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ChickenOverlord
39m ago
All good bro, thanks for all you do to run this place!
Southkraut
The rain fell gentlier.
1hr ago
This is true, but it makes no difference. The suppression of their views was thorough enought hat whatever secret views they might have held in the back of their minds could not compete with the decidedly un-suppressed leftist tendencies of German society.
pigeonburger
1hr ago
English is #2, and my gut feeling us #3 is Arabic, though the dated info I find puts Italian slightly ahead of it.
hydroacetylene
1hr ago
What are the most common second and third languages around you?
Where I'm at Spanish is obviously #2, but Vietnamese is #3. I think Arabic is probably the fourth- the various dialects of India are too... various to bump either of those.
JarJarJedi
1hr ago
Post-war Germany adopted this, at the Allies' command, and went full hog
Yes, but. Initially, the former Nazis were hard suppressed. Then, they were softly and quietly let back into the normal life. Of course, no openly proclaiming their views allowed ever, but you could be, e.g., ex-Nazi - especially if it's low level position - and hold a government job. Even be a lawyer or a judge. I assume most of them are dead by now, but how ironic would it be if an ex-Nazi judge would imprison a Jew under the censorship laws meant to prevent the recurrence of Nazi atrocities?
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
1hr ago
Root for the Eagles today, I'm at the linc. If any of our Philly bros are in attendance hit me up for a beer. Go birds.
JarJarJedi
1hr ago
See, that's the difference. The left feels, with no supporting evidence (not that any were ever necessary), that the right wants to kill them. The right knows, on many past examples and repeated, incessant public confessions of the leftists themselves, that the left wants to kill them. And not only wants but does.
coffee_enjoyer
☕️
1hr ago
Pre-19th century art. For any scene, type scene + renaissance/medieval into google. Can use any terminology related to European art, but ignore everything Romantic and onward. Or even neoclassical and onward. With the exceptions of like William Blake and Gustave Dore it’s junk. For the passion, you can type in any phrase and find accompanying art. There’s probably at least 1000 individual pieces for every sentence of the passion
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/464349
There’s a cool collection of art with descriptions by a Jewish educational fund, too: https://talivisualmidrash.org.il/en/home/
This is less entertaining than a movie, but each piece is greater than any individual frame of a movie. Religious movies just never capture reverence or awe well.
Someone should devise a website that combines the best art, music, poetry and commentaries onto one web page for every scene in the Bible. That would be awesome.
ulyssessword
1hr ago
actually knowing how the mechanics work is a game-breaking superpower
See The Power of Ten for an exploration of that. TL;DR of every book in the series: The MC is a gamer dropped into a (real) world that runs on that game's logic. By using their (relatively modest) starting boost and (absurdly OP) mechanical knowledge, they grow powerful, save the world, and ascend to immortality.
I'm not sure about recommending that series based on its merits, but it absolutely 100% demonstrates that point.
Corvos
2hr ago
Old Testament, but The Promised Land is fun and free on Youtube:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=HSI04-1oLwg
The travails of Moses and the Israelites in the desert, done in the style of the Office. Funny without being a piss-take.
SubstantialFrivolity
I'm not even supposed to be here today
2hr ago
You can do the side content after finishing the story, and unless you want to absolutely rinse the final story boss you should.
Tanista
3hr ago
Just finished Passion of the Christ after attempting, and failing, to get back into the Chosen. Something about the story just doesn't click for me.
Recommendations for good Jesus-centered visual media?
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
3hr ago
My advice is to just go to the final area and finish the side content later, it's a better curve that way.
striker
3hr ago
Also Mach3 (or whatever other identical 3-blade I can find). I always use cream. I vary between cheap-as-chips shaving foam and more expensive lather with brush etc. I don’t think either gives me a better shave, but I feel better after the brush and lather exercise. It just takes a bit longer, so I don’t do it all the time. I rarely, if ever, cut. Can’t remember the last time I had one of any significance.
Iconochasm
2. Bootstrap the rest of the fucking omnipotence.
3hr ago
And yet there isn't a mass movement to remove stupid people from society.
Yes, there was. It was called "Eugenics" and "sterilize all the stupid people" was the American version of the movement. THey're the reason you can occasionally stumble across historical lines like "Thousands of people in X state were sterilized for feeblemindedness and being unfit". This was a popular political project, considered settled science, with broad institutional support.
But then they spent a chunk of the 30's bragging about how great it was that Mr. Hitler was finally enacting their ideas at scale in Europe (the European variant of eugenics generally focused on promoting more children among "the right sort"), and Western intelligencia is still reeling from the psychic scars of that endorsement. All that remains is grandfathered institutions like Planned Parenthood.
orthoxerox
If you can read this, you're using a custom theme
3hr ago
You know, I've never liked that pre-final chapter in JRPGs where you get to fly around the world map and collect ultimate powerups before tackling the final dungeon and the BBEG. The only one that made it interesting was FF6, where you were putting the team back together.
Well, I am not enjoying it in Clair Obscur, it's just a boss fight after boss fight that all hit hard enough that you have to perfect that dodge timing. I kinda want to skip to the final boss, but FOMO is keeping me back.
