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As long as they’re used to defend our airspace and not indiscriminately murder kids in the middle east I’m ok with this.

We need a modern airforce, due to the increasingly hostile geopolitical arena. I just don’t want my taxes to contribute to the oppression of others.

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Making my way through Phantom Liberty slowly but surely. It’s quite a decent amount of content, and it’s enjoyable.

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We’ll only in the same way Trump was self-inflicted, that is to say that millions of people didn’t vote for him and are still impacted by this.

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He was voted on by 14.5 million votes, which was 56% of the votes, but it is also out of a population of 45 million, and he only got 30% in the first round of votes. They have a completely different voting system to the US, so they had a second round of runoffs.

The point is, no most people in Argentina did not vote for him, but many did not vote at all.

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One: Starfield.

Not much I can say about it that hasn’t already been said, it was just so bland.

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Yeah, he also mentioned it in the video. (He is from Vancouver.)

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That won’t do anything unless we also ban hedge funds and REITs from buying them all.

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I feel like they would be insane to miss the PC streamer market for their online play that they will 100% be making all their cash from.

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Still, it is completely insane. Outside of Sony exclusives they are the only large company that does this.

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One of the guys who was working on it

There’s only one person working on it: Eric Barone.

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Can you provide a link to the report?

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How convenient.

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I asked for it because I knew it was bullshit you couldn’t back up with a source that didn’t exist. Before I commented, I searched for AP articles about it and found nothing, because it doesn’t exist.

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It’s gonna get a lot worse before then.

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First of all, BG3 is built on the DnD 5th Edition system, (with some slight changes) so a lot of people who have played DnD are going to be very aware of the system and how it works. But to be honest, on the easier settings, it’s almost impossible to fail the game, you can do what ever you want.

A big tip for BG3 inventory management is to use the “Send to camp” option for items. Grab them whenever, they don’t take up inventory space.

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My inventory is finite and at some point I have to choose what stays and what goes.

It’s not, actually. You can send anything and everything to camp and decide about it later on. This includes camp supplies/food.

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The strangest game of 2023: “They’re going to be like, ‘What the fuck is going on?’”

Oh, so it’s gonna be just like Starfield?

How to add hard-coded website to square space?

I have a couple sites on Google and since they sold to square space I thought I’d try to keep my stuff there. But I can’t figure it out. Square space is a site builder with a GUI and I can’t find anywhere to just deploy my site to them as a react app. I have found a few areas where I can add some code, but they are for...

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Try porkbun. They have static hosting options, including to host from a GitHub repo.

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Look at the Rohingya Genocide in Myanmar and tell me how peaceful and not doomsday Buddhism is.

All religions are susceptible to manipulation by terrible people.

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Does it have a copy image to clipboard option?

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Look how many of them are from private equity funds. No wonder they chose him in the first place.

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After the IPO, a companies only goal is earning money for shareholders.

Study Reveals That 50% of the World’s Population Will Have a Mental Health Disorder by Age 75 (scitechdaily.com)

Researchers from The University of Queensland and Harvard Medical School, in a collaborative global study, have discovered that one in two people will develop a mental health disorder in their lifetime. Professors John McGrath of UQ’s Queensland Brain Institute and Ronald Kessler of Harvard Medic

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Honestly, I think this has always been the case, we are just getting better at detecting and diagnosing things. Autism was only first diagnosed in 1943, Bipolar in 1952, Anxiety disorders in 1980.

40 years ago it would have been: “Greg can be a bit moody sometimes”; turns out he’d been living with undiagnosed bipolar disorder his entire life. “Charlie is a bit strange, quiet kid, but does alright in school”; well Charlie had undiagnosed autism.

Turns out when you get better at looking for things, you find more of them. (To a certain point.)

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This technology takes human creativity and output to a whole new level,

No, it doesn’t. There’s nothing “human” or “creative” about the output of AI.

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An LLM isn’t human and shouldn’t be treated the same as a human. It’s as foolish as corporate personhood.

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By current legal definitions

Yeah, definitions that were written before this technology existed. I don’t base my opinions on what is legal, legality nothing more than rules determined by those in power.

Instead, I base them on what is ethical, and the consumption of material by LLMs and other AIs without the express permission of its creator is unethical.

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It’s not fossil fuels. It’s biofuel made from high-sugar wheat that was created by Biotechnica.

cyberpunk.fandom.com/wiki/CHOOH2

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I don’t understand why you think that biofuel would be cost prohibitive in a world with literal robots, sword arms, guns with tracking bullets the ability to jack-in to cyberspace and hack shit with your mind?

Plus it’s not like 20 eddies a litre would be cost prohibitive anyway? You drop 10-15k on implants all the time.

As others have pointed out, it is intentionally meant to be a dystopian future, that is to say, a shit one. So the car prevalence could be intentional. (Also there is a public transit system in the lore, it’s just not working in the game because they never finished it.)

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No, they killed him for not being Hindu.

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Just so you know if you feel like you’re not controlling your body you could be experiencing derealisation.

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Well it has to be a bonus action cleric spell with concentration because throwing an object is an action, so the options are: Shield of Faith, Holy Weapon or Spirit Shroud. She’s not holding a weapon, and it doesn’t look like she’s summoning spirits of the dead, so I’m going to go with she is casting Shield of Faith.

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Unless it is explicity specified in a contract, no you wouldn’t. Most people don’t.

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Creation Engine is based on Gamebryo.

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It was 2000 shares, he’s already sold like 50k in the last year. Nothing sinister about it.

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Yes, but Fallout 3 came out in 2008. You’d think there would be some advancements in that time.

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On Steam I have 150+ hours and in my achievements I see that only 0.7% of players have touched 100 planets.

So I don’t think that people are being honest and/or don’t really understand how big the game is.

But why would I want to touch 100 planets? They all feel exactly the same and there is no gameplay or role-playing reason to explore them.

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I sat down to play it last night, got destroyed by spaceships I’m trying to kill to level up my piloting skill and access class B and C ships, went to the simulator in the UC base to get some free kills and realised I wasn’t having any fun with the game any more, so I closed the game and started playing High on Life. Had way more fun.

After the

spoilerStarborn

reveal

spoiler(which I saw coming as soon as the Starborn were introduced)

I realised it’s just not fun. I can’t get into the roleplay as all the characters are bland cardboard cutouts with weird facial expressions, the only fun I was really having was the shooting which grew stale once all the enemies became bullet sponges.

The lack of city maps, the boring cutscenes for everything, clunky console first interface, drab colours, bafflingly hideous item designs, lifeless procedural planets. The factions are all boring. Permanent skills, with no respec options?! And for god’s sake, let me eat food on the ground by long pressing E.

It’s actually worse than Fallout 4, and that’s 8 years old.

It’s at best a 5.5/10 for me.

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It really doesn’t deserve to be on par with New Vegas.

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I’d say it’s probably to integrate games across mobile and Vision Pro in the future. They’re already partnered with unity to bring games to it.

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Well, it’s not exactly progressive.

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Yes, it is the most polished Bethesda game, but no, it is not “just as polished as TotK”. I’m sorry but that’s blatantly untrue.

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Star UI and no menu animation mods make this way more playable.

The console-ified UI is terrible, just as it was for Skyrim and Fallout 4.

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They do also make lube for bike chains under the WD-40 brand.

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They all also feature an alternative to capitalism alongside capitalism, which is exactly what you asked for.

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Also some of them are completely useless and there is no way to respec your skills at all.

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