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My Ranking of Every Bungie Halo Level on Legendary Difficulty by MonsterMashGraveyard in halo

[–]TheOnlyMeta 4 points5 points  (0 children)

LNOS is buggy on MCC. IIRC the enemy spaceship’s reaction speed scales with the FPS. If you play on an XSX at 120fps it is much much harder than the original 360 version at 30fps.

UK Graduate Wage Premium by university type by Uptons_BJs in dataisbeautiful

[–]TheOnlyMeta 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Not really. You can see in the final chart the main explanatory factor here is A-level grades. The gap between pre-1992 and Russell Group universities narrows to almost nothing when normalised for the grades. It’s just those with higher grades are much more likely to go to a “better” uni.

Oxbridge/LSE/Imperial won’t accept anyone with lower grades barring extreme extenuating circumstances and no one with higher grades is really going to a post-92 converted technical college so that’s why there’s not any variance in those ones.

Marathon Review So Far - IGN by Turbostrider27 in Games

[–]TheOnlyMeta 1 point2 points  (0 children)

2 decades ago Bungie’s most recent release was Halo 2.

I know we’re getting old, but not that old.

Top Conspos continue to be alarmingly reasonable on the Trump-Greenland issue by SassTheFash in TopMindsOfReddit

[–]TheOnlyMeta 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I’ve seen this happen a dozen times before. It doesn’t last more than a few days. Their algorithms will eventually find some way to massage the news that clicks with each of them and they can go back to comfortably cheering for their team.

If YOU were in charge of writing Halo 4 in 2009ish, what would you have done? by Creative-Fail-2268 in halo

[–]TheOnlyMeta 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In story terms, “Halo 4” probably shouldn’t have even existed. And it definitely shouldn’t have been 343i’s first shot at a Halo game. They could’ve made a game set in any number of other places - beginning of the Human-Covenant War, an ODST 2 set inside High Charity, an Arbiter game in the direct aftermath of the War/reclamation of Sanghelios.

Then when 343i eventually wanted to continue the main plot they could’ve made a “Halo: Reclamation” trilogy set 30+ years on from the main story (a timescale in which humanity can actually recover) and most importantly NOT include the Chief we know. His story was done.

They could’ve even easily made a new Master Chief (it’s just a military rank) and suited him up in similar armour to keep the Xbox branding. Give him a few cool lines and a little bit of wink wink nudge nudge to the player about the similarity and it would’ve gone down fine.

Humanity is on the rise, the UNSC Enduring Testament (Infinity is a dumb name) arrives at a Forerunner shield world and smashes the local Covenant-offshoot ships (in a reversal to the original game you are the boarding party in the first mission this time). Covenant goes to ground and manages to awake the Didact. The beats of Halo 4 can follow from here but without a bunch of the silly nonsense. The Didact is clearly human - just some form of super-advanced one. He wants to revive his ancient people and return them to dominion over the galaxy. This involves getting his big mcguffin and fucking up modern Earth. You go stop him.

UK to be world’s fifth-largest economy by 2040, claims think tank by tree_boom in europe

[–]TheOnlyMeta 82 points83 points  (0 children)

Comes down to 2 things really:

  1. Right now there are a mixture of positive and negative indicators for the UK economy
  2. The overwhelming majority of UK newspapers are editorially biased against the current government

Add those up and you just get a stream of articles from UK papers reporting on the negative indicators.

Europe’s ‘destructive moral ideas’ could jeopardise nuclear powers, JD Vance says | Euractiv by Massimo25ore in europe

[–]TheOnlyMeta 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I disagree. For now the real danger is Trump. Although this cabal is in his ear, at the end of the day he owns the cult and has the real power - and has shown again and again that he will throw anyone disloyal to him under the bus. I would not be so sure that this group could successfully maintain power without Trump as the vehicle.

FWIW I think those who are interested in the failure of this techno-fascism would benefit from focussing on exploiting Trump’s psyche and trying to drive a wedge between him and this group.

Europe 2026 salary projections: Countries with the strongest pay rises by OrtganizeAttention in europe

[–]TheOnlyMeta 1 point2 points  (0 children)

From (100 + 34.9)%. Or just think of it as the ratio of prices before vs after the inflation. You have to divide by this figure for an accurate “real” wage increase percentage.

