Abraham Lincoln vs Zombies. No, not Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter, the parody of that film made on the budget of the “plot” portion of a porn flick. I don’t know why I like it, but it’s some good dumb fun
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Sconrad122@lemmy.worldto Games@sh.itjust.works•Why are modern games obsessed with parrying? | Semi-RamblomaticEnglish2·1 month agoPretty sure this kind of game mechanic (expose yourself to an enemy attack for a skill check that regains health) can be traced back at least to the Dodgeball DLC for Outside™. Game mechanics are like TV tropes, they echo what came before them, almost without exception
Sconrad122@lemmy.worldto Games@lemmy.world•"You can't just have Geralt for every single game" says his voice actor, and if you think The Witcher 4 making Ciri the protagonist is "woke," then "read the damn books"English5·1 month agoJust open YouTube in incognito mode and search a game title probably works. YouTube’s algorithm loves serving up manosphere style content like that like my dog loves eating my other dog’s poop. It’s disturbing on both fronts
Italy beefing with Afghanistan in 2018, smh even America had moved on
Miss Minutes’ villain origin story
Sconrad122@lemmy.worldto World News@lemmy.world•Speedboat that flipped midair in 200 mph crash wins race on Arizona lakeEnglish61·2 months agoMaybe this is an SI purist and want to see meters per second or nothing? That would be silly because KPH is well used across the metric world, of course
Sconrad122@lemmy.worldto Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•If you have money in the SP500, you own Tesla stock3·4 months agoYep, or any other etf or fund that tracks an ex US index, if folks don’t want to give their money/share votes to Vanguard. I’m unfortunately not well versed in brokerages outside the US, so no fund suggestions, but VXUS tracks the FTSE Global All Cap Ex US index, MSCI also has a World ex US index, it shouldn’t be too hard to find an ex US index tracking fund at a reputable brokerage of your choice
Sconrad122@lemmy.worldto Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•If you have money in the SP500, you own Tesla stock3·4 months agoA lot of their direct competition is not in the S&P 500 because they are not American companies. Hyundai, Volkswagen, Toyota, Nissan, BYD, etc. American automakers let the EV market languish so long that they are only now becoming legitimate competitors in that space
Sconrad122@lemmy.worldto Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•Owing your home today is nearly impossible, but even if you did the ever increasing property taxes will bury you10·4 months agoLow income taxes. And our sales tax is typically lower than European VAT when the comparison is valid. But those generally go to the feds and the state, that do not fund municipal services, so municipalities have to collect the remainder they need through property taxes, typically on real estate and cars. And none of them fund healthcare, so we have to pay a company premiums for that. Basically the same for higher education. When you look at our total financial burden to receive the kind of services that are funded by taxes in other developed countries, we can be deceptively expensive, especially if you start thinking about the comparative quality of those services. But our income and capital gains tax rates are low, especially if you are very rich! I made myself sad
Sconrad122@lemmy.worldto Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•Owing your home today is nearly impossible, but even if you did the ever increasing property taxes will bury you5·4 months agoMy city has a senior discount on property taxes, where seniors that have a net worth and income both below certain numbers pay reduced or as low as 0% of their regularly assessed property tax. I’m not sure how they verify net worth, but it seems like a good system to me as long as they have figured out a way to do that efficiently and effectively
Sconrad122@lemmy.worldto World News@lemmy.world•Trump gave Europe three weeks to sign off on Ukraine "surrender": MEPEnglish13·5 months agoIt’s about whether US will do the same throw under the bus routine with Taiwan I think. China would love to know that the US won’t seriously contest an attempt to invade their neighbor across the strait
Unethical life pro tip, depending on whether respecting others’ religious traditions is part of your ethics: no mass I’ve ever been to has checked identity before giving out communion. If you’ve got an hour to burn for a free tasteless chip and a sip of wine and backwash, just walk in with mild confidence, mimic others, and mumble along with the prayers, and people will probably just assume you usually go to mass at another time or are traveling. There’s no Eucharist police that’s going to tackle you halfway down the aisle and throw you in an inquisition dungeon because your papers don’t check out
Sconrad122@lemmy.worldto Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•The one drawback to walking at night27·5 months agoInstructions unclear, hid roadkill bear in Central Park
Sconrad122@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Meta Now Lets Users Say Gay and Trans People Have 'Mental Illness'English11·6 months agoAccelerationism is ultimately burning the vulnerable at the stake to try and send a smoke signal, so I think it’s hard to say that this is a positive development. We can hope that there is a silver lining here where corporate social media self selects itself out of the general populations’ lives, but I think we probably have to be realistic about the low probability of success here and the human cost that is incurred in the meantime
Sconrad122@lemmy.worldto World News@lemmy.world•Xi Jinping says no one can stop China’s ‘reunification’ with TaiwanEnglish524·6 months agoAh yes, the west. The monolithic political entity that definitely involves nobody who is critical of Donald Trump’s ravings. Trump and his sycophants have no place to criticize thanks to his words and actions. Anybody who gets behind his proposed annexations has no place to criticize. But there’s a lot of daylight between those groups and the entirety of “the west”, both within and without the US. If Brazil or South Africa want to criticize Trump’s annexation threats, their involvement in BRICS wouldn’t invalidate that criticism so long as they are also willing to criticize the threatening words and actions of Jinping and Putin. The world is not (yet) composed of 1984-esque political monoliths, and there is no need to voluntarily give up that heterogeneity in order to silence criticism of aggressive and threatening geopolitics
Sconrad122@lemmy.worldto Games@lemmy.world•Intel Arc B580 'Battlemage' GPU announced - 1440p Ultra gaming for $249English3·7 months agoAnd come out in 2026 after Nvidia finally gives up trying to convince the market that their $600 5070 is the low end of the GPU market
Hi! I just want to say fuck you for making me laugh at such a bad pun. I thought I had taste. I’m devastated
It’s easier to read if you read it as a line spoken by the Silicon Valley TV character Jian Yang
Sconrad122@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Leaked Documents Show Nvidia Scraping ‘A Human Lifetime’ of Videos Per Day to Train AIEnglish12·11 months agoNvidia does not have a strong history of open sourcing things, to say the least. That last bit sounds like pure hopium
Is this not just “the free market of ideas”? Which has the same pitfalls as the free market of money where if consumers are not educated and motivated to prune out bad actors, the market is easily subverted by malicious actors? Relying on people to regulate their information diets is betting on individuals with limited resources and motivation to defend themselves and the collective against concerted, well-resourced, and well-organized efforts to abuse the market of ideas because there is immense money and power to gain from doing so