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For natural selection to work it has to cause a change in reproductive success among people with certain gene mutations. A lot of factors of modern society (medical technology, but also cultural) make the type of scenario you proposed unlikely. You have to remember that prior to modern society dying before reproductive age was extremely common so something as minor as sickle cell anemia making you less likely to get malaria went a really long way in terms of reproductive success.

The gameplay was an interesting concept but is executed terribly. Some people seem to like it, but I can't fathom how. It's easily one of the worst battle and leveling systems due to how it actually functions (I can see how they intended it to function, but it doesn't work that way). The characters are a problem because only a few get developed, so hopefully your party used those otherwise you have a bunch of filler characters irrelevant to the story and who will get no development. That said the music is amazing, the graphics were great for the time, and the story is pretty good.

I was literally locked down in Wuhan when it started, spent a month never leaving an apartment and eating garbage food made from whatever we managed to buy, had the worst evacuation flight imaginable, then spent two weeks at an air force base in CA under quarantine before finally returning to Japan. Easily the low point of my life. My wife and her family were stuck in China over half a year before returning to Japan (Chinese citizens, so no evacuation flight from China for them). There was no lockdown in Japan, so it was pretty good once I actually got back.

Beveren_Rabbit posted...

not many Anime have a girl pissing themselves in the first episode.

The manga actually has an entire character that revolves around pissing herself. She's a singer but has to wear diapers because she pisses herself all the time. She actually signs the song Elfen Lied. The anime decided to cut that (also the manga was unfinished so you get a typical terrible anime only ending). But yeah the manga author obviously has a pissing fetish.

Smashingpmkns posted...

Idk flat earth is pretty nutty

I think the wild thing is how popular it is among young people. I have seen some disturbing survey data.

pinky0926 posted...

Tbh isn't apple really strict on privacy/security stuff? Seems like a bold move to risk that huge brand promise on AI, but I don't know enough about this.

Either you develop your own AI or use someone else's. There isn't really another option. They decided it was better to just work with OpenAI.

Silent Hill 2 is massively altered whereas MGS3 remake appears to be just a visual upgrade with some minor gameplay tweaks. It could of course have some horrible changes, but so far it looks 1:1 with the same voice actors and story.

Humble_Novice posted...

Isn't Liechtenstein a rather rich country?

Extremely. Ranked first in the world in GDP per capita.

SailorGoon posted...

Is it lol? I'm Mexican from SoCal. Never heard seen anyone Irl use Latinx back home. Especially never seen it firsthand from relatives in Mexico either. Last I recall, the general consensus amongst Hispanics is they don't care about it's use. Meaning it's not particularly disliked, but it's also rarely ever used. Only like a small percentage of people use it, and most just don't care to correct them. Like if some white colleague were talk to me and say Latinx, I'd think "huh?", but would just go along with them. Let them be

I'm talking about Latine, and an article was already posted showing it is much more popular than Latinx among Spanish speakers:
https://www.axios.com/2024/04/11/latino-latinx-latine-hispanic-term-explainer

Honestly it feels like your opposition to Latine is the pearl clutching here. All signs point to it eventually winning out. It's more popular, Spanish speaking people came up with it, started gaining acceptance in Western academia, etc. I have no idea why you are acting like you either need to embrace Latinx or you're a transphobe. That's a divisive binary that doesn't help the LGBT or Spanish speaking community.

KitKats posted...

No I dont use that term at all.

I think you need to think about it from the perspective of Spanish speakers who don't primarily speak English, because that's where the opposition is largely coming from. I think the best solution is to simply use Latine. Then you can more easily talk about the actual issue. You will still get opposition of course, but not from a "I literally can't pronounce this" prospective. You will also be talking about it in unison with Spanish speaking LGBT communities.

KitKats posted...

I am a Spanish speaker =P

You say Latinx in Spanish?

KitKats posted...

Yes, nonbinary people are trans too. I was specifically referring to the knee jerk reactionary and bad faith remarks. People who have a problem with Latinx conceptually arent talking about finding a more grammatically friendly term for the trans community, and complaining about their community being invaded by their own people.

But actual Spanish speaking countries use Latine in the LGBT community. So they already did find a more acceptable term. Again it's hard to talk to non-Spanish speakers about these because they don't understand the issue with the x sound. The word just feels incredibly awkward in Spanish. It's not something you intuitively even know how to pronounce.

KitKats posted...

Ive not heard it used like that as a broad reference to the concept of societal gender, its always been more like the Latinx community or Latinx people when specifically speaking about issues that include or affect trans people, giving them a voice and a seat at the table, or highlighting issues that affect them.

