uralsolo [he/him] @ uralsolo @hexbear.net

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fr tho the FF14 modding rabbit hole is a trip it's like they have an entire Skyrim-sized modding community but they just make utilities and skins and if you talk about it openly Yoshi-P will send actual ninjas after you

720 comments and counting lmao

we should just rename this as a megathread

Double Feature concept: Conspiracy (2001) and 12 Angry Men (1957). Call it the "white guys in a room" block.

I think there was a robot war but then superheroes appeared and invented mega science and solved most of the world's problems even though sometimes they still have to fight robots and supervillains. It's basically the DC comic universe (which is a lot more optimistic than the cinematic one lmao).

MS have commited to make sure all their stuff is available on Steam

Remember Games for Windows Live?

I mean there will be a point when the Chinese middle class stops growing and the government will need to midwife a new economic model. A Communist Party is probably the only political organization currently in the world that can come up with an answer that isn't slashing the social safety net and giving big handouts to corporations to keep profits up, though.

I think the problem is matchmaking itself in such a heavily team-based game. In a fighting game, you will almost always win against people you're better than, so you climb (or fall) to your "true rank" pretty quickly - but every teammate that you have to rely on to win reduces the chances that you'll beat someone who you're better than, and with MOBAs the reliance on teams and the randomness of getting good ones means that even if you're better than everyone on the other team your win percentage is still only like 55% so you really have to grind to get to your "true" rank.

idk how to fix it. Maybe make the game pve only and then have the pvp mode for premades only?

At some point during the production of Shadowbringers, Square Enix must hired an artist whose fetish was "giant marble statues of women", because we've fought like ten bosses at this point whose visual design is exactly that.

Over half of millennials, and something like 1/3d of all Americans, aspire to move abroad.

Everybody thinks that they're the ones who are normal about the computer, and that's what makes it so abnormal.

China is the most democratic country in the world, full stop, with around a million elections every year.

God I wish my cost of living could deflate a bit.

Economists say its bad but I don't believe them.

I make a .zip and rename it to .tar.gz and laugh

Once again your argument has gone somewhat obliquely past mine and not actually addressed it, although I do appreciate how incredibly smug you are telling me I don't know what my own argument is.

I never said that standardization was bad, what I said was that the references for standard measures were more useful. We don't carry around rods for poking oxen much anymore, so that unit of measure is rightly confined to history.

You're acting like the 'standards' of one unit are superior to the 'standards' of another unit

As I said elsewhere anyone can get used to anything. I was also propagandized in school by teachers who insisted over and over for years that metric was better and that using anything else was a waste of time - it was only when I became an adult and started making shit for myself that I realized the truth.

The metric system was applied across the entire world and wiped out almost every single indigenous standard of measure that existed previously. The English unit of measures has a similar history vis a vis the British Empire spreading it, but my argument would be that indigenous measurements writ large should have been retained, not that they should have been wiped out once and for all by a second, even more imperial system.

I'm a total Graeber shill to libs I know, for basically this same reason. The hard part of getting them to read Dawn of Everything though is that that book is a tome.

I'm afraid you missed the point of mine. Anybody can "get used to" pretty much anything, but the difference between standard measurements and metric is that standard measurements are based on practical things that people interact with every day, while metric measurements were worked out on paper by the French bourgeoisie over a hundred years ago. They sought to use rationality to make a better measurement system, and in doing so made one that is totally untethered to the human experience.

read the xkcd

I've read the xkcd, the xkcd only responds to one common argument against the metric system, one which I am not making.