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Okay, that’s inspired, and I’m going to make it a thing around here come hell or high water.
Oh, don’t you start now!
Haha :)
The aliens in Signs are idiots for invading a planet that’s 70% water. And if they landed in a cornfield in rural PA in the middle of summer the humidity would have killed them instantly.
And what’s worse is Shyamalan lives in PA and should know this.
I disagree. If water is essential for their spaceflight, IE fuel, reaction mass, ect then it’s fine that they would invade.
Humans have invaded the Sahara desert, which is hot enough to kill, the arctic and Antarctic which is cold enough to kill, the sunbmarone realm which can crush, freeze and drown us, and even the moon, which is hollow and full of dangerous repitillians.
We go to extremely dangerous places to fulfill our need for resources and territorial ambition
Yes but they wouldn’t show up bare-ass nekkid on a planet full of water if they knew it dissolved ‘em!
I almost wonder if it’s like Mt Everest climbers who climb without oxygen tanks, they do it more to prove that they can than for any rational reason
I like the holy water fan theory. They were not aliens but demons and all of the glasses of water were blessed when Mel Gibson regained his faith
I thought that was the actual reason and not just a fan theory?
“The characters in that movie called them aliens, but it was never explicitly demonstrated what they were or why they were on earth. People are much more accepting of aliens these days, and the idea was that if demons appeared among us, they would be perceived as aliens.”
If it had been talking about demons at all during the movie this would eliminate my major problem with the movie.
There just weren’t enough rules about the universe demonstrated to the viewer to know what’s going on.
And I know Shyamalan is capable of this because he did such a good job with this in The Sixth Sense and Unbreakable.
I’m not mad, I’m just disappointed.
Which would work if the aliens were only attacking his farm and not the entire planet.
You never see spaceships and you only see how a single creature is defeated. The radio says the war turned around in the holy lands, which aren’t overflowing with water everywhere.
It’s faith that defeats them, not water.
On the radio it mentioned that people had discovered an old technique to fight them, there are other priests on earth
Clearly Mel Gibson blessed all of that water, too. Is there anything that guy can’t do with his faith? (Besides make a watchable movie?)
And Toto has Africa pretty well covered.
I needed that chuckle.
It wouldn’t be so bad if they weren’t also naked.
Also, they have interstellar travel but need to use crop circles to communicate. I know that’s just part of the premise but it’s still stupid.
But not nearly as stupid as flying all the way here and trying win a land war completely unarmed. If your battle plan can be beaten by a baseball bat and asthma, you should maybe rethink your invasion.
I think the movie would work better if the aliens were just messing with this one family on a farm, like they’re a scout force.
But it’s like humans trying to invade Mars in their birthday suits, just assuming the planet isn’t toxic and uninhabitable.
Like, what did the invasion look like in the tropics, where it rains just about every day? Did they get out of their ships and just start sizzling?
Who says they were the aliens?
Man, the aliens sat it out in their dry ass ship and sent a crop of vat grown drones to go harvest all the organs they wanted on a world covered in H2O.
The drones aren’t bright, but the get the job done. They only last 30 hours or so before they start decomposing, so it doesn’t matter if they get locked in a pantry or clubed with a bat.
You think a starfaring species would come all the way to Sol 3, and not being a bio organic drone to go out and brave the hazards of an acid covered water world hell planet?
Shit. Don’t get me fucking started on how many people miss the point of the aliens in fucking Signs.
If there was this much world building I’d probably like it more.
But the only rules they established for the aliens are poison gas and water dissolving.
Actually, The only world building they did firmly establish was that the aliens did not matter…
For all the audience needs to know, they used the gas to transfer their consciousness into a new host, and they do this everytime they visit a new biosphere.
But no, you fucking de-cloak early during one childrens birthday party in South America and your ass is a joke, you get fucking anthropomorphized for the next 20 years…
Alien invasion is always stupid. Interstellar travel uses so much energy, it can power a civilisation for a year, and that’s for just below light speed from our nearest star. Their tech level would be high enough to just scoop up whatever resource they want from astroids, if not ourright skimming from gas giants or stars. Oh, you need genetic material? Musquito drones would do the job. I mean, only the Predator movie makes sense as they just come here for hunting.
The only alien invasion scenario that makes sense is one where the aliens are so advanced they don’t even notice us.
Kinda like we don’t hesitate to step on grass.
I mean, only the Predator movie makes sense as they just come here for hunting.
And nerf themselves to make it better sport. Like us hunting with a bow and arrows instead of a drone strike.
