Quetzalcutlass

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[–] Quetzalcutlass 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

And regular mail has been basically carried by spam for decades. It's a real problem - how do you fix an industry if it's entirely dependent on the problem you're trying to solve? Everyone involved will fight you and the consumers will lose no matter what, short of public funding or other options that will be labeled "socialist" and never pass in this political climate.

[–] Quetzalcutlass 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

It makes sense Bethesda would do it. They're owned by Microsoft, who started the trend of pseudo-currency sold in packs that don't match prices twenty years ago.

[–] Quetzalcutlass 9 points 5 months ago

They don't have it for the same reason Sony later removed it from the PS3: letting users run arbitrary code on your console provides a massive attack surface for piracy and jailbreaking exploits.

[–] Quetzalcutlass 6 points 5 months ago

That could take a lifetime!

[–] Quetzalcutlass 10 points 5 months ago

I've seen code with binary data (such as icons) baked into constants. I can't wait for the three hour narration of base64 encoded pngs.

[–] Quetzalcutlass 25 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

They canceled the GTA V story DLC after seeing the success of GTA Online, and their long-time head writer and producer resigned. I have little faith that GTA6 will capture the same spark that their earlier games had.

[–] Quetzalcutlass 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

It's fixed in the development versions. If you installed yt-dlp using pip, update with the prerelease flag: pip install --upgrade --pre yt-dlp. If you manually installed it, run yt-dlp --update-to nightly or grab the latest dev from their nightly repo.

[–] Quetzalcutlass 3 points 5 months ago

In ~~pog~~ dog form!

[–] Quetzalcutlass 3 points 5 months ago

Metro also comes to mind. The highest difficulty level made both you and the enemies squishier, while also making ammo (which doubled as currency) much rarer. It played so much better that the community even recommended that difficulty level to complete newcomers.

... And then they made the Ranger difficulty a paid DLC in the sequel...

[–] Quetzalcutlass 9 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

The right-hand wing leading edge suffered a serious dent.

That's a bit of an understatement, going by the photo.

[–] Quetzalcutlass 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Genie was locked up at 20 months old. I don't think they locked her up because of her mental illness. They locked her up because of their mental illness. I reference Genie because she's the most documented "wild child," which is a completely disgusting term.

I was going off old college memories - after looking it up, it sounds like her father thought she was mentally disabled and began/increased his neglect because of it, despite her only outward health issue being delayed walking due to a hip problem.

Also re: "wild child". I agree, and thanks for pointing it out. That's what they were called in my books, but catchy rhyme aside it's a horrible way to refer to a victim of such abuse. I'll edit my original comment.

Language is universal to all humans, even though it is multifaceted. Humans also have massive brains that require extra care to bring to fruition in comparison to other animals. Language is one of those things. You can learn other languages at any age, but you first need learn a language.

It would be fascinating to know what inner thoughts look like without the construct of language to frame them in. Unfortunately there's no ethical way to find out, short of uplifting a non-sapient species and asking them.

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