Talanes

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by Talanes 5y ago
> However, the number of places you can walk to directly correlates to building height. Except every floor doesn't have an equal effect? Lower levels and rooftops are going to host the majority of destinations, while mid-levels are
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by Talanes 5y ago
> Feeling a sense of reward simply for spending money sounds unhealthy. It seems healthier than having a sense of anxiety. Living in a moneyed society requires spending money, so why attach a sense of dread to it?
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by Talanes 5y ago
I'm friends with a pair of brothers whose parents adopted two girls when the brothers were in high school. So you can go above two, you just have to stagger in a second pair around when the first pair start to invest more of their time
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by Talanes 5y ago
Well, that's the idea behind alimony, which is sometimes mixed in with child support. But child support is mostly rooted in the idea that raising a child requires more support than a single individual can provide. If it were just about
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by Talanes 5y ago
Yeah, I remember as a kid the one dude in our trailer park who had a 50/50 arrangement with their other parent in town. Poor kid never had any of us go over to their house to seek them out, because we didn't know the schedule. Chi
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by Talanes 5y ago
The standardizing of support payments that a lot of these countries (and it looks like some US states) do seems like a fair way to reduce the potential exploitability too. The price of raising a child isn't tied to income, so why shoul
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by Talanes 5y ago
Or they don't trust the father to put in his fair share of doctor's visits, buying clothes, etc. The upside of paying child support is that the other party is assumedly taking point on all of those expenses.
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by Talanes 5y ago
But it's not like any of that is easier second-hand? If I go jean shopping new I might not find my size in every style, but it's very rare that I find second-hand pants that fit without needing to hem.
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by Talanes 5y ago
Specifically the "all is one" philosophy is a western misreading of the Three Marks of Existence, so it's easy to misidentify them as the same thing if you have never been properly exposed to the latter. An egocentric culture
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by Talanes 5y ago
That might all make sense if Bethesda didn't also bring them other revenue streams. I mean, Elder Scrolls Online alone brings in a completely separate subscription stream and cash shop.
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by Talanes 5y ago
> Microsoft just never recovered from just how bad the XBox One launch They just completely lost me to their branding strategy from that point. If I can't keep track of which console name does what, it's going to take something
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by Talanes 5y ago
> For me personally I have a hard time justifying game pass. I only complete 2-3 games a year at best and it's really expensive at that rate. Weirdly, that's the exact reason that I can justify Game Pass. Though I imagine you m
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by Talanes 5y ago
It's a single study, which is still only presented as a counterpoint to the "nothing could digest lignin yet" hypothesis in the Wikipedia article that the parent linked. That HARDLY counts as "the existing body of resear
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by Talanes 5y ago
Progressing a meaningless rank is like the perfect amount of multiplayer grind. Just something that signifies "I've played this game a lot" for the players who care, without forcing it on those who don't.
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by Talanes 5y ago
> I know it's a different genre completely from the more realistic shooters like Battlefield and Call of Duty, but even still I miss the unfettered drop-in fun in those older games and there seem to be hardly any left. Old Battlefie
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by Talanes 5y ago
Decent concept, but why Skyrim? I don't think I've ever found myself looking for money in that game. Hell, I mod it to reduce the amount of gold in the game.
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by Talanes 5y ago
>spending $1000 on some gold/items/runs is not particularly impressive or notable. It's specifically the real money investment too. I bought some Challenge runs back in my WoW days, but with Gold that I had earned playing
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by Talanes 5y ago
> If a game isn't 100% FUN 100% OF THE TIME then the designers have failed. Making something that literally every person finds fun all of the time is completely impossible. For example I have friends I don't play a lot of multi
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by Talanes 5y ago
Rental period? I owned that game as a kid and NEVER beat the second level.
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by Talanes 5y ago
And cow shit is honestly a pretty mild smell. You only notice it when it's massed up and collected as manure, not just from there being cows somewhere around doing their thing.
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by Talanes 5y ago
> The percent of people not constantly checking their phone has got to be so vanishingly small. Sample size of 1, but the amount of time I go without checking my phone has only grown over time.
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by Talanes 5y ago
Do Americans even really "stick" to SMS? I know millennials who might use iMessage as their primary channel, but the only people I know who ONLY text are my mom and grandma. Everyone I know around my age (millennial) has a small c
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by Talanes 5y ago
>Who do you want to decide that? The hospitals, I guess? I'm making inferences from the judgement-making of...whoever, not second-guessing them. If anything, I'm giving complete faith to the system here. My assumption is if the
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by Talanes 5y ago
I did a few years of entirely self-directed home school (single parent who worked) for late middle school/early high school. My learning outcomes were fine, but I still feel like I'm dealing with the effects of not being immersed
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by Talanes 5y ago
The teachers might not want to move from the "Almost definitely not going to shit themselves" grades to the "Might still shit themselves" grades. The massive change in responsibilities between grades likely means that th
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by Talanes 5y ago
> Stuff that is exclusively used for your business is deductible, anything for personal use isn't. I think you're working from a different set of assumptions than GP. They were specifically contending that exclusive expenses co
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by Talanes 5y ago
>Venmo describes a “goods and services” payment as when senders tag a purchase as such, whether it’s for a product you sell or a service you provide. I think this is the most relevant line. Goods and services is a specific opt-in tag. Al
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by Talanes 5y ago
What percent of those calls are actually necessary calls though? I used to watch a fire truck roll up at least once a week to check up on the same dude napping on the sidewalk. Not to try and say that the majority of their calls are like th
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by Talanes 5y ago
It's a matter of framing. We have different standards for what the null hypothesis should be. My perspective is to assume human behavior as a relatively broad constant until proven otherwise.
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by Talanes 5y ago
The lounge-suit example is so much more specific than the topic at hand, that's just a farcical comparison. Any sort of broad logic will break down if you try and stretch it 1:1 to more narrow situations.

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