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Lokarin posted...

i'm not buying any new games until I'm done my backlog

I'd probably never actually buy any more new games if I did that. Instead, I'm mostly limiting my purchases to either exceptionally good deals or games I intend to play in the near future.

SinisterSlay posted...

I doubt they keep stats.

The quick search I did turned up per capita fatality stats roughly equal to the US' (which are themselves not exactly great by developed country standards), but no stats per distance travelled (the more useful metric because it excludes non-drivers from the denominator).

Regardless, without stats, you really can't conclude that "it works." All you can conclude is that it didn't work so badly that the entire population went extinct.

I still need to play Hollow Knight. I've had it since 2019.

I wrote out all possible combinations for seed hybridization in Harvest Moon AWL, then went through and checked off which ones did/did not work. Just checking the case, it looks like I also typed up and printed my results, but I'm not really sure how to interpret the typed version, so apparently teenage me had a few things to learn about data labels.

My guy, we're just asking where this alleged source is. It's a simple question; no need to turn it into some kind of contest.

SinisterSlay posted...

It's not busy like cars obviously.

And that's really the key difference. Large numbers of cars, multiple points of conflict, mixed transportation modes... there's a very substantial difference between zooming around on a snowmobile trail (noting that there very much are speed limits for every vehicle on trails that are intended for mixed use, albeit with pretty inconsistent enforcement) and on a road.

SinisterSlay posted...

But that plus places like India with no street rules kind of proves it does work if everyone is doing it.

You sure it works? Do you have stats handy showing that collision, injury, and fatality rates are comparable in India to countries with stricter road rules?

SinisterSlay posted...

Interestingly snowmobiles here don't have speed limits. So we regularly do above 160kph, on trails.

It's not particularly surprising that vehicles that have relatively little other traffic to contend with face fewer regulations than vehicles that routinely encounter significant amounts of other traffic. The more other people you bring into a system, the more potential points of failure you introduce, and the greater the risk that any one of those failures will harm somebody else (who may not be responsible for any failures of their own).

If hardly anyone drove, it stands to reason that there wouldn't be speed limits, since there wouldn't be a need to make sure people were only driving as fast as would allow them to respond to the kind of unexpected circumstances that having other drivers around can present.

SinisterSlay posted...

That's how long it takes to glance at the gps on the phone too. But that's illegal for some reason

Mostly because it's impossible to tell whether a phone is being used as a GPS or for other purposes. This depends where you are, but it's also generally not illegal if you've got it set up hands-free. If you don't, then it once again becomes significantly more of a distraction than glancing at a speedometer.

Salrite posted...

It's also important to treat any source like a Wikipedia article. There is no such thing as an unbiased source.

That too. "Wikipedia is unreliable because anyone can say whatever they want!" kind of overlooks that that's true of most sources, and even stuff that formally qualifies as peer-reviewed has plenty of room for bias or misleading information. To use a notable example, Wakefield's study connecting vaccines to autism was peer-reviewed and published reputably, despite being questionable science even before the conflicts of interest and outright fabrication of his data came to light. It only got retracted after many other scientists attempted to reproduce his results and were unable to, which is well outside the scope of typical peer review.

Be skeptical of every source's credibility. Look for the sources they reference, evaluate their methodology and consistency with similar sources, and keep an eye out for potential agendas. Critically evaluating information is a very important skill.

Albums are just playlists put together by the artist/publisher.

captpackrat posted...

According to Relativity all motion is relative, therefore there can be no Unmoved Mover since all objects are in motion relative to other objects.

That, or all movers can be considered unmoved from their own frame of reference.

Speed limits are generally just a shortcut to avoid having to design roads properly. On a city street that's actually designed to be a city street, most people aren't going to go any faster than 50 km/h because they just won't feel comfortable doing so in such a small space. On a city street that's actually an 8-lane stroad with lanes big enough to fit 1.5 cars into them, of course people aren't going to limit themselves to 50 unless you force them to.

FatalAccident posted...

Like the most scammy, low grade, bs filled ads that would never pass on TV at least in the UK anyway idk about anywhere else.

Online platforms generally aren't held accountable for the content of the ads they host, instead being able to foist that responsibility onto the advertisers that choose what to run. That creates a whole lot less accountability in general than you see with more carefully curated TV channels, and is one of the major problems with online advertising. Holding platforms liable for the consequences of the ads they run would go a long way toward cleaning things up so adblockers weren't so necessary.

