BillyClark

Was Van lecherous in previous episodes? When he started talking to himself about that lady’s tits, it felt out of character, but maybe I just forgot.

I also wonder about episodes like this, in general. I’m sure it costs extra money to animate a dragon fight, but it still wasn’t animated very well. And they did that old bullshit where the characters are like, “We’re in mortal danger and have mere seconds to act, so let’s sit here and talk about it for a few minutes before we do anything.”

The armored lizard defense wasn’t perfect, but it was far better than this dragon nonsense. It feels like you shouldn’t spend extra money on fight animation if the result is going to be worse than normal.

Man, I have a few anime that I watch on Wednesdays, and all of the episodes were respectively the worst episodes of their seasons this week.

I’m not sure that you can boil down an old philosophical matter so easily, regardless.

I like to bring up the zombie thought experiment in these situations.

Three thoughts about Troi.

One is that this is her area of expertise, and she’s had a lot of experience with Data, so she shouldn’t be so confidently saying something like this, which very likely either leads down the path that Data isn’t a person, or that people aren’t people.

Two is that as an empath, she may be unconsciously bigoted against those whose emotions she cannot sense.

Three may be her actual defense, which is that she’s a counselor who is actively counseling a patient. So, it’s possible that a counselor may have to say false things to a patient if those things are the things that will help the patient the most.

The style of interface invented at Xerox PARC in 1973 (and almost certainly used by you if you’re viewing this on a Linux computer) is called WIMP, for “Windows, Icons, Menus, Pointer.” Microsoft just stole the name.

I don’t know about Islamic texts, but the Bible doesn’t really say much about hell. If you want to learn about hell, you have to go to preachers. Fire and brimstone is their bread and butter. The more they talk about hell, the more money they make.

maybe the ppl think repeating this discussion again is boring and they dislike it.

See? You don’t honestly believe that’s the reason for the previous comment being downvoted. The person I responded to was arguing the other side of that argument. If people were simply tired of the boring discussion, they’d have downvoted the parent, as well. You can use that same service I linked in the previous comment to see exactly how many people voted like that. This is what I’m talking about coming to the discussion in an honest manner.

btw mastodon and bluesky don’t have downvotes. i think ppl who are here instead on those, decided this way is better. i for one left mastodon in favor of lemmy.

I originally came from Reddit and never saw any appeal in Twitter or Twitter clones whenever I tried them out. Regardless, I don’t think the argument makes sense. Either it’s a good idea or it’s not. If it’s a good idea, then there is no reason why it shouldn’t be used on both platforms.

I do think downvotes are universally a terrible idea, but for the part about reposting from xitter, which is the only point you made with any small merit, that is only relevant to post downvotes.

If they got rid of comment downvotes and left the post downvotes, you’d still have enough data to sort. People could still vote for comments strategically.

Comment downvotes are a clear case. If you’re making a valid argument, and talking about the topic, then the only people who would downvote you are raging assholes. Here’s the list of people who voted for my previous comment. As you can see, it’s got the full public list of downvoters. Strange. One of those usernames looks familiar. One might look at that and come to the conclusion that certain people here are not coming to this discussion in an honest manner.

The mods were on .world. The accounts were from several different instances.

Do you know what else helps with sorting? Upvotes.

Do you know what else helps with hiding spam? Reports.

If you have upvotes and you have reports, then you already have all of the information you need as a platform. Downvotes are unnecessary.

Plus, speaking of sorting, accounts that use downvotes get double the votes for sorting than accounts do that only use upvotes. Yet, the types of people who downvote a lot are… well, they’re the assholes. So, you give assholes more control over the platform than good people by having downvotes.

So, downvotes are unnecessary and they give extra power to assholes, making the entire user experience worse.

I complained about this downvoting behavior in the past (on a different account), pointing out specific accounts, and the admins and mods don’t care. They told me not to complain, instead.

This is counterintuitive to me, because 303/2800 is .108, which is between 1/9 and 1/10. But 97 out of 400 is less than 1 out of 4, so it shouldn’t be able to interfere more than twice in a 7 year cycle, on average. But your math looks correct. I must be missing something.

That can’t be correct, can it?

They would have a rotating 7 year schedule, but it’s messed up by leap years. You have the seven calendars you’re thinking of and 1-2 leap year calendars mixed into those 7 years. It would have to be somewhere between 1 in 8 and 1 in 9, wouldn’t it?

From the title, it seems like this won’t be very original, but I usually enjoy these types of anime.

I must not be that old because the docs always tell me to alternate heat packs and ice packs.

Especially the American military personnel stationed there always crashing helicopters.

When I lived in Japan, apparently, somebody revved their motorcycle engine too much at night, and it was covered on the local TV news the next day. I guess they didn’t have any other sorts of local crime to present.

I have been following British media a bit and unless I am mistaken, this Mandelson chap ran afoul of his Epstein conduct back in September, which was before the DOJ even started releasing the Epstein files as part of the Epstein act, which hadn’t passed at the time. The subsequent release and redactions seem to have exposed even more, but his goose was cooked before that.

Current allegations are that Mandelson handed Epstein extremely sensitive government information. I forget what Brits call it, but we’d say it was classified.

And it currently seems like PM Kier Starmer is probably going to fall with him, since he apparently knew about Mendelson’s continuing association with post-conviction Epstein.

Anyways, that one particularly seems somewhat unrelated to the redaction choices.

The lighting in the OP is much worse than in the current image and even gives the subject red-eye.

Is there a rule against using filtered images? A red-eye filter is trivial, but it would still be a filter. But I think even most cameras do this automatically in portrait mode.

Raise the fucking drawbridge. That’s why drawbridges exist.

I have heard that when people are starving they’re more likely to overthrow their government, but looking at North Korea, I’m not sure how true that is, or how true it is anymore.