Compassion and empathy for animals. Yeah, they say they like it if you don’t have any follow-up questions, but things go downhill real fuckin’ fast after that.
Watch so-called dog people turn beet red in an instant when you try to point out that they are literally enslaving a sentient creature with feelings, who has been bred over hundreds of generations in inhumane conditions, resulting incountless congenital health problems, in order to produce a docile beast who can simulate affection and is literally miserable for the rest of the day when their human isn’t with them.
But no, they say, Mr. Floof is happy! He’s just shitting the bedroom floor and digging compulsively because that’s what dogs do. Sorry Floof, I can’t walk you today, now go run your ruts in the tiny yard and pretend this plastic toy is an animal you hunted.
It’s peak cognitive dissonance that most people struggle with due to years of social conditioning and lobbying. You can’t even publish the shit in the news any more. Add to the fact a lot of people just don’t think about shit at all, and it is a reality most people don’t want to see when confronted. Frustrating to say the least.
I think they don’t struggle with the cognitive dissonance unless you really rub their nose in it, because there is hundreds of years of culture dedicated to finding the psychological tricks and mythology that allow them to relieve the tension without alleviating the cause.
The ending of How I Met Your Mother. Like, it was certainly no cinematic masterpiece, but I felt like it was a very logical build-up and delivery. I don’t get the impression that they really stretched the story for more seasons either (yes I know they did add more things to stretch it, I just mean I think it doesn’t show story-wise). But even a few days ago I saw people complaining about how bad the ending was, and it’s a rhetoric I see almost every time the show is mentioned. And, again, it is not a cinematic masterpiece by any stretch, but I wouldn’t expect that from a sitcom anyway.
That’s because it’s actual cult propaganda. As in “it’s literally made by the church of Scientology, based on the founding literature of Scientology as written by Scientologist leader L Ron Hubbard, by Scientologist actors”
In a vacuum? Yeah it’s cheesy sci fi. With context? Hoo boy…
Mariah Carey, or maybe it’s just me, over rated , primadona, cat in heat screeching noise. All I want for Christmas is to never hear that song again :)
Game collectibles as NFTs. I thought being able to trade/buy/sell a game skin for example sounded like a cool idea since it would allow users to trade freely without the game company having full control of the collectibles. The idea was massively hated and I’m not sure how something like Overwatch 2 is preferable when people that want to get skins need to buy a battle pass to grind or pay for an overpriced skin where 100% of the profits end up with the game company.
Those things don’t HAVE to be NFTs for it to be done. I’ve also seen some devs say they’re wary of adding such a feature when it was brought up to them due to concerns of potentially encouraging hacking, which could be part why you don’t see it very often?
I still don’t understand how you people expect this to work. Your skins aren’t going to do anything unless a developer adds them to their specific game.
What incentive does, for example, Epic have to do all the coding and modeling they would need to do in order for you to use the pickle Rick skin that you bought from a someone else, in Fortnite?
I’m merely saying that if you earn a shiny skin for X game then you would be able to sell it to someone else that wants to use it on that game. The Steam Community Market already does this except it’s not called NFTs there.
It’s not called NFTs because it’s literally not using NFT technology in Steam. I’ve never seen anything suggesting using NFTs for video games that couldn’t be accomplished with a database and a store page like what Steam does.
It’s not about “accomplishing” something that couldn’t be done with a database. It’s about making these items tradeable on a platform that doesn’t belong to a single entity, which is often the original creator of the item you want to sell. As good as the Steam marketplace might be for some people, every single sale pays a tax to Valve, and the terms could change at any moment with no warning. The changes could be devastating for the value of your collectibles that you might have paid thousands of dollars for. This could not happen on any decentralized system. It could be something else that isn’t NFTs but it would absolutely have to be decentralized. Anything centralized that “accomplishes the same thing” doesn’t really accomplish the same thing.
It’s worth noting that this sort of market control would never be considered ok on any other market. Can you imagine a car manufacturer requiring every sale to go through them? Would you accept paying them a cut when you resell your car? Would you accept having to go through them even to transfer ownership of the car to a family member? If a car manufacturer tried to enforce such terms on a sale they would be called out for it and it would most likely be ruled to be unlawful. But nobody questions the implications of the same exact situation in a digital marketplace.
That one part of the NFT idea that actually sounded good would never see the light of day. If blizzard implemented NFT in their games they would store data in the blockchain but would not accept anything from the blockchain that didn’t have a matching receipt in their servers.
