The amazon definitely got the man-face treatment. The sorceress and assassin also got more conservative outfits, and they appear a bit older. The assassin also got reworked, the original is more of a femme fatale, and they race-swapped her to Asian.
Comparison image here - reddit link.
I remember people being mildly annoyed about it when the game came out, but they didn't do anything too crazy, so it was mostly just grumbling.
odd_primes
10d ago
The falls are neat but the surrounding area is a bit of a tourist trap. Niagara-on-the-lake is nearby and quite a bit nicer though, with lots of wineries and picturesque scenery. Stratford is also nearby.
If you're willing to travel a bit further Algonquin Park is about a 3 hour drive north. It's a beautiful national park with amazing fall colors this time of year. I'm sure there are decent closer options as well if you don't feel like driving that far.
Toronto itself doesn't have a lot to recommend it really. It's like a worse version of Chicago. The ROM is decent and they have some art galleries I guess? Given the choice I'd visit Montreal or Quebec City over Toronto, at least the French language and culture there is distinct and interesting.
odd_primes
11d ago
Geez, page 60 has a default admin password of 12345... There's a decent chance they just used that and then clicked the defrost button. It's fortunate that the attackers appear to have been unsophisticated, apparently you can also remotely upload new firmware and they don't describe any verification or signature validation.
Or maybe half a step more sophisticated they got VPN creds for the grocery store from a data breach or something, I doubt they were just sitting accessible on the internet. That's the sort of thing Shodan would have flagged years ago.
odd_primes
17d ago
I think it will take a while, particularly for large bureaucratic entities with entrenched market positions. Even in software engineering, a rather ridiculous amount of time is spent on coordination problems, figuring out what customers want, compliance and legal, flip-flopping management... If that overhead was previously say, 50%, even if LLMs can cut the dev time to zero, the maximum speedup is still only 2x. It's effectively an organizational version of Amdahl's law.
odd_primes
18d ago
COVID relief was basically helicopter money for the lower class who knew how to work the benefits system. From a zoomed out view it looks a lot like their stock tracking their target demographic's disposable income.
odd_primes
18d ago
That's the problem with everyone involved being drunk and high... Of the two men in the initial threesome, one fell asleep and couldn't perform, and the other started vomiting. No one had the mental capacity to consider the next morning.
odd_primes
18d ago
One thing to note is that only four of the men involved are accused of sexual acts. The "Cornell 7" is certainly a more attention-grabbing headline than the "Cornell 4" I suppose.
Ironically the frat president uninviting her from the Halloween party was probably an attempt at damage control. They had nasty rumors of a drug-fueled orgy floating around involving this woman already, they would have to be insane to invite her back (for one of the wildest parties of the year) and risk it happening again. And obviously it's a lot harder to uninvite the people who live there.
Right up until the rape accusation it looked like social shaming was mostly working as intended. Everyone involved made bad decisions and were getting mildly punished for them. The woman's social life was negatively impacted and rumors were going around about the frat being rapey. The issue is that the woman exercised a unilateral option to absolve herself of blame and dump 100x the consequences on the men.
odd_primes
29d ago
How advanced were non-English plagiarism checkers in 2012? Ripping off a Portuguese article by translating it into French seems like the kind of thing someone could get away with back then, but would get caught pretty trivially today by LLM analysis. No one looked too hard at random op-eds, but once the author got scrutiny by winning a major award he was doomed.
odd_primes
29d ago
It's pretty clearly a reference to Jason Ardnay, the black Cambridge professor who killed himself after being revealed to be a serial fabulist and plagiarist.
Yes, the ad was a bad move both morally and tactically. However, no one will care what Vance's opinion on this was in a week, let alone in two years. I guess he figured a bit of bad PR was better than intra-party drama. Now when Vivek loses he can't claim that he was stabbed in the back.
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