bluquark.bsky.social
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Orson Scott Card had a subplot in a 1985 novel where preteens take over world politics by writing posts online: enderverse.fandom.com/wiki/Nets
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It was supposed to come into effect this week, but Republican FTC commissioners voted to delay it: www.yahoo.com/news/ftc-del.... What you noticed might be businesses complying in advance
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The FTC recently issued a major new draft regulation in this area: www.federalregister.gov/documents/20.... It might be one of the clauses in there.
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Why do you use one of the earliest versions of RPG Maker?
What's your philosophy around how the name or artwork of RPG items/abilities relate to their mechanical function?
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What are your thoughts on austere, repetitive experiences in RPGs? I'm thinking of things like bosses that require grinding, mazes full of dead ends, needle-in-haystack search tasks.
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Adachi's multi-page uninterrupted cry from the heart was incredible. Just when I think it's starting to settle into a formula, it goes for a bold experiment with form
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FWIW, I did relatively few brute-force digging attempts on my playthrough (and never found a single thing that way): I usually dug when I had some theory. And I don't think I would've been able to beat the final boss without taking photos of every page of the two battle-related books.
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Yeah it was really sharply designed! I appreciated how different types of cosmetic detail on the maps became salient each time I learned a new rule. It really felt like every tile was placed there for a reason.
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Seriously though, it's a good time to do a bit of research on what equivalent ETFs you might switch to, to technically sell everything without materially changing your portfolio or triggering a wash sale.
I'm still carrying over a third of my tax losses from March 2020
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The bad news is your savings are taxable. The good news is that you'll get to enjoy a big tax loss harvest later this month
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Clocks tick... checkmate infinitists
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Nice work analysts www.nytimes.com/2024/12/31/b...
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When I was preparing the paperwork, I had to go to the doctor a second time because my blood pressure was slightly elevated. Like what does blood pressure have to do with anything
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I've started to dislike elemental/ailment weakness systems and I think this gets to the heart of why. It guarantees there's always a trick and it's always of the same category
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Sure but the method here is like forcing a child to learn to swim by throwing them into the middle of a lake
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Right. This doesn't meet the strictest recommendations for safety, especially by the third day. But a temp around 80C is a temperature where germs have a hard time growing, like reverse refrigeration. And I use a good induction rice cooker so the temp is consistent: www.amazon.com/CUCKOO-CRP-L...
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The real secret is I also pour two of these furikake packets on it: japacle.com/en/products/...
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My pre-prepped breakfast staple is brown rice with lentils. I make 4 cups of it every 3 days, and leave the rice cooker on keep-warm (they stay good around 72 hours). Then i just scoop it out and eat it with eggs and tomatoes
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The best I've found is the vicarious experience of the Gacha Girls Corps manga. The main character suffers all the gacha agony for me
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But I agree ping-ponging is fundamental to American culture, so it's certain this is a temporary phase in some sense. A lot of despairing commentary seems to miss or deny that. But it's still not clear whether that is actually reassuring or not
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What troubles me the most RN is the premonition that at some point it will just start ping-ponging between different varieties of psychos, forever. This has happened in plenty of Latin American countries
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I visited Vienna expecting to see a lot of museum exhibits about Franz Ferdinand and there was almost nothing about him. A painful moment they'd rather not dwell on I suppose
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Artificial Dream starts to get more repetitive and grindy after you gain the ability to fly, so I stopped playing around then and moved on to other games. As you're approaching that point, thought I'd mention it
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Remembering Nabokov's famous dunk on the fear of death on the first page of "Speak, Memory" (1951), I get the impression the highbrow backlash began almost immediately
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You're not the first to make this connection! There's an incredible rap battle in *Ya Boy Kongming*
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I think this illustrates the real-world concept "human" maps to the D&D concept of "humanoid", not "human".
In the D&D-inspired manga Delicious in Dungeon, the species that looks like real-world humans is instead called "tallman" to avoid this kind of semantic difficulty.
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*finger slowly curls on monkey's paw*
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The official story is extremely fishy, but the conspiracy theory books are way too long and none of them have turned up a smoking gun, so I can't be bothered to form an opinion on which of the conspiracies is most likely correct
That's my opinion at least, and feels close enough to the mainstream
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I had a relatively benign view of British imperialism for a while because of this
After learning about how intolerant the Brits acted at other times and places, and how easily this could've gone the other way, I eventually changed my mind. I now have the conventional opinion "British Empire bad"
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The CSP concept by Hoare has been very influential on modern systems: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communi...