Ultraviolet

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Oklahoma’s State Superintendent Requires Public Schools to Teach the Bible (www.nytimes.com)

Oklahoma’s state superintendent on Thursday directed all public schools to teach the Bible, including the Ten Commandments, in the latest conservative push testing the boundaries between religious instruction and public education....

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Looks like that suit is made of two different fabrics. Time to stone him, wouldn’t want to be a hypocrite.

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Someone who was a tech journalist rather than a games journalist, and posted the attempts as a bit of self-deprecating humor. Of course capital-G Gamers think being bad at a game is a Serious Crime and nothing to joke about, so they responded as you would expect.

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Of course it’s always better to get vitamins from food, but getting them from a multivitamin is better than not at all.

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What definition of “actually difficult” are you using here? All difficulty in games boils down to learning things. If you exclude anything learnable, you reach absurd conclusions like the only true form of difficulty is colorblind inaccessibility.

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Knowing how the vocal minority thinks, they’re probably deliberately ignoring the advice because they think any form of preparation or mitigation is cheating.

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Apparently flashing the dictionary definition of the word on screen was a requirement from Fox to allow them to air the scene, in an extremely rare case of that kind of thing actually making it funnier.

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Only partially, unfortunately. There aren’t a lot of people who speak full on Scots, the majority of Scotland speaks a dialect of English with a handful of Scots vocabulary now. It’s an endangered language.

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That’s the entire AA series on Switch now with the exception of Layton vs Wright. Hopefully, this means AA7 is next?

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It would have been nice to play through the entire story from beginning to end now that they’ve added the finale to the arc. But you can’t do that.

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The danger isn’t that it’s smart, the danger is that it’s stupid.

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Not for lack of trying. The problem is that to be stopped, they have to be stopped every time they try it, but they just have to succeed once.

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Actual Zelda, not BotW/TotK.

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I’m cautiously optimistic. It looks like a solid core for combat, they need to keep the power creep in check. Most of PoE1’s issues stem from the fact that an optimized build just one-shots everything, and the bandaid fixes that try to fit a source of challenge into that meta.

📄 rule (sh.itjust.works)

alt-textIt blows our hivemind that the United States doesn’t use the ISO 216 paper size standard (A4, A5 and the gang). Like, we consider ourselves worldly people and are aware of America’s little idiosyncrasies like mass incarceration, the widespread availability of assault weapons and not being able to transfer money via...

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How does that work? 8.5^2 + 11^2 is 193.25, square root of that is 13.9. Where does 12.01 come from?

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Oh, that makes a lot more sense now.

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Oh, a mistake, I see. We all make them, I spilled my coffee this morning, Netanyahu murdered 50 civilians and put 200 in the hospital, completely understandable. /s

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It can be both gruesome and painless. Something where you wouldn’t even know what happened, but the person unlucky enough to clean up would be scarred for life.

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Let me guess, along party lines?

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It’s worth clarifying that the Palestinian civilians are not Hamas though. It’s also misleading to say they elected them democratically, as the median Palestinian was a literal infant when the last election happened, and nearly half weren’t even born.

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Or cocaine!

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We really should have some sort of law that if you hold any high office of government, your immediate family (maybe for 2 generations) is permanently barred from serving in a similar capacity. Some sort of anti-dynasty law.

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Yes. Do you think this is some sort of gotcha? Only right wingers want rules that only apply to one side.

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What a terrible thing to suggest. If you want to dissolve the fascists properly, you use a base. An acid leaves an identifiable body.

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Yeah, I see it as voting yes on a referendum to actually have a 2028 election.

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For all but the most stubborn purists, that definition has sort of retreated to the more specific term “traditional roguelike”, letting the roguelike/roguelite distinction be about meta progression.

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If a perfect copy is no longer “you”, that means if the many worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics is true, the universe is splitting into copies unfathomably many times every microsecond. That means this universe, and by extension you, are almost certainly not the original anyway. Why would one more instance of that matter?

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You’re being intentionally dense. Different adjectives can apply to the same noun without implying those adjectives are the same thing. It’s extremely basic grammar.

