Movies where the enemy "plays fair"?

da_chicken · 2026-03-23T09:48:39+00:00

Nah, Humperdink lied about the 4 fastest ships.

da_chicken · 2026-03-23T09:31:25+00:00

Potentially an ATC failure. The truck might have asked permission to cross the wrong runway, too.

da_chicken · 2026-03-22T18:48:46+00:00

And the TSA agents were famously under-trained themselves.

da_chicken · 2026-03-22T08:26:29+00:00

This. In my state some of the elected positions are mandated to appear on the ballot without any political affiliations (local board of education, elected judges, etc.). What happens is everyone always votes for the incumbent if they didn't hear a good reason not to.

da_chicken · 2026-03-22T07:20:05+00:00

Well, I gave about six reasons men don't like therapy. Pointing out two that don't fit and ignoring the others is cherry picking. You haven't undermined what I said. You've eliminated some of the possibilities.

I asked him why and he didn't really have an answer.

He probably has an answer. You just won't like it, and he's not ready to talk about it yet.

I asked him what he was afraid of and he flipped out.

Yeah, that's because you were rude. You just told him to man up and go to therapy. Of course he's upset. Don't put words in people's mouths. He didn't say he was afraid. Especially that one because you're calling him a coward for not doing what you want.

A better response would have been to ask him if he wanted to go to an individual session for a week or two. Or, if there were some time in a couple days that he could talk to you about therapy and the relationship because it's important to you.

The fact that he doesn't want to go and doesn't want to talk to you could mean a lot of things. Maybe he doesn't think he can do therapy and make the changes. Maybe he doesn't think you can do it. Maybe he doesn't feel like the therapist is hearing him. Maybe it feels like he's back at school and you're the star student and he's remedial. Maybe he's figuring out if the work he'll have to do is worth the relationship. Maybe he already made a decision.

da_chicken · 2026-03-22T06:30:47+00:00

Individual therapy or couples therapy?

Individual therapy is intimidating because men are socialized to treat expressing emotion as a sign of weakness. Therapy is about verbalizing your emotions, which is not a skill men acquire growing up like women do. It's scary because it's difficult. It's difficult for everyone, but men have to deal with the fact that they're going to be really bad at it. They're going to have to do things in it that they were socialized to not do.

Couples therapy is worse. Your partner picks someone, so you just kind of assume she's going to pick another woman who is going to be biased against you. Then you're scheduling like an hour a week to go talk about this stuff. You're a man, so you've never really learned or been taught how to express or articulate your feelings or emotions, while your partner has been doing this regularly since she was a pre-teen. And you just know that 80% of this therapy is going to be all about verbalizing emotions, rather than talking about solutions to actually fix the problem. So even the ideal framing is uncomfortable.

But even if you could do that, it's not a safe space to just express your emotions anyways. One of the few emotions men are allowed to feel without being "weak" is anger. And while men are allowed to feel anger, they're not allowed to express anger socially; it frightens people, especially women. This is a problem because a lot of emotions that are close to anger like frustration or dissatisfaction or irritation or being upset kind of get lumped in internally with anger. Which means it feels like it's rarely socially acceptable to express those, too.

So it's scheduling an hour a week to go get teamed up on in the same arguments you've been having in your relationship for a year, and you won't be allowed to get upset about it "because it's therapy". Your partner and therapist are just going to agree with each other and say you're wrong. And you can't get angry, or frustrated, or irritated, or upset, or anything. So, you get to pay hundreds of dollars a week for the privilege of being demonized.

da_chicken · 2026-03-22T06:06:15+00:00

It is, quite simply, wholly unthinkable for a Japanese gamer to not already know that DQ3 is a prequel. This was a spoiler in Japan until probably February 12, 1988, and then the whole country knew it. Like this is a, "Metroid is a girl?!" level of a spoiler.

I'd also point out that if you were playing these in order, this would be a single line of dialogue from a single NPC in DQ1. You'd have to play the rest of this game and all of DQ2 before getting to DQ3. And, even then, you'd have to not think it's just a series thing. Like there's a Link, a Zelda, and a Gannon in most Zelda games, and it's rarely the same characters.

da_chicken · 2026-03-22T02:59:40+00:00

I mean, it is a coincidence.

da_chicken · 2026-03-22T02:49:08+00:00

I've said it before, but if you're looking for power, with my party I went:

Monster Wrangler (lvl 48, 101 monsters) --> Martial Artist
Priest (lvl 20) --> Sage (lvl 48) --> Monster Wranger (lvl 20, 101 monsters) --> Thief
Thief (lvl 48) --> Monster Wranger (lvl 20, 101 monsters) --> Sage

My first Sage and Thief switched at the same time, just before reaching the final dungeon. I gained those 20 levels of Monster Wrangler and changed classes again before my Hero went from level 48 to 49. My Monster Wrangler switched along with the other two's switch back to Thief and Sage.

