Ganondorf

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[–] Ganondorf@kbin.social 1 points 6 months ago

Carbon dioxide and methane have been found on lifeless comets, yes? Seems like an "okay" indicator for life rather than a direct result of.

[–] Ganondorf@kbin.social 2 points 8 months ago

Cucumbers and celery. Really the only produce I actively dislike

[–] Ganondorf@kbin.social 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Yes it is possible because it has happened. I'm not an expert, but I believe survival rates are connected more to duration than G force. If the body becomes unable to circulate blood and regulate itself for a long enough period of time, it dies.

[–] Ganondorf@kbin.social 1 points 9 months ago

There are over 1000 Pokemon at this point. There's bound to be some level of similarity here and there. Gamefreak even designed Pokemon after other creatures, so it just seems somewhat silly to point a finger.

[–] Ganondorf@kbin.social 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

How would you block threads? There are still many things about kbin that confuse me, so asking in earnest.

[–] Ganondorf@kbin.social 3 points 11 months ago

I'd crank all human empathy levels by 15/100 points to see what happens

[–] Ganondorf@kbin.social 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Maybe it had some glitches on release

I haven't heard much about it as of late and won't comment on its current state, but when it first came out it was a glitchy mess. Several reviewers mentioned how glitchy it was and docked it points. dunkey made a whole video showcasing glitches and odd design choices. It's a step in the right direction, so they deserve credit, but that doesn't change its shortcomings at launch.

[–] Ganondorf@kbin.social 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

Kind of seems silly to buy any game developed by Sonic Team these days. They are either half-baked ideas (Sonic with a sword? Sonic as a werewolf?) or glitchy messes with repetitive, cheap gameplay (Frontiers, Lost World). They seem to rarely learn from previous mistakes or grow as a development team, similar to Gamefreak. Both studios are sustained by name recognition.

[–] Ganondorf@kbin.social 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Watching 4 ads in a video under 6 minutes is bad design.

[–] Ganondorf@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

This director doesn't have many directing credits but seems that worked out well for The Super Mario Movie. His current catalog is averaging around 7 on IMDb, which is a far better indicator of quality than RT, so that's promising.

[–] Ganondorf@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I personally haven't seen a FPS be unique or engaging since the last Bioshock... and before that was maybe the first Bioshock or FEAR lol

The MiLiTaRy Is CoOL vibe from COD, Battlefront and Halo never appealed to me, but Halo Combat Evolved on PC and Halo 3's multiplayer was at least fun.

 

The company behind Fortnite is currently in a legal fight against Google over in-app fees

[–] Ganondorf@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

we’re all bored with the same product over and over again.

Obviously with the success of the franchise I am in the minority with this belief, but from a critical standpoint 80% of the MCU films are "okay" and just popcorn flicks. There's nothing wrong with that, but now that has caught up with the viewers and Disney.

Infinity War was special because the good guys actually lost and that alone shook things up for once. Endgame was special because it was the culmination of 10 years of filmmaking and a downright spectacle. Once you drill in beyond those, there are only a few standouts: Winter Soldier, Civil War, Iron Man 1 and Age of Ultron are all standouts in my opinion due to their themes: "what really defines the good guys?"

There are a few others I enjoyed but they had problems: In Homecoming, Feige really screwed up a lot about what makes Peter Parker likeable. Ragnarok was fun but in retrospect it is dragged down in quality by the major screw ups of its successor and its refusal to take much seriously. The misfits of GotG were fun too but ultimately its success really messed up the tone of the entire franchise. None of those 3 really jump out as memorable long-term, either - just fun. The rest are forgettable and almost cookie cutter copies of each other.

 

I bring this up because it seems to once again be gaining traction in the zeitgeist: I cannot comprehend why UFO hunters put so much time and effort into trying to force governments to "reveal the truth about extraterrestrial contact", but I also cannot fathom how they think aliens even have a chance of successfully contacting us in-person in the first place.

a) Why does anyone believe extraterrestrials would be able to track us down at all? Space is BIG.
b) If aliens knew we existed in the first place, please explain the math of how they'd get here. Even taking Star Trek logic into account and considering warp drive as a possibility, when considering relativity, Newton's third law and the mathematics of achieving the right conditions of either for deep space travel, warp drive still seems implausible.
c) In the mathematically improbable situation where intelligent life did manage to get here, why would they be tiptoeing around in the background for seemingly 80 or so years when they are clearly technologically superior to us and nothing humanity has available to itself could remotely stop them? It seems silly to imagine these incredible lifeforms getting here and then having an "oops we crash landed" event.
d) Lastly, governments successfully covering up such an event(s) for decades is a fairy tale. Governments playing around with flight and stealth technology for the last 100 years? Yeah that seems likely.

Do I think intelligent life exists? Absolutely. Is there a chance those beings have contacted or reached us? 99.9999999% no. Is it fun to speculate about the possibilities and portray those possibilities in stories? Of course. Should people be spending time and money forming organizations to "force the government to tell the truth", thereby wasting everyone else's time and resources and ultimately being drains on society? Absolutely not. I don't get it.

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