Possibly. Could just be more endless ragebait, but dying does do strange things to people - particularly a coward like Trump.
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Possibly. Could just be more endless ragebait, but dying does do strange things to people - particularly a coward like Trump.
Moving too quickly can backfire in that those media vultures may portray you as playing second fiddle to Newsom, a sign of weakness. They'll salivate over playing up a primary contest this early on if they can. Better to be patient and let some cycles pass before moving.
Fair enough I guess, but it's still *just* a racing game. I'm not doubting Sakurai's cooking something special, but how much can you realistically pump into a game like this to talk this long about?
Nah, it's been third-party games that reportedly have had no access to Switch 2 dev kits and can't fo anything without them. If Nintendo's making then the focus here, that means they took care of it and that's a very good thing.
Rather take direct experience as exactly what it appears to be - indistinguishable from the experience of the mental creation event we call a "dream". Which obviously occurs. Which does necessitate an intentional, rational and nigh boundlessly intelligent Spirit at the heart of Reality.
I would say so, yes. Reducing the world to mere representation of an underlying reality, IMO, leaves one wholly unjustified in anything they actually experience - including the very powers of reason and logic one employs to come to that very conclusion. Which is not to dismiss Idealism. 1/2
No way they'd shadowdrop it at the next Direct. No flippin' way. ...right? 👀
Loving a dog isn't restricted to anyone's religious beliefs or lack thereof, and neither is being a heartless murderer. Take that big chip on your shoulder and rant about religion somewhere else.
Mario would've been chomping at the bit to talk about principles w/ religious overtones at the sight of this. You couldn't have stopped him if you'd tried. You've either got it or you don't.
Cuomo is either supremely confident or obscenely arrogant. His father knew better, knew how to play an underdog's chances against a stronger opponent like Koch.
If we're going to propose that an AI could at least *potentially* solve this problem, this is not a small leap. It is, in and of itself, actually vastly more consequential an achievement than the actual solving of protein folding itself. What is the rationale to believe in this?
This is a hope (one of profound scientific relevance, to be fair), but is it a reasonable one? The reason I ask that is, IMHO, a simple one. We have not crossed the proverbial rubicon where an AI is able to demonstrate actual creativity, doing something that a human has never done before.
I'm genuinely unsure as to what to take away from this "inflection point". I might ask how one's interpreting "reasoning" here, but more to the point what should one reasonably expect here? At the end of the day, what's the actual problem being solved by all this?
So much potential with this storyline, gamers. 😭😭😭
I'd have opened up with Diderot's concession that Materialism was never based on science or observation. Nothing more than a political weapon to use against the Church that was burning folks at the stake. Just let the sparks fly from the get-go.
Those are all qualities, as in pertaining to what a soul (read as Mind) is at its very essence. It's essential nature, IOW. Substituting qualities for the thing in itself that contains the qualities is nonsensical.
Socrates put forth the idea that all manner of evil can happen to a body, but the only one who can do harm to your own soul (a modern term being the Mind, which is the real you) is your own self. Rubio's certainly a spineless little insect, but he's not a zombie.
- slapped on it. Where, exactly, in this fetid pool of thievery and grifting is the quality of imagination and creativity gamers demand from their games? I don't see it and I've no principled reason to think that I ever will. And that just won't sell. Not now and not ever.
And it's not even particularly good at it! If there were any practical application for any *real* problems, it'd be used for it. Instead we see it summing up searches on Google and predicting stocks. That's... about it. Every other so-called "AI" function is just machine learning w/ a new label -
All due respect to Yoko Taro, but he is wrong. 100% Anyone paying to attention to AI that isn't a True Believer (or a grifter propping up the stock market) knows what it is - a not-so-clever thief regurgitating what it's stolen from others. It has no creativity on its own. None whatsoever.
Just got mine confirmed from Walmart. Ngl, was nervous there for a second 'cause I finally got through the line and it wasn't letting me add it to my cart. Kept saying "technical error" over and over. Turned my VPN off for a second and finally got it through. Great success!!
Rainbow Road...
