skulblaka

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[–] skulblaka@startrek.website 50 points 10 months ago (6 children)

Bombadil was one of the most important pieces of world building in LOTR, and that's not a joke. He's clearly a being of great power. He holds absolute sovereignty over his domain, such that even the trees and the undead bend to his will. And there is absolutely no cogent information or backstory on him, whatsoever. At all. Bombadil is printed proof that Middle Earth has a lot more going on than is touched on in the story. If Bombadil is an unexplained Great Being then it stands to reason that there would be more, beyond Sauron and Sauruman and the characters we meet directly. Bombadil is a signpost pointing off-screen and saying "Hey, there's more stuff over this way".

He may be crazy, and silly, and poorly explained, but that's all for a reason. Tom represents the "etc." at the end of the list of beings in Middle Earth. He is an open end implying the existence of more like him.

[–] skulblaka@startrek.website 9 points 10 months ago

That has nothing to do with whether something is a backdoor.

[–] skulblaka@startrek.website 13 points 10 months ago (2 children)

It's not really a backdoor. It's an Emergency Broadcast System. Nobody can access your phone through it, they just blast data out to everyone in a preconfigured way that your phone knows to receive and relay to you.

It's not really any different than receiving a text message except that the text message comes with its own dedicated sound so that you know an emergency is happening.

[–] skulblaka@startrek.website 18 points 10 months ago (1 children)

If they can't deliver a product that stays in one piece when not even being shot at, they aren't about to stay a part of that MIC for long.

[–] skulblaka@startrek.website 11 points 10 months ago (4 children)

You don't want to wear the current iteration of headsets for work. Projects are in motion to make much smaller and more lightweight ones. They're stupid expensive right now but that'll change with time.

[–] skulblaka@startrek.website 19 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Once upon a time I would have agreed with you but nowadays I see a couple bullet holes in Nintendo's feet as well. And Valve is a bit less quick on the draw with their lawyers it seems.

[–] skulblaka@startrek.website 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

There's been a big revival of that genre over the last 10 years or so and I think Boomer Shooter was adopted as a way to differentiate it from your standard FPS. Turbo Overkill is very different from Borderlands which is very different from COD. You'll need a way to communicate that difference if you want fans to buy your game.

[–] skulblaka@startrek.website 4 points 10 months ago

We've already seen the boomest shooter. Our savior hath already come and gone and left us behind to witness his passing. His name was Ultrakill.

[–] skulblaka@startrek.website 25 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Just shut up and get in the fucking robot, Shinji

[–] skulblaka@startrek.website 50 points 10 months ago (2 children)

"You guys are idiots. They're gonna be looking for military guys." dons fursuit

[–] skulblaka@startrek.website 5 points 10 months ago

I need 2 Duncan Idahos per every Jan Michael Vincent

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