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_danny

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  • What is good to eat when you have no appetite?

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  • My go to is plain white rice with plain chicken thighs if I can stomach meat if not I'll make it with some chicken broth.

    If you're struggling to eat for more than like a week you probably should bite the bullet and see a doctor. A prolonged lack of appetite can be a sign of some pretty serious stuff.

  • I can't see how anyone thinks ADHD is a superpower.

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  • Out of curiosity, what was the book?

  • Minmaxxing

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  • The lack of praise that game got is practically criminal

  • The Witcher author says he's never played the games that cemented his fame: "I have no time for this, and it's not entertainment for me"

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  • I started writing an "here's why I disagree" reply, but I slowly realized that I kinda agree. Sword Art Online was a pretty bad anime, but SAO Abridged used the same characters and plot points to tell a different type of story and was absolutely terrific

    I think the main problem I have is with the scale. If you're remaking something, and you're expecting more people to see the new thing than saw the original, then you should stay faithful to the original (not shot for shot remake, but keep things as close as reasonable) I think I feel this way because if I were an author, I'd be crushed if more people saw the bastardized version of my life's work than saw my original.

    There is also the issue with a large majority of recent remakes being quick cash grabs. These do nothing but tarnish the original work by driving away people who may have eventually seen the original.

  • The Witcher author says he's never played the games that cemented his fame: "I have no time for this, and it's not entertainment for me"

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  • I think a large part of people's issues with the recent trend of adapting/recreating existing media is how the director changed the intent or "soul" of the work.

    A story is more than its plot points. It's how The Lion King and Hamlet have the same story bones, but have wildly different morals and audiences. So when a work is adapted for a different medium, stripping it down to its plot points kinda kills the soul of the work. The Avatar animated series and the movie (that doesn't exist) share a lot of plot points, but the movie is clearly soulless because they didn't understand what made the show great, and just retold the story with a slight spin.

    The Last of Us worked so well because they understood why it was good, and only made changes "in the spirit" of the original work. They didn't try to put a spin on the story, they just adapted it for the new medium.

    That's why understanding the work is so important when you are adapting it to a different medium. If you just transplant the plot points without understanding what makes it good, it's going to be soulless. If you try to just use the characters and setting to tell a different story, it's also going to be soulless because those characters aren't made to tell that story. Make your own characters and tell your own story if you don't want to stick to the spirit of the original work.

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  • Kinda glosses over how these perks add a couple dozen extra dialogue options, many of which are unique ways to solve a problem.

    Honestly my favorite type of rpg "perk", one that gives a slight gameplay boost but also affects the story and/or dialogue in a meaningful way.

    Having 25% more "luck" is cool and all, but I'd choose a perk that gave me 5% more luck and more ways to solve problems any day of the week.

    It's one of the reasons I loved Prey. It seemed like every perk you got added new ways to get around, dialogue, and/or new combat techniques.

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  • What game is this? It sounds so messed up.

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    Fuck you.

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  • The video being in SD doesn't make it free to host. YouTube still has to pay for the servers that store the videos and for delivering the video to you. And guess what! Most people don't watch in HD and don't even realize it.

    Is it cheaper? Yeah. Is it free, no. Delivering just the audio for billions of users would cost more than most people will see in a lifetime ten times over.

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    Fuck you.

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    Fuck you.

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  • That's kinda the point YouTube is going for. People who do not pay, and who use ad blockers are actively costing them money. People don't realize how expensive it is to host an hd video that can be streamed to millions of people. There's a reason no one has been able to seriously compete with YouTube.

  • In Wake Of 18 Murdered In Yet Another Mass Shooting, NRA-Funded Federal Agency Trains Children To Shoot Guns

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  • I'm actually beginning to believe the setting for Ready Player One. In the next ten years it might just be cheaper and safer for children to be given a nice VR headset and attend school fully virtually, hell they might actually get a better education since it'll be easier to mute misbehaving children.

    Not exactly going to work for kids under 12 or so, and there's probably lots of eye strain associated with being in a VR headset for hours upon hours, but hey at least the risk of being shot will be lower since there's clearly no way in hell that we will get laws to control weapons.

  • Gabe Newell on why game delays are okay: 'Late is just for a little while. Suck is forever.'

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  • The dude is 61, not even retirement age in the US. You don't need to be dramatic just yet.

  • and then when I actually try to apologize to people I end up making it all about myself again

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  • I'm not sure if I'm misunderstanding or if the other commenters are misunderstanding. Sounds like you want to stop being enabled by other people.

    The answer is you cut those people out. If they are actively encouraging bad behavior you have expressed the desire to change, then your only option is to minimize the amount of time you spend with the person. Martial Goldsmith has a really nice book on how to effectively change behavior called Triggers. (Yes the name of the book is terrible)

    Or maybe I'm just extremely sleep deprived and not getting the joke.

  • Very few people realise how environmentally devastating this game is.

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  • Most of the US corn crop goes to animal feed, so no you don't get food from it. At least not directly. If you totaled up all of the land used by golf courses, you'd be at .1% of just the amount of land used for animal feed. And about 1% of the land used by home lawns.

    They're not that bad, there are much worse enemies than golf courses in general. Again, courses that are in the middle of a city that do nothing but increase property value are terrible, but most are perfectly fine and use way less water than you think.

  • Very few people realise how environmentally devastating this game is.

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  • Most courses use man made ponds as both hazards and as retention ponds so they can use that rain water.

    You know what uses three times the amount of water per acre? Corn. And almonds use about ten times more water than corn. And people have only just started caring about lawns, that use two orders of magnitude more water, fertilizer, and land than golf courses.

    Golf courses really aren't that bad from an ecological point of view when compared acre per acre to other large man made structures. They're generally pretty small when compared to other large landscaping projects at 30-80 acres. The issue is when a city has like twenty courses just for the purpose of driving up housing prices.

    Would that land be better as a park? Probably, but this is the US, someone would see an unprofitable "empty" plot of land and throw million dollar houses on it.

  • How can you help someone escape a cult-like real estate group?

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  • From what I've seen, your $/h for any type of part-time software work is going to be very low.

    You know who has no idea what the going rate is for a decent website? Small business owners. That's why they don't have one to begin with.

    I've found that if you're going to freelance, you need to do it full time. Your going to be passed over if someone can do it twice as fast for the same rate, so you really have to slash your prices if you want any business.

  • How can you help someone escape a cult-like real estate group?

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  • IT side jobs don't really exist, especially if you're looking for cash. You'd almost be better off picking up a part time shift flipping burgers.

  • not again...

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  • Sugar, spice and too little nice

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  • Oh no! A statement which applies to the vast majority has some exceptions! Better break out the um-actually and technically-incorrect stamps.

    As someone who has worked in IT, age has a strong negative correlation with tech literacy. Is every boomer tech illiterate? Of course not. Some boomers built the tech we use today. But most boomers are worse with tech than most ten year olds.