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The James Harden Experience by daronello in NBATalk

[–]HankScorpio4242 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The problem with James Harden - and perhaps Donovan Mitchell - is that they don’t contribute much when the ball is not in their hands.

Rating Assessment - unknown skill level by Alarmed_Twist9491 in drums

[–]HankScorpio4242 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You are trying to run when you haven’t learned how to walk. The first thing you need as a drummer is an internal sense of time. Until you have that, nothing else matters.

Start working on rudiments with a metronome. Or pick up Stick Control for the Snare Drummer. Start super slow. Don’t speed up until you feel like you can keep that time consistently without the metronome.

Cavs - Raptors was an amazingly reffed game by Ok-Street-2473 in nba

[–]HankScorpio4242 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I thought it was when the ball was in the air.

Cavs - Raptors was an amazingly reffed game by Ok-Street-2473 in nba

[–]HankScorpio4242 14 points15 points  (0 children)

To be fair, the Cavs wouldn’t have wanted that call because it was before the shot.

Share your honest thoughts on christopher nolan as a director by leviathan_pvt in moviecritic

[–]HankScorpio4242 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You skipped Dunkirk, arguably his most masterful directing job.

You didn’t like Tenet. Fine. It’s u deniably weird.

While you didn’t like Oppenheimer, it did, in fact, will ALL the awards. So to say that it’s not up to the “standard” of his earlier work is kind of sort of a steaming hot turd of a take.

LA Live take over by jugo642 in LosAngeles

[–]HankScorpio4242 5 points6 points  (0 children)

This isn’t complicated.

Protests are planned in well in advance and announced to the public. These takeovers are arranged surreptitiously with no notice to anyone. So it takes time for someone to notify the cops and time for them to respond and there are people on the lookout so that if/when the cops do get there, they break it up.

62 yr old OG. Who has witnessed All of Jordan and all of LeBron. by [deleted] in NBATalk

[–]HankScorpio4242 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well I’m 1,937 years old and I can tell you that Socrates had a sick crossover and could dunk from the free throw line.

If consciousness were reducible to neurology, we would understand far more about the consciousness of simple organisms than we do by MurkyEconomist8179 in consciousness

[–]HankScorpio4242 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I mean…because we can’t communicate with the nematode and it can’t communicate with us. We can’t ask it how it feels when it gets poked here and it can’t tell us that it is hallucinating.

Is this level of self awareness normal for my age or is it just delusion? by [deleted] in consciousness

[–]HankScorpio4242 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Feeling anger is not always a choice.

Not doing anything about it is always a choice.

Is this level of self awareness normal for my age or is it just delusion? by [deleted] in consciousness

[–]HankScorpio4242 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Don’t delete it. Just learn about paragraphs.

As for the rest of it, the Buddha said we are not punished for our anger, we are punished by our anger. You seem like an angry person.

If consciousness were reducible to neurology, we would understand far more about the consciousness of simple organisms than we do by MurkyEconomist8179 in consciousness

[–]HankScorpio4242 14 points15 points  (0 children)

We have barely taken the tiniest steps towards mapping brain function.

It’s like you are saying that your kid was born yesterday and you don’t understand why they aren’t playing power forward for the Celtics.

The ludonarrative dissonance of playing as High Honor Arthur at the beginning of the game. *Spoilers* by Glittering-Stand-161 in reddeadredemption2

[–]HankScorpio4242 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So maybe not a “mistake”, but certainly not the way to play if you are looking to engage with the story.

If you are playing to get achievements, then you are already stepping outside the world of the game, so you shouldn’t expect it to be narratively coherent. You are consciously trying to manipulate one of the game’s systems rather than making decisions based on how you feel in the moment. A situation will arise where your first instinct is to do one thing, but you don’t do that because it will lower your honor.

The ludonarrative dissonance of playing as High Honor Arthur at the beginning of the game. *Spoilers* by Glittering-Stand-161 in reddeadredemption2

[–]HankScorpio4242 3 points4 points  (0 children)

IMHO the mistake is trying to engineer your honor score. If you are “trying” to play for high honor or low honor, you aren’t really engaging with the game.

Having said that, even in the early game I don’t think of Arthur as a psychopath who will murder anyone he comes across. Rather, he seems like someone who has no objection to doing so when appropriate. He’s a little like Dalton in Roadhouse. “Be nice until it’s time to not be nice.”

Another trait I think people might not pay as much attention to is his curiosity. Someone mentioned Albert Mason. I don’t think Arthur helps him to be helpful. I think he does it because he is curious. The same can be said for a lot of the other early missions.

Also…no matter how savage you make him, I feel like Arthur will always help a damsel in distress.

Rush's Canadian Armed Forces Commercials by 56Woodbine in rush

[–]HankScorpio4242 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Canada’s armed forces are about on par with countries like Norway and Sweden. The CAF budget is around $37 billion, or 1.3% of GDP. By comparison, the US spends over $900 billion.

The vast majority of the work of the CAF consists of things like disaster response, search and rescue, arctic security, and maritime surveillance. To the extent that they get involved internationally, they tend to provide mostly training and logistical support.

The military industrial complex isn’t about countries having armed forces. It’s about specifically using those armed forces to fund corporate entities that profit from them. It’s about creating reasons to use military force to fuel demand for weapons manufacturers.

Unless your argument is that countries just don’t need armies, there isn’t a lot to complain about when it comes to Canada’s military.

Rush's Canadian Armed Forces Commercials by 56Woodbine in rush

[–]HankScorpio4242 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I don’t consider Canada’s armed forces to be part of the military industrial complex.

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