I played Alan Wake 1 recently, because I really liked Control and Alan Wake 2 had just come out. I enjoyed it! The actual gameplay wasn't my favorite, it was rather repetitive, for sure, and I wasn't super happy with the ending, but still, I think it's quite worth playing! I'm looking forward to playing Alan Wake 2 (and thinking it might even retroactively improve the ending of the first game, I wouldn't be surprised!)
Your first "if" is so ridiculous I can't really take any of your comment seriously.
Why the fuck would Russia declare war on the UK? I know British politicians are trying to convince their populace this will happen (some of those dinguses are quoted in the linked article), but like, use your head here. Russia is so, so far away from the UK and there's nothing in the UK that Russia doesn't already have plenty of. Why would they attack a tiny little island a continent away? For what purpose?
I don't think you're going to have a lot of luck with that, tbh.
I've been trying to convince my mom of the same thing for years at this point, and I've made exactly no progress. It doesn't matter that all of her children are trans and we take every opportunity we can to point out transphobia in the NYT, in her mind any instances of transphobia in the NYT are scattered one-offs and don't come together to form any kind of a pattern of transphobia. That's ridiculous, of course, but my mom is absolutely incapable of believing that the NYT is anything but the best journalistic outlet in the world and there is no amount of evidence to the contrary that will sway her.
I sincerely hope you have better luck with your relative than I have, but if I were you I'd plan for disappointment.
Sure, but Celeste's accessibility settings go so far beyond colorblind settings, subtitles, and turning off camera shake it's unreal!
I haven't really messed around with the accessibility settings for Celeste because I like the challenge where it is, but holy hell can you tweak just about everything about the game experience to precisely your desired level.
Want to change it so that you don't get fatigued hanging onto walls as quickly (or at all)? You can. Want to give yourself an extra dash or 3? Go for it. Want to slow the entire game down by 10% because your reaction times are just a touch slow? Yeah, you can do that too.
You're really underselling Celeste's accessibility features, is what I'm saying. They are gameplay difficulty modifying features, because the Celeste devs understand that a ridiculously hard platformer like Celeste can be made accessible to a much wider audience if you think carefully about gameplay difficulty settings and how to implement them well.
I really do think the existence of Celeste and its accessibility menu should have put this "debate" to bed. Devs should be adding menus like this to every single game. I understand it's a lot more work, especially to do it well, but it's work that I think is really important, because I'd like video games to be widely played, by all kinds of people, and having a menu of settings you can tweak to tailor the experience to a difficulty level you prefer can open up these experiences to a ton of people who otherwise would never have been able to play the game.
Is it just me, or is every one of these fucking emails entirely incomprehensible?!
Ok, that's a bit of an exaggeration, I can almost read this one, it's making fun of trump and saying most of his whole rich, famous person situation is a bit of an act and he's actually poor and in debt. Fine.
But like, in general, the effort required to glean any meaning from these horrible emails is so, so high, that I don't understand how everyone else seems to be doing it all the time! Am I just uniquely bad at reading boomer ghoul emails or are other people struggling too?
Hey, I've actually, for once, played a GOTY nomination during the year it's nominated for! (Silksong, of course it's Silksong.) That has never happened to me before!
This kind of thing happens in rural America waaay more often than you'd think. When I was a kid my dad had a years long standoff with one of our neighbors over a road. The neighbor kept trying to block the road, my dad would get the backhoe out and unblock it, it went to court at least twice, and was so contentious that eventually the neighbors ended up moving because everyone else hated them so much.
Looking back on it now, I'm not entirely sure my dad (and most of the neighborhood) were entirely in the right, there was another road we could use, it was just slightly less convenient.
But yeah, years long fights over county roads seems like a rural america tradition, really!
The math department where I went to grad school was also surprisingly queer (specifically trans). At one point 3 out of 4 of my advisor's grad students were trans.
What's your definition of propaganda? I'd like to invite you to spend some time in this thread thinking through why this article is, in your mind, so clearly propaganda that it's not worth engaging with.
Of course, I can't (and wouldn't want to) force you to spend any time or mental effort thinking about this. But if you'd like someone to (kindly and calmly) ask you questions that could help you come to a deeper understanding of your thoughts about propaganda.
Because this piece seems, to me, interesting and worth reading and thinking about. I also don't think that the two categories "news" and "propaganda" are totally disjoint, instead I think there's a huge overlap, with most "news" being delivered as "propaganda".
That's the one I noticed too! I spent way too long wracking my brain trying to find a single similarity between The Matrix and any of those books, and literally all I can think of is that in Brave New World people are born in test tubes and also in The Matrix people are born in little pod things.
But like, that's the only similarity I could find, at all! I feel like I must be missing something, because surely there's at least one other passing similarity somewhere, these stories are all dystopian fiction, after all. Like, statistically there must be other similarities, but I sure can't think of any!
Oh this is some good slop! I love that the Wikipedia nerds are in there doing what they do best (being pedantic rules lawyers), with a good proportion of them arguing against good ol' Jimbo, in their infuriating, pedantic way.
Well I did read the F-22 page, as I said before. You're right that I didn't read the rest of them because at that point in the conversation I was extremely confused as to why you'd linked them in the first place.
I see that the US built a total of 195 F-22's. That number isn't any of the ones you listed in your one comment that had some numbers.
To be charitable to you, I might be able to find the 1000 warplanes and 70 nuclear sub numbers somewhere in the wikipedia pages you linked. I'm not going to read them, I'm really not into military hardware, but if you tell me that's where you got the numbers, I'll go ahead and believe you. It would be better practice, though, to quote a passage that includes the relevant figures, then link to the place you're quoting from.
Now what about the numbers for Russian warplanes and Russian nuclear subs? What are your sources for those figures? They surely aren't found in a wikipedia article about the american military
Now we're finally getting to a real argument! Now you're arguing that the US is better prepared for war than Russia is, not just that the US spends more money on war than Russia does.
I do notice, however, that you have linked not a single article or source for the claims in these comments. Where are your numbers coming from?
You might be right that the US is more prepared for war than Russia is. I'm not convinced, and also I think m532 has a good point that nukes (which both the us and Russia have) change everything, but you could still be right.
I'm actually not that interested in whether the claim "america would easily beat Russia if they actually tried" is true. My entire reason for engaging was simply to point out that "the US spends more on war and hence is necessarily better prepared for war" is not a good argument; the conclusion does not follow from the premise.
If you want to convince people on the internet, you should practice making better arguments, and sourcing them properly. Your argumentation in this thread has been abysmal and I wanted to help you see that and make improvements
I played Alan Wake 1 recently, because I really liked Control and Alan Wake 2 had just come out. I enjoyed it! The actual gameplay wasn't my favorite, it was rather repetitive, for sure, and I wasn't super happy with the ending, but still, I think it's quite worth playing! I'm looking forward to playing Alan Wake 2 (and thinking it might even retroactively improve the ending of the first game, I wouldn't be surprised!)