[-] hakase@lemmy.ml 40 points 1 year ago

Here's my answer from the last time this came up (which might as well have been yesterday from how often people unfairly lionize Sam and shit on Frodo):

“As he stood there, even though the Ring was not on him but hanging by its chain about his neck, he felt himself enlarged, as if he were robed in a huge distorted shadow of himself, and vast and ominous threat halted upon the walls of Mordor…”

"Wild fantasies arose in his mind; and he saw Samwise the Strong, Hero of the Age, striding with a flaming sword across the darkened land, and armies flocking to his call as he marched to the overthrow of Barad-dur… He had only to put on the Ring and claim it for his own, and all this could be. "

"In that hour of trial it was the love of his master that helped most to hold him firm; but also deep down in him lived still unconquered his plain hobbit-sense: he knew in the core of his heart that he was not large enough to bear such a burden, even if such visions were not a mere cheat to betray him. The one small garden of a free gardener was all his need and due, not a garden swollen to a realm; his own hands to use, not the hands of others to command."

Sam was tempted, and if he possessed the ring long enough he would have been overcome like any other, but his Hobbit-sense saved him in that one small moment, when he had held the ring but a short while.

[-] hakase@lemmy.ml 17 points 1 year ago

Enabling NSFW is probably most of it, but I also blocked the user Madness (or something like that) who posts most of the celeb spam, and my feed has been 100% better.

[-] hakase@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 year ago

As long as the game is balanced and there are enough counterplays to camping, I'm fine with it.

[-] hakase@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's not actually about being specific per se - it's about overtly mentioning details that are already assumed from context. Grice's maxims of quantity and relevance say that speakers only provide information when that information is important in some way and relevant to the discussion, so providing information that would otherwise be assumed means that information must be actively relevant to the conversation in some important way that warrants it being mentioned.

[-] hakase@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago

If by "naughty" you mean "completely factually incorrect", then sure.

[-] hakase@lemmy.ml 63 points 1 year ago

I think that's what the meme was trying to say.

[-] hakase@lemmy.ml 15 points 1 year ago

For me it's anything I have to download an app to operate.

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[-] hakase@lemmy.ml 18 points 1 year ago

Minion boomer meme vibes.

[-] hakase@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If this is the incident you're referring to, then:

Updated Wednesday June 14 2:10 p.m. EST - San Francisco Police have provided this statement to Jalopnik:

“The SFPD is aware of the social media video showing an autonomous vehicle stopped in the middle of a road during a recent shooting incident in San Francisco. The autonomous vehicle did not delay police, fire, or other emergency personnel with our arrival or departure from this scene. Furthermore, it did not interfere with our investigation into the shooting incident.

Also, if the lives saved by autonomous cars are anywhere near as high as they're supposed to be, isolated incidents are way more than worth it. Statements like "The very first time one of these things blocked emergency services, the whole project should have been shelved" are incredibly shortsighted and would result in orders of magnitude more deaths over time.

[-] hakase@lemmy.ml 21 points 1 year ago

"Framerules" in Super Mario Bros. speedrunning on NES is probably the most memed analogy for a (very slightly) more complicated concept I know of.

The game can only send you to a new level every 21 frames (about .3 seconds), so there are tons of levels where timesaves don't lead to any benefit, because you have to save a full .3 seconds in order to see any benefit.

In the community, this has been explained with the same analogy so many times that "Imagine there's a bus" has become a well-known meme.

So, imagine there's a bus that only leaves the station every .3 seconds (21 frames). Because the bus only leaves at the times on its schedule, arriving early for the bus doesn't get you to your destination any faster, because you still have to wait for the time the bus will leave. For this reason, any new time saves in SMB1 must reach a new "framerule" (get there early enough to catch the previous bus) for there to be any real timesave.

[-] hakase@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 year ago

Dune. While there's no way to perfectly capture the magic of the intricate machinations of (Frank) Herbert's universe, the movie gets about as close as anyone could, I think. The only thing in its league is Jackson's LOTR trilogy, and I think Dune is at least as good if not slightly better. Can't wait for the second (and hopefully third!) one!

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