Ultraviolet

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[–] Ultraviolet 14 points 7 hours ago (7 children)

Are horseflies a lie because they don't eat horses?

[–] Ultraviolet 1 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Also conjuring up unnecessary details is a hyperphantasia thing, not doing it doesn't mean you have aphantasia.

[–] Ultraviolet 7 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

And you'd at least get to protest under Harris. Trump openly wants to go Tiananmen Square on you if you protest.

[–] Ultraviolet 1 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

If there's countably infinite people on the track with nonzero space between them, the probability that any given person is any given finite distance from the trolley is 0, so practically no one gets run over.

[–] Ultraviolet 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's because in older games, you could clearly differentiate between the background and the gameplay relevant sprites or models drawn over it. It was a technical necessity but it doubled as communicating to the player what's important. When technology advanced past that being technically necessary, something needed to take its place. The pulse is just one of many ways to do that and the easiest one to integrate into a realistic artstyle. When you get more stylized, your options open up considerably.

[–] Ultraviolet 1 points 1 day ago

Good news, Quake 2 released that very same year.

[–] Ultraviolet 32 points 1 day ago (2 children)

In other words, emulators are crucial for game preservation? This shows that Nintendo knows that, and when they say it's not the case, they're not simply wrong, they're lying.

[–] Ultraviolet 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Still not acknowledging the TGM series?

[–] Ultraviolet 16 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

It's like the trolley problem, except instead of the other track having fewer people, it has more, and it just loops back around to run over the people on the first track anyway. We should have sent the trolley on a completely different route decades ago.

[–] Ultraviolet 24 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

The difference is back then, it was relegated to the insane fringe. The premise of the X-Files is "what if all those farfetched conspiracy theories were true", evil FEMA was in the same category as cryptids and alien abduction. Now it's part of the platform of the second largest political party in the country. It's roughly equivalent to campaigning on killing Bigfoot, if not worse because at least the latter is harmless.

[–] Ultraviolet 75 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's interesting how the only "states' rights" conservatives care about are the ones involving denying rights to the people.

[–] Ultraviolet 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Yet you participate in society

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