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it is not about a difference in value, but how they harmonize together. the interior of the pizza gets its strength from the crust, and vice versa, but these elements are only truly in harmony once the pizza achieves an ideal pie/crust ratio.

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there will never be a day in my life where i regret eating olives. they could be poisoned for all i care

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if you go abstract enough then any game can be dated. all you do is load the game, do some stuff, maybe get some rewards, and then close it.

people are saying bethesda is outdated because of how they implement these abstract ideas. they’re stale and years behind what other games are doing.

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i just don’t get the appeal of the game at all. you load in, walk for a few minutes, talk to generic npcs to get generic quests, fast travel, walk for several minutes, shoot your way through unthinking npcs, scan some planets, etc.

bethesdas combat and writing has been lackluster for quite some time, but before they had the excuse of having interesting worlds to explore. here that is not the case. there’s like 3 or 4 copy pasted dungeons on most planets, and the rest is completely barren. i just don’t really see the joy in the game, it all feels so monotonous.

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yeah i completely agree. it’s in the details. there are so many oversights and inconsistencies that the game feels soulless, like they didn’t have a central vision they were trying to create. it’s a lot of jumbled parts that oddly feel both repetitive and disjoint. lots of the quests feel the same, and the game just gets so predictable.

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why do you think so? (i’ve never thought about it before and am genuinely curious)

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this makes a lot of sense. now i’m questioning why it’s not more common

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how do i get mona lisa socks

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i’ll argue it right now!

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rugged individualism is not the path to a functioning society. in any society worth living in there are certain views that cannot be tolerated. the kind of bigotry expressed by the mod creator is one of those views that cannot be tolerated.

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i don’t care if someone is racist or homophobic unless it affects me

this is a libertarian fever dream. the nature of prejudice is that it does affect other people.

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so many of the replies read like entries to a libertarian contest. and in traditional fashion it seems they forgot to actually read your comment. it’s nice to see a post that understands why the mod is a problem and explains it well, even if so many in the replies seem unable to grasp it.

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Or was it similar to the Starfield pronouns mod, where the creator went on a hateful rant in the mod description, and acted like a total dick, spewing their bullshit intorelant propaganda?

yes, this is basically what happened with this baldurs gate mod, and this is why it was removed

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There is nothing criminal in creating, using and sharing those mods (as hateful as they are)

this isn’t about the law. this is about what’s right and what’s wrong. making mods like this, and allowing them to exist on the platform, is wrong.

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Only if you give a fuck, which is far too prevalent in the world

you’re acting like things can’t harm people if they don’t care about them. this is not the case.

why do you care who thinks what?

because people’s thoughts influence their actions

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Doesn’t that go both ways?

no. not everything goes both ways. some things are bad, and should not be tolerated.

And don’t you think what you imply is scary?

no i don’t, what about it do you find scary?

And with that I mean : “people’s thoughts influence their actions” I fucking hope so. And who are you to tell them what is right and what is wrong?

just so we’re clear, the context of this statement is me saying “i care about people having racist/homophobic thoughts because people’s thoughts influence their actions”. so, again just to be clear, the “what” that is being discussed is “racism/homophobia”.

in context, your reply reads “i fucking hope so, who are you to tell them racism/homophobia is right or wrong?”.

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the complexity of morality does not preclude it from being discussed

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gotta get your iron somehow

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what would happen if you never told them to stop? would they eventually stop of their own accord or keep coming back with new blocks of cheese?

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wormhole life hack

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this is called heresy (until it gets popular enough)

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i’m sure they’ll think of something new on the 28th one

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bill’s days are numbered

Why is everything in consumer / American life so fucking shitty now - and companies literally just say 'oh bc profit margins' and we're now expected to swallow that and sympathize?

like I went to taco bell and they didn’t even have napkins out. they had the other stuff just no napkins, I assume because some fucking ghoul noticed people liked taking them for their cars so now we just don’t get napkins! so they can save $100 per quarter rather than provide the barest minimum quality of life features.

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In 2023, a full-time worker needs to earn an hourly wage of $28.58 on average to afford a modest, two-bedroom rental home in the U.S. This Housing Wage for a two-bedroom home is nearly four times higher than the federal minimum wage of $7.25.

source: nlihc.org/oor/about

this isn’t even taking into account groceries, transportation, medical expenses, etc. the problem is not buying too many carbonated drinks.

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quite a few of them are “natural monopolies”. for those unaware (source):

A natural monopoly is a type of monopoly in an industry or sector with high barriers to entry and start-up costs that prevent any rivals from competing. As such, a natural monopoly has only one efficient player. This company may be the only provider of a product or service in an industry or geographic location.

ie, cable companies, electricity suppliers, amazon. it’s really complicated and really expensive to build the infrastructure needed to meaningfully compete in those industries.

another relevant concept is the “network effect”, defined as (source):

a business principle that illustrates the idea that when more people use a product or service, its value increases.

this kind of thing is more applicable to things like social media companies (they’re more appealing the more users they have). this makes it hard to compete with social media companies because convincing people to use your new app is really hard if the usefulness of it depends on everyone’s friends already being on it. (this is also part of the reason twitter is taking so painfully long to die)

both concepts illustrate the different barriers to entry that exist when trying to compete with these giant companies. these barriers are also what allow these huge companies to get so complacent.

(i’m not happy about quoting investopedia or wharton, but they do give simple definitions of both concepts so i did it just this once.)

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yeah there’s plenty to go around :)

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be sure to get one while supplies last

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if you’re willing to go back several hundred years then everything in english was also written how it was pronounced. might not be worth it though

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but why is he schmoving

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le’s tax landlords

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this is easily fixed by copy pasting the files into a new directory and never opening git again out of fear

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it’s not even topologically a cube because of the ventilation holes! it’s first homology group has at least 64 copies of ℤ, it’s supposed to have none!

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not talking to the police is extremely important advice, it could really save you a lot of trouble one day.

for the curious, here’s a lawyer explaining it in more detail: youtube.com/watch?v=d-7o9xYp7eE. (i thought he was a pretty entertaining speaker the first time i watched the video.)

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i have s few dozen straightened paper clips and then a couple of those hidden away for the particularly stubborn sim trays

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i have never once in my life felt the urge to be photographed in a t shirt while looking to the side. but it seems to be a very common phenomenon. why?

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Most annoying thing: talking heads talking about a video instead of actually showing it.

they were the prototypical reaction video youtubers

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followed by hbo one x

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can someone tell me where in the picture i’m supposed to be looking

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i just might be

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oh man what the fuck

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well it’s a 50/50 chance that it either exists or it doesn’t

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you could reply twice

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i wonder how he gets all this information. does he have his own recap guy?

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who could have seen this coming

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i don’t think it works even in a theoretical context. like you said, it requires assumptions that violate the laws of physics. i don’t think that’s a great starting place for any political/economic system.

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oh i misread that the first time. yeah i completely agree. i was even thinking of saying the thing about monopolies in my comment, i think it’s a pretty good example of how things start to fall apart.

making up fundamentally different realities does sound like fun though, just not for the purposes of trying to justify capitalism.

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what kind of stuff has he been doing? i’m out of the loop on this. (i’m not asking for any secrets)

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classic. this sounds similar to what happened in southwest airlines too

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