Captain Carter said the same thing
Lol I actually grew up near where the movie took place and now I feel stupid for never thinking about the humidity factor. Summer in PA is underestimated by those who think “it’s the northeastern US, how bad can it get?”. For those of you who don’t know, most summer days you can see the humidity and you’re drenched in sweat about 2 minutes after you exit a cool shower.
There’s a variation of this on Dropout’s “Make Some Noise” with 3 people where one player starts a rant, then is told to stop mid-rant, and the next person picks up where it stopped and takes it in their own direction.
Brennan Lee Mulligan was engineered in a lab for that specific purpose.
He’s fantastically contagious. ❤️🔥 Hell, most of Dropout are, for that matter. 🤘🏼
Sounds like a good way to enhance your critical thinking skills. Something we humans direly need today.
The Socratic method is a sort of dialectic game too. Someone takes a position by providing an argument for it, and you provide your best counter arguments for the strongest form of the argument.
I can’t believe people just go around making up games on the fly. Like who thought this was a good idea?! There’s no way you’ve possibly playtested the rules to ensure everything is balanced. Without corporate oversight and a solid profit motive there is no way some “friends” in a “car” could make a successful game. The premise is just absurd.
And then to think you could go around sharing your dumb “game” freely on the internet in forums and such?
Don’t even get me started…
All games are made up
And the points don’t matter 🥰
Made up? Sure. Made up on the fly? Absolutely not, learn some basic goddamn planning skills and actually figure your game out properly. People just going with the first idea that slobbers out of their malfunctioning brains and giving it no further thought is how we end up with money for landing on Free Parking in Monopoly and the very same people complaining that Monopoly takes too long. You put in a house rule that makes the game take longer. “Oh this food is too spicy for me. I don’t like it. Can you pass me the hot sauce so I can add some more please?”
Wooosh!
That was the joke going over your head
Best anti-woosh I’ve ever had the pleasure of witnessing
Oh shit, what?
homes did it backwards.
So, Autism: The Game. I live this reality.
The Game
Fuck… I lost…
You know the have a vaccine for this now right?
I was going to say theatre kinds/improv troupe, but that too.
… is there a member of one who isn’t a member of the other? (This is joke)
Facts
Similar idea to the radio 4 show ‘just a minute’
Y’all just re-invented debate club.
Nietzsche spoke about this btw.
No he didn’t
OK, do “the fediverse”
Useless, it’ll never take off. Normies don’t want to have to pick an instance to get started. They’ll just go to reddit or Bluesky. Then there’s the tankie problem. Hexbear and ml are going to scare away those who can figure out how to pick an instance and register.
Oh and since everything is duplicated on hundreds of servers, it’s wasteful of resources to. Worried about SSD prices going up? Well the fediverse ain’t gonna help either.
There’s only like 5 people who post things and the mods can be just as bad as reddit mods. Post something and get banned from 25 communities.
Need me to keep going?
Well, at least no one owns and controls Lemmy unlike Reddit 🥹
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Probably. Used to be a lot more organic content. In all honesty, the fediverse is a bit better than modern reddit in that regard.
Actually I’ve discovered at least 3 people who post their own comics here. So that’s pretty cool. Custardfist, bad and noerdman. Never would’ve discovered them otherwise.
Still better than reddit
It’s the same problem with Linux.
Most people don’t even know what a distro is.
And once you explain that to them, you have to go on to explain how some distros are actually just clones of others, so you always need to be aware of which distro yours is “under the hood.” And once you’ve explained that, you need to go on to explain that each distro has several different options for front-ends. And that’s usually where I lose most people.
I’m tempted to just start giving people a Linux Mint USB just telling them that’s the only Linux that exists, but I think that’d only create more problems.
Don’t even get me started on explaining how to install and update software.
Master class!
That shit’s never gonna take off unless they pull their head out of their ass and remember how Reddit and Tumblr attracted their users; with high-quality amateur porn.
The first sub-reddit ever created was NSFW and Tumblr basically ceased to exist once they got rid of the porn.
But, how do you incentivize people into posting high-quality amateur porn on your site for free instead of selling it on OF or Patreon?
The platform doesn’t sell ads, and their decentralized nature prevents the fediverse as a whole from conducting business in any traditional sense.
But, even if it wasn’t for all that, as a user, I don’t have a good way to browse the available smut; I have to remember and visit each community separately, and a lot of content gets reposted. There’s no way to activate a “NSFW only” mode or anything.
Don’t get me started.
