Oh man this hit me right in the feels. Love it. Pretty much the only happy memories I have with my dad are the like once a year gold panning trips he'd take me on, he'd always blast bluegrass and southern gospel on the like 4 hour drive into the mountains. (I actually made my wife's wedding ring from that gold). I stopped listening to much in college. I should go back and listen to more. It's more folk but this song reminded me of This Too Shall Pass by Danny Schmidt.
They're definitely getting bigger, but not with anything meaningful. I'm playing through Cyberpunk 2077 and it definitely feels like a lot of the side missions are unnecessary filler to pad out an excuse for the major names they got involved. I'm guessing other AAA are the same, "we need to do more than last time" whether it's impactful to the story and experience or not.
Wow. Way to show you have no understanding of neither the proposed solutions nor NIMBYs. The idiots voting them down don't care about what is actually being proposed, they care exclusively that it will lower housing costs. If there's enough housing for everyone their house suddenly isn't as precious a commodity and their retirement plan just withered away.
There's plenty of people who would happily move into new apartments.
The original was titled "October Rain" (a reference to an October Hamas attack),
had lyrics like:
Hours and hours
and flowers
Life is no game for the cowards (most I've heard felt it in context to be saying screw Palestine, they started it and hide in their holes killing, let's bomb them all)
And the Israeli delegate to Eurovision (the board member guy, not the artist) said they were sending a song all Israelis could connect to.
So yeah, my albeit western interpretation is it was very anti-palastine, pro-israel
If only denser housing structures and public transportation and work from home didn't all keep getting voted down and shouted down by NIMBYs so we had a better way. I get out and vote and write letters to elected officials. Not much more many of us can do.
I haven't heard it at all so I can't comment, but I do know they were forced to re-write it pretty late in the game to turn down the more obvious anti-palastine political messages in it after several countries threatened to boycott this year. It might have already sucked, haven't heard either version, but a late re-write changing it can't have helped.
I'm not against subwoofers. I'm against noise ordinances never being enforced even if you call a complaint in and police are usually seen patrolling around town so you know there's plenty free to respond.
Do you mean with the Voyager FDS? There's a big difference between patching a system 30+ years past it's planned mission date because at everyone's amazement it just keeps going and being valuable versus the Neuralink developing issues a few months after being installed when many expected it to fail because of the news of high failure rate among the primate test subjects beforehand.
My gaming groups (both tabletop and video) are leaning into experimental phase of trying new stuff. Count me in if I ever come across your release in the wild.
On the music and visual side. If at all possible I highly recommend finding or hiring someone to at least review what you have and advise, if not doing all the work. There's so much to both that it takes ages to get right but they can have such a huge impact as you seem to know.
I've looked into this before for arguments with my mother trying to get her to stop saying there's a gay agenda. Her argument was because I enjoy the videogames and sci-fi I wasn't smart enough to understand the truth. The science has actually been done (though I'm sure more still needs to be done).
Research by a scientist named Schwartz in 2016 showed that those predisposed to anti-social behaviour are also naturally pre-disposed to watch more TV. When accounting for genetic traits, previous research into negative affects of TV didn't hold up amongst children and young adults (mentally, physically yes, but we already knew sedentary lifestyle has negative impacts).
A (I Believe Johns Hopkins but I'm going from memory) 20 year data evaluation released in 2021 showed that excessive TV can contribute to cognitive decline over time (they measured a 0.5% reduction amongst the adults they tested). The main scientist I remember saying they didn't account for type of media and did think educational content like documentaries would have a smaller impact though he couldn't guess by how much. His worry wasn't about the average adult making decisions but rather preserving as much mental capacity long term so as to help reduce impacts of dementia.
A 2023 UK study backed up the 2021 and 2016 study. Excess causes increased health risks and a long term small measurable cognitive decline.
Everything I've seen points to, for the most part, the amount being the problem as with everything. Moderation is key and living a diverse life that stimulates you mentally overall is important. Manga or Marvel movies when you want to relax is not going to rot your brain. Only consuming them will, same as with any type of media or genre.
Oh man this hit me right in the feels. Love it. Pretty much the only happy memories I have with my dad are the like once a year gold panning trips he'd take me on, he'd always blast bluegrass and southern gospel on the like 4 hour drive into the mountains. (I actually made my wife's wedding ring from that gold). I stopped listening to much in college. I should go back and listen to more. It's more folk but this song reminded me of This Too Shall Pass by Danny Schmidt.
Anyways. Enjoy the gummies: