HalloweenSnarry
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HalloweenSnarry
2mo ago
What does "5 Flags" mean in this context?
HalloweenSnarry
2mo ago
I've been skeptical of these claims that Biden's own side sent him out to die during the first debate. I guess I forgot how much the moderators can put their finger on the scale when they really want to. They absolutely could have rescued Biden back then. +1 for that having been a palace coup.
I have not watched either of these debates, but did the moderators for Biden's debate with Trump not also try to give him some easy lay-ups?
HalloweenSnarry
2mo ago
The reply girls are arguably a big part of the reason why modern YouTube isn't what it used to be--the company changed the algorithm to punish reply girls, but it also punished non-garbage content in the process.
HalloweenSnarry
2mo ago
Galactica probably does deserve some of the blame, but I frankly suspect a lot of that was mostly just the post-9/11 zeitgeist (which itself influenced new!BSG). It felt like everything got darker, edgier, and more cynical around that time.
HalloweenSnarry
2mo ago
Maybe there's a synthesis here: Hollywood did use to be pretty corrupt and nepotistic in a way that everyone knew about, but now it's corrupt and nepotistic in a different way we're not aware of.
HalloweenSnarry
2mo ago
In mild, mild fairness, I could imagine that, like with North Koreans, the modal Iranian might carry much less hatred towards an ordinary American in isolation compared to the totality, but that probably doesn't scale well.
HalloweenSnarry
2mo ago
Fair assessment! I don't know if that's how they try and mold their own universities back home, but that is all plausible, I think.
HalloweenSnarry
2mo ago
Arguably Japan more or less made the console a thing.
I'd quibble and say that us Americans made the console (Atari and Fairchild), the Japanese just figured out how to make them a sustainable business by learning from our mistakes.
HalloweenSnarry
2mo ago
Honestly, there's lots of games that feel Portal-inspired, even if they aren't particularly Portal-like in raw gameplay terms. It wasn't just a well-made 3D puzzler with a good story, it was practically the Myst of the 2000's.
HalloweenSnarry
2mo ago
However your effortpost turns out, perhaps you should open it with "Call of Duty 4 and its consequences have been a disaster for the Gamer race."
Seriously, that game's progression system for multiplayer practically changed how games are built and designed, not to mention how many people wanted the COD crowd in its wake (which coined the Seven Words of Death for many a game: "we want the Call of Duty audience").
HalloweenSnarry
2mo ago
There's Presidential and other government-given awards, though, no?
HalloweenSnarry
2mo ago
At this point, I wonder if we in the US could somehow shift our immigration strategy to target South Koreans. We receive people who will be good citizens and diligent workers, they get a society that isn't as insanely high-pressure.
HalloweenSnarry
2mo ago
China can point to the Western university and say, "not only is this fundamentally less valid as a measurement than our traditional form of examination, but it is an affront to our socialist value of equality." And I'm sure they do. A lot.
Not to make a snide quip, but I doubt they do, because they seem fine with sending their kids to our colleges--because, for all of Western education's sins, there's still enough value in it for it to be a potential matter of geopolitical strategy.
HalloweenSnarry
2mo ago
I honestly thought a big chunk of the popularity was because it did the gun girl thing like the anime Upotte!, but also paired it with an interesting sci-fi story. Like, Arknights was made by some of the same devs, and that also caught on real good even though it mostly lacked gun girls. Interesting.
HalloweenSnarry
3mo ago
MiHoYo's popular titles - Genshin, Honkai Star Rail, Zenless Zero - caught on in many ways because they just aped Japanese anime styling to the extent that initial players would have no idea they are Chinese made. I played a lot of Chinese gacha and other phone games in the past, and they were nowhere near as accessible as those titles.
Did those other titles include games like Girls' Frontline or Arknights? Those games also lean heavily on the anime style (even to the point of relying on Japanese VA), and also deemphasize Chinese-ness considerably.
HalloweenSnarry
3mo ago
The insistence on neat systemic or material explanations for social phenomena is one of the terribly bad habits we inherited from the Rat community.
Because Scott put it best: society is fixed, biology is mutable. Dump $chemical into the water to improve things? Quite feasible! Contemplate modifying the human genome to improve humans in the womb? This isn't the 90's anymore, this isn't science-fiction! Create the Miracle Pill? Well, nowadays it feels like there's more candidates for the title than there were a decade ago!
Budge society into a healthier memeplex? You might as well ask for the sun to not rise.
HalloweenSnarry
3mo ago
I'll take a wi-fi chip, and eat it!
HalloweenSnarry
3mo ago
I'd heard the reason was "to catch Trump off-guard," among others, but that simply turned out to be a grave miscalculation on the part of the Dems, which they might not repeat with Harris.
HalloweenSnarry
3mo ago
Isn't Minnesota known for Swedish-Americans anyways, though?
HalloweenSnarry
3mo ago
I, an atheist, went to a Christian college (as it seemed like a safer/saner choice than the local state school), and I wasn't required to make a faith statement (that I remember), though I was instead required to take a "Christian Worldview" class.
HalloweenSnarry
3mo ago
Well, not follow, but YouTube has taught me more than I ever thought I wanted to learn about it.
HalloweenSnarry
3mo ago
It does call to mind the comical depiction of the FBI in the movie Die Hard
Tropes often have a basis in real life, IMO. Much of the classic media we've grown up with was created by people who had the real-life experience to back up their storytelling, so it should figure that the trope of "fed-vs-non-fed tension" has very real roots in reality.
HalloweenSnarry
3mo ago
Pfizer beat you to the punch (pun not intended) by about 22 years. It was in NASCAR, though.
HalloweenSnarry
3mo ago
My naive impression is that boxing does have an element of attrition, and that after a few rounds of throwing and taking punches, your ability to continue doing so diminishes at a somewhat-more-than-linear rate.
The Indian one at least has an explanation of "Indians idolize white skin and see it as perfect," AIUI.
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