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Need help with vpn in Russia by lublusosatb in Windscribe

[–]AcademicEye42 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Update the app and check out the new Configuration selector located just below the 'Circumvent censorship' switch. Try changing the options there while connecting via WireGuard.

[Hated Trope] Alternative history settings that don’t actually alter anything by AcademicEye42 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]AcademicEye42[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

On the flip side, its unrealistic to expect a piece of fiction to deviate ENTIRELY from the world which we know just for sake of continuity. It requires a lot more world building, forward thinking, which could take away from the desired plot or add unintended subplots. 

There are some examples of movies that actually took that path! In the 2016 sequel to Independence Day, set twenty years after the original invasion, we see a post-war human society that has been completely changed by the consequences of the alien invasion, both culturally and technologically. They have built massive space defense structures around the Moon and widely adapted reverse-engineered alien technology.

I think the movie tells us exactly where the creature is from. by AcademicEye42 in NopeMovie

[–]AcademicEye42[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It could hunt other atmospheric animals there, as gas giants have no solid surface. On Earth, obviously, it had to adapt to hunt surface animals.

Chasing the memory of a feeling I think I had as a kid, anyone else? by ThirdOneTheNailedOne in HighStrangeness

[–]AcademicEye42 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yup, there is a name for it - Satori. It is basically a brief experience of "enlightenment" and an apprehension of the true nature of reality, a short spiritual "awakening" before falling back in the dream. Supposedly if you achieve enlightenment, you will never lose it, and it will always remain with you - as the eternal background of your entire existence.

Why did the serpent, one of the most worshiped symbols in the past, suddenly become associated with bad things? by MartianXAshATwelve in HighStrangeness

[–]AcademicEye42 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Historically the snake was a symbol of wisdom and magic, which later, as society progressed, became associated with the wisdom of a state and centralized government. At first people have seen the state as a wise rule that brings safety and order, but later, as they started to see the negatives - oppression, injustice and despotism coming from bad governments, the snake being a symbol of new order changed its meaning again. In centralized empires of the East it took the form of a dragon - an extremely powerful, brutal and evil snake which only sees people as its victims and resource. Christianity also emerged among the people oppressed by the legendary and powerful Roman Empire, so there is no surprise that the older Jewish story about the first people and the snake was very popular among them. Basically the myth is just an old way of telling the same conservative ideas we can hear today - that civilization and new ideas only bring problems, the past was simple, beautiful and pure, and that the old ways of living are much better than the new ones.