also agree, a trump equivelant would have executed not sure the second the IQ test came in.
Honestly the most unbelievable part of that movie is, the president seems to be one of the smartest people born in that generation. Yeah he seems dumb by our standards, but you put him next to the lawyers and everyone else in that society… he actually seems pretty brilliant.
Was going to start with thinking that, but then watched the video. I’m hearing far more “My friend runs a land scaping business, and he lost 10 or so, he’s going out of business”. Then comments on how they don’t live in a big city and they don’t know how they are going to find people to hire. Finally in the last 15 seconds he tears up and says he got to know them as friends and he hates seeing what it did to them and their families.
So yeah… feels like “I won’t make money”, “I’ll lose my business”, and “oh yeah they were good people who I hate to see their lives ruined”.
Who’d have thought encouraging actual government officials to wear masks, not identify themselves and refuse to prove their legitimacy would open the door for criminals to impersonate them easier.
(and that’s of course also ignoring the possibility of, what if a few actual ice agents take advantage of their anonymity and use the plausible deniability to commit crimes).
Based on the rule of “it’s always projection with these guys”, I’m going to conclude elon just did a shitty job on his robot after executing trump.
Who’s going to be surprised? The leaders who will never be in the same state? Nah it’s advantageous for them. The soldiers? Either they are following orders and gritting their teeth as they fire at innocent civilians, or they believe the propoganda that the protestors are a violent threat to the country. Surprise will be if say, on the order a significant portion of the armed forces back the protestors.
The thing that shocked me… I was fully expecting that kind of BS ideas from say Jeffries, Schumer, Newsome etc…
But then looking at it the one I’ve seen talking about it was… Ro Khanna, which was one I considered in the “overall tollerable” side of the democrats.
Don’t stick up for the person, stick up for the policy. It’s wrong for the president to order the arrest of politicians who are standing up for their constituents, full stop.
Trump could arrest fucking MTG for saying she regrets voting for the big beautiful bill, and I’ll call it wrong for a president to arrest a member of congress over a poltiical disagreement. While still noting she’s still an idiot that no one in the right mind should have ever voted for.
I mean fuck that guy as in, his political asperations should be dead with his bullshit “lets find common ground” with nazi’s.
But, this situation is far more about what’s going on than who it’s going on with. In this situation he’s doing the right thing, he’s pushing back against facism. On it’s face trump is testing the limits of the laws, the willingness of the national guard to commit attacks on US citizens and government officials. If trump succesfully arrests newsom and gets away with it. Than you can expect 2 results. Some centrists will cancel any attempts to slow down the martial law to try to spare themselves, and those willing to fight will also be arrested.
I don’t know your stances enough to say whether or not you have a single politician you support. But assuming they are not pro load everyone into concentration camps without due process, than you should be concerned.
Setup for the overused joke - I’ve been using vim since I first started using a computer, I just can’t quit.
also worth noting you open vim the first time, you get a huge ass splash screen telling you how to exit
Also have to agree, that 1. Inflation wise, to a degree video games seem almost untouched by inflation. Which IMO is symptomatic of the real problem. The average person’s budget for luxury items, is if anything going down. Hence why in spite of inflation resulting in everything else going out. game prices have been steadilly launching in the 50-$60 price range since the NES. Even with massively increasing team sizes etc… Also worth noting, they are far and away one of the most insane price vs entertainment time ratio you can imagine. Movies are what… $20 for 3 hours of content? While for 2-4x that games typically average in 40ish hours for a main game alone (and very easily into the hundreds for completionists or multiplayer)
Personally I’d be happy for luxury items to be spiraling upward at a steady rate, while housing/transportation/necesities all lock with wages.
IMO I think that’s basically what kills the luxury goods/entertainment industries. Is that AAA games cost way more, take far larger teams than ever before, but at the end of the day, they need to sell them to the same masses, that have if anything less disposable income than they did in the days that AAA games were made by a team of ~10.
So yes in my opinion in short, I don’t consider the idea that video games jumping up in price, at a rate that’s insanely low compared to inflation. After 25 years, a video game goes up from $50-$80 (and it can be noted that in that time team sizes have multiplied tenfold), meanwhile in 2 years a shitty one bedroom apartment in a small city’s rent goes from 600 to 900, while they are cutting the staff etc…
Honestly fine with him just sitting out. Dems funded by billionares… write laws that favor billionares. Dems that accept his money are going to favor the same facism bullshit the republicans do.
Haven’t really done much in game design, but if I’m understanding right.
In game design, lets go with 2d first. You mark position with numbers. In 2d you have X and Y. So you say to move to 5,5. then from the starting point that will be 5 right, and 5 up.
3D you have the same thing, but a bunch of different groups were working on it in different ways without working together. So you wound up multiple systems that had X, Y and Z meaning different things. In the majority of 3d systems Y represents up/down. (the other 2 directions are still kind of half and half between systems)
Even if it is… would that negate the overall gist that clearly dodge is siphoning up stuff they aren’t supposed to have. If they are pulling up sealed crime records they aren’t supposed to have, could we even assume one of the dozens of offices they raided with classified information didn’t.
Once they start proving they are getting shit they shouldn’t have, and were in the room with classified shit they shouldn’t have, those dots become hard not to connect.
I mean at best though, it’s admitting they had something wasteful and useless for the last several decades and only just now figured that out.
Which is also harder because… that’s admitting that dodge is sifting through classified data that they are very far from authorized to have.
Honestly I considered the fallout inevitable from day 1. 2 narcisists with short term alignment of goals. An explosion was very predictable.
Trump is like one of those supervillains with the chairs that go over, lava pits or sharks with fricking laser beams of whatever. After watching him throw his allies under the bus 20 times, you just gotta scratch your head and go "how the hell does he keep finding minions, I understand people who follow out of self interest, their own evil and selfishness, but how many people can you watch have their lives wrecked and think “yeah but that wouldn’t happen to me”.
I mean not elder scrolls specifically, but LLM NPCs are in fact being experimented with. There’s a game called Suck Up, in which you play as a vampire with the goal of convincing LLM NPCs to let you into their home. I’ve seen some videos of DMs that as random experiments generated a town.
actually also sounds like modders have done, exactly that for skyrim
fully disagree… they have no clue of jack shit of what they do. Their job is to sign off on what the right wing think tanks wrote up. Sometimes after the fact they are supposed to try and make up an arguement for why their constituants are going to like it if it gets enough public attention.
yeah, but emacs still wins out in capabilities. https://xkcd.com/378/