Mnemnosyne

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[–] Mnemnosyne 31 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Makes me think of Vault 11 from Fallout New Vegas where the population has to sacrifice one person every year or everyone would be killed.

Only it was a test and if they refused then nobody is killed. But they send sacrifices for almost 200 years.

[–] Mnemnosyne 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, Bethesda games have always been... playable, I guess, but hardly any good, without modding, at least as far back as Oblivion. Morrowind was the last game they made that was just good, out of the box, without needing mods.

So I figured in a year or two Starfield will be good, with mods, just like Oblivion, Skyrim, and Fallout 4 were all bland at best on release, until mods made them good.

[–] Mnemnosyne 1 points 1 year ago

Well the waste of land part doesn't really matter much cause if we ever did need that land for other things, it's still there. It's not as though building a golf course makes that patch of land into an irradiated wasteland that can never be used for anything else again.

[–] Mnemnosyne 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That animal companion thing sounds like the daemons in His Dark Materials, which is cool.

Lots of neat unusual concepts there too, I like. Though using familiar names like orc and goblin just makes things confusing. They should have come up with different names for their weird races.

[–] Mnemnosyne 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

This is why I consider Starlink, despite being owned by Elon Musk, so important. It's creating competition in places where there is none, because it doesn't need to run cables which nobody wants to do.

You should check whether it's available in your area, and if it is, when you talk to Spectrum you know you have a backup, and can even say so.

Similarly, if their service isn't as fast as Starlink, you can say that as a reason for cancelling, and if you convince a bunch of neighbors to do the same, the landline isp may be inclined to upgrade the cables to try and get the business back.

Though really, we should have a government run satellite internet like Starlink as a 'base level' provider for all. Let companies compete and do better if they want business.

[–] Mnemnosyne 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah. I don't even know that much about the whole thing, just what I learned when going to look for a game a while back, and even from that little it was like, wtf is with this person?

[–] Mnemnosyne 3 points 1 year ago

It means the absolute richest are not as rich as a hundred years ago...but there are a lot more of the very rich that don't quite reach the lofty heights of those top ones, which means overall, more wealth is in the hands of people with over a hundred million dollars.

[–] Mnemnosyne 14 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Denuvo isn't easily bypassed, unfortunately. I think there's still only like two people cracking Denuvo and one of them is batshit insane.

[–] Mnemnosyne 8 points 1 year ago

Meanwhile I don't even cook the oatmeal, just eat the little flakes straight up and like it.

[–] Mnemnosyne 28 points 1 year ago

The app she used to find the victim likely had enough of a digital trail to link back to her, so body disposal or no, she would likely have been investigated and caught sooner or later.

[–] Mnemnosyne 91 points 1 year ago (17 children)

The weird thing about this to me is how someone who has watched all this crime stuff, which generally (at least the English ones I've seen) portrays the police as being competent and successful at catching criminals, doesn't come up with a far more detailed plan to not get caught.

The interesting thing is she could genuinely have done a murder to see what it's like, just as she wanted, and probably never gotten caught. If you murder someone with no motive, no connection to you, chosen at random, in a place not close to your home or place of work or any other frequently visited locations....the police have little to go on. As a fan of these shows, she would surely be aware of this. But instead she chose to do things that would basically guarantee she's caught if the police are even minimally competent.

[–] Mnemnosyne 13 points 1 year ago

You forgot to mention the 'greatest' of them all: Mitch McConnell.

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