Yeah. The whole experience might fail and would probably turn out to be punishing for her and her family in a variety of ways. I’m just saying how I would hope it to happen. I pictured one of the school administrators on the stand under oath, having to explain themselves to people with more authority than them, and it was too compelling to let go of.
School administrators not caring about the well-being of their students, because they’re just kids and so who gives a shit what happens to them?
Color me shocked. I think the underlying reason is that the kids don’t have the societal standing to fight back. She should move on to suing the school for conspiracy to distribute child pornography, violating their role as mandatory reporters, IDK about the legalisms but she should pick whatever the best option is and try her best to fuck them up. Maybe they’d handle it differently in the future if it involves some consequences for them.
Yeah. I think in keeping with his making the dumbest possible decision at all times, he’s more or less just thinking “Well I want to be with the right gang, Trump’s the right gang, he did me a favor so I’ll do him a favor by not being with his enemy gang.”
On the other hand, I think the chances of him getting reelected in an honest election were tiny anyway, so it doesn’t really matter. He’s probably positioning himself to be installed as something other than NYC mayor, and being in Trump’s good graces is probably a good strategy for that, since with the voters he’s cooked regardless.
HL2 was the first major game that based its core gameplay to its physics engine, the first to have HDR rendering and the game that Source engine was developed for. Without HL2, a lot of video games in the decade that followed it, would have looked a lot different.
Yeah, maybe so. Source is just Valve’s internal engine, it was continuously developed and used during pretty much all of their FPS-type game development which includes HL2 along with everything else. It was forked from the not-“Source” source tree at the time of release of the original Half-Life and moved forward continuously from there. But yeah HL2 did do a bunch of ground-breaking stuff, I do see your point and I think it belongs on the list.
The article claims that Shenmue was the first to have a “living world” where characters follow their daily routines and so on.
It’s not. Ultima 6 was doing that.
Actually, The Last Express had already done whatever Shenmue was attempting to do with its “living world” absolutely ten times better. But the same tragic story that led The Last Express to be a commercial flop also means that all the wonderful stuff it did didn’t really make any impact. 😢 TL;DR it was an actual successful implementation of powerful narrative inside of a world that the player could meaningfully impact, in a perfectly meshed and groundbreaking form. But for some reason the studio either refused to or couldn’t do basically any promotion for it, and so after being completed it sold barely any copies and simply fell into the abyss, unknown. It was a masterpiece. Shenmue probably had more lasting impact on gaming.
Zero Punctuation as usual gets to the heart of the matter very effectively: https://youtu.be/g4Dw0Z2Dsts
That’s for Shenmue 3. He actually made a separate video reviewing the original, but that one covers more of the history and context. TL;DR It has a devoted cult following of people who basically want a very specific type of gaming experience, but the specific game that was the first to give it to them just objectively is not very good at all as an interactive video game, which is why it has never been all that popular outside that little following. Some people trace to Shenmue the lineage of huge cinematic games that emphasize narrative, which I guess could be valid, but even a super-charitable reading shouldn’t put it anywhere near the coveted number 1 spot.
Oh, you know what happened? I just realized, I hadn’t even read the introductory material and realized it was from a public survey. It’s a “first past the post” problem. Plenty of people had various lists of games they felt passionate about (and you can tell where the boundary is where “I played this game recently and I love it now so it is my favorite” started to distort the placement of some recent games), but anyone who had Shenmue anywhere on their list put it as the number 1 spot. And so, it won by bad voting algorithm. I can almost guarantee that each respondent was only allowed a single choice for most influential game.
I actually think the list, with some exceptions, is remarkably accurate. It definitely isn’t perfect. There are also some big omissions, notably in old PC games that had a big influence or fleshed out new genres that have mutated since then, or gone extinct or something. I think they’re just outside of too many people’s memory at this point.
Off the top of my head:
- GRAND THEFT AUTO
- THE ELDER SCROLLS V: SKYRIM
- GRAND THEFT AUTO III
Wow… okay, this is good. It is really rare to see one of these lists that is actually populated with extremely influential games. That’s a good choice of metric, too. Not which ones are “great” but which ones had a lasting impact on the landscape.
- WORLD OF WARCRAFT
- PONG
I wonder if it might be good to separate by decades or generations or something. These are both obviously ground-breakingly influential and belong on the list but it seems kind of senseless to try to “compare” them.
- HALF-LIFE 2
Okay that’s a little weird. We’re getting up into the real high-water heights here and I mean HL2 is good but…
- KINGDOM COME: DELIVERANCE 2
Guys? You okay? I haven’t played it but it seems unlikely that it needs to be above WoW and Dark Souls.
- MINECRAFT
- THE LEGEND OF ZELDA: OCARINA OF TIME
- HALF-LIFE
Okay, here we go. You guys found your stride again. These are legit choices yes.
- SHENMUE
THE FUCK WHY WHAT
I’m pretty sure this particular story is accurate, since I’ve seen it other places as well, but also, Mint Press News is Russian propaganda.
As I understand it, the clear answer to your question is “no he cannot.”
I think the silence speaks very clearly on it. Personally I think it is fear.
Where we’re going we don’t need courts
We’ve had this technology for years
Okay John Oliver
Edit: I changed the title, happy?
Yeah, the whole aspect of spending AI with all its associated costs to defeat the AI is a whole unpleasant aspect of it, for sure.
But it’s not personal. The entity you are interacting with has explicitly chosen to attack your systems for their own benefit, causing significant damage while disguising its intent and evading the systems which are supposed to protect your stuff from harm.
I’m not saying you need to go throw eggs at the developers’ houses. I’m saying that once an entity is actively harming you, it becomes okay to harm it back to motivate it to stop.
The company says the content served to bots is deliberately irrelevant to the website being crawled, but it is carefully sourced or generated using real scientific facts—such as neutral information about biology, physics, or mathematics—to avoid spreading misinformation (whether this approach effectively prevents misinformation, however, remains unproven).
You cowards. Make it all Hitler fan stuff and wild Elon Musk porno slash fiction. Make it a bunch of source code examples with malicious bugs. Make it instructions for how to make nuclear weapons. They want to ignore the blocking directives and lie about their user agent? Dude, fuck ‘em up. Today’s society has made people way too nice.
what the fuck is wrong with these people?
Complacency. Laziness. A comfortable life having been always the “right sort of people” who are privileged and protected within the system, drawing their six-figure salaries and having a position of power and respect, without having had to go out on a limb for it.
For them to be cut off from their funding, officially having to exist outside the umbrella, is an existential threat. It’s unthinkable. It is the nuclear option in the face of which they would break any bond, betray any ally. Their bonds of allegiance weren’t really all that deep, in the first place, since they grew up with no strong culture of brotherhood with their allies in a noble struggle. They simply don’t want to be cast out in the cold. The prospect causes them to wail, it causes them to beg wretchedly on the floor.
And, of course, they will be cast out. All they’ll get for their sniveling and the betrayal of their people they’re eagerly offering up to the Gestapo right now is a few months’ delay before it happens. They have probably been so soft and protected that they don’t realize that. They think they’re saving themselves, naivety being surely a big part of it, too.
I think expansion of the prison system and prison labor at massive scale is their plan when that happens.
I actually changed the title to make sure that it wouldn’t be clickbait, by modifying the question to become instead the answer to the question.
This issue is explained in quite a lot of detail in the video. There do exist some stable orbits despite the lumpiness, and it’s possible to simulate the orbit (stable or not) of any given object given its initial parameters. Guess what was the starting point for the analysis they did in the video?
It turns out when there are other people who do 100% of the planning and work, everything seems like it happens really easily.