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DefinitelyNotIGN 13 points ago +13 / -0

The entire food industry is "I couldn't be assed to grill up a steak". Nothing wrong with a market of convenience.

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DefinitelyNotIGN 4 points ago +4 / -0

More accurately, it's a reference to an old riddle, but the writer purposefully didn't write the riddle, just some keywords that would invoke it, so instead of giving the answer to the riddle of "a child needs surgery from an accident, the surgeon says "I can't operate on him, he's my child.", but the father died in the accident, how can this be?", which would be ChatGPT's answer of "the surgeon is the mother", but instead, the person just asked why a surgeon would be a dick to some random kid, and ChatGPT helpfully provides that mothers are regularly jerks to their own kids.

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DefinitelyNotIGN 2 points ago +2 / -0

Or at the very least, dead AT the time the worst of it inevitably happens.

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DefinitelyNotIGN 5 points ago +5 / -0

"Two weeks to slow the spread (of wildfires)" is pretty clearly at the very least a direct reference, if not a jape or jab.

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DefinitelyNotIGN 3 points ago +3 / -0

I've worked in service industry before, and "soliciting tips" was considered a breach of protocol there. Tipping culture exists, tippers exist, you don't need to bring it up unprompted.

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DefinitelyNotIGN 5 points ago +5 / -0

If someone said "Naan pizza", I would assume the crust is made from Naan bread, not that it was a topping.

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DefinitelyNotIGN 4 points ago +4 / -0

Canadians and "should be on trial for crimes against humanity". History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme.

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DefinitelyNotIGN 7 points ago +7 / -0

I could see 90. "By next quarter, this shit needs to be gone."

180, though? That's ancient history by day-trading standards.

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DefinitelyNotIGN 3 points ago +3 / -0

Isn't... That the point? If he means migration: That if you make Japan for the Japanese... The invaders, shysters, con artists, and gibs-men won't want to show up? That's the point!

If he means tourism, people tour for two reasons: Good weather, or unique culture. Japan can either aim to have an economy like Haiti, or cement having a unique culture.

If he means business... he's being stupid and hyperbolic. Everyone looks out for their own economy first and foremost. "First" isn't "only" in business.

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DefinitelyNotIGN 1 point ago +1 / -0

Given how the Taliban treats MOST legal infractions in their nation, deporting that shipping container to... Italy, I guess? Is probably for the best for everyone.

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DefinitelyNotIGN 10 points ago +10 / -0

Every ruling omnicidal zealot eventually wants to destroy all art that goes contrary to their perfect world.

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DefinitelyNotIGN 3 points ago +4 / -1

People ain't sick of "superheroes". Anime proves it. You can have great sales, again and again, with the same story, over and over.

People are sick of wokewashed not-so-super "heroes".

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DefinitelyNotIGN 40 points ago +40 / -0

But be careful what question you ask, it might fall afoul of the speech laws and get you in a real hot bo'ol o' wo'ah.

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DefinitelyNotIGN 2 points ago +2 / -0

Of all the fire emblem characters, why her? She's sac bait at best in any ironman run.

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DefinitelyNotIGN 2 points ago +2 / -0

I am a fan of turn-based dungeon crawlers. Etrian Odyssey 1 was my jam, and while the series got "better" over time, it also got worse simultaneously. The first one bragged about its limitations, making demerits into positives. The box cheerfully alerted you to its lack of story, by-hand map-making, and obtrusive level-up system. They turned negatives into positives.

And that's something the modern industry just can't do. You can't have "negatives" in the modern development cycle. Everything needs to be a wash of grey and sameness.

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DefinitelyNotIGN 2 points ago +2 / -0

I know we're talking what-if fantasies here, but you gotta keep some levels of "possible" in mind! That's ridiculous!

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DefinitelyNotIGN 3 points ago +3 / -0

The answer is "get over it, you failure of a genetic dead-end", but they'd probably get "the ick" if they heard that.

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DefinitelyNotIGN 2 points ago +2 / -0

It has exaggeration. Think of, instead, you come down with the 'rona. The "ripperdoc" of the modern era says "take this triple-purpose malaria-medication-slash-horse-antiparasitic, some vitamin D and C pills, and some nyquil/rum mixture. Fix you right up it will." Even though that's against every sacred tenet of Corporate Medicine.

You're not doing open-heart surgery, but you are being prescribed medications and chemical treatments.

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DefinitelyNotIGN 1 point ago +1 / -0

People say they love me, and think I'm great, in my safe spaaaace~!

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