The only good thing to come from Cyberpunk 2077
Ah c'mon the games pretty good
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I'm not well versed on the History of real life PUF enough to answer that one, but for the SCP:
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PUF is getting deadnamed is one of the ways the author shows that it's still not safe for trans people. Both the previous institute and the SCP Foundation are part of the problem.
I do not get your point at all because it turns out you can do more than one thing. You can go hiking in a day and then also play videogames, with or without friends, at night. Or read a book, or watch a movie or whatever - these thing's arent exclusive by design.
common thread for any type of police officer anywhere tbh. I'll say you can sign up for that kind of job out of idealism but give it like 5+ years or so on the force at some point you have to square the circle. Either you adopt the ideals you enforce or alternatively you're so much of a nihilist you figure your job is to be a mercenary to inflict violence on behalf of orders above for pay. What else are you gonna do to be able to sleep at night?
hard agree, the most leftist position is your life should be toiling, eating nutripaste and recreating in accordance to the 5 year plan. everything else is counterrevolutionary
Fine, correct, even!
I'm coming out swinging here.
Movies? Right out, between the distinct fandoms of both American Sniper Part V: Killing Children, the acolytes of Marveslop and guy who's really into french indie cinema to sexually assault women there really is nothing to save there. Get rid of it, I say, what difference does it make?
Books? Pfff, there's the door. A thousand women converted into abusal BDSM play by a badly written fanfic of twilight and you want that shit to go on? You in favour of Steel Storm and My Struggle? Thought not. Fuck books.
Paintings? While Homeland Security is waxing about Kinkade? Statues, as if that's not the #1 signifier for alt right weirdos now? Away it goes!
I think you get the point. To judge a medium by it's worst fans is inane, though. Capital G gamers suck, but so do so many different flavours or fans of other mediums. The problem is not the medium.
What's the last thing you see on the page? There is absolutely a blank spot in there but it's intentional
Where do you read up on techniques, then? I can read recipes and I'm a fine ass cook as substantiated by lots of people but what I want to learn is "if I were a stereotypical mom or grandma (vietnamese) what do I vietnamesically throw together out of the pantry? What do I even have in the pantry? What do I buy for special occasions because it's worth the effort (and combine with things out of the pantry of mystery). Or is there even a pantry, does the whole thing kind of work on "go to local fresh market every two days"?
It's enough of a melting pot I can find most non-persihables you mentioned easily but then there's also really no good supply of fresh kimchi, for example. So I'm wondering, for example, with the abundance of sauerkraut here in germany if I were to just add some ingredients does that get close enough, you get me?
I can easily do the equivalent of spaghetti and meatballs, i.e. italo-american, for most of anything and give a local pan fry the japanese / korean / vietnamese spin but it's still not the cuisine
I mean they do make basically everything
Crucially you have to attach a cantilever construction right where your actual brakes are so if this ever catches on any road debris your tyre picked up you will instantly go frontflipping over your handlebars
It's called the trotify and here's the STLs since you can't actually buy it anymore
Borrowed one rather similar to this from a mate to test out whether shit's good. Have given it a few testrides now and here's my impression:
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towing it empty you really don't notice it at all. Gotta watch out in very sharp turns like hairpins, but otherwise goes off easy.
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with weight (I got up to ~15kg so far, so think like a weeks shopping) you do notice it but not nearly as much as you'd think. What's nice is if you're used to panniers for most operations your bicycle feels way less sluggish since all the weight sits a lot lower and on a rotational axle
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Parking is a bit annoying, most bike parking isn't made for vehicles that long excluding some rare cargo bike parking. So you have to unhitch it and since you probably want to lock it up, too that's a hassle. I think if I got one for myself I'd either devise some sort of lock to keep it affixed if possible and just carry a spare cable lock for all other times since they're usually fine for the 30 mins or so you spend at the store
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Going past cyclist pinch points is a full ass hassle now because there's really no way to do it without unhitching it. I avoided some routes due to this
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this one is highly area dependent but like with anything car drivers aren't used to seeing they seem to pay a lot more attention at the weirdo who's bicycle towing shit. You're also gonna get stared at a lot.
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braking doesn't seem to be really affected all that much so far. I took down my cruising speed by maybe 5 - 7kph just in case but I've not really noticed it shoving me all that much, but then I also didn't have to go full emergency brake so far.
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for most things I'd just strap down a big plastic tub on it to throw shit in, but I do like the versatility of the flatbed in case you ever need to transport something long. Theoretical legal maximum where I live would be 1,5m over the end of the trailer, which comes to about ~2,5m of length you could transport if you're willing to also push it over the edge of the connection side a bit.
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I have plenty of storage so this isn't much of an issue, but I do appreciate the wheels release at the press of a button so if you can store it upright against a wall or so it takes about 30cm of horizontal space
All in all; I think I'm gonna get one, this is pretty nifty and fills the missing middle for things I'm annoyed at having to use a car for because you can't really strap them to a standard issue bicycle, so things that are big but not hugely heavy. A weeks shopping, some particle board for DIY stuff, a beer crate or two and the like.
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I agree with your points but I think the problem is even with games that have good writing (and music and art direction and all the other bits and bobs that make up a video game) they often fall flat because the interactivity is not woven into them. RDR2 is just genuinely a well written western which is even more impressive considering it has to rank up there as one of the longest western storys ever told if you exclude something like a dime store novel named "Cowboy Kidd" that has been issued weekly since 1962. RDR2 would work just as well as a book, or a TV series or a movie or three. All the interactable parts are fun, but they're also mostly separate from the writing and everything else barring some minor set dressing and the video game obligatory 2 endings depending on your ratio of puppy kicked vs. money donated
Disco Elysium for example doesn't work outside of its medium. I mean there's enough in there you could make a TV series out of it, or a book or pretty much anything and it'd still hold up but it'd lose a really core part of the experience because the interactivity is woven into the fabric. Your choices matter and the world reacts to it.
So here's my suggestions as per videogames that would not work half as good if made into another medium. I'll attach spoilers to it, but I'd recommend not clicking on them because it probably ruins a lot of what makes them good
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Metro 2033 has a mostly hidden morality system in there that determines if you get a certain, important choice at the ending. I think the beauty of it and why it only works in a videogame is that it does not present you "Kick the puppy vs. save the puppy" choices, you get morality points for listening, being aware, perceiving the Metro and not killing people. None of which is really signposted at all and was a major criticism of the game because "How was I supposed to know I should perceive the world and try to understand it instead of killing everything I see"CONTROL
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The Main story is whatever, but there's a lot of good writing in the lore and the setting. Also the games alludes to you, the actual, real life person, as being an unknown entity to the people within the game which is cool and doesn't really work outside of interactive mediums