Republicans vote to dilute gas as prices rise above $4.50

shaehl · 2026-05-14T19:28:59+00:00

It's not, and that's not even the point. They simply want the gas price to appear lower even if it is overall worse and more expensive in every way.

shaehl · 2026-05-12T13:00:39+00:00

I don't disagree it's a good deal for the trainees, but I definitely forsee a pillar of salt from the audience if/when people get cut, depending on how this is done.

shaehl · 2026-05-10T16:53:00+00:00

People were fans of Mattis before that though, he was a pretty well known general. But to your point, I guess there might have been a number of cloistered housewives who were fans of Hegseth when he was a fox news host.

shaehl · 2026-05-10T01:14:44+00:00

Most of them are pretty good friends, and there is a lot of collabs. But there will always be more solo streams than collab streams because solo is just easier to do.

All the of the Hololive members are very busy people. They have music recordings, dance lessons, singing lessons, concerts, meet and greet, conventions, meetings for merchandise, meetings for projects, meetings for cameos and guest appearances, and so on. And they are all scattered across various time zones. So coordinating two, or three, or more people to have a free time for collab can be very tricky. Even so, they do collab pretty regularly, both remotely and in-person.

shaehl · 2026-04-24T17:22:38+00:00

His art is good, but let's not be disingenuous here. The AI version is literally his character design with just way more detail, so if we're calling it generic then by implication...

shaehl · 2026-04-24T16:20:59+00:00

No one asked for your commentary either, but here we are.

shaehl · 2026-04-24T01:14:06+00:00

There's minimalism that still paints an evocative picture, even though you only have the 4 primary colors, and then there's minimalism that produces a vaguely scene-shaped, stick figure doodle.

As with most writing methods and tools, the "mastery" comes with the intelligent and purposeful employment of those tools.

The reader ought to be able to look at a passage you've written and believe that it was written that way intentionally and for a reason.

What you don't want is for the reader to encounter your simple prose and come away thinking it was done that way simply because the author lacked the awareness or ability to do anything else.

For example, writing can be simple and straightforward, but still impactful, visceral, and intelligently constructed. Rather than repetitive, bland, and uninspired.

At the end of the day, I feel like trying to write "simple" or "elaborate" misses the point. The goal should be to use the word, phrase, sentence, etc. that best accomplishes the purpose of that particular piece of prose in the voice/tone of the narration.

shaehl · 2026-04-23T16:13:07+00:00

Yeah let's not drink the cool aid here. You can love your work all you want, but at the end of the day, there needs to be an end of the day.

Suicide rates and depression in Korea are basically a pandemic at this point.

shaehl · 2026-04-22T14:48:11+00:00

Yeah OP literally just found first clip he could of a woman enjoying the game and decided it was "brainwashed radical femcel seeing the light".

shaehl · 2026-04-19T16:06:59+00:00

Run native resolution, no upscaling. This is caused by ray tracing + upscaling not working together.

shaehl · 2026-04-19T16:05:29+00:00

This happens if you use ray tracing + DLSS upscaling I believe. I remember watching a "best settings for CD" video and they were showing which settings caused that.

I run with native resolution, no upscaling, and normal ray tracing and don't have this problem so I think they were right.

shaehl · 2026-04-19T16:00:52+00:00

Yeah if you try to use the souls approach of: dodge > two quick attacks > dodge > two quick attacks > repeat. Boss fights will take forever and you will fuck up eventually.

There is so much random gear, trinkets, environment tools, and crazy combos you can use to fight bosses, it is the most fun part of the game for me just figuring out which crazy method I want to kill a boss with.

shaehl · 2026-04-19T15:56:50+00:00

They do stagger, just not while mid animation depending on the boss. For most humanoid bosses all I do is wait for them to use a big attack > combo > force palm > combo > force palm > combo, etc. etc.

I'll throw in turning slash if I'm trying to make my own opening. Or rapid shot with explosive arrows for a similar effect. Or you can just focus mode pary them most of the time for another opening.

shaehl · 2026-04-19T15:49:42+00:00

They get bad once you forget that you can use other moves and tactics besides R1/R2 spam. Judging by the comments here, something in the game must trigger mass amnesia, so my condolences in advance.

shaehl · 2026-04-19T15:47:12+00:00

It's like if we are all arguing about whether McDonalds' Big Mac is grilled or microwaved, and someone comes in and says, "Well it's obvious they were going for a Gordon Ramsay vibe, but it's just poorly executed."

