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[–] HiddenLayer5@lemmy.ml 16 points 11 months ago (5 children)

I was gonna write something political but nah.

Pokemon Mystery Dungeon are some of the best Pokemon games, better than most of the (especially newer) main series games. I started with Pokemon Mystery Dungeon so I may be biased though.

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[–] reverendsteveii@lemm.ee 15 points 11 months ago (5 children)

pineapple goes on pizza but everyone who likes it is doing it wrong. it needs to be fresh pineapple, grilled, with red onion.

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[–] Professorozone@lemmy.world 15 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Oh no. Not falling for this one again.

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[–] kaputt@sh.itjust.works 15 points 11 months ago (7 children)

US Senators and congressmen are underpaid. Their salaries should be doubled. The president should make at least a $1 million a year, directly paid by taxpayers.

Reason: If I, the taxpayer, pay them, then they have to work for me. The payment makes that service relationship explicit. I pay you, you work for me. And, yes, the current pay is too little, $174,000 - barely comparable to tech workers.

Only taking $1 is an invitation for corruption. (Not claiming it happened, but it is an invitation.)

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[–] Vagabond@kbin.social 15 points 11 months ago (80 children)

8÷2(2+2) comes out to 16, not 1.

Saw it posted on Instagram or Facebook or somewhere and all of the top comments were saying 1. Any comment saying 16 had tons of comments ironically telling that person to go back to first grade and calling them stupid.

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[–] peanuts4life@beehaw.org 15 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (5 children)

Gender is the cultural outcome of primary and secondary sexual characteristics and in no meaningfully physical way exist. In other words, we traditionally have a "boy" culture and a "girl" culture, not a gender. We are artificially indoctrinated and assimilated into a given culture based on primary or secondary sexual characteristics.

Likewise, it follows that all other gender identities are similarly a cultural phenomenon and not the outcome of some essential characteristic of the individual.

Gender cultures are, at least historically speaking, bad. They've generally been used to persecute people who aren't in the dominant (boy) gender, and the conditions dictating mobility between genders is so intensly arbitrary that it warrants abolishing the whole stupid idea. Gender dysphoria is a symptom, generally, of the tyranny of these conditions.

(PS, I totally am open to being wrong about this.)

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[–] TealTallMachine@lemmy.world 14 points 11 months ago (1 children)

All forms of communication that promotes any level of division between the general population, and the idea of payback or revenge is very wrong and toxic and are some of the main reasons for the shit we all go through these days, yet most people either don't think it's a big deal or think it's necessary. We're gonna end up killing ourselves and we're all gonna lose, but at least you got to punch the guy that punched you first, right? Or kill all the ancestors of the guy that punched your great great great granddad, then their ancestors killing yours for killing their ancestors, right? You deserve to kill them all, they had it coming, so did your ancestors, right?

Until the childish ideas of revenge and division is gone from our adult society, i don't see us surviving as a civilization before we kill each other first.

I'm tired of hearing people justify either. It's all nonsense, illogical, and childish.

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[–] Saigonauticon@voltage.vn 14 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Assembly language is fun to learn, fun to use, and still relevant professionally.

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[–] RepulsiveDog4415@feddit.de 14 points 11 months ago (2 children)

We are trying to solve computer/rocket-age problems with a caveman brain. If we don't start genetic engineering humans soon i'd wager we'll eradicate ourselves before we colonize other planets and stars.

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[–] shrugal@lemm.ee 13 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (4 children)

The main story of Baldur's Gate 3 is pretty bland and mediocre.

Don’t get me wrong, it’s still a phenomenal game! The companion arcs, acting and overall presentation are still next level, some sidestories are very good, and it’s great how faithfully they adapted the D&D rules. But the main story ...

Spoiler... is pretty bare bones and has no real twists and turns along the way.

  • You start with a mindflayer tadpole in your head, so who do you think will be the final boss? Exactly, an elder brain.
  • On the way you kill 3 major henchmen, who just want power, destruction, or are confused beyond saving. None of them were particularly interesting or multi-layered (maybe Ketheric a bit). None of them could be saved, convinced to switch sides, or at least affected somehow. Aligning with them is only temporary, makes barely any difference, and absolutely no difference for the end afaik.
  • Most big quests end in act 3 in the same manner: Go to a place in BG and dispose of the boss character behind it all.
  • The revelations with the Emperor/Balduran were nice, but he was a very mysterious character for the entirety oft he game, and his decision to fight you if you side with Orpheus is just absolutely ridiculous!
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[–] LemmyHead@lemmy.ml 12 points 11 months ago (5 children)

An opinion so strongly shared by a vast majority is worth being sceptic about.

[–] jonsnothere@beehaw.org 14 points 11 months ago (2 children)

You can of course always be skeptic, but that doesn't mean it's wrong. I would argue most opinions shared by nearly everyone are probably valid.

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[–] Glytch@ttrpg.network 12 points 11 months ago (19 children)

Inverted controls are just better.

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[–] nifty@lemmy.world 12 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (7 children)

That capitalism is not the cause of most societal grief. Pathological self preservation is a fundamental human problem. It’s the reason we’re okay with seeing hordes of homeless people, or with killing people to resolve geopolitical issues. Greed can optimize any system to work for itself, people who are or will be adept at such optimization would thrive under any kind of socioeconomic or cultural system, including extremely leftist systems. Just spit ballin’ tho, haven’t thought about it much tbh.

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[–] DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)
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[–] TheFriendlyArtificer@beehaw.org 12 points 11 months ago (2 children)

An America-centric one. I've stopped tipping altogether. When the credit card reader at my grocery store deli suggested 15% I snapped.

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