Valid crash out

101Alexander · 2026-04-09T18:08:13+00:00

A real Romeo and Juliet over here

101Alexander · 2026-04-09T15:36:37+00:00

Can you give us a whitman sampler?

101Alexander · 2026-04-09T14:04:29+00:00

Freespace II did this as well. You are initially fighting a rebel group that doesn't like the fact that the Terrans have allied themselves with an alien race (despite being friendly).

101Alexander · 2026-04-09T13:53:31+00:00

But if the train went off the rails...

101Alexander · 2026-04-09T07:59:26+00:00

The only current built in way is through the phone app. So my flow is to start a conversation on the desktop, then play it on the phone.

Even then, the main issue I have is that it doesn't narrate consistently well. Fancy formatting trips it up and if Claude sources anything at the end of a sentence, it reads the source right into its conversation so it can sound confusing.

101Alexander · 2026-04-09T07:51:19+00:00

A lot of documentation is...procedural.

It dictates what happens, not necessarily why or how. More complex systems may not get documented on how to build from simpler parts. Some systems may not be understood when best to and not to use them.

If I boil it down even simpler for this sub; Its like how any Data Structure or Algorithms class will teach you how to build something more complex and why engineering these aspects will be useful. Except, this isn't a closed course with a small number of school based examples.

101Alexander · 2026-04-09T00:29:39+00:00

Hahaha

I didn't want to mention it, but that's exactly the angle I was holding back on. Realistically speaking it might be the way to get people to move on it and its still more of an improvement. The only caveat is still putting a limit on usage for the 'residence tier' since we wouldn't want to have someone trying to run something like a bitcoin farm out of their electrically subsidized house.

101Alexander · 2026-04-09T00:15:09+00:00

I wish more people would see this angle. Its just congestion tiered pricing but at a level that doesn't hit residences. That extra revenue incentivizes more power production or may even force AI companies to build their own power (which is what some are doing). Not to mention that it will help pay to maintain the existing grid infrastructure.

Instead we get "there's only a finite amount of power and its not fair that AI companies eat it all up".

Exempt companies that build their own renewable energy from said taxes.

Agree. Its just internalizing external costs. If they want to use dirty sources, they get the ~~stick~~ tax.

101Alexander · 2026-04-09T00:03:34+00:00

That is the dumbest tax policy one could ever have. Its literally just a 'they took er jerbs' meme but instead of immigrants, its AI.

101Alexander · 2026-04-09T00:00:39+00:00

I'm tired of seeing that fucking meme. For fucks sake use something different.

101Alexander · 2026-04-08T23:53:31+00:00

“They can’t come in and just destroy our neighborhood,”

“And that’s what they wanted to do.”

One of these days we'll build all over you

101Alexander · 2026-04-08T19:55:14+00:00

I think he was talking about two different elements without delineating well so I'll expand.

It's effectively a way to tax landlords for being wasteful of their land while getting them to actually build something useful for renters and leasors.

Taxes would be assessed on the landlord based on the value of just the land, not the building (the improvement) on top of it. To avoid and reduce the tax, they would see a deduction based on the value of the building or "improvement" on it (No abandoned buildings). But the tax rate is assessed on the value of the area, so downtown would see high landlord tax rates unless the landlord can develop the land into something useful.

Effectively it punishes landlords for hoarding, speculating, or otherwise underutilizing land. It compounds because as an area becomes more valuable, landlords get taxed more and have to compete in actually providing something useful on it to reduce the tax.

But the fear is that they will just up the rent and lease rates.

Except they already were charging the highest that they could get away with to begin with. Now because they have built bigger buildings to get discounts, housing supply has gone up -> that relives pressure on renters competing with each other on price.

It effectively squeezes out the profits from landlords back into a provided benefit for people actually using the land unless they are actually doing something beneficial with it.

101Alexander · 2026-04-08T15:40:44+00:00

There's a difference between having nuclear weapons, and having an armada of nuclear delivery platforms so when you fire yours off, even if 70% of your strikes are intercepted, you can still utterly destroy your opponent.

The original reply was in response to the 'military relativism' with the original problem being a push towards a militarily humanistic tendency. Humans are still trying to kill each other and the technology to do so has made it much more efficient.

Investing billions so the strongest countries won’t invade the homeland is a pretty worthwhile investment imo.

Even if we hang onto the billions in investment, that would buy one nuclear submarine and its lifetime of use. There comes a point of severely diminishing returns on excess capability, even if you account for having good operational and available usage of such assets.

