At it’s origins, the Latin script was an alphabet, not 1:1 symbol to word.

You have to go back through a chain of different scripts for different languages from different cultures that influenced it to get to heiroglyphs.

Chinese characters were logograms invented for Chinese and are logograms used for Chinese today. At their origin they were pretty much symbol = word and it mostly still is.

The chinese kinda did just make a character for each word though.

Modern chinese uses plenty of words with multiple characters but Old chinese didn’t really. So character = word was much closer to the truth around the time of the oracle bone inscriptions.

Monopoly. Literally designed to be frustratingly unplayable to represent the frustratingly unplayable user experience of capitalism, but people insist on playing it anyway.

AD&D 2e. Insists it’s a game about exciting fantasy adventuring, then all the rules are about painfully slow tactical minutiae. The combat mechanics are taken from a game about modern naval warfare, hence bigger Armor Class means easy to hit. It’s unclear why anyone thought ships with guns was a good model for medieval sword fighting. Entire sections of rules have to be ignored - hello encumberance - and gameplay regularly has to stop to look up charts, tables or niche rules like grappling.

Screamball. Like ping pong, except the point goes to whoever screams the loudest during a volley. We made it up as teenagers. It was awful.

The article suggests that people are willing to pay to have all their games in one place.

A not-insignificant amount of people would rather buy a game they just got free than have to remember to open epic.

Generation Kill is a very watchable look at a recon unit in the lead up to the 2nd (iirc) iraq war. It’s by the guy who did The Wire. Excellent dialogue, plotting and acting.

It uses a soldier’s eye perspective to examine the systemic issues in the military - casual racism, war crimes, adult diapers and the constant incompetence of officers all come up.

30% of US adults voted for trump.

Decades of gerrymandering, voter suppression, disinfo campaigns and no small amount of outright fraud brought the current regime to power, not the will of american people.

Because trump is largely irrelevant.

His job is distraction-in-chief. He’s just a dumb patsy - a role he’s spent his life perfecting.

His business career was just laundrering russian mob money, and his political career is just drawing fire from the rich cabal looting the american empire before there’s nothing left to loot.

There was a hilarious study the other month showing that on r/conservative, 30-60% of posts on any given day are 2 posters, who posted every single day - except the day that ukraine strikes knocked out power in moscow.

That sounds like a reasonable and healthy attitude to take.

I’ve started buying 2nd hand physical games, got a cheap record player, buy books from little bookshops, clothes from goodwill and don’t shop online. Not ready for a dumb phone yet.

I grew up in niave 90s with ‘internet will set us free’ thinking. But oligarchs turned the things i liked into poison, so i avoid drinking the poison as much as i can.

Jate isn’t a name.

This post reads like you’re trying to “both sides” a cold blooded murder comitted by a member of a fascist goon squad.

It sounds like you and your parents are in danger. If your brother has military training and has killed animals, he is a threat. It sounds like you know that is true.

For domestic violence at least, the most dangerous point of the cycle is after the escalation, after the explosive anger, once it seems like the situation has returned to normal - that’s when deadly violence is most likely. So stay aware and trust your gut.

Where i am, there are mental health groups that can provide things like a dedicated employment specialist to help find work.

Get in touch with someone who can give you real, expert advice.

People always seem to think killing hitler would help, but part of the reason no one assassinated him is because the allies wanted hitler alive to continue making terrible decisions.

Imagine how much worse the first trump regime would’ve been if trump wasn’t making any of the decisions - we don’t have to imagine because we’re living it now.

Back in the 60s, Phil Ochs described a liberal as “10 degrees to the left of center in good times and 10 degrees to the right if it affects them personally”.

I agree that most people understand it to mean anyone left of center, but the meaning of a weak or disingenuous leftist who often sides with the enemies of the left goes back a while.

You can’t argue a person out of an irrational view.

Explaining brain chemistry and how dopamine works won’t do it.

A belief like that is a way of signalling membership in an identity that the individual thinks benefits them. It’s unlikely to change until that identity stops looking beneficial.

Pfft, just hold on and squeeze your way through the scratches until you’re bloody and beloved.

Yeah there’s been some wild stuff coming out but this is implausible. Actual journalists who regularly deal with redacted docs must’ve been through most of it by now.

If this were true i don’t think would be a tweet, it would be an uncontainable story.

Edit: well it seems to have become an uncontainable story, though it’s a small amount of files.

When people don’t like the present, they almost always assume the past was better. When people are broadly happy with the way things are, they argue the past was worse.

Our take on the past almost always says more about our take on the present rather than anything true about the past.

Wait so you would rather have shallot bread than garlic bread?

Shallot > onion is just common sense, but let’s not go dragging garlic into a fight it has no part in.

My understanding is they only generated some textures, which everyone noticed and complained about, so they had to patch in human-created textures to replace them.

They also lost a goty award because they lied about having never used ai.

I don’t think either of those situations would encourage hidden use of ai.