Buddahriffic

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Dick Cheney: Ok, I'll clean up the mess.

Narrator: He said "up" but meant "out".

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Eliminate the corporate veil. The people making and benefiting from the decisions made by corporations should be the ones liable, not some entity that doesn't really exist and can be made to truly not exist if continuing pretending to exist cuts off the money train.

Though this would require fixing the justice and political systems first, since they've been corrupted by people who think this is the way things should look.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 hours ago (3 children)

He did look pretty cool landing a fighter jet on that carrier before those embarrassing photos where he briefly thought the Iraq war ended with Saddam being deposed, too.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Is it a collection of games or more of a mashup? Ie, do you get a menu where you pick one of many games that are independent of each other, or is there an overall narrative (or something) that ties them all together like the NES remix packs?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Which is just regular conservation of momentum plus a force directing it towards some center point it oscillates around, which feels weird because you can hold a lot more of it in your hands than you normally can without that oscillation.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

Oh come on, Mr Bean wasn't that weird.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Sounds to me like the best way to progress at this point would be to nationalize the utility and focus it on power generation and management rather than profit.

And IMO similar could be said about many things.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I've got Gran Turismo 7 and it's great in some ways but they ruined the pacing of the game. It hands out cars like they expire in less than a week. It can be fun to try out a whole bunch of different cars, but there's not much sense of progression like the older ones gave.

I remember building a connection to some of the cars in older games. When you bought a car, it was meaningful because it took time to win enough money to afford something, and then I'd spend a while upgrading it until eventually hitting a ceiling and needing a better car to upgrade to progress to more races. And then add some variety with a few races with rules or restrictions along the way to give a reason to buy some other cards in the same tier, but then then it would be a big decision.

In GT7, all except the top end supercars feel like an afterthought, my garage gets filled for free as I win races, and any time I want to try a different car, first thing I do is buy most or all of the upgrades because it's all trivial. Race with limiting rules? Ok, give me 5 minutes and I'll find, buy, and max out another car to win this one.

Granted, it has more of an emphasis on the driving than the older ones did (where you could usually take your super car into whatever races your wanted and see how many times you could lap everyone), but I think I like the progressing through cars part more than the racing part and GT7 is disappointing in that regard compared to GT4 or GT3.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago

Any of those topics that people who care more about society being polite than just tell you to avoid are ones that should be not just discussed but agreed on before making a relationship legally binding. Religion, money, politics. They are each too serious for "agree to disagree" to last long.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

Maybe it's not about humans and never has been. Maybe by the time the gods realized how much of an issue humans were, we were already too widespread for them to destroy us without either running out of mana or ruining earth for everything.

Maybe the cancer is a god's plan, but it's not working well enough.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

Pointing a gun at something should be treated with the same severity as pointing it at something and pulling the trigger. Yes, police included.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

I didn't go cold turkey but made myself stick with Dvorak in mIRC. I was competent with Dvorak within a couple of weeks and then switched everything with actual typing to Dvorak within a month or two while using qwerty for things where I just wanted to type before that.

At this point (some 20 years later), typing with qwerty takes concentration but Dvorak is so comfortable.

That was with a qwerty layout keyboard just changing the layout in software and using an image on my 2nd monitor as a guide that I needed for maybe a couple of weeks. I also did drilling with typing games. Programming symbols took the longest to get used to. I still haven't gotten an actual Dvorak layout keyboard (which does make it easier when I do need to use qwerty).

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