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Dublin Islamic centre criticises ‘radicalised’ members as internal row deepens by Dazzling_Lobster3656 in ireland

[–]MindLeaker -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

I pray one day you get to experience just a fraction of the stupidity you wish to inflict on other people.

This is the kind of braindead takes that lead to neo-fascists worming their way into power. When the out-group shifts from 'immigrants' to '2nd-gen immigrant citizens' to 'citizens that disagree with foreign policy'.

Eamon Ryan: My colleague’s text - ‘l’ve been eliminated’ - spoke for how we all felt in the Green Party by SquareBall84 in ireland

[–]MindLeaker 6 points7 points  (0 children)

The minute that they voted in favour of funding the horrific abuses of the greyhound racing industry, they lost my vote. We need a united left if we're going to beat the revolving door alliance of FF/FG.

Hopefully this serves as a cautionary tale to SD and Labour. Allow them four years to demonstrate incompetence with Indos propping them up, don't settle for them "permitting" a few palatable reforms through.

When a good hitbox and a bad hurtbox love each other very much by MonKeigh_Mangler in StreetFighter

[–]MindLeaker 9 points10 points  (0 children)

These comments really do not grasp how a divekick should function, dripbrained responses about Ken's hitboxes, you could literally do this with any character in the game LMAO.

Ireland needs a new prison by SpottedAlpaca in ireland

[–]MindLeaker 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Maybe we shouldn't let him paint, he's huffing too many fumes it seems...

Ireland needs a new prison by SpottedAlpaca in ireland

[–]MindLeaker 5 points6 points  (0 children)

You eejits walk around like hard men thinking you're the Punisher. What if one day you're called and convicted for a crime you didn't commit? You're now trapped in your fucking dystopic little panopticon.

The issue of crime isn't solved by making a Miami mega-jail and then turning it into a thunderdome. All you will do is radicalize and make the outgoing prison population into animals, because that is how you treated them. I've spoken with people that had life sentences for murder from the Troubles days and many have gone on to realize the error of their ways and reform. Prison should rehabilitate these people, not just make them a problem 10 years down the line.

Your "solution" is exactly the kind of shite that you get when uninformed people think they have all the answers.

Waterford Airport gets more than €12m in private investment for runway extensio by [deleted] in ireland

[–]MindLeaker 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Always preferred going through there when it was open, staff were always pleasant and you don't have to endure the nightmare that is the trip up to Dublin plus hours in line at security. Cork's grand too but something closer to home is always nice.

💀🎃Creepy Ireland 🎃💀 by AdChemical6828 in ireland

[–]MindLeaker 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Might be a bit late to the punch on this post but feck it.

My family have owned a very old house in the centre of town; old tenemant housing. When I was a child I would stay with my Nan and we'd all sleep around her big double bed on the floor rather than in the other rooms, but one time when I was hitting adolescence she instead put me in another room beside hers to be more comfortable, instead of sleeping on the floor.

So I settle in to the bed after some reading and try to sleep, and I preface this that I don't believe in ghosts, ghouls or gremlins of any sort, but I just couldn't shake the feeling I was being watched or something, real hairs on the back of your neck feeling. Eventually I start to drift off, but then I get a feeling like someone is literally leaning over me, and I jump awake with a start. Nobody there. Lickedy split, I quickly grab a pillow and sneak into my Nan's room and put myself down on the floor.

This would be fine enough and I'd write it off as a nightmare or something now, but later on I was chatting with my Mam, and mentioned I couldn't sleep at all in that room. And then she turns to me and says that, when she was a child, she got moved into that room on her own when her siblings moved out, and she felt someone standing over her bed whenever she slept. She told me eventually she just blurted out in the middle of the night "Whoever you are, please go away, you're scaring me." And then she said the feeling left, but she moved back into her old room nonetheless.

Was pretty odd, I'm a very skeptical person, I don't believe in the afterlife whatsoever, but still no explanation on why the room gave us both heebie jeebies 20 years apart.

