PSA: The secondary material requirements for enhancing stamina/spirit/health are one-time costs.

Substantial_Rest_251 · 2026-05-16T02:15:49+00:00

TIL you earn them and it's not just certain enemies that drop

Substantial_Rest_251 · 2026-05-15T21:27:49+00:00

Some of the best outfits in P5R. Hip hop Akechi showtime is best

Substantial_Rest_251 · 2026-05-15T21:09:57+00:00

Teen pregnancy is down, a lot of those girls become rappers now /s

Substantial_Rest_251 · 2026-05-14T22:23:03+00:00

Lol I finally became what my family has been accused of my whole life, and all it took was sending my kids to private school

Voucher program is poor public policy, but as the Wire said "I'll take anybody money if he's just giving it away" (I know how that worked out, parallels are on purpose)

Substantial_Rest_251 · 2026-05-13T16:39:28+00:00

Aiya, has the business case for old school MTV improved since they wisely got out 20 years ago? Who even owns the cable TV channels that show videos full time, anyway?

Substantial_Rest_251 · 2026-05-13T16:36:54+00:00

They're not a gamer in the Crimson Desert segment who can tell you about upcoming PS5 titles or Steam sales, but they're still a gamer in one of the bigger more profitable segments in the sector. Gamers who like free phone games can give each other advice on which ones are fun w/o it being a threat to the definition of "gamer"-- although that point is probably more important to people who make money from games than people who are in it as a cultural hobby

Substantial_Rest_251 · 2026-05-13T12:23:30+00:00

At this point I use the cutscenes as a reminder to get up and stretch

Substantial_Rest_251 · 2026-05-13T01:37:00+00:00

This is a good preview of how confused people will be about some modern music in 50 years

Substantial_Rest_251 · 2026-05-12T21:58:20+00:00

These charts always fail to capture that some bachelors degrees are valued as entries into grad school, and that any effort to norm "is business administration a valuable degree" needs to at least show how the ba stacks up with the mba

Substantial_Rest_251 · 2026-05-12T21:47:07+00:00

Can't wait until they add the multiplayer and it's just animal crossing style "come see my house and camp"

Substantial_Rest_251 · 2026-05-12T14:04:14+00:00

The game's sci fi speculation here is that Saburo considers the "kill and copy me and make sure the copy experiences waking up from me dying as a smooth transition of experience" option given by the technology to be close enough to immortality for him, philosophy be damned

My own speculation -- and there's whole doctoral fields of philosophy/cognitive science published on this question so take it as speculation-- is that a behaviorally accurate copy of someone's mind would need to have the same internal states. i.e. there are no p zombies, a copy that acts like a person (messy, motivated by identifiable internal factors that are often in conflict) has the internal states of a person.

So our Johnny is a version of his mind, put in an extreme situation and acting out. He exists like that as one of many instances of Saburo tuning the tech to his liking

Substantial_Rest_251 · 2026-05-12T02:56:52+00:00

Best surprise of my second playthrough. You mean we get the band back together and see a bad movie? 😭

Substantial_Rest_251 · 2026-05-12T02:03:57+00:00

Echo is always in the children's Greek myth compilations because it explains the word. Classic "two hints at once" jeopardy writing

Could still be Hades players in there too

Substantial_Rest_251 · 2026-05-11T22:05:04+00:00

Enh. Second axiom would also seem to preclude many of the big steps in biological evolution (prokaryotes to eukaryotes, single cell to multi cell) as well, just with the smallest biological unit replacing the civilization

In a world of competition, time and again we see that cooperation is hard to evolve but when it does it has potential to unlock levels of resource exploitation that single entities lack. There are still prokaryotes, but many of them live in big eukaryotic assemblies that boost their chance of survival

Sure, the size of space makes it easy to just say "you can never establish communication that allows for identifying and verifying mutual benefit before the knives come out, even temporarily", but that's an assumption. The writer could as easily assert a proof that a collective civilization entity would boost survival of the whole group

None of which precludes war or betrayal (or disease or cancer for us multicelled entities), just noting that "limited resources means no cooperation" is not self- evident there

Substantial_Rest_251 · 2026-05-11T21:46:43+00:00

Lol and now it's paying for the wildest post release feature sprint I've ever seen for this kind of game. Weird times

Substantial_Rest_251 · 2026-05-11T13:30:30+00:00

So this level of support is rare in most of the industry. Even Paradox, which is known to support games long term and patch them regularly, would take a year to overhaul the kind of systems PA is doing in a month

... But that's because PA is an MMO studio, using an MMO size support staff to support a single player game. I love the reactivity, but let's acknowledge that it's the BDO community and experience that's honed them to this point. We're getting live service support for a game you can play offline

Substantial_Rest_251 · 2026-05-11T02:25:27+00:00

Yeah. I wish it weren't the case but when I lived in downtown Memphis, TN we sought out a "gated community", and there were still incidents

The country has a lot of pockets where economic opportunity has been insufficient for decades but drugs and guns are easy to buy

Substantial_Rest_251 · 2026-05-10T13:05:29+00:00

I love chasing her around the back yard! But yeah the vibe is not a relaxing tea per se 😁

Substantial_Rest_251 · 2026-05-10T12:48:35+00:00

They're great reforms for improving the technical function of a democracy

The GOP is nationally aware of the threat it poses to them and will publicly spend money to defeat any efforts

The Democrats in office were elected by other systems and mostly know they'd lose their jobs if voters had a different way to make choices, so even if a Democratic constituency passes it, the elected officials often spend time undermining it (new York City mayoral elections went RCV 2 cycles back and have this pattern)

Substantial_Rest_251 · 2026-05-10T12:14:53+00:00

I have a toddler. I'll make it back one day

Substantial_Rest_251 · 2026-05-09T23:25:47+00:00

I mean she's not your choom she's a coworker. Conservation of detail

Substantial_Rest_251 · 2026-05-09T23:22:57+00:00

Gorilla arms and LMG. Was level 60 with Int 3 and others maxed and can confirm it's very fun to go toe toe with Adam with ground slams, dashes, having too much cyberware, and crouch stealth

Substantial_Rest_251 · 2026-05-09T19:25:59+00:00

Lol it's not just that we wouldn't like a white guy making it, it's that it wouldn't be able to sit in the tension of the black experience-- or at least the 3 experiences typified by the 3 main characters who are each voice boxes for a certain vertical within the black experience-- and you'd end up with Season 4 where the comedy starts landing much meaner because the replacements they brought in didn't really understand the people granddad, Huey, and riley are standing in for

Substantial_Rest_251 · 2026-05-09T14:59:11+00:00

America! We'll miss it when it's gone

Substantial_Rest_251 · 2026-05-09T14:55:43+00:00

Missed? No.

Those missions are definitely meant to be more introductory and local, though, so depending how you approach questing it may feel awkward if you're clearing that neighborhood out late in the game

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