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Apart from unreal though its not easy to find an engine that can perform at the scale Unity does. Godot is not that and not even at no 3, its just no 3 in popularity.

None but 5 is up and down generally. Wont always be sunshine and rainbows even though ideally should be.

bsp77 posted...

Yeah, they all want you

Some of them inevitably yes. Not all, Im a rather specific type.

DerWillZurMacht posted...

Well, they have to live with it. Just as "Christians" think homosexuality is an abomination, I think Capitalism is an abomination. But I have to live with it. So should they. If they don't like it, they are free to leave. Just as I am.

Has nothing to do with my point.

Nah, awful idea in general since very often she will develop feelings and it gets awkward. My wife is my friend, others I show courtesy, but it will always be in passing.

I mean you'd eventually die of mouth cancer due to constantly lacerating your mouth with that cereal.

PraetorXyn posted...

For Souls specifically, the difficulty is legit the only thing there.

I agree with the post, but the difficulty is wrapped with an extremely shiny atmosphere and environmental story telling package. Like I couldn't care less about the story of any souls game (and I played every game in the series that came out on PC, and regularly replay them all even DS2), but I'm still curious about all the fascinatingly horrible things in these games. Sometimes it gets a bit much for me, but in general, that stuff is also reason enough to play the games. Definitely though the fact that they are difficult is the real draw. In fact, their difficulty has changed the culture of gaming such that there is an entire genre now called "difficult" that people actively seek out and ask for. Game developers notice this at conventions, people straight up say "give me something hard to play".

Would be awful for the US, but probably better than Iraq and Afghanistan. Usually the drug cartel type guy does not fight with the same conviction as the guy doing it for the sake of God, resilient enough to live in the mountains for 2 decades and then take over the country 24 hours after the US leaves.

Yeah I agree with punishing people who do that. They should also have rules that forbid anyone from posting lewd or suggestive imagery of themselves when they are students at a school. It's unprofessional and largely garners negative attention from exactly this kind of creep, and will cause a bunch of drama. You're never gonna see the guy admiring a girl twerking go and then respect her. The world does not reshape itself based on what we believe it should behave like.

KitKats posted...

Power and control are huge motivators. Theyre not righteous warriors trying to make the world a better place.

Well Christians have frequently shown us throughout history that they do not make good righteous warriors, so you'll get no argument from me there.

But when you look at "traditional Christian family values", they're not compatible with LGBTQ. It goes against every grain they have, so they're gonna have a problem with it. So I'll never understand the guy who will never understand this.

KitKats posted...

That doesnt square with reality. Anti-LGBT+ sentiment is not a defining feature of the Bible, its not a cornerstone of Christianity or religious practice. Culture and society are overwhelmingly cishetero normative as well.

It doesn't have to be a defining feature, obviously the bible is a mass of text I never understand how anyone can read through. It talks about many different things. Also, one thing is that you have to see how they interpret it, not how you do after giving it a cursory glance as someone who is not looking at it from the view that it's your guide to life.

My point is, just because we disagree with a sentiment, does not mean we can now never understand where the sentiment comes from. It just seems like turning this huge ass blind eye to really stark realities.

KitKats posted...

But its not their society. They just live here like the rest of us.

Well, they're affected by it. You're gonna tell me that a Christian's not affected by today's culture in the USA that goes against all his norms? I mean this is regardless of whether or not we agree with the Christian, I'm not Christian, I just got done dunking on them in a youtube comment no one is ever gonna read, but you can't tell me you don't "get" why they wouldn't like this, their beliefs given. That's like the most obvious thing.

DrizztLink posted...

Cops are your enemy.

See I don't understand this. As a "minority" type person in the USA (when I lived there), I'm not the biggest fan of the police. They're not always the nicest people. But society will fall apart without policing, you see this happen in the third world all the time. Sure, we can all walk around our neighborhoods with AK-47s, but is that what you want to live under? There has to be a third party at all times who will be there when it hits the fan so that the bare basics of justice/order are overseen.

