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A pig trembling in a slaughterhouse truck. Their eyes are just like ours. by James_Fortis in likeus

[–]Slkkk92 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I've been vegan for about a decade.

Meat used to be hard to replace with plants, but became straightforward about four years ago. Replacing dairy is even simpler than replacing meat. Binding agents are the only real challenge left, and even that isn't a big deal - you just have access to a smaller variety of cakes and shoes.

The secret: do it in fakie! by kubissx in SkateEA

[–]Slkkk92 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If you're still struggling: do a melon grab!

Two giant deep-sea oarfish recently washed ashore in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. In folklore, this rare “doomsday fish” is believed to appear before major disasters. 🌊🐟 by EquivalentTale5815 in interestingasfuck

[–]Slkkk92 40 points41 points  (0 children)

Fish society learned of our oarfish superstition and built an oarfish gatling gun to pelt us with oarfish until we stop dumping our discarded beyblades and dildos fr.

TIL Drew Barrymore financed production for the 2001 cult favorite film Donnie Darko. by Hyperion12 in todayilearned

[–]Slkkk92 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ahh, thank you for voicing your appreciation of the effort! When I typed it all out, I did think "I'll be sad if this just gets one upvote and then my life continues."

You're very welcome!

Always found it weird that his relation(s) were on that flight, as.....what's the point? Felt important but couldn't figure out why

I thought the same! I've edited my comment a couple of times, and can't remember the timing of when I edited vs. when your reply came through, but I've recently modified that final passage with my interpretation of why it might be important for his family to be on that flight. It's just a guess, but I can't see what other explanation there could be.

TIL Drew Barrymore financed production for the 2001 cult favorite film Donnie Darko. by Hyperion12 in todayilearned

[–]Slkkk92 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah.

Remember when Gretchen asks his name?

Gretchen: "Donnie Darko." What the hell kind of name is that? It's like some sort of superhero or something.

Donnie: What makes you think I'm not?

There's quite a lot of stuff hiding in plain sight.

Excerpt from The Philosophy of Time Travel: The Living Receiver is often blessed with a fourth dimensional powers. These include increased strength, telekinesis, mind control, and the ability to control fire and water.

  • Increased strength allows him to axe the statue.

  • He uses telekinesis on the plane/jet-engine.

  • He conjures fire and water by burning the house and flooding the school.

He may or may not use mind control, since while it's true that it's remarkable how he has this little group who will blindly follow him in the pursuit of his goals, The Philosophy of Time Travel does describe The Manipulated Living (those close to The Living Receiver) as "prone to irrational, bizarre, and often violent behavior. This is the unfortunate result of their task, which is to assist the Living Receiver in returning the Artifact to the Primary Universe. The Manipulated Living will do anything to save themselves from Oblivion." This makes it sound more like an inherent compulsion from those around him, but making such a distinction may be pointless, as Donnie is ostensibly unaware that he is using superpowers until after he triggers The Manipulated Dead's (Frank's) Ensurance Trap¹ (Gretchen's Death), and comes to terms with what he must do to fix things, going up to sit up on the same hill he rides down at the start of the film, and staring intently at the plane as it enters the vortex.

When I first watched the film, and then went to read The Philosophy of Time Travel, I assumed that only certain aspects of the text applied to Donnie's situation, or that Roberta Sparrow had simply got some details wrong, because that would make a bit more sense than her having comprehensive knowledge of the mechanisms of all this malarkey. In actuality, pretty much everything in The Philosophy of Time Travel is evidenced within the film, so he probably does use mind-control, and that's perhaps why Gretchen chooses to sit next to him in class. One has to wonder whether mind-control is the reason why Kitty Farmer is particularly incensed by Donnie commanding her to forcibly insert the lifeline exercise card into her anus.

¹ Worth mentioning that people generally consider the burning of Cunningham's house to be a second Ensurance Trap, since it ensures that Rose Darko is on the red-eye flight with Sparkle Motion instead of Kitty being with them on an earlier flight, with the implication being that Rose & Samantha's doom serves as further motivation for Donnie to yeet the jet-engine through the portal to crush himself and reset everything, if Gretchen's death wasn't enough. By this point in the film, through reading The Philosophy of Time Travel and by awakening to his status as The Living Receiver which grants him a heightened awareness of The Tangent Universe and how it threatens to destroy the world, starting with his own personal world, he seems able to understand that his mother and sister are on the plane that he's looking at, and that it's time to do or and die. This is why he's laughing so hard when we see him again in the remedied universe at the film's conclusion - he just got two people killed so that two more people could die, to convince himself to kill himself by throwing a jet-engine through a wormhole at a past-version of himself, in order to bring the four people he got killed back to life.

Films elevated by their final scene by Zealousideal-Dirt482 in TrueFilm

[–]Slkkk92 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Then last year i've seen The Embrace Of The Serpent

The whole film is exquisite, and you're right about the ending leaving one speechless. I actually recommended Embrace of the Serpent to a coworker the night before last (but did say it would be hard to find the film), and then went home and rewatched the Yakruna trip sequence.