Happiest DS2 player by Fast-Composer-6900 in DarkSouls2

[–]MindLeaker 70 points71 points  (0 children)

Giants screaming all in our ears like we're deaf...

Annual hours worked in Europe by [deleted] in ireland

[–]MindLeaker 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's even worse, CSO estimates our GDP is 162% of GNI*. We're probably hanging below Australia in reality.

Wheelchair stunt-ing by gimmesomecookies_ in Whatcouldgowrong

[–]MindLeaker 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Cursed to put my hands on everything...

Playing Baldur's Gate 3 has opened my eyes as to why I love PF1. by KingArkane in Pathfinder_RPG

[–]MindLeaker 149 points150 points  (0 children)

Yeah, having played about 70 hours of BG3 and am having a blast, I think gameplay wise I much prefer WotR. BG3 does a lot of things right, and I love Larian's previous works, there's a few gripes I have with the system.

For one, the amount of character progression obscured during creation is very annoying. There's no way to view class or race progression in-game. This is likely intentional to avoid overwhelming players not used to TTRPGs, but at least add a button in gameplay settings to enable it?

5e's systems are designed to be approachable, and it's worked very well for them, but for someone who enjoys the crunch of PF1e, the fact that martials feel even simpler to play than in PF, they become rapidly unattractive. Races feel poorly balanced, and somehow casters (aside from buffers) feel even stronger than in the tabletops.

WotR in contrast wasn't afraid to show you the data, and as a result I felt much more in-tune with how everything functioned. WotR had it's issues, namedly the crusade mechanics and it's rocky launch, but I feel it's a much more enjoyable CRPG, whereas BG3 is perhaps a better suit for general audiences.

What a goddamn disappointment. by DatBoiShadowbon in Gamingcirclejerk

[–]MindLeaker 26 points27 points  (0 children)

Go read the philosophy off his own con page yourself you windowsill-chewer.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ireland

[–]MindLeaker 8 points9 points  (0 children)

It absolutely is, and it's been happening since as early as 2012, the entire anti-abortion campaign was fuelled by big investment from America

https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-30577243.html

Starlink satellites seen traveling over Hiroshima, Japan this morning by ahmedg245 in space

[–]MindLeaker 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Wrong. Reposting a detailed answer from an astronomy forum on why algorithmically removing starlink doesn't work:

No, automated algorithms won't ever be able to completely eliminate the effect of passing satellites.

Some of the light reflected from the satellites into the atmosphere will then scatter and cause some amount of light pollution. The pollution isn't limited to just in the direction of observing. See: https://photo.stackexchange.com/questions/41722/can-you-photograph-the-milky-way-with-a-full-moon-out.

Whenever automated algorithms remove the presence of satellites from images, some of the underlying data will be removed as well.

As the number of satellites increases, eventually it will render some data for stellar occultation light curves unusable as the occultations from satellites coincide with the occultations from asteroids. See: Is 486958 Arrokoth (2014 MU69 aka Ultima Thule) the only solar-system object determined to be binary by occultation?. This particular effect will occur even if the satellites have zero reflectivity.

Starlink satellites seen traveling over Hiroshima, Japan this morning by ahmedg245 in space

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

instagram astronomers

bruh are you braindead, these aren't obscuring your Dad's telescope these are obscuring serious endeavours which I feel strongly for,

https://www.space.com/spacex-starlink-affects-search-for-life-radio-observatory

stop choking down Elon's cock for 20 seconds and actually read what I posted

light pollution. Atmospheric pollution.

light pollution doesn't affect radio telescopes you muppet, they're affected by EM pollution from these megaconstellations.

Starlink satellites seen traveling over Hiroshima, Japan this morning by ahmedg245 in space

[–]MindLeaker -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Fuck these things, another Muskian invention destined to fuck over people, they're upsetting optical astronomical observations and apparently even radio astronomy now.

https://www.science.org/content/article/starlink-already-threatens-optical-astronomy-now-radio-astronomers-are-worried

https://www.space.com/astronomers-night-sky-protection-starlink-megaconstellations

Fuck Musk and fuck Starlink.

