Or after… or in-between trump 1 and 2.

I mean to me honestly… I hate stories in MMOs. Because to me they seem to greatly hurt… well the MMO portion of the games.

IE the point of an MMO is, about meeting real people playing together etc…

Stories tend to lead to things that IMO harm them… first and foremost, quest chains, In the old days of ragnarok online, Everquest etc… You find people, you group together and kill things to level up. Generally speaking they usually had huge ranges that you could work together on… Often in the points of like 50-60 hours… you could take 5 days off, and when you come back join up with the same friends you ran with before you left.

Quest chains on the other hand… oh sorry I played for 30 minutes while you were having lunch, I’m on quest 6 of the chain… you’re only on 2 now… you’ll need to solo I guess.

In addition I don’t find quests immersive, under the raw concept that, MMOs can’t be immersive. The defining requirement of an MMO is… the world can’t change because thousands more people need to do exactly what you just did. I remember WoW used to drive me crazy because the NPC would be thanking you for killing all the werewolves in his garden, while you can see the werewolves respawned right behind him as he’s thanking you, and of course as you are walking out from killing the big bad of the region… you’re getting begged by people to come help them kill the same big bad.

I love MMOs… but I can’t help but feel like the desire for story… is drastically harmful to the whole concept of them. Because there’s 2 key problems… Most people can’t be the stand out legendary best guy… with thousands of players, and the world can’t change.

But yeah that being said I kind of looked at new world as a potential game to fit the itch that I’ve had for years… of an MMORPG that actually was group based, working together as a team like the old days… but amazon owning it basically made me say nope… and looks like that part alone was a good reason not to.

I mean… I have to say, civil war wise this is possibly worse.

Trumps initial claim of her was that she was weak and she didn’t have the support of her people. Obviously it’s BS… but look at it now.

Imagine being one of the Venezuelan people. Someone just kissed the ass of the guy who just kidnapped your former leader. Regardless of her capabilities… Everyone will know she took power, by overtly sucking up to the guy that’s been bombing their fishing boats, killed 80 people in the process of kidnapping their leader. No matter how you look at it I can’t imagine the people of Venezuela are going to see her as anything but having sold out their country.

Really currious what the overlap in really shitty politics and really shitty behaviors is. I mean obviously we’ve got the blatent shit at both ends like Gingrich, Trump, Sinema etc…

Clinton, kind of iffy on both ends there, I mean honestly he accomplished a lot of things republicans wanted but couldn’t have done… ripping up Glass-Steagall etc… His affairs could be looked at as far less, but I do have to point out the power dynamics are what should have been the bigger deal than they were. I haven’t heard much on how Weiner’s policies were, I don’t think I’ve heard much on his policies, only his too hard to stop laughing at misconduct.

Now now… political discourse, it’s not like one nation can just call out a bounty on another nations leader and assasinate or kidnap them without severe political consiquences… any nation dumb enough to set that precident would have no leg to stand on when another nation tries to do it to them right?

at one point there was talk of moving the pirate bay to The Principality of Sealand

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principality_of_Sealand

I mean not sure who’s talking about boycotting the DNC, I’m sure some idiots are going that route… but I do have to point out the obvious problem…

as you are right it’s about backing the progressive candidates. But the key point also is to realize how hopeless the DNC is…

IE if they lose… they say they must have gone too progressive and shift further to the right.

If they win… they say “whew… ok we did well, now we just need to shift further to the right to solidify everything”. They will always shit on the left, always try and push further right.

Now I can agree with you, backing progressives is the way to go… though I will point out, it’s about knowing the DNC is going to do whatever it can to oppose progressives getting into the democratic party.

I’d assume because many people in these discussions are married… in which case yeah getting an STD would be the booger on top of the shit sundae. But yeah the test results only have to be checked overall at the start of the long term relationship… at least assuming you can trust your partner… while pregnancy is something you’ve got to be alert to in the entirety of a relationship.

Adams died due to the anger he caused others through… a mind crippling disease known as TRUMP VINDICATION SYNDROME.

was my thought exactly, from everything i understand… bee’s are just prostitutes. They let flowers nut on them… to gather the food they need to feed their families.

He’s saying that there’s no new users, the existing users are 173% fatter.

