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3hr ago
If they are different difficulty modes, then these expansion packs give the player the option of making the game easier and faster to complete. I'm talking about a hypothetical expansion pack which, upon installation, immediately removes five missions from the base campaign.
These are fair points. Typically, when I read a claim that a game contains "20 hours of gameplay", I interpret that to mean "the average player on their first playthrough will take 20 hours to complete the main quest and all the sidequests". It would be churlish to claim that e.g. Half-Life "only" contains half an hour of gameplay, even though it can be beaten in that time. While expansions which change the base game's mechanics in such a way as to facilitate speedrunning could technically be said to have "contracted" the game, speedrunners are such a noncentral example of players that they hardly seem relevant.
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6hr ago
One of many ways British English is superior to English (Simplified) is that we do actually say "I couldn't care less".
just plainly stated as basically a "consent accident"
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7hr ago
Sounds like a Babylon Bee headline. "Entire nation in shock as politician who once said that rape victims should take some responsibility for their behaviour accused of sexual misconduct".
Her Wikipedia page contains both a “Sexual assault allegations by” and a “Sexual assault allegation against” section, like a soccer or hockey team has “Goals For” and “Goals Against” statistics.
Now that you point that out, this must be pretty unusual. I wonder are there many other pages meeting that description. ChatGPT only reports Argento, Amanda Seales (whom I'd never heard of) and Stoya. I believe Armie Hammer claims to have been molested as a child.
No one measures how much they're willing to spend on a video game (or additional content for a game) based on how many kilobytes it takes up. The classic metric is "hours of gameplay", which is imprecise and prone to Goodharting but still more illuminating than size on disc. If content purchased separately from the base game adds extra gameplay time, then it's an expansion pack, even if it entails a refactoring of the base game's code such that its size on disc is smaller. If purchasing an expansion pack actually removed hours of gameplay from the base game, I would concede the point that this can no longer be called an expansion pack, but to the best of my knowledge this has never happened.
you must also admit that the term DLC is still accurate
My point was not that the term "DLC" is inaccurate: it was that it isn't dispositive, and that it replaced a perfectly good term which was.
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15hr ago
I don't know what your marriage/SO situation is
To my understanding @HereAndGone2's knowledge of the dynamics of intimate relationships is entirely secondhand, but I'm open to correction.
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15hr ago
I agree with @Skulldrinker that "beyond normal levels of shitty" seems like an accurate way to characterise Platner's behaviour based on this description.
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15hr ago
Funnily enough, while watching the video in which he denied the allegations, it occurred to me how little editing his political speech would require to make it sound like something a libertarian populist would say.
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19hr ago
I don't think it's a coincidence that he killed himself just a few hours after an angry row with his girlfriend in which she admitted being unfaithful to him but dismissed his feelings about it. No doubt the lifetime of drink, drugs and mental illness didn't help, but I suspect this was the straw that broke the camel's back.
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20hr ago
Also, you didn't ask a question.
Surely there was an implied "why the hell did they think this was a good idea?" undergirding the entire post.
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20hr ago
Antichamber, Aragami, MiniLAW, Transistor, Neon STRUCT. Largely based on the criteria of not paying more than €5 for any individual game.
Over on GOG I picked up Second Sight and Kane and Lynch: Dead Men (both for nostalgia's sake; curious how the latter will hold up) and Broken Pieces.
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21hr ago
if you're not one of the confirmed wife guys around here
The purpose of the holiday I'm currently taking was to meet my future in-laws, so I suppose I am.
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1d ago
If he were a Republican, there’s a good chance he would still be standing
I wonder if this will prompt Platner to jump ship.
Platner officially denies the allegations, but you can tell from his statement that deep down he knows it's true.
What about this video gave you the impression he knows the allegations are true? He just recited a paragraph of legal boilerplate and a stump speech, in the exact same flat tone of voice.
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1d ago
I'm feeling this one lately, though in terms socio-economic rather than romantic. Not that the romance is going all that well, mind you.
I understand why you feel the latter way. If you don't mind my asking, why do you feel the socioeconomic path you've taken isn't working out for you?
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1d ago
Same: the whole time I was watching the movie I was thinking
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1d ago
I think the picket-fence life works better than the alternative for the vast majority of people, and that you should not gamble on being in the minority unless you have a very good reason to believe otherwise.
It's known that he killed himself mere hours after learning that Asia Argento, the woman he loved (and to whom he'd offered generous financial assistance by paying off the man threatening to sue Argento for sexually exploiting him when he was a young boy) was fucking someone else, and that she had so little respect for Bourdain that she didn't even bother being discreet about it. I don't know Bourdain, but it wouldn't surprise me if he thought of himself as a sad loser.
Great post. I have my own thoughts about the specific catalyst that prompted Bourdain to kill himself. Pleased to see that @coffee_enjoyer seconded it in the linked post (before I changed my handle).
I've met some of these people who are addicted to "wanderlust", and they often seem rather unstable and unreliable. They remind me of a Reddit thread I once read about underrated red flags, and one comment said if a person often says "I used to have this friend..." (Good example, even if I felt a little personally attacked by it.) Or one of de la Rochefoucald's maxims (I'm paraphrasing): we get excited by making new friends because we feel we aren't sufficiently admired by our existing ones, and hope that our new friend will admire us as much as we feel we deserve. Living your life on the road is advantageous for dysfunctional people, as all the people you meet will only know you long enough to learn about your good qualities: you don't plan on sticking around long enough for them to find out that you're careless with money, short-tempered or have a bad relationship with your family. As Chuck Palahniuk would say, they're single-serving friends.
People who struggle with long-term intimate relationships instead opt for short flings and holiday romances, but it's a vicious circle, because the longer you spend behaving this way, the less practice you're getting at the skills you'll need for actual relationships. By the time you decide you're getting too old for this shit and want to form a real relationship and settle down with someone, you may find yourself wholly at a loss for how to comport yourself in this context. Habitual womanisers know exactly what to say to get a woman into bed within a few hours of meeting her, but don't have a clue how to express their affection for her in the context of an actual romance. This is equally true of platonic relationships: I bet Anthony Bourdain would seem effortlessly charming the first time you met him, but I imagine people who'd known him for years might say he was a bit of a shitty friend.
It's not unlike how socially awkward people find social situations stressful and emotionally taxing, so instead they retreat into video games and social media – but the longer they spend in those spaces instead of in the real world, the more stressful and emotionally taxing they find social situations in real life, causing them to retreat...
New Year's resolution check-in:
How goes it @self_made_human, @thejdizzler, @birb_cromble, @ThomasdelVasto and @falling-star?
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