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frezik,

Pushing the limits of technology also hasn’t been a healthy thing to do all the time. If the cost of these big, expansive, detailed games is swaths of mandatory overtime for the developers only to be laid off when the project is done, it is not worth it.

frezik,

A little while back, I met a black guy who went to a Turning Point USA convention, and he said those people were nicer than feminists. Which of course they were. They wanted to use him as the example in sentences that start with “I have a black friend who…”

Same thing here. They probably do turn down the homophobic rhetoric in his presence. This works if you don’t pay attention to anything else.

frezik,

It’s all they have now. They’re unwilling to compromise any position, even though those positions are horribly unpopular. Instead they have to make a lot of noise and insist you move further to the right to meet them in the middle, or else.

frezik,

American-sized license plate holders, so it’d be the Tacoma (similar to Hilux, but not quite the same). Or possibly old enough that it’s just called “Toyota Truck”.

It is, however, one machine gun away from being a technical.

frezik,

Some years ago, before Trump even took over the party, the Texas GOP started putting shit like this directly into their official state party platform. Including a nice PDF doc on their own hosted domain where you could cite everything. It was really handy for showing Enlightened Centrists that, no, it’s not just a loud minority of the right. This is what the party is like now, and has been for a while.

frezik,

I paid attention to polls, as well. They swung wildly around as the news cycle shifted between bad news for Trump and bad news for Hillary. Then, Comey’s letter drops at the perfect time (deliberate or not) to bring Hillary’s numbers just low enough to give Trump an edge in key states. That happened too late for any new polls to absorb the info before the election.

When Fivethirtyeight.com was giving around 75% chance for a Hillary victory, that doesn’t mean her victory was assured. It means Trump needed to flip two coins and have them both come up heads.

Polls aren’t useless. They are a statistical tool. People applied them badly.

frezik,

Power imbalance is problematic, and we shouldn’t give Bill a pass for it. Not even mere lampshading.

That said, Republicans clearly aren’t interested in power imbalances. Addressing that consistently would collapse their entire ideology. This is something where only the left has criticism that can be consistent with their principles.

frezik,

Oh the wild statements that he’ll post about how his parole officer is treating him “so unfair”.

frezik,

It’s not part of their mission, but it’s what they do in practice. See this series of emails in the SS and their treatment with the Oath Keepers:

citizensforethics.org/…/emails-reveal-secret-serv…

They were proud to liaison with them, and gave them a wide berth.

frezik,

It helps his cause among a small number of MAGA hatters to the point that a few of them will probably get violent. It does not help him among the Republicans who are passively accepting Trump, or anyone else.

frezik,

I know, right? Fix the angle of your lamp shade before asking three ladies over.

frezik,

Would you trust anything Trump rambled about off the top of his head? It could be true, it could be made up on the spot, it could be something spouted by the last guy Trump talked to, or it could be a stream of bullshit with one good tidbit buried inside that you won’t even notice.

frezik,

Eh, he’d probably set Trump up in a gilded cage and forget about him. It’d be a short stay because Trump is old, eats McDonalds, and doesn’t exercise. Only the McDonalds part would change, because they don’t operate in Russia anymore.

frezik,

They’re technically an invasive species in North America. Been around long enough now that they could maybe be considered native. If you’re looking to do a natural lawn in NA, though, you should probably still consider them a weed.

frezik,

To add, we lack almost any kind of graduated licensing, both for two and four wheeled vehicles. You can get a motorcycle license (even a learners permit) and go out and buy a literbike built from the factory to go directly on the track. Likewise, you can buy a gigantic truck on a basic license and have no clue how to park it. These facts are both insane.

“Motorcycle” licensing needs to start with a basic set that covers class III e-bikes and scooters/motorcylces up to 300cc or so (appox 40hp, or 3kW), and then you can work your way up.

frezik,

Old Man Murray’s former crate rule is now broken.

frezik,

They had an article about rating games based on how soon you see the first crate. Developers at the time used to always fill space with crates.

