When you have blocked someone, and they comment on your post, do they come to your front door and start yelling?
Are they standing across the road with a large, vulgar sign?
Do you get a phone call?
Do you in any way get notified?
Can you even see their comment?
If you answer “no” to the above, then you are left alone. They are no longer your concern. If you’re still concerned, then that’s a problem in your head.
But they are leaving you alone. You can’t see their comment if you blocked them. They could be screaming like a monkey with rabies and you’ll never notice.
If the idea that they can still comment bothers you, then you indeed want to punish them, rather than just ignore them.
You know, I actually don’t think it’ll be a good idea to kill people who are only powerful because they can talk. The more I think about it, the more I think they’ll be turned into martyrs by their followers. It’ll only embolden them.
So, something that really upsets the world in a tangible way would be…
Shooting more CEOs. And bankers.
Andrew Tate, though that may be dangerous as he’ll probably turn into a martyr.
A humanitarian… Hmm…
A humanitarian would eat that which would elevate the standard of human life everywhere.
So, probably start with billionaires, and then work your way down to market-valuation desk clerks.
Just another 30 more years of development, and we’ll finally have a space sim with retro graphics.
By that time we might have… Pffff… I dunno, X5, maybe even 6, that will have surpassed it on every front. Or Elite Dangerous will have all the features Star Citizen promised.
Co-op is pretty cool, but be careful with playing co-op with friends who know the game well; they will absolutely rush ahead of everything.
Yes, often books and movies are brought up when it comes to Halo, but I don’t see the point at all. I have been shown a few “cool” or “epic” clips from the movies by Halo fans but… they looked pretty bad.
When I get interested in getting into the weeds of some lore, it’s because the main-line (be it movies, or games) has made me interested to learn more. Halo never made me interested. Stuff just happened in cool alien environments, and it wouldn’t be the first time I’ve played a shooter with little story in cool alien environments (even from the era Halo is from… probably especially in the era Halo is from).
I highly doubt that would’ve changed anything.
Halo. I’ve been hearing about how cool and just good the games are. How deep and interesting the lore is.
I was visiting old games I heard good things about but never played. I had finished with the Half Life games and enjoyed them.
Then I decided to get the Master Chief Collection.
Started with Reach. Shooting immediately felt bad. The characters started dying off almost immediately after meeting them. Then the game was finished.
That was… Disappointing.
Well alright. Maybe Reach is a black sheep.
Onto Halo CE. Shooting felt even worse. The open areas were pretty cool, but there were a lot of small frustrations with the game. Story wasn’t anything special. Certainly none of that “deep lore”.
Well… Halo 2 then? Felt a lot like Halo 1. More story, yes, but it was as if the game assumed I was already invested in the story. About two thirds in I realised I was still waiting for Halo to finally become cool or good.
I stopped playing.
Decided Halo as a whole is very overrated.
Emperor Penguins are tough competition.
Sunny and -30°C. You live in the arctic?
You must be getting tourists from Finland.
Yes, but there were definitely parts of history where we looked towards the future and wanted to make something awesome. Where we were hopeful.
Today it seems we already know we’re on a completely fucked trajectory. That time is running out, but the people who care don’t have the power, and the people with power think nothing can touch them.
Hmm… Well… Let’s see about all the things I can do:
All of this and I feel like I’ve only scratched the surface of technology. So in consideration of the skill that exists with tech, the the 10-scale being used, I’d say my skill in tech is:
2 out of 10.
Closed source you have to take the word of the owner, who’s out to get your money.
Open source you have to take the word of a whole community, or you could just go and look yourself.
In the end there is also a personal responsibility; there is no promise or guarantee in the whole world that’ll prevent you from being stupid with what you download or install.
They added a car and a shitty side quest. That’s about it.
Starfield.
All Bethesda had to do was make it at least as good as Skyrim. Not Oblivion or Morrowind, but Skyrim.
But they couldn’t even manage that.
Occam’s razor:
Humans created religion. These things aren’t found in any religious texts because people, with their superstitions and limited knowledge, made these religious texts.
Just look at more “modern” religions, like scientology, drawing on elements of science-fiction for its mythos.
Oh no! The potential that someone is mocking me, behind my back, without me witnessing or knowing it, really keeps me awake at night!
I mean, really. If you’ve gone so far as to block someone, do you even care that they’re mocking you?
If so, why? And are you aware that someone can mock you, or spread crap about you behind your back, without explicitly needing the ability to comment on your threads?