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The shot wasn’t done at night

I said it was made at dusk, at a point where the sunlight is clearly not hitting the waterfall. Don’t even try to engage if you’re going to purposefully ignore context to try to “win”.

I notice you also ignored the fact that these pictures are taken in completely different lighting conditions. Probably because you know its disingenuous.

Yeah man, that’s called a screenshot. How am I supposed to capture the movement of a texture in a still image?

There are things called GIFs. Not sure if you’ve heard of them.

Also maybe don’t pass off a screenshot as a true representation of a game’s graphical fedelity if you know that a still image is omitting important elements of said fidelity.

Your whole post reads like you somehow need to defend this game at all cost.

Oh here we go, your brain is starting to shove me into the “paid shill” camp because I disagree with you. Fun fun.

I have no problem with fair criticism. In no way is this a perfect game and it’s not for everyone and there’s plenty Beth needs to improve. But when I see shit like this, you’re damn right I’m going to call it out for what it is.

Let’s throw this back on you. This defensive response seems to imply that you absolutely need to shit on a game other people like with out of context and unfair comparisons without any reprisal at all - for shits and giggles.

Well fuck you, bro. Tearing down something for laughs is garden variety toxicity. And if you can’t take the criticism, then don’t start it in the first place.

EDIT

You apparently edited your post with a picture of a barren moon as evidence that the game is ugly.

Yeah…it’s a barren moon with no life, one biome, and presumably 2 resources, at night, what the fuck do you expect? Light and shadow are both important elements of beautiful landacapes. The absences of light and shadow makes things look dull and featureless, both in real life and in video games. Notice your comparison Elex screenshot has a lot of light in it.

That said, I have gorgeous pictures on barren moons of say, the milky way unrestrained by an atmosphere, or Jupiter rising over the horizon of Io, or a sunrise catching the rings of a nearby planet.

And no, I’m not talking about Neon. Try going to a planet with a variety of biomes other than “craters” that actually has life on it.

Seriously man, why are you trying so hard?

This is the most disingenuous comparison I’ve ever seen lol. You basically took a picture of a babbling Brook at noon and a waterfall at night and are somehow confused why they don’t look the same.

First of all, your still shot is purposefully omitting the movement of the waterfall, the fact that it actually behaves and moves like a spray of liquid and gas particles, you know, like an actual waterfall, rather than just a moving block with a shader texture applied to it.

You also took this picture at dusk, when the plaza is draped in shadow and there is no sunlight directly bouncing off. If you’d even been to a waterfall this tall in such conditions in real life, you’d know they actually look more like this - like a non-descript spray of gas - than the Elex screenshot.

If you were to take a picture of the water in the day time, you know, when there is sunlight to bounce off the water particles, it would look absolutely beautiful. Which is also why nobody goes to waterfalls at night expecting a goddamn vista.

This game isn’t perfect but one thing it is, is absolutely beautiful (with the exception of some well documented and unimportant NPCs). And calling Elex a better looking game than Starfield is the dumbest take I’ve heard yet.

Ironically, pumpkin spice has absolutely no pumpkin in it. Its just Cinnamon, nutmet, ginger, cloves, and allspice.

Making sonic memes and saying bazinga is gay because anything outside of the actual sexual preference is socially constructed “performance norms” and I can make up whatever the fuck I want.

Okay, but they give you DRM free downloads. If EPIC kills them, you still own every album as long as you download it. I’ll be sad if Bandcamp dies, but I can still play all music I got from it. That’s the way it should be.

The better comparison with Spotify is that it’s a mafia that you pay $11 / month for the rest of your life and they give you a bunch of free music but if you ever stop paying, they’ll bust into your house and take it all away.

Vs. spending $10 for an album you might not like but you can sell it, give it to a friend, or put it in storage for 10 years until you find it during a move and realize your tastes changed and now this album fucking rocks (happened to me with a few things).

Oh and Bandcamp ftw. You can listen to most albums free for a few times and when you buy it, you own it forever w/o DRM - plus if you buy a hardcopy, you get a digital one included. I used to use Napster like that - as a shit quality preview of an album I might end up buying later.

No, this is not news to us - our accountant has certainly mentioned it - but there’s a lot of oddities in her situation that make this a little more difficult - like the fact that she’s not an actual freelancer but it’s just the compensation startegy that this grant-funded project she works for was built around.

Its not impossible though, and certainly something we need to look more into. Thank you for bringing it up especially for anyone else looking at this in a similar situation.

You also have to pay the 15% (of net) self employment tax that your employer normally pays when you’re a W-2. That effectively means you’re paying double the tax rate of a W-2 employee.