Doom failed because there were barrels in the opening scene, and barrels are just round crates.

frezik,

Now, I’m not saying that these people should be kicked in the nads. I’m just saying, what’s the argument for not kicking them in the nads?

frezik,

There is. It’s about as meaningful as the Munich Agreement.

frezik,

I’m glad you get to decide what degeneracy is. I wouldn’t want anybody else to have that power.

frezik,

We make a 2 ton metal box, cruising at 70mph, and driven by basically anyone. The only way to do this while having a reasonable level of safety is to cram it full of features that make it heavy and expensive. This is fundamentally terrible.

frezik,

That’s fine; there’s always special accommodations needed. Can we stop making it the default?

frezik,

I occasionally sneak that into a playlist while my wife and I are listening to something, and then I leave the room for a bit. I don’t do it too often, though, because I don’t want a divorce.

frezik,

Long time Xcom player here, back to the original series.

No.

frezik,

Does Israel have much ability to project that far outside its own border? Even ignoring all the countries inbetween that aren’t going to help.

frezik,

Somewhat true, but there’s lots of parliamentary systems that were never under British rule. Nobody has followed the US’s weird system. Not even ones where the US had a direct hand in setting up the democratic government, like Iraq.

frezik,

Weird in having a whole bunch of compromises between big and small states, and separating the power of the executive and legislature. Countries looked at both of those and picked the one that’s more chaotic, but less clumsy.

frezik,

Super tiny is fine for the things diamonds are used for besides sparkling on fingers.

frezik,

If you’re the right person, you’ll already know who to contact.

frezik,

Except no. Background checks by FFLs are required. There is no gun show loophole. There is a private sale loophole (which is sometimes exploited at gun shows, but is not exclusive to them). This confusion in terminology is pointing to the wrong problem.

If you want to make effective regulations, then you need to understand what regulations already exist, how guns work, and how loopholes are exploited. Otherwise, you get another AWB that bans a bunch of cosmetic features that really don’t matter.

frezik,

You don’t have to convince the pro-gun crowd. You have to convince a political majority. Starting that fight without knowing what you’re talking about matters.

frezik,

I am. There’s no way Trump takes the stand and manages to avoid perjuring himself.

He may have been 100% serious about taking the stand. His lawyers also know that would be legal suicide and talked him out of it.

frezik,

She’d be a Wife rather than a Handmaid, and that’s where she wants to be.

frezik,

Historically, those tend not to last. If they take root at all, they last a matter of months. The adult children aren’t able to harness the cult of personality the same way.

NKorea being one big exception. There aren’t a lot of other examples in modern nation states.

frezik,

One of those times when you don’t know if the creator was for or against Trump.

frezik,

“Destroyed” by the famously straight Romans?

frezik,

What’s the center of this copper wire even for, anyway? I’m going around the edges.

frezik,

Slobodan Milošević was put to trial under a parallel organization, the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. The ICC didn’t exist yet when the ICTY was founded.

Sloby died in jail before coming to a verdict.

frezik,

I demand the Magna Cartas and the Code of Hammurabi be posted, using the same argument.

frezik,

Grading on a curve, here.

frezik,

Notice that other than Baldur’s Gate and Elden Ring, those are pretty old titles at this point. The AAA studios are doing everything they can to make sure those nightmares never happen again.

frezik,

Your lips do important work in making a trumpet play. Dolphins don’t have the fine control over their lips that would be necessary. Maybe the blowhole does?

frezik,

Where’s the group for being against Catholics and watermelons?

frezik,

How did New York come out sounding like the wholesome part of this story?

frezik,

Gamers Nexus is killing it over the past few years. So many shitty companies taken down.

frezik,

The Steam Deck also isn’t made by a shitty company with a shitty warranty. Which puts the Ally on the blacklist.

There’s a lot of options in this space, and more coming out. I wouldn’t even glance in the Ally’s direction right now.

frezik,

No rent? Can I at least extract their surplus value for myself? I can’t get hard unless I’m extracting surplus value.

frezik,

That’s only one factor in a high control organization.

There’s a theory that the longevity of a commune comes down to making costly sacrifices. This signals to the group that you’re not going to be a freeloader. Things like praying at a set time every day, or going to services tends to make religious communes last longer. The tasks don’t have to do anything in themselves; they just have to exist and take up some of your time and effort. Religion has an easier time mandating these things, because you can put the whole reason for it on an ephemeral deity rather than something more concrete. In fact, this signaling to the group may have been the reason religion developed in the first place.

The data on this is mixed, however.

cognitionandculture.net/…/Sosis_2003_CommuneLonge…

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