I'm looking at taking some accounting courses myself and possibly eventually going for my CPA. I'm currently working in an accounting-heavy position with pretty much no formal accounting training (other than when I was 9 years old and my dad got me to reconcile my mother's business books to earn some extra money to buy an N64, which in hindsight was wild), and not having any issues for that lack of training, but it would be good to flesh out my skills to open up related opportunities.

Tuition's expensive, though, and after moving last year and my cat racking up some substantial vet bills before she died in May things are still a bit tight.

SinisterSlay posted...

Drive 31kmph in a school zone. I think they shoot on sight now.
Safer to mow the kids down than it is to drive a hair over the school speed limit. Seems to be the government logic anyways.

Or try another one.
Your on the highway, 100kph zone. Traffic light turns yellow.

Do you
A: 4 wheel lock up your car to stop under 3 seconds?
B: run the light and hope the red light camera doesn't catch you?

Because that got tested in court here. Government drew the legal proceedings out for so long the guy died of cancer first!.

That's nice, but it still doesn't mean that you need to stare at your speedometer to such an extent that it's comparable to looking at your phone. A quick glance should tell you where you currently stand, with another quick glance after a few seconds of adjustments to see if you've adjusted adequately. Repeat until you reach your target.

SunWuKung420 posted...

User curated history is unreliable.

It's usually a good starting point, provided you put in a bit of effort to verify the information. Most articles on non-contentious topics can be taken at face value without too much risk, especially for colloquial purposes.

I'm just looking at the grammatical configuration. Your response to "your source is several inches up your own backside" is "another post isn't a source," which sounds like you're saying "that's not a source up there, it's another post."

More saliently, he didn't quote those posts as a source, he quoted them as a throwback to the claim you made that Project 2025 started in 2017, requesting you to back up that claim.

Should I be interpreting that as "another post is several inches up my own backside"?

willythemailboy posted...

That would be true if you were measuring loneliness solely in terms of romantic relationships, and heterosexual ones at that. Research shows that simply isn't true; even single women tend to have female friends (insert the entirely serious meme that single women keep women single), but lonely men tend not to have male friends as well as not having girlfriends, and homosexual men are as lonely or even more so than heterosexual men.

Research has also shown that men tend to rely more on romantic relationships for emotional connections than women do, which largely stems from systemic homophobia discouraging emotional closeness (even if it's platonic) between dudes. The consequence of that is that single men tend to be lonelier and less emotionally fulfilled than single women, even if they have comparable numbers of close friends. That probably also factors into why the friendzone is such a contentious issue: a lot of guys don't expect emotional closeness from non-romantic relationships, and that makes it easy to mistake a platonic emotional connection for romantic interest.

So, you know, hug your bros. You'll all feel better for it.

Amuseum posted...

Naturally a topic about pop culture eventually becomes a place to criticize the modern 'lonely' men and their 'toxic' masculinity. If half the men are lonely, the flip side is that half the women are equally lonely and complaining thereof. But then watching those tiktok videos, who wants to approach those toxic women.

Not so much a criticism as a tangential observation. That was largely idle speculation, so if you've got reason to think I'm off base to have spotted a potential connection there, I welcome your input for the sake of refining it. Getting defensive with "oh yeah? Well I bet all the women are just as lonely!" doesn't really contribute much, though, and instead smacks of protesting just a wee bit too much.

"Christians" is such a broad group with such diverse opinions that making any sort of blanket statement about what they would or wouldn't be against is impossible. At this point, you can't even consistently say that Christians follow Christ (in which case one can easily say they aren't actually Christians without falling into true Scotsman territory, but they self-identify as such vocally enough that they kind of have to be lumped in).

kind9 posted...

I get that, but to me it usually comes across as people believing truth is subjective and about how you feel. Not to slide into religion talk again, but I often hear it from evangelicals and that sort when they are actually presented with facts.

I mean, that's not entirely wrong. "The truth" as a colloquial concept has quite a bit of subjectivity in it, owing to the fact that the scope of our experiences is limited. There is an objective "truth" that comprehensively reflects everything that is factually true about the universe, but the vast majority of that truth is irrelevant to our everyday lives, and so we inevitably have to do something to curate it. That curation is inescapably subjective, and that means that what we refer to as "truth" is more subjective than people like to think it is.

As you say, though, it is often something that people hide behind to avoid facing an inconsistency between their opinions/beliefs and objective reality. The same with "it's just my opinion," as though it can't be wrong to hold an opinion. In those cases, it's not "their truth," they're just objectively wrong and trying to avoid feeling bad about it.

willythemailboy posted...