The issue is most Spanish speaking people aren't upset about the social aspect. They're upset about the way grammatical gender is being treated. As pointed out Latine is a more accepted alternative because at least you can pronounce it in Spanish, but you still run into people who try to throw the entire concept of grammatical gender under the bus and this just pisses people off and makes them angry and then their opponents assume it's out of some kind of hatred for LGBT people, when it's really rooted in the language itself. They're talking past each other on this issue.

Using the word for grammatical gender to refer to the concept of societal gender had been a disaster for discourse in the English language. You practically need to know Spanish to even understand what the actual thing Spanish speaking people are talking about regarding Latinx is.

Southernfatman posted...

People falling down or getting hit by something is timeless comedy.

Yeah that grape lady who fell out of the tub and made walrus noises was huge for like everyone of all ages when it happened.

So this article and some people are claiming this actually happens. If it does actually happen then obviously those people aren't going to get hired and people should inform them that's a bad idea and they should train for interviews without their parents. If it does happen though I would think it's very rare and not enough of an issue to make a generation unemployable or whatever hyperbole.

Tyranthraxus posted...

Propaganda doesn't work on informed voters... Which is the problem. Like, as dumb as we are sometimes, the average CEperson is way better informed and educated than undecided voters (and better than about half of decided voters at that).

Yeah I think people greatly underestimate just how low information the average voter is. There are studies showing people changing who theh vote for based on weather, if they are sick or not, how much they like the sound of their name, how attractive they think they look, a ton of stuff that has literally nothing to do with politics and if you think people like that are immune to propaganda you are massively overestimating just how little their behavior wa based on rational decision making to begin with.

Yeah they're both great, but the second one is quite a bit better, so if you want to do both go in order.

AsucaHayashi posted...

not fucking elena.

character is cool enough but her heal mechanic is and always has been complete bs

I don't think it's competitively in SF3. People pick SA2 instead.

I checked the official Japanese account and it lists them as follows:
2024 #
2024 #
2025 #
2025 #

So it goes Vega (dictator, Bison), Terry, Mai, Elena. That's the release order.

Was Barbie movie a comedy? I thought it was really funny. Definitely my favorite movie I saw last year.

StealThisSheen posted...

Fighting games have been committing harder to stories for awhile, so it's a valid question, and we've even had games which have tied guest characters into the plot in a major way (Tekken 7, with Akuma). It's just a pretty easily answered question, in this case.

Street Fighter's story actively got worse the more they paid attention to it.

Piplup_Sniper posted...

Thank you.

i was using google translate for some text and it kept translating as human when in context it was used to describe non-human characters. Doing a little digging Ive heard its a more broad term .

Oh in a game it can be tricky yeah. Like check out one of my all time favorite RPGs:
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/7/7863634d.jpg
Here you have regular humans as , but the elf looking characters are called ESPers, ESP users. In the game they can use magic. So are they mutant humans? Elves? I don't think fantasy has strict rules on that stuff.

It can be used like person and the scientific word for humans is written in katakana. But is definitely more common for person. I use both in that sense though. I don't think there's a strict rule. definitely feels more formal though.

A really detached perspective that probably only makes sense if you live in one of the few remaining bastions of Christianity, like America. Most of the developed world is just increasingly becoming non-religious. Having moved to a country where the vast majority have no religion I can see how little it actually does contribute to society. I used to think maybe it filled some empty void like that article suggests, but it actually just seems to be a part of culture and can be replaced with another equivalent sense of belonging. I think America's big problem is a fragmented and increasingly combative set of cultures, not people being unable to cope without religion.

Kradek posted...

I dunno, maybe it's just me, however if I felt like it was over for a candidate I'd be less inclined to go out and vote if I thought it was going to be some guaranteed victory against the candidate I'd vote.

I have different reasons for my continued efforts in voting even when my statewide candidates don't win.

I just don't see the motivating voice behind "Joe Biden def gonna lose, Trump got it in the bag".

A significant number of Brexit voters (enough to literally change the outcome) said they voted for Leave because they thought Stay would have won. People being apathetic caused the less popular option to win.

Sayoria posted...

The no isn't needed there? Is it ever needed then? Or is it optional?
I guess that second one also makes sense. I just kinda plugged that in to have something a little longer, lol. Not surprised.

No is one of two words commonly used to make a verb phrase into a noun phrase (no and koto). But toki is also a noun, so it isn't needed. You could also do or but the nuance is different and not what you probably wanted (I assume you wanted something like "when I went to Tokyo").

Here's an example of when you need no versus when you don't.

as for the running man
as for running

You don't need the no in the first one because man is already a noun.

Also is just a contraction of and you probably use that a lot. It's turning a verb phrase into a noun phrase to help explain something.




Making it into a noun phrase strengthens the explanatory nature of the response.

Sayoria posted...

