it_wasnt_arson

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It doesn't have to be a full on quest marker HUD overlay, just being able to glance at a mirror of your phone's map display in your peripheral vision without taking it out of your pocket would be great.

[–] it_wasnt_arson@awful.systems 3 points 5 days ago (2 children)

From what I understand, biological systems regulated by sex hormones require one or the other to work at all. For example, you get one pattern of post-puberty bone growth with estrogen, a different pattern with testosterone, and no bone growth at all if you have neither. These systems also have some counterbalancing factor, like your bones constantly being slowly dissolved to keep calcium in your bloodstream, so if you have no gonads and no supplementary hormones, you essentially speedrun osteoporosis over the course of a few years.

I'm not too clear on other effects, but a lot of things are downstream of "your bones slowly melt," and lots of other parts of your body rely on sex hormones to regulate them and will have long-term issues without them.

[–] it_wasnt_arson@awful.systems 0 points 2 weeks ago

I just think we have different definitions of what accountability looks like. Have a good day.

[–] it_wasnt_arson@awful.systems 2 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I'm glad you can get excited at the prospect of a handful of cabinet members getting fined a fraction of the millions they enriched themselves by and getting handed 12-month sentences to be commuted while the people they imprisoned for political gain spend years in concentration camps. Where are the presidents on this list, by the way?

[–] it_wasnt_arson@awful.systems 1 points 3 weeks ago

How obsessed can people get with one inconsequential guy for being cringe on the internet?

[–] it_wasnt_arson@awful.systems 0 points 4 weeks ago

There's actually plenty of material to compare to, with a swath of Pal designs that are clearly original, in a similar style with similar inspirations. Then there are models with almost precisely the same silhouette and proportions as iconic Pokemon, which are frankly just worse designs for it, since the altered colors and markings clash with the original concept and result in a generally forgettable whole. They clearly had the skill and motivation to innovate more within their niche, but instead the game is half-full of what feel like hastily painted over placeholders.

[–] it_wasnt_arson@awful.systems 1 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)
  • Segways
  • 3D TVs
  • steam-powered automobiles
  • Lisp machines
  • hovercraft
  • supersonic airliners
[–] it_wasnt_arson@awful.systems 14 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

A kitchen sink monster taming survival sandbox game with Pokemon-like cute creatures, a handful of reaaaaally familiar designs, edgy shock factor marketing featuring gun violence and animal abuse, and enough obviously Pokemon-inspired gameplay elements that Nintendo decided to bring out all the IP big guns, from copyright infringement down to bullshit mechanics patents and claims that mods don't count as prior art. (if a modder invents something, no they didn't, and a developer that puts the same feature in a game years later can sue anyone who imitates the mod, according to Nintendo.)

[–] it_wasnt_arson@awful.systems 4 points 1 month ago

The USPS just got done ordering a custom-designed vehicle built from the ground up for efficient, safe, and comfortable package delivery. It doesn't look like this.

[–] it_wasnt_arson@awful.systems 11 points 1 month ago

iirc, they fell behind during COVID, the increased funding and facility expansions needed to actively push them back down into the chokepoint never got approved, and the trump administration would rather spend 10x more moving all the infrastructure up to the US-Mexico border than do anything that would help other countries "for free" (even though they already chip in).

[–] it_wasnt_arson@awful.systems 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Apparently the project got overwhelmed with LLM vulnerability reports, so the last person in the world who actually cared enough to keep maintaining it gave up and gave in to the spop himself.

 
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