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In a perfect world, yes.

In reality, i knew what i did and why i did it, two years ago, after which i never had to touch it again until now, and it takes me 2 hours of searching/fiddling until i remember that weird thing i did 2 years ago…

and it's still totally worth it

Oh or e.g. random env vars in .profile that I'm sure where needed for nvidia on wayland at some point, no clue if they're still necessary but i won't touch them unless something breaks. and half of them were probably not neccessary to begin with, but trying all differen't combinations is tedious…

Plus you can spam thousands of songs easily, one is bound to be catchy and successful, an outlier on the bell curve.

I'm curious what they will do for live concerts, hire a perfomer or AI all the way with some generated video?

Crazy how it went from this 5 months ago to this two weeks ago, talk about Streisand effect

Or even worse, reading online that there's some super special item you could have gotten 20 hours into the game if only you didn't open that one regular chest in the starting area in the first 5 minutes of the game. I forgot which Final Fantasy did this? 9 maybe? Pissed me off to no end, i'm not playing through everything again for this… just seemed mean spirited.

More generally, when decisions early on influnce later stuff that you have no way of knowing about yet. I'm not going to play your game 50 times to see all options. So either i play with the wiki open to not miss anything, ruining the fun, or i realize later on that i could have gotten something but it's now forever locked because of earlier decisions, pissing me off.

Baldurs Gate 3 had a lot of that…

DS9 has lots of stuff against racism, either with aliens or black people in time travel episodes. And the one where Quark transitions for an episode and it's not just milked for laughs or similar, for the 90s that was handled pretty tactfully. lots of womens rights topics, especially with Ferengi.

And in a way that whole show was a critique of imperialism/colonialism

Actually, the optimism in ministry for the future depressed me and made me not finish it. Even though at the time I was wanting for some optimistic climate fiction.

Here we have this huge threat to humanity and way too little is done about it. But then all the 'solutions' in the book are so unrealistic, like russians using oil equipment in antarctica to help the world… it just made me more depressed about climate change that the solutions he came up with are more fever dreams.

the first chapter was very well done though and should be required reading

they did and i'd be surprised if it didn't continue with more strikes

I'd be really curios to see some sort of study done on this. I mean, it's not just americans and most of the west is not insulated from america, either, at least not online. and you don't know from talking to someone online where they're from. At the same time, there's rising fascism and neoliberalism bullshit in europe, too.

I'd love to know how much of it is people getting antsier in general because they're in a shit situation and how much it's 'infectious' from talking with people in shit situations elsewhere, spreading bad vibes. Is this also happening in the chinese web? How about other countries that are more politically/economically aligned with the west but culturally less part of the english speaking web?

There has to be some sociologist out there somewhere studying this, no? But i wouldn't know where to look. if anyone knows of something along those lines, i'd love to hear it.

Where is the new study? They have sources at the bottom but which one is the actual study they talk about?

CTRL+F for "Study" only has the word in the title and in three links in the sources, all of which are from several years ago. I realise it's medium.com, which usually sucks, not real journalism, but how can you make a write-up about a purported new study without mentioning or linking to it once in the article...

oh for going out ours will sit in front of the entry door and look in our direction, even if we're two rooms away. we really need to pay attention to notice if he suddenly disappears and then check the entry.

It's really interesting how you start to be able to distinguish the different kinds of look they give you, like I couldn't say how but I know if he needs help, needs to go out or if he wants to play depending on how he sits and looks.

My dog is pretty smart, but sometimes he's smart in pretty stupid ways.

One thing he does is, if he needs help he will sit in front of the thing he needs help with. That's it, just sit there. Now, he's a black dog and he will sometimes do this in completely dark corners of the apartment. Maybe he played with his food ball and a treat has fallen under some furniture, he will just sit in front of it in the dark and expect us to help him, just sitting there for 20 minutes sometimes. Usually we only notice once he lets out a sad grumble after having sat there for a long time but I'm sure there's other times where he just gave up and we didn't notice at all. And this is not something we taught him, he just figured sitting quietly in a corner is the best way to get attention.

That and he likes to check if there's anything going on behind him while on walks, which often causes him to walk head-first into obstacles...

Yes I think that summarizes it nicely 🙂