His "source" is an interview from 2024, which he claims supports Project 2025 starting in 2017 when the people who wrote it were already in power. I can't tell if he's been gaslit or is trying to gaslight us.

I mean, regardless of when Project 2025 itself was officially established, the Heritage Foundation has been pushing similar agendas for its entire existence. To say the project itself started in 2017 isn't particularly accurate, but I'd be very surprised if one couldn't find examples of the Heritage Foundation (and those pushing agendas it supports) lobbying for things like preventing the sale of "immoral" media in 2017, capitalizing on the fact that Trump built so much of his presidency on "owning the libs" and was therefore likely to be on board with pushing back against "leftist" trends in media.

Now, I expect the Heritage Foundation isn't particularly interested in the ID-harvesting angle that's underpinning so many implementations of this censorship. Youtube's sudden interest in "protecting" the children it's been happily showing torture porn to may be capitalizing on Visa/MC's efforts to strong-arm Steam et al into removing games they think are icky, but it's more likely just Google finding an excuse to collect more invasive data.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

Now imagine trying to make friends or date in a world where everyone you meet seems like they came from an alternate universe where everything was different. How can you relate to someone based on shared commonalities when you have literally nothing in common?

Having literally nothing in common is quite rare. At the level of minutiae, perhaps, but no matter how fragmented pop culture gets, you're still going to be able to find commonalities in broad genres. That, in turn, provides a springboard for creating new shared experiences instead of relying on ones you had before you met. If you both like horror movies but neither of you have seen any of the same horror movies as the other, that means you can just share your favourites with each other and talk about them afterwards.

Yes, gone are the days of "You like M*A*S*H? I like M*A*S*H! Let's make out," but if you actually make an effort to listen to what people like, respect and value their opinions, and offer to share experiences with them that you expect they'll enjoy instead of falling back on referencing pop culture that you can assume they're familiar with, it's not hard to find enough common interests to make friends or date.

This, incidentally, is likely a sizable part of the "male loneliness epidemic," given that the modern manfluencer sphere promotes an ideal of masculinity that explicitly discourages listening to and respecting other people's opinions and feelings. That can kind of work when you can safely assume that they've consumed and enjoyed the same media as you (or at least when it's very easy to find somebody else that has, if it doesn't work the first few times). Not so much when you can't, and finding common ground means actually trying to understand them and their interests.

kind9 posted...

I always cringe when somebody says "my truth" or "your truth".

I usually interpret that as either "the facts that are pertinent to you" or "accept that it is a fact that you hold the opinions you do." Both of those are valid concepts/sentiments, and boil down to focusing on what matters to you instead of getting too hung up on other people's opinions. That's not an unassailable position (like if you decide that comparisons between statistics for illnesses and vaccine side effects shouldn't be considered in making vaccination decisions, that's not "your truth," you just suck at risk analysis), but it's still not an intrinsically invalid way to frame things.

The actual takeaway from the source you posted is that Project 2025 is on board with what's happening and there's likely some element of Christo-fascism factoring into it all, but that's not the whole picture. Most global movements can't be distilled down to the actions or opinions of a single group, especially something like opposition to violent or otherwise "immoral" video games that's seen such broad, bipartisan support (mostly because it's such a new medium that it's easy to draw a line between kids who play games and adults who don't, and therefore assumed that games play a causal role in any differences between those demographics).

That too. I have subs on for everything I watch, regardless of language. They mostly act as a band-aid for poor sound balancing, but it's nice to have them there for that purpose.

Muscles posted...

Don't be obtuse, you know I mean having text over the actual movie breaks the immersion

Arguably, but I'd rather have the immersion bent a little than not be able to understand what characters are saying (and dubbing often does just as much to break the immersion). It also really doesn't break the immersion, unless you have to put genuine effort into reading them.

For that matter, how does having somebody provide a translation of what they're saying break the immersion more than having magical music come out of nowhere?

Revelation34 posted...

That's even less justified than the other removed content.

Quite a few people (all of whom axiomatically qualify as homophobic/transphobic dungbags) consider any sort of queer content to be as harmful to children as outright porn or other, more traditional "corrupting influences." They're wrong, of course (the queer aspect only causes "harm" if you believe that a kid coming out instead of remaining closeted their whole life is a bad thing, which has no basis in anything except arbitrary homophobia), but in their eyes, stamping out queer content is just as morally justified as stamping out any other content that's "harmful to kids."

willythemailboy posted...

Has ooger seriously gone full "I reject your reality and substitute my own"?

To be fair he did provide a source. Whether it's a credible source that supports the conclusion he's trying to present remains in question, but a source is there.

Muscles posted...

