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話說天下大勢，分久必合，合久必分
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話說天下大勢，分久必合，合久必分
11mo ago
I'd say that we're witnessing in real time how effective this strategy can be if those before/after college videos are any indication.
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話說天下大勢，分久必合，合久必分
1yr ago
Not sure if this is the right place, but...
I know for a fact that the allegations of election fraud in 2020 on both sides have been discussed thoroughly both on the reddit and here. Is there anyone who can point me to a good thread for both Biden and Trump alleged fraud?
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話說天下大勢，分久必合，合久必分
1yr ago
I guess exile to Alaska is always good as a last resort. But at that point, we might as well start exiling them into the Pacific Ocean.
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話說天下大勢，分久必合，合久必分
1yr ago
I always thought it had to do with the fact that Californian laws were simply more favorable to the homeless, creating a self selection process.
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話說天下大勢，分久必合，合久必分
1yr ago
The problem with exile is that there's nowhere to exile them to anymore. Exile only works when there is unowned wilderness or other communities that are not significantly connected to your own nearby. We're definitely not going to be exiling them to Canada or Mexico, and there's no real way to exile someone from say San Francisco that doesn't affect San Jose, Oakland, and Palo Alto nearby. We're definitely not going to be exiling them to somewhere like Yosemite or Death Valley.
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話說天下大勢，分久必合，合久必分
1yr ago
I had the exact opposite problem as you, but in a similar vain. I thought that because of how limited the MCU cast was at the time, there weren't actually enough characters to fully encapsulate how wide-reaching the storyline was. In the comics, Civil War was a massive event, spanning dozens of characters, including the Avengers, X-Men, The New Warriors, The Fan4stic, etc. And instead of the Airport fight scene, which was pretty cool, the fighting and devastation was much more wide-spread. The storyline also had some pretty hefty short to medium term implications, including playing into the Secret Invasion storyline.
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話說天下大勢，分久必合，合久必分
1yr ago
Why would they ever have incentive to do that?
If I may put on my (even more) schizo conspiracy hat on really quickly, it would be very easy to come up with an incentive. By the way, I don't actually believe in the following, but writing schizo fan fiction is fun for me: In order to better control the populace, "They" (the ominous "they" or "The Kabal", if you prefer some other name) need to disarm the populace. To do this from a top down perspective would be very difficult because there would be a lot of resistance. Therefore, "They" have to convince the populace to disarm itself. A way to do this would be to cause or make-believe an event such as SH. Have you been getting those Youtube pre-roll ads from SH Promise? There's a reason that they are being promoted now.
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話說天下大勢，分久必合，合久必分
1yr ago
Guess who's back? Back again. Eminem just released his new single "Houdini" today. It's billed as a kind of return to form to his old Slim Shady character. The music video is filled with references to his classics like "Without Me" and "My Name Is." Even his voice sounds like a younger version of himself in parts of the song. Is this just memberberries getting to me? Maybe. I did enjoy it in that early 2000s way though.
I haven't listened to Eminem or the rap genre since around 2010. I've tangentially heard about him in the years (I'm glad he felted MGK so hard that MGK had to change genres). Is the song as good as his late 90s to early 00s era? Maybe this is nostalgia talking, but I don't think so. Something about the song just feels like it's not as raw or groundbreaking as his early work. The lyrics are not as unleashed as they were in the early days. The music video, while good, paused too much in the middle of the song. Now all that being said, it's good. I enjoyed it. The lyrics, while not as hard hitting, are what you'd expect from Eminem. His rhyming is still crisp. He still raps like Eminem, or Slim Shady in this case.
While I'm just someone who used to listen to Eminem in high school or whatever, I think the song is good enough to stand on its own even without the callbacks to his classics. Is this his best work? No. Is it as completely rancid as Relapse? Definitely not. It's good. And that's more than I can say for a lot of the shit that gets released these days.
If any more serious Eminem or even rap fans would like to weigh in, I'd love to hear other opinions.
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話說天下大勢，分久必合，合久必分
1yr ago
I might stand corrected. I thought the whole problem was that they trained the AI on ScarJo's voice
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話說天下大勢，分久必合，合久必分
1yr ago
In your case, the replacement would at lease be a different real life human being with their own body. If Elon instead made a digital avatar based off of SS's body cast, should she have the right to sue?
