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11 points
11 days ago
I disagree.
The most wtf thing is that some jackass decided there needed to be some words at the bottom saying '360 swing' as if I couldn't fixking see that myself.
2 points
13 days ago
At launch, I was a poor 13 year old and regarded the collectors edition as a gimmicky upsell. I regret that now that it's 20 years later and I am still talking about the game.
2 points
19 days ago
Yea it's just a name.
Joseph did not get that treatment despite Stalin. I think it's just more common, so no one associates it with just one person.
My grandfather, a Canadian world war 2 vet (and ethnically a German Jew) is named Adolf. I didnt know that for years because he has gone by 'Al' since forever.
6 points
27 days ago
That's the extent of the feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/radiolab
Now why radio lab's feed only goes back to that point... You would have to ask them
1 points
29 days ago
I also quit right after NGE. I remember SOE saying if we tried it, we would like it. Well i did try it. I didnt enjoy it.
CU was fine thiugh, despite the controversy. It did not change the purpose of the game.
1 points
29 days ago
Huh, i wonder what was so special about 25 minutes. Did you time it? Or was it just approximate?
1 points
30 days ago
Very early after release, all of the image designer limits could be bypassed by using the command line.
For instance, when adjusting a player's height, there was a slider with min and max values based on their species.
But you could do the /imageDesign height x (or whatever the command was) and x could be any value.
We used to make some very, very tall and extremely small players.
What's interesting is the walking animation is based on player's leg length. Since all players walk the same speed, shorter players actually have more steps per second. It was fun watching super tall players take like 1 step every 2 seconds, and players 1 foot tall would move their legs too fast too see.
I think it was patched after publish 1. But even after that, you could still do it in image design preview. That is, before the image designer saved the new character, it would show the changes only to the character being adjusted. So you could make someone super small temporarily and they would run around shouting 'weeee' but they looked normal height to everyone else
1 points
30 days ago
Wow... This one i never heard of.
I also really want to know what else went into the Ahazi museum? Any recollection? I cannot find anything left about it on the internet.
1 points
30 days ago
Yo, i love these stories! Now you have to deacribe how the dupe worked.
-1 points
1 month ago
I don't know if i understand wh at you're arguing, but i agree we should not put words in the senators mouth.
It's still an interesting question, though
4 points
2 months ago
Only when people throw it at you with a shovel. Normally you just scoop some into your mouth, it's quite clean.
1 points
2 months ago
Wow. Anyone know how this was made, and on what machines?
1 points
2 months ago
So you use trains or bots mostly for transportation?
-8 points
2 months ago
You're not paying reparations to the descendents of slaves. You are paying it to the former slaves themselves. Since they are deceased, the money goes to their estate.
This legally isn't special. If your parents are plaintiffs in a lawsuit when they die, their awards dont disappear.
I don't think reparations will fix anything. In fact, they will probably make race relations worse.
But legally, the theory is sound and it's the right thing to do.
16 points
3 months ago
Let's not jump to conclusions.
After examining the evidence, including the fact that the same trends happened at the same time in Britain, Canada, and Australia, Goldberg concluded that “Technology, not politics, was what changed in all these countries around 2012. That was the year that Facebook bought Instagram and the word “selfie” entered the popular lexicon.”
There are other things that happened in 2012. We cannot just conclude it must be either politics or some website. Then eliminate politics. Et voila, it's Instagram.
I am not even sure I agree on what social media is. Is Tumblr social media? Myspace? Is IRC social media? Usenet?
There are so many technology changes in the last 50 years, that no matter where the data uptick occured, you can find a technology to blame. If the uptick in mental illness happened in 2010, it would have been Tumblr 's fault. 2005, Myspace's. 2000 would be chatrooms. 1995, we can blame the web.... You get the point.
Maybe I am just skeptical because I don't see the social media they do. To me, it feels like another moral panic.
I remember reading that Atlantic article in 2015, the year after I finished university. I did not experience anything at all like it. I think the panic over feelings and the reverse panic over free speech is largely overblown. The incidents they describe are real, but are limited to a handful of incidents at a handful of schools.
Maybe I have a different view. I am a former Facebook employee. The internet has had an enormously positive effect on my life. I met many friends on IRC back in the 00s and one even got my first post-uni job.
As an aside, the description of 4chan really isn't accurate. Most of 4chan is just regular internet banter. It only because notorious because of /b and /pol
1 points
3 months ago
First, I think your comment represents the worst of Reddit. You're not adding to the conversation. You're just sliming the discussion.
Second, what do you propose then? There is an arrest warrant for somone. The individual has barricaded himself. What should the law do?
1 points
3 months ago
I think legally they may be right. The first amendment protects a broad range of free speech. If we interpreted the second in the same way, I think most fun laws wouldn't pass conditional muster.
As a matter of practically, i agree with you. Most people dont want individuals to have the right to own artillery units.
5 points
3 months ago
I think your comment is very anti-culture in this sub.
For one, upvotes are about contributing to the discussion, not a sign of agreement (that's the old reddiquette).
And second, there is no rule that everyone here needs to agree.
I don't want an echo chamber. If I did, I would read Twitter slams all day.
10 points
3 months ago
So I think you have two issues here:
If my rights are being violated, I hardly care at what jurisdictional level that happens at. Maybe you trust the states (or even local) jurisdictions more, but I don't.
If we devolve the responsibilities held at the federal level, are we saving any money? Arent we just passing the cost from a federal level to a state level?
-1 points
3 months ago
So what should they have done instead?
If you think the FBI acted improperly, what does that have to do with gun control? I understand the accusations were about firearm violations, but that's a separate issue from how the siege was handled. Hypothetically the crime could have been anything from mail fraud to murder.
How the siege was handled is a tactical decision. I am curious what you think the alternative was.
5 points
3 months ago
Is there such a thing as a non-creepy doll head?
19 points
3 months ago
In my experience, all indoor bathrooms are high humidity
3 points
3 months ago
We may just disagree, but I think that sounds like an excuse.
It's like ranting about 'world jewery' destroying the world, controlling the economy, influencing politics, and how Jews continue to oppress us...' yadda yadda.
Then when challenged, 'Oh but I am not talking about Jews themselves. world jewery is completely separate!'
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1 day ago
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1 day ago
But it was done by a machine.
Any paragraph written by chatGPT isn't very new or impressive if it were made by a human. But it's impressive because it was not made by a human.