I’m rooting for Yellowstone caldera, baby.
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Las Vegas overshadowed it from the start, unfortunately.
CeruleanRuin@lemmings.worldto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What's the most effective at helping you sleep at night?English5·4 months agoA pint is great at helping me fall asleep. Unfortunately, it also prevents me from sleeping restfully.
Reagan being president. No, not even now.
CeruleanRuin@lemmings.worldto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•How long have you been hearing the phrase "we're in the end times"?English4·6 months agoHell, I’ve been waiting for 99942 Apophis to swing by us since Stargate was still on the air. Still got five years left on that one, but 2004 when that was first called out as a concern was the first time I really started contemplating the idea of the actual end of the world, in a bang not a whimper.
Sure, Y2K was supposed to cause some chaos, and 2012 was fun from a “what if magic is real” sort of angle, but everything else has been a gradual dawning realization that the world as we know it is probably going to be gone in my children’s lifetimes – not over yet, but profoundly changed, more difficult, the slow closing of the book on a golden age for humanity we didn’t fully appreciate while we were in it.
CeruleanRuin@lemmings.worldto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What is an extremely wholesome fact that could help brighten someone's day?English2·7 months agoIt is fenced off on the grounds of the Royal Hospital in Chelsea, but some good aim with a small catapult could still get the job done.
CeruleanRuin@lemmings.worldto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•How could you best spent one million dollars, to materially help the world in a lasting way?English9·8 months agoGive it to me.
CeruleanRuin@lemmings.worldto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What books do you consider must reads?English21·8 months agoI hope you’re referring to the unfinished compilation Salmon of Doubt as the sixth, and not that weak sub-fanfic tripe by Eoin Colfer.
CeruleanRuin@lemmings.worldto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What books do you consider must reads?English2·8 months agoLamb was great! Really does a fantastic job of highlighting the hypocrisy inherent in modern religious constructs.
CeruleanRuin@lemmings.worldto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What books do you consider must reads?English4·8 months agoGodel, Escher, Bach
Infinite Jest
The Lord of the Rings
The Demon-Haunted World
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Slaughterhouse-Five
Small Gods
Master and Commanderand everything else written by those authors.
The first two or three on that list might take several fits and starts to get through, YMMV, but they are WELL worth the effort, and you will come out the other side changed by the experience. The others are all pretty easily digestible, but no less transformative.
CeruleanRuin@lemmings.worldto Gaming@beehaw.org•Nintendo officially places Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Tears of the Kingdom outside series' established timelineEnglish1·8 months agoThe people who actually make these games have said that the timeline in Hyrule Historia is little no more than elevated fanfiction, because they don’t follow it when making their games. It’s all retcon and forced connections.
People who want them to have some shared continuity as if they’re a real history might as well make a timeline for Mario too. It’s silly, and misses the point
CeruleanRuin@lemmings.worldto Gaming@beehaw.org•Nintendo officially places Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Tears of the Kingdom outside series' established timelineEnglish11·8 months agoHeadline is misleading. There is no canon timeline and never has been, regardless of what officially-licensed book it was published in.
The game designers have said many times that they don’t take any sort of timeline into account when designing a new Zelda game. They nail down the mechanics, and the story comes next, and if it happens to match up thematically in relation to another game, that’s just a bonus.
CeruleanRuin@lemmings.worldto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What should I do if I find a bag by the road that I'm concerned it's a dead body?English1·8 months agoThanks buddy, I really appreciate it.
CeruleanRuin@lemmings.worldto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What should I do if I find a bag by the road that I'm concerned it's a dead body?English12·8 months agoThe roll inside the suitcase was what he used to bind her with, and was discarded with the clothes torn off her. He later used a different roll to bind the suitcase.
CeruleanRuin@lemmings.worldto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•How should I mess with scammers?English23·8 months agoActing like a confused old person in the least helpful ways possible is always fun. I would sometimes do this with telemarketers who called. I’d adopt a doddering old woman persona, who would say “ehh?” and ask them to repeat things over and over again, and when they asked her for information I’d go “let me look for that”, put the phone down, and then go make a bunch of loud noise as if I fell down.
CeruleanRuin@lemmings.worldto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What should I do if I find a bag by the road that I'm concerned it's a dead body?English66·8 months agoAt the very least, OP, dumping garbage by the road is against the law, so even if it’s just regular garbage, you are reporting a crime regardless. Bonus: a cop has to deal with someone else’s garbage.
CeruleanRuin@lemmings.worldto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What's some really unpopular opinion you have?English2·8 months agoNobody should own dogs. They were bred as slave animals in a time before we understood that they were just as sentient as any other being, with pain receptors and emotions just as real as our own. And we have bred them to be miserable when we are not there giving them attention. Their apparent affection is an illusion, a food-gathering instinct honed by countless generations of selective and cruel in-breeding directed by humans who want to pretend that these animals actually love them, when they’re really just pretending because they are rewarded for it.
Also, if you own a dog and let it bark for any length of time, ever, or let it wander unrestrained where it might bite or harass a stranger, or let it take shits and don’t immediately clean that up, you deserve to be put in a cage.
CeruleanRuin@lemmings.worldto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What's some really unpopular opinion you have?English2·8 months agoHere’s an unpopular opinion: you don’t need any labels at all. You love who you live, you fuck who you fuck, you can advertise what you’re looking for if you want to but all this identity business obscures the reality that humans are far more diverse and interesting than the boxes we build for ourselves.
Most people who call themselves straight would fuck someone from their own gender if there weren’t cultural expectations against it hammered into them from and early age. Most people who call themselves gay would wander if they found someone they connected with. Very few of us rest at one end of any spectrum or matrix. Most of us are somewhere in the middle, and far more mobile than we might realize.
CeruleanRuin@lemmings.worldto World News@beehaw.org•B.C. bans cellphone use in schools, prohibits protestsEnglish4·8 months agoIt’s still a pretty young technology, and it took a few years to understand the impacts of it. We’ve had them long enough now to be able to see how detrimental they have been to the first generation using them.
Accidental like Strangelove, perhaps. Just an involuntary spasm revealing his true nature.