Smackems posted...

I just will never understand why they give a shit

If you can't understand why a religious person would give a shit that something they deem is an abomination is being passed off as okay in their society, you're not using basic critical thinking.

I think the amount of people who get killed/attacked by dogs in the US is probably a lot higher than people expect, and probably a lot higher than in many other countries.

Just imagine this post contains all the points that then get modded.

From an Islamic perspective, in purely layman terms, if the Quran or Hadith didn't mention it, chances are it will not be relevant. Islam's version of the anti-Christ already includes a being with supernatural powers, and that was highlighted, so if aliens were gonna invade with lazer guns, why is there no Quran or Hadith talking about that? Makes no sense, because Quran and Hadith frequently comment on trials and tribulations Muslims (and humanity at large) will face, and even less grave things, like how these desert nomads will one day compete over who can build the tallest buildings (this is an actual hadith from 1400+ years ago). So if you have hadith talking about how Muslims will have a lot of infighting, how Arabs will eventually become few on Earth due to this, how Muslims will be huge in numbers and yet still have the world's nations gang up on them and exploit them for all their worth, then it follows that if something major like aliens with super fast UFOs (the latest BS pentagon is trying to sell us today), it would have been mentioned.

I think in all religions, humanity is the center of the universe, to humans. God can do whatever He wishes, so for all we know, there are other universes out there. But from our perspective, it doesn't matter and never will matter because we have our orders and our judgment day. We already know that Satan himself was once from a nation and a powerful warrior against "the forces of evil", so that already suggests an entire saga before Adam was ever created. Who's to say there aren't more.

Souls games do have an easy mode though. Just look up the right builds, that's the easy mode. It's just obscured, like everything else in souls games.

K181 posted...

Hey, her lack of taste got you a date, so you take the good with the bad.

Man OP, how are the sear marks healing?

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/2/3/9/AAPnR-AAE3lP.jpg

It's obvious to anyone with sound nature that it's not okay.

So like, the perfect woman and you attempt to post on this site?

Really depends on if you recognize the concept of gender, which many cultures do not, since they base it purely off what is physical.

In many countries you can buy magnitudes of stuff more than that with 100$.

Great on paper, but probably not realistic for most small businesses, esp game dev.

andel posted...

yeah, hell as envisioned by people today is definitely not biblically accurate at all.

islam has the same problem with selective interpretation of what the text actually means and they have the problem of contradicting hadith which some sects believe and some discount. islam is no different that christianity in the way it has been used to control populations and interpreted umpteen different ways.

Hadith in general are agreed upon in mainstream Islam, with few that are have their strength graded differently among different Sunni schools of thought. It's mainly shiites that have their own hadith set, and they are 2% or so of the religion's followers.

You're not wrong about differing interpretations, but it's not anywhere near as wide a gap as Christianity. The core of it is unchanging. And while it has been challenged past and present (thanks to external political forces at play), it still persists ultimately unchanged.

It's a different method of story telling. It requires you to investigate and get pretty invested in the game, then you form theories. The guy with the hour long video does just that.

Personally as a big souls fan, I couldn't care less about the stories. Some sidequest stories are pretty cool, but that's as far as it gets. I don't think it's a point against the games, it's just one more thing that gives gaming the variety it has.

I mean, they made bloodborne kart so... this topic can't be right:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDeVT0UWWB0

A bit.

On the one hand, you have fairly consistently good games. On the other, you have the bugs. That's the thing though, their games are good. Genuinely so, but not legendary. They do achieve a legendary status though, like Skyrim did. Even though Skyrim is more like just a good or great game, not a legendary one.

It's Christianity, you can pretty much just wing it and it'll still be some valid Christian viewpoint. Men are now angels, yeah great.

DnDer posted...

Here's a PhD who explains what food satiety is, cites an experiment showing which foods induce the most satiety, and talks about how Chinese food is missing many of those things (like starch and protein).

