brucethemoose

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brucethemoose,

Yeah, I feel like people are freaking out and ignoring that Biden (and Trump) are largely the people they surround themselves with, and the policies they push.

They’ve both been president for years.

brucethemoose,

No, plenty of nonpartisan and even liberal people were yelling this too. I had no illusions of Biden’s age.

America is not just two internet echo chambers… even if it feels like it right now.

brucethemoose,

Yeah, I mean we’re like lobsters being slow boiled.

This whole situation is mad, but it feels plausible because it’s been ratcheted up so gradually.

Can you imagine the country’s reaction if they say this 2 decades ago?

brucethemoose,

Or anyone period.

brucethemoose,

It’s like a cherry on top.

brucethemoose,

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/606849ca-8b82-4505-8edf-8a8f3f480bb5.jpeg

We live in a world where Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Camacho is more electable than the candidates we have.

I figured Idiocracy was prescient, but it’s coming true awfully fast.

brucethemoose,

Oh, they will play this debate in clips forever.

We live in an age of YouTube and tiktok shorts.

brucethemoose, (edited )

I then joked that I half expected a woman in a red, white, and blue bikini holding up the round number between each question.

That’s the next debate.

Trump’s idea, until he backtracks on stage and says he ‘never knew this woman.’ And Biden’s team goes along with it, thinking it will be a distraction, and somehow Biden blurts this out and makes it backfire.

brucethemoose,

Because the election is a popularity contest, and name recognition is everything.

And he’s the incumbent. He is president right now.

brucethemoose,

Cross compatible social media?

We really are in the future.

brucethemoose, (edited )

Heh, Korra is literally this, but being royal was a total coincidence. And I guess you could say she “reset” the reincarnation bloodline.

And I guess she subverts it a little too because she finds out so young, and is not shy about it.

And Ozai played with this too, deliberately marrying the descendent (Ursa) of a super special Poo Person (Avatar Roku) in hopes of producing superior children. And it kind of worked.

brucethemoose, (edited )

thanks to the whole reincarnation thing it’d presumably be difficult for the avatar to suddenly become evil since every previous avatar would screech at them and for all we know they could just force the avatar state to send the body to its death and exiting the avatar state just before death.

There’s an ATLA comic that kind of refutes this, where Aang just straight up shuts out Roku. It’s… not the best comic.

Anyway, I think the idea is that the Avatar is fundamentally the same soul reincarnating, the same empathetic petty thief that stood up for anyone that was oppressed. That’s just part of their nature, sometimes to a fault. Even Avatars with a screwed up childhood like Kyoshi and Korra turn out that way.

The mitigation is often the plot, where their power isn’t particularly useful to solve their problems. A poignant example is when Korra just turns herself into Zaheer to save the Air Nomads, fully expecting to die (though the gravity is not very explicit since it’s a kids show, as is true across both TV shows).

, and ONE person is effectively just a god,

Another thing I find amusing is that “common” people just treat the Avatar as some random joe, with lines like “Avatar, huh? We still have one of those?” or Bolin’s grandma who clearly holds more reverence for the Earth Queen than the Avatar.

As far as fantasy series go, I think it does a good job of making all the Beautiful Special People feel mundane.

brucethemoose,

The wizard casts “drone with c4”

brucethemoose,

But what runs our first? The defender’s mana, or how many drones the attacker can afford with fast shipping?

brucethemoose,

Agreed, this just looks like a miss.

Who knows why, but it doesn’t seem like for-profit Game of Thrones.

brucethemoose,

Has there been any news of a GOTG sequel from embracer? Last I heard, they got the license.

Honestly, it was better than the movies, and it would be a shame to drop.

brucethemoose,

More than just a dispute over data, though, the Wikipedia editors argued that ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt often acts as more of a partisan actor in the Israel-Palestine conversation than a neutral source of information.

Greenblatt has called US anti-Zionist student protesters Iranian “proxies,” compared the Palestinian keffiyeh scarf to a swastika, and praised Elon Musk just days after the Twitter owner endorsed an antisemitic conspiracy theory as the “actual truth” last November.

Is this the story of the world now? Some old rich guy watches a little too much TV/Twitter and sends a major organization off the rails?

…I guess it always has been.

South Korea blasts Russia-North Korea deal, says it will consider supplying arms to Ukraine (apnews.com)

South Korea’s presidential office on Thursday condemned an agreement reached by Russia and North Korea that vowed mutual defense assistance in the event of war and said it will reconsider its policy of limiting its support to Ukraine to non-lethal supplies....

brucethemoose,

I get why, but I’m still a little surprised they haven’t done it already.

brucethemoose,

A lot of people suck in the real world.

brucethemoose,

Is that really the case with Starfield though?

I didn’t really get into Fallout 76 (immediately bounced off a coop attempt), but I do hear its map is pretty good.

brucethemoose,

Cyrodil and The Shivering Isles were a blast though. Even playing BG3, with how amazing and stupendously huge it is, I didn’t feel that same sense of open scale wandering about (which is why I find their approach in SF so baffling)

brucethemoose,

Just looking at what the 7800X3D eats for somewhat lower clocks, those power figures are insane.

brucethemoose,

Paralives

That would have been a marketing nightmare lol

brucethemoose,

Is it that dramatic though? NBC calls it “a widely expected move”

brucethemoose, (edited )

It would be dope if this really happened, and they hashed stuff out.

Kremlin bots spam internet with fake celebrity quotes against Ukraine (kyivindependent.com)

Russian bots with a Kremlin disinformation network published 120,000 fake anti-Ukraine quotes falsely attributed to celebrities, including Jennifer Aniston and Scarlett Johansson, in one day, the independent Russian media outlet Agentsvo reported June 15....

brucethemoose,

No, it ended when attention optimization and monetization became the objective.

If social media was all “dumb” it would be totally different, though I suppose keeping third party monetization out is always difficult.

brucethemoose,

I find it sad that CP2077 isn’t “good enough” to get a long chain of DLC while Starfield is.

I guess this is true of many games, but still…

brucethemoose,

That’s just it though, sales are good, it’s still getting hype, people are playing it. It doesnt’ feel like Cyberpunk gets the same hype and forgiveness as starfield.

I know people have complained about this for every BGS release since Oblivion (and I loved Oblivion), but it really seems egregious this time. Not because its broken but because it’s so… blah.

brucethemoose,

No one would vote for them if we did.

brucethemoose,

I bought it at $8/share and am not letting go.

brucethemoose,

I think Baldurs Gate 3 proved that wrong.

brucethemoose,

Wow, this is so… Mass Effect 2/DA. It hasn’t changed a whole lot.

I am not into the gameplay, but I could probably do it if I buff the snot out of the companions with a mod so it doesn’t feel like mopping up mooks alone.

But are they any fun? Charismatic?

brucethemoose,

You mean the closed access?

I think it’s fabulous. They can get feedback from the actual people doing heavy lifting (especially the framework maintainers, I presume) and make drastic changes before a real release, without blowback from jankiness.

I wish more studios were that in touch TBH. Many heavily modded games (Stardew Valley for one) do work closely with framework creators, give them early heads up and such, it’s just kinda taken for granted by the larger community and not trumpted.

brucethemoose,

They have money now though.

It doesn’t hurt.

brucethemoose,

+1. Less combat, more talking, and fights should be really impactful in turn.

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