got the Samsung buds pro 2 at half price recently and I kind of like them, but they were a bit underwhelming even at that price. I’ve never spent a lot on audio in general, so they were actually a big improvement, but there was no “wow” factor or anything. Plus having to install bloatware that asks for all permissions under the sun sucks (why the fuck would a settings menu want to know my location???).

I do think you underestimate how nice the noise cancelation can be though. I moved to a big city and my hick ass cannot deal with all the fucking noise. Plus I’m clumsy and end up getting wires caught on everything, which means wire stuff also becomes e-waste fairly quickly.

It reads as parody so much that I was actually kind of enjoying it. I mean the scene with the Teslas crashing, Havana Syndrome, “Death to America, I remember it from the videogame”, the 13 year old girl quoting West Wing, all the nonsense pontificating about random bullshit like Friends, the camera zooming and twisting for no discernible reason, I thought I was picking up on some deep contempt for lib neurosis and vapidness and it got a laugh out of me a couple of times. Pausing it to check out who made it was a mistake, soured the rest of the thing. It might have been ruined by the runtime anyway so no big loss.

the ice levels in Spelunky HD are my least favorite, but this track almost makes up for all the stupid UFOs crashing into me from out of screen

The video consists of like 2 hours of some examples of youtube plagiarism, with discussion of content mills and the beginning of an interesting point about how plagiarists view the people they steal from as lesser, which is not expanded upon as much as it should IMO.

The other 2 hours are about James Somerston, a gay video essayist that basically Frakensteined a bunch (if not all) of his videos from queer authors, some well known, a lot of them not. By the end Hbomb makes a good point about erasure, and how young queer people don’t understand their history in part because of people like Somerston.

I’m generally not annoyed by length since I’m a zoomer and watch everything at 2x or more, but in this case I get the point because it actually took me 2 real time hours to watch and I felt there was a lot that could have been cut. I still won’t watch the 3 hour scorcese movie, fuck all of you, movies ARE too long now.

I think going for the Rebuild treatment was a really cool idea and they mostly executed it pretty well. One thing I didn’t get is why they put that blur effect on everything.

The only guy I have on my friends list that plays this stuff is definetly not afraid to let others know, he does extensive reviews of every datable girl in a given game. but also entertaining to read/make fun of sometimes.

There is no deeper understanding about the issues they are marching for. It is all just slogans.

. I don’t understand how people who don’t know shit don’t just shut the fuck up until they learn more.

I’m sick of simulation theory as well and want something cooler to take its place. Maybe Gnosticism?

They do once their depression gets better though? Anhedonia, loss of interest/libido/attention/whatever the fuck else are symptoms of depression. I’m all for self-improvement, my own mental health improved greatly as a result of trying to improve myself, to the point I consider myself no longer depressed. But we’re social creatures and no one builds self-confidence and mental resilience in a vacuum. It’s often up to the depressed person to put themselves out in situations where this can happen, but sometimes it does not work out for whatever reason and the whole thing is a long process. In this situation self-compassion is a lot better than telling yourself you’re a sack of shit.

Also, isn’t the interesting life thing all backwards? If you like a person you get curious and find them interesting. If I like a guy I’ll find what they are into cool, be it singing, playing chess or knowing a lot about bugs.

No one is owed that kind of attention, but most people are worthy of compassion.

I started typing a long debatebro paragraph about how Israel is not forced to bomb hospitals because its ego is wounded but a) I suck at convincing people and b) the suggestion of just showing footage is better.

Maybe with captions? “Why should I care if these are ‘good victims’ like in the West Bank?” " Is this not state terrorism (A.K.A terrorism?)" “The vast majority of Hamas’s arsenal is underground, who is this really hurting?”. IDK, something snappy to shake them out of the debatebro mentality.

I don’t know shit but from casually checking the news mega that seems to be the general sentiment. What I don’t get is wouldn’t this ground invasion be a completely unforced error on Israel’s part? Why are they even considering it?

Implementing fascism as a mechanic only for it to be unsustainable gameplaywise is a good bit tbh

Could be because cats can be really distrustful of strangers. My cat is really sweet but she’ll hiss to almost every guest. Could be a upbringing thing though, my neighbor has 4 and 3 of them were street cats that she took in, when I occasionally take care of them the only one that gives me any trouble is the one that was there since she was a kitten.

So this guy has the time to complain about vuvuzela no food but not to provide some context for the indictment, instead linking to a 39 page pdf? And the rest of the article is just factoids about gold?? Western journalists are a fucking disgrace.

Also England stole withheld like 1 billion $ in gold from Venezuela, but I guess that tidbit didn’t make the cut

Mengele is the right comparison because this is not just some oafs botching a surgery, this is sadist shit.

Also the poor monkey finding some comfort by holding hands with her “roommate” through the cage makes me want to cry

Yes. Also the other Daniel Mullins games.

u did the thing we designed the game to push you towards doing don’t you feel bad u monster lolololol

To be fair to the game that’s only the bait and switch at the very start with Toriel, designed to make the player reload and introduce the save meta-fuckery with Flowey. From then on the only incentive to do violence is getting stuck at a puzzle or completionism (which is at the heart of the meta-narrative).

The commentary on violence by itself is naive though (even the game points it out at one point) and if you don’t like the characters or roll your eyes at 4th wall stuff the whole thing falls apart pretty quick.

Bethesda games in general. Maybe I will give Morrowind another try eventually (only played like an hour) but my experience with the other ones discourages me greatly. Gameplay is boring, balancing is non existent ( you either steamroll or have to cheese encounters). People always point out the cool quests and lore but they are buried in a mountain of mediocre slop. Aesthetically, apart from Morrowind I find them really dull. I do give them props for the modding support tho, I’ve started playing the forgotten city and having a blast, and that was originally a Skyrim mod.

Also a link to the past. Maybe it’s because it’s the most “vanilla” Zelda ever got.

When people here seek out stuff on the other instances to post there yes, but a lot of the time it’s people coming here and kicking the hornets nest in which case I don’t think it’s brigading at least in spirit.

Brigading is a dumb concept anyway, but trying to convince ex-redditors of that is a waste of time

why is “social networks” in quotes Elon? Are they actually anti-social networks ?

evaluating LLM

ask the researcher if they are testing form or meaning

they don’t understand

pull out illustrated diagram explaining what is form and what is meaning

they laugh and say “the model is demonstrating creativity sir”

looks at the test

it’s form