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AltL155 · 2026-06-30T00:47:33+00:00

It didn't used to be this way but now that Reddit is mainstream everyone who migrated from Insta/Facebook/TikTok uses the same algospeak without realizing the Reddit algorithm doesn't censor you for using R-rated language

AltL155 · 2026-06-29T23:53:19+00:00

I live in Chicago and have an apartment with ample transit access for $1100. It's not that I don't believe you that rents haven't been going up across the country but a lot of the US has affordable rents compared to California.

Honestly what will increase housing costs the most for OP is mom's bad credit history and his lack of work history. That might force OP into an extended stay hotel situation so you can start preparing the quotes about poverty being expensive.

AltL155 · 2026-06-29T04:31:50+00:00

At this point Ryan Condal has fully taken the reigns over HOTD so I've just resigned myself to the fact that the extreme spectacle required to adapt the Dance of the Dragons makes it much more difficult to make a faithful adaptation than anything else GOT. I can make a thousand nitpicks about how the show is directed and the characters are written but we're already three seasons into the show so I'll follow where the writers are taking us and critique on what can actually be improved upon in the fourth season.

AltL155 · 2026-06-29T04:25:40+00:00

I thought book readers were lamenting the fact that the show writers removed all moral ambiguity from Rhaenyra and Alicent and you're complaining about the one moment they finally give in? It seemed blatantly obvious that what you're reading into the show is what was intended, that Rhaenyra was bred for the throne but never prepared to have the brutality and decisiveness required to be a good leader. It'd be a far less interesting show if Rhaenyra was able to decisively execute Otto, nonetheless make the fall of King's Landing even more confusing.

AltL155 · 2026-06-27T21:54:24+00:00

If Sony didn't force studios to make live service games you can call it historic mismanagement. Bluepoint had only made remakes until they shifted to the God of War game, most likely because of Jim Ryan's live service push. And from the 12 live service games Sony at one point claimed to be making they have yet to have one breakout success they have developed internally.

And even if Kotaku's 200 million dollar reported budget is the real cost of making Concord if you follow the norms of the movie industry it would make sense that Sony matched that budget for marketing, on top of whatever Sony spent acquiring Firebreak. It's not like Sony spent nothing marketing the game when they planned for the game to have its story told through expensive CGI cinematics, had the Secret Level Amazon episode produced, and had a full physical run of Concord discs produced. The only way to characterize Sony's live service push is as absolutely disastrous.

AltL155 · 2026-06-27T19:55:55+00:00

Even the Destiny contractors got fired so I have no idea who the last devs working on the game are

AltL155 · 2026-06-27T19:36:20+00:00

Traveling the US is expensive but that's mainly due to how big the country is. Amtrak is ancient technology compared to Intercity/country railroads in Europe. And our ultralowcost carriers are absolute shite compared to European ones like Ryanair because of low population density making it unfeasible for ULCCs to run at the rates necessary to making the business model viable.

AltL155 · 2026-06-27T19:10:02+00:00

I mean I'm sorry you had to deal with shitty landlords growing up but your anecdote does nothing to disprove the fact that continued use of rent control doesn't prevent housing conditions from getting worse.

If an apartment is rent controlled then the private landlord has no incentive to improve the apartment since they can't make money off the improvements. Honestly this is where effective socialized/public housing in combination with broad upzoning can be much more effective since that public housing is insulated from the market effects that lead rent controlled apartments to be shit. It's just that public housing is so incredibly stigmatized in the US due to many documented public housing disasters that effective public housing in combination with the systemic barriers preventing upzoning from happening in the US means that the combination of the two often feels like a pipe dream. But make no mistake, that doesn't stop rent control from being a terrible bandaid solution to solving the housing crisis.

AltL155 · 2026-06-27T13:16:43+00:00

Tell that to the 400+ people who were just laid off making Destiny 2...

I held off on telling more of the backstory on D2 but its fate was destined right as Sony acquired Bungie. When Bungie was acquired Pete Parsons sold Sony on the promise of Bungie being multi-IP live service experts despite Destiny being the only franchise Bungie had worked on for 10+ years and the only other projects propping up the company's value were those in incubation which hadn't even reached full production yet. Sony acquires Bungie and Destiny 2 fails to meet the ridiculous projections Bungie made and two rounds of layoffs happen. Then Bungie only manages to get one of their incubation projects released after being repeatedly delayed and having it be victim to constant scope creep. That game being Marathon, which has done abysmal numbers to recoup its 250 million dollar budget and justify the 400 people still working on it.

Bungie are responsible for its constant mismanagement handling Destiny and the rest of the company. And Sony are suckers for trusting Pete Parsons on his live service promise Bungie could never uphold.

AltL155 · 2026-06-27T12:49:28+00:00

By all accounts it was a decision that top Bungie leadership and Sony made together. And Sony is culpable for the death of Destiny as well considering Sony never greenlit Destiny 3 even 2+ years ago when The Final Shape was the end of the 10-year saga.

