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Post by sj on Mar 21, 2024 11:55:02 GMT -5
This is about as good as Star Wars gets these days.
The irony is that if they picked some rando hottie like this to play Rey and, had her choose dark side by the end of the first film (and, eventually, transition to being the first female Sith lord by the end of the 3rd film), the Disney SW movies would've performed much better at the box office. Most people like interesting plot twists, not spoon-fed narratives.
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Post by Emig5m on Mar 22, 2024 0:41:35 GMT -5
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Post by Emig5m on Mar 22, 2024 1:34:24 GMT -5
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Post by sj on Mar 22, 2024 20:57:45 GMT -5
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Post by ForRealTho on Mar 24, 2024 15:10:53 GMT -5
Soooo many fake cops out there. I don't understand it at all.
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Post by ForRealTho on Mar 26, 2024 23:23:49 GMT -5
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Post by sj on Mar 27, 2024 21:03:13 GMT -5
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Post by ForRealTho on Mar 27, 2024 21:28:37 GMT -5
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Post by ForRealTho on Mar 27, 2024 23:18:14 GMT -5
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Post by Coolverine on Mar 29, 2024 2:55:04 GMT -5
lol the way the kid jumped up and through the open bus window
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Post by ForRealTho on Mar 30, 2024 12:44:04 GMT -5
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Post by sj on Mar 30, 2024 15:42:38 GMT -5
So Amish society isn't immune to bad humans/abusers, just like any other human society. Good to know.
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Post by ForRealTho on Mar 30, 2024 22:31:02 GMT -5
So Amish society isn't immune to bad humans/abusers, just like any other human society. Good to know. Did you actually watch/listen too it? I finished the whole thing at the gym today. Great story. She wrote a book about her experiences and she is one of the first people to really expose the Amish. People like to put them on a pedestal. In case you didn't watch she was violently raped by a member of a family she was staying with, and turns out the man was also molesting his 12 year old daughter. She went to the cops wearing the same ripped clothes the same night she was assaulted and the cops told her 3 times "So we need to be careful to let them have their freedom of religion, 1st amendment". He was a sex offender on the run, but the Amish label made the cops turn their brains off. I won't spoil anymore if you didn't listen. The Amish are NOT like Indian Reservations where they have their own land and laws. Those kids are just the same as any other kids. Its interesting the "freedom" people and religion people mix so much when in these backwards conservative sects they are all about absolute control and a ridiculous amount of rules. Great interview.
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Post by ForRealTho on Apr 1, 2024 12:51:02 GMT -5
Ray Tracing and Path Tracing are cool features but in CyberPunk at least the game looks mostly the same without either as with them on. Not worth the 90% performance hit turning them on if your card can't handle it.
FPS is part of image quality, I'll take a smooth 120+fps over path tracing and a choppy 30-40 any day
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Post by sj on Apr 1, 2024 15:48:49 GMT -5
So Amish society isn't immune to bad humans/abusers, just like any other human society. Good to know. Did you actually watch/listen too it? I finished the whole thing at the gym today. Great story. She wrote a book about her experiences and she is one of the first people to really expose the Amish. People like to put them on a pedestal. In case you didn't watch she was violently raped by a member of a family she was staying with, and turns out the man was also molesting his 12 year old daughter. She went to the cops wearing the same ripped clothes the same night she was assaulted and the cops told her 3 times "So we need to be careful to let them have their freedom of religion, 1st amendment". He was a sex offender on the run, but the Amish label made the cops turn their brains off. I won't spoil anymore if you didn't listen. The Amish are NOT like Indian Reservations where they have their own land and laws. Those kids are just the same as any other kids. Its interesting the "freedom" people and religion people mix so much when in these backwards conservative sects they are all about absolute control and a ridiculous amount of rules. Great interview. yeah, I'll watch it later. I was just saying I'm not surprised. If the police were guilty of stereotyping and let a criminal slip by, that's on them. Doubtful they require IQ tests for becoming a police officer Usually, just having a military background gets them in. I've driven through areas in Ohio where you sometimes see their horse driven carriages, but I never stopped in one of those communties to see if non-Amish are putting Amish on a pedestal like that. Would be interesting to see. Everywhere I lived, it's talked about like the Amish are a separate people (almost foreign, in a sense), cordoned off from American society. A big change between now and years gone by is the increasing digital surveillance, which mostly off-grid people (such as the Amish) would have a substantial degree of immunity to. For the ppl that embrace digital surveillance, maybe they could figure out a way to legally get cameras (edge connected to the internet) installed inside their homes, so that they'd have a harder time escaping the digital dragnet. It's anti-fourth, but it's also almost guaranteed to cut crime. www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2024/03/youtube-ordered-to-reveal-the-identities-of-video-viewers?utm_source=iterable&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=b2c_pro_oth_20240401_aprilweeklynewsletter_nonpaid_v1_1_171171110209&utm_content=innocent_Youtube_viewerAlthough, many people worry about the slippery slope.. how intrusive and/or illegal it becomes, over time, to view unapproved content and how this could be used against you when your political enemies take power. Afterall, digital surveillance of Americans (and America's allies) was started under GW's Patriot Act.