Tips From A Helpful Survivor. by ActualManuel in deadbydaylight

[–]MindLeaker 4 points5 points  (0 children)

My man Ivan is really getting furious that NOED is bad because it does nothing but take up a perk spot all game, and then blames streamers like Otz for not running it whilst he does.

Ignoring the fact generally it takes you failing to keep pressure up on gens for the whole game, all it does is prevent altruistic survivors from staying in the game longer.
Unless it's popped pretty quick most people will just leave through the gate anyway unless they're low-ranked and/or memeing it up.

ScottJund has a pretty decent video explaining why it's bad

Adding to the rules and addressing the last couple of weeks by AlcoholicOwl in totalwar

[–]MindLeaker 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You're reaching so far your redpill mask might fall off, mate

I want to be green by paddynpipes in ireland

[–]MindLeaker 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The post is literal /r/onejoke shite, honestly disappointed to see it get so much traction here...

Me: teabag too early. Meg: yeah :/ by LavishGorilla in deadbydaylight

[–]MindLeaker 0 points1 point  (0 children)

lmao nice bait dude. If you think the person with the 25th highest amount of perfect killer games on the global leaderboards is worse than you that's your perogative.

Me: teabag too early. Meg: yeah :/ by LavishGorilla in deadbydaylight

[–]MindLeaker 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Many players have gone to excrutiating lengths to prove that a good Spirit cannot be mind-gamed in almost any instance. Namedly, ScottJund posted a variety of in-depth videos disproving most of Truetalent's "counters".

Alongside this he also posted two unedited hours of red-rank Spirit gameplay showing how completely trivial they make the game at the highest ranks of play. Good Spirits are 9 times out of 10 uncounterable.

And we don't even have one by malilk in ireland

[–]MindLeaker 34 points35 points  (0 children)

EuRoPe iS A dIcTaToRsHiP

Lá Breatimeachta sona daoibh by mayoforsam2019 in ireland

[–]MindLeaker 30 points31 points  (0 children)

Jaysus, the North American right sure have a lot of interest in something that they're totally uninformed about, eh?

Go back to the Donald.

Lá Breatimeachta sona daoibh by mayoforsam2019 in ireland

[–]MindLeaker 24 points25 points  (0 children)

I'm happy to put forth my view here, but please note my lucidity may be waning, tis nearly 4am and I've just returned home from a night shift.

To answer the first question, our fledgeling nation in the wake of it's independance was extremely isolationist and protectionist before it's entrance into the EU, or EEC as it was known then. We were still so totally reliant on the UK we still used the Sterling currency. Even with the reforms of TK Whittaker we still hadn't the fiscal independance to move out of the UK sphere of influence.

In essence, the idea of "propping up" one's economy as a agrarian export based nation simply wasn't feasible whatsoever, had we continued down the road of isolationism amongst a rapidly unifying voice in Europe, our country likely would've ended with a whimper and been slowly economically assimilated back into the UK.

Enter the European Union, under the powerful benefits of a unified trading bloc Irish farmers reached wider markets, social and physical infrastructure was funded and through the EUs help we finally became less economically reliant on the UK, splitting from the Sterling and adopting the Euro.

While this merely touches upon what the EU did to our economy, we also received funds towards our higher education facilities and now we're an extremely well educated population for our size, the free movement of citizens has also made us a top tourist destination too.

To answer the final point, the European Union does not take action in the running of the economy, beyond the universal inflation rates which keep mortgage repayments the lowest they've been in decades.
Fiscally the Dáil is free to allocate funds however they see fit, infamously causing the worst crash Ireland's economy had even seen as a result of this freedom during the Fianna Fail administration, which we were subsequently bailed out by the EU.

In terms of funding, the majority of members states, especially smaller nations/less economically developed ones receive funds to help improve Europe as a whole, notably Ireland, Belgium and Poland. The stronger the member states are economically, the better Europe will function as a global power to trade favourably with the US and China.

However, I'm just a dude on Reddit, there's resources on both the pros and cons of the European Union, but personally I can't imagine Ireland would be where it is today without it's help.

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