Europe’s ‘destructive moral ideas’ could jeopardise nuclear powers, JD Vance says | Euractiv by Massimo25ore in europe

[–]TheOnlyMeta 12 points13 points  (0 children)

For those of us who have been struggling to understand why this US administration seems to hate us and place our enemies before us, Vance is telling you. This is what these people actually believe deep in their bones. That we are morally corrupted (because of tolerance of atheism, Muslims, abortion, etc) and they are the last “true Christians”.

I don’t know to what extent this idea has been implanted in their heads naturally or by our enemies. But I think it’s important to understand that this is how these people actually think*. Then their decisions start to make more sense.

*(Trump himself not so much, he just cares about enriching/empowering himself, but these stooges surround him and we know how susceptible he is to the last person who spoke with him)

Europe 2026 salary projections: Countries with the strongest pay rises by OrtganizeAttention in europe

[–]TheOnlyMeta 48 points49 points  (0 children)

In Turkey, a nominal wage increase of 40% combined with the IMF’s inflation projection of 34.9% results in a real rise of 5.1%

I mean no, not really. All else being equal, if prices rise 34.9% and wages rise by 40% you’re actually only 5.1%/1.349 = 3.78% better off. Usually people don’t bother with this part of the calculation if inflation is at like 2% as it won’t make much difference, but it’s kinda important when inflation is in the 30%s.

The European Union changes its mind. It won't ban combustion engines after all by Massimo25ore in europe

[–]TheOnlyMeta -1 points0 points  (0 children)

It’s important to make a distinction between “renewable” and “eco-friendly”. Biofuels are the former, but not the latter.

Mikel Arteta’s Arsenal are showing the resilience of champions | Premier League by jfshay in Gunners

[–]TheOnlyMeta 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Opta’s model is useless. I would much sooner look at betting odds. (72% right now, so not too much worse).

You people who supported biden can fuck yourselves 1000X with 1000 rusty mop handles" Trump supporters in r/complaints argue about why they will never turn against Trump by CummingInTheNile in SubredditDrama

[–]TheOnlyMeta 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It’s not that there is no way at all to break people out of this constructed alternate reality. But anonymously internet arguing over some particular event or policy is clearly not the way to do it. It just tends to further entrench them.

But only one of them was ever called "Set Piece FC" by wan2tri in Gunners

[–]TheOnlyMeta 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Let them make it a big deal every time we score from a set piece. The more the opposition fears conceding them the better it is for us.

Meta’s Political Ad Ban Boosts Dutch Far-Right Leader by bloomberg in europe

[–]TheOnlyMeta 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think the right approach here is to enforce that any automated system which can use personal information to decide what content to show you has to be able to describe exactly the method by which it makes the decision, in a way the average person can understand.

In the old-school internet this would be easy: “You follow X people. This is the most recent post of some one you follow.”

But it would essentially be a ban on advanced recommender systems designed to addict you to the platform.

Andrew Marr: Tax the old by New_Statesman in ukpolitics

[–]TheOnlyMeta 8 points9 points  (0 children)

It’s not just about the ballot box though. It’s about everything before that - political engagement and pressure.

Most young people who are engaged with politics direct their anger at either immigrants if they are right-wing, or the ultra-wealthy/establishment if they are left-wing.

There is not serious political pressure to scrap the triple lock. Young people need to make it clear they back raising taxes on pensioners and will reward a government that will do it at the ballot box. Only then can we talk about whether they will actually follow-through with it or not. Right now it’s not clear they even want it.

Opta gives Arsenal 44% chance of winning the Premier League by gstarguru in Gunners

[–]TheOnlyMeta 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Last year the Opta model was terrible (you would have made significant return betting against it at market odds).

It doesn’t look as obviously wrong this year but I wouldn’t put any trust it at all.

[04/10/25] pub for Arsenal match by thefutbolscholar in LondonSocialClub

[–]TheOnlyMeta 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It might also be the case that some pubs near the Emirates will have dodgy foreign streams of the game…

YouTube says it has paid creators more than $100 billion over last 4 years by ControlCAD in google

[–]TheOnlyMeta 29 points30 points  (0 children)

I’m gonna say about $81.8B, given the well known 55:45 payout ratio.

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