Except for the fact the the rest add to the movie while subtitles distract from it

Being able to understand the dialogue distracts from the movie?

Pretty much the only reason octopi haven't achieved sentience and formed human-like societies is that they don't live long enough to allow significant intergenerational knowledge transfer.

dedbus posted...

Wild to think the media machine isn't firing on all cylinders to shove Taylor Swift down your throat disproportionately more than any artist or nearly any media.

Wild to think that any media is ever "shoved down your throat" by anyone without direct physical access to you. It's not hard to ignore things you don't like when they're only being presented for passive consumption, no matter how common they are. Music in particular (especially pop that's been specifically designed to be inoffensive) is pretty easy to relegate to just being background noise. It only gets hard to ignore things if you're forced into actively consuming them, like being dragged along to a theatre to watch a movie (and in that case, it's your friends that are shoving it down your throat and not "the media machine").

Again, say it with me: "Meh."

Muscles posted...

If I want to read I'll read a book

Movies shouldn't have subtitles because if I want to read, I'll read a book.

Movies shouldn't have soundtracks, because if I want to listen to music, I'll play a CD.

Movies shouldn't have visuals, because if I want to see pictures, I'll go to an art gallery.

Yeah, that doesn't really work at all. There's no need to compartmentalize sensory input like that.

papercup posted...

There is a 45 minute Kirby Air Riders Direct tomorrow morning :0

I really love just how personable Sakurai is. He's having exactly as much fun with the games he directs as we do, and he's not shy about making that obvious. That "you're not really here for the racing, but I'll explain Air Ride mode first anyway" is quite exceptionally in-touch with the prevailing opinions among the fanbase, far more so than most directors ever achieve.

Between the main theme here and the credit theme from Bananza, Nintendo seems to be really leaning into the "disgustingly cheesy song that's actually kind of unironically lovable" thing.

Questionmarktarius posted...

I'm not "stealing" a website.
I am blocking untrusted hosts.

I mean, viewing an ad-supported website while blocking the ads does constitute availing yourself of a service without paying the requested price for that service. In that sense, it's absolutely an example of piracy.

On the other hand, though, community websites profit from people actively using them whether they view ads or not (since that activity draws other viewers who won't necessarily block ads), social media platforms make most of their money selling your information anyway, and in many cases ads are so deliberately intrusive, obnoxious, and even outright dangerous that I'm convinced advertisers want people to block them. The actual harm is even more debatable than with formal piracy, and the fact that ads are so overtly hostile to users that the FBI officially recommends that everyone block them for security reasons means I'm not too concerned about that potential harm. If a physical store had a display of items out front that were for sale, but - by design - paying for them meant walking through a 20-foot hallway lined of clowns tickling you and honking their noses the entire time, I'd be inclined to steal a few things just to register a protest of their tickle-clown policy.

Muscles posted...

She is though, you hear her everywhere, restaurants, grocery stores, gas stations, hell you even have to deal with her during football games, she has no business being talked about as much as she is during football games

adjl posted...

That's a sentiment from somebody who never learned to just tune out inconsequential stuff they don't enjoy, who instead fixates on how much they don't like it and allows that dislike to interfere with their life.

Say it with me:

"Meh."

It's pretty normal to find that it gets worse before it gets better, with this sort of thing. You're essentially training yourself to live with a baseline level of anxiety that you find tolerable and can manage without it impacting your life, and that's going to involve playing with your limits and occasionally pushing yourself too far. It's also normal to have occasional bad episodes just because you get worn out from constantly fighting it.

For what it's worth, the way you've been talking in this topic, I already see an improvement in your OCD. I'm sure most of that is just that you're specifically trying to stop yourself from expressing the level of obsessive behaviour you usually do, but the fact that you're able to do that at all means it's working. It's unpleasant, but you will eventually start to feel better about everything. Keep it up.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

Don't even need that - stuff like NoScript basically blocks all of the ads.

I'd personally consider NoScript more of a nuclear option than any adblocker, but it does indeed solve most of the GameFAQs ad problems. I still use both, though. Broadly, they serve different purposes..

agesboy posted...

might be possible to do the factorio space age route and collect everything you need from asteroids, though that would limit where you could station it

Media tends to dramatically exaggerate the density of asteroid fields. Everything is way too far away from everything else to make Factorio-style trawling a viable option. Asteroid mining is pretty much only viable with actual expeditions to larger ones whose composition you can identify beforehand (and even then there's so much that goes into reaching it and extracting the minerals that getting a net return isn't easy, even if you start in space and don't have to worry about the costs of escape), not just grabbing whatever happens to pass by. If, by some chance, you are in a debris field dense enough to grab stuff as it passes by, long-term resource management is generally going to be a lower priority than short-term repairs of holes being blown in your ship by flying space debris.

