Also, for Hololive (in the pic) the avatars are the same height and mostly the same proportions as their avatars, to make the rigging and choreography easier. They get some boost in terms of assets, but are otherwise a close match but anime-ified.
So they're played by grown adults, with the proportions of those same grown adults.
They have those venezuelan gangs there taking over apartments.
Even if that proved to be fake
Are you implying that it is fake? Because the police said it was fake, then the apartment complex uploaded a bunch of videos of venezuelan gangs and their correspondence with the police that don't give a shit.
Holy shit. I opened it up and thought that those grey skinned guys didn't look too bad. The one right at the opening looks a little like prince charming from Shrek. Then I turned on the sound and it turns out they're supposed to be women!
Alan Turing is held up by the left as a tragic figure that was unfairly and permanently chemically castrated.
How did they do that? With estrogen shots, and at lower levels of estrogen than they put into FTM trannies even.
Yet they think the puberty blockers they put kids on is reversible, because they're fucking idiots.
I think it's the freshness TBH. I stayed at at a place for a week with a pub attached that made the best omelettes I've had in my entire life. I complimented them on the food being so good, and they told me they got their food from a market two blocks away.
It was an open air market with stalls and stuff, and the first lady I talked to who was selling eggs and vegetables had a farm a few miles down the road.
Try to get that in USA and it'd probably cost $2 an egg nowadays.
Hah, fucking cream cheese. Yeah, sushi having a bunch of cream cheese is awful and really popular. Weirdly, it's also really common in south america too.
How did two continents on opposite ends of the world manage to get together and fuck up sushi in the same way?
I've had sushi in eastern europe. Don't.
It's either regular sushi but worse quality controls.
Or it's an original design and tastes horrible.
90% of everything I ate there was much better than the states, but sushi did not make the list.
Price Gouging helps on both managing the demand, and resolving supply.
Demand
- Normal person - You don't particularly need gas. You don't own a generator, and you have nowhere else to go. If gas prices are $3, you will go stock up just in case that's the normal price and you know it'll be hard to get soon. If gas prices are $10 or more, you will just wait until prices come down. Maybe next time you store an extra gas can just in case.
- Small demand - You have a generator and burn through gas to keep niceties going. If gas is $3 and plentiful then you'll happily burn it to keep AC on. If gas is jacked up to $10, you will ration your use and only keep on the fridge and lights. If prices raise too high to $50, you won't buy gas. These prices naturally ration your use. If prices are too high, next time you might have bought a more efficient generator instead to save money.
- Critical Demand - You have a mission critical use for gas, and are running low. Maybe you're keeping people alive with hospital care, or keeping critical services up like servers/bloodbanks/etc, or saving lives with gas powered equipment inside the affected area. You will pay up to $50 for this gas, and at this price almost nobody else will buy it but you. Next time, you resolve to keep more gas stored locally.
Sometimes, an area won't be hit that bad hurricane and won't see too much increased demand. Other times, an area will be hit very very bad, and rarely places will need to allocate gas to only critical demand from the start.
How can you make sure gas sometimes gets to critical demand, and other times only gets rationed slightly or not at all? Freely set prices solves this automatically, while rationing needs a whole fucking algorithm to resolve (which might not even be something that people on the ground can check). Rationing also always disincentivizes at least one group on the ground to not prepare for next time (eg, if rationing is per person, then average people are disincentivized from keeping gas cans. If rationing is 100% critical, key institutions are disincentivized from storing because gas stations become their personal backup storage).
Supply
- $3/gal - This is the normal price. You have no bidding power to ameliorate the problem. You will only start to get gas once the roads are cleared. Even once cleared, trying to deliver to you sucks more than normal, so you will get LESS gas than usual, prolonging the crisis.
- $10/gal - This is a high price. You have slight bidding power. As soon as the roads clear, you're first in line because you can pay a premium to get priority on gas delivery or more deliveries to clear up the suppressed demand. You will get gas FASTER than normal, resolving the crisis faster. Next time, you spend the extra to make sure your station is topped up before the storm.
- $50/gal - This is a 'gouged' price because the crisis lasted longer than expected or you have even more critical need. At these gas prices, you can resolve issues NOW. Maybe you contract an offroad fuel truck to coming driving over even with fucked roads. Maybe you can pay to airlift fuel in. Maybe you hire people with ATVs or pontoons to ferry fuel canisters if things get bad enough. No matter what, at a high enough price, people will find a way to resolve things. Next time, maybe you'll take your profits and spend a lot of money on doubling your storage, so you can earn more money.
Sometimes, you can wait for gas supply to be resolved naturally, other times you need to exert a little more effort to fix things, and rarely you need to make extraordinary responses.
How do you know when you should spend extra money to do this? Solving it requires an entire government agency, and as we saw in Katrina that agency is shit. Gouging is messy and not everyone prices optimally, but they are highly motivated so they try what they can think of and the problem gets fixed eventually as the market finds what is most efficient.
Everybody watched and still watches the classic action fics.
I was talking to a girl I met in south america in her early 20s about her favorite action movie. She wasn't even born when T2 came out, and is in a whole other fucking continent.
T2, The Matrix, Die Hard, etc.. All the usual suspects a 50 year old in the USA would say, and she specified not the sequels. It's not just old folks biases or a fad to call the new stuff shit. The old movies are objectively good, the new movies are objectively bad.
It's the easiest thing in the world to test. Just choose any city in the US and have them not vaccinate half the kids for a few years. They'd get instant definitive results.
Which is kind of telling that they've never done this in any vaccine rollout. It's always national given to everyone, with no staggered rollout. That's because they know the answer, and they don't want other people to know.
The way website permissions work, power is always 100% hierarchical. The top mod can strike down all of the lower mods put together 100% of the time, even the lowest mod can strike down every user put together 100% of the time.
Governing systems flow from power. In real life we only got rid of tyranny, when the power of nobles then later average citizens became a credible threat to tyrants. If we want to fix the problem of mods turning into petty tyrants, then somebody needs to devise a system that can divest at least a little power into normal users.
If it's mass reporting by a bunch of hivemind idiots, you don't necessarily need to ban them. Actual humans are expensive for a service to get, so I wouldn't expect any company to discard value like that.
But they should absolutely flag those accounts and reduce the weight of their reports, so it's worth less and less to the algorithm for mass reporting. They might even manage it by category, so they ignore reports from these accounts for 'Hateful Conduct' but still listen to them when it comes to reporting spam, CP, or stolen content.
'Teamed up' undersells it. In many conquistador armies, they were outnumbered 10-1 by native allies.
The conquistadors had better direction, organization, and tactics, but the overwhelming bulk of the armies were natives. They were native uprisings, featuring conquistador support.
Concord is an atrocity.
But I also dislike Wukong's silly shoulder armor. Blizzard style giant shoulder pads are a blight.