It can’t be helped

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There’s no value in you even playing Dark Souls

Use your head more

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What are you, an elementary schooler?

Die.

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Fuck you

Do you not understand me or is it that you can’t use your head

I remember reading a while back that after the travesty of the localization of Pom Poko Miyazaki refused to let them change the script because how much they disrespected the film.

Especially with some aspects of the film they added things to try to make it a bit easier to understand for western audiences, like when she first sees the bathhouse, in Japan nobody would need it spelled out, but in the west it does so in the dub she says “it’s a bathhouse.” It’s likely dumbed down more since in the US animation=children.

It’s a spoiler in a story where spoilers can legitimately ruin your experience, but you’ll notice it in the theming as the story progresses.

1. Manga/Visual Novel

2. Mystery, Occult, Drama

3. Umineko no Naku Koro ni - The story focuses on a group of eighteen people on a secluded island for a period of two days, and the mysterious murders that befall them. Readers are challenged to discern whether the murders were committed by a human or some other, supernatural source, as well as the method and motive behind them.

4. 10/10 - amazing

It made decent enough second monitor viewing while playing minecraft but I never felt the magic where other people were super into it. It just felt like pretty generic high school love comedy stuff with a different approach to it. I have to assume the social awkwardness just resonated with a bunch of people.

The most infamous of the bunch is SBF of the FTX fraud fame. Essentially their entire schtick is that they have to become ultra wealthy so they can donate more money and thus be more effective with their altruism. They usually end up working finance and arguing that since they make a lot of money and their donations are bigger they’re better off than if they were doing a more useful job and not giving even a small portion of what they were.

It’s just as useful there

When I first moved into this neighborhood we had a Bottom Dollar, then Aldi bought them out and closed almost all of them getting rid of the closest grocery store that served a fair amount of the community. There was one like another 5 minutes away or another one 10 minutes away on arterial streets. Then the one that was 5 minutes away closed after it was sold and the only reason it’s a grocery store today is because the previous owners insisted the buyer had to make it a grocery store, otherwise you’d just have a food desert for a lot of the immediate vicinity that had the poorest families in the city.

Dollar General moved into where that original Bottom Dollar grocery store was and was the only convenient place to get food for a few years if you didn’t have a car. There’s another Dollar General 10 minutes up the road where a Dollar Tree used to be. There’s yet another probably another 7 minutes away from that second one, after that I couldn’t tell you since they’re fucking everywhere and there’s probably 3 I’m not even aware of because I just don’t turn right at a certain intersection.

I sorta felt this when I lived in Japan going from a sorta urban environment to a farm and back on my commute home and going on the roads that had the plants right next to it was obviously more humid on those really warm days.

I can see it clearly on my unit, I have people that’ll take it seriously, people that refuse to mask, and people that refuse to mask and vaccinate. We don’t have a problem once we have a confirmed case since at that point it’s just PPE enforcement and opinions go out the door.

I will say though that a lot of this shit comes from the top and the CDC has been absolute dogshit at providing guidance thus we have such shitty standards. Though at the same time we all see what COVID does but since it’s not going anywhere people are just accepting it as the new normal because what else is there? Lockdown the country, something they didn’t even do when there was momentum for it? The ruling class has abandoned all pretenses and people are moving on and just accepting that this is reality for healthcare now and no matter what you do, it finds its way back over and over and over again.

The at home test kits are like $25 for 2 and I just kinda went for it because at the time I had nothing left at home and I needed something immediate. Spent 50 on two boxes for 4 tests total. Got like 12 from work the other day for free so that kinda sucks. Also really has me wondering just how much money we spent on test kits alone at work to swab my unit 3 times after an exposure event. Would’ve cost close to 1700 from the store for just like 40 people. Fucking highway robbery

Watching a video on FNAF: Security Breach the guy had a pretty good system for measuring, first delay shows that they care about polish and are okay taking a bit more time for it to cook, second time signifies significant management issues where they’ve now missed their deadline twice and you should probably start feeling uneasy, after two delays, just throw your expectations in the garbage and just pray that it comes out at all.

