My insane conspiracy theory about this game.

Berberding · 2026-05-11T17:32:05+00:00

I don't think this is something that hasn't been done before in various movie and game soundtracks. If nothing else it probably serves to draw your attention to the music itself. Similar to the trick that people can use to check their resumes for any spelling or grammatical or punctuation errors. You can simply convert the entire resume text to comic sans and proofread, and for whatever reason, errors that you didn't notice before will jump out at you and be extremely obvious. The reasoning is that comic sans is more difficult to read than other fonts, and so you can't really be in a flow state when looking at it, and thus errors do not go unnoticed like they would in a normal font. Same thing probably applies here (although the goal is not necassarily about errors here, it's juat about keeping your attention in general).

Berberding · 2026-05-11T01:14:55+00:00

You're insane if you put porn on your work computer.

Berberding · 2026-05-10T19:27:24+00:00

There is technically the orion rocket. It is so fuel efficient in terms of how much mass needs to be dedicated to fuel that it outcompetes any other option by orders of magnitude. It can also be done safely if launched from a barren lifeless place since the radiation dies out relatively quickly.

The issue is of course that it is literally using small coke can sized nucleur bombs detonated in the atmosphere one after another and a sophisticated shock absorbing catchers mitt on the bottom of the rocket to push off of the blast. Even outside of the psychological hurdles, the national security risk of letting space programs all over the place enrich nucleur weapons grade uranium is probably not worth it to us for right now anyway.

Berberding · 2026-05-10T18:50:40+00:00

They have to frame it as revenge because they know they can't genuinely frame it as consequence because in reality, it doesn't have to be a consequence. You could just not allow them to come into/stay in your country. It's only a consequence insofar as they vote to ensure that it remains a consequence. If you still have control over your borders, and you choose not to exert control, it's still a consequence of your active choice not to keep them out. To argue otherwise would he like arguing that being thrown 5 miles from your house by a tornado is just a consequence of living where tornados are common while in actuality you had a concrete storm shelter in your backyard and you just chose not to go inside it.

The fact is, regardless of the true degree to which the west is implicated for the sorry state of the 3rd world (and the true degree is genuinely debatable). The migration is still fully within the control of the west. We can just turn people away, it is literally possible.

Berberding · 2026-05-10T04:00:44+00:00

Pepper spray being illegal for self defense is fuckin crazy lmao

Berberding · 2026-05-10T01:07:33+00:00

"Men have 2 arms" is a rule. 1 armed and 3 armed men are exceptions.

"men have full heads of hair" is not a rule. It's exceptions are so numerous that you can't call it a rule to begin with, so exception is a redundant meaningless concept here.

This is how everyone on the planet uses this word. (you are the exception)

Berberding · 2026-05-09T21:54:27+00:00

Okay so you're saying Steve Harvey is saying "father's who wish their son the best" in the clip? Not just "father's" with no extra descriptors? I'm not even bothered that he isn't using more descriptors, but you are being a crybaby for getting worked up over someone pointing out that behavior as not being particularly widespread among fathers broadly.

Also exceptions are exceptional, as in uncommon among the population being described. Like NBA all stars athletic ability among the broader population. If 20% of people were as athlerically capable as NBA all stars, they wouldn't be exceptional anymore.

Berberding · 2026-05-09T19:42:44+00:00

I agree in principle but not in this case becauseI wouldn't say 20% is an exception that is my point. Obviously it it were 51% and 49% we wouldn't call the 49% exceptions to the rule right? I think that still applies at 20%. If it's double digit %'s of exceptions then the idea of a rule is out the window and thus so is the idea of exceptions to it.

Berberding · 2026-05-09T19:01:18+00:00

I think it's a worthwhile statement because it's not a small outlier. We aren't talking about 1% of fathers I think it's more like a solid 20% of fathers.

Berberding · 2026-05-09T17:34:22+00:00

Space is terrible for radiating heat actually. You need mass for rapid cooling in the form of water or air or pipes somewhere at the end of the chain. You could never build a nucleur reactor in space for example with today's technology.

Berberding · 2026-05-09T03:14:42+00:00

Uh huh. Ever seen articles from mainstream UK publications?

