VindictiveJudge
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L took a bit to start suspecting the supernatural, and he used a variant canary trap to narrow down the killer’s location, which at a minimum pointed to whoever was making decisions.
Wait, does C read like valley girl speech in Greek?
I had a cat that did that. It was less of a bite and more of holding me with his teeth. He was always very happy and purring when he did it. It’s definitely not universal behavior, though.
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Steam Hardware@sopuli.xyz•Steam Controller page updated: $99 USD, releases May 4thEnglish
1·12 days agoSuccessfully ordered! :D
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Steam Hardware@sopuli.xyz•"Valve’s new Steam Controller has a major problem for PC games not on Steam"English
6·16 days agoIt will work on Windows so long as Steam is running.
Depending on context, it can be an image editor, slur, or kink term. I’d bet money on the image editor being named for the kink term and it’s very possible the original devs didn’t know it was a slur in certain regions.
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politics @lemmy.world•Trump signs executive order on psychedelic drugs — with Joe Rogan by his sideEnglish
1·26 days agoWhy? Didn’t improve Musk.
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Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.world•Amazon started hiding ratings for some productsEnglish
5·27 days agoDoesn’t matter much in relation to reputational damage.
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World News@lemmy.world•Pentagon threatened the pope after he criticized TrumpEnglish
1·1 month agoThere’s also the Coptic Church.
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World News@lemmy.world•Pentagon threatened the pope after he criticized TrumpEnglish
71·1 month agoYep.
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World News@lemmy.world•Pentagon threatened the pope after he criticized TrumpEnglish
20·1 month agoAnglicanism is sort of Protestantism. It forked off of the Catholic Church after the start of the Protestant Reformation, but wasn’t really part of the movement. The king of England at the time specifically had a problem with the Pope and essentially took over the churches in England, keeping the Catholic traditions and power structure but changing the head of the faith from the Pope to the king. The English monarch is still officially the head of the Anglican Church.
Americans are very much not Anglican and many of the people who emigrated to the colonies were religious minorities from proper Protestant groups.
Yeah, that wasn’t a good example since taste is weird. A better example would be that most people would agree that the pink background on this sprite sheet is almost painful to look at while other, more luminous, elements are fine. If our perception significantly varies, then simple mid-luminance color blocks shouldn’t have consistent effects from person to person. Parts of that yellow gradient on the right should cause more strain to someone you know than the magic pink field if perception is strongly variable.
The logic is based on perception, though. Colors either clash or go together because of how we percieve them and which colors go with which is pretty consistent between cultures and time periods.
Given that color theory works the same for anyone that isn’t some variety of colorblind, I’d argue we probably see colors the same way or very very close to the same.
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World News@lemmy.world•President Trump: 'We sent guns to the Iranian protesters'English
3·1 month agoMost of those probably aren’t maintained well enough to actually be useful. I mean, a few of them probably get used for target shooting every so often, but they probably have most of them just to have them. Like how some people collect action figures, dolls, or cars, some people collect guns.
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politics @lemmy.world•What to Know About the 25th Amendment as Lawmakers Call for Trump’s RemovalEnglish
18·1 month agoNo he didn’t. The senate voted not to convict.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Microsoft wants Edge to automatically open by default every time you turn on your Windows 11 PCEnglish
4·1 month agoThe Denuvo workaround only runs on Windows and creates the mother of all security holes.
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No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Do "rich" superheroes have to be rich in order for the story to work?English
1·1 month agoIt’s his cover for why he doesn’t have a real job. If Bruce isn’t wealthy enough to not have to work, then he has to work during the day, fight crime at night, and never sleep. Even Peter Parker has a job with flexible hours to accommodate his Spider-Man time.
However, Peter only has the one gadget, doesn’t even own a car, and barely makes ends meet. Bruce needs a vehicle to get around town and at least a few gadgets and body armor to deal with the fact that he’s outnumbered, even with just normal criminals and not considering supers like Mr Freeze or Poison Ivy. If you’re keeping supers out of the equation, you could probably strip Bruce down to things that you could make in your garage, like reducing the Batmobile to an ordinary car he’s tinkered with a bit, painted black, taken the license plate off of, and ground off the VIN.
You still need to deal with how the hell he funds everything, though. Even with minimal gear, he’s going to need a full time job to afford it all. And if he doesn’t want to advertise who he is and where he’s operating out of, he’s going to need a second location to store his bat-stuff so that his neighbors don’t notice the Batmobile parked in his driveway. You’re probably looking at a small house that he doesn’t live in and another house or an apartment that he does live in without any roommates or renters at either place. Even with this minimal setup, Bruce would need at least $100k a year in income. This means one of the following: a) a well-paying full-time job, which cuts into Batmanning; b) inherited wealth; c) lottery winnings; or d) an extremely successful Only Fans account. The first doesn’t seem viable, the second is what’s already being used, the third just feels contrived, and the fourth, while something I’d probably read for the novelty, is probably really difficult to market.






The great thing about Dukat is that he frequently finds his own humanity. You keep thinking that this time he’ll do the right thing and start his path to redemption, but he never does. He always chooses to do the wrong thing even though there’s clearly good in him and you’re always disappointed and even surprised when it happens. He’s like the anti-Zuko.