NickRiviera
13d ago
It establishes a best-bro relationship in the first game and gives you the option to put it in his butt in the second one. I feel like that's a pretty big change in the game's central themes.
It's a great place to go as a tourist. It might be a muslim country, but its not too-muslim. (The first cab-driver I met had me taking shots of his moonshine in the back of the taxi-van.) The vibes in the western part of the country are more like Greece. Lots of Roman ruins to see (Ephesus), there's also a place where a water spring with high calcium content comes out at the top of a hill and covers the entire hill with calcium formations, very scenic.
What I've noticed is a very inconsistent double standard on what the definition of "species" is in biology. Isn't it interesting how all the extinct races (like Homo luzonensis) get classed as proto-human variants while all the ones that survived to modernity are homo sapiens sapiens? This is even the case when the "non-human" great-apes like Homo neanderthalis were much more intelligent/advanced than some of the extant varieties of Homo sapiens. That taboo on calling people monkeys is clearly downstream of public awareness that the "academic" understanding of human taxonomy are politically motivated and don't stand up to scrutiny.
NickRiviera
25d ago
I think that when they say they are out of training data, they mean they are out of legal training data. There's a lot of low-hanging illegal fruit they could pick. Goodle hasn't used everybody's gmail inboxes. I have about hundreds of thousands of pieces of input data they could harvest that way.
NickRiviera
25d ago
What they do is hire people to make new training data. There's a few online platforms where you can get paid to do this. I've been paid to do this.
NickRiviera
25d ago
Maybe they use the automatic conversation transcription technology that logs every conversation held in hearing range of a cell phone and transmits it to the government. Text transcripts of everything said in the United States for the past few years would certainly feed their data need.
It's been possible for a long time now, there's no way they aren't doing this.
NickRiviera
28d ago
A fertility crisis would be a black swan event that could cause a reversal. The bubonic plague had a pretty big impact on labor value and social order, and that was only a 30% population reduction.
NickRiviera
28d ago
Prone gets used 20x as often as supine, at least in English.
NickRiviera
29d ago
I checked because you mentioned it and I had biweekly and semiweekly reversed in my head even though biannual and semiannual follow the same pattern and were saved correctly in my memory. I feel like a public school teacher may have done this to me.
NickRiviera
29d ago
wire-rimmed glasses,
Wire-rimmed or frameless (Jebs) are Republican coded now, leftists wear thick plastic frames (Maddows).
Unless they're round, John Lennons can be wire-rim without being right wing.
Remember to always carry both kinds for whenever you need to shapeshift fit in.
NickRiviera
29d ago
"the only position of women in the movement is prone"
I'm trying to figure this one out, do they have something against missionary position? Is missionary the white man's sex position?
Laying on your back is supine, prone is how you shoot a rifle at a distant target.
Are they saying they want their women to be sexually available or crawling around with rifles?
Or is this a proto-Mixalot saying that he likes women to have butts so large that they have to sleep prone because laying on their back would be too uncomfortable?
NickRiviera
29d ago
I've only heard it from zionist republicans as a way to refer to anti-zionist right wingers without having to talk about what they believe that makes them woke (that Israel is committing genocide in Palestine).
NickRiviera
29d ago
I bought something through marketplace the other day and paid through the app. The person never sent what I ordered, I reported them to facebook and they gave me my money back.
So it seems like they're doing it.
Hoffmeister25 was just paraphrasing a very widely discussed Pew Research Finding and talking about the potential reason behind the non-controversial fact that "Black people care more about being Black than white people care about being white." There's an order of magnitude difference in the proportion of people giving the most extreme poll response.
I actually changed my mind about the crab bucket bit and edited that out before I saw your response to it. I wrote it before I spent some more time reading Hanania's timeline and losing the will to disapprove of the people attacking him.
I forgive him for namefagging because he didn't start doing it until he was outed by a journalist and made unemployable. Namefagging is his only way to make a living now, he has no choice. He could have been a right wing youtuber if he wanted, but instead he decided to picks fights with his former comrades for twitter-clout.
JD Vance did the same thing in 2016 and he was forgiven. So it's never too late to repent, I guess.
I went into that data prepared to agree with you and I'm not seeing that big of a difference. Set it to Tuesday and flip through the routes labeled "Affected" and they seem barely changed. I personally would be much more annoyed paying $9 every day than pleased by the 5% improvement in transit time. The hedonic treadmill will make you forget all about the benefit of lessened traffic but you'll get to experience the annoyance at the toll every single day you pay it.
spamming the comments section of the debate with petty insults about his appearance
Hanania did help bring it on himself by intentionally riling up the Chuds during the H1B visa kerfuffle.
The comments on that reddit post are not as one-sided as I expected, looks like this issue splits redditors differently than the other wedge issues.
Got any suggestions? They're not going to use Khazaria. They'd probably be best off calling the entire country something derived from Kiev or Kievan Rus, but the syllable Rus is probably out of consideration now as well. Kievia? "Geralt of Kievia" sounds plausible. Maybe "Kievan Republic" could work like Czechia/Czech Republic.
Edit: Nobody calls Basque Country Euskadi
NickRiviera
1mo ago
Watching people bristle at the word "the" is amusing enough that I sometimes do it out of contrarianism. I have no opinion whatsoever.
I'd be excited to see whatever alpha versions you come up with, and I know there's a couple game developers here.
I wish someone would make a good VR port of a drone flight simulator like Liftoff. Doesn't seem like it would even be all that hard to do, but it wouldn't be profitable in any way. It might make a good first project for someone.
On a related note, the very best drone flight simulator on PC right now is a free mod for GTA 5. Nobody made a dime off of it.
NickRiviera
1mo ago
Never ask a man his income, never ask a woman her weight, never ask a white supremacist the color of his girlfriend
I know the marketing material says 20-30 miles for the radio control link, but if you follow the FAA rules regarding altitude, your video connection will get you between 1-2 miles (with the Mavic 3). The furthest I've ever been with it is 2 miles away while at 400' altitude while standing on my roof, then when I turned it around to fly back, I lost signal and the drone had to use GPS-return-to home until it got back into range. Obviously you could have infinite range if you're flying at 2000' while standing on a mountaintop but I don't think that's very informative to people when they ask what kind of range your drone gets.
How far away have you actually seen the Mini 4 fly? If it's much more than 2 miles I'll go upgrade immediately. I only have a Mavic 3 and DJI-FPV (O3 video transmission protocol) and not a Mavic/Mini 4 (O4), but it seems unlikely that the new revision would be that much better.
Consumer drones with the best range and battery life ($1000) get you about 15-30mins flight time and 1 mile of distance, commercial drones ($20,000+) driven by cellular LTE modem can fly for an hour on battery and for indefinite ranges if they have wings or are internal-combustion powered. Would be very hard to catch one class of drone with the other.
Another reason they aren't doing that is that flying a drone within city limits in a blue state is almost always illegal and if somebody did do that, they wouldn't want to admit to it. Pretty much the only way people get in trouble with drones is to break the law and post video footage online.
What you're describing I totally understand. I call them "fat thoughts" and I live my day-to-day life suppressing them. I imagine that "fat thoughts" and "gay thoughts" are distinct categories of intrusive thoughts but I feel like I could understand one from having experienced the other.
I hear that the GLP-1 Agonist drugs make the fat thoughts go away, it would be super funny if they turned out to also make gay thoughts go away too, someone should test that.
So there was a massive decrease in the amount of Church-related content compared to the first game? I'm pretty sure that going 7 days without going inside a church was considered a major sin back then, seems odd to leave out.
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