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11mo ago
All the extensions that I saw that said they did this are defunct now. There's a program for doing it but it sounds like more of a hassle than it's worth if this is happening all the time.
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1yr ago
- It's faster, maybe? Though it's not really that strange for someone to have something like steak and potatoes and eat the steak and then the potatoes or vice versa. Or maybe it's just preferring more flavoring to less. I don't know how you'd measure that though. Is grilled chicken in a tortilla more or less flavorful than fried chicken?
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1yr ago
I take everything from Gen Z with a grain of salt. I'm sure there are some people that believe these things but I really think it's all just irony and post-irony all the way down. Just replace sarcastic with ironic here: https://youtube.com/watch?v=udJw-CzX7sA
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1yr ago
Yeah, I hate Destiny 2 because they basically took away things I spent money on and both pvp and pve just feels like a treadmill of weekly chores/missions, but man do they know how to make shooting things fun.
FPS games aren't really my thing but I've recently heard good things about Trepang2 but it's apparently very short. I've also heard near universal acclaim for Titanfall 2 and it's, from what I've read and heard, the epitome of move fast and shoot stuff.
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1yr ago
Well, now you're moving the goalposts, I wasn't talking about whether they broke the rules but if they were comparable to the above post's rulebreaking.
It's not about length, you literally didn't put in enough effort for me to adequately understand what you meant by your response because it was just a vague half-answer that may as well have told him to google something. Which could have been a glib dismissal (as a sarcastic example of the responses to yours) or a genuine attempt to direct him to information but it was vague enough that I couldn't parse it.
I don't think anyone should be in trouble for their posts in that thread but if they are it should start with the OP. The OP post was literally just boo outgroup disguised as boo ingroup with some extra boo outgroup thrown in as well. The fact that you were hurt as a vegan is important but you never made mention of that in your post and kept it vague. If you hadn't been vague and said you were a vegan and effective altruists/rationalists have a good handle on explaining the rationale behind their lifestyle that isn't annoying then the responses to yours would be as bad as the one you're saying is comparable but you didn't, which is my point about being low-effort, not that you broke the rules but that you simply didn't put the full amount of effort I would expect of someone invested in the topic to give, which as a bystander makes me think you don't care all that much on the topic and the responses to yours may break the rules but don't really matter all that much because they're responding to someone that doesn't care all that much.
Maybe it's just me but I think the rules are sieved through each response made. Nearly every post three deep breaks the rules but eventually it becomes "no fun allowed", no quips, no jokes, no turn of phrases, no statement of opinions without reams of ink. If you have a problem with those posts they stem from the OP and you really have a problem with that which basically stated the exact same thing but also said "change my mind." I understand you were hurt but you really shouldn't hold onto it like this because this situation is not comparable.
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2yr ago
I have no idea why you've gone into multi-quote argument failure mode. I mostly agree with you and just think it's still not unlikely that they manipulated data because I'm biased that way and I've explained why.
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2yr ago
I'm not saying I agree with Nybbler. Someone behaving poorly does not excuse behaving poorly yourself. That edit's purpose is to be a petty insult, if it wasn't there'd be no reason to mention the person you're insulting. You could have easily just left the name out, but you wanted it to be insulting. I was asked to review the original post before I went into the thread and I thought it needed a warning because of the way it just called out another user seemingly for no reason. But after reading your post in response, the edit of that, and then the edit of the original post. It's just pure insult and pretending to be otherwise. I can understand banter and swipes and barbs to people with whom we disagree. But you go out of your way to humiliate and troll other users and get away with it because they made a mistake and were wrong and you are right. It's an aggressive and uncharitable trend you make a habit of and it disappoints me immensely that you can just get away with it because you do it with a smile and a bunch of links.
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2yr ago
In the context of the show Don spent all day thinking about the guy he told he didn't think about at all. He even went out of his way to sabotage him by leaving behind Ginsberg's ad pitch so he could only do his own because he knew that his was inferior.
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2yr ago
Yeah, I just left the page because I didn't really know what to do for that. I felt like giving a neutral to a bad comment would be seen as poor meta-modding and I have no idea if they can still see deleted comments or if they can see the time that I rated the comment in relation to when it was deleted and I'd rather earn my bad meta-mod reputation honestly.
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2mo ago
I'd say what whiningcoil said was carefully worded if his intent was something similar to capital room's. I think you meant to say you've never seen a carefully worded long piece get modded around here. And it's true, just write two paragraphs and your week ban will end up just being a day or write seven paragraphs and you'll just get a warning, despite the content being exactly distilled down to the single sentence it could have been. Words, words, words, should literally be written in to the rules.
