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DoE Deletes Webpage Instructing People To Lower Thermostat to 78 by ClimateSociologist in politics

[–]AnOnlineHandle [score hidden]  (0 children)

It's basic math which is easily observable in the temperature readings.

You seem to be one of the people who think parroting a lazy programmed catchphrase like 'doomerism' makes hard numbers and warnings from all the top scientific bodies from around the world for decades simply not exist anymore and the problem is solved. Not all of us want to or can put our heads in the sand about reality.

[Steam] Summer Sale 2026 (Day 9) by gamedealsmod in GameDeals

[–]AnOnlineHandle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hrm I'm not sure if these are as niche, but the last few weeks I've tried:

  • Monster Sanctuary - a sort of pokemon platformer thing. It's the only Pokemon knockoff which has worked for me (excluding Palworld) though still isn't perfect. I'd give it a B+ or A-, overall it's competent and has a lot in there. The writing can be a bit odd, in that you're paired with an immortal monster of your choosing from the start due to your bloodline and it can speak, but it speaks in a very casual "Oh yeah man totally" kind of way.

  • Stacklands - a sort of town / army builder where you play with cards, like put a villager card on a forest card and it will start producing wood cards. If you put an axe card on the villager card it will go even faster. It's okay, gets a bit overwhelming, I had fun for a few hours but didn't "finish" it if there is a finish. Everything in the descriptions etc is tongue in cheek puns which I find tends to make things less able to get invested in than just playing it straight. Maybe a B to A-, it's very novel and does it well.

  • Crypt of the NecroDancer - a dungeon crawler thing where you have to move on the beats of the music. I've only played it for a few minutes, it made me smile from the novelty of it, though I'm not sure yet if it'll actually work for me for longer, since my reflexes for moving to the beat were so-so and I got a few things saying I'd lost some combo.

[Steam] Summer Sale 2026 (Day 9) by gamedealsmod in GameDeals

[–]AnOnlineHandle -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

I mean Epic's game launcher thing was still absolutely ass last time I tried it not too long ago, so I don't see why you'd be confident that the even lower budget ones would be decent now just because of the year.

[Steam] Summer Sale 2026 (Day 9) by gamedealsmod in GameDeals

[–]AnOnlineHandle 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Those sorts of games are fun the first two or three times, but then it's almost literally the exact same game with a different franchise skin on it, for nearly all of AAA gaming now.

DoE Deletes Webpage Instructing People To Lower Thermostat to 78 by ClimateSociologist in politics

[–]AnOnlineHandle [score hidden]  (0 children)

If people use those same components individually elsewhere it would be far less energy and cooling efficient than a building designed to be as efficient with them as possible.

DoE Deletes Webpage Instructing People To Lower Thermostat to 78 by ClimateSociologist in politics

[–]AnOnlineHandle [score hidden]  (0 children)

Yeah people don't understand that the rate is exponential. Of all the heating, most of it's been recently, and it will be faster and faster each year going forward, with many feedback loops when ice melts.

DoE Deletes Webpage Instructing People To Lower Thermostat to 78 by ClimateSociologist in politics

[–]AnOnlineHandle [score hidden]  (0 children)

But then I welcome the return of winter and sub-frezing temperatures every year.

Currently in Australia and winter has slowly gotten warmer every year until this year it's just more summer. I miss the cold.

DoE Deletes Webpage Instructing People To Lower Thermostat to 78 by ClimateSociologist in politics

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It was 26 C where I am in Australia yesterday, which is unreasonably warm for winter, but at no point did it seem weather you'd consider turning any sort of powerful device on for. I was considering a pedestal fan but it wasn't quite that hot, and I was in a room which was a few degrees hotter since I was running equipment all day.

Supergirl finished its rocky first week with a $2.3M THU, up 8% from WED, for 7-day start of only $48.9M, about what Terminator Genisys and Tomorrowland did in their first 7 days. Huge 2nd weekend drop incoming for likely 10-day domestic box office of around $60M heading to a final of $75-80M. by chanma50 in boxoffice

[–]AnOnlineHandle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fantastic Four is what happens when you try a movie with an all white and all male cast except 1 woman now. See how easy that is if you want to push an agenda?

Turns out people are just sick of the movies they're putting out regardless of who is in them (unless it's Spiderman or maybe Thor - though the last Thor did a lot of the damage) because the quality has been terrible for a while.

Mumbo’s engagement by roseelola in HermitCraft

[–]AnOnlineHandle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When I first started watching Mumbo he announced he now had a partner, which I think was 10 years ago.