I somehow misread it as “AOC’s speech at the DNC featuring unequivocal support for Hamas” and was wondering why it was in the dunk tank.

This shit coming out about Pink News just reminds me of the long history of cissies throwing trans people under the bus (CW: transphobia). Fuck assimilationists.

Sorta similar for me, once Bernie ran in 2016 socialism became kinda non-taboo and once I started looking it was very fast to just go “oh yeah capitalism does suck” after seeing the issues for a while but never really having it click. Still had a lot of brain worms to work through and still have a bunch that I probably haven’t even noticed yet, but I feel like once I went anti-capitalist it took a long time for me to find out where I was in the giant pile of leftist labels. Kinda just picked up anarchism because when I still watched breadtube it seemed like the least offensive since it didn’t challenge a lot of brain worms. Also I was chatting a girl up that said she was a leftist and when I self identified as an MLM she ghosted me. Then after kinda running with it, learning more and doing more self crit and reading theory COVID happened. The correct response to COVID was displayed by China and required “authoritarianism” to enact, and then it was just kinda like the last piece fell out and now I’m what I would’ve called a tankie back in 2018.

I found it rather janky and just couldn’t get into it despite really wanting another crpg to play. The camera controls and party movement just really felt awful for me. I’m also not super familiar with pathfinder and the last exposure I had with it I was playing Kingmaker which wasn’t a bad game, but also I sorta didn’t find it the most enjoyable thing. I bounced off WotR in the tutorial. Compared to BG3 where the combat encounters were still basic through the tutorial on the nautiloid they were peppered in enough for me to grow accustomed to the combat while also giving me space, in the start of WotR you’re running down some caves with bugs attacking you every 50 feet or so and even then the combat felt like it had no weight. After the caves, the idea that there’s a maze waiting for me and it’s probably full of more lackluster combat encounters but it’s also a maze just made me peace out.

Yesterday at work a few people were commenting on how surprisingly clothed the men were in the beach volleyball matches, the women are basically naked while the dudes get to wear a loose top and shorts. Should be wearing a single bikini bottom for the guys.

I had basically the exact same experience. I got super hyped for 11/11/11, stopped going to school for a week and spent all day every day playing it to the point where I was solving puzzles in my dreams and then I beat it and never really touched it again. I kinda woke up from the dream back then and have been watching the rest of the world catch up. I did put a lot of hours into FO4 but that was solely for the base building aspect, never touched the main plot after the first time through.

The idea that these people normally eating 3000-5000 Calories a day can just jump over to 1200 a day instantly and should they “cheat” or stumble while trying get yelled at on a man that holds the potential to save your life in his hands. If it wasn’t a giant circus they’d approach it reasonably stating that even 2500 a day would be enough for a significant loss which would allow for a less sudden and abrupt change, not to mention the fact that most aren’t really given proper mental health support for what is 1000% stemming from mental health issues.

But then how will people write 20 cover letters a day to keep up with the increasing rate of instant rejections?

Saw a really depressing ad at work the other day where Google was advertising their thing and it was some person asking their LLM to write a letter for their daughter to this athlete bragging about how she’ll break her record one day. They couch it in “here’s a draft” but it’s just so bleak. The idea that a child so excited about doing a sport and dreaming of going to the Olympics and getting a world record can’t just write a bit of a clumsy letter expressing themselves to their hero is just beyond depressing. Writing swill for automated systems that are going to reject you anyway is one thing, but the idea that they think that this is a legitimate use of these models just highlights how obnoxiously out of touch they are.

How do we learn and grow as people and find our own writing voices if we don’t write some of the most cringe shit imaginable when we’re young. I wrote a weird letter to Emma Watson in middle school, nobody ever read it, but it was a learning experience and made me actually have to think about my own feelings. These techbros have to have been grown in vats.