That second one is really awkward even after correction though. Just use

Japanese (fluent)
Chinese (read fluently, speak not so good)
Spanish (really rusty)

EPR-radar posted...

The chance that Trump wins is too damn high

But that's entirely my point. Half this topic is acting like he literally has no chance and it seems to be based on nothing more than they personally don't think he should win. Yeah me either, but I'm not the type of (can I got modded for saying a bad word about these people?) that would ever vote for Trump.

EPR-radar posted...

What is "reality" to an odds-maker?

If some whales come in with consistently big bets on Trump, the oddsmakers will have to increase their "odds" of Trump winning just to cover their risk if Trump loses. That's independent of anything else.

Okay, so can you give me an example of a recent presidential election where the odds makers were wrong? Because I definitely trust them over randos on a video game message board who say the polls, the statistical models, and the odds makers are all wrong and actually Biden has it in the bag. Shit you have literally all of Europe, Japan (where I am), and so on preparing for what to do if Trump wins. They aren't preparing for no reason.

EPR-radar posted...

Surely the odds makers pay attention to the bets as they come in. Otherwise, they won't be able to make a profit independent of the result.

If you look at the betting markets last election more people placed bets for Trump even though they favored Biden. Which means the odds makers made more money. The Taiwan election also had a lot of (young and clearly living in a bubble) people bet on the guy who got third place even though no one actually paying attention thought he could win (and accordingly was given the lowest odds of winning despite getting the most bets).

So yes the odds makers are paying attention and are giving Donald Trump favorable odds precisely because they want to make money. It is in their financial interests to have the market reflect reality because they can still make a lot of money if the odds favorite wins (because it doesn't payout as much).

EPR-radar posted...

I wish people would stop paying attention to betting markets as having any relation to reality. All it takes is one fat-cat psychopath to skew the betting markets any way they please, and any money they lose as a result will be peanuts compared to the tax cuts they would get from Republican misrule.

Betting markets aren't set by bets. The odds makers determine the odds.

Prediction markets:
https://polymarket.com/elections
https://ballotpedia.org/Prediction_markets_in_the_2024_presidential_election

Statistical model:
https://elections2024.thehill.com/predictions/president/

Thinking he has a chance to win isn't dooming, it's what all the actual evidence says.

Unions are pretty awesome in Japan. I love my union.

I don't live in the US anymore, but every betting market and model shows Trump with an advantage. So I guess if I had to bet I would say he will win since the experts and the people with money on the line think that. But it's hard to imagine people really being that stupid that they're going to vote him in again. Well I guess it's not that hard to imagine...

SocialistGamer posted...

I thought his mom was a Persona user?

Bro what? Are you sure you played Persona 3?

Soliloquy_Rhap posted...

Oh this is different though. I've been to saunas in the US where there are public heated baths that strangers, including kids, are naked in together but they're separated by gender, not co-ed.

Mixed bathing onsen are pretty rare. They're talking about moms bringing kids, that's different. Prior to Westernization though mixed bathing was the norm. There was also female sumo (they were topless too). Of course Westerners told them this was savagery and they needed to be prudes like everyone else and so now we have the Japan of today.

Oh and female samurai fought on the side of the Shogunate during the Meiji restoration (and we have photos even thanks to the technology of the time), but the new "civilized" Imperial army was fully Westernized, which meant no women could fight.

Tyranthraxus posted...

I highly doubt that you can pick literally "any" Ghibli film and they're all going to be better than Akira.

Earthsea is straight up pretty bad. And that terrible looking 3D animation they did a while back.

Guide posted...

It's not, though. Akira has always been one of the contenders for top anime film.

Have to agree with this. I would place it above any Ghibli film myself.

Pikachuchupika posted...

I see. I'm looking at one and it says no swim suit. You have to be naked?

Yes. Who takes a shower or a bath in their swimsuit?

I guess you mean a sentou and not just an onsen? Back when I was dating my now wife she didn't have a shower in her work dormitory so we used to go to a sentou when I stayed over. It's just a place you can shower and take a bath segregated by gender. I guess the big difference being an onsen is usually natural hot spring water and the sentou is just regular hot water. Honestly it's not really any cheaper and it's not as good of an experience, so I recommend trying to find an onsen even if you just need to clean off.

My cousin went to that HS (but back in the 90s).

AceMos posted...

wonder how a certain crowd would react if it released today

No need to wonder. Same way they would react if the original Star Trek series was released today.

Beany posted...

Not sure why any of them would be supporting Russia right now, though.

The same reason they support Iran. It isn't actually ideology, it's campism. They support the other imperial camp. They don't actually care about leftism, so it doesn't matter that Russia and China are more capitalist, more conservative, and have fewer worker's rights. They don't care about those things.