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by h2zizzle 1y ago
High hopes, those. The point of sabotaging US hegemony was not to hand power over to a monolithic, democratic, primarily Western institution, I'll tell you that much. I suspect that the Galts want their gulches (with Do Not Create Rapt
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Adding: advertisements use as many hacks as possible to grab your attention. You could broadly categorize things that behave in this way as akin to a) a baby's cries (attention-seeking by something that absolutely requires your assista
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It's a decent chunk of change for the sole purpose of avoiding ads on a single platform that barely pays the people actually producing the content. If you're looking to access premium content and YouTube Music, it's a slightl
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The general logic is that money is going to be taken from people no matter what (crime, expensive late interventions, etc.) and that relatively preventative measures are preferable because they cost less while preserving the social contract
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The whole idea is that exploring is its own reward, and points-of-interest need to be few and far between in order to kindle the feeling described above. "You see that mountain? You can climb it," is inferior to, "I heard the
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You have to make the world big and uncharted enough that it can't be picked over quickly. I have some hope that Light No Fire might pull it off. Probably an uncommon experience, but I felt something similar playing Final Fantasy XV. Th
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It's the second thing. Americans are proud to pay for things they can afford. They look down on people who aren't paying their "fair share." For example, music and movie piracy was never the domain of the average consume
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You seem to be under the mistaken impression that Capitalism is about "How much can I spend?", and not, "How much do I own (and how can I leverage it)?". Property like media outlets, where you can do things like manufact
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If they sold 7 million units at $50 each, of a game that had already been profitable in its original form, then their take-home has to be all of 2% for profit to equal that EBITDA. I'm unconvinced it's as small beans as you'r
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>Revenue Profit, profit, profit. It was a standalone full-price expansion of an existing game. They made stupid money on that release.
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>if your candidate could only win by having the moderate vote split five ways, you're the ones doing political maneuvering. That's highly presumptive. Supporters of the other candidates made their initial choices for reasons. I
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Exploding pagers are defensive? (Please don't wrap yourself into a logical pretzel responding to this purely rhetorical question.)
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>Leftist analysis can't explain why Bernie out-spent Biden and got crushed. Haven't we been saying it was stolen through suspect political maneuvering and the compromised nature of mass and social media as it exists today? As a
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*The people are too poor and disconnected to dissent. Everything comes down to the desperation to survive in a world where abundant (ABUNDANT) food, shelter, and clothing still must be "earned" (so say our elites).
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Okay. What do we do? Be as radical as you want, just don't say, "Vote."
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If you ever do, make sure to do so as a double feature with My Neighbor Totoro (as it was originally released in theaters).
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Nope. The flip side of commoditization is relationships. Racism, xenophobia, nepotism, etc. are all products of a paradigm where, "What can you do for me? I don't care who does it," is less important than, "Who you are i
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At some point, someone's going to poke the golden goose too hard and hit an artery.
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GP's hypothesis is that diet/environment microbiome changes induce a protective social anxiety. However, a nomadic population - the most likely to exhibit those changes - are successful when exhibiting prosocial or confrontational
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I do wonder why Hosoda isn't in the same conversation. His themes are sometimes a bit less... decisive than Miyazaki's, but the animation quality and passion for exploring intimate, interpersonal stories is there. Edit: The downvo
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On the one hand, yes, but also consider that game animation is fundamentally different from cinematic animation. It often has to be modular and loopable, but that also means that much of it can be treated like anime's "sakuga&quot
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Fermented foods are way more helpful IME. I've even found kombucha protective against mildly spoiled food. I can also attest to having my first alcoholic drink in a while and it screwing me up for a week.
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Could also be like climate change, where it correctly describes a broad phenomenon, but cannot be used to identify or classify any individual event. E.g., Wildfires are probably getting worse because of climate change, but it's difficu
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Spatial AI Workbench - Apple Vision Pro Mockup [video](youtube.com)
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Costco. Anyway, it's a self-fulfilling prophecy. Companies were told that this was the way to make money, and that they were in fact obligated to operate this way, by an economic school with ulterior motives. Companies began behaving t
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Fair. The main difference is that people here don't like it when you call it astroturfing.
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>The moment their ad business doesn’t work anymore, the behemoth that Google is will come down to its knees. Which makes it all the weirder that they seem to be intentionally sabotaging it by nerfing Search into unusability.
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No? Some companies are mission-driven. Some are ran by people with ethical scruples, and/or who will forego short-term profit for long-term brand image. Some (allegedly) have been infiltrated or taken over by bad actors who purposely s
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Many people who post here are, were, or would like to be Googlers. Maybe not so much astroturfing ao much as a kind of corporate hasbara (though maybe both).
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Behind a paywall and platform-segregated. I guess even the Mona Lisa is behind a velvet rope?

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