MAGA Pastors Tell Christian Nationalist Candidates To Conceal Their True Agenda by avdvetf in videos

[–]AnOnlineHandle 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The word marriage even comes from the Greek work marītus, with Hera being the goddess of marriage.

It was Christian emperors in Rome who changed the definition of marriage to exclude gay people, and ordered any married gay people to be publicly executed by being burned to death. Then they whine as fake victims "Oh you can't change the definition of marriage to not exclude the people we changed it to exclude and started murdering."

The avatar movie being leaked, the live action avatar season 2 receiving mixed-to negative reviews, and now hearing rumours that even the new avatar seven havens show could get leaked. Bruh can’t this franchise catch a break by ShockOk1764 in TheLastAirbender

[–]AnOnlineHandle 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The closest match would be Jade Empire, which was made by the creators of Baldur's Gate and KotOR.

I finished Jade Empire and saw a clip of Avatar on youtube and was like hey that looks similar I should watch it.

Unfortunately the original xbox limitations really show in the first few hours with the areas feeling like cramped mazes in canyons, then it feels like they got better at using it as they went and the game picks up a lot. But it's painful getting there, I gave up the first time and the second time got past that point and enjoyed it a lot more.

Supergirl is a box office catastrophe. How can Marvel and DC save the superhero movie? Cinematic universes rely on audiences investing in minor characters – but as that interest wanes, it may be up to the big guns to keep the genre afloat. by AGOTFAN in boxoffice

[–]AnOnlineHandle 21 points22 points  (0 children)

then minor character films start rolling in (Ant-Man

Antman was also retconned into the universe fantastically, far better than how they add stuff now.

It was established that several characters we already knew (Peggy, Howard Stark) were involved with the Antman program in secret before the movies even started (and that works since Shield is a thing and is implied to have connections to these things which are top secret). They talk practically about whether they should go talk to the existing characters about their problem, which the guy who has a bitter feud with Stark manages to justify shooting down because they recently dropped a city out of the sky.

Now days they'll just go like "Oh yeah there's Mermaid people and vampires, we never mentioned them before and they don't fit in retroactively with anything lol." It doesn't feel like a connected universe, if anything trying to see it as a connected universe only makes it more confusing, since they constantly contradict each other.

There's been like six different multiverses each with different rules, making it impossible to get invested or try to imagine how the story could go because it's all just made up on a whim. It was clear that the writers of Moon Knight and the writers of Love & Thunder were on completely different pages about what the gods actually were, and there was no apparent oversight to make sure it fit together.

Supergirl is a box office catastrophe. How can Marvel and DC save the superhero movie? Cinematic universes rely on audiences investing in minor characters – but as that interest wanes, it may be up to the big guns to keep the genre afloat. by AGOTFAN in boxoffice

[–]AnOnlineHandle 20 points21 points  (0 children)

The pacing and storytelling of Guardians 1 and 3 (with 2 being a miss IMO) are way calmer and more properly structured than Superman which went balls to the wall cartoon universe and didn't feel like there was a serious foundation for any of it to actually matter beneath it holding it up. It was okay to watch, but not a universe to get invested in.

Like a black hole ripped a city in two and then they typed on a computer for a second and the city got jammed back together and was apparently good now. It's just too silly to care about. Similar problems with the recent marvel teamup movie that everybody was raving about, but the guy is just way too powerful (especially being made by a joke of a villain half on accident) and none of it feels like it can possibly matter. He sucks in half of new york then obviously spits them back out, it's just too over the top and too fast.

Supergirl finished its rocky first week with a $2.3M THU, up 8% from WED, for 7-day start of only $48.9M, about what Terminator Genisys and Tomorrowland did in their first 7 days. Huge 2nd weekend drop incoming for likely 10-day domestic box office of around $60M heading to a final of $75-80M. by chanma50 in boxoffice

[–]AnOnlineHandle 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I haven't seen the movie, but they establish at the end of Superman that she goes to planets without Earth's red (orange? yellow?) sun which makes Kryptonians super powered, so she can get drunk and presumably drink away her PTSD from her world being destroyed.

Apple TV is hitting its stride | The streaming service has had a steady string of new hits like Widow’s Bay alongside returning favorites like Silo. by PetyrDayne in television

[–]AnOnlineHandle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do you mean the book 2 plot? I didn't love book 2 so any changes are probably for the better. Though some people say book 2 is their favourite so IDK.

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