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Well, alright then, if you say so, SFLUFAN. That's harmful rhetoric by virtue of misrepresenting what actually harmful rhetoric is

Hm, I don't think that's true. Yes, measuring it via nothing but sales probably doesn't get you anywhere (although the finer statistics a platform like Steam has access to might). But there are other methods that could quantify it reasonably well, such as polls asking people if they had planned to buy it (but then didn't because of the boycott) or looking at things such as people unwishlisting it post-drama. Those aren't gonna be 100% accurate but are gonna give you a better picture of the actual impact the campaign had than counting tweets in support of the idea on Twitter or the like does.

How is it wrong? Have you not been following the news these past couple of months?

Sorry but you'll have to elaborate on that @Commissar SFLUFAN. What part of that was objectionable? The particular verbiage? It's what an increasing number of medical professionals and especially detransitioners (who are suing the latter) are calling it, which makes sense to me since it's just objectively accurate by the very definition of the word. And that girls under the age of 18 are affected by this is just a straight-up fact which I'll gladly provide sources for if needed. Oh, you'd love that, I'm sure. Probably already volunteering for that role, too, huh?

I'm not sure that's true. After all, even dictatorships can push the limit only so far. In R*ssia in particular there exists a kind of unspoken agreement between the populace and the Kremlin, namely that the average Muscovite and St. Petersbergian don't stick their nose into politics and in return the Powers That Be leave them alone. It's been named as one of the reasons why Pootin has still refused to call for a general mobilization despite hawks even inside R*ssia calling for him to do so (including state propagandists) and why the partial mobilization has largely been restricted to R*ssia's periphery and its ethnic minorities. Sure, it's not precisely elections that he has to worry about but he cannot ignore popular sentiment altogether either. In some sense that might even be a weakness. In democracies the opposition can grumble along and tell themselves "We'll show them what's what come next election!" which acts as a pressure valve and buys the party in power a few years. In R*ssia the people don't have any such illusions given the lack of a real, non-controlled political opposition. Putting that part aside, R*ssia is feeling the squeeze of sanctions. Yes, the West, more specifically Europe, suffered, too, as a result of cutting many ties with R*ssia but at the end of the day the latter needs the former far more than vice-versa. And as I said earlier, the sanctions haven't even remotely been tightened as much as they could be tightened. What's more, Ukraine on the other hand is gaining in strength with each new delivery of NATO weaponry and newly raised regiment. Numerical superiority in manpower only takes one so far in modern warfare and that's the only unchanging advantage that R*ssia holds and can potentially utilize. Human waves of poorly trained mobiks and drug-addled convicts with rusty AKs don't do particularly well against minefields, heavy machine gun fire and zeroed in artillery strikes. We've all seen enough of that kind of footage, I'm sure.

How else would you quantify it though? Or are you saying that's impossible in principle because something something no counterfactuals?

Dang.

What industry was that job in if you don't mind me asking? I'm just curious because I'm not surprised about the tech industry having that ratio as their default, their benefits seem to be above average in general. But with that in mind it would be unusual to me if everyone else roughly gave as much as well (making it the country-wide average), leading to them being actually "merely" average as a result when it comes to severance.

I mean ... they've been retroactively vindicated so I'm not sure what your problem there is.

Has anyone read that article yet and does it explain the legal reasoning? For what I vaguely remember the problem was improper storage. So was the company in that lawsuit legally responsible for part that, too? Seems counterintuitive if so.

*won Anyway, while there is definitely room for improvement in the original trilogy (particularly where SFX are concerned but also narratively), I have less than no faith in modern Hollywood's ability or even willingness to actually have any remake be a net improvement. And not just them either as Rangz of Powah has shown. Then again, I never understood the sentiment of shit remakes "ruining" the originals so if they wanna piss away a billion dollars, let them do it. The only downside I can think of is potentially making the material "toxic" to investors, thereby decreasing the likelihood of another, proper remake being attempted any time soon.

^I'm surprised it's not a week per year employed instead

I'm not usually a sucker for these schmaltzy, pop-y songs but this vocal performance is simply too excellent to not enjoy it regardless: Dimash Kudaibergen - SOS d'un terrien en détresse (starts at 0:24)

Oh, I have no doubt of that. My point is that they are trying to keep it that way (it being worth it) by keeping the whole process a PITA when unassisted. Here is an article on what I am referring to. They're not the good guys in this story is what I'm saying. Maybe they were in the very beginning but definitely not for decades.