Oh and you can deduct your “business expenses” to try to reduce your tax burden, but you shouldn’t even try to itemize unless your yearly expenses are higher than the standard deduction ($13,850 for single / $27,700 for joint / $20,800 for HoH). Itemizing doesn’t add to your standard deduction, it replaces it.

Source: My wife is a contractor and taxes for us are a whole fucking ordeal. We’re just glad I have a W-2 job thar offers benefits and the option to pay a lot more than I need to in tax withholding.

No, obnoxious elitism breeds controversy - or more likely, indifference.

Lol I’m unhinged? The fuck is this shit, bro?

You need to step away from the internet and rethink your life choices. Your behavior is not healthy and you clearly have mental health issues that you desperately need to get looked into.

Let’s me clear - the “sexual conduct in front of minors” was literally this, as far as I can tell:

1. In a theater that happens to have minors in the audience
2. Boyfriend grabs her boob
3. She grabs his crotch.

First of all, no one gives a shit about #2 enough to call out his behavior. Wierd. Second of all, if you’ve never play grabbed in a dark movie theater with your SO, I feel bad for your relationships. Third, it’s not like she whipped his dick out and started rubbing her snatch in the seat.

Was it inappropriate and trashy? Absolutely. Is she a sexual predator or a deviant because of it? No, chill the fuck out dude. Calling her sex life unhealthy is a huge stretch. And the fact that no one is calling the guy a sexual deviant is a little suss.

Speaking of dipshit, read my fucking comment before responding.

I’m not defending her behavior in the theater. She was being a nuisance and had every right to be kicked out.

But this meme isn’t making fun of her for being a nuisance. Or of inappropriate sexual conduct in front of minors. Or vaping in a crowded theater.

This meme is making fun of a woman for having a sex life.

Right, I forgot I was talking to “PM_ME_FEET_PICS”, a paragon of morality.

I’m not defending her behavior in the theater. She was being a nuisance and had every right to be kicked out.

But this meme isn’t making fun of her for being a nuisance. Or of inappropriate sexual conduct in front of minors. Or vaping in a crowded theater.

This meme is making fun of a woman for having a sex life. And that’s fucking gross, no matter who the target is. “How many balls to chin did she take?” Does it fucking matter? Do we need a bj limit for elected officials? Who fucking cares? Yeah, she’s a hypocrite and that needs to be called out, but the critique can’t just stop at “oooh she gives bjs”.

Kennedy took a lot of vag to the face and no one bats an eye. Clinton got a bj in the white house and Monica Lewinsky got the most hate for it. This practice of shaming women for being sexual is gross and stupid and incel-level masogyny that needs to fucking stop.

I detest and call out shitty behavior know matter what political alignment a person may hold. It’s called a moral compass. Is this a new concept to you?

And the we I’m refering to is really Lemmy, not necessarily democrats/liberals

To save money, maybe you should eat the rich.

Stop. Don’t be an incel.

You want to make fun of her, make fun of her for being a moron, a hypocrite, and a fascist. Making fun of a woman for showing public affection is just gross and we should be better than that.

Look, Lauren Boebert gives us enough to make fun of without having to resort to this schoolyard bullshit. It’s pretty cringe to make fun of a woman for having an active and healthy sex life.

Oh duh, you’re absolutely right, I forgot about the oft used configuration option of “sudo fuck my boot loader = enabled”

If linuxmemes thinks this meme is humor, it explains a lot.

Look I’m not going to defend windows or Microsoft. Personally I doubt its useful at all but it doesn’t really matter. A broken dependency is a broken dependency.

Even if it’s a pet project from a bing exec that’s completely unnecessary - if removing it will break things, an os geared towards a general public should prevent it from being removed.

Did I say I was defending MS’ restrictions on Edge? No. I think it’s dumb, but not for the reason you think.

MS prevents you from uninstalling edge because for some stupid reason a bunch of system processes and their store all require and use edge as a dependency. Removing edge would actually break a lot of things in windows. Is it stupid? Absolutely. But the reason they don’t want to do that is because MS implements a lot of restrictions like this to prevent their end users from breaking windows with stupid mistakes.

But this meme isn’t about allowing people to removing edge. Its trying to flex on the capabilities of linux vs. windows but using the laziest smooth brained way to do that. There are a lot of benefits to linux over windows. But the ability to sudo fuck your bootloader isn’t one of them.

And it’s not even that great of a flex too. “My OS lets me sudo commands that will break my system.” Great, so your system lets you accidentally break the system with a fat finger mistake? Why would I want that?

Windows is geared towards a general audience that includes some of the dumbest and least technically literate people to ever walk the earth. And they have to support it. Of course they’re going to limit your permissions.