thompsonplyler.bsky.social
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In Japanese? That would seem to unequivocally settle my misgivings. I just think a thing is a thing. A sonnet is a sonnet. A sestina a sestina. Taxonomy is always the aegis of the narrow-minded, but at some point its no longer the thing and shouldn't be called as such. But I have a stick up my butt
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So there IS strict form on it, but Japanese pronunciation results in 5-7-5 haikus that aren't 5-7-5. Thanks for taking the time to share the explanation. I disagree, but I am always glad to understand the position of those I find myself at odds with.
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I love Zen browser, but it sucks to feel like a second-class citizen as a Windows user. 😭 None of the coolest features work for us.
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I've seen some #haiku like this, and it always confuses me. A haiku is defined in part by its 5-7-5 structure. Am I missing something? I'm not some 3-4-2 hater here. I just don't get how this is a haiku.
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Since you liked it, here is some footage of Buffy. She's 1% chihuahua, and she HATES vampires.
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So every episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. I always loved that the research component was a huge part of the show. Buffy was the only one qualified to handle most threats, but she had to rely on intelligence and operational support from her team. So basically Lioness.
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... Okay. Sure. 🎢 This has been fun. You're right. Always have been.🙄 Good luck. Again, thanks for the searing poem I thought was good, OP. Even if I think it comes to a lunatic conclusion.✌
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HOLY SHIT. YOU STARTED THIS. YOU. Not me. I am defending my position, and you're laying down decrees. Are you high? I'm not mad except that you decided now was the time to engage. What the fuck?
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I. didn't. Escalate. She chirped in out of nowhere.
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But "it's a poem" is some dirty water. Poetry is powerful. Lyrics inspire engagement. Two epic poems were the cornerstone of education for centuries. "It's a poem" and therefore not subject to discussion/interpretation? wtf? What the fuck does THAT mean?
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The name caller returns! I mean, I had said that. And I DID like the poem. I like a lot of things that I ultimately think they weren't well thought through. And I had abandoned the conversation because I got it was put forth as a decree, not a point of discussion, you cretin.
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Got it. It's not a conversation or a different interpretation. It's a lecture. As I said, I understand now. I won't trouble you again. Always glad for more poetry, even if I have to Homer back away into bushes from its origin point. You're definitely right and have always been. In all things.✌️
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Ah. You aren't interested in any position but the one you've staked out. Got it. ✌️
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he won't stop you/ the spineless ones never do.
This is just a wildly ignorant take. I'm cracking up. By the time she's walking out, what else is he supposed to do, poet? It's that he cannot, what, become what she has already decided he is not? Jesus.
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I'm happy to discuss the works of Shakespeare or PewDiePie in a fake French accent. lmk
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This beautiful and brutal, but... what? The inverse is abusive. "If he had a spine, he would stop you." Uh, wut? So if you love something DON'T LET HER LEAVE PUSSY BECAUSE SHE WON'T COME BACK. This couple needs therapy.
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I mean, how large is the scale? If we're going back to Pong, yes, it's new. If we go back to ca. 2000, it's been the standard for a long time. This same lamentation of more and more games being released in an unfinished state is as old as downloadable patches.
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Strong recency bias here. If you think unfinished games on release are new, you have to be very (very) young. As soon as games could be patched after release, quality control plummeted.
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This is why Sifu has ascended to the Mount Rushmore of modern games for me. It's 20 hours long at first. Then it's either 20 minutes long or 300 hours long. Stunning achievement.
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I hasten to insert that it's often the case that the people who might have dug it may not have FOUND it. The competition for attention and eyeballs is fierce, and the folks in the lead don't like to share.
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Sucks Sam isn't on Blue Sky.
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Agreed. And this is the worst it will ever be. The ability of o3 and other LLMs to perform complicated tasks that we absolutely believed to only exist inside the purview of human expertise gets spookier with every release.
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think it would make MY top 10 in either of those eras. But it absolutely commands a place in any realistic top 10 gaming list. Similarly with Quake and Doom. Some games are vital for the medium even if they didn't perfectly sing the song of MY heart.
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That's a clever time delimiter. I've also hemmed and hawed about optimal list length. 10 is attractive but in my internal debates, I wanted to start way shorter. So maybe top x HD/ Pre-HD for ME but also for gaming in general. For instance, Half-Life undoubtedly changed everything, but I don't
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For me personally, Final Fantasy IV was foundational in my capacity to comprehend games as vehicles for a narrative payload, but a conversation about narrative payload that ignores The Last of us 1 & 2 seems delusional.
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Similarly, if the evidence of my own life can be displayed honestly, I believe League of Legends is one of the greatest games of all time, but it feels dishonest to say that without acknowledging Command & Conquer, Dune, or Warcraft.
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Gotcha. I hadn't ever heard it. Good to know. I've been pondering my top 5 because Sifu rocked me so hard. I think I need two top 5s though: legacy and modern. e.g. it's impossible to overstate the importance of NES Super Mario Bros., but Sifu is DEFINITELY in my modern top 5.
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In what sense do you mean moots? Sorry if I'm being thick. Do you mean ancient gatherings?
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For true. Odyssey was a MEAL.
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I think Sifu is my perfect video game length these days. The bulk of the game can be completed in ~15 hours, but there's a lot to chew on for a long time if you love how it plays. Perfect.
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This is the appropriate. It's a laughable mockery of reality worth of one of your novel's villains that they drag out a "read-only" access limitations as if that's something reassuring when information is considered confidential.