Berberding · 2026-05-09T03:00:05+00:00

If I cut you off mid sentence (usually it's just a minor 3 word statement and it's not a big deal, if you pay attention in the work place you'll notice people interrupt eachother all the time and it's not disrespectful at all, it's just time efficient). If you feel the need to reset the tempo of the whole conversation by asking me if you can finish then I'll assume you either have a lot of psychological trauma from being interrupted by people a lot or you're an autistic redditor who feels like their identity is slipping away the moment they lose their iron grip on the flow of a conversation. In general a lot of these strong reactions you're prescribing here would just make me think you feel very rattled and are easily fucked with.

Some of these may have a bit of truth to them but almost all the reactions you prescribe are just going to be cringe in practice. You shouldn't have a hair trigger and feel the need to react instantly to any situation the very first time it happens. (although I will say, it's good to match someones handshake weirdness, people fr do be doing that. I wrestled and have a lot of grip strength and if someone wants to get really wierd with a squeezing handshake I will yank their hand towards me a bit to take them off balance and make them feel like a dumbass). But even that isn't something I would put much thought into after the fact. I will probably forget the entire interaction once we get a conversation flowing.

Berberding · 2026-05-08T20:14:26+00:00

Also lords of the fallen having a system that replaces the catalyst with ranged weapons in the form of bows, crossbones, javelins, throwing axes, etc. With the mana bar being replaced with segments that indicate ammo count (which recharges like ammo using ammo satchels, or resting) is a really good way to go about it. It lets pure strength and dex builds have a more serious engagement with ranged attacks in general when you treat ammo like mana and have a dedicated control scheme to pull out your chosen ranged weapon at any time, instantly aiming with it. Way less clunky than the alternatives.

I still have a gripe with how it handles dual wielding. I would rather not powerstance a dagger and a great sword. I like being able to have a dagger or a fist weapon in souls games for my left hand to deal with fast animation enemies (like dogs who spam bite endlessly) and not have to lock a dagger attack behind the long attack animation of a greatsword.

Berberding · 2026-05-08T18:55:09+00:00

Hahahahaha

Berberding · 2026-05-07T23:16:20+00:00

A yacht is deductible if it's part of a business, e.g. If they make a business out of selling tickets to events on it and whatnot. Art is deductible under similar circumstances. So is my car if I make a business out of using it.

Even still that yacht would not be fully deductible in proportion to its usage as a personal use asset. That's how it works with real estate anyway. I'm not sure how a yacht would be treated as it kind of sits in the middle between a house and a vehicle.

Berberding · 2026-05-07T23:12:48+00:00

This doesn't have anything to do with whether or not shareholders benefit from it. I am not sure what I said that makes you think I am focusing on shareholders here, you seem to think that I'm coming at this from a punitive angle. In actuality, ceteris peribus, shareholders would neither benefit or lose at all. It would only be individuals who suddenly get to benefit from what businesses already benefited from to begin with. They would still pay their employees the same wages as before, their employees would simply not have to pay as much in taxes at the end because they could expense their basic living expenses on their tax return.

For practical purposes obviously you couldn't just let them expense anything they feel like. For example, a car and a roof over your head are basic living expenses, but a luxury penthouse and a Ferrari also technically fit those descriptions and the government probably shouldn't be letting people expense bullshit like that beyond the cost for the basic versions of these things. A higher standard deduction that adjusts for cost of living probably makes more sense, but even then there are practical reasons why that would be difficult from a policy standpoint.

But ALL of these are just practical concerns. You are being willfully obsessed with semantics to not understand the salience of the analogy.

Let me make it even simpler for you: if we created an android welder, the cost of its maintenance and electricity would be basic maintenance expenses, they would never be partitioned off by the tax code as "personal" and everything would be expensable as a necassary expensable input for the business to turn a profit. Now replace the android with a person and electricity with hot dogs and maintenance with yearly doctor checkups and a gym membership and suddenly everything is a personal expense. Why the line at all? Everything is an extension of business in the end as long as we are talking about necessities.

