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8BitArchitect 6 points ago +6 / -0

Because the more of you fuckers do it, the harder it is to trace any particular rape back to you in particular. Is that it?

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8BitArchitect 9 points ago +9 / -0

I suspect the real kicker is that this is the worst grossing Memorial Weekend opening without adjusting for inflation. 30 years of inflation is almost 250% from some quick math. So it's entirely possible those numbers are the worst non-covid numbers ever.

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8BitArchitect 9 points ago +9 / -0

While the ending exacerbates the problems with the game (and the series as a whole) ME1 and 2 were made pointless well before the ending of 3. The whole structure of 3 boils almost all of your decisions across the series down to "did you get enough points for the green ending? No? Go grind pvp in a previously singleplayer-only franchise." On top of that, several of your actions and choices in previous games are made completely irrelevant because they decided to lock you into a single narrative line.

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8BitArchitect 11 points ago +11 / -0

Has the Animus even been a thing since they finished the Desmond saga? I was very disappointed with 3 on several levels, so haven't played any of the later ones, but I heard they either completely removed the Animus sections, or made you a nameless, faceless Abstergo employee.

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8BitArchitect 8 points ago +9 / -1

Unless I missed something, he "crashed" his fancy sports car the day he bought it due to icy conditions on the roads and had to get it towed, but without damage.

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8BitArchitect 3 points ago +3 / -0

llama2 based models can be quantized in ways that allow you to use much less memory for comparable results. And as OP mentions, you can take a performance hit and use RAM/Swap to stretch what you can run.

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8BitArchitect 7 points ago +7 / -0

I see no reason to keep any amendment past the 12th in its current form (and last I checked it wouldn't kill us to repeal that, and the 11th as well.)

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8BitArchitect 2 points ago +2 / -0

If I'm not mistaken, the .win admins set up the domains for both KIA and KIA2, because at the time we migrated each "community" was on its own domain. There was nothing the mods of either subreddit could've done (at the time) to affect that.

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8BitArchitect 6 points ago +6 / -0

If you're using it for work you can almost certainly write it off as a business expense. Go get that quad RTX 4090 TI rig that you deserve.

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8BitArchitect 52 points ago +52 / -0

You create/fund a massively popular game, then you tank it so hard that Steam won't even cover for you like they normally do when a game gets "review bombed". Good job Sony.

Even with this backtrack you aren't getting that goodwill back. You could've continued selling the game for $40 almost indefinitely on that goodwill and people still would've bought your game for that even years out. But now you've made people hesitant to buy it even if it's on sale. I haven't seen a fuckup this colossal on a released game maybe ever.

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8BitArchitect 5 points ago +5 / -0

Centrists fuck

You're assuming the (male) population groups itself roughly evenly into those three camps, when absent outside information it's just as reasonable to assume that the population splits itself up closer to the distribution seen in the study.

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8BitArchitect 4 points ago +4 / -0

Obama had some level of charisma when given sufficient preparation. Hillary got less likable when they prepped her for PR events. And she still almost managed to win the 2016 election because the establishment Republicans wouldn't run anyone with the combination of charisma and policies to beat her. An old New York Democrat (and former friend of the Clintons) had to run as a Republican to beat her, and the establishment Republicans were pissed, because they'd rather have an establishment Democrat (and one of the worst ones, at that) in office than a Republican they didn't control.

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8BitArchitect 7 points ago +7 / -0

It's not an NPC, it's a troll (or maybe a paid shill, but I wouldn't except the excessively "cheerful" behavior, blatant flip-flopping, and dated account name from a paid shill.) Nothing posted on that account is genuine.

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8BitArchitect 2 points ago +2 / -0

He didn't end up with her, except maybe in a possible version of the future (that Picard S3 might have partially confirmed, but his daughters don't look like they're mixed enough to be the product of an already mixed-race black dude and a white chick. At least not to me.)

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8BitArchitect 31 points ago +31 / -0

Jury duty is an incredible inconvenience to the working class and the self-employed. I actually had jury duty today, and one of the other potential jurors was complaining that he wasn't getting his parking comped because his work truck wouldn't fit in the lot, so he had to park elsewhere. I jokingly told him "At least the pittance they pay you for showing up is enough to cover the parking, right?" and he replied "Well, I had to pay $10 for breakfast, $20 for gas, and I lost $1000 because I couldn't work this morning, and I could have just not shown up and paid a $100 fine." He also said several other things that led me to believe he would probably make a good juror (if perhaps a bit too inclined to side with the state.)

But that's the problem with our current jury system; the working class can't/won't serve as jurors, much of the middle class is "smart" enough to get out of jury duty, so the only people you see in the jury pool are welfare class, some retirees, and politically-motivated individuals (usually not aligned with what we'd consider "good" politics, either.) I'm not sure if there's a way to mitigate the issues with jury service being a bad deal for the individual without causing other issues (maybe have jury pay be a straight tax credit at your hourly/daily rate? But that creates problems at the other end of the income bracket...)

Ultimately, jury duty is the only actual "civil service" left in our society, with the individual serving doing so to their own detriment, where just about every other form of "civil service" ultimately serves as a form of personal enrichment (or is at least a job with the backing of the state, and state benefits when the individual retires), and this causes resentment among the citizenry.

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8BitArchitect 34 points ago +35 / -1

The Jews have a really fucked up view of God and prophecy. From what I've read, they literally believe that 6,000,000 Jews had to be burnt in a fire to return to the promised land, and apparently they believed they could force the issue.

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8BitArchitect 6 points ago +6 / -0

Sometimes they get their penis later in life from chemicals or radiation or something, like superheroes.

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8BitArchitect 20 points ago +21 / -1

They don't want to ban hateful comments, they want to shoot people over "hateful" comments.

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8BitArchitect 11 points ago +11 / -0

As I recall, the day of the shooting, he and his parents were called into the office because a teacher had concerns, and the parents offered to take him home, but the admin staff said "thats not necessary." How come no one at the school is being charged?

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8BitArchitect 2 points ago +2 / -0

Why QBasic and not something more modern (Python, for example?) And if you're concerned with them learning low level concepts (which python admittedly would be bad at) why not supplement with c/c++ (or even some form of assembly of you want to get really low level?)

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