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Post by ForRealTho on Apr 6, 2024 0:12:49 GMT -5
Imagine my surprise when they setup one of their employees with the exact monitor and videocard I'm using
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Post by sj on Apr 6, 2024 10:43:25 GMT -5
Leave it to an AI to master the art of droning on and on esoterically about a narrow topic like WW's costume.
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Post by ForRealTho on Apr 7, 2024 1:52:01 GMT -5
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Post by ForRealTho on Apr 7, 2024 15:20:25 GMT -5
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Post by sj on Apr 7, 2024 19:50:16 GMT -5
He dropped the ball when he brought up pre-1500's history and lack of moral guidance for children during that time (and that presumably being ok or even good, if you follow his line of argumentation). Why? Pre-1500's (Europe, of which, the US was later a direct offshoot) was the fucking dark ages.
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Post by ForRealTho on Apr 7, 2024 22:03:59 GMT -5
He dropped the ball when he brought up pre-1500's history and lack of moral guidance for children during that time (and that presumably being ok or even good, if you follow his line of argumentation). Why? Pre-1500's (Europe, of which, the US was later a direct offshoot) was the fucking dark ages. He was pointing out the notion that breaking up childhood into these multiple categorize didn't exist in Western culture for a long time. Children were just looked on as little adults.
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Post by Cop on Apr 8, 2024 12:49:48 GMT -5
one of my pet peeves as well
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Post by sj on Apr 8, 2024 12:53:41 GMT -5
He dropped the ball when he brought up pre-1500's history and lack of moral guidance for children during that time (and that presumably being ok or even good, if you follow his line of argumentation). Why? Pre-1500's (Europe, of which, the US was later a direct offshoot) was the fucking dark ages. He was pointing out the notion that breaking up childhood into these multiple categorize didn't exist in Western culture for a long time. Children were just looked on as little adults. I know. He specifically referenced pre-1500's in the same context and segment of the video tho. You see, the dark ages are mostly thought of as a terrible period in time in European history and, by referencing this period in time (as the time when children were looked at as little adults), weakens his argument - because his opposition could then say 'science, education, art, music and quality of life were much improved after the dark ages period.' Particularly, when the age of enlightment and Renaissance came about (following the dark ages) and the masses started learning how to read and pass on knowledge (the proto establishment of community & public education). This environment, despite the Catholic church fighting to stop it tooth & nail, allowed modern science to take its roots. It's the time period of Isaac Newton, who invented Calculus (*eventually used for things like the development of rockets and space travel). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_intellectuals_of_the_Enlightenmentidk if there was really a point in time or even century when society started treating kids differently than adults. Seems to have been a more gradual process, when considering the age of consent. I think it was just a century ago, give or take, that most of the world allowed men to marry girls under 16 y/o. And it sounds like, following along with his line of argumentation, he'd be ok with it if society still allowed that. imo, the topic isn't so black & white, as there should be some boundaries for kids since they have underdeveloped brains, meaning they're not fully functioning adults. From an objective standpoint, modern science allows us to scan brain activity and physiology so, if anything, there's more concrete evidence than ever to back this up. The studies show that women's brains fully develop by late teens, while men's aren't fully developed until their mid-20's. I've heard that's why, under women's inclusion practices and laws (now in place), women have been surpassing men and graduating college at much higher rates than men. Yeah, there aren't only differences between adults and children, but women and men as well, despite the "we're all equal" mumbo-jumbo.. this example being in favor of women too, so you can't say it's being sexist. lol
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Post by ForRealTho on Apr 11, 2024 10:57:58 GMT -5
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Post by ForRealTho on Apr 13, 2024 21:52:15 GMT -5
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Post by ForRealTho on Apr 14, 2024 1:31:04 GMT -5
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Post by ForRealTho on Apr 14, 2024 14:51:48 GMT -5
I haven't watched the show yet, the main creator of the OG Fallout released a 17 minute video about his thoughts on the show
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Post by Coolverine on Apr 15, 2024 2:55:09 GMT -5
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Post by Coolverine on Apr 15, 2024 21:46:01 GMT -5
I haven't watched the show yet, the main creator of the OG Fallout released a 17 minute video about his thoughts on the show What he said about being distracted by all the details in the episodes, the same happened to me. Had to watch again because I wasn't following the dialogue/plot too well, all the little details I kept recognizing from the games just kept standing out and distracting me from listening to the dialogue.
Watched it at least 3 times now, I think it's a great show.
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Post by ForRealTho on Apr 15, 2024 23:03:37 GMT -5
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