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1yr ago
I'd characterize this less as "interesting" and more as "proof that Sweden is a third world country."
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話說天下大勢，分久必合，合久必分
1yr ago
So far, season 2 of Smiling Friends is living up to the hype. The Gwimbly episode was probably the best episode in the show (The CEO is maybe the best one off character so far). Mr. President episode was full of those deep dank references and jokes that I really like (a great one is Mr Frog's economic plan). Smiling Friends is probably my favorite show that's on right now.
Reminder: Squiggly Miggly didn't kill himself.
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1yr ago
South Bay is really rough in terms of nightlife (mostly because the majority are 30s married Asian/Indian programmers). San Francisco is pretty fun if you know where to look.
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1yr ago
Those failure states exist to create the illusion of agency. No game advertises itself by telling you the princess can already be considered rescued, because that's the artistic intent, but hey you can come push buttons if you want to see it.
Just because the princess gets rescued in the end doesn't mean that the story is the same. In the case of a video game, instead of "the princess was rescued," it would be "you rescued the princess." The fact that you, the player, actually put forth effort to cause the princess to be rescued is a huge leap. Video games are at their core more immersive than movies. 3D and now 4D movies try to make it so that you're literally feeling the things that the main character feels. Video games are simply the next evolution to that. Now, instead of watching James Bond shoot that bad guy, you are James Bond, and you are shooting that bad guy.
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1yr ago
John Carmack put it best: "Story in a game is like a story in a porn movie. It's expected to be there, but it's not that important."
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1yr ago
Staunch feminist in her early 30s meets foreign guy. Everything is going well, except that he walks out of a movie when it gets to a particularly girl-power scene. She has a two-week identity crisis over meeting someone so "anti-woman".
Please talk more about this one. What did the identity crisis entail? Was she astonished that someone could be so "anti-woman" or was it more self reflecting on how her own actions made her look to him? Or something else?
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1yr ago
You can argue that the money spent on something like this can be spent on other things, but on the grand scale of things, I'd probably prefer the money to be spent on something like this to some other community outreach program.
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1yr ago
There's another way to tackle the argument: While amputation can be used as a last resort to try to treat BIID, this is not good. It should be seen as a failure of therapy.
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話說天下大勢，分久必合，合久必分
1yr ago
I didn't even notice that detail. I gotta say though, that episode was a better Mcnuggets ad than any I've seen.
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話說天下大勢，分久必合，合久必分
1yr ago
The new episode of Smiling Friends came out, fittingly, on April 1. Absolutely top tier episode. Maybe the best episode of the show so far. The puppet remakes were nice too.
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話說天下大勢，分久必合，合久必分
1yr ago
One argument would be something like: "Even though it may be the case that the heroine addicted degenerate will only vote to make the government give out free heroine, that person is still a human being with rights and it's their right for their interests (as they see them) to be represented in government. The fact that they are crippled by their addiction does not change that."
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1yr ago
Not reading, but listening to Shogun. Definitely going to watch the show later as well. In case you haven't yet, absolutely read Shogun. It's a masterpiece.
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1yr ago
It seems fans were expecting Band of Brothers meets Lord of the Rings in space. Which was never going to happen.
It's not that fans were expecting Band of Brothers with LoTR. It's more that fans were expecting Halo. The show has very little in common with the games. And while the show is about a "Spartan" named "Master Chief" who fights the "Covenant", it's just not Halo. The story has almost nothing to do with the story of Halo. The characters are not the same as the ones from the game. This makes sense as when S1 released, the writers specially stated that they didn't play any of the games.
So for the fans of the games, the Halo show is just another example of slapping a well known name on a show to sell it. In the eyes of the fans, all they had to do was to make 3 seasons based on each of the 3 games, and they couldn't even do that.
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1yr ago
The government does lots of things that are not directly coercive. I am sure you can come up with some examples.
Depending on what your preferred political theory is, no the government does not do anything that isn't directly coercive. Everything the government does relies on taxes, which a libertarian or anarchist believes are coercive in and of themselves.
https://tiktok.com/@truth24hr/video/7215886406835572010
This is just an example, and there's absolutely no indication that these captions are real. Also, the poster is obviously a warrior, so make of it what you will.
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