I often feel like the odd one out in this conversation because I feel like I’m the only person with no strong feelings one way or the other. Like I could be totally okay with never having kids, but also fine with having kids.

This would be considered a faux-pas among humans as well

Good lord, didn’t anyone here build boys in bottles when they were ships?

_____ = New Vegas

Especially in a language where none of the words seem to resamle anything from my previous languages.

It’s challenging, but if you can get a handle on the etymology of the language you’re studying, that may help. I’m learning Chinese and the characters got a lot less intimidating once I learned about the radicals. Basically there are smaller characters embedded within all but the most simple characters, and often the character is telling some kind of story that uses all of the radicals to illustrate the meaning of the character.

For example 看 means “look”, which seems pretty nonsensical. But then if you know that 手 means “hand” and 目 means “eye”, then you can see that the “look” character is made up of the hand character over top of the eye character, like someone shielding their eyes from the sun as they look at something. And the hand and eye characters both look a bit more like the things they represent.

Similarly, if one was learning English, it may behoove them to learn a little bit about Latin and Greek roots, since a lot of our vocabulary comes from those. Maybe even read about some of the most common PIE roots. Once you learn about PIE roots you can start noticing them in all kinds of places in our language.

Weird Al’s Eat It is even weirder than I remember

I, like any good fan of the show, own that T-shirt

What’s funny is that movie released during the pandemic, so it seemed like that was the thing it was commenting on, but actually it was filmed before the pandemic and was originally meant as a commentary on climate change. What it shows is that humanity’s modern tribalism is remarkably predictable. No matter what the problem, we will turn it into an us versus them situation where getting anything meaningful done becomes an uphill battle.

Empty for me on Jerboa

It would be easier for me to list the games I had a good time with and did finish. I think the most recent one was Outer Wilds. And that was over a year ago. And even that I put down before finishing in a sense because I started but never finished the DLC

IA definitely has too much to lose to afford picking fights. They got off lucky only having to remove the books. If they had been fined for many counts of copyright infringement, we could have had another library of Alexandria burning situation.

Seems like it wouldn’t be too different from a drop pod raid in that case. Annoying since they don’t attack until they’re right on top of you.

Proving Netflix could be replaced outdone by five hard working people.

For sure, but sometimes they don’t capture one’s attention in the same way.

It’s not arbitrary. Guns and violence are okay because America wants to normalize them joining the army and using them for their imperialism.

I haven’t played RW in a while, do you still get a red envelope when these guys show up to raid you? The idea of invisible enemies sounds terrifying, but I can see how if the game treats them like all other Raiders it wouldn’t actually be that big of a deal.

The algorithm here is pretty simple. It’s an open source project and you can go directly see that the code isn’t designed to maximise the user’s engagement, but rather simply to elevate more recent or popular posts. Sites like YouTube and Facebook develop much more complex recommendation algorithms with the goal of keeping people on their platform as long as possible.

Yeah of course you should start with a language app or something to get the basics down. But you start hitting a wall pretty quickly IME if you don’t branch out to some real media.

Wa’uh

The market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent