That's all and good, but let's go back to the original claim that was being discussed.
This. Communication beyond 2 SD less intelligent is near impossible outside of basic interaction.
If you define "basic interaction" as anything short of discussing economic concepts. Sure, it's impossible. But, to me at least, "basic interaction" means something you can manage with someone who barely even speaks your language.
Not being able to communicate with some 2 SD less intelligent would mean that someone with 129 IQ could manage better than basic interaction with someone with 100 IQ, but someone with 131 IQ would not be able to. Obviously a flawed premise. The decisive factor in the complexity of communication is the minimum of the two IQs, not the delta.
That was by design. EDH was fun community homebrew rules. The moment it got made "official," the writing was on the wall. It was going to eventually be the same shit show as everything else WotC/Hasbro touches. Not to say that covid and inflation didn't play a part.
That's not worth the legal controversy if it came to light. I can tell you right now what they'd do if the wrong person won:
Approximate retail value of the Prize: $3,000.
No substitutions or exchanges (including for cash) of the Prize or any portion thereof will be permitted, except that Sponsor reserves the right to substitute a prize of equal or greater value for the Prize.
"There was a scheduling conflict. Here's $3k. Don't call us." A tiny amount for a campaign to eat.
NO PURCHASE, PAYMENT, OR FINANCIAL CONTRIBUTION OF ANY KIND IS NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN THIS PROMOTION.
As funny as it would be to enter without donating a cent, win, and then show up to the photo op with a MAGA hat on, they'd never make good.
I still wonder about that. I've always thought that there's a good chance that some people just say their internal thoughts are "heard" because that's the closest physical phenomenon to describe it to someone else.
We lack consistent language for describing things that we can't be certain are being experienced by another person in the same way. Make a noise, we can describe what both people experience as "hearing." But when both have a thought, there's no common reference stimulus to tie to the sensation.
We know it's aggravating, but you described it as "impossible." Most the replies are reading that literally like there is a bidirectional language barrier rather than it just being so frustrating it's difficult not to walk away.
It's awful close...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZ301QEoo9Y&t=35
These reviews have dropped our rating from what would have been 96% to 94%, below the 95% threshold for "overwhelmingly positive" when we hit 500 reviews.
They're literally just bitter that they have "very" and not "overwhelming" next to their review score.
That could be an artifact of kids who have a high performance relative to their classmates at shit schools.
Also scholarship availability. Jamal and Timmy both get in. People fall over themselves to give Jamal a free ride. Timmy would have to pay out of pocket and settles for a cheaper college. The chart isn't students accepted. It's the actual incoming class.
It's even more evil than it sounds. Put everything you own into a business you created? Own a 50.1% interest in it? It's value doubled? Well, now you need to sell ~6.2% of your stock to cover your taxes. So much for your controlling stake. As the value of something goes to infinity, the amount of it they will "allow" you to own goes to 0. Inflation forces divestment. Just another leftist attempt at backdoor communism.
This is the same reason they love inheritance taxes on private farmland. Forces people to sell and lets their institutional donors scoop up more control.
Was watching some stuff about this the other night. And I think I agree. Modern CG got a lot better at things like lighting and texture mapping. But it losing the novelty and becoming overused meant that it wasn't getting the same love and autistic attention to detail in each shot.
If you gave the teams from some of those 90s the tools from today, they'd blow modern stuff out of the water. The limitations made them master the tools and innovate. Now it's just hammer and all of filmmaking looks a nail.
For a dude in his 30's or 40s he takes this crap awfully seriously.
No he doesn't. He plays a part that pretends to care because driving engagement is just as much a thing for radio as it is for clickbait. "Keep listening and we'll have people to call in to argue about if the dress is blue/black or white/gold!" It's the broadcast equivalent of, "let me know in the comments."
Call of Duty: Black Ops III has nearly 140k reviews. How many do you read before making a decision?
Or if you're Steam, how do you sort reviews?