It'd be cool, but not particularly plausible.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

She definitely has a vastly disproportionate media presence for what is essentially just a pop singer.

She's exceptionally popular, but that doesn't amount to anything as dramatic as "shoved down our throats." That's a sentiment from somebody who never learned to just tune out inconsequential stuff they don't enjoy, who instead fixates on how much they don't like it and allows that dislike to interfere with their life.

Yeah, there aren't really any decent challenges until end/post-game stuff, and even those aren't exactly the Dark Souls of monkey smashing. But yes, it's still fun despite not being overly hard.

Don't treat anxiety with alcohol. That's a very bad idea.

To be fair, early 2000's shoe design was pretty peak, and they seem to capture that.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

I'm apathetic at best.

I don't hate her music (in the same way I definitely hate Sabrina Carpenter), but I also don't care about it. I might listen to a random song if it comes on on the radio, but I'm not going to seek any of her work out of my own accord.

Pretty much this, except I don't have strong opinions on Carpenter either. I'll probably end up exposed to it at some point, and it'll just kind of be there as background noise. I won't seek it out, but I also won't do anything to avoid it.

I used to be pretty quick, but I've fallen off a bit because I just don't really read books anymore.

RJP_X posted...

That's only on the hyper arousal piece,

They're related. Hyper-arousal, anxiety, and feeling like you can't take your time all go hand in hand, how you handle all three are affected by your OCD, and all of the above will be helped by this approach of training yourself to accept things as they are.

RJP_X posted...

Not sure if this topic falls under reassurance as I'm mostly looking for some advice on how to tackle that part of me that is in a rushed mind set and...

The answer is to keep doing what you're doing. There's no easy answer for how long it'll take or how bumpy the road will be (nor would an answer actually help you), but your therapist has you on the right track and you'll eventually get there.

TigerTycoon posted...

Aside from all the other problems even if you had Star Trek replicators that can turn energy into physical resources you'd need a endlessly renewable source of energy for it.

Fortunately, solar power is pretty readily available in space. Unfortunately, capturing that energy is relatively material-intensive and I don't actually know how viable it would be to synthesize those materials out of said energy.

RJP_X posted...

Just don't know how or when the adrenaline from hyper arousal plummets. Was told it's not forever though but this great lady I'm working with said she don't want to give me an estimate in case I dwell on it.

Then you shouldn't ask for an estimate because you're just going to end up dwelling on it. As you're being trained to do, consider that question, and say "I don't know what's going to happen, so I'll just wait and see."

I will tell you that, from what I know of OCD therapy, you're on the right track with the advice you've been given. I won't give you an estimate for how long it'll take to work because it's not my place to undermine your therapist (I also just don't know, but that's secondary), but it will eventually work, so just keep plugging away at it and reminding yourself that you don't need to make topics like this. It will happen when it happens.

The really dumb thing about this is that the "AI age verification" is going to conclude that the minors that are currently watching adult content that they shouldn't are adults and therefore do nothing to stop them from doing so.

TigerTycoon posted...

I knew of this already, but really, all this forced censorship and online ID collection by corporations and governments all around the world "for the kids" all happening within a few weeks of each other feels more planned than coincidental.

A bit of both, I expect. Most likely, companies have had plans like this lurking in the wings for a while in case censorship and ID verification became an issue, so when anyone decided to go forward with theirs (and, notably, banks decided it was a good idea to start refusing service for transactions they don't like, and everybody has to appease banks), everyone followed suit shortly thereafter because they don't want to be left as the only one that "doesn't care about the kids" (and also to keep up with everyone else's data collection, which is the real business most of these companies are in).

To be clear, I'm not concerned that they'd get in trouble for having too much of a monopoly (as you said, having a monopoly because everybody else chose to pull out of the market entirely of their own volition is their fault and not yours). I'm concerned that the PC market would suffer for them having even more of a monopoly than they already have. As it stands, they have that monopoly because they offer the better service, but if they can maintain the monopoly position because nobody can process payments without their blessing, that incentive to compete goes away.

But, as I also said, nothing is stopping their competitors from trying to get in on that action, so I guess the concern would be less that Valve put themselves into a monopoly position and more that nobody else did anything to compete.

willythemailboy posted...

He didn't; at best he made the standardization of coins widespread

Would you say he...

*sunglasses*

Coined the idea?