I dunno, it tends to have a lot of rice and meat. That could just apply to the Americanized version versus real Chinese food, but I would still imagine that if it were to be stereotyped, it would be the American version being used as reference.

I don't really get how so many people in the comments are laughing about this. All those women brawling in a clearly inebriated state are enemies to themselves, but the security cop's behavior is both police brutality and him taking advantage of his position to batter randoms. Then on top of that, it's violence against women. But 90% of the reddit comments are just poking fun at the woman that got slammed.

Ultimately though, human dignity is the biggest victim in videos like this.

In a disturbing video thats been viewed over 10 million times online, several women can be seen brawling while a security officer pepper sprays and bodyslams them outside a Texas nightclub.

The chaotic video begins with hair-pulling as several women fight outside Privat Social Club in San Antonio.

One is knocked to the ground, only to be straddled by another woman, who continues to beat her.
The camera quickly pans away to show a fight between two other women.

A private security guard picks up one of them, placing her in a choke hold and violently slamming her onto the parking lot ground, as bystanders react in shock.

A male party-goer steps in and pushes the security guard away.
Despite multiple guards trying to separate the fighters, the women can be seen wildly going at it dragging each other barefoot across the pavement, with their dresses around the waists and undergarments exposed.

Its unknown what the women were fighting over.
One combatant in a black dress continues to go after another woman and is pepper sprayed by a guard wearing glasses the same guard who body slammed the other woman.

The woman can then be heard screaming that she cant see.
The private security company, Precision Defense Group, explained there were only two guards trying to break up six fights while waiting for police to arrive, the firm told KENS5 TV.

However, at least three security guards can be seen in the video. The head of the security company said that he was reviewing other footage and wouldnt comment until then.

No one involved has filed charges, the San Antonio Police Department told the outlet, as all parties had left the scene prior to police arrival.

Public records obtained by the local station show the party palace near the University of Texas at San Antonio has been the scene of other altercations.

That's the summary posted in the topic.

creativerealms posted...

There is also a "theory" that his wife is a man. Republicans have no shame.

Yeah, that is the theory, and there's a bit more to it. Mercurydude above got it.

Well, there is that one theory about his wife and that other woman who was offed for bringing it up once.

That they look just like they do in movies only furthers to insult the intelligence of any who witness this.

You don't want to live on a small island with someone like roshi.

Nothing about ranch is good. Its appearance, smell, taste, texture. Even its name is offensive. It really is up there with mosquitoes in that, if it was to completely disappear, the world would be a better place. Actually even mosquitoes will probably destabilize ecosystems (possibly in a big way) if they were gone. Can't say the same for ranch.

Mosquitoes > ranch.

Average modi supporter.

Serial killers usually start with animals. Might as well rid society of him before it gets to the 60+ dead women and children found in some random field.

WingsOfGood posted...

and yet you even talked about overworked game devs a few posts back....

do you think they should not fight against being overworked with crunch time?
do you know what that means?

I mean I'm one of those people, so I know full well. But again, if I don't do it, we sink, simple as. Hell we might sink anyway, but still, someone's gotta put the work in otherwise a bunch of work that has to get done, won't get done, and we just sink furthur when we're barely making it now.

It's just the nature of life and the game. I still absolutely think we're better off today. Hell, you know back in the day, only kings used to eat something like ice cream. Today you can find it in every corner of the planet.

Dark_Arbron posted...

You can't get experience without someone giving you a chance first though.

We've all been there, and everyone hates this about employment. People still get employed, and they didn't magic experience into their histories.

K181 posted...

Oh no, the US might be doing a good thing for selfish reasons to make ourselves look good.

... and? Who cares why we're opposed to an aggressive and factually genocidal (UN convention recognizes that wholesale kidnapping of children as genocide) war of aggression?

If the US can oppose such invasions, consistently, it would indeed be a good thing. Them not caring when israel murders hundreds of children simply because their existence is inconvenient to their colonial settler agenda, and all the US has to say is "israel has a right to defend itself", it rings different.