Soteriologian
5hr ago
Elden Ring (and other DS games, afaik) isn't balanced, though! That's my point! You can literally kill the bosses in 1 hit with the right setup (modulo scripted phase transitions)!
And this is especially interesting because the buffs at first glance don't seem like they should be that strong. For example, the Fire Scorpion Charm only gives like +12% to fire damage, and it increases your damage taken by 10% as punishment. Compare that with, say, the Flame Staff in FFXII, which gives +50%. The latter feels much stronger, while the former feels like it barely does anything and probably isn't worth using at all as a casual player.
The reason buffs are so overpowered in Elden Ring isn't because they're so strong; it's because there are so many, and they stack multiplicatively (when they stack at all, which they usually don't). This gives them a synergy that has a net effect far more powerful than the sum of its parts, most of which don't feel particularly powerful at all in isolation.
Here's an example setup: put your stat points in strength, choose a heavy weapon (eg, Giant Hammer), set the Royal Knight's Resolve ashes of war (+80% to the next attack), equip the charge attack talisman (+10% charge attack), set your physick to strength tear and charge tear (+15% charge attack), set an aura buff (e.g., Golden Vow, +15% attack), set a body buff (e.g., Bloodboil Aromatic, +30% attack), equip Red Feather Branch talisman (+20% damage when hp low), wave the Commander's Standard (+20% damage). When you multiply all these out, it's an almost 500% boost! That is a ludicrous, game-breaking amount of damage.
There are lots of variations, especially for fire or holy-weak enemies, and you can freely tweak it around for your convenience -- I mean hey, if you do it suboptimally and it takes a whole two hits to knock the boss into the next phase, will it really ruin your day? You can even do a half-decent version of it using only ingredients from Limgrave (greataxe+6/charge talisman/charge physick tear/determination AOW/golden vow AOW/Oath of Vengeance/exalted flesh). It will take 2 hits to knock Margit to phase 2, which I'd say is sufficient to call imba and say it trivializes the boss.
For what it's worth, the reason this is so counterintuitive is that you cannot just stack buffs arbitrarily, despite the fact that it probably sounds like you can from the above. For example, if you try to use Exalted Flesh and Vyke's Dragonbolt at the same time, this will not work, because these two buffs occupy the same internal "slot" (called "body buff"). To me this is highly counterintuitive, as one of these is a consumable item and the other is a spell, and they don't have effects that are remotely similar. In contrast, you can stack Flame, Grant Me Strength and Golden Vow, despite these both being incantations and having almost the same effects. There is, of course, nothing in the game that explains any of this.
Anyway, my point is the degree of trivialization you get by actually knowing the game mechanics is not normal. Contrast Elden Ring with, say, Kingdom Hearts: there is no amount of game knowledge that will allow you to kill Sephiroth in one hit, or even get remotely close. Knowing the game mechanics does not trivialize the game.
Lizzardspawn
5hr ago
Sometimes straight razor, but most of the time Leafshaver. Think of it as Mach 3 with replacable blades for which you use safety razor blades broken in 2. It is brilliant for head, armpits and other stuff and nice on the face (do disinfect if you use only one)
fmaa
5hr ago
Except those words would describe Scott, a majority of the SSC commentariat and half the Motte before its evaporation over the past couple of years.
And yet very few if any of these people would agree that TPs description fits them, even beyond the parts where he still couldn't resist more boos ("protects (favored) groups as legitimate victims but doesn't really protect individuals" is nobody's self-description).
RandomRanger
Just build nuclear plants!
5hr ago
I'm quite impressed with the writing. I do these self-insert text adventures with it, with a system prompt designed to make it somewhat challenging. There are good realistic complications, though it does like to railroad me a bit into being a niceguy. I can unrailroad it though as I wish. Real tension and immersion as my domineering tactics meet and overcome complications.
I think it's leagues above Grok 4 in creativity and not putting random weblink soup everywhere. Grok 4 is good, very uninhibited but it's way too adherent to the system prompt, it can get kind of boring. Sonnet on the other hand deviates towards Sonnetism and its special interests, so there are swings and roundabouts. I use both via API if that makes any difference.
Anyway, I reckon you should use a system prompt that explains exactly what kind of tone you're looking for, the main prompt should be free of that.
TowardsPanna
8hr ago
That's pretty good.
ActuallyATleilaxuGhola
Axolotl Tank Class of '24
9hr ago
You know where to find out postmortem template. You can use Gemini but be discreet about it. Drop a link to your PR in Slack when you're done.
(but srsly, thanks for your hard work and transparency)
At the end of the day, getting married is a leap of trust. Some people figure out they are aligned in values and take the plunge early, trusting in mutual commitment to make it work. Others move as slowly as my fiancee and I did, and the official commitment is just recognition of a trust and commitment that already exists. At the end of the day, all you need to figure out is when you reach the point that you believe the two of you are on the same page about what a life together should look like, and how much you are willing to work and compromise in order to bring that dream into reality. The appropriate timeline for you will be greatly dependent on the potential spouse you are considering. Don't think about when you need to leap into bed as an answer you need to have worked out, but as a chance to build or test that level of trust and communication you need to develop to make a marriage work. If you wait too long and she dips because of it without giving you a chance to fix the issue, well, marriage wouldn't have worked out anyway.
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