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You're being intentionally dense. Different adjectives can apply to the same noun without implying those adjectives are the same thing. It's extremely basic grammar.

Somewhat pedantically speaking, the belief that an evil god exists (exclusively or otherwise) is dystheism. Misotheism is the hatred of a god or gods. Dystheism implies misotheism, but they're not exactly the same.

Easier but more interesting, and more of a solid foundation to build high end challenges on top of. 1.0 Gold Stake was not a fun experience, it was pushing the game to a breaking point. Now Gold Stake is a challenging but reasonably balanced feeling mode. Maybe not quite as hard as a top difficulty should be, but now the systems are in place to support extending the difficulties further.

I might be mistaking him with one of the other major grifters; the Venn diagram between racists, homophobes, transphobes, and antisemites is a circle.

Frank, if you want to find threats to human dignity, look at your child molesting priests and your bishops covering for them. Until then, you're in no place to judge.

And sexist, homophobic, antisemitic, the whole right wing dipshit starter pack.

I think the ideal way to make moral choices compelling is to make good an actual sacrifice. Declining powerful things for yourself and putting yourself in danger to help others with no gameplay reward, only narrative reward. Make evil tempting, being selfish and pragmatic will make things easier on you. Let's say there's a survival sequence where you're in the wilderness with limited food and encounter someone starving. You can help them, for no inherent player power related reward, but you'll run the risk of running out of food yourself. Let them starve and you make the sequence much more comfortable.

BotW ruined the series. Open world, despite the promise of freedom, is a crippling set of shackles on world design. No upgrade can meaningfully interact with the world because every area has to be a potential first area. There's no mystery of "what's past this obstacle?" because everything has to be passable as soon as you see it. Worst of all, your reward for thoroughly exploring and completing all the optional quests? Butchering the final boss, which at full power is a highlight of the game, into the worst anticlimax of the series by removing multiple entire phases and drastically nerfing the HP of the phases that remain. The only intact phase literally can't hit you if you just run in circles around it.

All of this wouldn't be too bad if it was a one off, but Aonuma confirmed it's the template for the series going forward. We'll never see another proper Zelda game.

John Cage's As Slow As Possible is also right out.

Also if they question the details, a mention of explosive diarrhea stops the questions very quickly.

It's the unabridged ISO 639 list.

I would never write -n². Either ‐(n²) or (-n)². Order of operations shouldn't be some sort of gotcha to trick people into misinterpreting you, it's the intuitive reading of a well constructed mathematical expression.

Apple, in an attempt to leverage social pressure to drive sales instead of actually providing a quality product, displays texts from Android devices in a deliberately unpleasant to look at shade of green, and cripples features of the group chat if even one member of it is using a non-Apple device, incentivizing groups of friends and even families to ostracize people for using a different phone.

Competitive NES Tetris exemplifies this. The game was already retro when most current top players were fetuses, which completely eliminates nostalgia as a possible factor.

Ah yes, famously apolitical movie The Matrix in the entirely apolitical genre of dystopian sci-fi.

Also, adblockers still work.

The only way to adapt to this in the long run is the complete abolition of capitalism. It's fundamentally incompatible with all forms of labor becoming obsolete.

It's actually even more fucked up than fabricating it entirely. Early on they were more or less getting along, but under false pretenses. The settlers claimed they had no interest in expanding into native lands and they were just there temporarily to facilitate trade with England.

I'd read more articles if they weren't paywalled.

Order of operations in general, yes. Implied multiplication coming before explicit multiplication/division is what's recent.