WingsOfGood posted...

https://quire.io/blog/p/fewer-hours-more-productive.html

https://www.waldenu.edu/programs/business
/resource/shortened-work-weeks-what-studies-show

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/20/stanford-study-longer-hours-doesnt
-make-you-more-productive-heres
-how-to-get-more-done-by-doing-less.html

and on and on
and on and on
so
many
studies

but hey people back in the day worked more or whatever so let's ignore science I guess

Alright again, I agree with that. It doesn't change the fact that, in a time where we legitimately have more free time and a higher standard of living, people are complaining that they don't have even more, with the implication being that it never used to be this way. It used to be worse. And tbh, when technology brings about some great apocalypse (most likely nuclear war on a global scale), it's going to go back to being a lot worse, but this time with mutant rats in the mix.

scar_the_1 posted...

Wholeheartedly agree!

Thing is, I don't particularly trust US criticism of Russia's invasion. It's very clear that it's not a stance based on some principled moral values, it just serves the political goals of the US. Like, yes, they're absolutely correct in condemning Putin, but they aren't really interested in the freedom and prosperity if Ukrainian civilians. It's just the politically sound stance to take.

It also allows them to militarize Europe and increase their power further while also making tons of money for selling weapons. And all that militarization will no doubt lead to more imperialist actions against smaller, weaker nations. The Russian invasion of Ukrainse is amazing for the US, and it takes off a lot of the heat on the US. They're no longer the biggest super villain around, invading Iraq and Afghanistan. We got a new bully in town to look at, even though from the outset he showed himself to be a tiger on paper type bully, given a really bloody nose by a kid four classes below him.

brestugo posted...

Plus, you open the door for all sorts of whataboutisms - which Russia loves to engage in (the term itself comes from Russian diplomatic strategy).

Everyone doing bad things will engage in whataboutisms. China genociding Uyghurs, India's actions in Kashmir, Russia in Ukraine, etc. They're all gonna be like "what about you guys" to the USA.

But that's how the human mind works. Like if the USA just got done with 5 different immoral invasions and interventions abroad, what credibility does it have in front of the world's people to tell off anyone else trying to do the same sort of thing? It's actually really bad that people are able to make these whataboutisms thanks to US actions. And I personally think China and India's actions in their countries against Muslims are a direct cause of them basically seeing the US teach how Islamophbia and racism can be setup and used, and then they just implemented the same thing.

K181 posted...

What country are you saying that the US doesn't have a right to exist? The United States recognizes the Palestinian National Authority and merely doesn't approve of breaking up Israel without its consent, which I might remind you was a nation founded with Russian support as well.

That's not remotely the same as Putin on many occassions outright saying that Ukraine's existance was a mistake.

By all means remind me, I'm not pro-russia and have already said I detest it as a country for what it has done in Syria and the Balkans. And in fact for forcing many Chechens to fight its dirty war in Ukraine, a whole lot of them have had to flee their country to places like Turkey to try and escape forced conscription.

Yes, American foreign policy has been bad in many areas.

But to remotely be critical of that and yet not more critical of a blatantly worse expansion of territory at the expense of a sovereign nation? That's ridiculous and why people call Russia supporters shills and tankies.

Other counties having done bad things isn't an excuse for Russia to do worse things.

I made my original reply to someone saying we basically can't criticize the US/nato. I would still argue though that the overall death toll and consequences of US imperialism have so far been much worse than what russia has been able to do, because they've had many years to do it. The death toll in Iraq alone is over one million. If you combine it with Libya, Syria, Afghanistan, and various other nations affected by US sponsored destabilization, the numbers exceed those of the holocaust. Every time I hear of refugees dying trying to flee their countries in a boat, I remember the root cause of that.

So while I do think that as actual people, the russians are indeed worse, the US has been at it for long enough to make the overall death and misery toll far far greater.