It’s witch test logic: try to drown a woman, if she drowns she wasn’t a witch. Some people really are that stupid.

Yes, thank you, I had the same thought. They CAN force the rules by turning off mics while it’s the other person’s turn; the fact that they don’t means they are fine with that cross-talk nonsense, which is just enabling Trump’s dirty tricks.

The first part of your story is eerily similar to mine - at first I didn’t care about crafting, but when I repeatedly didn’t have enough money for the coolest gear, I decided to level crafting, assuming that it was the way to may money. But after running into the same issue regarding materials for a single crafter, I…

While I dislike the oversimplified “capitalism sucks” statements like those in the article, the knee-jerk reactions of “socialism sucks” to any criticism of capitalism is much worse. It’s tiresome, unintelligent, and manipulative.

Hahaha, that 1R.

Hm, I’d argue that a person living in a house shouldn’t have to take any decorating suggestions whatsoever, never mind obligations, from someone who probably spends about 1/100th as much time in that house. The obligator may well be oblivious, in which case get rid of that vase. If they get upset, that means they…

There are loud Trump supporters for sure, but it’s an over-generalization to say that ALL Trump supporters are loud about it. While the loud ones have become ever-more emboldened in their loudness, that may just reinforce the quietness of some of the quiet ones. Make no mistake, there are definitely quiet ones out…

Yeah, I agree, there’s not really much stuff to carry over. I’d imagine if you compared everyone’s end-game save files, the only material differences would be materia loadouts, which you are constantly changing anyway.

Lots of people touching on the racial aspects of this, but I think it’s more something else that pervades pretty much all of society right now and is having a pronounced effect: having a strong, effusively-argued opinion on something you did essentially no due diligence on being informed about.

You’re attacking someone who is supporting the BLM movement and putting forward an ugly narrative that seems to be borne more out of the grosser side of your own job than anything else. What is the matter with you?

By that logic, she never has to do anything at all. She can just sit naked in a ditch, burping into the nothingness where a life should be, and Jesus and God will drop everything she needs directly into her face.

That’s possible, but why do that; who in the world wants to watch more than a minute of that act? It’s a single, ugly note, repeated over and over. It might be a momentary novelty to see someone be a monumentally bad loser, but I can’t imagine many people want to watch a lot of that. Just go watch Smug instead: he’s…

Ha yeah, there’s clearly a huge conspiracy from reality to make him look bad. Couldn’t possibly be that he just sucks.

LTG just makes no sense to me, like as a human being. Massive ego tied to fighting games, yet constantly, CONSTANTLY loses matches which usually result in him freaking out and insulting the winner. He’s objectively terrible at the thing that he derives his ego from, yet is still an egomaniac. How does a brain form…

Money is influence. On its own, physical or otherwise, it does nothing. But if you want someone to give you something or do something and it is possible for them to do so, there is probably a money threshold beyond which they will. It’s about getting people to do things they wouldn’t otherwise. It’s not the only form…

Yeah, I feel like it shows off the worst aspects of “rugged American individualism”: that it’s you against the world, which positions everyone and everything as an obstacle or enemy and thus justifies your callous, unfeeling, even aggressive antagonism towards everyone. We live in a world where pretty much the…

Yeah, agreed. I got maybe halfway through the game and realized that the game just wasn’t fun, I was only compelled to slog through it for the story, so I ended up watching the rest on other people’s playthroughs online. That ending really is horrible. Even if you give ND the benefit of the doubt that they’re not…

Yeah, while I didn’t get into all the extra stuff, I was (and still am) a huge fan of the original FF7. I even enjoyed Dirge, while acknowledging all of its new characters were horrible. I also played KH 1 and 2, as well as whichever one was a horrible GBA game with limited cards to use as attacks, but hadn’t dug into…

Oh man, I loved Folklore, that game was great. The art style was so vibrant and unique. I still remember twisting the controller around like a madman to pull ghosts out of monsters.

The problem with a lot of current AI is that it’s generally fed a ton of data to train on, which means it’s highly susceptible to the selection of that data, which is generally done by people, who can be be racist by action or omission.