Onystri
1mo ago
Isn't those number so high due to conscription mostly? And after 1973 it drops with no sign of recovering.
Onystri
2mo ago
This is only semi-related to the article, but I can see an argument in the comments about how "Claudine Gay job was mostly administrative and scientific/academic credentials are not that important".
Onystri
2mo ago
Eeh, I'm on a nostalgia/clean-steam-library path recently. Nox is the greatest isometric action game, fite me.
Onystri
2mo ago
I tried to replay the game recently but couldn't get over the slow start before you actually get to play with upgraded toys, and the base defense tutorial mission put me to sleep.
Onystri
3mo ago
Richard Hanania recently had a podcast with Russian Libertarian Michail Svetov if anyone wants to listen.
"Talk with Richard Hanania about the American Imperialism in the age of Woke, the state of Pax Americana, triumph of identity politics, ideology in US foreign policy and the great political realignment."
Onystri
7mo ago
That is true, yet thinking about the games I played recently there were only few that I enjoyed/appreciated the sound design(they were mostly single player games, so full headphones and no distractions, or something like 2018 GoW with one person playing and other just along for the ride on a couch).
Looking back at this year with Remnant 2, Diablo 4, BG3 coop games - for me audio is not even top 20 reason why I played them...
Onystri
7mo ago
I've visited computer clubs to play games back in a day and somehow with 20-40 people sitting in a giant room all playing games I've never had the problem you describe.
Just lower volume, enable subtitles so not to miss out on dialog if you get distracted or add headphones that your partner can shout over if you're about to get dunked under t1 tower. What exactly are you playing that you have this......issue?
Onystri
7mo ago
Sea of stars is vastly overrated, Chained Echoes is superior in every way.
Hmm, I'm looking right now at the introduction scene for ME2 Jack and then again for BG3 Karlach.
Neither is really outstanding but my perception is that Karlach is sort-of-YA adjacent, maybe it's the funny fuck word that I did not expect while I was sort of surprised that it takes a while for Jack to swear. Need to think about it more, seems like Jack and Karlach is a interesting pair to compare.
BG3 to me seems just.... more DOS2. Maybe because I'm not that invested in the story and lore of Forgotten Realms in general, and the underdark doesn't invoke the warm and fuzzy feeling that I should have from Neverwinter games back in the day.
Or maybe I wasted 15 minutes of my time yesterday ranting that the stupid end turn popup window in not minimizable while playing in coop and covers up a 4th character inventory so you have to "cancel end turn" and it was 3 years in early access, so why in the love of god............
EDIT: they rolled back a hotfix today so I lost 2 hours of gametime and the saves are not version compatible....
It just seems to me that in the modern world you're given way too much information than you can handle. You receive the news all over the world every day and do you know there's a war going on and here's the latest about that, also someone is dying in Africa due to a military coup, and somewhere is a genocide...probably. Oh and don't forget about the climate change that's going to kill us all....
This information stays with me for days on end. Sure some things I just forget due to not caring or just because the information provided didn't hold in my brain, like I know about the coup, but no more than that and my brain just leaves it as not important. But other things just sit there, and very frequently I just start thinking about them even though I should really finish work on the project (procrastinating is a thing). Sometimes consciously, most times....... it ends up like this. It's like the empty space is running out on my hard drive and I'm just hoarding everything dating back to my childhood and refusing to dump it.
Just feels like humans are not designed for this type of information overload (especially if you can consider it "too much and too fast") and living in the old times was simpler.
Onystri
8mo ago
Perception is everything in the year of 2023, Rufo conceding is the point.
Onystri
8mo ago
Make that trans person an actor, so there's ambiguity in what he's up to. There is this youtube channel that I like very much and one person plays every single character, it's incredibly entertaining Bistro Huddy. It just feels to me that passing or not is superseded by the "vibe" of the person.
I might add to your recommendation to watch the series that it is quite short and doesn't repeat itself. Famously the creators didn't want to repeat the story beats and become predictable so they ended the first series Yes Minister after 21 episodes and resumed only with the sequel for 16 episodes as they could add new material with Jim Hacker becoming prime minister.
Onystri
9mo ago
I would like to read that study in detail, but lets say a large amount of switch are purchased and played by women. Does it really make sense for game company to change strategy for the new release of fps/stategy/rpg game to appease (seemingly large) audience that just bought nintendo switch to play Animal Crossing 24/7?
Onystri
11mo ago
It seems to me this world can be divided into people who "really really hate GGS" and everyone else.
Onystri
11mo ago
20 min ago a new ~3hours video dropped with Yud and ..... Accursed Farms from freeman's mind and game dungeon fame???. I probably wont watch it, but if anyone wants to listen and summarize - be my guest.
Onystri
11mo ago
Watching his interview with Ben Shapiro I came away with the opinion that Tucker Carlson has a very distinct set of policies he endorses and in favor of.
Is there a precedent for Tucker to flop between politics, or is it simply "every single media talking person lie all the time"?
Onystri
1yr ago
If I were to summarize my objection to the op comment - "extraordinary cllaims require extraordinary evidence". I can understand why OJ Simpson would kill his wife. But i think there is a lot of information missing before I can come to the conclusion of "of course he would shoot up the school".
Oh nooo..... I'm only in my 40s, so you can definitely say I embellished the time period, my life was disturbed by the USSR fall. Although I cannot even remember those times outside of watching some tv of Moscow Parliament being shelled from a tank.
Yet the mundane life at the time didn't change much. We went the next day and sat at our desks.
There were reforms targeted for schooling in the end, but we got them in "waves" as to not the rock the boat too much and teachers we're not changed....at all. I know my younger brother got caught between a few of them as the primary language was changing from russian to ukrainian.
so if nothing happened by her own admission, why include this?
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