Read it as “Preg-a-bailin” and thought it was highly insensitive.

Today, sure.

There is no such thing as a “deglobalized world” and likely won’t be until maybe the bombs have fallen and our technology is no longer capable of world spanning trade. Learning from history is of course a great idea but literally trying to replicate policy that worked only when countries where flattened by millions of tons of explosives is at best naïve and at worst a terrible omen.

Existential dread. I know that feeling. Don’t let the circular thoughts wear you out. Get rest and think about it later when you don’t have more important things to do. Just remember “truth” is kind of in flux and there’s an infinite amount of information about literately anything and worrying about any one thing non stop serves no ultimate purpose but wearing you out. That “bubble” of the extent of your worries should shrink down to the things that ultimately matter most to you in the here and now and you manage to reconnect to those close to you. What helped me immensely was just watching the birds on my walks home.

I like the the plinko analogy. If you prearrange the pins so that dropping your chip at the top for certain words make’s it likely to land on certain answers. Now, 600 billion pins make’s for quite complex math but there definetly isn’t any reasoning involved, only prearranging the pins make’s it look that way.

Or that soy beans are actually named after the sauce, since English didn’t have a word for the bean yet.

They did. Hasn’t been tested in the last two months.

Want to bet the “demo” is running on cloud services?

Probably a shovel in the frozen ground up his pantleg. You can see him shift his weight to his right side when he goes hands free.

It’s a trap. Don’t do it.

There was a huge jump in audio recording technology right around that time. They switched to digital and the primary device people listened on was a digital CD player. It was still expensive and needed boat loads of hard drives so only the major labels and production companies had it. Check out the differences in bands that had a lot of sound effects and samples like hip hop or EDM to really see the stark contrast.

This looks more like a list of in-jokes between close friends than a list of real accomplishments.

Sure, now. But it was made to circumvent bots. To increase the amount of trouble it is to spam. Don’t know what you’re trying to argue here.

It was originally for bots. Yes.

The point of shadow banning is to waste the time of bots.

They just have to lie back and squirm

Who gives a fuck what you say you “want”? What are you doing? Nazi shit? Then fuck off Nazi!

I figured he like dissolved or something back into the constituent powers. But he doesn’t want the kids to see that so he just goes around the corner.

Dishonored was fun but not as visceral, also felt way too overpowered. I think I only replayed it once or twice. Mount & Blade is a real challenge but it’s clunky and has no real feedback when landing hits, you just sort of go through them or bounce off. Still, another one of my favourite games though.

Loved the melee in this game. Have been disappointed with every first person sword fighting game ever since. Skyrim came after this and was such a letdown in that regard.