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18hr ago
I also did with both images open on a computer screen. I also find this discussion baffling.
Do we not have a common understanding of "figure"? This is counting from the neck down. I can see all the faces are older.
TIRM
1d ago
But I did. Are you going by vague memories rather than looking at the campfire character selection screens?
TIRM
1d ago
I've now carefully looked at the character selection "campfire" screens for Diablo 2 and Diablo 2 Resurrected. They kept the women's figures from the original. And the revealing tops or boob armor in the case of the Amazon.
All the faces are older. The barbarian is shrunken. The druid is kind of dumpy. The paladin lost some height.
Indeed an archaic fake synonym for surgeon since English already had "surgeon" and people tried to replace it with a "correct" version like they had in other languages such as French. It didn't catch on.
TIRM
1d ago
It was also alternative word for "surgeon" in English centuries ago. Copying Romance languages even though English already had a word for it.
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3d ago
advertising the true beliefs of Democratic politicians in their own words is a good campaign trick
Indeed and the most powerful election ad from the last presidential election was a video of Kamal explaining how she wants there to be taxpayer-paid sex reassignment surgeries for illegal immigrants in prison. Kamala's campaign could not come up with a response to that despite trying. Potential counter ads didn't poll well with focus groups.
TIRM
3d ago
But they left the women's figures alone. Still narrow waisted and with the same bust sizes and tight tops. All the faces aged male and female alike.
TIRM
3d ago
Geeze Amazon really got hit hard. I didn't recall that from the character selection screen.
Looking at that image what stands out most is how much the barbarian shrunk in every dimension. This kind of exaggerated game is the one place they should most have over the top huge muscular men. Strange they got rid of that but kept the idealized figures for the women.
TIRM
3d ago
That would be beatdowns for public school teachers and administrators. I'm fine with non-ass-kicking methods of limiting the harm they do.
TIRM
3d ago
People like hot characters in media. Actors for Hollywood movies are very much not a representative sampling of American body types. The male actors bulk and cut and many are clearly on gear. So every Disney Marvel movie you get to see the cut lead male with his shirt off. The female lead will also be unusually hot compared to the median person.
I'm fine with more "normal" looking people in media. Zendaya is not a big-breasted hottie and that's fine. Let's get more actors like that. And stop making the guys cut so hard to have chiseled abs.
I played Diablo 2 Resurrected a bit and the player characters look a bit different than the original. The druid is older and a bit haggard for instance. If they had similarly made the female PCs less hot I'd be fine with that. They didn't of course.
TIRM
3d ago
South Africa still has their enriched uranium. There's material for 6 to 7 nukes in storage right now. But their infrastructure is in a sorry state and I'm skeptical if they still could remake their nuclear program from scratch. Already having the fissile material laying around is a huge advantage. Maybe.
TIRM
3d ago
South Africa still has their weapons grade uranium. But I don't think they can rebuild their nukes. They've had recent problems keeping the power on and trains running. Their basic infrastructure is collapsing. A nuclear weapons program is far beyond them today.
TIRM
3d ago
the Africans can emerge with their advanced air fleet and superweapons
I think this is the weak point here. I don't suppose this is happening. Much less within two years. Africa would need to bootstrap an industrial base to catch up to 1939 Europe, not the other way around.
1939 Europe obviously. Not even close. Assuming they were united. Somehow French and Germans are marching together.
That or a stalemate in which neither side can meaningfully invade the other. Europeans can't seize North Africa, Africans can't seize Spain.
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3d ago
even under bizarrely loose ideas of what counts as 'defamatory'
To be fair to Anthropic, some other countries have bizarrely loose ideas regarding defamation. England for one example. Japan for a far worse one. Truthful statements about a public figure can be defamation in Japan. Us Americans have it good in this regards.
I assume Anthropic doesn't want to be dragged into foreign defamation suits.
TIRM
4d ago
Billionaires and centimillionaires are devoured by helicopter crashes. It is their natural predator.
TIRM
4d ago
Was it previously possible to build a car that drives upside down
Yes. Upside down demos have been around for a while. Fans sucking the car down make it corner better. To show off the fans photo the car upside down. This is a continuation of that concept.
TIRM
4d ago
I never heard of this.
a French-language sung-through musical that premiered on September 16, 1998, at the Palais des Congrès in Paris
Yeah, that tracks. I take it this was popular in other anglophone countries or something?
TIRM
4d ago
And videos of white French youths engaging in firey, but mostly peaceful protests.
And as always: most "immigrant" youths are natural born citizens whose parents or grandparents immigrated.
TIRM
4d ago
Countless times I've seen Muslim men wearing typical modern fashion with their wives wearing a head wrap or more.
If these guys were white and by themselves no one would naively think they were Muslims.
TIRM
6d ago
instead of making a ton of money in tech or finance like every other smart guy
He dropped out of middle school. In some manner I don't understand given truancy laws.
The tech and finance jobs are gatekept behind official credentials. Not excessively, but having never attended high school is a problem.
It is deliberately an insult, right? Not a neutral alternative pronunciation of "trans".
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