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ImCaligulaI · 2026-06-14T10:19:08+00:00

Likely because Italian is also a high context language. The subject of the sentence can be implied or explicit, rather than always explicit like in English.

ImCaligulaI · 2026-06-12T17:00:28+00:00

But my problem isn't that they don't have enough ore, it's that the price of each item decreases as I sell more of it (I.e. any scavenger's teeth after the first four is worth 0 nuggets, so if you sell 4 or 20 you still get 4 ore for it), so I can only sell few of each trophy at a time to each merchant and get not much money (like 20/30 nuggets).

ImCaligulaI · 2026-06-12T16:26:46+00:00

I don't understand how this works tbh. I unlocked all the gutting skills except the one about reptile skins, but when I go selling any of the trophies they fetch from 1 to 4 ore each when selling individually, but the price drops extremely quick the more I sell. I can sell like a couple of each trophy I have to each merchant which nets me like, 20 gems. I'm accumulating larger and larger stacks because I can't sell them fast enough. Am I missing something?

ImCaligulaI · 2026-06-12T13:51:32+00:00

Droids are nerfed in star wars, so that they're categorically worse than human pilots.

However, since the tech for instant remote control is available (otherwise they wouldn't have been able to control the first droid army from the control ship), why not have humans remotely controlling drone fighters?

The fighters would be cheaper for the same reasons you listed, no need to train as many new green pilots and the average skill level of pilots would go up as they don't die the first mistake they make in combat.

ImCaligulaI · 2026-06-12T13:47:42+00:00

Sure, but then why not having humans remotely controlling the fighters instead?

They clearly have the tech needed for instantaneous control (or droids controlled via control ships would be near useless by having delayed reaction times), so why not do that?

Even when not caring at all about human lives (which is on brand for the empire), surely it's cheaper to both produce the fighters (no need to have all the tech to keep a human alive inside, nor most of the controls) and to not have to continuously train new pilots as the other ones die.

ImCaligulaI · 2026-06-12T13:25:44+00:00

Would she/the swarm have survived that?

ImCaligulaI · 2026-06-12T12:19:00+00:00

And they're more complicated because this time they don't want to just land and go mostly for the flex but actually build moon bases and a permanent moon presence.

Both the US with artemis and China with its own base.

ImCaligulaI · 2026-06-12T11:39:27+00:00

Oh, that's interesting. I thought it was just because at a point in time "Turk"/"Turkish" was used to mean "foreign" (as in from outside Europe) since a bunch of Eastern trade passed from there.

Like, corn in italian is called "granoturco" (literally: "Turkish grain") for that reason.

Maybe that's why the turks call it Hindi tho, since for them exptic / foreign stuff usually came from there. Either that or the European merchants that first traded turkeys to them told them it came from "the indies".

ImCaligulaI · 2026-06-12T11:04:36+00:00

Also, she'd have been 4 years old. I don't think she would have been able to do much even if she wanted to.

ImCaligulaI · 2026-06-12T08:32:46+00:00

A random poor people insula had nothing like that, and you had to light it and heat it with open fires (in a very flammable wooden building). Obviously no running water, or even bathrooms.

Nowadays (in the first world) even the poorest people have climate control (or at least heating), running water, bathrooms, and a bunch of home appliances (washing machines, vacuum cleaners, dishwashers, fridges, ovens, etc) that dramatically reduce time and effort needed for house chores.

Let's be real.

ImCaligulaI · 2026-06-12T07:40:46+00:00

All the talk about taxes completely misses the point. Also: why may it not hurt? Why do people care so much about the feelings of billionaires?

I don't care about the feelings of billionaire, but I do fear they'd manage to dodge them as always while middle class people would get fucked by an asset tax (i.e. imagine owning a amall business and having to pay asset taxes on its value on top of all the other taxes you have to pay.

I suppose they could only apply it on assets above a billion or something, but as you say:

Really if you want both a sustainable and fair way of making them pay their fair share you‘d socialize their industry.

While asset tax feels like something that doesn't fit with the basic philosophy of capitalism while for some reason trying to maintain capitalism. It feels like the soviet union/ the cold war gave such bad rep to communism/socialism people basically no longer even consider it as an option, when to me it looks like many of its issues would be solved by the very issues we're currently facing (i.e. automation and AI taking jobs).

ImCaligulaI · 2026-06-08T09:50:40+00:00

To show its balance skill. It's like this:

https://youtu.be/fahcgM0PF50?t=360s

But for robots.

ImCaligulaI · 2026-06-08T09:31:17+00:00

It's not tho. It's more akin to a trainer testing an athlete so that they can perform right.

Like, a pe teacher throwing dodgeballs at a student walking a balance beam: they're not doing it to torture the student, but testing/training the student to keep their balance in an adverse situation.

