mcphage

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by mcphage 1y ago
To match the year.
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by mcphage 1y ago
I'd like to see games using half-square grids—a square grid where units default to 2x2. That gets you a lot of the benefits of both squares and hexes.
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by mcphage 1y ago
> Swat enough flies and they’ll alter their behavior. They will, but flies are stupid. People are not, and they will not necessarily alter their behavior in a direction that you prefer.
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by mcphage 1y ago
> now we're just campaigning for exactly what we want What is it exactly that you want?
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by mcphage 1y ago
Compared to this one? Biden, Obama, W Bush, Clinton, H W Bush, Reagan, Carter, etc, etc.
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by mcphage 1y ago
> But as I’ve always said, life is first come, first served,” he claimed. I wonder if recent events have caused him to rethink this stance. > “In the end, chin up, hats off, less venom, more sportsmanship.” I wonder what sportsmanship
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by mcphage 1y ago
> You can't watch a movie for 5 minutes without having your face rubbed in a sex scene The frequency of sex scenes in movies has been dropping for a while.
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by mcphage 1y ago
This whole thread isn’t about nearly all in person interaction being a meaningless waste of time.
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by mcphage 1y ago
Is it? I’m not sure how you interpreted it that way.
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by mcphage 1y ago
Okay, thanks :-). I was just trying to make sure I was understanding what I was reading.
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by mcphage 1y ago
> Here in California the cost of fast food skyrocketing and the service experience plummeting started after the introduction of a $20/hr minimum wage for fast food jobs made replacing workers with kiosks, automation and AI more econ
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by mcphage 1y ago
> Is their menu so large that you can't just have a menu with a push-button next to each item? Items can be modified, and there's not enough buttons for every combination.
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by mcphage 1y ago
> Operations like multiplications change the shape of these distributions, so then uniform random isn't applicable any more. Doesn't addition as well? Like if you roll d6+d6, the output range is 2-12, but it's not nearly
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by mcphage 1y ago
> Workers certainly have the right to quit based on Elon Musk's off-work comments. Why should Musk have less right to free association? Nobody is disputing Musk’s right to quit if he doesn’t like his workers’ comments.
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by mcphage 1y ago
Lightning Bolt got reprinted for a number of years, before they rebalanced the game. It’s not one of the Power Nine :-)
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by mcphage 1y ago
> This also ties into what DOGE kept finding. DOGE wasted billions of dollars and failed.
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by mcphage 1y ago
They do reprint it periodically—seems like it gets a bunch of specialty versions. But it hasn't been printed in a standard set in almost 15 years, as far as I know.
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by mcphage 1y ago
> Power creep. You say that, but back in the day I played red, and the quintessential red card—Lightning Bolt—is now considered too powerful to keep in print.
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by mcphage 1y ago
> The problem is on both sides of the ideological aisle. Are you fucking kidding me?
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by mcphage 1y ago
I think this is known as the Politician’s Fallacy: Something Must Be Done This is Something Therefore, This Must Be Done I agree they probably had to do something, but from every angle, this was clearly the wrong thing. They were better off
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by mcphage 1y ago
> Didn't facebook already facilitate a genocide like 8 years ago? Yep
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by mcphage 1y ago
Well, they already did the move fast and break countries, so now they’re trying to make it personal.
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by mcphage 1y ago
> polarization and alienating voters has worked out so well as a strategy for the Democrats for the past 12 years, has it? It's worked really well for the Republicans for decades. The Democrats just need to try harder.
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by mcphage 1y ago
I'm not sure there's very many of those.
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by mcphage 1y ago
> Every time a country has tried communism At what point do you decide that's an inevitable outcome, rather than an unfortunate unexpected outcome that happens every single time?
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by mcphage 1y ago
That’s… not really very many.
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by mcphage 1y ago
> The fact that you can't understand this is exactly why this administration is doing this. > because you believe that excellence is not worthy of being rewarded. Your culture has the mindset that excellence is not a product of h
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by mcphage 1y ago
> Europe has nothing equivalent to Chinese J-35 or even previous generation J-20. How many J-35s does China have?
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by mcphage 1y ago
> It wouldn't surprise me if this was way past the point of the Chinese film industry thriving, but that the West just hasn't gotten to see the gold it has produced and can produce just yet. That’s a good point, I guess by thri
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by mcphage 1y ago
> Narratively, about as on par with the story of Elio, so close to the bottom of the barrel compared to Pixar. I didn’t think Elio was one of Pixar’s best, but it was leagues better than Cars 2 or The Good Dinosaur.

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