Olgratin_Magmatoe

joined 2 years ago

For me it's time travel. So many times you'll see science fiction openly doing paradoxes and causing time wars. Star Trek and Doctor Who are the biggest offenders of this. SG1 had an episode or two with it.

If you attempt to cause a paradox without traveling to another universe (99% of the case in SF), you will fail before you create the paradox. Take the example of killing Hitler. You can't do it, because you've already failed in the past, or at least, your future self failed to do so, which caused your present self to make the attempt. So in the process of the attempt you will fail no matter what you attempt to do. Maybe you get stopped by some guards. Maybe he ducks at the last minute. Maybe your time machine crash lands. At best, you can observe and cause things that you didn't notice or correlate to the present.

If you do the "oh it's a different universe" thing, I tend to see that as just a cop out and lazy writing. And it's rather boring to. What stakes can there possibly be if you can just hop to a universe in which XYZ happened/didn't happen?

[–] Olgratin_Magmatoe@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] Olgratin_Magmatoe@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

The best part about my project but was is that on mobile or with that you can just breed a dog whistle take random keyboard suggestions.

Piss on carpet.

[–] Olgratin_Magmatoe@lemmy.world 18 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Gonna stray a bit from the other games mentioned here for the sake of adding something unique.

It's not your traditional nazis per say, but the half life series fits quite nicely with this urge. The combine are genocidal, totalitarian, they use shit loads of propaganda, etc. They don't have the looks of it, but they're clearly the nazi type.

[–] Olgratin_Magmatoe@lemmy.world 17 points 5 months ago

Surely this will make groceries more affordable.

[–] Olgratin_Magmatoe@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

It doesn't need to be sudden. It's a fucking problem.

[–] Olgratin_Magmatoe@lemmy.world 84 points 5 months ago (20 children)

I hope it's effective.

[–] Olgratin_Magmatoe@lemmy.world 25 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

He makes the ferengi look generous and benevolent.

[–] Olgratin_Magmatoe@lemmy.world 18 points 5 months ago

This isn't gonna make eggs cheaper.

[–] Olgratin_Magmatoe@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Do you have an actual argument, or are you just giving up? Because that in no way rebuts anything I said.

[–] Olgratin_Magmatoe@lemmy.world 0 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)

The native americans had lots of contracts and agreements with the U.S. government. It didn't mean shit, and the government was still tyrannical.

A contract is meaningless when corporations can:

  • bulldoze any citizen they like with legal teams
  • force people to have go through arbitration
  • delay and deny claims to demoralize claimants even if they have a valid claim
  • use AIs that deny cases for the sake of it

They wield what is essentially unchecked and arbitrary power to the detriment of the people. It is cruel. It is oppressive. It fits the definition of tyranny easily.

[–] Olgratin_Magmatoe@lemmy.world 26 points 6 months ago (2 children)
 

There is no evidence this is an official donation fund

 

I spent entirely way too much time trying to get one of these style extruders on my Ender 3. Maybe I picked a knock off without realizing it, maybe mine was just defective, I'm not entirely sure.

But it was ultimately the cause for my printer underextruding on certain layers. If you need a new extruder, go for something better than these cheap $20 ones and get an actually decent one.

But on the bright side, my printer is finally fixed! It feels nice to be able to get back into the hobby again.

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