the “folk horror suddenly everywhere” claim kinda falls apart when you note that the three films they cite came out in 2023 (Lord of Misrule), 2019 (Midsommar), and 2015 (The Witch), and the image they chose to use is from 1973 (The Wicker Man). It’s a subgenre that’s had a bit of a resurgence in the past decade, but it’s hardly a new thing that’s “suddenly” everywhere.
you call your friend by a nickname? believe it or not, straight to jail.
yep. in 2 dimensions, nobody really debates on whether x or y should point up, so i kinda think the debate about z stems from whether one thinks we should put the xy plane horizontally (like a sheet of paper on a desk), or vertically (like a chalkboard).
does any software default to making x be the vertical axis?
the trick, i’d imagine, is to be rich enough that you don’t have to deal with doing your own chores or errands (let the servants get groceries and cook and clean and drive you places).
yeah, i know that number is horribly inflated, and few ever look at the considerably larger death toll that ought to be ascribed to capitalism, but to suggest that the any state, such as the ussr, doesn’t have any blood on its hands seems naive at best, and actively deceptive at worst.
mostly just the one boomer, actually.
is there a joke in this one? could you explain it?
not sure if this is trying to say that everyone who died at the hands of Communists™ weren’t people, didn’t have souls, or were just universally evil and went to the Bad Place and therefore deserved it, but whichever way, it doesn’t seem like a good look.
yeah, but of that was the case, they shouldn’t have included the invasion if korea in 598, which predates the formation of the PRC by over 1300 years.
yeah, i think this is relying pretty heavily on people’s ignorance of china’s history to seem even remotely believable. idk why they feel the need to lie anyway, cause china’s record in the modern day is still undeniably better than the US’s.
i haven’t heard of any place on lemmy restricting one’s ability to post based on your vote total, but i’d never encountered it during my many years on reddit, either.
if you get a lot of downvotes, and someone is sorting by “top” or “hot”, your post or comment will be further down the list though, and vice versa for upvotes. (though personally, i almost always sort by “new” on lemmy, or sometimes, “new comments”.)
i never played return to arms, but same. i think my brother ended up with our copy of CoN, but i should see if the local retro game shop has a copy.
they mattered on reddit? how?
i don’t think this is, or ever has been, a thing.
two that i remember quite fondly for their co-op gameplay were X-men Legends, and Champions of Norrath.
most of the resident evils work well as standalones. the only ones i’d say are really proper sequels are 3 (play 2 first) and 8 (play 7 first). there’s some throughlines in terms of characters beyond that, but not really anything plotwise that you’d miss out by having missed the rest of the franchise.
i know who the rock is, but that doesn’t help me get whatever joke may or may not be happening here.
DONT: dispose of human remains in a window planter
DONT: break your TV by kicking a man’s skull into it
DO: get chased around by a great depression tramp with a big stick
i wonder if this would be funny if i recognized the image.
good advice about buses. i chased after a bus once. i tripped, twisted my ankle, damaged my clothing, and scraped the hell out of my left wrist, elbow, and shoulder. still got a scar from it. everyone on the bus saw, and the bus driver waited for me as i limped up to the next stop.