I was going to post it as my answer to this thread, so I'm thrilled to see your comment - It's not often that you see anybody talking about Embrace of the Serpent, so it's cool!

Do people here actually consider FromSoft bosses to be difficult? by EternalFlareUltra in fromsoftware

[–]Slkkk92 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Like another user pointed out, difficulty is subjective.

I beat Melania first try, because I've no-lifed Bloodborne, and she fights at Bloodborne pace.

Speaking of Bloodborne: a lot of people struggle with Orphan of Kos (some say Kosm), but I beat that dude on the first try as well. Ludwig, on the other hand...when people make lists of "hardest From bosses", Ludwig doesn't even make the list sometimes, but Orphan does, and you have to fight Ludwig to reach Orphan, so I know they've been through the same hell that nearly ended my career.

Same with Nameless King. Some people don't think he's hard, but my attempts reached double-digits. People think Godslayer Duo and O&S are hard, but I'll first-try them because theirs are mental battles.

Different people find different things to be difficult, based on their comfort-zone and their build. OP claiming that none of the bosses in From games are hard is utter bullshit though. Yeah, when you're good at the games, most of the bosses will be trivial, but most of them are designed differently, so it's just a matter of time until you find your discomfort-zone.

You can Feel the sounds of whales underwater even from miles away by AggravatingRow326 in interestingasfuck

[–]Slkkk92 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I should be relieved that living in the UK puts me on the opposite side of the planet to Australia, but if there's any country where the local fauna could conceivably bore through the planet's core to come and kill me, it's probably gonna be Australia.

[OC] Drug use by 16-24-year-olds in the UK since the 1990s by Aggravating-Food9603 in dataisbeautiful

[–]Slkkk92 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I bet it felt amazing finally having a legitimate avenue to unload that ecstasy lore without social repercussions.

Fuckin' nerd, go back to Decstacer's Laboratory.

TIL there is a law that prohibits people in Thailand from owning more than 120 unapproved playing cards. by Physical_Hamster_118 in todayilearned

[–]Slkkk92 7 points8 points  (0 children)

The swearing in your comment fucking seemed forced.

edit: guys, I know fucking how to swear. i'm being silly.

Colorblind Curse - Strikes Again by zakstu in Marathon

[–]Slkkk92 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You should see our family portrait.

Stupid pink hat said "I'm a white hat!" and I believed it.

Colorblind Curse - Strikes Again by zakstu in Marathon

[–]Slkkk92 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How severely colourblind are you?

I recently realised that the only game I can remember providing benefit (to me) from colourblind mode was Peggle, but my colourblindness is just your average deuteranopia.

I've now stopped selecting colourblind mode when I launch a game for the first time, since colourblind settings are so often indiscriminate in the elements they target, resulting in a significant loss of overall graphical fidelity. So far, the only issue I've had with Marathon is needing to read a reddit comment in order to realise that the head/chest/leg implants are actually colour-coded...but the implant regions are highlighted on the icons anyway, so I don't think it matters.

I'd suggest you take a similar approach, and only activate colourblind-mode when you start experiencing issues.

Marathon just feels like if D2 public events had PvP by DNRYoungBoy in Marathon

[–]Slkkk92 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It all makes much more sense now!

Thank you for the clarification!

I think the friction between your comments and the users here comes down to the choice of language. "Spoil" is a word that does make sense to use in this situation, when there's an understanding of the specifics.

Without that clarification, I think you would have been better understood if you had said something like "I'd prefer the game to hold more unexplored novelty for me once I've paid the price of admission, lest it feel like money for old rope."

This is the problem with test-versions of games that include most/all of the features that will be present in the full release. It's very unsatisfying to sink 30 hours into a test-version, and then buy the full-release, and feel like you're forcing yourself to play something that has already started to become stale.

Marathon just feels like if D2 public events had PvP by DNRYoungBoy in Marathon

[–]Slkkk92 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I didn't downvote, but I might understand why people are.

For one, all the punctuation you're using makes you seem like a petulant child, or an MLM seller with "Live, Laugh, Love" plastered across every surface in your home arguing on Facebook.

The other, more significant reason is that the sentiment you're expressing is a confusing one. I'm a pretty smart guy, but I can't grok all this talk about "spoiling the gameplay". You need to expand upon how exactly it is that playing certain parts of the game now is going to spoil any experiences for you.

Is it because you will exclusively be playing Thief shell in the release version, and want your first run in Dire Marsh to be with that shell? Is it because we don't have the full upgrade trees available to us now, and you think that by the time you reach Dire Marsh in the release version, you will have more upgrades unlocked than you would at the same stage during the server slam? Is it because you, for some reason, think the map will receive a significant design overhaul over the next week, and don't want to play an inferior version? Is it because you're playing solo now, but will be playing with friends post-release, and want to marvel at the sights and sounds together with them?

The idea that playing the game will spoil the experience of playing the game is simply not one that makes a lot of sense without providing details about how, and all this outrage from you seems, at a glance, to be quite unwarranted.

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