The first half of the description, combined with the unmentioned ambition of LotR, made me think of Star Citizen. But we’ll have to wait another 5-10 years to find out if they manage to deliver on that ambition, and stand the test of time.
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Transtronautto New Communities@lemmy.world•European Graphic Novels+ is moving to PieFed.Social (link & info in post)English2·7 days agoGlad to see this! I don’t remember the password for my old lemm.ee account, but this was the only community I could think of that I would have missed from my subscriptions, so now you’ve saved me the effort of going looking for it.
Transtronautto World News@lemmy.world•Trump says both sides violate ceasefire, tells Israel: 'Do not drop those bombs'English2·10 days agoHe’s actually trying to make them destroy each other so his handlers for the UAE can fill the power vacuum afterwards.
Transtronautto World News@lemmy.world•Satellite images throw Trump’s claims over success of Iran strikes into doubtEnglish34·11 days agoI wonder if they’re just telling him it succeeded, to keep him from ordering another one.
Transtronautto Technology@lemmy.world•Study finds persistent spike in hate speech on XEnglish2·12 days agoThe new analysis contradicts the social media platform’s claims that exposure to hate speech and bot-like activity decreased during Elon Musk’s tenure.
They might both be right. I know my exposure to hate speech and bot-like activity decreased since I stopped engaging with that platform.
Transtronautto No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•How is spontaneous betting (as portrayed by comics and movies) supposed to work?9·14 days agoI can’t speak from real life experience, but one movie that actually handles this really well (as far as I can tell) is The Quiet Man, during a fight.
There’s an example of an impromptu, casual bet between two individuals who are understood to trust one another, where they actually set the odds and agree formally, and it all happens very smoothly and naturally so as not to be boring:
“Five to one on the big chap”
“Given or taken?”
“Given”
“Taken”
Handshake
IIRC, they don’t actually show them agreeing on the wager itself, but a later scene shows the outcome and lets you calculate it for yourself. These characters are established to know one another, so I figure they either have a known amount between them that they default to for casual bets, or they just determined that off camera.
There is also an example of the more chaotic, mass, unplanned betting, where a character who is already established to be a jack of all trades known to the community pulls out a notebook and takes on the role of bookie. I think they even show the odds being adjusted in real time as the fight progresses, but I don’t recall for sure.
Transtronautto Bluesky@lemmy.world•JD Vance sets up an account, lies about trans people, gets banned within 20 minutes, cries about it.1·14 days agoMakes me wonder if the actual public squares, sans idealization, were also a place for morons to be morons and heart each other for being morons.
Transtronautto Ghazi•Ubisoft trial witnesses testify to "being tied to a chair, forced to do handstands, and subjected to constant comments about sex"10·23 days agoSounds like they went considerably beyond Blizzard, at least in treatment of workers.
If I recall correctly, it’s also the name of a horse in Robin Hood: Men in Tights. Thanks to this thread, I finally get the joke, all these years later.
Transtronautto Not The Onion@lemmy.world•US man stages $1 bank robbery to get state healthcare (2011)English2·26 days agoTurns out you’re so pro-poor, even your grammar is poor. :P
Transtronautto Technology@lemmy.world•Mozilla is shutting down Pocket, their read-it-later and content discovery app, and Fakespot, their browser extension that analyzes the authenticity of online product reviews.English1·1 month agoIf the user has indicated that they are not interested in new features, it means they do not care about new features. They don’t want to know about them, or they prefer to find out proactively in their own time. If you still insist on ramming notifications down their throat at that point, you’re not doing it for the user. You’re doing it for yourself.
Transtronautto Technology@lemmy.world•Mozilla is shutting down Pocket, their read-it-later and content discovery app, and Fakespot, their browser extension that analyzes the authenticity of online product reviews.English4·1 month agoIn a world without dark design patterns, there would be a single pop-up when you first install the application, to ask if you want notifications and/or suggestions for new features. If you click “no”, it should never bother you again unless you go into a menu and opt in. Anything beyond that is inherently predatory.
Ideally, that pop-up wouldn’t even exist. They could just have a collective “don’t bother me again” checkbox on every non-essential notification, so you can easily disable it the first time they become relevant. If your user has already indicated that they are not interested, any further pestering is essentially harassment.
Yeah, exactly - that’s what I mean. Hypothetically, if 50% of the violence done by women involves men, then the 82% is really more like 91%, and the violence attributed to women starts to look more and more like a rounding error. This meme is getting more rational all the time. It’s almost like bringing statistics into it does nothing but present a lame fig leaf to cover up the underlying, endemic problem that inspired the meme in the first place.
It also makes me curious what percentage of that 18% was directed towards men as opposed to women. All that would be left in this hypothetical is women-on-women violence, so anything else should be discounted for a fair comparison.
I’ve occasionally dreamt about doing this with a bar. I picture it like the sitcom Black Books, but with booze instead of books.
Transtronautto politics @lemmy.world•‘Dealmaker’ Trump frustrated by inability to strike deals1·2 months agoNever said they were anything like the same. Just that neither of them had done anything particularly worthy of a Nobel peace prize. As you say, every American president in the past century would have gotten one, were that the case.
Transtronautto politics @lemmy.world•‘Dealmaker’ Trump frustrated by inability to strike deals4·2 months agoOh, for sure. I’m not saying they should have given one to Obama. That and Kissinger are why it’s not completely unthinkable that Trump might actually get one somehow.
Transtronautto politics @lemmy.world•‘Dealmaker’ Trump frustrated by inability to strike deals23·2 months agoThe deal thing is a smokescreen. The real reason he’s upset is that he badly and urgently wants to end a war. It’s the only chance in hell he’d ever get a Nobel peace prize, and in his delusional mind, he’s still competing with Obama.
That’s a good thing - helps keep the quality level up, and leaves room for other indies.
“He’s already pulled over! He can’t pull over any further!”