Talanes

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by Talanes 5y ago
>let alone a contrarian position against an authoritarian government. I think this is the meat of it. Plenty of westerners have some level of contrarian positions, but we don't face real resistance for it and thus fall into the trap
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by Talanes 5y ago
Users have just as much right to complain about policies they find ridiculous as they do to leave.
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by Talanes 5y ago
You basically have it right, except there's no option to pass either. They're describing this variant: https://www.pagat.com/beating/cheat.html
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by Talanes 5y ago
A history of releasing projects where actual successful adoption of the product wasn't the real goal isn't the defense you think it is.
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by Talanes 5y ago
>Those are not just my words, they're words from the bible of doing good business, Yeah, that's kind of the problem with your whole argument: it reads like your entire understanding of the field is from an undergrad business te
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by Talanes 5y ago
I'd imagine you're also getting a pool of more impulsive reviews than Yelp, for what that's worth. People are more likely to already have an account, and you can leave reviews directly from a Google search page.
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by Talanes 5y ago
I don't think that's the best example for your point: the doorman and your friends are collaborating together, not adversaries who's fight is affecting you. Anger would rightly be directed at everyone involved. The better exa
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by Talanes 5y ago
And then they're spotty about what they'll actually allow you to buy that way anyway. I would have loved to play the first NA released Fire Emblem legitimately, but they only released it for WiiU.
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by Talanes 5y ago
Yeah, the population of angry people that public-facing workers have to deal with is different than the group who writes angry emails that reach the founder. Immediate reactionary anger vs focused and articulated anger.
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by Talanes 5y ago
>Is it the destiny of every successful café to become acquired by Starbucks one day? Almost, but it's these guys: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JAB_Holding_Company
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by Talanes 5y ago
The more accurate to life version of that sale is "I'm going to open a small regional coffee chain and then sell it to JAB Holding Company" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JAB_Holding_Company
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by Talanes 5y ago
>Why would an attack clip through them just because they rolled? See, I actually do find that a very intuitive situation, and not because I have a great grasp of i-frames, but because I'm not really thinking of "Why" quest
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by Talanes 5y ago
Was Elden Ring's tutorial any different from what they've been doing? Except for being skippable, it felt basically like the DS1 tutorial.
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by Talanes 5y ago
Yeah, last time I looked at rents in my hometown, the cheapest options there were comparable to the cheapest options in San Francisco. They're probably a bit ahead of the curve; most the empty land around is either federal or LADWP, so
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by Talanes 5y ago
It would be nice if patents were "use it or lose it" like trademarks.
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by Talanes 5y ago
I'm not versed in secretarial terms-of-art, but given the unusual grammatical construction, I believe the "to" you left out of that list is actually doing the heavy lifting. Assumedly there is a difference between working und
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by Talanes 5y ago
> I think FromSoft's games (and specifically the ones directed by Miyazaki) will be among a small set of games released in the past 20 years that will still be played and studied in 50 or 100 years (or more). I can definitely see th
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by Talanes 5y ago
Honestly, I think both Souls games and Street Fighter are very watchable for non-players. Both rely on a very strong link between animation and gameplay, which I find reads more intuitive than something like watching someone play a shooter
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by Talanes 5y ago
You were content to play the policy-by-literary-allusion game in your top comment. It feels like you only developed an opinion against it after being insulted-by-literary-allusion.
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by Talanes 5y ago
Bags definitely acquire character. I remember realizing a few years ago that I get frequent comments on my old college messenger bag now that I never did when it was new.
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by Talanes 5y ago
Unfortunately Starbucks doesn't package their cold brew blend as a bean, so I'm not sure how to replicate that, but otherwise here's the recipe: 5lbs of Coffee steeped in 14 liters of water for 20 hours at room temp. Remove g
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by Talanes 5y ago
Maybe true, but that does only strengthen their point. Anyone who's paid any attention to American social media discourse over the past couple of years should realize how tragically easy it is to dehumanize a group of protesters.
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by Talanes 5y ago
It's not the Pravda, it's just a bunch of left-leaning kids doing the meme version of political discourse. Same energy as my high school in the mid 2000's, just the names have changed. It's grating and immature, but it d
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by Talanes 5y ago
It's fine to be upset about the Overton window of American politics, but I don't think it's too egregious that an American publication describe their politics within the usual political language of their country. Or, at the v
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by Talanes 5y ago
Asserting that everyone shares your semantic understanding and then only arguing based on that seems unproductive. Especially when it's unclear which of the definitions I used that you're arguing that "we know." You say
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by Talanes 5y ago
That seems backwards to how the actual customer perception worked out though. I very quickly noted that Origin prices were worse than Steam prices, and avoided it. If that was their intent, they forgot the storefront itself has a perceived
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by Talanes 5y ago
I've had to struggle with Epic just to delete a game at times. And the giant tiles in the library are already a pain to navigate through with a library 1/20th the size of my Steam library. I could live without features if the core
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by Talanes 5y ago
Even for Christmas movies, A Christmas Story managed to take that title from It's a Wonderful Life in my circles. Those TBS all-day repeats are great for something to have on in a chaotic house where nobody is sitting still long enough
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by Talanes 5y ago
'Only' implies that the funding was necessary, not that the funding was fully responsible. Also consider that 'only' was said by the researchers. From their pov the effort is a given, because that is what they control, w
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by Talanes 5y ago
Same with the Playstation, Xbox, and Switch ports. The Harvest Moon and Story of Seasons series had both been releasing only handheld titles for a while at that point, and didn't move back to home consoles until after Stardew blew up.

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