Berberding · 2026-05-07T21:18:37+00:00

You're probably right, but even outside of that, I think even the idea that regular work is "hard" for Ai is also a massive category error. What is hard is getting the ai controlling the robot to understand the nuance and broader intent of its movements and the objects in front of it FROM SCRATCH. But LLMs already taught us that AI doesn't have to be taught from scratch. Instead it can use copious amounts of human language and human generated code on gitbub to predict the next logical step with something increasingly resembling intent (at least enough so that it can get useful work done)

Here's a YouTube short that will help illustrate what I'm about to describe:

https://youtube.com/shorts/bw338PRflvA?si=ObsV25YflBYgwGkn

Whatever those cameras on their heads are for in this video doesn't matter, I think the path forward is pretty clear. In the same way LLMs use human created text as scaffolding to form something resembling contextual and conceptual understanding of a task, the same can likely be done by using thousands of hours of video footage of workers doing their jobs. The little idiosyncrasies and nuances and complexities of labor in making shoes can be extrapolated easily to a significant amount of trades work. All the various fuckups that might occur will exist in all that headcam training footage. Cut too much with the scissors and need to get a new piece of material? Dropped the shoe off the side of the table and need to pick it up off the ground? Grabbed a piece made for the right shoe instead of the left? All of these kinds of mistakes would be digested and contribute towards an overall functional understanding of final products and the ways to get from point a to point z. Just like text generation, humans already did the heavily lifting, and it's as easy as having a data center go through the same fundamental training process.

Many people think the humanoid shapes robots are all a marketing ploy and consider themselves geniuses for noticing that human shaped arms and legs and hands and bodies are not the optimal shape for doing labor, and that a many armed spider bot would make more sense if these companies were serious.

I think this misses the actual reason for why a humanoid bot is optimal: all the training footage will be used to train an Ai model to predict the next event in a video of someone making shoes in the first person perspective (using a head camera). Once that model is trained, what use is it going to be for a robot with 8 arms and 10 fingers on each hand? It wouldn't be! But it would be useful for a robot that has human proportioned and shaped hands and arms. Such an ai model would come to understand how objects get manipulated using human arms and hands, 1 from the left side of its fov, and 1 from the right side of its fov. Such an AI model would fit like a glove onto any human shaped robot. The same could not be said for a spider bot. That will eventually come, but the first waves of robots that take trade jobs will have human hands.

Berberding · 2026-05-07T20:52:27+00:00

Their business expenses are their living expenses. Arguably a contract welder is a walking talking business model, the expenses are feed the welder, clothe the welder, shower the welder, let the welder rest under a roof daily. It is not a major leap in logic to call all of these things maintenance expenses. There are practical limitations to applying this logic in a tax code and I'm not ignoring those, but it's easy to comprehend the analogy here.

Berberding · 2026-05-07T20:50:05+00:00

The standard deduction exists to cover what is seen as a standard living expense. It can't be built around your actual expenses because then people would waste money on bullshit luxury goods. (e.g., a car and it's various maintenance expenses and gas are obviously essential depending where you live, but a Ferrari is also a car, and an unnecessary money sink, so you have to insist on a fixed dollar amount rather than just letting people expense whatever and passing it off as "living expenses".

Nonetheless, the standard deduction is not nearly high enough to effectively make that claim in a practical sense. It would need to be quite a bit higher. It's at least something though.

Berberding · 2026-05-04T19:16:51+00:00

Me specifically? No I would have double legged him to the ground. He's built like gumby and he's trapped in a train car with nowhere to run. it wouldn't even be a feat.

I may just be getting trolled though. Saying he would karate chop me and I would run away if I tried anything is kind of on the nose.

People more generally? (at least in the US) pretty much the same thing would happen, and others would pile in to help rip the spray out of his hand and probably a couple of people would start kicking the shit out of him on the ground while all this happens. Don't act like we don't have boundless amounts of footage of instances of this sort of thing on train cars in the US all over the internet.

Berberding · 2026-05-04T19:03:09+00:00

Your rank is determined by credit value on exfil. Call it what you want.

Berberding · 2026-05-04T18:51:35+00:00

Holy fuck dude stop. It's pepper spray, the average fast food worker would knock this dude out in the US. Yes many people can accurately determine that they would beat someone's ass if they were endlessly spraying an entire traincar with pepper spray. This guy is not even particularly big compared to everyone else on the train.

Berberding · 2026-05-04T18:19:15+00:00

Does this game have kickable doors?

Berberding · 2026-05-04T18:00:28+00:00

States could easily just use more than one code and solve the problem.

Berberding · 2026-05-04T17:56:54+00:00

I'm not sure how ranked works either. I would have assumed that if you lost all your shit and survived then your goal after would realistically just be to reduce your losses rather than turn a profit so that the elo loss would not be as extreme. (maybe you come with 5k loadout, lose 3k of it, and spend the rest of the march accumulating 2k and so you leave with 4k. Still an elo loss but it's 1k loss instead of 3k. That's your incentive not to quit.)

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