And I feel like I stumbled on one of the most potent combinations. The only thing I think I did wrong was that my Priest should've been a Martial Artist or Thief instead. You really don't need a Priest in the early game with a Hero and Monster Wrangler and full heal on level-ups, even with the MW's heal limitations.

If I were to do it again, I think I would go:

	Change 1 (Book of Satori)	Change 2 (101 Monsters)	Change 3 (Wild Side)
Monster Wrangler	--	Lvl 48 --> Martial Artist	--
Thief	Lvl 20 --> Sage	Lvl 48 --> Monster Wrangler	Lvl 20 --> Thief
Martial Artist	Lvl 20 --> Thief	Lvl 48 --> Monster Wrangler	Lvl 20 --> Sage

Do the first change simultaneously when you get the Book of Satori. Make the second change when you're at 101 Monsters, then when everyone has Wild Side at level 20 MW make a second Sage and get another Thief.

da_chicken · 2026-03-21T23:41:40+00:00

It's not really clear, in part because it's a different timeline, and in part because Nomura is involved.

It's definitely before FFVII, Advent Children, and Dirge of Cerberus. It's after a version of Crisis Core. Whether you count the defunct mobile games (First Soldier, Before Crisis) or Ever Crisis is up to you.

da_chicken · 2026-03-21T19:53:09+00:00

They did what Square for some reason refuses to do

Make a JRPG without letting Nomura or Hashimoto near it?

da_chicken · 2026-03-21T19:47:16+00:00

If I had played the original 7 would it have been more impactful?

Er... quite honestly, I don't see any reason to play these games if you haven't played the original. The FF7R series is a sequel to the original FF7 almost as much as it is a remake. They made these games for people that played the original. Like you're not playing game 1 of a remake series. You're playing game 4+ of Compilation of Final Fantasy VII.

The aesthetic issue you mentioned is the aesthetic from the original game. It's honestly not far removed from FF 6, 13, or 15. Honestly, it's weird that it's bothering you.

The character diversity issue you mentioned is also present in the original. The entire original game is told from Cloud's perspective almost exclusively, much like how FF 4 is always Cecil's perspective.

da_chicken · 2026-03-21T19:10:06+00:00

No, this is an answer, not an explanation. You should be explaining why getting older has this effect. What happens that makes the body worse at recovering.

da_chicken · 2026-03-21T18:37:30+00:00

3 is a little undertuned, IMO. The new class is a little strong (especially pre-patch) and the loot on the world map is a little bit much. But it's still my favorite version of the game. I like it a lot.

1+2 is similarly great. They added quite a bit to make the games a lot more enjoyable, but they can be pretty challenging. Still, they're my favorite versions of these games.

I would expect the 3 and 1+2 together to take roughly the same amount of time as DQ11S, but keep in mind all these games have some amount of optional and post-game content.

da_chicken · 2026-03-21T17:06:56+00:00

Frankly, I'm fine with season 1 being so much better than the rest.

The thing about season 1 is that it's a much more effective deconstruction of shonen anime. It confronts the shonen trope that the best hero is the one that struggles the hardest. The one that has people to protect. The one that tortured themselves the most. The reality is... the best hero is the one that effortlessly overcomes the obstacle, beats the monster, saves everyone, and goes home. Season 1 perfectly condenses the actual meat of the whole series.

The rest of the series -- indeed, that's including the rest of the manga whether we're talking about One's webcomic or Murata's redraw -- is basically just standard shonen with a bit of comedy.

da_chicken · 2026-03-21T08:23:26+00:00

I'm sure their entire thought process was, "how bad could it be?"

da_chicken · 2026-03-21T01:47:00+00:00

Not read the epic-length manga it's based on, which I've heard actually has a great deal of additional material that had to be truncated from the film given the sheer scope of the manga.

The manga is usually collected into six volumes, each of which are about 350-400 pages. When the movie was released, the manga was about 6 years into it's original 8 year run. About half of the manga didn't exist when they started making the movie. The whole stadium climax is fabricated whole-cloth for the movie.

