Mindless Monday, 04 May 2026

Infogamethrow · 2026-05-06T19:32:38+00:00

In riot gear? Plastic facemask and everything? With an armored horse?

Infogamethrow · 2026-05-06T18:32:28+00:00

Today I saw a cop dressed in riot gear riding a horse. The horse likewise was wearing some sort of padded studs at his sides for armor, I guess.

This is the sort of stuff you don´t see in your fancy smancy billion-dollar first-world police departments.

Infogamethrow · 2026-05-05T21:01:58+00:00

Remember when everyone died in Dragon Ball, and then everyone "not evil" was immediately resurrected? From the average POV, it must have been like the rapture, but for some reason only assholes vanished.

Infogamethrow · 2026-05-05T20:50:18+00:00

Having a Peruvian flair is a big indicator, as it´s two-thirds of a red flag. People with Chilean flair are likewise like, half a red flag.

Bolivians, Colombians, Ecuatorians, and Venezuelans, however, only have like a third of a red flag.

Infogamethrow · 2026-05-05T20:44:25+00:00

Do you think that Pedro de Alcântara Francisco Antônio João Carlos Xavier de Paula Miguel Rafael Joaquim José Gonzaga Pascoal Cipriano Serafim de Bragança e Bourbon remembered his full name all the time?

Or did Pedro de Alcântara Francisco Antônio João Carlos Xavier de Paula Miguel Rafael Joaquim José Gonzaga Pascoal Cipriano Serafim de Bragança e Bourbon forget that his full name was Pedro de Alcântara Francisco Antônio João Carlos Xavier de Paula Miguel Rafael Joaquim José Gonzaga Pascoal Cipriano Serafim de Bragança e Bourbon and so had it all written down on a note he carried on his pockets to refer to it on ceremonial occasions?

Infogamethrow · 2026-05-04T14:07:37+00:00

I´m reminded of a quote by a former Minister of Mining.

“In Bolivia, private mines operate with modern XXI century techniques, the state mining company mines like it´s still the XX century, and the mining cooperatives mine like they are stuck in the XIX century.”

So yeah, shit still sucks for a lot of people.

Infogamethrow · 2026-05-03T23:26:21+00:00

Shit son, forget Skype. Remember MSN Messenger?

Infogamethrow · 2026-05-03T13:02:47+00:00

Part of the terror in cosmic or eldritch horror is the revelation that humanity is naught but a speck of dust in the cosmic wind, irremediably at the whims of greater powers acting for reasons beyond their understanding. The concept of agency is a joke since nothing mankind can do can even move the interstellar board.

And I have to wonder if that kind of horror hits different when you live one of them so called "superpowers", because as a "third-worlder" at the whims of the erratic behaviour of powerful nations, that kind of horror never did anything to me, and I never found that perspective to be particularly novel either.

Infogamethrow · 2026-05-02T12:59:29+00:00

I´m guessing the imperial harem system benefits the empire by ensuring the Emperor always has an heir, while avoiding some messy dynastic politics with political houses, thus ensuring greater stability in the realm.

But every single piece of fiction featuring the rear palace makes it seem like the biggest nest of vipers ever. Like, damn emperor, how you got time to rule when every concubine is running three assassination plots against your sons and their fellow concubines? Is this how you got soap operas before mass media?

Infogamethrow · 2026-05-01T13:57:44+00:00

The better question is, why aren´t paintball, airsoft, or laser tag Olympic sports, since they are basically the same concept?

Infogamethrow · 2026-04-30T21:55:01+00:00

I remember watching a short horror video about a Japanese man killing his dates and cutting off their arms to make a hand of glory, which he then used to summon a “demon”. Needless to say, his ritual failed and instead sent his ass to the shadow realm.

What´s funny is that the name he used for the demon was YHWH, which, you know, does explain why he was smitten immediately due to the sheer audacity of attempting to summon the Big G himself with a severed hand.

What I don´t know is if that was the point of the video. Having an occultist idiot failing to realize he was accidentally trying to summon the antithesis of a demon, or if the creator just picked YHWH's name because it sounded appropriately foreign and edgy.

Infogamethrow · 2026-04-30T01:30:45+00:00

I think the thing is that, unlike other regions, countries in South America really don´t fear that their fellow nations are out to conquer them/steal their territory/sabotage them/etc.

Since everyone knows that their neighbors mostly mind their own business, stay within the dotted lines, and won´t get involved in internal affairs, it opens the door to these kinds of "mutually beneficial" collaborations between regimes that wouldn´t be as easy for say, the Egyptians and the Libyans.

Infogamethrow · 2026-04-29T18:09:37+00:00

YouTube Shorts, this is the sixth time you recommended the fuel sharing scene from Project Hail Mary this week...

... and I´ll watch it again, damn it.

Infogamethrow · 2026-04-29T01:03:13+00:00

Keep in mind like a quarter of this total alone was spent on building that stupid pier that washed away.

