Japan is small. Most money they make is overseas. If they can’t get distribution they make no money so even Japan isn’t immune to pandering. They’ve just been more resilient to it. Once Sony moved its headquarters to the US, you got black Spiderman trying to setup a gay marriage proposal or something in Spiderman 2 and trying to carry the torch away from Peter Parker for no good reason.
Nintendo is the main company holding the line. Even then, in things like the Mario movie, you’re seeing it creep in around the edges.
We’ve tried talking about capitalism and it didn’t go well. She said it’s all exploitation. She’s a client that pays me and I asked her if she thought she was exploiting me. She said that’s different.
Like a lot of people, she seems to believe things mostly based on who believes it and their credentials.
Yeah. Them getting rid of looking at the SATs for admissions isn’t going to help, either. The test is a lot of things but it does correlate very well with people that do well in school in real degree programs.
I got into an argument with one guy about that. He said it’s a stupid test because they don’t teach it in school and it doesn’t mean anything. I told him it’s a test about reading, writing, and math, and asked him what they taught in schools. He said he used to sub and they didn’t teach any of that. I asked him what they did teach and he got flustered and said nothing.
Back then people were smarter with long form communication because it’s all they really had. The Lincoln-Douglas debates went on for hours with everyone on the edge of their seat, and they all engaged with it at the time after as a casual thing to do.
Nowadays, most people have few moments where they’re not consuming some kind of drivel. Novels back then used to have untold depths because someone might only have a handful of books that they might read dozens of times over the years.
Kids back then were also raised by adults, not other children. They worked from an early age too because everybody had to help out. We’ve really fallen quite a bit since then. Now most kids are raised by other children and iPads and public school teachers being forced to teach a bunch of Common Core nonsense.
The sad truth is that there will always be some people that are poor. Out here we have a lot of homeless, and they’re not homeless because capitalism wronged them. They’re usually homeless because they’re crazy or addicted to drugs. Giving them money doesn’t solve that, and neither does giving poor girls money save them from being sold into sex slavery.
If we shot more of the people selling people into sex slavery, and put their heads on pikes, I guarantee you selling people into sex slavery will go down more than giving poor people free stuff. As a bonus, you shot actual human traffickers. Not one person will be surprised or miss them.
I know a lot of people involved in the fight against human trafficking of various kinds that are both as left as you can get and on the right. The weirder part of the lefty efforts, much like everything, is that they actively try to shit on the right’s efforts of directly helping people and putting deterrents in place for people trafficking folks. Although I love her to death, a literal conversation I had with one lefty girl about that is that although she hadn’t seen the film, her colleagues all said it’s just promoting a fantasy that you can help these kids, and that the real answer is basically to fight capitalism. That the net result will make things worse for kids because it’ll pull efforts away from fighting capitalism. Keep in mind the film’s based on a true story and she knows that.
She’s a smart, talented, and wonderful human being that actually works with Biden himself in person and all else at times. I feel really bad for thinking that all her well meaning efforts have been sabotaged by that toxic mindset. I’m sure she’s probably helped more than she’s hurt, but still, it’s painful to think about for me.
Dragon Ball’s inspired untold billions of men world wide, and not one of us is an actual Saiyan. You don’t have to look like someone in a story to relate to them. If that’s what it takes for someone to relate to someone then that person isn’t someone worth relating to.
That’s been my thought on pirating most of this stuff. If I wanted to see the Netflix One Piece and not support it I could pirate it, but I don’t even want to see it.
Don’t recall but that’d be hilarious if true. That’s more than one manager per person. Everyone has 1.5-2 managers exclusively for them. Or matrix management where everybody manages everybody else.
Thankfully they’re getting rid of that at a lot of places due to the recession. Along with the workers. It all started because there was a cap on tech worker salaries behind the scenes, so they tried competing on other levels. Then they all lost their damn minds. It kept ballooning because in some place here in the Bay it’s pretty pricey to eat and live, so it let them offer workers less money be providing some of that and not having to give the money to the government.
Turned a lot of them into entitled baby people that are now unemployable. I hear people complain about the lack of benefits or perks now, then you hear about it and it’s the kind of benefits and perks people normally get, sans the amusement park ride at the office and ghost viewing chambers and in-house steakhouse. It’s hard to take them seriously when that’s what they’re used to work being like, and when their job is to simply exist.
To be fair, most people are bad at their jobs. In tech, 10% of people tend to do all the work, and everybody else is just bopping around or a manager. Diversity hiring just made an existing problem worse.
Elon was able to fire like 80% of Twitter with no loss in performance. Tells you something. If a company is financially successful, eventually it becomes a feudal nation with courtiers. The girls in this video strike me as courtiers.
To me it just looked like D3 dungeons but with grit. Random books and pillars and stairways, shit like that. Didn’t get too far, but it seemed like there was ‘rockish’ dungeon, ‘old castley’ dungeon, ‘hellish’ dungeon, and ‘tree hippie’ dungeon. It’s not bad, but generic, and at that point I think they’d be better off just using AI to make shit.