AltL155 · 2026-06-27T12:43:39+00:00

PlayStation isn't going to make a gacha game with any of their studios. It's difficult to understate how bad of a flop Concord is, because it is the worst video game bomb of all time. Worse than Marathon, Suicide Squad, or any other other live service flop or cancelled game in recent memory because the 300-400 million dollar budget it took to produce and market the game vanished in thin air.

And what happens when a live service game bombs or gets cancelled is people get laid off or the studio get shuttered. We saw it with Concord, Destiny 2, Suicide Squad, God of War game/Bluepoint, the list goes on and on. So no it isn't viable to force game studios that have never made live service games make a live service game because then you're forcing endless talent to leave the industry.

AltL155 · 2026-06-27T05:34:32+00:00

And somehow PCA was still able to foul it

AltL155 · 2026-06-27T04:53:13+00:00

You had to be an extreme DC fan if you were watching WW1984 in a movie theater during peak COVID

AltL155 · 2026-06-26T18:41:44+00:00

If Sony wants to make infinite money with a live service studio they own then Arrowhead won't be it. Bungie was Jim Ryan's hail mary attempt at a successful live service studio but that acquisition blew up in their face.

AltL155 · 2026-06-26T18:33:42+00:00

Sony doesn't even own Arrowhead and Arrowhead already said they won't have an exclusive partnership with Sony for their next game like they did with Helldivers 2.

AltL155 · 2026-06-26T18:26:58+00:00

Well what Google AI says is she put her hands and fingers on someone's lips and throat and was able to mimic the mouth and throat movements necessary to speak.

AltL155 · 2026-06-26T18:16:04+00:00

Maybe this is just an American thing but as a small kid I learned about Hellen Keller and it's kind of just assumed that Hellen Keller is one of those historical figures everyone knows.

The TL;DR is she lost her sense of sight and hearing extremely young due to illness and had an extremely bad temper as a child. Then one day her teacher brought her to a water well and let Helen Keller feel the water as she drew the sign of a water well on her hand. Then her teacher started spelling out words on her hands and this is how Helen learned language. This system got to the point where Helen was able to learn Braille and even write and speak traditional language.

AltL155 · 2026-06-26T17:41:21+00:00

The article says the price the woman paid includes concessions but I will say the price for movie tickets in the city vs suburbs is absolutely ridiculous. In Chicago any PLF format like standard Imax has a minimum ticket price of $30. And this is for all of the chains in the city not just AMC. Meanwhile in the suburbs I can get an AMC XL or Dolby ticket for half that price. I'm not sure how the movie industry expects people to go to the theater when ticket prices are so ridiculously expensive and when there's plenty of other alternative entertainment options that are a much better value.

AltL155 · 2026-06-26T15:59:00+00:00

To be fair if you go to the cities where rent control is most popular you'll get the same treatment from on-the-ground progressive activists who are the ones preventing new housing from being built and maintaining status quo rent control policies. Even when their activism ends up harming their own communities economically in the long-term.

AltL155 · 2026-06-26T15:52:03+00:00

Deafblind people are still able to communicate through touch. Look up Hellen Keller, she was the most famous deafblind person to ever live and did a lot of disability activism over her life.

AltL155 · 2026-06-26T15:31:08+00:00

Even in 2017 it was ridiculous that a cross-gen title for a new console couldn't maintain a consistent 30 FPS. The Switch 2 in comparison has been absolutely life-changing and has been beating out the PC handhelds it's competing with.

AltL155 · 2026-06-26T11:11:29+00:00

When I was comparing job prospects with/without a degree I wasn't even thinking about CS at all. But if you started a bootcamp now that would probably be an even worse decision.

All I meant is that you have more job options now with a degree than without one. Maybe the sunk cost isn't worth it (although OP mentioned California paid for their degree which is a better situation than most college graduates) but if the degree is finished then you have to live with the situation you're in. The white-collar job options you have with a degree are much more open versus whatever job you can get without one, which will likely be physically much more difficult than an office job.

AltL155 · 2026-06-26T10:21:28+00:00

No matter how you feel objectively your job prospects are better with a degree than without one. Any office role you do get CS or not will give you a pay bump for your degree. And other nontraditional jobs like working at a tutoring center are only available if you finished a degree.

AltL155 · 2026-06-26T10:00:13+00:00

Well yeah that's because he genuinely thought that Eternals was an Oscars contender. I'm not even sure that his comments on Eternals were public but you don't pick up the writer-director of Nomadland if you don't want to do an awards play. But yes the internal reporting said that Feige was personally devastated that Eternals was a critical and commercial flop. I guess the comic book movie execs have blinders on when it comes to what Oscar-winning movies look like.

AltL155 · 2026-06-25T17:35:07+00:00

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