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12hr ago
· Edited 12hr ago
IIRC Uwe Boll was making bad movies on purpose as part of some scheme to generate tax deductions and receive subsidies (as essentially an RL Springtime for Hitler). If he's stopped deliberately sabotaging his movies, well, that'd explain a jump in quality.
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12hr ago
widely ridiculed on the right as obviously ugly, with attendant counter-signaling on the left against any sense of objective beauty
I think that's harsh. I think I'd probably put Nyong'o in the top percentile of majority-sub-Saharan-African women I've ever seen. The blackwash is objectionable, and one of the multiple reasons is that absent SJ threats on the judges no SSA woman could ever win Helen's canonical status of "most beautiful woman in the world", but they don't seem to have selected for ugliness over and above the blackwash.
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1d ago
Otherwise eligible men who are too busy with videogames should quit the gaming and start dating seriously.
most societies in history have attempted to discourage it.
I will note that unlike most societies in history, a lot of this class can't "just get a GF" at present. We've broken matchmaking by moving it onto dating sites, which are a lemon market. We've encouraged women not to settle until their biological clock's nearly run out. "Beatings will continue until X" only actually works if the person you're beating is the one who chooses if X happens.
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1d ago
Plausibly yes. The impact of innovation might be on a logistic curve as we vacuum up all the low-hanging fruit, but the patent numbers are sufficient to demonstrate that immigration rates don't have an effect on people having ideas.
They are not, for two reasons:
- Patents have become more internationalised over time;
- A fraction of patents are bogus (yes, I know this is granted patents, but a lot of them are still bogus) and it is plausible that this fraction has increased.
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2d ago
TBC, I'm basically a 90s liberal/Grey Triber; you don't need to sell me on it.
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3d ago
What happened at Yellowstone?
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3d ago
The implication is that the people who are having problems with them are therefore at fault because they don't understand/follow the norms perhaps because they are "autistic".
I mean, this is not wrong. SJ does hate autists - while it has praise for the idea of being autistic, it's been obvious since GamerGate that it does not tolerate people actually being autistic.
But of course, as you note, one man's modus ponens is another man's modus tollens; from an autistic PoV like mine, this is simply prima facie evidence that the SJ norms are illegitimate and we should set fire to them.
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3d ago
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IMO - and certain others' opinion - Righteous Mind is outdated and the three-foundation morality is basically a description of 90s liberals and the current Grey Tribe. SJ/the successor ideology is a "normie" six-foundation morality, just with bizarro-world takes on the three "conservative" values based on superficial features of 90s liberalism (and to a small extent Marxism).
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4d ago
There's simply no time for Stark to drive to Baltimore until the following day at the earliest.
Is there some reason that doesn't make sense other than "that means he'd have been driving around with a dead body"? Because, well, okay, that falls under the heading of Bad Ideas, but the guy clearly had a history of bad decision-making.
They'd probably charge you with abuse of a corpse
I'm not planning on it! It's just that this theory involved stealing a corpse and the guy got convicted of kidnapping over this incident so I was wondering if that'd actually apply.
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5d ago
Another possibility is that they went out for beers or w/e, Branning had a heart attack or otherwise dropped dead, and Stark decided to loot the car/phone/corpse and drive away from his shitty life. That'd be illegal, obviously, but not murder (since you're a lawyer: is stealing a corpse kidnapping?).
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5d ago
· Edited 5d ago
(and on a three month old thread)
Got a post from OP on the volunteer page and context made me check his post history. You weren't the only one I replied to while looking through it.
I am skeptical that this is being asked in good faith
Oh, for fuck's sake, Amadan. We both have thousands of posts here, you have my mod record right in front of you, and you're a mod on a board with a literal rule of "be charitable", and you jump straight to accusing me of having an ulterior motive?
Yes, I'm a curious person. And you said something vague which has vastly-different implications depending on which of those three it is. Hell, it has at least some implications regarding my personal safety (although admittedly not relevant ones, since I'm already armed to the exact limit of the law).
You don't want to tell me, fine. But don't impugn my honesty.