Yeah, it was $69.99 when I got it. Friend was hyped and said it was really good so I bit. He’s wrong about most things so I should have known. It’s not a bad game or any worse than a lot of ARPGs. It is better than D3 in many ways, at least to me, because it feels like you’re actively doing more and it doesn’t look like WoW. Still falls into similar traps though, and you can’t adjust the difficulty on your first playthrough high enough, so you’re in for a lot of easy stuff until you get to the ‘real’ game, and by then I’d probably just want to play another.
Most big budget games from people that aren’t Nintendo or Indie are now usually a little soulless and have some BS in there. In a different vein, playing Ratchet and Clank - A Rift Apart now. Probably the prettiest game of all time, but it feels super generic and soulless. Camera isn’t that great when you need it to be. Very, very shiny and pretty, but feels like it was written by a focus group for 3 year olds, and even then that’s an insult. It’s not a bad game, just a shell of what it could have been. Most likely a step back from prior games in all but graphics. Most of the game is spent watching cut scenes it felt like, which are Pixar level or better, but also not particularly interesting. Only like 4 types of enemies. Platforming is mediocre at best and the gunplay even on the hardest mode is pretty easy.
They also jammed so much crap and effects in it to show off the graphics that sometimes I don’t even know what’s going on. Rare, but it happens.
Reminds me of D4 in some ways though. Nobody bothered to even edit some things in it. Could have easily made a bunch of stuff better but didn’t. Ad for the Deluxe or whatever version any time you start it. Not at all a bad game, but kind of makes you feel bad that a game so pretty and with such high production values had not one meeting on how to make any of the gameplay meaningful, and they took a franchise that was founded on being edgy and made it for infants.
I have D4 and played it for a bit until around level 35. Starts off pretty well. Boss fights are neat. Art is fine I guess. Gear all feels the same so you stop caring pretty quickly. Once you’ve made it to the end of the skill tree, which doesn’t take long, you’ve kind of seen everything that character has to offer I felt. Also has a similar problem to D3 in that it’s mostly a ‘put in more time and you will win’ kind of game and there’s not much skill involved, but D2 had a little of that going on as well, though nowhere near as much. Itemization in D2 is still king. Almost all items in D4 are junk. Which you can mark as junk. You can sell them for money you won’t use or break them down for skins you also won’t use.
I didn’t dislike D4, but it did feel a little bland after a while. I just assumed dungeons were randomly generated because it was random wandering in areas that all looked the same. I kind of did feel like I was just wandering around picking up endless junk even in the premade over world. Story is probably fine, though the game isn’t really made to show it off outside of the opening cutscene and the beginning scenes. After that it’s mostly ‘go here and hit A on mobs’ and ‘go there and hit A on mobs’. Some characters seemed like they had potential, like some guy that’s mangled and hooked into a tree like the one dude from God of War, but he exists for a good minute and a half before that’s all over.
I think it’s better than most people shitting on it probably think, but I never hit or cared about the end game, and mostly dropped it because I felt like I’d seen most of it already and prefer skill based things. Pretty quickly I felt like I was walking around being told I won on repeat. Played Barb if that matters and did make use of a bunch of skills chained together.
The dungeons all look randomly generated to me. Are they not? If they’re not and they appear that way, then they should all be fire. I actually thought them being randomly generated was why they were laid out as they were.
Piracy’s keeping companies honest at this point. It’s about the only pushback from artificial marketplaces, and honestly ridiculous digital sales practices, like trying to charge somebody the price of a disc to simply stream movies for a limited period of time they could revoke at any moment.
Also helps if you want to see how bad something is but don’t want to support it, like when Barbie hits the high seas.
If it was reversed and it was a movie shitting on women, it’d be banned. Although if it was a movie written by men to shit on women, at least it would make sense and be coherently written.
Give ‘em a break, they improvised.
Best you can do safely is less-lethal force like tasers. Even then, if the nig ends up having a heart condition or something, you’re fucked. He did threaten to shoot the Sikh though. On camera.
At least in my area I don’t think they’re under enrolled. STEM folks would obviously want to avoid them in most cases, but they do make for an easy A requirement if you just repeat the dogma and need a breadth requirement, and as majors they work well to get the diversity admits and people giving up on harder classes. They are religious in nature, so for them it’s like they get to not take hard classes and get to be closer to God, only in a perverse way. If it were all true or useful it would be compelling to learn in the same way a devout Christian might major in theology.
“His bulge really jumps out at me, and shows off his well defined jaw. He’s the prettiest woman I’ve ever seen.”
I’m fine allowing trans people and even outright dudes in female beauty competitions if the people voting don’t feel compelled to vote for them out of guilt. None of them would win.
They try to present themselves that way to get their ranking up, but most undergrads there actually are international or first generation STEM type folks though that don’t actually care or dislike it but don’t say much about it. Gen Z also seems to have more conservatives.
Very university dependent. In top 10 schools, you learn, it’s hyper competitive, and the professors are great. If you’re in a fake subject, that won’t apply, but you’ll still learn about as much as there is to know. Most of those schools are now filled with internationals that smile and nod to SJW stuff but mostly ignore it.
DEI’s generally the establishment’s downfall. They hired at times literal retards to fill their ranks. That is now who we’re up against. At times literal retards chosen for that reason. Going to be a weird period in American history to look back on. This sting video will be shown in classes.