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Smart Hulk wouldnt have been as bad if they didnt literally offscreen all of his development. That was one of the dumbest choices they made between those two movies.

I'd believe that he has little on-hand cash, but I don't believe that he couldn't do the normal rich person thing of just getting an essentially no-interest massive loan at any time. It's not impossible he's being stupidly frugal, but feels like he's just roleplaying his 'wholesome' character.

Awakening x 3, Wind Waker, Link Between Worlds, Spirit Tracks, BoTW. Got a third of the way through TP and SS. For the life of me, Ive never been able to get into the N64 games at all.

Start was great. Remained good until the time skip. Everything after the timeskip was exceedingly meh. The ending was trash.

It's fun for what it is, but it's definitely not well written at all. There are so many illogical things done for rule of cool. The funniest thing is the anime is actually an improvement on the web comic because they at least try to have the side characters more active in the background. Not sure how it is compared to the web novel. The quality drops off after the point where the anime is at, so I'm curious if they'll be able to do anything to improve it. The ending is trash, so I don't think they'll be able to do anything to salvage that.

DrizztLink posted...

Except one is substantially larger and umbrellas over people and groups who don't support or perpetuate said exploitation.

Joanne Fabrics over there, however, is one person with one IP (well, one that wasn't a laughable failure written under a pseudonym paying homage to a conversion therapist), and uses that IP's profit directly for bigotry.

Do you want to try again, or would you rather go back in the well and quit embarrassing yourself?

That's just a poor deflection. If you want to act like broadness matters, Rowling is a mass media empire involving thousands of other people as well.

DrizztLink posted...

How long were you hiding in the well before you had a chance to pop out with the "yet you participate in society" schtick?

Couple hours?

Couple days?

Already posted a few pages back, but would love an actual answer. Usually, the deflection goes to "it's fine if it's a necessary purchase" but what about non-essential industries with their own host of exploitation issues? When people are making the arguments "conspumption = direct harm," then the comparision is absolutely direct and valid. There is no difference between "you support harm towards trans people if you support Rowling" and "you support the exploitation of women if you support Hollywood."

Umbreon posted...

So I misread what you were saying. That's my bad.

That being said anyone and everyone who is knowingly giving Rowling money is giving money to someone who wants trans people killed.

I won't go so far to claim anyone who still consumed that product is a transphobe, but man it's really hard to claim you give a shit about trans people while giving your money to Rowling.

Have you ever watched a Hollywood movie? Have you ever consumed pornography? Have you ever bought an unnecessary mass-produced item? You can make similar grand moral statements about all of those, and none of them are necessary purchases. Do you avoid all that too, or have you just decided this one particular bigoted creator is the end-all-be-all of boycotts?

All the terminals prompting tips is really dumb. Websites for pickup orders pre-filling a tip amount unless you manually select zero is bullshit. Shit should be wiped away and they can go back to the tip jar.

AnsestralRecall posted...

Is it essential to buy Harry Potter media? No, okay, don't buy it. Stop supporting her.

Walmart the only affordable place to buy groceries near you? Do what you need to get by.

The problem is how broad do you want to take this argument? You can make the same argument about pretty much all Hollywood productions due to how scummy the industry is. You can make the same argument about nearly all major businesses. That's why it's so silly. Making arguments for avoiding her content, for pirating her content, for donating to causes that counter her opinions, are all good statements. Trying to browbeat anyone who consumes her content is ultimately just poor messaging at best, and smarmy self-felation at worst.

How many degrees of separation are needed before something becomes ethical to consume something? This argument is always so stupid because everything you do, buy, or consume is somewhere on the chain of suffering and exploitation.

Set is better, but playersexual makes sense from a development perspective. I think allowing the player to set their sexuality would probably make more sense at this point, making it easier than having to set up blatant flag dialogue to avoid unwanted romances.

Nah, there's nothing worth buying off the bat. I'll probably wait two years, unless they drop something absolutely amazing for it.

Definitely some pretty clumsy looking packaging. Why is the two next to the logo? Is that logo even recognizable to anyone? Why is the Nintendo Switch much smaller and positioned below? Why is it the same color? I would guess the two is going to be idiot proof enough for the majority of people, but I definitely wouldve done that very differently.

Its kind of just a futile protest at this point. Its here to stay. The data theft has already happened, and big money interests will prevent any compensation from ever happening. Being overly critical of people who indulge in it is just kind of silly.

AceMos posted...

or we can just BAN this technology that does nothing but hurt people

AI will never be able to give emotion to a performance

That's no different from any other argument about any other piece of technology in the last 300 years. Technology develops, jobs are lost, and new jobs are created. There may be a limit to that once technology reaches a certain point, but that's still a long, long while away.

AceMos posted...

why is it stupid?

Because mass-utilized AI voices is inevitable. I don't think it's anywhere near good enough now, but it will definitely be in the future. If voice acting will die out due to that, whatever they do now isn't going to save it. What needs protection now is the rights to their voices, and we definitely need legislation requiring the publication of any and all training data used on a particular model to weed out unauthorized usage.

What are the voice actors even looking for? If it's basic stuff like "don't harvest our voices," that's sensible, but they're fighting a stupid battle if they're trying to bar companies from utilizing AI in the future.

I can only see the path of heavy reboot and going back to like 20-40 with a heavy focus on newcomers, or simply doing Smash Ultimate Omega featuring Dante from Devil May Cry and brining back some more modes/content from older games and 5-10 new characters. I don't see them trying to do a new game while maintaining a majority of the roster.