Weeell, the West could stop pussy-footing around with sanctions for example. If anyone here wants a comprehensive explanation of why (presumably) this hasn't been done yet and what it would consist of, look up the corresponding analysis by Kamil 'The Tartar Queef' Galeev (@kamilkazani) on Twitter. Quite eyeopening to both how dependent R*ssia actually is, economically and militarily, on the one hand and on the other hand how half-hearted the West is about supporting Ukraine this war. (x) Okay, maybe the capacity, as in, it's theoretically possible. But their house of cards is already creaking. Wait, no, I think I'm mixing up metaphores here. Anyway, you get the point. They don't have all the time in the world, the West, at least in principle, has. This was never a fight R*ssia could hope to win in the first place if Western support decided to match (let alone outdo) their efforts. Given that the spring thaw isn't far away, that strikes me as unlikely but we'll see. R*ssian commentators like ol' Jerkin' Gherkin himself have pointed out how there's basically no time left to start a "serious" offensive for them because the remaining time before the thaw and all the issues that the mud is gonna bring with it would make it pointless to try and cover large distances during an offensive with armored/motorized units. That's why in his estimation the minuscule advances they've made so far are basically all they're gonna get this season.

... through using that paid service though, right? If so, it's one of the companies that I was referring to.

To quote myself: What the fuck is wrong with you? If you are referring to the previous two posts on this page then you do understand that stepee (who brought it up in the first place with his libertarian joke) and I were joking, right? J-o-k-i-n-g. You should give it a try sometimes. Really entertaining stuff, that joking thing. And, y'know, I thought that I had laid it on thick enough that not even the dimmest bulb could've missed that and yet here we are indeed. The world never ceases to amaze, huh? [No - absolutely not and consider this to be your first and only warning on this nonsense - Commissar SFLUFAN]

That guy's stuff is amazing I love his vidya-related ones in particular.

To what end? The future seems to be VR/AR headsets anyway and while the current ones definitely need better resolution/framerate, I don't think 16k is even remotely required for those tiny-ass screens.

I know there's been diminishing returns for a while now but I wonder what's really left in terms of improvements to graphics fidelity. Modern real-time tech demos/benchmarks are beginning to approach Unlimited Detail levels, if they're not already crossing into that territory. "Just" higher resolutions at higher frame rates? That's only gonna keep mattering so far, too. I don't see the need for 1,920,000x1x080,000 at 144,000FPS, to exaggerate a bit. I think eventually it'll have to transition to mainly only improving things such as physics simulations anymore. Yet even there (e.g. destructability) the air's beginning to get thin. So then maybe overall complexity in terms of expanding the limits to players' creativity? That'd be a bitch to hard-code though. Perhaps AI can help out in this regard, I certainly can see it ultimately helping in both preset and on-the-fly content generation if nothing else. Exciting times either way.

That so? I wouldn't know, I don't really follow hardware stuff. So have devs of all stripes finally started making use of the bajillion cores in CPUs? Or is this meme still relevant these days?

I hope you weren't seriously considering that this was my intention Although, come to think of it ... Aha ha, just kidding ... unless ...?

Good one No comment, however (But I mean, really, just between the two of us, isn't age just a number ?) No, seriously though, I don't think I am. Some of the ideas certainly resonate with me and maybe there's a chance to make it work in the same way that there theoretically might be a chance to make communism work. But in practice? You get poisoned food, 16-hour-shifts, child labor (and worse), local warlords and maybe most damning of all, bears raiding everyone's trash cans (at least in the U.S., we ain't got none anymore). I asked mainly because sblfilms' comment about people who primarily had their childhood in the 90s made me wonder what "primarily" would mean there. It's a decade, so if one chose 18 years as childhood's duration as was suggested, would it have to be basically half, i.e. nine years? And so on and so forth ...

You mean overall, in aggregate? Because if so we are in agreement. When I said "locally" I meant "in some local instances", which the article seems to support. That sentence was really just chastising him for the generalizing fake news, it didn't happen sentiment. The larger point remains, obviously.

Legally speaking or culturally? Or both? Would the average person include their 18th year of life (i.e. when they're 17) as part of their childhood? I'm just curious because personally I feel the differences between it and most of the preceding childhood are too large and too numerous for that to make sense to me. Making use of the concept of adolescence might help here. So: Childhood > adolescence > adulthood > ... And yes, yes, to old farts everyone under thirty is a kid Because of the neurological changes that happen till then?