ComradePlatypus

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 11 months ago

Possibly I've seen a bunch of clips recently where the Dems have come off as normal. Some guy was like "the republicans are the reason your uncle is so weird at thanksgiving now" and Andy Beshear being like "The republicans just seem to want to be really cruel to children for some reason" (when talking about trans kids).

[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

The poll could be broken down a bit better. I believe in a similar one I saw, for example Bisexual Women were the most positive, where Bisexual men were just below Lesbian. Gay men lagging behind, but all were above Heterosexual men and women though.

Likewise I believe how people view trans men, trans women, non binary and other groups also fluctuates. Like there's people with wildly different opinions on trans men versus trans women, versus people who do not fill a binary position.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

Hilarious (and frustrating) how janky Fallout 4 is sometimes. I've been playing for like 100 hours. I've suddenly been hit with the problem where the game speeds up super fast. It's because the physics engine is tied to the frame rate (capped at 60fps). However this is normally a problem that happens from the start of playing. It's been fine for a long time.

The only change is I downloaded a mod that adds tents from Far Harbour (which I removed and didn't fix) and I put on the red paint on my X02 from the creation club that makes it go faster. It literally happened immediately after that. I'm like has the creation club mod somehow broken the game by making my armor go faster? Removing the mod didn't fix it. Reloading older saves didn't fix it.

I played with my monitor refresh rate. I checked the INI files. I updated my graphics drivers and optimised the game again didn't fix it. Forcing Vsynce, triple buffing and frames at 60fps only partially fixed it (it went from looney toons fast to unpleasantly a bit faster than normal). I've got the script extender and download the Physics fix, but I went to sleep before I could try it. Apparently that fixes it. Hopefully try that tonight.

Also I reset the global time speed in the game incase it was a completely unrelated issue.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I tend to just call Venezuela and Bolivia's parties as Socialist. They're not Marxist-Leninists etc. But socialist has always been used more broadly. I don't think either MAS or PSUV are social democratic. Chavez attempted a coup, was planning a guerrilla war if he lost the election and was returned to power by a popular uprising when he was couped. MAS started in unions and illegal revolutionary organisations, it's through strikes, riots and other actions they were able to run and win elections. When Evo Morales was couped, it was the popular uprising that restored the election that brought them back to power.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Yeah this. Like it didn't activate in the Falklands War for a bunch of reasons, but it would've had the USA wanted to bomb and overthrow Argentina's government.

Which they didn't as it was an anti-communist military junta.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

But also the way many old words have lost their nuance and became merely synonyms to pad out an article. Like a score means 20. I would expect many scores of soldiers in any assault.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Watched the penultimate episode of the Acolyte, so the precipitant to all the conflict is “Jedi do Waco”

[–] [email protected] 20 points 11 months ago (1 children)

New character in John Wick film dropped

[–] [email protected] 41 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

From what I've heard a lot of young people in the DPRK do watch pirated K-dramas and listen to K-Pop. Like it's in Korean, it's free due to piracy, easily accessed etc.

The government doesn't really care as its not going to turn their society capitalist magically like watching game of thrones won't make you a monarchist/feudalist. Plus until recently peaceful reunifucation was a big goal etc.

Similarly they watch Chinese dramas and listen to their music. There's a Korean-Minority so media/subtitiles/dubs made for that market.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I think I accidentally made Fallout 4's story better (admittedly not hard) with my alternative start. I did an escaped Synth. I made them the default looking female character and called them Nora. That said I have changed my hair, tattoos, scars etc during the game.

When I eventually got around the main quest, I find the body of Nora with the same recorded voice and features as my character dead in Vault 111. Kellog mistakes me for the dead Nora. I see her alive in his memories. Codsworth thinks I'm the old Nora. There's obviously cracks in the mod and dialogue where things become janky.

But the whole thing has become murky and ambiguous. Is my character a Synth? Does my character know that? Does the Institute Know this? Does Shaun know I'm the original or a Synth copy?

Given I'm Railroad and I'm infiltrating the Institue our dialogue suddenly becomes a game of intrigue. I'm trying to butter him up so I can work to sabotage them. Is he observing me as an experiment in turn or is it a weird dying man's attempt to resurrect his mother?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Yeah but he said diet Mountain Dew which has weird vibes.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

One of my favourite things is how artists in the past would portray historic events in paintings with anachronistic clothing, weapons and armour. As in stuff more contemporary (or if older still not ancient). Legionaries dressed as Condottieri etc.

We should apply that films/TV/games with no exposition or context. Just imagine a film about the 30 years war but giving everyone WW1 style uniform and gear.

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