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  • There is absolutely no point in making graphics more photorealistic than maybe Skyrim.

    Sure there is. It looks pretty, and people like pretty. Maybe you don’t particularly care, but many people do. There’s a reason Skyrim got a whole HD remake in 2016, and there’s a reason that most of the most popular mods for both versions are mods that add incredibly hi-res textures.

    Also, that’s quite an exaggeration there. I have yet to run into a game I can’t run with my $200 GPU. Sure, I can’t run every game at 4k ultra settings with ray tracing, but you clearly don’t care about that type of thing, so why would that matter?




  • NelotstoComic Strips@lemmy.world[ExoComics] Try again
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    12 days ago

    It doesn’t change magically. It changes through continuous usage and acceptance from society. That’s how language works.

    Some examples. When was the last time you heard somebody say something was “awful”, as in awe inspiring? When a kid says literally, do you take them 100% seriously or do you accept that the word’s changed to be a synonym for “figuratively” among younger people? And as far as spelling is concerned, colour and color are both correct spellings, depending on where you live. Gray vs grey, acknowledgment vs acknowledgement, same thing. Or look at barbecue vs barbeque; the latter was incorrect for a very long time until the popularization of the abbreviation BBQ, after which it became a commonly accepted variant.

    These things were not always correct, and yet, now they are. Society adopts and uses different meanings and spellings for words all the time. Sorry friend, you’re not the arbiter of English. It changes with or without you onboard.





  • Well tbf, in some cases, factually incorrect memes are a way to quickly spread misinformation and can definitely be bad for that reason.

    I think the original commenter was at least somewhat joking in this particular instance, though. “How can we trust you?” seems like an odd thing to seriously ask a shitposter. I could be wrong, tone is hard to read online.


  • NelotstoGreentext@sh.itjust.worksAnon prepares for a flood
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    Not just that. Through radiometric dating, we have evidence of several billion years worth of nuclear decay. Nuclear decay is constantly releasing heat. It’s a completely negligible amount of heat, but if you try cramming all 4.5 billion years worth of it into the single year-long event like creationists want to, it becomes a massive issue. Not to mention the other sources of heat like the water falling down as you brought up, the movement of continents, all the impact events, among other things. We’re talking enough heat here to completely vaporize the oceans several hundred times over.

    You think Noah had AC on the boat?

    Edit: I forgot to mention the reason they need to shove all the heat into a 1-year event, rather than the 6,000-ish years they believe the Earth has been around for (not that it would be much better that way around). As the evidence of billions of years worth of nuclear decay is undeniable, Young Earth Creationists need some event to rapidly accelerate the decay by a factor of at least several hundred thousand times. And many of them say the flood caused it.