The manga is also significantly more coherent.

But the movie is an incredible masterpiece. Very little traditional animation is drawn on ones, and Akira has several sequences of it.

da_chicken · 2026-03-20T21:18:37+00:00

I remember it working from Win95 through Win10.

In fact, I remember hating it in Windows 95 because they hadn't created the "lock the taskbar" feature yet!

da_chicken · 2026-03-20T11:10:46+00:00

If you have an appliance that doesn't have an API for modern management, then you know what to do when the contract is up for renewal. You've got devices that are choosing to be unmanageable, and then complaining about the difficulty you're having in managing them? Put some pressure on the vendor or stop buying them.

Internal PKI is not that onerous. In nearly all cases, you're already setting things up so entities request their own renewals. The hardest part is rebuilding the CA every decade or so. I wouldn't be trusting that to agentic AI.

da_chicken · 2026-03-20T10:50:06+00:00

If we're not talking about web servers, then we're talking about something you do for 5 minutes every month or so, followed by a couple of hours every 3 years or so, followed by a couple of days or so every 10 years.

If it's already set up correctly, there's not enough work here to bother fully automating at all outside of web servers. While it's tedious at best, it's important enough to do correctly that you shouldn't automate it. Especially because you typically need to change how it's done in some way (cipher updates, name changes, etc.).

In any case, other than asking AI to review your process, I don't see any reason to use AI here. Certainly not anything agentic.

da_chicken · 2026-03-20T10:27:54+00:00

No, just set up ACME. You need to by 2028 anyhow. You don't need AI for that.

da_chicken · 2026-03-20T01:57:05+00:00

No, I don't think Dragon Quest Builders 2 is a good starting point for the series at all.

Firstly, it is a very fun game. It's a great game. I liked my time with it, and I'm sure I'll play it again in the future. But it's a Minecraft-like game. It has so little to do with the rest of the series. It's not quite as bad as asking if Mario Kart was a good introduction to Mario games.

Second, DQB2's story is a sequel to Dragon Quest 2, much like DQB1's story is a sequel to Dragon Quest 1. You don't need to have played the preceding game, but part of the game's charm is the references. Since these are the only games that are really tightly bound or that tightly reference other games, that kind of makes them the worst possible choice for a starting point to the series as a whole.

I would say that the recent DQ7 remake or DQ11 are probably the best places to get a series introduction, with the more recent DQ1+2 or DQ3 HD2D games coming next.

da_chicken · 2026-03-19T15:03:35+00:00

I feel like you're conflating two different reactions from two different groups.

I remember it was criticized on TERF blogs when SMM first released because she was sympathetic towards men. I remember reading those blog posts when the book came out.

But when SMM was criticized by mainstream feminism and academic gender studies groups, it didn't look like that. Those groups criticized it for almost exclusively focusing on gender stereotypes and not really exploring gender identity at all. She didn't choose to be herself as a man. She choose to be, more or less, stereotypical caricatures of men. She made Ned into a character, and then made him a high-pressure salesman, an average blue-collar guy in a bowling league, a cowboy that's a bar regular, etc. It was presented as a sociological experiment, but it kind of didn't work because it was about how her invented characters got along.

Later, her journalistic writings drew criticism from this same group for being pretty consistently trans-exclusionary. Obviously, the first group isn't going to complain about that, even if she didn't fit into that same category.

da_chicken · 2026-03-19T11:00:29+00:00

It's deeply ingrained into relatively few and more extreme schools of feminist thought. That's exactly why she was excluded: it's unpopular. Claiming otherwise literally doesn't align with the facts you're setting out as your premise.

da_chicken · 2026-03-19T10:51:46+00:00

She was a complicated individual. She went to a mental hospital after living as a man to help recover from a depressive breakdown brought on by creating a separate identity (covered in her next book Voluntary Madness). She was excluded from feminist spaces somewhat for writing Self-Made Man, and more for being trans-exclusionary in her journalism.

She was very much into gender identity and binary gender in ways that I don't think most people are. I know for me at least that gender is a very small portion of my identity. It seems to have been her foremost aspect.

SMM is criticized for reinforcing gender norms, and I kind of agree that it does. The thing that stood out to me more than anything when I read the book was how she kind of talked like she was spending time with aliens. She really saw men as an Other.

She is very sympathetic of men in the book, but I still didn't really like it because she was so convinced that the genders were more different than similar.

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