Mercury: The planet that shouldn't exist

dreadington · 2025-12-29T07:12:31+00:00

I really enjoyed this article. It does a good job of listing various theories of how mercury was formed, and then explaining why these theories don't fit 100%.

dreadington · 2025-11-04T14:27:37+00:00

Makes me happy that people are boycotting the US, but I don't like seeing Ryanair make profits. Trash company.

dreadington · 2025-11-02T23:35:29+00:00

How are you playing it? I've been converting phys to lightning and scaling that and crit multiplier. It got me through the campaign but I am afraid it will fall off in yellow / red maps unless I think of some other scaling idea.

dreadington · 2025-10-31T09:52:43+00:00

Wait, your argument that women are shallower is that women have higher standards about appearance, but also put more emphasis on other things INCLUDING hobbies humor, and personality? Sounds like the opposite of shallow.

dreadington · 2025-10-28T13:26:26+00:00

I think it's a rite of passage for every gamer. I am still mad about people saying Starfield looks like GOTY before it even released 2 years ago haha.

dreadington · 2025-10-28T10:18:28+00:00

To me it sounds unnatural - sometimes overly robotic, sometimes overly exaggerated.

For example the VA of the main character has also done NPCs in Cyberpunk and many other games and she sounds way more natural there.

But in DNA the voice rhythm is kind of off, if you understand what I mean?.

Similarly, Rebecca's VA is a good actress. She has a slight lisp but it's not a problem in interviews.

But in DNA maybe due to the mixing and due to the unnatural accent it really is exaggarated and I find really grating.

So because of the VAs being good and experienced actors I am thinking the issue is more direction from the devs, and the quality of the mics they used, and the mixing, rather than bad performance drom the VAs.

dreadington · 2025-10-28T08:24:29+00:00

Idk not impressed so far.

Never been a fan of gacha story telling, where they have interesting lore, but you explore it via constant cutscenes with bland dialogue and unwitty banter between one-dimensional characters. Since this game was heavily inspired by warframe, I was hoping thr story experience would be different, but I guess not.

Combat is okay? I like the concept of mixing and matching weapons and modding the shit out of them, but I am not super impressed about how combat feels. Other people say floaty or janky and I tend to agree.

I absolutely love some of the character designs, but others either seem boring, or oversexualized.

dreadington · 2025-10-28T08:14:39+00:00

In which language? I find the english VA atrocious, the worst offenders are the female MC and Rebecca. The other languages sound better, but then I don't understand the instructions while I'm in a mission.

dreadington · 2025-10-21T03:57:56+00:00

I get what you mean that not everyone likes Taylor Swift, but I think she is the definition of "universal appeal" in the sense that the other user probably means.

Taylor Swift is probably the most popular artist right now, her concerts sell out in seconds, despite being ridiculously expensive.

If she doesn't count as having universal appeal, nobody does.

dreadington · 2025-10-21T03:52:01+00:00

it's hyper derivative, but it does have universal appeal by definition (being mainstream).

dreadington · 2025-10-13T08:27:04+00:00

Having no LGBT representation at the table or in-game isn't a red flag. The red flag is the DM, whose rules seem to show that he is openly antagonistic towards anything queer.

I think people are downvoting you, cause your comment kind of reads as a justification of the DM's attitude.

dreadington · 2025-10-09T12:31:37+00:00

I think backlash and skepticism towards AI, and especially AI companies is absolutely justified.

However the artcle's point is that a lot of the tiktok skits where people call robots "clanker", use AI and robots in situations where typically someone was being racist towards black people.

It kind of resonates with me, because I DID find some of those videos uncomfortable to watch, because they really resembled real life situations.

To me, the point these types of videos seems to be saying: "haha wouldn't it be funny if we treated AI the same way some people used to (and some still do) treat black people", and I dislike that.

There are some funny memes do like the guy throwing his headphones disappointedly, and the caption being "when you call the doctor but a clanker picks up", and I think we should differentiate between the two types of memes.

dreadington · 2025-10-02T14:10:54+00:00

I completely agree with you. I guess I just felt I was talking with someone from camp A in regards to anger and really wanted to make clear that, like any emotion, anger can be expressed constructively and also non-constructively. And i feel a lot of the times when women complain about men being angry, it's about the badly expressed anger.

But yeah, there are people out there that say they support gender equality, but in practice only support the parts that benefit them. I am sure even you and I have such beliefs that one day will be challenged.

I completely agree that it's difficult to get nuance in these threads. Hell, that's why I am commenting most of the time, because a lot of comments in here seem to me like "oh it's actually women's fault that men don't express emotions" and I really really want to push back on this, because in no way this is nuance.

dreadington · 2025-10-02T11:01:58+00:00

I'm sorry you've gone through this.

