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Sahuagin posted...

something I always find depressing is that if you try to look up a recent accident it's usually pretty difficult (I've never succeeded) to find because there are so many accidents, all you can find are articles of past accidents in the same place

There's an intersection here that used to see significant accidents pretty much every week because it's got a fairly busy cross street with only a stop sign controlling it, pretty poor visibility from the cross street, and people tend to speed quite heavily on the main street. There was a guy who lives on one of the corners who pretty much dedicated his Twitter account to chronicling the accidents and tagging various city councillors every time (usually in the form of "oh look there's a car in my yard again"). One week, it was so bad that residents came together and just piled their municipal garbage bins in the middle of the intersection to act as a makeshift traffic-calming measure, coming shortly after the city stated that they couldn't put any traffic-calming measures in because it's a bus route (which, as somebody who spent most of a decade taking that bus almost every day, is nonsense because there's absolutely no reason the bus can't be slowed down at that point).

A few months back, they finally added some 4-way stops, though they did it to the intersections on either side of the offending one instead of the problem one. I do think that makes sense, though, since it slows people down through the problem area instead of trying to stop them right at it, and it means that anyone that accidentally blows one of the stop signs will realize their mistake and be more cautious as they approach the intersection instead of having their mistake result in them going through the intersection wildly. And, surprise surprise, the bus hasn't exploded. Who knew?

EvilMegas posted...

Ifeel like I just made this account and it's almost ?

If by "almost" you mean "in like 5 years," sure. 1700 karma takes a while.

SinisterSlay posted...

I personally prefer white chocolate inside baked things, like cheesecake.

White chocolate and cream cheese are an excellent pairing. I made red velvet cupcakes once with white chocolate cream cheese frosting, and they were great. The white chocolate cheesecake recipe I tried turned out a little too sweet for my liking, but with a few tweaks it would also have been amazing.

Krow_Incarnate posted...

the Mr. Freeze section

Krow_Incarnate posted...

coolest part of the game

>.>

I'm guessing either he's ignored/blocked Mead or Mead has blocked him.

It depends a lot on the context and what else is being served or mixed with it, but for straight up eating I prefer dark chocolate, particularly in the 60-70% range.

I misread the act and attached a ding dong to my house, but apparently that was a common mistake.

Depends on the sauce. If it's something that whips together in 5 minutes, freezing it in bulk doesn't make much sense. If it's a sauce you make by simmering things down for a couple hours and pureeing them, freezing a litre or two (in ~1-cup portions) can potentially save you quite a bit of time over making a new batch every time you run out.

The way I see it, if it's food you know you will eat in the foreseeable future and freezing it will save you time, money, or both, it's a worthwhile use of freezer space. Whether or not it's more worthwhile than the other things in your freezer will, of course, be a personal judgement call based on what you want to keep and how much space you have, but I wouldn't say this is automatically going to be a waste.

Fair.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

To be fair, the concept of Hell exists in the real world as well, and most forms of Christianity accept the premise that if you sincerely repent for your sins before dying you still get to go to Heaven even if you were a total monster for decades.

The issue with this characterization is that people tend to underestimate what "sincerely repent" entails (both those looking to disparage Christianity and those looking to sell salvation to people with guilty consciences). Sincere repentance entails recognizing that one has done something wrong, understanding why it's wrong, and making a genuine effort to correct it to the best of one's ability. The term "repent" inherently implies personal change, as much as a whole lot of people are content to just say "I love Jesus" and leave it at that.

hypnox posted...

Only problem is I don't know how to make dipping sauce and honestly that doesn't interest me right now, but the bottled stuff is not as good as a wing place. But thats not that big of a deal.

You can probably find a few recipes for good sauces, though that'll take some experimentation. Once you find one you like, you should be able to make a bulk batch and freeze some of it.

Now there's a meme topic I haven't seen in a while.

We don't get much of a spring around here. It just stays wintry, but just barely warm enough to rain instead of snow, then pretty abruptly becomes summer. By the time we're done with both snow winter and rain winter, I'm pretty done with winter.

I liked winter a lot better when it just meant playing in the snow and not just having to shovel it.

T0ffee posted...

But who knows, this is just based on initial reactions to the demo, and they might have added a romance system for the full game.

I kind of doubt that. Adding a (not-horrible) romance system is quite an undertaking, well beyond the sort of tweaks or minor content additions that usually follow demo feedback. If it were any other studio, I'd say they were well aware of the fact that people would miss having a romance system and chose to go a different route in spite of that, but this is Squenix we're talking about, and they aren't exactly the best at being aware of things.

