Invest in yourself!

Talk less, smile more?

Absolutely. The jadedness coming off of reddit is real. Took me half a year to slowly start participating

Agreed. Oftentimes I describe Lemmy as “reddit back in the day” whenever someone asks me wtf is Lemmy.

Concur. Love how lemmings bundle up and socialize!

Yes. And fair point

Don’t know how feasible, but I would have loved the idea of licensing the original footage and “restoring” it as best as possible with some tasteful CGI…

Started to participate in discussion more and pleasantly surprised actual conversations happen and the comment section is not flooded with generic bot shit within minutes.

Hear hear. And the explosion was so fucking lame. Like why was the soot in the flames? We know what a plasma looks like. Heck, we even know exactly how that very bomb looked like when it exploded (cf. picture attached). It could have been an otherworldly experience akin to the well researched and well simulated black hole in Interstellar…

But no. We got gasoline. On fire. In an otherwise dizziness inducing and plain boring movie.

Edit. Looks like in struggling to attache a screen cap so I’ll leave it as an exercise to the reader to googelidoodeli “atomic bomb plasma”

Edit: oh shit. Wikipedia claims 2001 indeed… Now makes me want to check what exactly we played or whether I manufactured that memory…

~~Nope. G1 is from 98, G2 is from 01.

I played them in Germany in German back in the day maybe the English release was later?~~

Gothic I from '98

Ya no. That’s when I quit too. That place’s hollow got no humanity left.

+1 for technology connections video. Was going to post the same link.

Think about all the things I’ll plan to start doing once 2026 rolls around.

Nx gib acc.! Rear rear!

/s

Do you think maybe some of your teachers were still developing their Socratic method skills?

Ya know there’s caring about religion and there’s curiousness. I don’t care about the catholics but I’m curious about the torture methods of the Spanish Inquisition…

Hear hear!

“[A]ll experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.”