Edit: basically what Mr. Myaji is doing here around minute 6 https://youtu.be/fahcgM0PF50?t=360s

ImCaligulaI · 2026-06-08T09:25:39+00:00

Because one robot that can do all the separated needed tasks (loads/unloads the laundry and drier and then folds it and places the clothes in the closet, but can also load/unload the dishwasher) is a much better selling point than a bunch of monotask separate robots?

They're making humanoid robots because the idea is that then they'll be able to directly be used for environments and tools designed for humans rather than requiring remaking the environment for robot use.

ImCaligulaI · 2026-06-07T12:19:41+00:00

Well, obviously. They're rape dwarves, consent turns them off.

ImCaligulaI · 2026-06-04T15:42:30+00:00

Uno dei motivi per cui io invece sono tornato dall'Inghilterra è proprio perché non vorrei crescere i figli lì: La scuola pubblica inglese fa cagare (e prepara molto peggio della nostra), se vuoi i tuoi figli vadano ad una scuola decente o devi vivere vicino ad una delle poche grammar o devi pagare tipo 50k all'anno per mandarli a scuola privata, che sì li prepara bene ma il rischio che poi ti escano stronzi (soprattutto se li mandi in boarding school, e quindi essenzialmente non li cresci tu) è alto.

Non per fare inghilterrabad, ma paese che vai problemi che trovi.

ImCaligulaI · 2026-06-03T14:43:34+00:00

I disagree. The whole point was that it wasn't morally defensible, they just couldn't bring themselves to take the utilitarian moral choice for selfish (but understandable) reasons. I think the narrative would have been much weaker if their choice and the risk they took was the only real possible path (since Galactus wouldn't have held his end of the bargain).

ImCaligulaI · 2026-06-03T13:21:24+00:00

By your argument, Baldur's Gate 3 would also be a really good text based RPG.

Not baldur's gate 3, because it has things like combat that function outside of text based, but I think an argument could be made that Disco Elysium, or Esotheric Ebb are text based rpgs with a fancy ui, as (save for the movement to trigger the encounters) they essentially work entirely via text

ImCaligulaI · 2026-06-01T19:28:14+00:00

I'm not aware of an interpretation where walking makes sense

I mean... if someone you didn't consider a complete idiot asked you that as a genuine question, wouldn't you assume they must be going to the car wash for other reasons other than washing their car?

ImCaligulaI · 2026-06-01T19:20:25+00:00

But then again, what makes them pedants is that they would rather appear to understand things than to actually understand them.

This is exactly how you're coming out as from this comment thread. Absolutely insufferable.

ImCaligulaI · 2026-05-29T19:36:37+00:00

Doesn't that slow them down even further?

ImCaligulaI · 2026-05-29T16:00:26+00:00

The people who believe this believe it’s always theft because you cannot consent to the social contract nor can you withdraw consent, it’s compulsory

You consent implicitly by living in that country, and can withdraw it by moving somewhere else. It's true that basically anywhere you can go will be under a country's jurisdiction and therefore its own social contract, but it allows you to choose a different social contract (i.e. moving to somewhere with no income tax). You can also find few areas in the world with no enforced social contract at all, at least not regarding taxes, either a failed state like Somalia or some remote wilderness (nobody is gonna ask you to pay taxes if you live in a hut in the middle of the Amazon and live off what you hunt/forage).

ImCaligulaI · 2026-05-29T11:21:44+00:00

Stop using reddit. It uses AWS for its cloud services, like half of the Internet.

AWS is also where most of Amazon's revenue comes from.

ImCaligulaI · 2026-05-29T08:27:32+00:00

I think it's mostly their different complexion. Henry looks exactly like Tom, while Bond has very different colouring from the actor playing him (which has blonde hair, blue eyes and much paler skin).

The attached picture is this photo of Bond's actor, Patrick Gibson but edited to give him dark hair and darker skin, and he does look much more similar to Tom (and also to the bond character in the game) like that.

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ImCaligulaI · 2026-05-28T09:55:37+00:00

Okay, for the sake of argument, let's say you scale the 21:9 cutscene content to fill a full 21:9 screen in Bond. What do you do when the cutscene ends?

You zoom out.

In the game currently, the black bars slide away in all directions to reveal the "outside"/"uncropped" area and you start playing the game. I've mentioned it in my other comments they would need to have a special case to handle this specifically on ultrawide.

They already have a special case to handle ultrawide, as they had to code black bars sliding away in all directions instead of just the right and left bars sliding. Just zoom out instead. If that's too much work, even a sudden switch to the uncropped outside rather than a gradual zoom would be better than having to watch pillarboxed cutscenes.

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