Sahuagin posted...

maybe there are better examples if Coca Cola has like 2 colors or something; the more colors are involved the more valid it becomes to be protected

Yeah, Coca-Cola's a bad example because their colour scheme is literally just red and white. If they start suing people for using that, they're going to be suing Canada, Switzerland, and Japan (perhaps not if the exact shade of red doesn't match, but this illustrates the point nicely).

The question, then, is how many colours have to be shared to count as infringement. I get that there's value in "I put together this palette of 47 colours that work well together to convey a certain theme," since there is a non-trivial amount of research and creativity that goes into generating those palettes and that work ought to be rewarded and not ripped off, but I don't know where the line should be drawn to avoid being overtly dystopian. Even then, though, where colours exist independently of what any artist does and it's so easy to arrive at similar colour palettes without even knowing that somebody else has come up with them before (and, realistically, somebody probably already has for just about any combination), I can't help but feel that that's going to be too broad a trademark to be reasonable.

That said, I can understand selling the convenience value of having the colours you want pre-arranged into a palette so you don't have to manually set them up. That's not copyrighting the colour scheme, it's just charging people for the convenience. To tie that to a subscription fee and break people's files if that fee lapses, however, is definitely scummy.

_Inaba_ posted...

Always found it quite odd how you have things like the youtube algorithm, but you have a search bar? I mean, what's the point when you can search?

Your search results are generally adjusted based on what the algorithm expects you'll want to see, particularly trying to show you new content that it expects you'll want. Everything about the algorithm is designed to keep you on the site for as long as possible, even after you find the video you're looking for, so it'll recommend you stuff and give you search results that it expects will pique your interest and keep you clicking.

It's all about the engagement: The longer you spend on the site, the more opportunities there are to advertise to you and collect data on your browsing habits that Google can sell.

E. coli from the raw flour is actually a greater risk than salmonella from the egg. Either way, though, the risk isn't terribly high, just high enough for the manufacturers behind the products to want disclaimers to avoid being held liable.

So we get back to "you're plagiarizing if you decide to use this combination of colours without a license so we're going to ruin your 20-year-old files unless you pay up," which is only marginally better than copyrighting the individual colours themselves.

I get the font analogy, but fonts are at least artwork: Each individual character is a picture that somebody has created. Coming up with a colour palette is an act of creativity, but the individual colours themselves exist regardless of what anyone does. Copyrighting pigments to provide those colours is fair game (unless your name is Anish Kapoor), but in the digital world, it's all just a matter of RGB values that require no proprietary technology to generate or interpret, so claiming any sort of ownership of that is just stupid.

Sahuagin posted...

only if the color is directly linked to a copyrighted color book (ACB file?). it's not that the color itself is owned, it's that the image is linking to an owned color source. (not unlike linking to a copyrighted font or something).

So, rather than replacing everything with black in older files that reference the copyrighted sources, photoshop could have just replaced each offending colour with the corresponding generic RGB value?

Sahuagin posted...

this is not an issue of a company claiming the rights to the color RGB(123, 200, 215) or something, which is how articles about it will be tempted to... paint the issue.

That's certainly what it sounds like, though, if the colours in question are being replaced by black. There's potentially room to justify copyrighting a palette (though even that's a stretch), but by the sounds of things, every colour in that palette is just unavailable to use unless you pay for them.

I don't usually have issues following recipes I find online for slow cookers, but then I've got a 6 qt one and that seems to be a pretty common size.

Humanity was a mistake.

Revelation34 posted...

What if your doctor is Jordan Peterson?

Then he's not legally allowed to prescribe medication and it's a moot point.

Judgmenl posted...

They do and it's some of their worst content unless they try and branch out to more retro or obscure content. Most seem to only be interested in getting FotM views.

That's true of most streamers/youtubers in general. The ones that start with more obscure content never get off the ground.

SoreChasm posted...

Putting on makeup before recording a video is also extra steps, though.

I'm inclined to agree with where you're going with this. As weird as it seems, using an avatar overlay is really just a virtual version of the costumes many people put on before streaming traditionally (makeup and clothing worn specifically for the stream does qualify as a costume). The technicalities of what happen in the back-end to allow those avatar overlays to function are obviously far, far more complex than all but the most intricate individual costuming jobs, of course, but from the perspective of the performer, it's arguably fewer steps than getting ready physically.

Makes some amount of sense. In books and games, you retain some degree of control over the progression and pace of the story. Movies, less so.

