bassomitron @ bassomitron @lemmy.world

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Oh for sure, and I did enjoy some of the side content and thought some of the optional quest stories were good. When I say smaller scale, I think a game like Expedition 33 nailed the balance of having plenty of side/extra content that's fun to do while also ensuring that completionists don't go mad from trying to hunt down everything.

Regardless, I agree with you on everything you said; it all boils down to preferences :)

I thought the core of GW: Tokyo was pretty good, but it suffered from far too much open world bloat. I'd love to see them revisit that world, but it'd be great if they made it focused on a smaller scale. Just my two cents, anyway.

They call themselves Belters and are uncannily tall and lanky and speak in kind of a Creole mash-up accent and language

*Be a school music teacher that has a YouTube channel dedicated to help kids learn words, colors, being kind to others, how to speak, etc.

*See an atrocious genocide going on where children are being mass murdered.

*Speak against this horrible violence against innocent children

*Get labeled as a terrorist for defending said children

Or, like my old, late cat (RIP buddy 😞), they hate most humans and other animals. Once he warmed up to you, he would absolutely get lonely without his favorites around. Didn't care if our dog was around or not, despite our dog being sad for awhile after he died.

Pretty much, haha. The amount of elitism among some Linux users is quite potent.

Just to clarify, properly trained and handled drug and bomb sniffing dogs do actually have quite a high accuracy rate. However, in the hands of shitty police officers... sigh.

You're being downvoted, but it's true. Will it further enable lazy/dumb people to continue being lazy/dumb? Absolutely. But summarizing notes, generating boilerplate emails or script blocks, etc. was never deep, rigorous thinking to begin with. People literally said the same thing about handheld calculators, word processors, etc. Will some methods/techniques become esoteric as more and more mundane tasks are automated away? Almost certainly. Is that inherently a bad thing? Not in the majority of cases, in my opinion.

And before anyone chimes in with students abusing this tech and thus not becoming properly educated: All this means, is that various methods for gauging whether a student has achieved the baseline in any given subject will need to be implemented, e.g. proctored hand-written exams, homework structured in such a way that AI cannot easily do it, etc.

We have to do this ourselves in the government for every decommissioned server/appliance/end user device. We have to fill out paperwork for every single storage drive we destroy, and we can only destroy them using approved destruction tools (e.g. specific degaussers, drive shredders/crushers, etc). Appliances can be kind of a pain, though. It can be tricky sometimes finding all the writable memory in things like switches and routers. But, nothing is worse than storage arrays... destroying hundreds of drives is incredibly tedious.

It's terrifying, honestly. As sociology, psychology, and neurology research becomes more and more understood, feels like it enables governments to become more and more effective at mass manipulation.

The worst part is, there's barely anything that can be done to combat it. The general population can't be assed to give up the worst offending platforms that enable it (e.g. Twitter, Meta, TikTok, etc), despite the plethora of warnings that have been issued over the last 10+ years. The one sliver of hope is the youngest generation not using those platforms because, "those are for old people," but it's just a matter of time for the next "cool" social platform becomes just as corrupted/infested.

100% this. Our local cable company, a subsidiary of Spectrum, refused to lay fiber to anywhere but our core metro centers and even then, only to businesses. It wasn't until our metros collectively agreed to subsidize another, smaller ISP to come in and lay fiber to every neighborhood across the region (I live somewhere that has like 6 cities all closely clumped together). The monopoly cable company sued for years trying to block it. They allllmost succeeded, too, until a state appeals court finally overturned their injunction. Now we finally have competition and it's glorious. I pay less than half what I did before and get twice the speed.

Because the waitlist is often very long. On top of a limited supply, there are other limiting factors, e.g. if you're already really old and sick, the organ that becomes available will likely go to a candidate that's more likely to have a successful transplant instead, such as a healthier kid or something.

Fuck Broadcom. We're still dealing with that bullshit, as there aren't a lot of viable alternatives at the enterprise scale.

And people not being allowed to shake hands and breath in my neck.

Not sure I've ever breathed on someone's neck when shaking their hand. I can't believe I've been failing proper etiquette this whole time, how embarrassing... I'll have to start doing this at work from now on before meetings.

The whole thing makes me sick to my stomach. The lack of mass mobilization to the streets while they're essentially black bagging human beings and making them disappear is insane. The protests in my metro have been pitiful.

But they're imprisoning people in a foreign country where we have no jurisdiction, right? How is it possible to eventually have a court hearing for those people?

Haven't they been suspending habeas corpus this whole time? I thought that was the main reason behind the SCOTUS case, that they're mass deporting people with zero due process?

What did I ignore? Please enlighten me. I don't have to assume anything, because your argument boils down to exactly what I stated. Please tell me how it doesn't.

Again, that's missing that point of what I'm saying. Without kids, humans go extinct. So yes, if you say, "stop having kids altogether," you're saying humans should go extinct. And my other point is highlighting how idiotic it is to call that the more moral position.

Boomers will be long, long dead by 2070, so that statement is idiotic. You'll be the old boomer needing their ass wiped by then. And I'm not saying that children are only useful for that, I'm saying new generations of children keep civilization going altogether. But you don't like civilization and think it all sucks and want it all to die, so your views are simple and two-dimensional, lacking any compassion or empathy to those currently alive and sparing it all for those who don't even exist.