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“Man is a creature that can get accustomed to anything, and I think that is the best definition of him.”

Fyodor Dostoevsky, The House of the Dead

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“May all prayers go unanswered as the vast majority wish harm upon another human being.”

(The paradox of the most religious societies simultaneously being the most cruel in practice)

Interesting. I’m a synthetic with a digital consciousness.

Do I count? 😏

He’s right though

You ate of the spice melange and it changed you, Jihari. You cannot see the world though simple eyes anymore, only that of the great sand father, shedding tears about the blood spilled on Arrakis.

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OP casually walks by pelicans and hears the Mortal Kombat music begin playing

There’s a degree of motion capture where the animations just look like 90s FMV – it stops feeling like a game, and feels more like a video, if that makes any sense: the animations are too good.

There was a clear disconnect between the gameplay / custom animations in most games of that period (90s) and FMV, and many cited the developers inability or reluctance for animation in lieu of FMV as “cheap”.

See: Mortal Kombat Sprites.

It’s a difficult thing to explain and simply needs to be experienced; past the uncanny valley is the trough of disappointment or disillusionment.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soap_opera_effect

Motion capture in Stalker 2 was done by obviously real human actors. It’s a video game, so you’re like “Oh cool, NPCs” but then you see the actual human actor behind the pixels and you’re like “Oh. Pre-recorded movie.”

The uncanny valley disappears and is instead replaced with mundane disappointment and a feeling of “cheapness”. Of course they used human actors for the animation, why wouldn’t they?

Never trade your magic of the unexplained for the easy disillusionment.

Hi – the timeline has been fucked since 2000.

Bush wasn’t supposed to win the election, that was all hamstrung in.

I don’t even remember what the point of this experiment was

I’m sorry

I’m a big believer in the Pareto Principle where 20% of the users are responsible for 80% of the content.

Lemmy is Reddit’s Top 20%.

I’m so mad that my open source software made by a single developer in his free time who loves coding and helping other people is slightly worse in quality than a multi-million dollar dedicated project.

Exports into Maya-3D.Blend

Yep. I do this all the time on highways. I’ve seen dark red traffic lines on Google Maps as I’ve driven over them turn green.

Patience and the efforts of a single person in a wavefront can make an enormous difference, like a rock sticking up from a pond.

Doom (1993).

Why: I’m still playing it. Most people know it, and it’s the grandfather of all FPS games.

I like how no one on Lemmy has to be explained how that would crash the U.S economy. They just know. The average intelligence of this place surpasses Reddit at its inception.

Contrast that with my idiot Trump-voter “friends” who insist: “He’s just bluffing”

I don’t think their world view extends past the two meters in front of their nose, frankly. If they’re not in pain on some isolated root base-ganglia, tooth-infection level, it just doesn’t exist for them. A beastly existence.

Sorry: Just venting. Lost a lot of “friends” due to the last election. :/

Is file compression allowed?

E.g: 100 GB compressed, or uncompressed?

At the end of the universe, there is a café with the last known entities that persist. They exchange stories, favorite experiences and say their goodbyes to one another, ancient and forgotten.

There’s a dreaded moment when straws are drawn or a volunteer is called to be the last one to turn off the lights – to herald the calling of the next universe.

No one wants to do it however, because the last one has to do it alone.

It’s in that quiet abyss, in the consuming darkness, the expanse and contracted void of dead light, where stars no longer shine, where trillions of lives existed and were extinguished – that an epiphany can be had, as one celestial appendage holds over the reset toggle:

Everything matters. Even if no one is around to experience it.

– Click –

Midnight, motherfucker! Midnight!

Wanting something is the first step towards accomplishing anything

The second step is asking for a small loan of $20-30 million dollars from your family’s colonial heritage trust fund.

And then, hard work and pulling yourself up by your boot str–

What? Why are you all looking at me like that?

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I can’t smell ants but I can smell roaches. Any house or restaurant I walk into that has that signature roach scent, I do a 180° and leave.

As to describe the scent of roaches: Pungent, wet/moldy towel smell, worse when they’re dead.