Reminds me of Soup is for Women which I think was basically prompted in the same way, asking her to go off on a weird rant about something being not “manly”.
As an autistic person, this just sounds like being autistic.
It is crucial for both your mental and emotional wellbeing and mine that you absolutely refrain from getting me started
I can’t even begin to get started, that’s how don’t get me started I am
I had an excited grin when I clicked to enter the comments and it just slid right off after reading this first one. Sweet Jesus I’m tired of everything being autism. Not everything is autism. Or ocd or depression or anxiety. Some things are just regular human experiences. Like ranting about inconsequential shit with you’re friends.
Nothing makes me feel older or more conservative or more of a straight up hater than this website. The autistic tribe and the rest of you idiots pretending to be on the spectrum are doing too much.
Now do one on twinkies!
If this website is negatively impacting your quality of life you should stop using it.
That’s just your asperger’s flaring up.
the metal gear franchise. i love it, i hate it, i love to hate it. i literally could and have gone on for hours. my friends brace for impact when they use a meme from there. but revengence memes are always safe
I love the gameplay, but it’s SO obvious Kojima couldn’t cut it as a film maker so he created video games with feature film length cut scenes instead.
Liquid gets his arm chopped off, then he attaches Ocelot’s arm to himself, then Ocelot’s arm takes over Liquid’s body, and that was Ocelot’s plan the entire time? WHAT??
Don’t even get me started on Raiden and Vamp.
Pour one out for MGS4, trapped on the PS3 when all its brothers have been ported one way or another.
You what really pisses me off, when certain people in the Linux community talk about “optimization” and “bloat”.
No you’re not gonna notice the twenty extra megabytes in ram usage by using another init system, no you’re gonna notice the 3% improvement for certain games that custom kernel might theoretically bring, no by using hyprland you’re not even saving that much resources, none of that really makes a difference.
Tbh you could probably gain more performance by setting the ram speeds higher in the bios, experimenting with overclocking (if theres enough thermal headroom), or upgrading some component (like an older ssd or ram). Or alternatively changing settings in the games you play. Or even a step further (this idea will shock some people), maybe don’t focus on numbers and just enjoy what you have. If its good enough than its good enough, if its not than tweaking it won’t make it good enough.
You know what I notice? How little hardware I can get something to run on.
Mucking about with your ram speed and overclocking can decrease both stability, stability under load, and longevity when people are keeping computers longer than ever. It’s poor advice. Insofar as using a different init, distro, window manager, kernel. Some of that is an aesthetic choice and some a function of workflow. To some degree people just enjoy fiddling with stuff and understanding it.
I tried using a pie zero as a PC for a little bit. Maybe it’ll be fun to try that again and really optimize it
I’ve only ever used my zero as a mail server, but the pi 3 did a bang up job of being my daily driver for a few years.
Afaik that can bearly run Linux (just a stripped down version of the kernel, forget about running a WM)
That’s the fun part
I wonder if it can run doom :3
(It probably can)
The Pi Zero has about the same specs as a Pi 1A+ did, just on a smaller circuit board. It…can run Raspberry Pi’s Pixel desktop, though it was a bit more usable back when they just shipped LMDE. Last time I tried it took about 20 minutes to boot to a desktop.
I had to use a Pi 1B as my main desktop for a few months because Dell can’t fix a laptop to save their lives. “Can this run LibreOffice” is an amazing question to be forced to ask.
I was gonna ask if it can run neovim with lazyvim, I don’t expect it to run a desktop especially a modern desktop. Theoretically I suppose it might be able to run i3 but that might be pushing it.
I wonder if someone like Puppy Linux or Damn Small Linux could make it usable? I’ve seen both run usably on 1990s PC hardware.
Oh really? Didn’t someone in the Linux community notice a backdoor in the code because it delayed the startup by something like 200ms?
It’s not surprising that when a tool that usually works immediately suddenly starts freezing for quarter of a second every time you use it, that you notice it.
There’s a big difference between caring about whether a given game runs at 130FPS or 140FPS and noticing a new quarter second delay in database queries on your test db ar work. That quarter second per queey delay is going to stack up very quickly across the thousands or even millions of queries made in a day in a production database
You know what I notice? My journal app takes almost a gigabyte because it’s based on Electron.
Solution: use vim and save everything to a txt file
@LadyButterfly This is basically just me every day with my students but they don’t seem to enjoy it nearly as much as I do. Weird.
oh yeah we play that constantly, but it isn’t fun to anyone.
Lemmy plays it every day. It’s about Windows or Trump, and that’s it.