Hopefully Nintendo takes the initiative to push out as many Switch 2's as they can, but my goodness what an unmitigated clown show.
Ceasing all trading between the 2 largest powers literally overrnight is the bad shit, gamers.
No idea when it'll be, but I'll meet my Maker being the gamer I've always been - controller in hand, a dopey smile on my face and Six Black Heavens Guns playing as my backdrop. That's the plan and I'm sticking to it.
That orange clown's trying to speedrun turning all of America into trade-loving globalists (which I'm all for, btw).
Don't want to be *that* guy, but the whole hyper-individualistic "f**k everyone else as long as I've got mine" is bad shit.
I'm not saying these people drink to get through the day, but I'm not not saying it either.
Definitely why they gave a package deal for the bundle to save $20 on this. I'll try to shoot for it if I can snag one.
Silksong bros, clown masks at the ready.
Yes.
Last desperate act of venegeance by a debilitated man-child who, let's be honest, pobably senses the end is near. Dude could drop dead tomorrow and virtually no one would be surprised.
Hitler-in-the-bunker talk in record time. Almost impressive.
Welp, thankfully I only ever had the occasional bottle every now and again. Silver linings and all that.
And that's not a problem that government or any slate of policy proposals can fix - and *that*, I would submit, is why even many intelligent people who see the problem for what it is don't want to say it. Because there's nothing to be done. People have to fix that for themselves.
Hardly surprising, then, that even many affluent people who are otherwise pretty well off pull the lever for Trump. They're so bored and unsatisfied with themselves that they reach for something, *anything* to at least make them feel something again.
Yes, but why? Why is it, frankly, that millions just don't seem to care? I think the answer's pretty simple at heart. It's not about economics or any of that nonsense. People have simply lost sight of themselves. They don't know what their purpose is, what they're here for or why it matters.
Sometimes you need to put aside the niceties and rip their pathetic farce aside like the joke that it is. What good does it do to treat them w/ a patience and respect that they don't deserve in the first place?
This dumb kid (and millions of others like him) can be as assured and confident as they wish. I would submit it's all a front, a convenient fiction they put up to hide their own insecurity and weakness. Sam Sedar was good to be as patient as he was, but he wasn't hitting the kid where he needed to
Governor Trudeau??? You know what fuck it, I don't even want to know, man.
If my faith in flying wasn't crashing faster than actual planese these days, this would be on my bucket list. Hoping it still can be someday.
James Harrison, a blood donor famed for having saved the lives of more than 2 MILLION babies, has died. Harrison’s plasma contained a rare antibody known as Anti-D which was used to manufacture a medication given to expectant mothers. Harrison donated plasma every two weeks from age 18-81
Days. There's no phase-in to this shit. It's a big ol' hammer that comes down on you all at once and the effects will be immediate.
I only ever had the one as a kid, but I never forgot it. I was w/ my parents and all of a sudden it felt like my entire body was under this ridiculous pressure. I was still standing but it was like I could barely even move. Never felt anything like it before or since.
I mean they're just ungodly bored, I dunno what else to make of it. Lots of fun and meaningful stuff to do if they put in the work. This is just weird crazy shit, man.
A cheap trick you can only afford to do once and hope you don't fuck it up.
Translation: "Clearly I know nothing about organic grassroots movements and here's a shiny meme to prove it!"
I mean I dunno about all that, but I got a Golden that's refined snack begging to an art form.
It's because there's no money there that one would be unwise to merely write it off.
Respectfully, it's never as simple as all that. You could put someone through all manner of hardship and injustice and never be able to predict whether you're going to get a Hitler or a Stalin or a Nelson Mandela out of it. At the end of the day humans aren't machines.
Yes, but not because any purported values or beliefs have been subverted. Rubio doesn't deserve that much credit. Fear has set in because the game is finally up. Rubio has nowhere left to go and it's only a matter of time before he's kicked out the door and spat on.
And so when the inevitable occurs - when Trump, of course, tosses Little Marco out on his ass in an act of global defenstration that will rank among the most pathetic in political memory, the mental shock will be profound. What does Rubio do when, at last, his humiliation is laid for all to see?
