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I would like to see From attempt a non-violent adventure path. It’s a puzzle game already, and avoiding combat through exploration already a core design feature.
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And I’m not defending Trump in any way, just that this would be far from the first time he’s bucked the think tank crowd. He wants to be dictator and have the power to kill anyone who gets in his way. I can see him raging out if he thinks someone else is trying to set/take credit for his agenda.
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I mean that Trump’s brand is hedonistic excess. He’s in hoc to the fundies, but his base extends way beyond that.
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It’s dozens of pages and Trump is notorious for not being able to read single page bullet-point lists. So, there’s a nonzero chance someone just went through it and there’s just enough evil of the wrong flavor to trigger him. It has a pornography ban. That’s way off brand for Trump.
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Genuine good news - melanoma vaccine is coming real soon. Cancer deaths, in general, are down 1/3. Immunotherapy and mRNA are two of the genuine “Holy shit! We’re in the future!” things going.
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I wouldn’t say it is a great series - they feel limited in budget - but they did some fresh things with the formula in both games. Plus, they leaned into the satire instead of the grim apocalypse side for the sequel, which is very rare for a Souls-like.
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I generally do a summons if it is too twitch based, but I will keep at it if it’s just figuring out the puzzle behind each phase. Or if the boss run is obnoxious, then it is 100 percent cheese and gank squad summons.
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Also, grants run by people who need that grant for their salary have a massive structural incentive to turn into bullshit factories when problems arise. Grants are sometimes experiments that should fail with accurate reporting why. That’s how you get better grants and projects.
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The Remnant series is a lot of fun. My favorite Souls-a-like is The Surge II. It’s a scrappy mutt of the game, but I liked how they paired a Bioware-style RPG plot and quests onto the formula.
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It’s a series whose theme is “The world is dead. Hope is gone. You are the janitor.”
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It’s a From game, and the studio has extremely prevalent aesthetic/design/thematic tendencies. Sekiro, Souls, Elden Ring, and Armored Core are very different games with very different design philosophies, but they are also kinda all the same series.
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One very common trope of Souls games is the terrifying boss the size of a chapel is a chump, but you have to overcome your fear to find out.
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Elden Ring is Meditative State: The Game for 90 percent of play. Slowly cross gorgeous landscapes, creep up on monsters, and then the fight/run away/roadblock boss portions have the classic Souls gameplay. Still a From game. Mutated insect men weep for their dead, and all, but very pretty.
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I read mostly SFF in the 80s and 90s, so “I’m starting to think this author is a creep” was just what happened when you kept reading what they wrote.
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Oh, it wasn’t a criticism. Just that some people are arguing about the source that broke the story, but they aren’t the story just the first to report.
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I think that part of this is that a relationship with a writer, if you are reading in good faith, is an act of trust. Gaiman reinforced that with moralistic writing that celebrated diversity and an accessible public persona. This was reinforced over decades with Gaiman. It’s a huge betrayal.
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People go to college to learn how to farm. It’s a whole ass, extremely complex profession. And that includes subsistence farming.
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There’s questions about that source (TERF outlet), but less accuracy and more they jumped other outlets reporting on it for their own reasons. Allegations are credible, his defense makes them more credible, and there are already bad actors using this for their own ends.
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This was real life.
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At least it wad the O and not the A that went out.
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We decided this in the last election. The VP is part of the package.
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Beans on toast is pretty good! The secret is that you have to get the exact green label vegan Heinz beans used there and a fat piece of toasted white bread. It’s tangy, and the bread softens it. Very easy two-ingredient meal.
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Williams learned to play from Rufus Payne.
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White blues is just Hank Williams and that era. Played the same circuits, shared bands, and just were marketed to different stations by record companies. Country has diverged a whole lot since then, but it started as a way to sell all-white blues acts to white audiences.
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It’s why I pushed back on this. People are making very personal decisions about their families and “What was right?” may never really be something they can ever answer.
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Yeah. You want someone dumb enough to punch Superman in the middle of a mission, add Guy. He’s a drama engine who will tell your favorite character why they suck.
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Yeah. No one knows the right choices on how to go forward.
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Better social services, but Starmer leaned hard into anti-immigration/TERF hysteria so a lot of people are worried about the bigotry side of the new leadership.
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I really liked the Dominion of the Fallen books.
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The “git gud” dialogue obscures how good From is at subtly teaching you how to play their games. Annoying enemy with that one move? Figure out how to trivialize it, and you are well on your way to beating the next boss. Pushed off a ledge? From is saying go slower and pay attention to the corners.
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“Selling out Delaware” is kind of the state’s biggest industry. It takes effort to become the most corporation friendly state in America.
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The comics pro list is really long already.
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The Gullah community in SC has been weaponizing this for many years. Put out sign on highway: “Woven Baskits Sold Hear” Sell woven baskets to the tourists who stop to tell you how your sign is mis-spelled.
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Claremont’s big saving grace is that he stereotypes everyone.
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It’s Claremont land. He’s lucky he’s not dressed as Stonehenge.
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Which they are doing, and the U.S. has a history of these regional parties allying for national power.
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It’s not experience. It’s the painting the map part. The idea of a spoiler third party candidate winning is not unrealistic, but what comes next? National power comes from regional bases of power. You will see when third parties get near effective national power when they can build regional power.
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One of the best pieces of advice I was ever given as a young grad student from my advisor: “Don’t fuck the students.”
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I also tend to view local third parties far differently than what happens in the presidential race. Presidential-level parties need to paint the maps at local and state levels before becoming serious contenders at that level. Not impossible, but scaling beyond local has real systemic barriers.
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North Carolina has become a GOP fortress because voter participation in Eastern North Carolina collapsed after NAFTA and the Oxy epidemic.
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There are major structural issues too, but that because WWII and the Cold War gave both parties decades to ensure their control is literally woven into the laws. I think the U.S. third party field is a mess of grifters, fuckery and psy-ops, but that took a century of active bipartisan effort.
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The sheer passion with which they look down on independent voters is insane. They mock independents who ally with them FOR allying with them. There are twice as many independent voters in the U.S. as registered Democrats.
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That’s what fascism looks like in the polling data.
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This is bullshit. And yeah, the fallout of the Little Rascals Day Care bullshit, especially, has been horrible all around.
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Futurism is weird these days because you just don’t get that mixture of incredible artistic talent and far right ideologies these days. They were the equivalent of Tesla stans - seeing the clean metal lines, propulsive speed, and kinetic energy as things they would wield on others.
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It’s why they are so desperate for AI. They can obscure the contributions of the artists into being a “cleanup team.”
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There’s a certain type of middle-aged office manager that manifests Linkedin brain in the real world.
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I got hit with a variation of that one at a recent work retreat as a training exercise. And let’s just say that, for people who have had what HR types call “an adverse life experience” in that time frame, that question does not hit in a fun and team-builderly way.
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But… pigs can look up.
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I hope that for a lot of people. Rough time has been made a lot worse for a lot of people. It’s going to be a lot worse for others. This one made himself out to be a safe haven for vulnerable people. Decades of people took comfort from him, and this is going to hurt.
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