pyre @ pyre @lemmy.world Posts 0Comments 4,508Joined 2 yr. ago
lots of people do it, not just people with dyslexia. it helps keep track of where you are when there are large blocks of text. also it usually raises contrast so I'm sure that helps some people even more.
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goddamn it how many times do I have to do this GDPR shit
#High Dynamic Range™
i don't even think that's the case at all. if you go back you can still find stupid shit coming out of his dumbfuck busted ass face all the time. the only difference is he didn't make public statements much, so people just assumed he knew some things.
whenever he talked about anything though, he only ever impressed people who didn't have much knowledge in the field he's talking about. anyone with expertise would see through his bullshit. even back when he was generally liked and respected, astronauts weren't buying what he was selling.
he's the perfect case of "it's better to be silent and be thought an idiot than open your mouth and remove all doubt". the reason you think he "wasn't" stupid is because he didn't open his mouth we much, so at least there was doubt, and people have him the benefit of it.
cyberpunk has nothing to do with starfield.
largely seamless world, fun combat, hand crafted locations, good writing, good story, good and memorable characters, engaging dialogs, multiple ways to finish quests, cool vehicles, and on and on...
oh and forget forcing the player to fast travel everywhere but traveling around in cyberpunk is actually fun so i pretty much never used it in the game despite having the option.
and it looks like no one directed any part of starfield, it's literally the same as oblivion in terms of how every encounter and dialog unfolds, while starfield actually has direction and variety, well acted and performance captured interactive scenes. here's a good comparison of two similar quests involving a trade with shady people. just compare how the lines are delivered, how dynamic the scenes are, what happens when threats are involved, whether the scenes have any development, what you can see when the boxes are opened, literally everything.
piers is not exactly mainstream, and he'll do everything to get clicks. including having people on who regularly shit on him, because he knows it gets views. he loves it, and that's all he cares about.
well the critique is not about the world building. i mean the world building is bad too but that's not about the morality of the world. the critique is about what the books present as good or bad.
there are many examples of this.
body shaming and misogyny/transphobia: bad people are fat, good people are at most "plump". bad women have mannish features, like big physiques, square jaws and mustaches.
slavery is good, actually: the problem with slavery in the books isn't that it's portrayed at all, it's that it's portrayed as good for the house elves except for one weirdo freak who wants to be free for some reason. also house elves even as a term is yikes imo.
zero concern for diversity: it's not that the book just lacks it but the fact that the very few token characters who were put in are just cardboard cutouts with downright disrespectful names. the Asian girl is cho chang because i think the editor may have vetoed the first ch-ch name she came up with. the black guy is called kingsley shacklebolt because "tyrone escapedslave" was too on the nose i guess. the british wizarding school is for some reason more populous than schools that represent much larger populations, and it has a proper name while all others are called "wizard school" or "magic place" very badly translated because she couldn't be fucked to engage with another culture even on a surface level. she also disrespectfully dismissed some regional beliefs about magic because why not.
good people vs bad people, not good deeds vs bad deeds: you can see throughout the book "good" and "bad" people doing the exact same things but represented as good and bad depending on who's doing them, not what they're doing.
status quo above all: challenging systemic problems is never a solution, even slavery, and any change must only involve individuals. whatever you may gather as "challenging authority" for example is always about the people using the authority, and not whether the authority itself should exist at all. the main protagonist becomes a fucking cop at the end. and the books end in literally everything being the same as it started, sans the threat of voldy, and "all is well" despite the same abusive systems, castes and slavery still existing. because status quo is good and systemic change is bad.
it keeps going, and it gets worse if you go beyond the HP books. it's not what's in the world, it's how she presents them.
she was an asshole back then and you can see it all over her books. i think i was probably lucky enough to be a bit older than the target demo to find HP even remotely interesting but kids at the time were super generous and kind with the books and interpreted them in good ways that jowling kowling rowling clearly never intended. which is why she retconned diversity into her books for example.
i completely believe in the death of the author, but also won't stand for praising a shitty author's shitty books just because people headcanoned a lot of good things into it to make them suck less.
elon is not stupid? have you not seen or heard anything from him in the last decade?
yes you can but i will still judge you because it's a terribly written series
maybe it's AI, maybe it's the worm. does it even matter anymore? this is just pandemonium. jesters doing a jump a whistle and a fart is no longer entertainment for the king, it's how they run the government.
it was a joke about O'Reilly, which is also the name of this cunt
ok maybe this is easier to address: is there any safety test that a self driving Tesla doesn't fail?
nah it's just a f-u-n harmonica and some of us don't like that.
but fkn is already a way to censor fucking, which is what's fnny about it.
yeah, i figure I'd kill myself if my PC was structured like that. but for a phone it does the job and if you need something it's not that hard to find it really.
we don't want them to have an easy time do we