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by dbspin 4y ago
Absolutely agree! I was so disappointed when the industry as a whole moved away from the mishmash of gameplay styles that tried to fuse the narrative with gameplay, to generic play with narrative only as decoration. Fortunately we've h
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by dbspin 4y ago
One minor correction - no one 'wants' ads. People are reluctant / unable to pay for the hundreds of daily services they use, given the death by a thousand cuts nature of subscriptions, and the failure of microtransactions to
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by dbspin 4y ago
The purpose of an op-ed isn't to synthesise the range of views available into a digestible format. It's to articulate a distinct perspective or a dialectic between two perspectives as clearly and convincingly as possible. Ideally
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by dbspin 4y ago
There's a huge leap between 'parents have to be network admins' and all devices you buy are censored by default.
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by dbspin 4y ago
Defending paying people less than a living wage is remarkable. There are an endless number of contrarian positions to take, but 'scientists shouldn't protest being paid too little to live on' takes the cake. Incidentally havi
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by dbspin 4y ago
You're treating social conventions like fundamental of human nature. Altruism, including kin selection is just as natural as greed. Kin can be socialised to tribe, tribe to national. There are numerous countries where this has been suc
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by dbspin 4y ago
Doesn't matter if the developers can't afford to fight it.
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by dbspin 4y ago
Or don't. This is common advice layman / cloud level famous director advice that is in practice utterly misplaced. There are tonnes of fun little phone film festivals. No influential independent film festivals accept phone films.
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by dbspin 4y ago
Because the engine analogy though intuitively appealing, doesn't accurately map onto the way organisms work. The 'nerves' which send control and sensory information to and from our organs are neurons. The 'extended brain
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by dbspin 4y ago
I think this will come, but it won't be competitive with filmmaking in a decade, not without real superhuman AGI. What's much more likely is efforts to reproduce performances will result in deep uncanny valley stuff - and correcti
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by dbspin 4y ago
>by in large, it's calories in vs calories out. It's absolutely not... I have zero sympathy for the 'fat pride', political fatness etc side of body positivity. But I can confirm both through personal experience and re
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by dbspin 4y ago
Because no country exists in isolation. Where norms are established, they spread. Where governments become authoritarian without repercussion, authoritarianism becomes a more favourable option to those in power. Basically it sets up the pot
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by dbspin 4y ago
Good few folks in my company here in Germany do it, it's pretty common. But it's 80% time for 80% pay. I don't have any metrics in terms of productivity, but my personal impression (coming from freelance life before this) is
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by dbspin 4y ago
Genuine question, do you know any artists? This isn't the case generally; certainly amongst ordinary working visual artists - who are demonstrably open minded, centred, and interpersonally engaged. I can't speak to Damien Hirst le
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by dbspin 4y ago
That's... Absolutely not how TV works. They don't create an endless series of alternative formats and beta test them. They ape existing formats for the biggest slice of the same pool of already addicted viewers. So over time, a lo
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by dbspin 4y ago
Don't assume that the US is representative here. Currently living in Germany, and in most neighbourhoods (even here in Berlin) fibre to the home is unavailable and the best connections available are DSL. Starlink would be an enormous u
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by dbspin 4y ago
This is a wholly subjective, not to say toxic view of relationships as mutually codependent and cloistrated. It speaks more to your own personal issues than any universal problem with a given relationship style. No one is forced to adopt an
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by dbspin 4y ago
Meeting strangers to 'make out' with or 'hook up' with is literally the point of a club. It's been going on ever since humans had festivals and dances. Lets case conservatively 8 - 12k years. What you consider &#x27
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by dbspin 5y ago
Just to address this from a non US standpoint. While I'm sympathetic toward both the desire to preserve the character and community of a neighbourhood and your antipathy towards rentiers - there absolutely is a housing crisis across Eu
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by dbspin 5y ago
You're describing the market for low end commodified illustration. e.g.: cheapest bidder contracts on Upwork or similar 'gig work' services. In practice in illustration (as in all arts) there are a variety of markets where di
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by dbspin 5y ago
You have cause and effect backwards. Historically 'trafficking' meant human trafficking for the purposes of prostitution. The terminology creep to extend that to any kind of organised prostitution (for example brothels), is absolu
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by dbspin 5y ago
That's not @earthishome's point. Human understanding enables inference. Say your full self driving car is driving down the freeway and an enormous explosion / forest fire / volcano erupts in the distance, it'll blis
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by dbspin 5y ago
Neither part of that is true. The US and the entire world economy will suffer immeasurably if there's all out war. The US will be seen as even more ineffectual internationally than it already is after Afghanistan, emboldening Chinese a
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by dbspin 5y ago
That's a fair criticism, but anecdata though it may be, their chocolate does taste dramatically different to me. I would say that it's not just a recent shift though - the smoothness and richness has been gradually being replaced
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by dbspin 5y ago
Unfortunately this seems to have changed very recently. Not sure the cause, but there's been a sudden and complete loss of quality in Cadbury products, including Dairy Milk, in Ireland. Chocolate tastes like Nestle now. As discussed (r
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by dbspin 5y ago
You can get a near perfect transcript of just about anything, by using the adobe transcript tool in Adobe Premiere. But it requires a Creative Cloud subscription. Cheapest plan is about 20 dollars a month.
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by dbspin 5y ago
This is misleading. I moved to Germany last year and there's a whole secondary market - much bigger than I've seen in any other country, in sublets. While you officially need anmeldung (city registration) to live anywhere in Germa
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by dbspin 5y ago
This is the secondary theme of 1984, that gets lost because of the cultural relevance of the primary theme (govt surveillance, authoritarianism etc). O'Brien, Winston Smith's foil, is presented as charismatic, rebellious seeming a
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by dbspin 5y ago
'incredibly odd timing'. I pray that I live long enough to develop such equanimity, assuming you got ripped off.
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by dbspin 5y ago
This is highly geographically dependent. For example, in Berlin where I live currently, sunrise in mid Summer is at 4:40am. I'm highly sensitive to light, and use blackout currently for this reason. That's not a remotely practical

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