SkoomaDentist
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SkoomaDentist
9d ago
If breaking the nuclear taboo isn't a strategic decision, nothing is.
The only thing Israel would gain from using a nuke over conventional weapons is the strategic value: A sign that they're willing to use nuclear weapons and a threat that the next move would be to cause massive casualties at the attacker's home front.
SkoomaDentist
10d ago
the actual number of up or downvotes can matter from a receiver point of view. Like, for downvotes (for me on reddit at least), one or two is like "okay the one person I got into a replychain with disgrees with me, big surprise" or "I knew this wasn't super popular"; some middle number is "okay did I actually have some error/wrongness?" self doubt; a lot of downvotes is usually me getting at least a little upset that something I believe and is true was downvoted in a dogpile typically without much thought.
This is a major reason why I tend to avoid diy subs on reddit. The groupthink in those trumps knowledge 9 times out of 10, even if I'm more qualified to answer the question than 99.99% of readers. Usually the result of "No, that's not correct. You should do this instead because it solves problems X & Y" gets just downvotes in response.
SkoomaDentist
10d ago
Do you have any sources that elaborate on Japan's plans and how much of that is validated vs speculation?
SkoomaDentist
10d ago
Israel launches one or more tactical nuclear strikes to change the situation on the battlefield.
Unless a nuclear war is already in progress, there is no such thing as a "tactical nuke". Using a nuke has massive strategic implications and so-called "tactical nuke" is just a low yield strategic nuke.
SkoomaDentist
12d ago
So basically what you're saying is that as long as Biden doesn't invade Italy or try to appoint bishops, he's going to be fine.
SkoomaDentist
15d ago
They can make real sounding very mid music
TBF, that barely differs from the top 40 these days.
SkoomaDentist
18d ago
"-0.69"
The mods have always had the problem that their number one overarching goal is to minimize shade, never to maximize light. Thus the steady stream of bans for many of the best contributors starting from the old reddit days.
SkoomaDentist
19d ago
That's the effect of five decades of large segments Anglo-American media being absolutely obsessed with counterculture & rebellion. We're luckily somewhat isolated here in Finland (when did you last hear journalists hyping "working class artist / musician" as a term outside niche stuff?). Alas, it has leaked everywhere in English speaking countries (although I'd love to hear any Australian / New Zealand perspective on this).
SkoomaDentist
23d ago
Jamaica is by far the largest country, and has the highest murder rate in the world at 53/100k
Holy shit. That really is higher than even Haiti and that place is as failed state as they come.
SkoomaDentist
26d ago
That solved the problem. Thanks!
SkoomaDentist
27d ago
Well, the last-last one did just get banned...
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27d ago
jannies are treated as valued curators of harmony, not power tripping egoists.
That applies to almost all jannies here. Alas, there is always that one or two who end up power tripping and should be forbidden from any janny duties that aren't just obvious spam removal. This has been the case since almost the beginning back on reddit.
Is there some way to disable the goddamn annoying and completely useless bar that sticks to the top bottom of the screen when scrolling threads here?
On desktop I can use uBlock Origin to just hide it, but that doesn't work on mobile.
SkoomaDentist
1mo ago
There are zero real democracies that have managed a transition from poverty to wealth.
Zero?
Iceland, Ireland and Finland come immediately to mind.
If you want to complain some weird random app, you should complain about that app (at the very least name it!), not Windows 11 when Windows itself has nothing to do with your app.
And no, even Windows 11 notepad doesn't do that. If you close a file without saving and open it again, the original contents remain. It's only when you go to the original restored tab in Notepad that the changes remain - clearly marked as unsaved!
SkoomaDentist
2mo ago
It's a collection of ridiculously short stories. Designing for open-world play maximizing player freedom means having lots of independent quest lines
The first doesn't follow from the second. Oblivion had open world play and was somewhat infamous for having better side quests (notably the guild storylines) than the main quest.
SkoomaDentist
2mo ago
He also doesn't explain how come those movies were getting made before DVDs ever became a thing. It's funny how he talks about the 90s when the DVD only became a thing in 1997 and took 2-3 years to really get popular.
SkoomaDentist
2mo ago
And it was a big deal (on Mac) because back then Mac was basically shit tier for gaming if you wanted anything that wasn't educational, adventure or multimedia.
SkoomaDentist
2mo ago
The kind of mature industry that can churn out one Total War game per year, and a Modern Warfare every two years, and two Superhero games per year, and another Hero Shooter or Current-Thing-Clone so often they all just blend together...didn't exist in 2000.
Both Sierra Entertainment and Lucasarts Games produced new games more or less yearly in the late 80s and early 90s. The difference is that many are considered all time classics and often feature on best of all time lists.
Eg. Lucasarts made Maniac Mansion (1987), Zac McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders (1988), Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989), Loom (1990), The Secret of Monkey Island (1990), Monkey Island 2 (1991), Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis (1992), Star Wars: X-Wing (1993), Day of the Tentacle (1993), Sam & Max Hit the Road (1993), Star Wars: Tie Fighter (1994) and that list is leaving out a lot of other games from them.
SkoomaDentist
2mo ago
Overall I'd say, "game writing was never good."
Ahem
Ever heard of Sierra Entertainment or Lucasarts classic games? Star Control 2? Ultima IV? Fallout? Baldur's Gate?
That and insistence on "You absolutely MUST do these extraneous things in addition to the few exercises required to actually get into better shape".
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