Any psych medication has the potential to cause problems, but if your doctor has recommended it, you can probably trust that it'll work out in your favour. Keep an eye out for any side effects they warned you about and reach out to them if you have any questions or concerns, and you should be good.

FrozenBananas posted...

I played the first Bayonetta and they made me play on harder modes in order to get achievements. I didnt like that

Whether the game formally recognizes it or not, beating it on harder modes is an achievement. That makes a lot of sense.

Nope, just a regular watch.

SoreChasm posted...

I just checked adjl's YouTube channel and he uploaded a video a few days ago titled "Caring and supportive GameFAQs moderator warns you for posting alt-right theories - Real ASMR sounds".

And it's just an audio of breathing normally, periodic clicking, and the occasional 30-second burst of typing sounds.

I'm probably more likely to randomly die of another cause within a week of being non-fatally shot than I am to be hit as a fly, so the fly option seems like the most sensible.

Possibly, but I think he was still active when I tried. I could believe he's blocked mentions to avoid being called to account for the objectively indefensible things he likes saying.

streamofthesky posted...

It's really weird to see the "support VA workers' rights!" brigade ask, "why not just have the corporation last-second cancel some of its workers' weekends to deal some stupid twitter s*** storm?"

It'd be one tweet, dude. Literally anyone with access to the corporate account could handle it without getting out of bed and probably claim an hour's overtime for that 30 seconds of work. Heck, an executive could handle that, so it doesn't even have to be some bottom-rung employee having that dumped on them.

I can also pretty much guarantee that, whether they published anything or not, the PR manager was monitoring the situation and communicating with the higher-ups all weekend. That's the nature of PR management: PR situations that need to be handled aren't limited to 9-5 M-F, so sometimes the position is going to require after-hours and weekend work. That's not a bad thing (provided the expectations of the job are made clear from the outset, they're compensated appropriately, and that expectation isn't abused), it's just the nature of the job. I can also pretty much guarantee that same PR person would be working over 1-2 extra weekends even if she released her statement on a Monday, since a situation like this warrants longer-term monitoring to watch how the situation evolves and respond as appropriate. There's also a good chance they're putting in some overtime already because it was two weeks before one of the studio's highest-profile game launches.

That's not to say it couldn't end up being some minimum-wage temp being asked to go into the office to stare at Twitter all weekend, but it very much doesn't have to be, such that assuming that's what I'm suggesting is just plain silly.

streamofthesky posted...

Maybe because it could wait till Monday?

So there was no actual benefit to making the claim on a Friday afternoon, despite you repeatedly bringing it up as though it's a deliberate part of a well-planned slander campaign?

streamofthesky posted...

Maybe because they wanted to take some time and put together their official response, an approach the losers on twitter could learn from.

The official response is "We offered her $15k for the actual job. $4k was for a cameo appearance after she turned down the full job. Proof is available if any journalists want to corroborate this claim." That doesn't take time to put together. What does take time is consulting their lawyers to figure out what they can legally say without violating their end of the NDA or straying into the territory of defaming Taylor, which has nothing to do with taking the time to avoid jumping to conclusions and everything to do with the fact that they're in a position where saying the wrong thing can get them sued.

streamofthesky posted...

Kamiya said flat out it was lies, and look how that worked out for him.

He said the rough equivalent of "It's all lies and if anyone questions me I'll ban them immediately!" That's not exactly a good PR response that's going to do anything to convince anyone that Platinum's in the right. He acted guilty, so people presumed guilt.

As I've said many times throughout this: Game companies categorically do not deserve the benefit of the doubt in questions of employee welfare. There are too many blatant abuses that showcase some of the worst aspects of free market capitalism to presume innocence, such that it can very safely be assumed that any apparent new examples of those abuses are probably legitimate. If they subsequently prove the claims are not legitimate (and actually prove that, none of this "Activision Blizzard has conducted a thorough investigation of Activision Blizzard and determined that Activision Blizzard did nothing wrong" nonsense), then you can let them off the hook, but in terms of public opinion, corporations should be kept on the defensive whenever allegations like this come up. Trust is earned, and the games industry has done the exact opposite of earning that trust.

Now, continuing to try to come up with new ways to criticize the company to avoid changing one's mind after information comes out to prove that the claims against them aren't legitimate? That is indeed stupid. But that's entirely separate from the decision to attack the company as soon as it appeared they had done wrong. Your insistence on conflating them is mistaken.

I think it's weird, but people like it and it's not hurting anyone, so I don't see a problem with it.

Judgmenl posted...

I won't lie and say that ASMR isn't sexual. It's very sensual in nature.

