oats_son
3mo ago
My God, I can't believe it's really there after seeing such an atrocious article from them.
oats_son
4mo ago
Sad to hear that about Japanese dramas, I had hoped it would be a better paradigm than America's film industry with horrible writing and ridiculous plots. I know I like their pop music a lot better than ours.
oats_son
4mo ago
Pretty cute if you ask me, especially for someone in their late 30s. https://youtube.com/watch?v=NebtveWRFGM?si=r1c-ZxR98Olf3Y5V
oats_son
4mo ago
I'm attempting to learn Japanese, and something to do while learning any language is to just sit there and listen to a native talk and try to make sense of it. Since I'm still a beginner I use the Comprehensible Japanese channel/site. That's the one I "watch".
oats_son
4mo ago
Haha, the Japanese woman I watch for immersion practice is learning Korean precisely for K-dramas. What's up with that? What's good about K-dramas? Do you know of any good ones? Are there a lot of Japanese who are super into K-pop like there are in America?
oats_son
4mo ago
Can you share what some of those might be? I am afraid to say I mostly hold the same opinion as No_one, but that might be a lack of perspective on other options.
oats_son
4mo ago
Good writeup. How do you learn new swimming techniques? I basically only know how to do a breaststroke while keeping my head above water the whole time, and doggy paddle.
oats_son
4mo ago
Dang, that wasn't it. I'm sorry for my outburst.
Maybe search has the post I was thinking of. It was really fascinating and I regret that my friends missed it.
oats_son
4mo ago
Can someone get me what this AAQC said? https://www.themotte.org/comment/123289?context=3#context
If I recall correctly it was a fascinating look at what neurodivergent people look at on a good looking house versus what neurotypicals look at, and how it related to brutalism. But it got deleted which is total bullshit. I wish the "this AAQC got deleted, sry" crap got left on reddit where it belonged.
oats_son
4mo ago
Looks like Ross saw it and responded, but it got deleted somehow. https://x.com/accursedfarms/status/1820776020074512657
cjet raised some pretty good points if you ask me -- third party dependencies could really trip things up. And then you never know what the legislators really are going to pass. They don't understand technology in pretty much any circumstance, so that could easily go badly. But monetization doesn't strike me as a real big concern. What do companies do already for, say, Club Penguin Rewritten, or private WoW or Runescape server? I would lean towards not allowing monetization (or rather, allowing companies to set rules for private servers beyond you-can't-have-private-servers), but also, the companies shut the servers down themselves. I can't really feel too bad for them if they see someone making money on a product they killed on purpose. As for who pays for it, that's up to the consumers. If it dies, that's on them; they can resurrect it later, anyway, if the software is out there. You don't need a huge server infrastructure to run single player Tarkov. You just launch a server locally and connect to it. Probably going to be more complicated for a lot of games, but it isn't always.
Moreover, if devs see themselves getting screwed by the EU for releasing games that they kill later, maybe they'll be a little more careful about making games and then killing them for no reason. The Crew is a great example. There is absolutely no good reason that that game is dead right now, since it had no online capabilities to speak of if I'm not mistaken, except to check that you have the game legitimately. If you know from the outset that this legislation requires you to have a game that functions after a decade, you will write the software differently. Maybe you'll whip together some single player mode. Maybe you'll write it to be more server agnostic. Mostly it's AAA companies that sell live service games and MMOs. They can think of something. Or they can stop making games they will kill. Or stop selling in the EU.
oats_son
4mo ago
Ah, I forgot to link the associated movement, Stop Killing Games started by Ross Scott of Freeman's Mind fame. The campaign isn't about forcing companies to continue running MMOs forever. It's about forcing them to release the server software for users to run themselves, or some other patch of their choosing that lets users continue playing the game instead of just unceremoniously killing the game. Forcing them to run it forever would be pretty short sighted. As for the specific details, I don't know that anyone knows what that's going to be, because I don't know that it's up to the citizens what the actual regulation passed will be, if there is any. But frankly these are not big asks. I doubt it will do much against the MMO industry.
Also, since this is a campaign being pushed by an American in basically any venue he can get, I don't think you can say this is a case of Europe not understanding regulations have costs.
Euros of The Motte, what could be more fun than effecting real life change? You should sign this ballot initiative in the hopes that less live service games get killed by publishers that don't care once they drop support. (And get all your friends, family, and acquaintances to sign it too.)