While this is largely true, you don't get to where Rubio is (not to be confused w/ actual accomplishment, mind) without consciously avoiding anything that would infringe on your self-created narrative. Rubio is a man without cause or purpose. He knows this. On *some* level he knows this.
President Nixon summed it up well a long time ago: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pc3I...
This was always the intent, clear as day. That Rubio either went into it willingly or is of such blistering incompetence that he genuinely didn't know; I honestly don't know which makes that groveling gnat more pathetic.
Yes, but that's not for any one person to bear on their own. No one can hold the weight of the world and all its ills on their shoulders alone. At the end of the day it comes down to meaning and purpose. Does one act and believe in something beyond themselves or not?
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Can always play Solo, y'know.
Pretty decent State of Play all around, IMO. I just wish some of these games would learn from classics like Shinobi (and Astro Bot!) and not try so hard to be edgy and badass. Just focus on being fun, man.
Voters do that well enough on their own.
At this point she could hold a seance on the House floor, claim she got direct testimony and I wouldn't be suprised.
And so of course he's not happy. Money? Wealth? Fame? Status? All worthless. And yet the man keeps trying to acquire more and more of these worthless things because it's all he knows. Little wonder he's a miserable wretch.
Say what you will about him, but Richard Nixon basically laid it out in one of his many post-presidency interviews. The thing that gives life meaning and value is *purpose*. Aspiring to something beyond the mere abstraction of money and material goods. Does Elon have anything like that? No.
I would submit the question is why *would* they be happy? Seriously. Let's take Elon. Yes he's the richest man in the world. Runs Tesla. Bought Twitter. Trump basically lets him and his barely overage cronies to sift thru government agencies. What is it actually all for in the end?
At the end of these day these people do hate themselves and don't try to hide it.
THE HOPE NEVER DIES, GAMERS!
I'm not going to apologize for not patting pople on the head, saying they did nothing wrong and that they don't deserve the consequences for their actions. Voters f'ed up and sometimes the only way people learn is to feel the pain for the actions that *they* brought on themselves.
As if that's an excuse for how you (or, frankly, anyone that this could apply to) choose to use or abuse your vote? "Hey, I live in deep-blue California and my vote means fuck all. Who gives a shit if I vote like a self-interested asshat?" Like a true spoiled brat.
I find your objection not so diffeent from, frankly, an atheist who would argue that the most potent objection to there being a loving God is the sheer amount of needless suffering in the world. I would say much the same in that that's a very narrow-minded view of love.
I would rebut that by submitting that suffering is intrinsic to being an optimist. In fact recognizing and embracing it when it comes (which is *not* to say one actively invites it, to be very clear) is necessary insofar as one appreciates the hope and vision we should all be striving for.
It would be too much to say they weren't completely uninterested in helping Gaza if possible - but make no mistake that the story of telling themselves they were part of some noble cause mattered *far* more to them.
I would ask you not to underestimate what I said. I'm not *just* blaming college students. I blame any harebrained twat who told themselves they were standing for principle by voting for Trump or abstaining from voting 'cause something something Gaza.
With the Department of Education (whatever one's views on it) apparently not far behind. Entire government agencies snuffed out with barely the snap of a finger. Calling Trump a bull in a china shop is far too generous. He has no care or understanding what he's destroying.
M'kay, now wind that back and try it again without sounding like you're going on a completely irrelevant tangent.
Not shrugging, Mike, but there's nothing to be done about it. Elections have consequences. Voters don't have a magic take-backsie button where we can just wave all this away. Best we can do is the next election. People just have to endure until then.
What do you expect him to do about it? Make an empassioned speech on the Senate floor? Democrats have no power right now. Filing lawsuits is all they can do - and that takes times. There is nothing else.
Waiting for... what, exactly? Practically, is this supposed to somehow intimidate Musk and/or Trump?
Say what you will about Harris, but she would've been constrained to the political process and actually giving a fuck about people. She could be reasoned with. Trump is a sociopath who won't even blink at Gaza being wiped off the map. Enjoy!
