remember when the video game and film industries realized it would be safer to cannibalize proven IPs and the ratio of sequels/remasters/reboots/remakes/rereleases climbed precipitously in the 21st century? is it just me or are musicians rereleasing the same song across multiple editions of albums just so it has more opportunities to show up on your discovery feed. the algorithm needs to figure out how to punish this fr. i just got recommended a song in my discovery feed that ive already listened to like 50 times in the past week. it didn’t register as the same song because it was on a different edition of the same album (that only differed by a single song, i might add!). music historians are going to have a very hard time organizing the 2020s.
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look, i get it. if the murderer with the axe showed up at your door and asked where your friend is, you don’t wanna tell him, i get it. but in a locker room, the ethical code has gotta be the formulation of universal law. every time you want to do something, ask yourself “wait, would the locker room become completely unusable if everybody did this?” i dont care if your locker room behavior grants you 100 utils and only deducts 1 from me. what i care about is JUSTICE.
want to leave your bag on the space-constrained changing bench and then walk away? remember the formulation of universal law. want to listen to music from your bluetooth speaker in the shower? REMEMBER THE FORMULATION OF UNIVERSAL LAW.
im a live and let live gym guy, you know? i wont, like, ask you how many sets you have left on the squat rack and then awkwardly hover waiting for you to finish.
but dont you ever let me catch you doing one of these.
so why does the great war get to be called “world war i” if every important engagement happened in a few tiny slivers of europe and the middle east? seems a little silly when you compare it to the truly global scale of world war ii. go back to calling it “the great war” and call the second one “the world war”, implying there will be no sequel.
my wife has been stuck deep in the postgame of pokemon heartgold for the last week or two, after a short 5-year break from all video games. for the longest time pokemon’s enduring popularity among adults hasn’t made sense to me. i was thinking of it like a linear adventure game, and its a very poor one. it has an uncompelling narrative and really terrible pacing. watching her set goals and make both long and short term plans while navigating the extremely complex interactions of the overworld and battle system made it click. it’s more like a high fidelity simulation with an extreme level of agency, especially in the postgame. the gratification comes from setting and achieving goals. you kind of have to make your own fun, but oh what fun it is. i get it now.
the castro/mission balance patch has landed, and there are some welcome changes. the sanchez and market intersection has been nerfed, rendering the left turn strategy entirely unviable. hopefully we’ll finally see more players utilizing 15th for their routing.
there’s always a percentage of people participating in any sport who aren’t there for the love of the game but rather to be seen doing it. for some reason my gut tells me that this percentage is quite high for pool. it’s not a very stimulating game but you look cool and dangerous while you’re playing it.
guys i think i permanently damaged both of my knees by running full tilt down a san francisco hill to get to the post office before it closed. how was evolution able to produce both the mighty frontal cortex and the troublesome ACL?
why do so many moderators on irc act grumpy when people are using their chat platform to chat. im attracted by the elegance of the protocol and driven away by their bad vibes. discord may be full of weirdos but at least they want to connect.
look at my cat
it’s kind of like if twitter only had one user and he was really cool