I'd say that ASMR relies pretty heavily on feelings of intimacy, which isn't necessarily sexual on its own, but there's a lot of overlap between the concepts and heterosexual men in particular are generally going to feel more comfortable settling into that intimate setting with a female voice.

That's also not to say that it can't be sexual, because it 100% can. It just isn't always a sex thing.

SoreChasm posted...

Maybe it's something they can't say on GameFAQs because of those evil mods.

Naturally, he seems to have disabled mentions, so I can't even call him back here to avoid the question.

streamofthesky posted...

I don't really care about someone's politics that much as long as they're not really preachy and vocal about it or put it in their work, so long as it's just their views and not like... they attend neo-nazi rallies.

If she's openly soliciting donations to anti-abortion organizations, that's going quite a bit beyond "just their views" and well into "seeking to effect harmful social change" territory.

streamofthesky posted...

2-3 days before release would've been the middle of the work week, and it'd have been crushed with facts and logic by Platinum within hours.
She posted on a Friday afternoon/evening for a very specific reason.

Why do you think Platinum wouldn't have brought people in on the weekend to deal with the issue if it were a significant threat to the game's sales? A couple hundred bucks of overtime would be made up for by 5 extra sales, which is nothing in the grand scheme of things. At the very least, a tweet saying "Taylor's claim is inaccurate and misleading, we will provide a formal statement after consulting with our legal department to determine how best to respond" would have been 100% feasible to churn out at any time.

Remember that time Hitler was like "Das ist ein pranken, herr!"

I don't even know that that would have caused much damage. Maybe some cancelled preorders, but anyone following games media closely enough to have learned about the story in the first place would quickly learn about the truth of the matter and buy the game normally instead, and I imagine her dishonesty has been enough to drive some fence-sitters to buy it just to spite her. Even with this list of charities going up, I expect spite donations in her name to be made to pro-abortion organizations and the like.

There's a part of me that's wondering if she was put up to this by another industry figure for the sake of discrediting the movement to improve VA compensation, since she's going to be brought up to paint VA's as just being greedy whenever anyone tries to make progress in that area now. That, or she's gotten involved with some manner of religious organization that demanded that she try to hurt the game as penance for participating in such a... liberal interpretation of judeochristian imagery. Whatever the case, she's accomplished nothing meaningful while pretty much completely tanking any future VA career she might have had. Unless there's some broader ulterior motive, it just seems so inexplicably dumb.

Wouldn't surprise me. He rarely posts anything of value.

Zeb.

Blightzkrieg posted...

I don't think it's wrong, but I think it's generally naive of people nowadays (not just you) to expect accurate news from organizations supported entirely by advertisements and sponsored content. There's no incentive for proper journalism anymore. That's an institutional issue though.

On the flip side, people are far less likely to be skeptical of the accuracy of something they've chosen to pay for than something they're getting for free, for the sake of avoiding feelings of buyer's remorse. Feeding into that, they're more likely to pay for something that already aligns to their views and expectations than something that doesn't. That's not to say that ad-funded news is dripping with integrity either, but paywalled content isn't necessarily going to be better just for not being beholden to advertisers.

Because he blocks everyone that disagrees with him.

What a weird stunt this has been. I'm not even sure what she was hoping to accomplish at this point, given how obviously doomed to failure it was because of the actual reality of the situation.

Having played neither Three Houses nor Three Hopes, I always have to stop for a second to remember which is which whenever I read one of the names.

Coming from a place where dropping below 70% humidity at any point through the summer is rare and 35-40 humidexes happen pretty often, I will say that I prefer a comparable dry heat to that. At least with dry heat, sweating actually works. Getting into the 45+ range, though, that's still stupid hot and is going to be very unpleasant regardless of the humidity.

Yi_Long posted...

gUnLaWs DoNt AcTuAlLy Do AnYtHiNg except in all those places with rational gun laws where stats very clearly tell you that they do actually do something.

"But this state has strict gun laws and still has major gun violence problems that almost certainly have nothing to do with the three states next door that have no gun laws and completely open borders!"

ParanoidObsessive posted...

I'm detecting your problem.

Imagine thinking that enjoying media you've consumed is a "problem."

I liked 1 well enough, but haven't seen 2. I also haven't seen any of the Holland ones, but I generally liked him better in the other MCU movies than I did the other Spiders-Men in their own.

JixHedgehog posted...

Now to download the app and see what all the fuss is about

Once again, I ask you: What is it that you want to say on Twitter that you believe you currently cannot?