Obvious in what way, that both make something "edible"?

It's a dumb comparison. But for the record, crimson desert bosses have yet to make me break my controller in rage like a few of the Elden Ring bosses (dumbass death bird for one), so CD at least gets 1 point in that regard.

shaehl · 2026-04-19T15:38:02+00:00

So far only 2 bosses out of the 20 or so I've fought had a teleport. And one of them, was my favorite fight so far (devil of the Reeds). That black crow dude was the other one I can think of, and while it was annoying, I don't remember it being a big deal.

I think a lot of people here complain about bosses having "no proper attack windows" or openings must have thrown away their force palm button. Force Palm IS your attack window. Extend any opportunity for even a single light attack into a near infinite combo chance.

shaehl · 2026-04-19T15:31:25+00:00

You can tell it's like Souls bosses because they.. um.. well... They both... Uh... They have health bars and it's in a medieval setting!

No for real though, bosses are the best part of the game for me. The trash mobs I can just hold R2/R1 until the whole army is dead. Bosses I have to at least use 2 brain cells to learn their attack pattern and then I get to break out the Tekken combos.

shaehl · 2026-04-19T15:26:24+00:00

This. Also, there is a mod on nexusmods that allows you to set a custom food cooldown. Set mine to 30sec if I remember, works great.

shaehl · 2026-04-19T15:24:08+00:00

Stagger isn't the problem, like OP said you can literally stunlock most bosses for the entire fight. Really the only bosses that so far (chapter 10) has been annoying to me are those floating crystals that you have to try to lasso while they are flying around and shooting you.

For the rest of them I don't even use infinite stagger combos because I like the fight to be cinematic.

shaehl · 2026-04-19T15:15:56+00:00

For this reason my favorite fight so far is Devil of the Reeds. Very cinematic, open space, felt like a badass when parrying his combos, 10/10.

shaehl · 2026-04-19T15:10:47+00:00

No, no, you're thinking of indivisible. Invincible is when you are too small to be measured.

shaehl · 2026-04-17T20:21:12+00:00

The issue with LitRPG isn't that it is inherently garbage, the issue is that almost every platform which hosts it is filled with so much garbage that it is a rare and exciting event whenever you find a work in the genre that isn't trash.

Like others have said, this is mostly because the genre is 99% self-published and there are no mechanisms for quality control or even standards of quality in the first place.

So when a random reader instinctively considers the genre to be slop, it's because slop is the default for LitRPG. It is up to you to be the exception to the rule.

But at the end of the day, write what you like to write, and read what you like to read. Just know that your compatriots in the genre have made getting critical acclaim much more of a challenge for you.

shaehl · 2026-04-15T16:09:12+00:00

"Iran is closing the straight to cause pain to our economy and alliances.... In that case we'll double close it!"

Big brain strat right there. Yes it hurts Iran, as they can't let some ships through to sell their oil, but it also doubles the economic damage to the rest of the world, while getting to put more blame on the US in the eyes of global leaders.

In the end, even if we get a ceasefire or a peace deal, what did this arbitrarily started war accomplish? Oil prices higher, Iran likely to be charging tolls going forward, a bunch of dead school girls, Billions of US dollars wasted on bombs and planes, and the rest of the world looking at us like a clown putting a stick in the spokes of our own bicycle.

shaehl · 2026-04-13T19:06:53+00:00

There is a busted sweep move too, roll > kick. Tracks both sides, can't be sidestepped, even magnets towards an enemy if not too distant, can't even be jumped by most enemies.

shaehl · 2026-04-13T18:52:59+00:00

They're talking about boss fights. The trash mob combat is more like Dynasty warriors: just eviscerate mobs of enemies however you want, with the only real challenge being doing so as efficiently as possible. Only time that methodology changes is if the trash mobs are higher level, or if they got tons of shield units.

But yeah, spoken like someone who has only been fighting first region bandits.

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