[-] ProfessorOwl_PhD@hexbear.net 3 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

You genuinely think that someone who specifically wants to kill you making preparations from which they can kill you is fine, as long as they don't actually kill you? You're not a tiny bit bothered by the possibility of them actually killing you?

[-] ProfessorOwl_PhD@hexbear.net 1 points 21 hours ago

When I played Descent into Avernus my character's battle theme was a remix of The Only Thing They Fear Is You. The character in question was a Hollyphant Barbarian with PTSD.

Wait, these were the guys that went on to make Rogue Legacy?

[-] ProfessorOwl_PhD@hexbear.net 13 points 5 days ago

It's only anime if it comes from the anime region of japan, otherwise it's just a sparkling cartoon.

[-] ProfessorOwl_PhD@hexbear.net 2 points 5 days ago

It's not hugely convenient without a VTT like Foundry, but properly codifying lying to the players is one of my favourite bits of PF2e. I encourage all my players to take Dubious Knowledge so I can lie to them even more.

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What games should I legally acquire for it? I had the various DS/3DS Zelda's, most of the pokemans up to Black, Bravely Default, The World Ends With You (which i never completed because I was bad at fighting on two screens at once), and Contact (which I never completed because it was made by Suda51). I'm leaning towards ~~steali~~ getting some of the later pokemans because I 100%'d Cassette Beasts and I crave more creature collecting, but is there any other good stuff?

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He's too old for it to be a reference but like... That's his actual name. Jan Six. I don't know how to process this.

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Dr. Rachael Louise “Raygun” Gunn is a lecturer at Macquarie University, Australia, who has extensively studied and participated in the Sydney breaking (more commonly known as break dancing) scene. Her work has primarily focused on studying social dynamics in the breaking scene from feminist and queer perspectives: https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=LLebtn8AAAAJ&hl=en&oi=sra. Gunn has also demonstrated outstanding ability in the breaking scene, having won numerous competitions across Oceania and garnering wide respect from other Australian breakers.
Gunn has also been widely reported as having a background in Jazz, Tap dancing, and Ballroom dancing.

I put it to you that Rachael Gunn is intimately familiar with breaking, to a much higher degree than most breakers, having both personal and academic experience with the scene. Her academic work breaking down elements of the scene indicate a detailed understanding of the moves, speech, social and cultural contexts, modes of dress, relationship with gender, and numerous other individual aspects. She also has a detailed understanding of her relationship to the scene, having written a paper titled The ethics of living a double life: rethinking ownership, authenticity, and identity in hip hop culture, and spoken in interviews of being white and middle class in a scene that grew from socially impressed minorities.

So how could someone with the demonstrated knowledge and ability of Raygun not score a single point at all, having reached the Olympics as the highest scoring competitive b-girl in Oceania? Indeed, Martin Gillian, head breaking judge at the Olympics, praised her performance, and she's received extensive support from the breaking community in defence of her routine, so a score of zero seems impossibly unlikely.

The inclusion of breaking at the Olympic games was a controversial topic ahead of its debut, primarily due to concerns over the corporatization and dilution of breaking culture inclusion would bring, and was widely criticised by the breaking community. One person who studied the divide in opinions was Dr Rachael L Gunn, who in 2023 published The Australian breaking scene and the Olympic Games: The possibilities and politics of sportification, which criticised the IOC and WDSF’s implementation and homogenisation of the scene. From the conclusion of the paper:

[...] the concerns are centred on the impact upon culture, and a potential loss of agency and self-determination. Isolated from neighbouring countries, and consisting of distinct, localized scenes guided by individual agents, top-down decision-making led by the WDSF already impacts the social organization, identities and hierarchies of respect within the Australian breaking scene.

While sport and the Olympics are framed as ‘great equalizers’, the exclusivity of Australia’s sporting institutions along gendered, class and racialized lines means that breaking’s sportification may in fact impact the accessibility of breaking. While the ABA aims to ensure that Australian breakers retain self-determination and agency through this Olympic process, there are many obstacles that come with the introduction of concepts like governance, transparency and accountability. Making global what is essentially a localized practice invariably requires standardization, homogeneity, professionalism and risks further moving breaking away from its African American and Latin cultural traditions and histories.