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2mo ago
You were a part of the discussion that happened two months ago that pointed out that the post cited in TW's Schism reasoning post which did not call for violence. And even the spicier FC post cited by others doesn't seem to be calling for violence either unless you interpret people saying that they hate and want others to die as being actual calls to violence which is not how I understand the term/phrase. I'm guessing you disagree or maybe didn't see the posts Nybbler made.
For me, saying you think that the only solution is killing people and saying that you hate these people and if they tried to destroy your home/city that you'd kill them is a far cry from the same thing. But no amount of words, words, words is going to make it acceptable for FC to have said that the right should just start shooting leftists because they are evil and not because they should defend their lives and property with violence and that they're indifferent to their own destruction because they believe they are evil.
I just want to make it clear that I really don't think calls of violence are allowed or tolerated,even if worded eloquently or verbosely. In fact, for the most part tiny posts like capital's or whining's are let slide far more often and mostly because it's assumed that we give charity to other posts. Capital's is pretty impossible to afford charity to but Whining's post is pretty easy to do so.
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3mo ago
I'm nearly certain it was 20th Century Fox but I can understand the confusion as by the time show actually ended 20th Century Fox didn't exist anymore and became 20th Century Television when Disney bought them which also happens to own ABC so really the show ended in the hands of ABC anyway in a roundabout way.
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5mo ago
If you've seen backpack battles (the link is a demo), it's very similar. Basically, it's an autobattler where you buy/obtain items between asynchronous PVP battles (the battles are fought based on other players' setup but you're not playing against them in real time) and the items will synergise with each other in more and more complex ways. So, say you get a bunch of fruit and each fruit does a specific buff between attacks and you also have something like a fruit bag which gives a buff for each fruit you have.
To me, nothing about the bazaar looks better or more interesting than backpack battles, in fact it looks dumbed down and mobile-gamed by comparison, but it seems like people like it a lot better but I've heard people say they preferred its less complicated take. Though I prefer Super Auto Pets to Backpack Battles but maybe that's just beause it's perfectly playable on mobile (maybe the Bazaar will be but it's still in beta and PC only for now, I think). Funnily enough both of these other games were inspired by the Bazaar which has been in development for the better part of a decade.
Though I'm maybe too biased since the genre isn't for me since I don't like PVP games as they turn into perfect play or lose simulators after a few months.
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11mo ago
I can see that. I keep thinking about undecideds and middle America I completely forgot that most people simply don't vote and democrats have a bigger base.
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11mo ago
Thank you. I wonder if not having a direct competitor at this point is having an effect in any way. Much the same as "generic democrat" or "generic republican" can probably beat any specific democrat or republican. I think until he gets into a debate or does like a 60 minutes interview most of this is prognosticating without enough information. Palin not being able to name books or supreme court decisions is a kind of gaff/failure that moves the needle in my mind and as long as Vance can come across as even slightly intelligent he won't be impactful to the election. The fact that they're going so hard and so constantly against him with so little means, in my mind, they don't have much to tar him with. I am surprised they seem to have him out there appealing to the base though, maybe they needed to appeal to republicans more than independents.
Maybe his freshness or even appeal to republicans is a reason to pick him, but maybe it's just that Trump can stand him and considering the volatility of trying to get a VP that might publicly disagree with Trump and get Trump to start huffing and puffing at his own party it might be better to pick an "unlikable toady" than someone who might cause Trump to gaffe himself out of the election. It heads off Trump tripping over himself down the line. Who knows what strategy was put into the choice or if there wasn't any at all, really. Trump feels like a black box that you can't mess with if you want it to perform, if he decides it's JD Vance, then just let it be and try to make best of what you have.
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2yr ago
Well, I know that it's not apples to apples because of inertia and expectations but, right now, top level threads get much less engagement and very little debate compared to top level comments in the cw thread. And I still view being buried as a positive thing for broader engagement. Long endless threads on particular topics become dominated by whoever has the biggest hobby-horse investment in the topic and there's just endless multi-quotes between people arguing about nigh useless minutiae that a casual debater/observer has no interest in. Refreshing the topic constantly allows it to return to a state of wider focus. This is just my experience with forums and "general threads".
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2yr ago
I was trying to imply you didn't do that but what it would be like if you did.
That wasn't my contention that was the judge's contention when he struck the suit. WaPo and CNN settled the case last year. The rest of his cases were struck down by a judge a few months ago, I assumed people here would've been aware of that. I saw it Deadline with all the comments celebrating that the racists lost. I guess if no one makes a top level post about it here it might as well never have happened.
