Sekiro is one of my favorites. I like that it’s not really about leveling, and it pretty much gets right into it. I could pick it up today and blast through a new game.
Do you know how to do the lightning reversal? There are a handful of bosses that it really counters.
I knew a bunch of people that were teachers, but left for tech jobs because the pay was twice as high and the work half as much. This is bad for society.
Quality education for children pays tremendous dividends for the future. Having another “we’re AI on the blockchain” startup does not.
All this venture capitalism bullshit needs to go. Minimum wage needs to be way higher, and universal basic income would help, too.
A friend and I were talking about what’s wrong with the world, and one of the things we discussed was there aren’t any consequences for minor infractions. We’re all too polite. Someone does something shitty, like this person in their car, or someone taking up 4 seats on the bus, or throwing their trash on the street, and no one does anything. No one wants to start a fight or make a scene.
Many people operate at a very basic level of moral reasoning: avoid punishment. Some people, some of the time, achieve higher levels of reasoning like “I should follow the rules” or even “I should do what’s good for society.” But many people chill out at the toddler level of “I don’t want to be punished.” So it follows that when these oversized toddlers never get punished, they think they’re doing just fine.
But concurrently, the institution we have to enforce laws and norms, the police, sucks dog shit. Racist, corrupt, no accountability, and lazy. If I see a guy littering, I’m not going to call the cops. They wouldn’t even come, for one thing, but I also don’t want to bring a bunch of armed assholes into the scene.
I don’t know what the best way forward is. My friend suggested local “guardian angel” volunteers that patrol and “Deal with” people who are shitty, but that feels like it could just turn into the police-but-worse. But I really want people who shit up the world to stop, and it feels like they don’t have enough empathy to understand anything more complex than “you took up four seats on the bus and were blasting youtube out of your phone, so we threw you out. Enjoy walking home, asshole.”
Some kinds of people (often conservatives) don’t use words to convey consistent meaning. They use words for the effect it has on the audience. It’s emotions.
They see something bad, they reach into their bag of bad-thing-words, and pull out “Marxist”. That’s it.
They are in a fundamental sense stupid.
The most important thing for people, and by people I mean all of us at times, is in-group belonging. None of us are immune to that. We look to our peers for cues on how to behave and what to believe.
Some people consider like scientists and experts in-group, and trust them. Some don’t.
This need for in-group cohesion is more important than facts and figures. It’s more important than the text of some book.
So when all your friends and family are saying that Christianity means one thing, it’s unlikely you’re going to disagree.
Oblivion? One of the best RPGs ever made? This is a joke, right? It’s not even the best Bethesda game.
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Most self described Christians don’t really follow their religion very well.
Ownership will abuse labor as much as it can. Sometimes to make more profit. Sometimes for murkier reasons. I think some management are just stupid and they’d hurt the company to follow their unfounded feelings.
Labor should organize.
It’s freedom to go where you want so long as you
persoally, I think being able to walk or bike somewhere is more free. Public transit that’s just always there, running every couple minutes, is also good.
As to “take a bus”, part of the problem, and part of why communities like “fuck cars” gain traction, is that most places are car-first, and thus taking a bus isn’t a viable option. These modes of transit aren’t equal. Where my parents live in the suburbs it would be a long dangerous walk to a bus stop, and then the buses don’t run often, or go many places.
People aren’t mad at cars out of spite. They’re mad because car-first culture is bad ecologically, socially, and economically.
Yeah it bothers me when the community for a game is like “{skill} is TRASH never use it” and when you do some digging you find it’s like 2% less damage per second. Or it doesn’t work well in NG+7. Some people are really obsessive about this stuff.
Brooklyn, but not an expensive or “cool” part. Great train access, very walkable, plenty of bars and restaurants, but it’s not someplace a tourist would likely come to first.
My current favorite bar seems like a neighborhood bar where there’s regulars and the bartenders know people. Very different than like something in midtown manhattan, where it’s pricey and there’s an endless sea of people coming and going every night.
And the one city in America that you don’t need cars, NYC, a drink costs $30.
The cheapest beers at my local bar are like $4. A basic cocktail is like $8. I know you were doing a hyperbole but not everywhere is Times Square :(
Shit’s still too expensive generally everywhere, but I feel like here I’m getting something for my money (eg: a subway system, sidewalks, free musuems, etc)
“I cast that wish at level 9” is a weird phrasing. So far as I know Wish is already level 9, so there’s no other level to cast it at. Older editions had “limited wish” but I don’t believe they had upcasting. It feels very “how do you do fellow children”
If you’re not going to drive, you’re going to need to account for that with the rest of what you do. If you move somewhere like NYC that has working mass transit, it’s not a problem. Most people here don’t drive, or drive rarely. Not driving (or not even owning a car) is a viable option.
If on the other hand you want to live in some suburb where the nearest food is 3 miles away with no sidewalks , you’re going to have a bad time.
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I’ve been happy with Bandcamp. They got sold recently so their future is uncertain, but I downloaded all the music I bought.
They don’t really have an algorithm, but you can see who else purchased something, and they do blog posts about like “what’s new in [genre]” that’s worth reading. So far as I can tell it’s written by real people.
NYC had good turnout despite the rain.
Adams is a turd and I hope he rots somewhere out of sight and removed from power.
Conservatives dont care about facts or truth. They use words for feelings. That’s it. Salt of the earth. The common clay. You know. Morons.
There was a post recently saying the total sum of wage theft, including conventional theft and the results of suppressed wages, totals to like $50 trillion over the past few decades.
Shit’s bad. But other than the rich, people in the US have like no class consciousness.
You have to jump when you’re doing it, too. if you touch the ground before it finishes, it won’t work and you’ll just get shocked.
If you clear some post-game optional challenges, there’s a special move you can unlock that does it easier, but that’s only useful if you want to do NG+
Hours on the centipede man, you say? Once you get into the deflect rhythm, they’re very satisfying. Fill their posture right up and then finish them. But without the timing, you’re going to take a lot of chip damage or get posture broken yourself :(