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"Just following orders" is a recognized defense for federal employees.
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Oh, I get the desire to switch things up and instill urgency; the problem is the game over. The QTEs are great when I succeed on them. ;-)
Tales from the Borderlands has some great QTEs: Succeed, and you look cool; fail, and you get a joke and the game continues. (But comedy is easier like that.)
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My one quibble with an otherwise great game is the QTEs, which plagued this and subsequent TT games. Repeating scenes until players "gets it right" is just bad design. I wonder if it comes from a fear of making a game "without challenge" (and thus "not a game" in the minds of tedious people).
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It's been a while since I played it, but isn't it Father Thomas who claims she's illiterate? So while it's obviously meant to throw the player off, there is an in-universe reason for it.
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I found it quite consistent in hitting its themes of history as storytelling, the role of truth therein, and how the stories we tell of the past shape our future. From the book of hours and murder investigation in act I to the mural and… well, everything the threadpuller is up to, in act III.
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This didn't happen by random chance of the market or some neutral development of technology. The game industry, like many industries, figured out how to outsource all the risks and costs of production onto the aspirational while capturing their own cut as rent. Game devs are uber drivers now.
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The term dates back to at least the 1930s, and there is no consensus as to its etymology.
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I was trained in this system and it’ll blow your mind.
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Yeah, that was a bit jarring (though Denise Gough sells it well, with that hint of contempt).
I found S1's pacing near pitch perfect (it's possible I just have too much time on my hands), but S2's pacing was also good, even if I occasionally wish it'd spent its limited runtime elsewhere.
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Yeah, I definitely felt the franchise weighing down on S2 – unlike S1 which felt like it took just the bits it had a use for, and ignored everything else. Too bad, even if it was probably unavoidable.
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Source: journalrecord.com/2025/02/20/i...
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It does not comfort me to say this, but 2023 saw 4836+ civilians killed by landmines worldwide (per LCMM), and 1738+ civilians killed by Russia in Russian-occupied Ukraine alone (per OHCHR), suggesting that landmines, insofar as they can prevent Russian occupation, are the less deadly option.
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At least if someone had a cool dream, I can believe there is life behind their eyes.
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TeleMessage, the Israeli company that makes the modified Signal app used by Trump officials, was hacked. “I would say the whole process took about 15-20 minutes,” the hacker said micahflee.com/the-signal-c...
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US private equity and financial service companies owns 30%+ of Nexi as of February 2025. www.nexigroup.com/en/investor-...
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As the CNN article notes, this is in fact the *second* F/A-18 lost in the war against the Houthis. The first was lost to friendly fire, in case we needed a reminder that the US is, as always, it's own worst enemy.
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FWIW, more like 288 men. 238 alleged Venezuelans and 23 alleged Salvadorans on March 15 (not counting the 8 women rejected by CECOT and returned), 17 more on March 30, and another 10 transferred from Guantanamo on April 12. For some reason, the media keeps obfuscating the total number.
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This one helped me put my finger on why I only clicked with Hot Fuzz (copaganda notwithstanding) even as I appreciate the craft of all three: It's the lack of cynicism. Nicholas doesn't really change, but he does learn to compromise, and doesn't need an actual apocalypse to find his spot in life.
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That said, in 50 BC the Romans did have a problem, which was ultra-wealthy demagogic elites tearing about their Republic in the single-minded pursuit of power and dominance, which would eventually lead to the republic's collapse and its replacement with a less agile monarchy in 31BC.
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Winterson's column is the second time this week @theguardian.com has covered OpenAI's new "creative writing" AI claims without any mention or disclaimer regarding Guardian Media Group's "strategic partnership" with the company. Absolutely shameful lack of standards.
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It's hard to explain *why* the examples work in 300 characters, but "The Fake" (2013) does something of what Jon's describing, and I always liked the tagline of the movie "Gravity" (2013) for the same reason.
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Conversely, why have 'good guys' become so cringe, so unrelatable, so one-note? Bc 'good guys' are historically portrayed as rule-followers. Law-abiders. Both-sides-ers. For the last few decades, that means that the 'good guys' end up defending the same broken system *that produces the villains.*
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It certainly makes sense that the people who brought us mansplaining-as-a-service would eventually move on to idea-guy-as-a-service.