate use of blockchains?1·10 days agoMagic Online with Digital Objects, also known as Magic Online
Brutticus@midwest.socialto World News@lemmy.world•Scientist makes horror prediction that the world will 'collapse in just 25 yearsEnglish5·10 days agoThis is something historians struggle with, because “Collapse” has happened before, the most famous of which might be the Bronze Age Collapse, or the fall of the western Roman Empire in 473. Needless to say, those didn’t result in human extinction, or even the extinction of human habitation in those locations (so Greece was inhabited before the Bronze age collapse, but that predates Classical Greece, which we think of as it’s golden age, and one for humanity).
Specifically, it was (natural) climate change or political turmoil (those usually go hand in hand) making long established trade routes and subsistence patterns untenable, and with it, destroying the power of the people who controlled that trade. There was a reduction in trade, as the elites had the money to import, and the disposition to distinguish themselves from the lower classes. There was certainly some population reduction, because food was not moving as much, and populations were reduced to what the locality could support. I want to note that at this point, we see migrations (although we do see violence). I want to thank Patrick Wyman’s podcast for teaching me this answer.
So I think, in this case, I think its likely we see this. The current power structure will probably not survive, although pockets of it may hold on in places, and maybe even survive into the next iteration (so think about the Catholic Church, an ancient roman institution survives to this day). Instead, I expect to see local polities spring up, holding on to or rejecting various aspects of the old world. A process of balkanization implies the rest of the world looks on in horror, but I expect to see some process of it happening everywhere. Immediately, these fragments will resemble the world we recognize, but in the centuries that follow, the world will become unrecognizable to us.
I think its also important to note that like, the destruction of the social order, which would suck for a lot of reasons (like the development of technology like vaccines), doesn’t necessarily mean a “dark age.” Some knowledge was lost (like Roman concrete in the fall of Rome) but I dont think the fall of the modern world precludes the loss of electricity, or motor vehicles, or even something like the telephone.
Brutticus@midwest.socialto World News@lemmy.world•Scientist makes horror prediction that the world will 'collapse in just 25 yearsEnglish2·10 days ago“civilization” doesn’t even include humanity or technology.
Brutticus@midwest.socialto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•is there any legitimate use of blockchains?2·10 days agoHow is this different from MODO?
Now all we gotta do is start planting land mines for em
I mean dont worry, the market for this by definition shrinks.
Brutticus@midwest.socialtoPolitical Memes@lemmy.world•Sometimes a Nosferatu is hideous on the outside *and* inside.7·11 days agoIs he insane? Protestants are a huge threat to Jewish safety. They can all go fuck right off. He’s just trying to stroke evanjo cock.
Brutticus@midwest.socialto The Simpsons@lemmy.world•And Schoolmistress Krabapple has been stealing points [Hard]English2·14 days agosquirrels in pants for gambling purposes?
Brutticus@midwest.socialto Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.world•During their visit to the United States, President Trump showed President Zelensky and President Macron his collection of MAGA hatsEnglish4·16 days agoCHECK OUT MY COLLECTIONS OF RARE PEPES (DO NOT STEAL)
Brutticus@midwest.socialto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Is there an actor you can't stand? Do they have any exceptions?156·20 days agoFuck (and I cannot emphasize this enough) fuck Timothy Chalamet. He is always so wooden. He can’t act for shit. Hes just a very pretty nepo baby.
Also, can we count film makers? I hate Christopher Nolan. Every movie he makes is such a torturous slog. They are all metaphors for their own creation, and everyone of them is too concerned with the machinery, like hes pretentiously drawing attention to it. “GET IT? IM MAKING A MOVIE? IM A FUCKING GENIUS!”
Its also shown in later movies that various other predators will hurt weak creatures if it serves their purposes. The original predator (dubbed “The Jungle Hunter” by the fandom, I guess) seems to have been one of the more “moral” individual Yujata.
Which I think it is pretty fucking interesting
Brutticus@midwest.socialto Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.world•Seeing shit like this kills me. People are so ignorant.English2·21 days agoI love it. I might turn it over in my head for a minute
wait did i miss something? Are these two separate people?
I aint no tankie but I was referencing this utterly cold quote from Soviet sniper Lyudmila Pavlichenko.