I think some of the “cosmetic” changes hide the original artistic intent in a way that I don’t like.

Like, for example, there’s a statue of the old king, I believe it’s behind a locked door in the first world. In the original, it depicts the old king as an anime hero, complete with improbable hair and proportions. Nobody could look at it and think “That’s what the old king looked like,” and indeed when you find him he doesn’t look like that at all, he looks like a regular guy.

In the remake, the statue looks like an idealized but realistic depiction of a hero-king. You might look at it and think, “That must be what he looked like in his prime!” But that was not the original point—the original art made sure you knew that even at the height of his power, he was commissioning ridiculously exaggerated statues that looked nothing like him.

Mark Epstein told Newsweek the individual was not Clinton. He did not provide any additional details about the identity of “Bubba” or the meaning of the emails.

From the article.

I guess it’s not exactly the same, because it sort of is related, but I always get tripped up on “ancillary” because it is a totally inoffensive English word… except that the Latin word ancilla means “slave girl.”

I’m not a climate scientist, but this is my understanding: the Earth doesn’t heat evenly, because most of the sunlight falls in the tropics. The ocean currents are an important way that heat gets redistributed. If the current collapses, the temperature difference between the equator and the high latitudes will increase, because heat will travel more slowly. Trying to fix this by adding more greenhouse gases would result in the equatorial regions becoming uninhabitable before it thawed out Europe—kind of like how if you microwave a Hot Pocket and it’s heating unevenly, you can’t fix it by microwaving it more, that just makes the already-hot parts scorching.

There’s backlash? Why and from who? I thought it was cool!

Honestly, I don’t use ChatGPT but I’m under no delusions that my “original thoughts” are any better than its. Most of them are just lifted wholesale from books, TV, social media, conversations I had with people who are smarter than me, etc.

DMC5 does this, it’s great! It even unlocks the next difficulty, just like if you had gotten the normal ending.

(Well, I don’t know if there’s an achievement, but there is a special cutscene.)

This doesn’t jive with my life experience at all. If my family could have “programmed” me, I would have turned out very differently. Also all my siblings are wildly different people.

The development of living beings is a messy process and there are significant uncontrollable elements.

They are both trick-taking games but the rules and strategy are very different. I think it’s more similar to pinochle, if you’ve played that.

The way it’s different is that in Hearts the goal is to avoid taking taking tricks that contain scoring cards (unless you take all of them). In Bridge scoring is good, and the goal is to take at least a certain number of tricks, which is determined by bidding. If you bid high but don’t take enough tricks, the other team scores points. The difficult part is that you have a partner you aren’t allowed to communicate with, and during the bidding phase you can’t see their hand.

There’s a WikiHow page that explains the basics, but I’m sure if you know anyone who plays they’d be happy to teach you.

This image would be funnier without the caption, I think.

Does Gemini edit images? If it does my guess would be that at some point someone asked Gemini to obscure the identities of the original posters instead of doing it themselves (see: they have the same profile pic but different handles, and the reply has the wrong handle in the “replying to” section). I bet this is also why the color is all fucked up.

The Age system is the only thing that has made me curious to try the game at all, so it’s very strange to see them backing away from it. The main reason I haven’t played a Civ game since 4 is because I haven’t felt like there was a strong reason to buy a new game instead of just playing another round of 4. The Age thing is at least different enough to be interesting.

It depends on your sensitivity. One of my coworkers had the “genius” idea to test her pepper spray indoors and reactions from coworkers and customers ranged from “this is somewhat unpleasant” to “I can’t breathe, I have to step outside.” Some older customers who came in up to an hour later were still coughing.

Edit: The original explanation I had here was that a laser burns pits in the CD material but that was wrong, apparently only pressed discs use physical pits in the material. The laser used in a home CD burner changes the color of a photosensitive dye on a recordable CD. So I think actually “burning” is due to a misunderstanding (which I had until I just looked it up) of how a home CD writer works.

I use Youtube a lot. If I see a video from a creator I don’t know, or from one I don’t care that much about, and the thumbnail sets off my clickbait alarms, I just open the three dots menu and click “Don’t recommend channel.” I don’t think it’s a big problem, but it does annoy me and this significantly reduces the amount that I have to put up with it.

Sometimes if a thumbnail is borderline I’ll open it in a new tab so I can entertain it for a few minutes and see if they pay off. If they don’t, they get "don’t recommend"ed.

I’ve also done this for creators who put the “like and subscribe” ask before I’ve actually seen the content they’re asking me to subscribe to, if I’m in a particularly petty mood.

I mean, it’s not just about them, I’m thinking about how, for example, Franklin’s aunt was portrayed as nagging and overbearing and Michael’s daughter as ditzy and naive. The game doesn’t really do anything to suggest that this is only Franklin and Michael’s perception of them. I found it uncomfortable, and it was sort of a trend throughout the game. The exceptions tended to be minor side characters like the hacker you could hire for the jewelry heist.

It also works the other way. I never minded the DOA series but I stopped playing GTA 5 over all of the main characters being misogynists and most of the women they know being based on negative stereotypes.

This is the second or third version of this story that I’ve heard in this comment chain and I’m having trouble searching for articles about the original incident, hits from the new one are flooding the results. Do you happen to have a link to more info?

Also, because this isn’t anywhere near the first time Emiru has been attacked in public, she points out that she’s spent tens of thousands of dollars for her own private security, and wasn’t even allowed to bring her preferred bodyguard with her because he’s permanently banned from Twitch events due to restraining a stalker during a previous event.

What the fuck? They banned her bodyguard for protecting her and then asked her to come back without him? It’s like they wanted her to get assaulted.

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