Your line of reasoning also assumes that each media outlet had the exact same level of potential culpability which would be impossible unless they all posted the same articles and made the same tweets. It's possible CNN and WaPo settled because they thought the cases against them were strong and the other outlets didn't settle because the cases against them were weaker.
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2yr ago
I live in southern California and fireworks are going off for about a week prior and a week after the fourth pretty consistently. Though there's not a large Hispanic population in my immediate area but in any case it certainly is not just the day before or after. Last week I thought there was a series of gunshots going off until I realized the fourth was coming up. It doesn't bother me terribly except when its past midnight.
I saw a news story yesterday about California getting its biggest wildfire of the year so far starting last Wednesday. It struck me that if they ran a fake story about a huge wildfire starting the week before the fourth it might help people who start fires with fireworks show some restraint, but then I thought who am I kidding? It's possible people might think protecting the nerves of animals and veterans is a better way to tell people to stop than just telling them they might start a fire.
I played through past the first real boss and missing the QTEs is very punishing. I haven't encountered a one-shot but if they're all missed you will lose. It's not an optional feature you can ignore.
There is a tutorial girl you fight and before the game starts proper you can fight her again and she has two attacks. One is easily dodged or even parried, the other was a combo of attacks that I wasn't able to dodge ever, even having failed the battle twice. The dodge/parry window feels really bad. I had to stop and look it up and someone on reddit said that the game is very punishing if you're used to dodging and parrying like it's Dark Souls because it's already too late if you're trying to hit the button the moment before the attack like how it works in more action oriented games. The main problem is a lot of the attacks work like I described the tutorial girl, they're either pretty easy to dodge or fuck I can't imagine ever dodging that.
Thankfully that side battle was harder than anything else even the first real boss. Partly because the game is in many other ways like Dark Souls. It seems designed so that everything can strictly be accomplished without leveling up at all because dodges and parries negate all damage and every enemy attack seems to be able to be dodged and parried.
The game, so far, is entirely linear with many small secret hidden areas and one side mini-boss. There are rest points that refill health, let you level up, and respawn normal enemies. Without intentionally grinding, but still searching all the dead end branches that came from the path, I was killing normal enemy groups without them ever having the chance to attack. And the first boss, I missed several QTEs against it and was still easily able to kill it without too much trouble (maybe it gets worse this boss was fairly slow in its attacks). But you seem to be able to infinitely spawn enemies and just grind levels if something is too hard. If the pattern follows what I've seen either one-shotting bosses must come much later or people are playing glass cannons because you can upgrade health and defense which I've been doing since I suck at dodging.
This does seem to have the hallmarks of most things I dislike about modern JRPGs. QTEs forced into combat, armor is cosmetic only, your equipment is basically just three slots of accessories and bespoke weapon classes for each character, extremely linear (so far), only three characters in battles (I haven't gotten that far but it looks like this is true), it takes like an hour for the game to actually get started-- but in spite of all that it's fun, the story is well told and actually doesn't waste time despite taking forever to start. Combat is fun even if the QTEs are there to enshitify it (imo). Basically in combat you have guns which let you use mana points as a single bullet and you can shoot the enemies weak points for massive damage or break down shields with them, it gives a good feeling of freedom within the combat to do a lot and I assume it gets more complex later because I have a piece of equipment that has a chance to give an enemy burn on gunshot and another that gives crit bonuses to enemies carrying burn status. It feels good that there's designed patterns of combat that give the whole thing a kind of choreographed cadence if I didn't have to dodge the enemies after it'd feel better but beggars can't be choosers.
I'm the kind of person that outright throws games away if they seem to rely too much on the timing based things in turn based systems (chained echoes, sea of stars) and this game does that and maybe worse but I don't feel like throwing it away because the story and presentation seems far more interesting and actually told by an adult to an adult and I it doesn't feel like it's yanking me around in terms of story switching perspectives, endless exposition or tutorialising. I'd definitely recommend it with the caveat that yeah the dodging is there, it's bad (half the time) and it matters way more than I'd like. I only hope that people are wrong about being one-shot by bosses and haven't upgraded their defense or health at all.
Editing because I just started playing again and the moment after I had quit and made this post the very next thing was entering into an overworld to explore so it's no longer a Final Fantasy XIII-esque hallway rpg. So, basically linear for the first hour of actual gameplay, I suppose.
