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Unfortunately the site in general has gotten increasingly unhinged lately. One of those is a literal "well, actually" defending torture!

I wish you'd stop playing this "I don't want to ban you, but I will ban you if you don't follow the rules, which I also set" game. Do it or don't but jesus christ, this obsession with tone over meaning is so 2010.

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Simple sentences are great for simple ideas. Most video games, including most RPGs, only have simple ideas.

You appear to have linked to an anime. We’re discussing video games.

Yeah if I’m being honest my position is pretty close to https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/03/video... but I know this is way too radical for HN.

Pokémon (most of them) have pretty good writing. Planescape Torment has ok “endcap of the airport bookstore fantasy shelf” writing. You’re making exactly the mistake I’m talking about.

(Even narrative-heavy FPSs like Bioshock have an order of magnitude less writing than most RPGs.)

I find FPS writing is often a lot better, probably because there is a lot less of it. Yes, RPGs have a more narrative focus so more nuance to characters or whatever but you're asking a committee of 1-5 usually mid-tier writers to pump out 2-10 novels worth of text within a year under often radically changing requirements. The actual writing is usually hot garbage.

This feels more like a defense for some mid like a Plato than a Wittgenstein or Kripke.

It also needs to be a method that isn’t pharmacologically complicated, because manufacturers and pharmacists refuse to be complicit in this today. That’s the main reason, and also a reason Alabama has botched so many executions in recent years with experimental drugs and untrained executioners.

> It's something you literally wouldn't realize is happening until

they wheel you in on the gurney and put the mask on your face.

You’re deeply evil.

The file format doesn’t matter one bit when the reading and authoring tools are shit and the editors can’t/don’t fix anything. And papers will generally have a lot fewer resources to deal with this than major book publishers, who have been epub-focused for over a decade now and actually make money from it.

Development time makes up a nearly immeasurable fraction of power resources outside of the tiniest teams.

The bar for epubs is so fucking low I have a hard time believing this matters at all. Just last week I bought a book set in the late Middle Ages which managed to transcribe all “þ” as “p”. Until publishers care about that stuff, none of these high-falutin technical discussions change anything.

Some of us are equally nonplussed by modern web dev but still quite miss PostScript.

“At Yale” is bearing virtually the entire plausibility load of that extract.

The further you go, the less you know.

Probably both true, I would not recommend myself for the role either.

I haven’t kept up but sad if so. Colbert was always at his best when he brought lots of himself to the show, in contrast with Stewart who was great at capturing public vibes.

Awful. One of the best things about Stewart is that (I thought) he was smart enough to step out when he was done. Now it’s going to be an old tired man making out of touch japes about two even older tired men.

Lots of dick jokes are also fertility symbols / rituals today.

ping6 and ping4 are symlinks to ping on my system, and are equivalent to passing -4 or -6 to force a specific version. The default behavior negotiates either fine.

Also my thought - only 90m for a single non-SME to migrate a full stack across two hosting providers? Sounds pretty good for something so fundamental!

Also recommended: https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/F/bo377360...

IMO that’s concomitant with the PMC since it’s the concrete moment workers stop thinking of themselves as workers and a big paycheck is sufficient to make people class-dumb, but I know that’s a contentious view.

One thing which immediately reveals the lie in this is that it pretends the counterculture was the only thing going on in the 60s and ignores the New Left, Civil Rights movements, various arts movements, the cementing of the MIC, the rise of the PMC, etc etc. The 60s were a massive rupture and while it’s true the counterculture wasn’t the only influence its bizarre to say it didn’t really exist to any extent.

Currently I use a Raven, it looks nice and I’m hoping that will last long enough I won’t want to carry things on my back by the time it breaks.

Those Sony backpacks are (probably, were) something. I had a Vaio backpack that lasted me from ages 17 to 22 as a "daily driver" laptop and general purpose bag, then 22 to 35 as a grocery and travel bag - though if I'm being honest those last few years were more emotional than rational.

Unfortunately no manufacturer information other than Sony on it. :(

Was there actually any cryptographic aspect to this, or was he even lying about it being a “cryptocurrency”? He’s taking money on Venmo and running an “exchange” that trades only in this coin.

It would be interesting if “cryptocurrency” is now this entrenched as a synecdoche for any scrip-y scam.

Nobody has ever been sued for copyright infringement for failing to buy a ticket.

Read harder.

This line is absolutely madness when you look at who is behind the current AI push.