I put it to you that Raygun's olympic performance was in fact carefully calculated to show off breaking without meeting a single olympic criteria, as a protest against the inclusion of the sport, choosing to show breaking off as an artistic medium rather than athletic one. Using movements that were specifically contextual to Australia's presence in an international space, her performance was a criticism of the IOCs attempt to represent breaking as a gymnastic sport rather than artistic expression, and directly intended to sabotage the inclusion of breaking - and expected resulting gentrification of the scene - in the Olympics.
Currently it has been confirmed that the 2028 Olympic Games will not feature breaking, and there are currently no plans to include it in the 2032 Games.
Raygun wins.

[-] ProfessorOwl_PhD@hexbear.net 68 points 3 months ago

I can't remember for the life of me where I read it, but I remember reading a kinda sci-fi/fantasyish novel in my teens that had universal ai controlled cars, and the main character asked how they didn't get into accidents sometimes and the other characters were like "are you stupid? It's one centralised ai controlling them all" and that stuck with me as an obvious requirement for driverless cars.

Anyway I don't think any current driverless car creators read that book.

[-] ProfessorOwl_PhD@hexbear.net 69 points 3 months ago

Go into the notes of almost any of their releases and you'll find borderline schizophrenic screeds full of hate and bigotry. Racism, homophobia, transphobia, ableism, thinking the Harry Potter series is good, all kinds of shit. Also, at least once she said she was going to jail because she was caught cracking something but kept putting out releases without any disruption. Here's one from the time she was accused of being a trans woman (cw: all of the above)

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Please commit to your words and actions. Commit to the fucking turn you were going to make right in front of me, before stamping on the brakes at the last second. Commit to a fight after challenging me on not risking my life around your shitty driving.

Do I "want to fucking go"? You have no idea how much I want to fucking go. I have to cycle around idiots like you all day, if you step out of your armoured wankmobile i am going to sink my teeth into your flesh and not let go. I will bite your flabby fucking tits off. I will beat you with my fists and helmet and entire fucking bike until a kind samaritan pulls over to drag me away from your limp body.

Anyway, if I ever mysteriously stop posting you should be able to dox me by googling "cyclist eats driver UK".

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Why can't it be something fun like swapping surnames and then creating a portmaneau or blended name for the kids.

[-] ProfessorOwl_PhD@hexbear.net 58 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

>fights off 5 ringwraiths while protecting a gang of hobbits
>kills like a hundred magically engineered supersoldiers so hobbits can cross a river
>kills an unreasonable number more at Helm's Deep
>beats up an actual ghost
>just one of those supersoldiers could easily kill like 10 regular humans, but here he is again just mowing them down
>charges the entirety of mordor on foot: survives

But yeah, I'm sure the regular human of above average skill will be fine.

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YOU'RE NOT EVEN A LITTLE BIT CRITICAL OF GENDER YOU LYING FUCKS

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Carburettor
Tasty
Bisque
Crime
Endoscope

Fresh out of the Scrabble game, get 'em while they're hot.

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Looks like Palworld has established "game that shouldn't have guns (with guns)" as a genre, so what games are we looking forward to seeing the treatment? Animal Crossing with guns? Football Manager with guns? Disco Elysium with guns?

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Lmao, are you for real? Still flaunting your itty bitty my-first-gender that mummy gave you?
Grow up, loser. Choose a real gender.

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I should have realised something was up when I saw his coat is black after they specifically said Grey.
Look at this shit, he doesn't even sleep right:

Bonus: Teaching the parent's Border Collie pup to sleep wrong

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When we moved in our neighbours told us he had moved in with his girlfriend years ago and not sold the house, on the basis that the relationship might not work out and he'd need somewhere to move back to.

Has it been long enough to say his relationship worked out and I can knock the wall through to steal his bedroom to expand my own? I'd like more space and with my desk and wardrobe this room is pretty cramped.

[-] ProfessorOwl_PhD@hexbear.net 58 points 11 months ago

Worth checking out how the IDF's ranks work. Of particular note is that Corporal, Sergeant, and Staff Sergeant aren't NCO positions like most militaries, and autopromotion means if you sign on after your conscription period your minimum rank will be Staff Sergeant.

[-] ProfessorOwl_PhD@hexbear.net 82 points 11 months ago

If you're gonna make jokes about niche internet personalities in public you're gonna have to get used to explaining the joke.

[-] ProfessorOwl_PhD@hexbear.net 56 points 1 year ago

Corpse wankers coming to steal your precious fluids

[-] ProfessorOwl_PhD@hexbear.net 65 points 1 year ago

I can't come up with a reason lunkhead would be less offensive than airhead, so I'm guessing this is a result of the game being remade for switch in Japanese and then retranslated, rather than just pulling the translated text from the old version, presumably because there have been changes in general to the game/it would be a pain in the arse.

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