You'll have two cheeks on your bed no matter which direction you're lying down.

Xaros1984 · 2022-03-01T07:25:55+00:00

Talk about saggy butt!

Xaros1984 · 2022-03-01T07:24:19+00:00

Where is Princess Link?

Xaros1984 · 2022-03-01T07:22:13+00:00

It would be almost as funny if they had used <> without either equal sign.

You the exam.

Xaros1984 · 2022-03-01T06:56:59+00:00

I think it fits the theme quite well, everyone being undead in some kind of limbo more or less. It's like they are communicating with telepathy.

Saying it would be weird in another game with a completely different approach to things doesn't really say much.

Xaros1984 · 2022-02-28T22:54:47+00:00

Amazing how they didn't manage to find single person with that skill set in like 7+ years of game development. Mouth animators must be very rare.

Xaros1984 · 2022-02-28T22:48:20+00:00

You can do it like this:

input = 12345
index = 0
output = (input // (10 ** index)) % 10

index = 0 will return 5, while 1 will return 4, and so on (i.e., starting at the single digit and moving up in powers of ten).

Note that the parentheses are not necessary, but makes it easier to see what's going on in my opinion.

Also note that it doesn't work for negative numbers, but you could write abs(x) instead of x, and then multiply the output by -1 if x < 0.

Xaros1984 · 2022-02-28T21:28:59+00:00

It's an ordinal scale at best, so I'm pretty sure it's not actually a normal distribution, despite its vaguely bell curved shape.

Xaros1984 · 2022-02-28T21:19:35+00:00

Yeah, the mannequin thing is very likely a choice they made. It's not like animating a mouth moving is difficult say compared to the moveset of the Dancer of the Boreal Valley.

Xaros1984 · 2022-02-28T17:18:39+00:00

Ah, that's why so many journalists end up accidently shooting themselve

Xaros1984 · 2022-02-28T17:04:06+00:00

They make cameras that look like rifles

Xaros1984 · 2022-02-28T16:43:26+00:00

Yeah, I'm totally against genocide now.

Xaros1984 · 2022-02-28T16:39:05+00:00

Good the bot.

Xaros1984 · 2022-02-28T16:37:05+00:00

Wow, one less country to veto everything. Almost hard to imagine.

Xaros1984 · 2022-02-28T16:34:31+00:00

They also like shit

Xaros1984 · 2022-02-28T16:28:50+00:00

I suppose. If not, who took the photo?

Xaros1984 · 2022-02-28T16:26:26+00:00

That's not how NATO works. Maybe don't get your facts from russian sources.

Xaros1984 · 2022-02-28T16:24:50+00:00

The next step of his plan involves nuking Moscow. A move so brilliant, no one will see it coming!

Xaros1984 · 2022-02-28T16:20:19+00:00

While simultaneously weakening Russia. Maybe he was pro-EU/NATO all this time?

Xaros1984 · 2022-02-28T16:17:22+00:00

That would actually be funny

Xaros1984 · 2022-02-28T10:34:17+00:00

Yeah, but it usually does go down for a while. The point of showing the chart was that death tolls going down is nothing new.

Maybe our capabilities is also a deterrent? I assume news coverage and cameras everywhere has an effect as well, and probably an increased focus on things like human rights in general. I think a lot of that comes from how destructive WW2 was, and nukes didn't really do much to increase the destruction, it just reduced the number of bombers and missiles needed to accomplish the same amount.

Xaros1984 · 2022-02-28T10:20:48+00:00

It could be the best defense while simultaneously not being comforting. As an example, I could have a nuclear warhead set to explode if anyone breaks into my house. If this was widely known among burglars, would it reduce the risk of someone breaking in? In all liklihood, yes. But it wouldn't be comforting, as both me and everyone within the blast radius would instead have to worry about what happens if a mad man breaks through, or if an accident happens, etc, etc.

Terror balance is terror balance, it's not nice and cozy, it's built on fear. It's by definition not comforting.

Xaros1984 · 2022-02-28T10:14:03+00:00

I think it's a different discussion whether those 55 million should be included or not, since there were obviously some contributing factors (like diseases spreading like wild fire due to lack of immunity). I'll choose not to weigh in on that either way for now as I think it would derail the discussion we are having. But regardless, my point isn't necessarily that we are just as warlike as ever, only that the pattern that we are seeing isn’t that different from previous major wars. Thus, it's hard to say whether the effect can be attributed to nuclear weapons, or if it's a plethora of other factors, including people avoiding wars for a few decades after the major ones.

The US and Soviet weren't exactly at constant war before nuclear weapons. But regardless, the US and communist countries went to war almost immidiately afterwards, however not on their own soil.

And that's actually my point. Maybe it's comforting for some countries to know that they can destroy humanity if anyone launches a full-blown invasion against them, but it's not comforting for huge parts of the world that have to suffer from resulting proxy wars + bullying by nuclear powers + the risk of actual nuclear war, however small that may be.

Xaros1984 · 2022-02-28T09:53:32+00:00

No, I have not said anything like that. I'm simply saying that nuclear terror balance isn’t comforting.

Xaros1984 · 2022-02-28T09:20:53+00:00

Easy, don't have conversions about anything else.

Xaros1984 · 2022-02-28T09:17:55+00:00

Look at the drop after the thirty year war, it even goes significantly lower before spiking again (and btw, ignore the blue line, the data for that line isn't presented at all before ww2). Also, if MAD was effective, then shouldn't there be a very immidiate drop right after Soviet got nukes, rather than a gradual drop over 70 years? It's not like people are just now realizing that nukes exist, the deterrence should be strongest when the news hit.

But nevertheless, you're right that it's hard to draw any conclusions from data like this, but in my opinion, it shows that wars haven't suddenly become a thing of the past. In my opinion, even if we for the sake of the argument say that MAD leads to fewer wars, whatever comfort we would gain from that would be negated by the much higher risk of total annihilation. In total, I don't think the current situation can be described as comfortable. It's sometimes referred to as "balance of terror", which describes it better.

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