College kids (are are grown-ass adults, mind you) who played at knowing the first thing about foreign policy and either voted for Trump or abstained from voting altogether have their fair share of blame. They had no idea what they were talking about and Gaza now suffers the worst of all outcomes.
Translation: "This is exactly the handwave thousands and thousands of people will employ to avoid taking the slightest shred of responsibility that we were being stupid kids who didn't know shit about shit in 2024 w/ Gaza suffering the worst of all outcomes."
Stupidity is just another fom of weakness. It's just regrettable that many Venezeuleans and their families will likely get deported before they learned that lesson. Oh well. It is what it is.
That's what happens when you're weak. You get easily abused, manipulated and then tossed aside like trash.
More a corruption than any kind of 'optimization'. People aren't machines after all. All people intrinisically like the idea of a community, even if a deeply flawed one in the form of social media that brings them no end of suffering. They could veto it, but it's hard to just walk away.
Musk almost certainly thinks much the same in that he's the heir apparent, or at the very least that he'll be there to capitalize when he thinks Trump goes down. These cretins are always chomping at the bit to eat each other. No honor among thieves. Ever.
Professional, courteous and straight to the point as I've known them (and their airports are a triumph and put their American counterparts to shame), but God help you if they think you're coming after one of their own.
Either they feel the pain (and the punish the party in power, right or wrongly, that's practically the custom of American politics now) that's almost certainly coming or you're screwed anyway.
There's nothing for Democrats to do. 8 years of spelling out how Trump is a mass of sin and depravity only ended up w/ him back in the White House. W/ all due respect to the former President, sometimes you just need to say "fuck the rules, let the voters feel the suffering they've earned"
I mean... okay? If the position is that "okay Biden sucked, Trump's a nightmare, Democrats are shills that court Republican votes, etc, etc." then why not just give up? I see nothing in your responses that infer anything other than despair. You've no hope, no power and no influence. Game over.
No one can impart meaning to people who are so clearly lacking in it, no matter how desperately they might need it.
We always have the government we deserve. Say whatever you want about Democrats, it's ultimately the voters who fuck themselves over in the end. They vote like they want to be punished. Okay.
I wasn't interested in his word games. He gave me an opportunity to respond and I did so in the way I wanted.
Brandon, he won the popular vote this time. No amount of handwaving is going to make that fact go away. You call it cruel and privileged all you want. I don't much care. Sometimes people need to feel the consequences before they get their act together. Unfortunate but necessary.
To conclude, I don't relish what Trump is unleashing. He's an amoral cretin that doesn't deserve to run a Waffle House, let alone the United States - but voters have brought this on themselves. We've tried it the 'nice' way, now it's time for some well overdue hardship and suffering.
And voters are ultimately responsible for the corruption in the end. Politics flows downstream from culture, not the reverse. Too many people have become spoiled brats only thinking about themselves and what government should do for *them* next. That self-destructive behavior has to change.
You call it pessimistic, I call it doing what's necessary. I don't want to wax poetic here, but the spirit of JFK's "ask not what your country can do for your, ask what you can do for your country" is nigh completely gone in American politics today. It's all about how voters can be bought off.
As things deserve to. Yeah, millions of people voted against him as they always do - but I'm sorry he got the popular vote this time too. America chose an amoral and depraved path of its own collective volition because they were pissed off about inflation. They've earned this one.
None of that is to say, however, that those correlations within the body should lead one to believe that they're actually *causing* the experience of shock. Because it's a dream, we understand that the real cause of everything is the Self that gave birth to the dream in the first place.
- it's completely unaffected. There will, of course, be correlations between that which affects the dream body and the Self that is ultimately having the dream. If a dreamer is flying in the sky and suddenly falls and crashes into the ground, the dreamer is very likely to be shocked awake.
In the case of the dream, think of it like this. There is a Self that is ultimately having the dream (ie you or me) and we have a dream body in which we move and act within the dream world, yes? Pretty standard stuff. However, when something affects the dream body, it isn't as if -