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2mo ago
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel is just a higher budget/concept Gilmore Girls. Though it has better beats because it doesn't have to pad out entire seasons with silly plots and being something of a more exacting version of what came before it necessarily makes most of it better. Gilmore girls took like a season or more to find itself but the same kind of comedy, cadence of writing, loveably weird characters all exist there and if you're willing to deal with something 50% more plodding and girly, it's definitely worth a watch even if Lorelai is a much harder character to like than Miriam. It even does has the same thing where pretty much every man in the show is nearly perfect (except one or two) save for flaws that are basically trying to be remedied which makes them look even more perfect (like Joel in Maisel). There's also Bunheads which was the interim between Gilmore Girls and Marvelous Mrs Maisel which again is basically the same show with different content again. I do think that Daniel Palladino became more involved in the writing with Maisel than he had been previously, though he still was fairly involved but I think it made Maisel sharper or more cutting rather previous iterations. And the show basically existed mostly pre-woke being standard for TV shows so it's not really threading any needle. In fact many of the storylines which were probably thought of as benign back then wouldn't exist.
The Good Wife was a show I really liked but gave up about four or five seasons in because I could not handle the fact they stopped giving you information about the cases, but just started in the middle of the case and the audience wasn't privy to all the information about so it was hard to form an opinion on.
The Good Fight I watched all of because it was just that insane. It threads no needle and is basically about Trump Derangement Syndrome. And it's very hard to tell if they're being ironic. To some extent I think they are being ironic to have a certain amount of plausible deniability but I think they did lean into it specifically because I think it's literally what it is about. The main character is completely broken by Trump being elected that they try to change their life, they dedicate their life and time into fighting Trump, the world has this weird sheen that's somewhere between The Good Wife and Evil (another King spouses show) where Trump's impact on the world is given this surreal aspect. My brother once asked me if the show was being ironic when seeing an episode out of context and I said it was being post-ironic, which is something I'm not really sure what it means. But I think it absolutely is about people who have TDS are self-aware that they have it and just have to live it while they try to fix the reality warping impact of Trump by doing everything they can to fight his policies. But it's actually something where the people who are advocating for these things are not really trying to do it with misrepresentations, it does elide a lot of arguments that would win but gives the other side a lot more room to speak than most shows about wokeness (in the same vein as the good wife but not having nearly anyone who's a real main character representing the right, so it could come off that only side characters and bad guys represent anything pro trump or anti-woke) and I think part of the weird post-ironic aspect is the dissonance a smart person who understands that Trump is just a man is effected far beyond the capacity that a man should be able to impact so Trump becomes this kind of icon in the show that not only represents everything wrong with the world but a Cthulhu that always swims right and can only be observed with horror. The show starts the main character seeing Trump get elected on the news and dropping their wine glass in horror and ends with trump announcing his next campaign and dancing around as they watch in horror.
This is just a description because it's another spinoff of the Good Wife and not really a recommendation in any way: Elsbeth is another spinoff of the good wife and if you like or hate her character you'll know where you'll stand on that show. It's a Columbo made for children though it started a bit better than that, it's basically devolved into complete nonsense where characters act like they're from a Disney channel sitcom. I wouldn't recommend it unless you find Elsbeth from the Good Wife/Fight delightful and even then only for the first season. But I have a bias against Columbo style mysteries because they show you who did it (and this is even worse because at least Columbo has figure out how, Elsbeth just knows immediately past the pilot episode). It also is getting woker as it goes along but in the benign Disney channel sense where the preaching is not subtle but also seems like it's intended for children and not even in a condescending way.
Evil (sadly not a spinoff of The Good Wife) is another King spouses show that has a lot of modern/woke themes throughout. It basically takes the tone that woke is right by default and it is pervasive in culture but it's not worth getting in to the weeds over. So it will deal with a lot of woke topics but not really address them as you need to be preached about them. Just that woke is right (or mostly right) and lets deal with demon possession or whatever X-files thing they have this episode. It's actually very good at sort of presenting the modern world and not really giving too much of a shit about making it about being moral for a show about good and evil which is interesting. My main problem with the show is that it deliberately does not resolve information. It will show you demons, monsters, evil AI, and sort of just go well that exists (or maybe doesn't) your investigation is over. There is a lot of histrionic parenting and children talking over each other and a lot of people who checked out early cited these as problems but in terms of presenting the culture war aspect of the world and not really becoming a focused diatribe against it, it's better than the good fight and from what I can remember probably as good as the good wife because back then it was less contentious to be differently political/cultural than it was to be when Evil came out. (And I say sadly it's not a spinoff is because the main villain is Michael Emerson who is married to Elsbeth in real life and it would have been great to have their characters interact, he just plays a bogstandard villain Elsbeth when they finally got them together but Emerson's character here is great because he's almost like a cross between a Hannibal Lechter and Wile E. Coyote which the dissonance does kind of ruin the horror aspect of it but it makes his villainy fairly endearing.)