Honestly it doesn’t sound like it. To get that many new users and that little revenue pretty much implies that most of their “new users” are people who come in to get the free game, and won’t put a dime into using it.

If I ran a bookstore and did a promo where I gave a book away to everyone once a month. I went from 1000 customers a month, to 2,700 customers a month. but only sold 10 more books each month. That would pretty strongly demonstrate that people don’t want to buy my books, and almost all of the increased traffic is people just taking free books and leaving.

Not the headline in this case, it’s how stupid the concept is.

In short, Felony murder is if you are commiting a crime and someone dies, you are held liable for it. In some cases it’s half reasonable (Lets say if 2 guys go to rob a store, shopkeeper shoots one of the robbers, the surviving one is considered responsible for the death). But in execution it often leads to some horrificly stupid decisions like, say someone borrows a friends car, uses it in a crime in which someone dies… the damn friend can be responsible even if he had no idea of the plot or the crime that was intended, simply because he in some way provided something that was used in the crime.

and yeah here, it’s basically depending on maga’s extremely stupid interpretation that Renee Good just was going out looking to cause trouble for ice and tried to run one over. Which so far seems absolutely BS, everything seems to point to she was just driving back from dropping her kids off, got flooded with contradictory orders from the keystone cops, who shot her for being nice in the fray of it.

It’s bullshit on 200 levels, but at least trying to interpret what the bullshit argument that’s attempted to be made. If you grant all the bullshit claims made by this administration, and you accept this bullshit law felony murder that’s rife with misuse and full of unintended horrific consequences, and you squint, you can vaguely make out something resembling an arguement for it. (again that’s in a fictional world where you are dumb enough to believe what this administration says happened, over all the actual video of the events that blatently contradicts it.

and to top it off… if we don’t do it someone else will…

Umm… isn’t that the whole point of these treaties… Literally the whole concept is superpowers behave with other developed nations because… all other nations are supposed to draw the line after one nation starts making signs of attacking. It’s literally what the lesson learned in the world wars was… was to band together, we did a really bad job for Russia/Ukrain, but I really hope the world actually takes some firm action if trump seriously moves forward.

I believe a company that tried that… would be a pile of flames, rubble and pitchforks in minutes.

You want to get some computer experts to agree on the best language, and IDE to start with, or do we need to include every one… then deciding the order.

I mean it’s kind of obvious… they are giving their LLMs simulators. access to test etc…, IE chat gpt can run code in a python environment and detect errors. but obviously it can’t know what the intention is, so it’s inevitably going to stop when it gets it’s first “working” result.

of course I’m sure further issues will come from incestuous code… IE AIs train on all publicly listed github code.

Vibe coders begin working on a lot of “projects” that they upload to github. now new AI can pick up all the mistakes of it’s predicesors on top of making it’s new ones.

I mean I guess the concept there though is, isn’t making things into gold pointless anyway. We can lab make diamonds too, the jewelry industry works to keep them as a distinct alternate product to protect their slave mined ones. Is the quantity used for electronics enough that it would make a difference in typical manufacturing?

Actually kind of the ironic thing to me based on the time. Did gold have a practical use in the days of alchemy? I mean obviously mass producing gold, basically would have made it completely useless back then, it could make a small group of people very rich, provided they kept the method secret and were careful about how much they sold. It seems like the whole idea was flawed on it’s head even if they hadn’t based it on completely incorrect basis of the world.

Who said it hasn’t already… isn’t that kind of the standard practice of tech… “take, copy use the data” first, request data second.

When regulators discover they have a boatload of medical data, and no legal method they could have obtained it that’s an instant discovery… but if they have a legal means, then they have to do a bit of detective work to prove that isn’t where it came from.

I’d say to put in comparison… Canada and Greenland probably should view themselves as in the same position as Ukraine. The parallels are kind of scary there. IE they sure as hell are doing an impressive job of holding their ground against a much bigger army… but the death toll is horrific… and I can’t imagine the difficult decisions for everyone with regards to how dangerous it is to get involved. While both Putin and Trump are horrible actors… Trump I can’t help but get the feeling he doesn’t understand the concept of MAD, and actually would launch a nuke.

The problem is what happens when surface level isn’t enough… IE with the Venezuela having happened, what’s the response to do for Canada and Greenland. When trump says “OK we’re taking these now, join us or we’ll take it by force”. How should the other nations respond?