I've never had any trouble with it, other than that the two closest ones are each about 40 miles away. I'd guess it's probably worse in cities and other dense areas.

God, I hate writers like that who can't avoid shitting up their own already complete narratives.

I don't get how you can bungle the infinite potential of space to such an extent that you can't even get people largely interested in filling more of it out.

It's definitely something that could be used to help set up profiles and individual lesson plans best suited to the kid. Teachers absolutely don't have the time to do that in most schools. Anything being peddled at the moment is likely complete bullshit, though.

Yeah. As long as it's done with proper consent and not family members forcing some old, declining figure to sell it, who cares? There's a lot of stuff to be iffy about over AI, but anyone mad about the Darth Vader thing on principal is just someone who refuses to realize that this shit isn't going away.

Imagine not buying the Lifetime Platinum Membership.

Nah. I'm sure there are some nice places, but I've never seen an appealing looking video experience.

Dagger back to Garnet, Marle back to Nadia, Frog back to Glenn.

Guess she had a knife, but you're still talking about someone who'd probably have been subdued by throwing a pillow at her.

It's no reason to have unreasonable hatred towards a character, but I'd agree that was horrible writing.

If the future humanity cares how they look, gene manipulation would probably be able to counter that.

It's not horrible, but definitely worse.

A giant clusterfuck illustrated by a man who no longer has any clue what hes doing.

They'll probably make the majority back from just sales alone, while GTA Online will probably hit at least 2 billion within 6 months if they've mastered the monetization aspect from V.

I'd go with Mischief Makers. I could probably spend a full hour just fucking around in the first level.

This stuff is always dumb because it's just going to push scraper sites to be more aggressive in uploading official content, compared to ones like MD that is about as respectful as a site like that can be towards takedown requests and not reuploading official content.

Yeah, it all came from the same place as other pointlessly gendered terms that were mostly just inflammatory insults hidden behind the guise of actual constructive dialogue.

He thought he could try to get the kids 50% off deal, but he had a bit of a misunderstanding.

I tried it for a bit, but the gameplay wasn't for me. I was going to see about cheating through it just for the story, but most of the characters seemed insufferably annoying and tropey.

Yeah, I had seen everything up until then, but couldnt really care to keep invested with all the TV shows, and the lack of a cohesive background narrative. They should have started strong with Kang by having him defeat a major character in their movie completely, and setup a cliffhanger for others. Introducing him in a TV show and then having his first movie appearance have him defeated by a B-tier character makes it hard to hype. Even with the actors controversy, they couldve recast him if his introduction was strong enough.

Seems to be mostly some kind of weird racist proxy battle against another go fund me for some murder case. Shit is all so dumb.

Even if those weren't made dirty for the video, I don't get how people can like watching those videos. They aren't cathartic because they drag out the cleaning process to extend the video. There is zero reason you'd ever need to go over those that many times with that many different methods even if you saturated it in mud.

These articles are always annoying because they seem to pretend that the people who get into this arent extremely mentally unwell in the first place and AI chats are just the outlet they choose to go down their self-destructive path. Theres no system out there that has enough ability to keep up a coherent conversation that without constant retooling to keep it on track.

Yes, though forcing the player to shoot the doctor with his tiny little scalpel is a bit silly. Could have at least given him a gun to make it real.

I'd say tattoos are neutral at best. Even people who have really well done ones look good despite having them, not for having them.

She definitely deserved the hate, excluding horribly toxic stuff like death threats. She was just an asshole grifter with no actual dog in the fight, tossing out basic bitch talking points combined with a bit of complete bunk.

100 people is just too many from a pure stamina point of view. Even if we're talking about a hypothetical bloodlusted gorilla out to kill and 100 people who have zero will to fight, it's going to tire out pretty quick.

AnsestralRecall posted...

The problem is you think public transit needs to exist for the purposes of profit and not for the betterment of the lives of citizenry.

If you're putting expensive systems in place that don't get enough usage to justify their cost, then said systems will quickly go away. I'm all for improvement in places where it's needed, but I disagree that there's utility for it everywhere country-wide.

JE19426 posted...

You realise that theses two statements contract each other, right? The vast majority of people live in densely populated areas, that's a big part of why they are so densely populated. Furthermore the vast majority of miles traveled, in the US are locally, followed by regionally. If the US had good quality local public transport and shit national public transport, it would still be a giant improvement over what they actually had.

Most of that is going to be local to the major cities, which I'd agree certainly can be improved. In places where it can take you 15 minutes just to get from your house to the main road, there's not a ton of incentive to have a particularly robust bus system. In places where towns are 30 minutes apart, there's not going to be much incentive to have robust transportation systems between towns. There's obviously big money interests blocking the development of public transit, but it's also simply not something that's going to be innately desired in large swathes of the country.

AnsestralRecall posted...

I live here. There is no excuse for the abysmal state of our public transit.

Within some cities it can be good, but overall it's awful. There is absolutely no reason for our passenger rail service to be as dreadful as it is.

"It's too big" is the worst excuse thrown out to justify the over reliance on personal vehicles

There can definitely be local improvement in densely populated areas, but much of the country is way too sparse for it to be particularly helpful.

We're definitely going to trend harder towards games as a service shit and game pass services until something inevitably breaks. With the constant shitshow going on with the buyouts and mass layoffs, they're going to keep chasing the golden goose and something is going to give.