If that's not fun enough, I guess this can be a thread where you can list your favorite MMOs or other live service games. I know @self_made_human likes Tarkov, very rational because it might be the best and most unique of its kind. Once there was a game called Fallen Earth that was pretty cool, but I think it died ages ago. I also used to play Lord of the Rings Online a lot, but I'd rather drive around the map in a car than actually play the game. There should be another initiative to just release the maps so that someone can port them to Unity or something and do whatever the hell they want with them.
oats_son
4mo ago
It is an interesting topic, but this in particular was a pretty bad example of the conundrum "deepfaking" can present, because the voiceover is pretty obviously fake. There are a ton of deepfakes on YouTube from last year of all the presidents discussing their favorite anime waifus, but as soon as the joking goes too far, I guess everyone has to try to regulate it.
Happy to see more sushi discussion. I thought I was the weird one for not caring that much about nigiri sushi. However, I did have some unagi nigiri that was actually worth eating, but it's like $10 for two pieces. Edit to add I also really like yellowtail with ponzu, which, does that count as sashimi??
Try some ponzu sauce next time you make sushi if you haven't before, I really like to dip my rolls in that now.
oats_son
4mo ago
Have you posted about q-tips before? Lately I feel like I'm doing a bad thing by using q-tips, but when I use diluted hydrogen peroxide sometimes my hearing feels like it gets muffled for a long time.
oats_son
4mo ago
Seriously, the post you're replying to is about the most charitable someone could get while describing a horrible shoot like this.
Apparently we're not the only ones who saw it like that:
Massey was later pronounced deceased at an area hospital. On July 17, former Sheriff Deputy Sean Grayson was charged with three counts of first-degree murder, aggravated battery with a firearm, and official misconduct in connection with the death of Massey. Sean Grayson will be held in jail until his trial after a Sangamon County judge agreed with prosecutors that he’s a risk to the community. If convicted, Grayson faces prison sentences of 45 years to life for murder, six to 30 years for battery and two to five years for misconduct.
oats_son
5mo ago
I haven't seen you too much lately! How's everything been going? UK treating you right?
oats_son
5mo ago
What the heck do you do with a kettleball? I've heard so much about them being fun or people using them a lot. What makes them fun? Do they replace going to the gym for you?
oats_son
6mo ago
I agree with the other commenters saying this is basically a left wing bogeyman, but I will say that Christian fascists absolutely do exist, see Stone Choir, Corey J. Mahler's substack and Twitter, and this one guy duking it out with the Lutheran Church Missouri-Synod (though he's more just Christian nationalist instead of dipping into the Hitler-was-right sort of thing). Obviously not huge, and if I didn't have a relative throwing this crap in my face, I would laugh at them and move on. Trump is pretty far from this kind of thing.
oats_son
7mo ago
I don't at all think all relationships suck and that you should remain single. But if you're not in one, and not likely to be in one any time soon, then finding some coping strategy is good.
oats_son
7mo ago
Seeing @Skulldrinker's dilemma and also seeing some people I know expressing dissatisfaction with their committed relationships with women (in the case I am thinking of, this guy's fiancee apparently ruined his creative and pleasurable endeavors when she moved in with him because she requires constant attention, so he says) - are there any happy bachelors here? Got any tips for staying sane while single? Because there's no way it can be all bad, judging from all these bad relationships I hear about. What do you do for fun? Do you have friends to watch TV shows with you and play video games with you or what?
oats_son
7mo ago
I'm not sure I understand if HBD has some unified perspective on this. While I see darker hispanics, most hispanics I see are majority European. Is the idea that having too many different races in a country will cause division? Brazil would support that hypothesis, but if it's just about skin color, Chile is reasonably dark and doing pretty well for a LatAm country. Better than Argentina, which is 90% white. If hispanics are underrepresented among engineers and doctors, I'd guess they don't go to college as much, probably because they are poor when they come in from their home countries.
The day I learned that there existed fake soy sauces (like La Choy) was a sad day indeed. Soy sauce is great. Now I check any new soy sauce to see if it's fake or not, and sure enough, last time I went to a takeout place, the soy sauce there was fake.
My boss insists La Choy is the best soy sauce and Kikkoman is inferior. This might say something about his tastes.
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