Another recent(?) show that thread the ideological needle is The Resident. It was a medical procedural that redeems what old men bad guys and has a black man and asian man as a villain at one point. It has some preaching about things but it's mostly about stuff like guns are bad and do a lot of damage (the most culture war thing I think I can remember) but wokeness is even less present than something like the Pitt and it feels like they listened to their experts, at least for the first few seasons, and they'd often mention things that feel like actual concerns of doctors. It's a terrestrial tv show and I wouldn't say it's great but it's passible and I remember very little overbearing wokeness that rubbed me the wrong way and I was surprised at how the show seemed to not get drowned out in being about the moral aspect of everything that happens (like the Good Doctor). If you like slightly above average medical shows then I'd recommend it but you gotta want a medical show and the standard familial/friend drama in any show that goes on for 20 episodes a season. Along with The Good Wife (Cary) and Gilmore Girls (Logan), it also stars Matt Czuchry who is pretty easy to look at (though gets a bit too thin in this show).
I wouldn't recommend this show unless you just like watching TV and don't care if it's good or bad but one thing I've pointed out before is Switched at Birth which had a whole arc about campus rape that was misinterpreted by everyone and resulted in a worse situation for all involved because the bureaucracy that had to happen because of the report (of which was done without the knowledge of the person raped) ruined everyone involved and there was no real bad guys except for the people that decided to report drunken sex (where the girl just reported she felt bad about it) as rape for someone else and the school destroying the man afterward because it was just a blanket policy for any situation where this came up. Her reputation is ruined as a liar because she didn't even believe she was raped and he reputation became that of a rapist. A lot of people were really mad that the storyline existed at all because they felt it denigrated women by not showing an actual situation that involved real rape.
Oh, there's also Criminal (UK): It's only a few episodes for each season and it also goes both ways on culture war aspects but it definitely shows the limits of what we should accept as blanket fact just because of the culture is woke. I'm actually shocked that the episode was allowed to come out considering how anti-woke it ends, a certain second season episode. Otherwise it's a pretty good show with a neat idea of being just the interview with the criminal and nothing else and watching them crack the case during the interview (it's not always about getting them to confess). Criminal Germany was probably the best one and Criminal France the weakest. But I really only remember the UK one dealing with the "woke" reality of the world, and maybe it doesn't thread the needle more than just showing results like the above campus rape situation where intentions and belief are not worth more than evidence.
I know he does sort of misrepresent republicans as confused democrats in his shows but Aaron Sorkin almost always has this idea of the world where people from both sides have ideas worth listening to and even moreso once he left the west wing (though I still think he ghostwrote for it occasionally) as people who can also put aside their differences and solve the world's problems. It's a little irritating listening to characters who are so smart they can't be wrong even if you agree with them but it never went out of its way to truly present people on the right as morally bad which I think is basically just the standard worldview of a young leftist person, sadly. Back when Studio 60 came out the show was basically the subtext of Sorkin have a relationship with a Christian woman and being angry and embittered about it because of his own Reddit style atheism but by the end the character that thinks this way is praying to God. Sure, it's a kind of literary reversal that's probably just for drama but I do think it works in a threading the needle kind of way where even if it's just something done with no lasting impact to wring as much out of a situation as possible it's still better than where we were a few years ago with New Amsterdam and All Rise that were basically pure propaganda in one direction.
I have so many shows in my head I can't really remember anything right now but if I remember more I'll post more, but there's still tons that exist before the current year and get to feel as good as the ones that thread the needle without really having any woke content at all. Granted a lot still fought the culture war in their own way, but it was so much better than it is now.
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2mo ago
Well, then I'm not sure what your response is supposed to mean. FC didn't call for violence, neither did WhiningCoil. How do you get around this unwritten rule that means if you post something short you will be interpreted as uncharitably as possible? I guess words, words, words works in the way it always does for every rule here but WhiningCoil didn't break the rule, at least not the one they're blaming him for. And your suggestion seems more like a "how do you get away with writing bullshit on your homework? just write nonsense for a few pages they never actually read it." than a real suggestion of how someone should conduct themselves.
And I should note that FC was warned for that post, just not banned. So, even your acceptable version of how to express oneself in that situation is not a pure example of the right way to post.
You should get a couple days ban for being so antagonistic. That edit to the original post is a shameful act for someone that's supposed to be a mod.
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