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SubstantialFrivolity
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11mo ago
Persona 4 is the one which comes to mind. The story was good enough that I never really felt like the game was dragging. The dungeons are a slog, but they were a slog from the beginning (seriously, fuck the procedurally generated dungeons Atlus loves so much) so I didn't really notice them as a function of game length.
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11mo ago
It's not uncommon for RPGs. Persona games are that long, several Trails games are that long, etc. For other genres you're right though.
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11mo ago
People of the motte who don't live in your birth country any more - what is that like? I've been curious about the experience of those who make such a significant life change, since it seems like it would be a massive undertaking to uproot oneself in that way. What prompted the move? What have been the biggest challenges? What have been the greatest rewards? Anything which was surprising to you, that you never would have thought to even consider before making the move?
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11mo ago
Thanks! It's kind of interesting that men are more attractive while women are less attractive. I guess I would've guessed that both would go up or down together, but apparently I would have guessed wrong.
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11mo ago
Thanks! I'm guessing from the talk about closure that you are living in Japan?
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11mo ago
I think the fatal flaw in your line of argument here is that you assume someone whose job requires rational analysis is not going to delude themselves in other matters. That's simply not how humans work. Everyone - everyone - has blind spots where they don't have a clear view of their own weaknesses. If anything, very smart people tend to be a bit more prone to this because they tend to believe their very clear understanding of one thing applies to all things.
I'm not saying your specific coworker is self-deluding - I don't know him. But you definitely shouldn't assume that because he's really sharp at the job, he therefore thinks through everything with the same clarity.
What constitutes "better" in your view? For me, having your own collection of music + using something to stream (e.g. Plex) blows Spotify out of the water because I don't value the ability to browse new music on Spotify. If you do value that, then obviously hosting your own music isn't a great option. So you need to lay out requirements a bit more to get recommendations.
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11mo ago
It sounds to me like you may want to have a private collection of music for most of your listening, and just keep free Spotify around for the cases where you want to go listen to some random song. Assuming the free tier is still a thing, that is - I haven't used it in a while. That way you can still pull up something for instant access to music, but don't have to pay a sub where you aren't really getting much value most of the time.
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11mo ago
Tradition is held to be equal with Scripture, yes - but there's a lot of stuff which isn't dogma handed down by tradition, so there's room for a lot of disagreement on things still. And of course, it can be challenging to figure out how the principles of the faith (whether given by Tradition or Scripture) apply to specific circumstances.
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11mo ago
does this imply that the invention of full artificial wombs would turn disposal of embryos by IVF clinics into baby-killing?
It's already baby-killing, in my view.
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11mo ago
As a utilitarian, I think all humans matter. Failure to own a home (which is a state that literally all humans are born into and only manage to avoid by having kind/competent parents or producing enough to earn money for a place to stay on their own) does not discredit one from being a human and having inherent worth as a human being.
That doesn't sound like a very utilitarian position TBH. I agree with it, but I also don't claim to be utilitarian. It seems to me as though the utilitarian policy here is something like "the homeless people are causing everyone to suffer, so it's worth it to alleviate that suffering even if they suffer a lot individually". Basically the setup of the city in The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas.
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11mo ago
"the purpose of a system is what it does" is a bullshit argument, though (in any context). It only works if you assume that humans are perfect and achieve what they set out to do, but we know for a fact they aren't. Thus, imperfect humans will sometimes create a system that does something other than what they intended to begin with. It doesn't prove that their intent (i.e. the purpose of the system) was what they got.
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11mo ago
That still fails as an argument, because it requires misusing the word "purpose" to mean the outcome instead of the intention. Also, WhiningCoil was explicitly drawing conclusions about the intentions of the people who made the system based on the outcome.
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11mo ago
I reject the idea that purpose has connotations of intention
It's not a connotation. That's what purpose means, by definition.
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11mo ago
One is Brutus, the other heroic.
Brutus was a hero, to be fair.
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I don't think Brutus intended for things to just wind up in Augustus' hands. The point is that he tried to do something to save the Republic, even if he ultimately failed. I call that pretty heroic.
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11mo ago
Bruh. In no way is Brutus comparable to Hitler.
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11mo ago
That isn't to say that she hasn't tried to loose weight. Sugar-free snacks, drinks, meal shakes(as mentioned) - all of them treated like magic totems and talismans and potions that if she consumes this, she'll loose weight as if by magic while not altering her diet in the slightest.
To be fair, switching to sugar-free snacks and drinks is altering one's diet. Depending on your previous habits you can cut out a ton of calories just by switching from regular soda to a zero calorie soda.
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11mo ago
Very well put. If it was as simple as "just stop eating, bro" then there would be almost nobody who is fat. Fat people aren't stupid - they know damn well that not eating will fix their problem, it's just really hard to accomplish that by sheer willpower. We know (because Grant_us_eyes told us) that his mom has tried many other things and run up against the limits of her willpower. So the choice here is "try this medicine as a tool to help" or "keep on going as things are", not between "try this medicine" and "lose weight without medicine". It's silly to complain that she's making use of a tool to help her in an area she struggles with.
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11mo ago
Now that you point it out, I can see how it might be taken that way. If that's what OP meant, then fair enough - that isn't gonna help with weight loss.
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11mo ago
I don't think this explains it adequately. I've never known someone who was fat and who didn't feel social pressure for it. Yeah some HAES Tumblrinas are out there saying that they're proud to be big, but they're not the modal experience. For most fat people (everyone I've known at any rate), they were ashamed to the very bone to be that way.
- You can't get dates (at all really - much less attractive dates!)
- You experience discomfort on a regular basis due to not fitting into seats very well and so on
- You can't buy clothes at the same store your friends can, so any time you're shopping you get to feel bad about yourself
- You get openly mocked by people
- You start to assume that everyone not openly shaming you is doing it silently
- You feel like you are obviously a bad person, because of your failure to discipline your habits
- You have health problems which you know are because you're overweight and if you could lose the weight you would feel better
And so on. The reality is, social pressure (and internal pressure from yourself) to not be fat is still very strong and it isn't solving the problem. Perhaps individualism is a piece of the puzzle, but it can't explain the problem by itself.
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11mo ago
One would guess that those people are offsetting the change with something else. At my peak, my daily soda habit was something like 6-8 cans of Coke per day, which is 840-1120 calories. It's pretty much impossible to cut that out and not lose weight, as long as everything else stays constant.
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11mo ago
I would recommend Windows 10. Windows 11 sucks major ass.
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11mo ago
I actually did switch from Windows to Linux for my daily driver a few years ago. It's been a very solid choice. But if @MathWizard doesn't feel comfortable installing Windows on his own, I'm guessing Linux is right out for him.
Perhaps so, it's hard to tell for sure. But to the extent that's true, it'll be true for normies - not the Democrat elites who are making these decisions. Among the elites DEI is just as popular as ever.
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