Pynewacket
1yr ago
A collection of somewhat disassociated thoughts in the matter:
Fate these days is a waifu gacha game before all else.
it's between a gacha game and a visual novel (as was the original). Being a gacha game doesn't preclude it from good writing either, even though I must admit the first part of the story is rough (explained I think by being a project that wasn't expected to be as successful as it was). Shimousa, Camelot, Babylonia and the lostbelts are worth it to slog through the Orleans (even if it had the Mozart speech to Mash) and Oceanus of the game.
As for Eva, yeah, it's a shame that the movies weren't as iconic as the original works, but considering the story, it would be difficult to follow up on it after EoE. It would be difficult to gauge the interest of the fandom in side stories in the same universe, considering the apparent totality of Seele.
And something more appropriate to compare 40K or MTG to, would be to gundam, where there is a physical and collecting aspect to it.
On the topic of western franchises for every Eva over there, we have to contend with our own star wars and Marvel/DC shenanigans. It's a fact of life that greed seeps in and properties can be mismanaged (the Final A Song of Fire and Ice book will have Sanderson in the cover, mark my words) or corpos can Virtue Signal and toss under the bus iconic artists that worked for them.
Pynewacket
1yr ago
Koreans tend to be more attractive
isn't beauty in the eye of the beholder (or attractiveness in this case)?
Pynewacket
1yr ago
chess, engineer billions of transistors per sq in, manipulate genomes, program LLMs with billions of tokens, perform a million-trillion operations every second.
All of those are discrete (except manipulation of genomes), chess has an finite number of movements and we are barely understanding the genome; grouping it with something simple as chess is disingenuous. By contrast the climate has a number of inputs that can't even be comprehended, are analogue in nature and affect it in variable ways, from mayor ocean currents and wind fronts to cow farts and the movement of people. We can't even predict the weather from one day to another, just forecast it with probabilities.
Pynewacket
1yr ago
I would prefer we keep only the pretty ones.
Pynewacket
1yr ago
I assume that is due to ignorance, as there is no Disney movie with the horrors of pre-colonization life, it must have been rainbows and flowers and all that noble savage jazz.
Pynewacket
1yr ago
allow people to answer the widely debated philosophical question of the moral worth of a fetus for themselves,
just a hat tip, to pro-lifers there is no debate, murder is murder; that is what everyone else always get wrong about them.
Pynewacket
1yr ago
well, everyone is gay for Bridget.
Pynewacket
1yr ago
It sounds like now you are the one assuming facts not in evidence.
Well yes, if you can do it so can I too. My rules enforced > your rules enforced fairly > your rules enforced unfairly.
Pynewacket
1yr ago
Given who these guys are, it is very, very likely that portions were excluded at the behest of the defense, because they included the defendants using epithets and the like.
Objection!, your honor the plaintiff is assuming things not in evidence.
Tell me, have the defendants or their attorneys complained that they were not permitted to introduce exculpatory evidence?
Publicly not that I have seen, privately between the parties involved is another matter.
Pynewacket
1yr ago
so, just an edited portion is shown to the jury. Doesn't pass the smell test for me, but it doesn't surprise me anymore.
Pynewacket
1yr ago
it appears that the footage was entered as evidence but not shown to the Jury, from the link in the OP
We have previously reported on how the groups cell phones were given to the FBI by Coeur d’Alene Police, pursuant to a Federal Warrant that has not yet been seen by the Police, the defendants, the Judges in the case, and has not been entered into any court records.
The group’s leader, Thomas Rousseau, has alleged in a motion that those phones contain exculpatory evidence showing a “dress rehearsal from the day before” as well as body cam recordings from the day of the arrest.
The Judge granted Rousseau’s motion to compel.
In a video posted on the groups’ social media account 5 days after their arrest, some of that bodycam video is shown. According to notes taken by Casey Whalen during the trial, that footage was admitted into evidence, but not shown to the jury.
Pynewacket
1yr ago
that footage was admitted into evidence, but not shown to the jury
Pynewacket
1yr ago
Yes, but a jury that has seen all the evidence is much more likely to be right than some guy on the internet who hasn't, especially when that person has an obvious bias.
Wasn't part of the controversy the seizing of the phones? Doesn't look like your theory of juries applies to this case at all.
Pynewacket
1yr ago
What would you say is the national identity of Australia in modern times?
Pynewacket
1yr ago
he is that good of an Actor. Part of the old guard.
Pynewacket
1yr ago
I would assume they become the activist class, agitating for tearing down the system and instituting Marxism.
Pynewacket
1yr ago
hence the Quokka meme that is so richly deserved in the rat community.
Pynewacket
1yr ago
"My rules enforced > your rules enforced fairly > your rules enforced unfairly"
Pynewacket
1yr ago
that would be incredible risky, as from the get go you don't know how feasible to reverse engineer the technology is. Maybe after revealing it to the world a stroke of luck in a Chinese lab allows them to do what the US couldn't do in 80 years. That would put the west in a very bad situation.
Pynewacket
1yr ago
However, If the US has had alien technology for decades and kept it a secret, this implies that the US has essentially sacrificed unbelievable amounts of economic and technological growth for the sake of... what, exactly? Preventing itself from having asymmetric warfare capabilities?!
that is of course if reverse engineering the technology is at all possible. It could be the case as described by Bob Lazar of Scientists of past centuries in possession of an atomic reactor.
Pynewacket
1yr ago
and they could land their crafts in the White house and soldiers dressed as little green men (better use midgets for these ones, or north koreans) assasinate Biden and maybe Kamala Harris. Yeah, that would be a very chaotic situation.
Pynewacket
1yr ago
In your opinion, does a person who sets unreasonable goals for being persuaded from a moral position still get treated as having full moral agency?
yes, as he is choosing not to accept any kind of counter argument opposed to his internal ethos. As you said he is being unreasonable, but at the end of the day he choose that.
In this sense, I imagine that any kind of support I provide is akin to pushing a button, and I hold some moral responsibility for the actions.
I disagree that you would hold any kind of responsibility, as there is no relationship that would implicate you with his actions (talking about buying the Hitlerian fuunko here). If you subscribe to free will, you have to give people their agency, that includes accepting that you don't control what they do or how they act. If you see it like Marx that the relationships established even by economic transactions makes you partially responsible for their actions, then there is no free will; just cogs in a machine.
Pynewacket
1yr ago
Not really, free will and all that. As you said it was the other person that took the action. To clarify, I'm not saying that the get away driver in a bank robbery is in the clear, as he is participating in the robbery, though in a support role; I'm saying that if the Neonazis buy another sawed off shotgun with part of the money of the collector, he is in the clear as he isn't a party in that.
Pynewacket
1yr ago
for my part, a lot of top level posts made by a user named Questionmark (or something like that) in the old site were very likely GPT made, at least to my eyes.
You sound weirdly confident for someone that just admitted to not knowing about the franchise. But to each their own I guess.
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