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Easier but more interesting, and more of a solid foundation to build high end challenges on top of. 1.0 Gold Stake was not a fun experience, it was pushing the game to a breaking point. Now Gold Stake is a challenging but reasonably balanced feeling mode. Maybe not quite as hard as a top difficulty should be, but now the systems are in place to support extending the difficulties further.

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Frank, if you want to find threats to human dignity, look at your child molesting priests and your bishops covering for them. Until then, you’re in no place to judge.

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BotW ruined the series. Open world, despite the promise of freedom, is a crippling set of shackles on world design. No upgrade can meaningfully interact with the world because every area has to be a potential first area. There’s no mystery of “what’s past this obstacle?” because everything has to be passable as soon as you see it. Worst of all, your reward for thoroughly exploring and completing all the optional quests? Butchering the final boss, which at full power is a highlight of the game, into the worst anticlimax of the series by removing multiple entire phases and drastically nerfing the HP of the phases that remain. The only intact phase literally can’t hit you if you just run in circles around it.

All of this wouldn’t be too bad if it was a one off, but Aonuma confirmed it’s the template for the series going forward. We’ll never see another proper Zelda game.

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John Cage’s As Slow As Possible is also right out.

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I think the ideal way to make moral choices compelling is to make good an actual sacrifice. Declining powerful things for yourself and putting yourself in danger to help others with no gameplay reward, only narrative reward. Make evil tempting, being selfish and pragmatic will make things easier on you. Let’s say there’s a survival sequence where you’re in the wilderness with limited food and encounter someone starving. You can help them, for no inherent player power related reward, but you’ll run the risk of running out of food yourself. Let them starve and you make the sequence much more comfortable.

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It’s the unabridged ISO 639 list.

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Apple, in an attempt to leverage social pressure to drive sales instead of actually providing a quality product, displays texts from Android devices in a deliberately unpleasant to look at shade of green, and cripples features of the group chat if even one member of it is using a non-Apple device, incentivizing groups of friends and even families to ostracize people for using a different phone.

Gameplay mechanics were also a lot better with more replayability. (lemmy.world)

Ignoring the lack of updates if the game is buggy, games back then were also more focused on quality and make gamers replay the game with unlockable features based on skills, not money. I can’t count the number of times I played Metal Gear Solid games over and over to unlock new features playing the hardest difficulty and with...

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Competitive NES Tetris exemplifies this. The game was already retro when most current top players were fetuses, which completely eliminates nostalgia as a possible factor.

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Ah yes, famously apolitical movie The Matrix in the entirely apolitical genre of dystopian sci-fi.

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I assume it’s a placeholder for when there’s no location data.

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She also hasn’t figured out that vehicular manslaughter is bad, one thing at a time.

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Also, adblockers still work.

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They’re in favor of it. Trump isn’t some anomaly outside an otherwise respectable party, they’re all fascists. The only thing different about Trump is he’s worse at hiding it.

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Is it the only place if this same thing is posted on every social media platform in existence with the name of that platform edited in?

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It’s from a comic making fun of misuse of the word “literally”.

Source

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Extremely uncommon. But on the off chance it happens, they just stop taking the puberty blockers and everything proceeds as normal.

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My conspiracy theory is on some level, conservatives are aware that their worldview is at least in part a symptom of lead poisoning induced brain damage, so they rely on lead poisoning for votes.

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You know how metroidvanias gate progression by having, for example, a jump you can’t make without an upgrade, or a poison area you can’t survive passing through without a way to be immune to poison, and so on? That, but instead of it being an upgrade your character gets, it’s knowledge. You find a clue somewhere in the game that allows you to solve a puzzle elsewhere. You were always able to take the actions needed to solve it, you just had to learn that you could.

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As a bonus it also deflects what would otherwise be a damning story about the gun violence problem.

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The IRS doesn’t report it to the FBI because that’s not their job. If you’re already under investigation and the FBI asks, they’ll hand over the info, but they won’t initiate anything, they just want their cut.

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Order of operations in general, yes. Implied multiplication coming before explicit multiplication/division is what’s recent.

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