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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pretty fly for a Venn diagram⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The original song goes
  Uno dos tres cuatro cinco cinco seis

  It's stupid on purpose and makes sense if you listen to the lyrics

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pretty fly for a Venn diagram⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  A helicopter would work and be much funnier.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨6/10⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  US schools definitely mess with your head the higher of an achiever you are.

  In remedial classes, in most places, 60 is passing.
  In normal classes, in most places, 70 is passing.
  In advanced classes, you may be kicked out for scoring under 80.

  The intuitive concept of "barely good enough" keeps getting higher as you perform better, plus of course each of these types of classes are progressively more difficult by their nature. It really fucks with people who are excellent in some subjects but average in others.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Star Trek transporters⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The determining question for whether or not it's the same is this: Are you the physical matter of your brain, or the electricity running through it? In the first case, sleep isn't death. In the second case, it is. I would argue that you're closer to the electricity than the brain matter, since an unpowered brain is how we define death.

  But REALLY it ultimately doesn't matter, if you think about it. An exact clone of you created after any kind of destruction of consciousness is no different than the original you had the destruction never occurred. We just intuitively really do not like that idea.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Star Trek transporters⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  You don't need a distant science fiction MacGuffin for this. Every night you lay down and "die" for 8 hours or so, then your consciousness turns back on and you simply trust that it wasn't altered too much in the interim. We know very well that the way we think can change from one day to the other, so who's to say you're really the same person?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rating down at 77%⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I don't think OP made the point clear, but I agree with the spirit.

  Fundamentally it is this:
  Sense of scale
  Meaningful content at every turn
  CHOOSE ONE

  Examples
  Daggerfall - infinite scale, but quests, dungeons, meaningful content have to be specifically targeted or else be lost in the gigantic procedurally generated world.
  Elite Dangerous - spending 20 minutes supercrusing across a binary star system really makes you feel the size, but also that's 20 minutes of not doing anything.
  No Man's Sky - The universe is effectively infinite, and there is something useful almost everywhere! But (almost) none of it is handcrafted, so the random content gets stale in the scale.
  Star Citizen - Basically no content, but absolutely unmatched as an immersive space experience, as it doesn't compromise on scale for QoL or filler content in the slightest. Worth noting that most people hate this.

  Meanwhile Skyrim is impressive because the world is pretty big, but there's also something interesting to do every 5 steps. Starfield tries to maintain this while also tossing in some NMS-style randomized infinite content, but ends up suffering the same feeling of staleness once you spend any time exploring it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to watch Wheel of Time season 2 online: Release date and time⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It was pre-approved on launch for 3 seasons at minimum. It's locked in at least that far.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Baldur's Gate 3 is the horniest RPG I've ever played and honestly it's a bit much⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It reeks of immaturity in general, or maybe more cynically, the perception of a bunch of nerds that have never had a sex life. There are so few games that handle sexual and romantic relationships realistically, and now that we have one nobody knows what to make of it.

  Some characters take things slow. Opening up gradually, sharing some wine, holding hands and enjoying a single kiss on a night alone together. Eventually this ramps up naturally.

  Some characters on the other hand are like, "you ready to fuck? I'm ready. Love? Never heard of it."

  Both of these are normal and it's cool to see both represented in the same world.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bill Maher Bashes ‘Barbie’ as a “Preachy, Man-Hating Zombie Lie”⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it's that the world has changed and left him behind. He was a racist misogynist 30 years ago, but back then the system enforced those things to his satisfaction. The systemic oppression of people he doesn't like has been challenged more and more over the past few decades, and he takes issue with that.

  It makes sense for him to be the angriest "progressive" in the world if you think about it. All the progress we've made has been the things he DOESN'T want (#metoo, BLM, etc) and none of the things he does want (healthcare, secularism)

  This is why a lot of old people "become more conservative." No they don't. They just stew in their shitty comfort zones while the world around them moves forward.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bill Maher Bashes ‘Barbie’ as a “Preachy, Man-Hating Zombie Lie”⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  He's really the same as he's always been, just the more you watch and listen the more you find out about his questionable views.

  I disagree with him on most things, but I respect him as a pundit because you can really tell that he's providing opinions that are truly his own. He's a conservative democrat that everybody hates, and he ignores the pressure to fall in line with either side. He's pro-military, pro-gun, pro-surveillance, but also all for drug legalization, medicare for all, and vehemently supports separation of church and state. It's a weird mix and even inconsistent at times (he loves individual freedom but hates women so abortion is tricky for him!) but you at least have to admit he's one of the last remaining pundits that isn't a mouthpiece for politicians.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨XOXO⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Instead of removing two instances of S and replacing both with an X, you could simply remove the first S and replace it with a K. This would provide a functionally identical output with less code changes, and would preserve arity. Provide comments explaining the reason for the unintuitive implementation of the "fixes" interface so that future maintainers don't mistakenly rewrite it. Pull request denied.