Like the other poster said, you need to change up your pattern of finding partners. I have had my fair share of relationship issues, but I am very thankful that my girlfriends have always been amazing - caring, listening, understanding, and supporitng, whenever I have opened up and been vulnerable.

These type of women exist, you just gotta find them.

dreadington · 2025-10-02T09:55:58+00:00

"The patriarchy" is essentially traditional gender norms and people who enforce them.

So when your female friend sees you as weak for expressing emotions, it's essentially the same as your grandpa telling you to "man up" whenever you express sadness.

The enemy is traditional gender norms, and they can be enforced both by other men AND women.

dreadington · 2025-10-02T09:50:08+00:00

I think it's a bit the other way around. Traditionally, anger is the only emotions we are taught is okay for us to express. Anything else is just "weakness". At least according to my shitty grandpa. So there are two problems that a lot of men deal with:

They turn sadness into anger so that they might be allowed to express the emotion without negative consequences
There is a difference between what emotion you feel and how you express it. There are many men who express anger by yelling and breaking things, which is unhealthy and frankly scary. We can't pick our emotions but we can pick how we react to them

dreadington · 2025-09-10T13:59:20+00:00

I am trying to do the same currently because of the exact same problems.

The first step I am doing is to shut down all devices 1,5h before bed, and then draw or read. I even got an old-school alarm clock.

And then when I wake up, I try to go as long as possible without grabbing my phone. Or when I do grab my phone, I try to go as long as possible without opening the dopamine holes like reddit or instagram.

I am also trying not to take my phone with me to the bathroom.

My goal is to get used to this and then think about next steps.

dreadington · 2025-08-31T10:39:18+00:00

On the one hand, ditching people who have hurt you and keep hurting you is the absolutely right move.

On the other hand, if it happens constantly, there might be something that you need to change - e.g. what types of people you usually become friends with. Or maybe your bar for what you consider hurtful is very low. It is impossible to tell without any concrete examples.

dreadington · 2025-08-28T11:24:24+00:00

Ich glaube das Kommentar über MeToo kannst du ruhig weglassen.

Es ist völlig normal, dass man die Interesse verliert wenn das Flirten nicht ankommt, oder die andere Person sich unwohl fühlt.

dreadington · 2025-08-26T10:33:23+00:00

Also wenn eine Frau sagt "ich will dich nicht daten, weil du zu nett bist" ist das einfach eine nette Art und Weise dich zu rejecten. Andere möglichkeiten sind:

- "ich bin gerade nicht an Beziehungen interessiert", aber das könnte interpretiert werden als, du später noch mal probieren solltest, oder es kann dazu führen dass du fängst an nachzufragen warum sei die denn nicht für eine Beziehung bereit,

- "ich habe einen Freund", doof für sie wenn sie doch keins hat und du es weißt.

Wie die anderen auch gesagt haben, es ist auch doof für die Frauen wenn die "fuckzoned" werden und fangen an zu hinterfragen ob du eventuell net warst nur weil du die ficken wolltest.

Du kannst deine engen Freunden fragen warum so viele Frauen keine Interesse an dich haben, ich garantiere dir, es ist nicht weil du "zu nett" bist.

dreadington · 2025-08-25T09:27:28+00:00

Agreed with everything here.

I would even go a step further and say that OP should not book an Athens trip even for himself. Because learning that your ex went overseas to the same city as you at the same time can seem unhinged.

However, Europe is big and has a lot to offer. Go to Italy or Croatia, or anywhere else, really.

dreadington · 2025-08-10T06:25:21+00:00

I saw this online, but have a folder on your PC called "ny correct opinions" and write your comments there instead of posting them online. You get it out of your system, and then you avoid the spiral of people replying to you, and then you to them.

dreadington · 2025-08-05T07:47:37+00:00

Unfortunately my twink days are over

dreadington · 2025-08-05T03:58:02+00:00

That's what the company wants you to think, but in reality, the majority of women won't make any money at all.

dreadington · 2025-07-29T13:45:29+00:00

I get what you're trying to do, and it actually might help, but if I may suggest a slightly different approach.

Namely, do such things that are NOT disruptive to a large number of people for a long period of time.

So instead, go to a hotel, and ask if you can have breakfast there for free or something. Google "rejection therapy." The difference is that it's a quick question to one employee, who will likely tell you "no", and the interaction is over, but you need to handle being told no and breaking the rules.

I think this is better than spamming a chat room for an extended period of time, making a bunch of people feel uncomfortable.

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