Eh Spanish but not Castellano. In truth you could probably be more granular to describe the various country variants and dialects, but I'm not sure they have words for those divisions, not to the degree of considering them to be other languages.
Falling asleep at work is pretty different than 'beating Medicare' or completely losing track of the topic and saying utter nonsense. When Trump does similar things, it still looks different, it's not a double standard so much as he goes off on incoherent narcissistic tirades and Joe just loses all cohesion of thought.
Trump's personality and charisma make it look completely different.
I'm saying it is more likely they knew he had COVID but thought cancelling / delaying would be a bad political move, and now are announcing it because it might achieve the opposite, concern and understanding.
This also might be a prelude to him stepping down in favor of another candidate or Harris.
So I think it's more likely it was known, and this is a calculated release of information.
This explains the debate, it was COVID! That's why his voice was strange, people were saying he seemed like he was sick.
I highly highly doubt Biden has another half decade of useful life left.
Half Life Alyx is far more recent
It doesn't have an actual cartridge slot, so it's not strictly superior
Exactly why won't take root there
I miss it. I came over right after Digg died, almost half a decade before 2010. Thought it was the ugliest site I had ever seen and found it super confusing.
People did largely speak their minds though, lots of controversial posts and uncensored humor, yeah it was nice, but the change in Reddit really mirrors general cultural changes too, it was more driven by Gen X and older millennials, more tech driven, and more what people would call edgy.
It was the wild west not so much because Reddit specifically was, but because that's what broad tech bro Internet culture was. We also had relatively unmoderated Xbox Live and online gaming and other things that are hard to explain to folks now.
What we would call social media existed, Digg called it Social Bookmarking for a Digg / Reddit / Slashdot model. Myspace was just giving away to Facebook, Twitter was getting off the ground, and chat rooms, like Yahoo chatrooms and Geocities were so unhinged back then.
2005 is around the time that Yahoo started looking major ground to Google when just a few years prior it was the undisputed default search engine.
Neat to think about all this again.
Yeah, I thought everyone kinda intuitively understood this because redneck and farmer used to be synonymous.
It's hard for westerners to understand honor based moral codes, but that's exactly how it works. You can disgrace someone's honor by doing bad things to them and it's not really a fault thing, it's more about protecting honor and it's preservation a virtue.
This is how honor killings work, it's part of systems designed to restore individual or family honor by killing someone who is disgraced.
There are several models of morality, not just the individualist morality models we understand intuitively.
I can't account for your opinions, but I grew up in a home without air conditioning. We kept our butter on the dining room table, in a glass container. We didn't refrigerate it, we used a butter knife to get some for our food.
I was surprised to learn that people ever refrigerate butter, and thought grocery stores did it to extend the life of the butter until someone bought it and brought it home.
I never got sick from the butter to my knowledge. It was never a puddle of liquid either, it was soft and easy to spread.
I'm more shocked to find out most people here aren't echoing any like in kind sentiment. Was my family strange? Is this actually that atypical?
How can you be against porn? It's neither good or bad, it exists and I basically don't watch it, but I recognize that others do, why is that a problem that needs solving? To be clear, I'm reading your response as against porn in all forms and for all audiences based on your wording, is that what you mean?
I meant that it's not true that it turns to liquid
Does Japan even acknowledge what happened in Korea?
I never hear people talk about the animals that are likely dying of a heat stroke
Sorry for the poor title, but even when people talk about climate change, and know it's hotter for them, people don't actually seem to talk about the impact on the rest of the biosphere.
I can't tell if it's not thought about, or just not discussed as much because it is not 'relevant' to their lives.
I can barely function outside for a few minutes without being drenched in sweat, and some of it is probably poor health and not being used to it, but I can tell sl with certainty that I can't survive outside in this heat, and I'm living as a result of a trick or technology.
The animals though? Some of them are straight up fubbernucked. There will be mass animals die offs and people won't even notice.
Remakes and faithfulness to the original vision
I think about this from time to time, but most recently it's the Persona 3 remake that's got me thinking about it now.
The original game was dark, gritty, and I'm really concerned that they're going to downplay that for the more colorful 'mainstream' style in Persona 5.
I loved Persona 5, but 3 has my favorite aesthetic, my favorite 'feel'. I'm worried they now feel like the dark blue, and 'gun' motifs are more controversial now.
I'm also highly disappointed that the extra content from FES and portable won't be in it, that feels like half the appeal of a remake for this title.
I want to like it, but I probably won't.
Brought my Vita on vacation and I'm in love again
I've been a Vita refugee for years, I own two actually. I'm fond of the system, and it makes me miss smaller, actually portable systems.
The past couple years I've largely migrated to the Switch, and it's a good system, but it always feels so heavy in my hands and arms, it won't fit into my purse, and so much of the library is digital only ( Vita did have this problem at the end though ) that I long for the Vita and PSP.
I picked up and played some games lately, like the Little Big Planet on the Vita, and wow that game is so good! The levels feel a little long for a portable system, but it succeeds at feeling like a full blown home console game.
I just picked up a physical copy of The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel because I hear a lot of good about these games. I like JRPGs, but haven't really dived into them because it feels like no matter where I start, I'm starting in the wrong place and it feels so overwhelming.
I go through times where I get obsessed with a specific console again, recently it was the PS3, and before that Sega Saturn.
What systems are you going back to, or maybe even finally getting to try for the first time?
With the release of Phantom Liberty, I truly hope this game is remembered fondly
Maybe I like bad games, or maybe Cyberpunk 2077 was never quite as bad as people say - I'm not sure because I unironically love Forspoken and think it's one of the best games I've ever played.
I did hate on the game hard at release, and a lot of it was well deserved, trying to play it on PS4 or Xbox One ( I picked it up on both ) was actually awful and unstable, I couldn't progress past the club at the beginning of the Street Kid life path so I eventually hung it up for a while.
I bought it at launch, and it was a bad launch, reminded me of the launch of No Man's Sky, except visually the game was stunning, and there was a lot more substance, but it was actually broken.
I ended up giving it a real try at the end of 2021 when I managed to get my hands on an Xbox Series X and it was a drastically different game. This was before the 'next gen' patch, but it had enough fixes and ran butter smooth on the Series X that I ended up getting enthralled.
Y'all this game is good. I had a great build that was frustratingly nerfed hard at the next gen patch ( RIP Overwatch ) but wow the story and world is so interesting, and I feel like this is this AI revolution story just waiting to be told in the background - it's good shit.
I haven't played since the next gen patch, so all that will be new to me along with Phantom Liberty so I'm looking forward to a drastically different game than I played a year and a half ago.
I think CDPR finally did it, or will have did it upon release.
I can't wait.
Final Fantasy XVI is good enough to be my new favorite Final Fantasy and I don't know how to feel about that
I was skeptical, so skeptical, but y'all, it's really actually that good. It both does and doesn't feel like Final Fantasy, the overall story feels very FF, but the way that it's presented feels like a season of Game of Thrones.
I like the worldbuilding and depth of the lore, the voice acting is incredible, visuals are great, and some of the vistas and set pieces have been incredible.
Boss battles are this insane spectacle that I just wasn't expecting, it's just non stop flashy and it gets me pumped and full of anxiety, combat system is pretty complex.
I was not happy about the idea of losing turn based or quasi turn based battles, and I never feel like I have a 'party' ( my happiest was with Jill and Cid ) but it still all works.
The main villain oozes mystery and is pretty creepy, and the secondary villains have been mostly memorable.
I love it.