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6d ago
Side notice: why is parent modded to -14?
I'm not one of the downvoters, but the all-caps parts and the misrepresentation of the modded post (he didn't just call RR a "cracker bitch"; he also called him a "demonic pigskin" and said he "deserve[s] to killed", which are IMO worse) are other (if likely partial) potential explanations for the negative response.
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6d ago
I have been attacked, personally, for participating and modding here.
I understand the need to preserve your anonymity, but can I just ask which of these three broad categories of "attack" you mean (no need to clarify which elements of each category)?
- People have said nasty things about you, or your reputation has been damaged, or you have been fired, or you have been "cancelled" in the sense of people who provide services refusing to provide those services to you;
- Some form of legal action, civil or criminal, has been brought against you, or you have been SWATted;
- Somebody has cyberattacked your systems, drained some of your accounts, damaged or stolen your physical property, or attempted to injure/kill you.
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7d ago
but the first thing I did with my new rig was copy off the default Windoze install
Last time I changed laptop, I went to great lengths to avoid getting OEM Windows to specifically avoid paying Microsoft, so the first thing I did was plug in a Mint USB.
(The previous time, I'd looked for a no-OS laptop to avoid Win10's anti-user features, but I wasn't willing to go the full order route and the transition costs were enough that if I was paying for Windows anyway I was willing to put up with it. But by the last time, Microsoft had started bankrolling OpenAI, so they're on the hatelist now and I'm willing to pay more to avoid paying them.)
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8d ago
Oh. Had no idea that existed.
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8d ago
NB: all the old.reddit links are now broken for those who don't have Reddit accounts (e.g. me).
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8d ago
You're a Zoomer?! I had you pegged as older than me (late millennial).
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9d ago
Really depends on your definition of "right". We still have quite a number of tits'n'beer liberals here, including me; it's very hard for us to fit in a coalition with SJ because of SJ's intolerance of dissent, but we're hardly tradcons.
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10d ago
I don't mind the micro, but there are a bunch of balance issues which really detract from the depth, even without the expansion.
(Standard terraforming is supposed to be stronger but more time-consuming - and polluting - than forests, but forests are too strong for this to work. Condensors' bonus to their own square is too strong, so nobody ever uses their interesting rain effect in favour of simply spamming condensors everywhere. Air power is kinda OP. And there's an ICS problem later in the game because of the Hab Dome limit and then the one-unit-per-turn limit binding excessively-hard.)
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10d ago
As someone who had learned to play VNs a particular way, make choices, restart when I got a bad ending, the fact that the game took away that option and made you live with the consequences of a story beat was really effective meta storytelling, whether DDLC is a "real" VN or not.
Funny you should mention that...
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10d ago
It's summer time
Not here in Oz, it's not! I'll admit Victorian winter isn't that cold by Euro/US standards, but it's still wet and dark.
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10d ago
...Hmm.
So, I find slice-of-life comedy completely useless (LCD sense of humour =/= mine, probably aspie-related). What I was saying was too long about Kajitsu was the common route, which has a pretty-terrible word-count-to-plot ratio; I liked some of the heroine routes (mostly Sachi and Michiru; Amane and Makina routes should have been combined, and Yumiko route is bleh).
I'm fine with romantic dramas (the two VNs I've ever rated 10/10 are School Days and Totono, and Saya no Uta's 9/10), but Steins;Gate pulls the same "blow up your relationship or the world ends, lol" trick four times (in lieu of any kind of creative solution, because "convergence"), which is why I called it misery porn.
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10d ago
I got pissed off when I didn't manage to kill her the first time and then I got told "You cannot go further astray" when I tried to do it right the second time.
So IIRC I tracked down the save file, murdered it, killed her properly, got the deliberately-terrible reward, and quit.
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11d ago
Slay the Princess is fully voiced, at least as far as I played it (I got pissed off and quit, IIRC).
"few remaining principled free speech advocates", as much as I agree with it, is rabble-rousing rhetoric. Ditto "Whether this helps or hurts her electoral chances will remain to be seen." and the drive-by well-poisoning in paragraphs 10 and 11.
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