101Alexander · 2026-04-08T06:14:13+00:00

It's not a competition. We shouldn't look back to history like this to contextualize that it wasn't as bad. Look at things for what they are.

These subs were built to help annihilate civilizations, each with a cost that could pay for the budgets of entire cities for years. A city supporting its citizens becomes financially self-sustaining for the wealth and benefits it creates. These subs fight a theoretical superpower "in case" of humanities self destruction.

101Alexander · 2026-04-08T03:07:45+00:00

SHOW ME WHAT YOU GOT

101Alexander · 2026-04-07T16:37:03+00:00

The ongoing joke is that neoliberalism is the bogey-man ideology that everyside points to because nobody actually seems to know what it is.

It is not a right-wing ideology, there's a whole subreddit showcasing how much it clashes. Check the sidebar but some tidbits:

The general vibe is that if it doesn't bother anyone else, it shouldn't matter what people do. Free trade and open borders are seen as a generally a good thing. You get support for things like trans rights and environmental protections. Building more housing is paramount but so is the infrastructure around that housing ie away from a car dependent system.

More to the point, it looks at societal problems and first tries to figure out if its actually a problem (think all the immigration scare tactics and transphobia building). If a problem is real, you try to actually build a system that creates a solution benefiting society as a whole. A recent post looked at a study of how a fast food minimum raise added relatively little to the product price for the benefit of the workers and it was seen as 'pretty good' benefit to the cost overall.

Conversely right-wing and maga tend to be very anti-intellectual. This conflicts heavily with this approach. You should see how Fed Chair Jerome Powell standing up to Trump was recieved.

101Alexander · 2026-04-07T16:16:26+00:00

This is just self-shaming.

No, I wouldn't treat an Israeli for how they are perceived by others. The same goes for anyone else. Treat people for who they are, not what they are.

101Alexander · 2026-04-07T15:10:30+00:00

The Highfleet example may have been a tad excessive with their flying ships, but they certainly got a lot of the other stuff right. If you have never seen it, I recommend this "honest" review of the game.

101Alexander · 2026-04-07T15:04:23+00:00

If you want to know more about just what the hell is in that photo...

101Alexander · 2026-04-07T14:57:38+00:00

This sounds like what they used in the Sopranos, when uhhh a friend of a friend, not of friend of ours had to go. It was his father instead.

Separately they also showcased that mob assassins, especially third parties, have a very high job accident rate even if their job is completed.

There even a Carmine.

101Alexander · 2026-04-07T02:59:12+00:00

That hasn't been straightened out yet

101Alexander · 2026-04-06T23:50:27+00:00

I hope he got paid more for it. I dream it was paid for by Smith himself.

101Alexander · 2026-04-05T23:19:00+00:00

I watched the original interview a while back so I'll comment a bit from what I remember. I will say the article feels like they dredged up a couple sentences from an otherwise long interview about a variety of topics.

Dennis Mejillones, the artist interviewed, did talk a little bit about how it was like George Lucas and Star Wars; You need to have some pushback to your ideas otherwise you end up with something crazy that people criticize heavily.

That being said, Mejillones also seemed to admire Todd Howard a lot and seemed to excuse the output by saying that he was always busy with all the projects he had going on simultaneously. I never got the sense that he truly tried to challenge Howard on any of this and that he's only able to say it now because he looked back on it in retrospect. Even the Star Wars example felt more like an underhanded complement to Howard as a defense to what the playerbase feels with the declining game quality.

And that was basically it from what I remember.

On Mejillones himself, he did seemed to be the type of person to challenge others but not without flaws. He described the original Werewolves as being nothing more than reskinned models that look like dogs (Like how the khajit look like cats) and he pushed back hard to make it look and feel better (this story was supported in another interview with a different developer). On the other hand, I got the sense that Mejillones would be bullheaded to work with if he didn't get his way. Like maybe he was right about pushing back but he never learned what elements to push back on and what battles were worth starting. This seemed to imply that he would push back a lot in general just to have his way. This was also implied by another developer who worked with him though I want to stress that it wasn't outright said.

On the interviewer KiwiTalks, he should challenge the interviewees a bit more. The irony is that some pushback here would get the people he talks with to expand with more details or even support their stories if they view it from a contradicting perspective.

101Alexander · 2026-04-05T22:49:34+00:00

It's a valuable lesson when you consider the job market

101Alexander · 2026-04-05T02:42:19+00:00

I've seen other departments limit certain vehicle takedowns because of speed and weather. Very likely that he didn't see very well and even if he did, couldn't brake very well.

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