I don’t agree with the person you’re responding to, but you’re also incorrect. DND was not a power fantasy when it was created.

Its not possible by blocking the barrel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MythBusters_(2005_season)#Finger_in_a_Barrel

Likely this barrel was deformed manually using tools.

ruleatro

There might be others, but The Dagger of Xian plotline in Tomb Raider II is a little “woo woo Chinese mysticism”. You plunge it into your heart and turn into a dragon.

I’m not offended by it but I’d imagine that’s not the kind of thing you’d write in a video game today.

It looks more like Cotton to me.

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zed pls.

Don’t blame me I banged Lae’zel.

No Such Thing As A Fish - 30 mins a week where 4 professional trivia compilers and comedians take turns sharing odd facts they’ve learned over the years

Hardcore History - like a history lecture from your favorite high school social studies teacher, but compressed into a professionally produced 4 to 10 hour audiobook

FiveThirtyEight Politics - analysis of political opinion polling in the US. no ideological opinions either way, just strategy and political science applied to current events.

The Magnus Archives - a found-footage horror fiction anthology series where the real story turns out to be about the character we hear narrating the stories

I’m guessing that’s exactly what they want, actually.

A bunch of content regurgitaters who will keep their lurker numbers high and won’t talk back when Reddit further enshitifies its platform.

They’re already trying this, sort of.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/22/23885332/amazon-echo-show-8-photos-edition-digital-frame-price-fee

They know charging for total access will cause a riot, so instead they’re enshitifying the whole experience and holding access to the current non-shit experience hostage with monthly fees.

Can confirm.

I only order off Amazon 4-5 times a year, and almost every time they offer me either a month free trial, a week free trial, or a month for $2.99.

I just say yes, then immediately go to the account page and set it to cancel at the end of the period instead of autorenewing.

Wow you really love giving bullshit psychoanalytical advice on the internet huh?

Yep - this article is just a desparate attempt to try and blame a company that people don’t like for a completely normal life experience.

I really do not understand the obsession with Business Insider articles on Lemmy. They are such trash.

I don’t want to link to the website about a river that flows through Brazil on Lemmy, but I’ve found that just picking the top generic option on there works fine. IMO the Bose brand replacements aren’t noticeably better for their 2x markup.

I’m glad you’re willing to say it was impulsive and misguided. I do understand the frustration - I feel it too. I’m on the same side of the issue as you.

Similarly, I hope you understand that I just can’t stand for people calling for violence.

From a practical perspective - by making these threats, all these people have done is undermined the position that you and I know is right.

Before, Unity had to answer for what they did. Now they can just pass off all criticism as coming from nutjobs who are crazy enough to make death threats. This is a great example of why language matters, and if we want our views to succeed, we have a responsibility to be better than the villans who stand in our way.

Wow you moved the goalposts fast. Your comment says “I’m blaming the victim”. My friend is the victim of these death threats. Backpedal as much as you want, but your comment clearly endorses violence against her.

Of course - if that’s not what you meant and you regret what you said, then I hope our interaction makes you think about the world more complexly in the future. Violence is not the answer. We can never move forward as a society by sinking to the lowest denominator. We have to rise above. We have to be better than the villans who are trying to ruin our world.

My friend works at unity. She’s a sweet person who takes care of an elderly dog in her free time. She was very opposed to this decision.

Does she deserve to die?

Bose QC35 headphones for me.

They felt extravagently expensive at $300. But I’ve had them for 7 years now, wear them a few hours each day, and they still work like new. They sound amazing and the noise cancellation has had a tremendous positive effect on my sanity as an apartment-dweller.

Every year I buy a replacement set of earcups for like $15. I’ll keep using them until they poop out.

The problem is that its so expensive to build from scratch. All Unity does is build just the engine, and that’s enough to make it a 7000 person company. Trying to build a game engine and then an actual game on top is a herculean effort.

This is why open source software is so important. It enables these small companies to pool their resources and share an engine as long as they each contribute fixes back.