I think he’s talking about actual mythologies, not fictional pantheons. I’m not sure tho.

Always been like that in my experience.

I remember being frustrated asf as a teenager by people not understanding words or knowing how to spell things. My brother in christ, you have a phone and an internet connection in your pocket with access to basically the entirety of human knowledge. Fucking Google it.

I’ll list a few other pantheons on his behalf if it makes you feel better:

Voodoo, Yoruba, Celtic, Japanese, Polynesian, Aztec.

I used to be into HP fanfiction and my god I got so tired of hearing about HPMOR. I didn’t hate it, I didn’t feel nearly that strongly. I got a handful of chapters in and put it down, but that’s reasonably normal for me. But my god you could not escape that fic. It’s fans were rabid and it’s detractors were even worse than that. If it could vaguely fit a req, they’d bring it up. And then get three replies about how it doesn’t fit the req and it’s the worst thing since My Immortal within fifteen minutes.

By nature, the fediverse is hard to tie back to individuals… But if they’re looking for you individually, they can find you

Yeah. Bonus points if your instance isn’t hosted in the US. I’m pretty sure mine is hosted in Canada, and with the way it’s going currently in a year or two Canada wouldn’t be willing to piss on the US government if it was on fire much less hand over a server full of IP addresses.

Further, pretty sure the entire contents of the internet have been sucked down into that NSA Utah Datacenter since it opened in May 2014.

There is a truly prodigious amount of weird porn on a government server somewhere if true.

I have no clue about your notstupidquestion but it’s inspired one of my own.

Why are you taking zinc? I was under the impression that intaking zinc is a terrible idea and should be avoided at all cost.

Maybe it’s specifically inhaling it that’s the issue? I’ve always heard this in a metallurgy context: that you should be careful heating up brass/welding galvanized steel etc because the zinc will turn into a fairly toxic gas.

I can confirm both of those things lol.

I recently tried playing Daggerfall Unity, which is basically a ground up remake of Daggerfall in a modern engine. So it’s not quite as clunky and hard to get running as the original.

I still bounced, even as a major Morrowind fan.

I didn’t personally take any notes, but I did use a map with all the places already marked. Because without one finding things is absolutely awful lol

Morrowind best game imo. OpenMW is a great experience.

You can install a mod that removes the need for saviour’s schnapps. I considered it but I only learned about it when I was basically done lol

You can ignore/mitigate most of the survival mechanics in KCD. For food, I highly suggest grabbing the human dustbin perk, which lets you eat spoiled food without any downsides. Once you have that keeping fed is so easy it’s basically an afterthought. For health, there’s a healing potion that is incredibly plentiful. It doesn’t have proper health regen aside from sleeping, but I had ~30 of the healing potions by the end of the game having crafted none of them. Keep a bunch of bandages on hand as well in case you get a bleed. I only had a handful across my entire playthrough but bleeds can be annoying if you can’t just fix them with bandages. As for sleep, I encountered a need to sleep a total of like three times across a 60hr playthrough.

The combat can be difficult, but it’s far from being a soulslike.

You might like it. You also might not idk.

And choose the melee class, don’t remember it’s name right now.

…there’s a melee class?

Do you mean Vanguard? Because it’s not so much a melee class as a shotgun class lol

Yeah, exactly.

Reminds me the ol “if all your friends jumped off a bridge would you do it too?”

Some parents these days seem to think the solution is that you shouldn’t be able to jump off the bridge in the first place.

The horror!

Since I have no clue what argument you’re talking about I definitely can’t provide context.

I think maybe we’re all confused lmao.

But yeah, you summed up the original context pretty well. It was a TikTok trend asking women if they’d rather be alone in the woods with a bear or a man. A lot of people, primarily women, basically pointed and said “see how much women don’t trust the average man.” A lot of men pointed at it and said, “see how much women hate men.” And it was a whole gender argument for awhile. I just sort of thought it was all around sad and depressing.

Ellie Gibson - from the Scummy Mummies podcast - said Mr Baszucki’s message risked sounding “a bit of a get out”.

“It’s much easier said than done, especially when all their friends are playing it,” she told the BBC.

That’s wild to me. “Your platform isn’t safe.” “So don’t let your kids use it.” “But all their friends are on it!”

I’m confused, can you provide some context?

I know about the bear vs man thing that went viral for awhile- “Would you rather be alone in the woods with a bear or a man?”, but I haven’t ever seen it in a Lemmy vs Reddit context.

Battlefield Hardline’s campaign was actually good, though. It felt like a cop movie, which I thought was a neat change for the series.

It is way more of an enjoyable experience now than it was on launch. I just still find it sort of flawed on a core level. The exploration is clearly supposed to be a primary focus of the game, but I just find it incredibly bland after a bit. After I finished with that, I don’t really know what to do with the game aside from… keep flying around trying to find something worth finding.

I put 40hrs into it. I don’t regret that, but I also have zero interest in continuing to play it past that.