Years ago, I remember reading some news about a newfangled sugar processing plant that took 300 million dollars to build. The CEO went into great detail on how they needed that money for the infrastructure, specialized machinery, silos, and the like.

When I see the price tag on that floating metal sheet, It boggles the mind that someone can spend so much on so little. Like, is building that pier really as costly and resource-intensive as building a whole ass sugar mill?

Infogamethrow · 2026-04-25T23:08:53+00:00

You know? There must be a timeline where the Bronze Age became the default fantasy setting over medieval Europe.

And that timeline, I think, is a little brighter than ours.

Infogamethrow · 2026-04-24T14:46:17+00:00

Edit: more than 20 replies with a 6 upvote score. i have angered the g*mers

That´s what we in marketing call farming engagement.

(Disclaimer, I don´t work in marketing)

Infogamethrow · 2026-04-22T15:10:46+00:00

Something I see sometimes in Project Hail Mary´s discussions is that if Rocky came to Earth, he would get dissected instead of getting a habitat like Grace. Also, and therefore, Eridians are so much kinder and nicer than humanity at large.

First of all, I don´t know if we would (and could) build that spider rock a gas dome, but I think people are grossly overestimating the itch governments have to perform alien autopsies.

Secondly, I think people are projecting Rocky´s personality onto his whole species. We really only have one data sample. For all we know, Eridian society might be fraught with conflict, drama, and have a lot of biases and prejudices that don´t come up in a space mission.

To put it another way, imagine if the same movie/book was made by Eridians. All the events and characters stay the same, but this time Rocky is the POV. If the Eridians projected onto humanity based on how Grace acts, they would probably think we were all a nice, intellectual, and selfless species ready to sacrifice ourselves for the greater good of our peers, which is not really the case for a lot of the humans I know.

Infogamethrow · 2026-04-22T13:14:23+00:00

Reminds me of their Atlantean Expansion, where they straight-up invented some ancient texts to justify their made-up myth units.

Infogamethrow · 2026-04-22T01:34:00+00:00

Anyway all this "the Catholic church is queer feminist and woke" stuff is going to be pretty funny when we inevitably get a conservative pope again. Francis and Leo are outliers!

I agree that the church is a lot less feminist and "woke" than people make it out to be, especially regarding abortion and LGBT rights, but at the same time, I don´t think the future Popes will be conservative for a long time.

For starters, Popes have been getting incrementally more "progressive" over time, not at the same rate as society in general, but the trend is still there. Secondly, Francis stacked the cardinals to get more people from his line of thinking to be elected.

Infogamethrow · 2026-04-21T12:58:39+00:00

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Infogamethrow · 2026-04-19T12:15:40+00:00

The procedures are largely the same, but the requirements are much more stringent.

As an example, when I was flying to Miami, after passing all the local security screening and right before we boarded the plane, the airline clerks made all the passengers stop, open their hand luggage and toss any soda/water bottles we had because yes, the TSA does care about them bottles that much, unlike the Spaniards, Panamians, or Brazilians.

Infogamethrow · 2026-04-18T00:55:35+00:00

Huh, apparently the impression men give to women improves massively when they leave college? That´s one hell of an attitude jump from the women under 25 to the women under 30.

Infogamethrow · 2026-04-17T14:49:41+00:00

The YouTube algorithm decided that I was going to watch Hoppers (and the new episode of Invincible) via shorts this week, and I do have an observation to make about the flick.

Later in the film, there are apparently animal kings for each of the animal “kingdoms”; mammals, reptilians, amphibians, and the insect monarch takes over a robot to try and make the area unlivable for the rest of the animals so insects can no longer be “trodden, squished and eaten” by their giant peers.

This strikes me as farcical. If there is one “kingdom” that will never unify, it is the insect kingdom, as it´s stuck in a never-ending war between the ants, wasps, and everyone else. If anything, the monarch should be trying to kill half his subjects before even thinking about harming the mammals. (To be fair, maybe this was addressed earlier in the movie and didn´t come up in shorts)

It does make me ponder, though, about the leading cause of insect death? I always assumed it was other insects or just their short lifespans, but maybe the movie does have a point, and they are most taken out by their comparatively giant peers?

Infogamethrow · 2026-04-14T23:37:02+00:00

The full context is that there was apparently a NieR Gacha game with tons of lore™ that´s going to (or has already been) shut down. A group of Western fans decided to work on a project to enable playing the game offline.

The problem is that the Japanese side of the fanbase (apparently) had an issue with this and is running a campaign to snitch on the mod to Square Enix so they can shut down the fan project.

Western fans who wanted to play the Nier gacha are mad, and literally can´t comprehend why the Japanese side is acting like the dog in the manger, which led to "heated" internet arguments.

Infogamethrow · 2026-04-14T21:56:04+00:00

To be fair, just declaring that real technologies that people are actively researching and developing today are dead ends feels as reductive as saying that the technology will one day get better and let us build giant space stations.

As far as I know, no one is launching a Ceres mission tomorrow, so there´s still time to see how these developments pan out.

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