I’m kind of surprised that you feel like NFTs are a better option, but at the risk of giving you the benefit of the doubt, I’ll explain my opinion. I hate the thing you’re describing, a marketplace of tradeable whatever, because it’s completely the opposite reason I play games. I play games to experience mastery and get rewards for skilled achievements. If I can just buy them, they mean nothing. So, at best, NFTs have zero value to me. Secondly, another reason I play games is to get away from the nickel and dime-ing of real life. Games start everyone at the same point and give you challenges. Marketplaces like NFT auctions or whatever just reinstate the real-life scenario where rich people, who usually don’t deserve their wealth, get disproportionate power over everyone else.
I agree with you if a game has 0 micro transactions then that’s the one that I want to play but sadly some of the most popular multiplayer games are riddled with them already.
On these games you’re already able to buy a shiny gun or a skin for ~$25 and if that’s not going away I would at least prefer to be able to trade or sell the items.
As a guy who grew up in a conservative household, this is just a lack of understanding of what communism is; most of my family believe it’s a poverty cult, so they hate it.
Religion. I don’t mean extremist right-wingers trying to ban abortions nationwide or extremist Muslims trying to blow up their enemies. I mean people who quietly feel and have the convictions of Faith. Atheists will clamber over themselves to tell people (who believe they have received irrefutable proof of their faith) that they are wrong, they are stupid, they are backwards, and they are bad. Again, I’m not referring to people who act or vote to impose their views on others, but only about people who have personal, private convictions… yet any and all Faith is wrong?
EDIT: Aaand, as predicted, I’m already getting downvoted. This world is allowed to have Furries, and neurodivergents, and Flat-Earthers, and Bronies… but NonGod-forbid anyone ever believe there’s more to our existence than what we can see! (For clarification, those are simply examples of groups diverging from cultural norms, no judgement should be inferred.)
I watched that for the first time sometime in the last few years that have blended together and I actually really enjoyed how it was one giant love letter to Adam West’s era.
They do. Mostly because it’s offal and offal is supposed to be yucky. /me rolls eyes
For me this is actually great because it means that chicken liver is really cheap, so if I want to treat myself I just toast some bread and prepare garlicky livers. Cheaper than all my other comfort food types (Emmenthaler, chocolate, uszka [mushrooms are expensive here]).
My favorite is fried liver, and it’s easy to prepare. Just coat them with flour, then whisked eggs, then breadcrumbs and finally fry in hot oil. Don’t salt them before frying as they’ll turn bitter.
In my region we also prepare them with onions and chicken blood. I know how it sounds but it tastes amazing.
In my region we also prepare them with onions and chicken blood. I know how it sounds but it tastes amazing.
I might actually give this a try, I used to eat https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabidela#/media/File:Cabidela_de_galinha.JPG. (Perks of having rural relatives!)
Reverse image search for your pic found this site. Is the recipe there good?
Glad you found it interesting, when my grandma used to butcher (I think that’s the right english word for it) chicken she always made it from fresh blood and liver, it tasted amazing. When it was a rooster she also added the testicles.
The recipe seems legit, google translate only makes one mistake. You should pour the blood into boiling water with a pinch of salt, not a pinch of blood into hot water. Otherwise that’s how I’d prepare.
Or we just don’t like the taste. I’m not picky about what part of the animal I eat (except chitlin’s… the smell put me off those forever). I’ll eat gizzards all day. Chicken liver tastes like dirt to me.
I don’t criticise cases like you*, but usually people saying “I don’t like the taste” are far less than the ones picking on it for being offal. At least from my experience.
*or my mum - she’s no fan of chicken liver, but give her chicken gizzards or beef liver and she’ll happily devour it
The catch is that it’s white polenta. Some people here in the southern parts of Brazil look at it like it’s some sort of abomination, like “polenta is supposed to be yellow! This stuff doesn’t even taste like real polenta!” (For me it tastes like childhood. And it pan-fries so better than the yellow one!)
[Vou manter em inglês para incluir os outros usuários, OK?]
I’ve seen the domain but it’s the first time that I actually checked it. First impression: holy fuck the art in bolha.io looks amazing. Content on its Lemmy instance seems focused on games, so I’ll probably subscribe to a few comms there.
It’s basically polenta made with white maize. It tastes milder and definitively different, but the biggest difference for me is the texture - once it cools it gets more “gelatinous” (dunno if this makes sense), but firmer. I also have an easier time deep-frying it.
My grandma prepared it almost every day. Often as “hairy polenta” (polenta, mozzarella, polenta, sauce - the “hair” was the cheese strings), so I spend a good time in my childhood thinking that yellow = instant polenta.
I gave it a check and found this link. It’s practically the same, indeed - I think that I use 1:4 cornmeal:water (the recipe has 1:5~6) but this varies almost on a household level.
From the link:
swapping water with milk
…holy fuck this is genius. I usually pan-fry it for breakfast and add milk over it, but gotta try this someday.