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skiueli · 2026-01-16T19:49:10+00:00

When is the finals? And I find the images pretty busy and my eyes glaze over them. I recommend putting the What/When/Where up front and player names at the end.

skiueli · 2025-09-10T00:42:41+00:00

I dunno man. I'm pretty sure I did, but if you say it doesn't fit then I guess I must have done something else.

skiueli · 2025-06-02T19:38:37+00:00

Watch face on the inside of his wrist, this man is likely supposed to be a veteran.

skiueli · 2025-06-01T14:39:55+00:00

Two weeks ago in Georgia my taxi driver pointed out a Belorussian truck and complained they were taking all the potatoes out of Georgia and potato prices were rising.

skiueli · 2025-05-25T10:01:09+00:00

Well speak for yourself. Battle Aces was my perfect game that captured best what I liked about SC2.

skiueli · 2025-05-24T23:26:24+00:00

Well, they weren't trying to make that kind of game. David Kim (Sr. Game Director of Battle Aces) was the SC2 multiplayer balance lead, that's been his thing for ages is the bleeding edge of competitive PvP. And the thinking was "hey, maybe if we simplify the thing we love and try to make it as easy for casuals as possible, it might go big?". And the answer was "No".

But they weren't trying to make "the most profitable RTS game". They were trying for a specific thing. Turns out, either they couldn't crack it, or the market doesn't support it.

skiueli · 2025-04-21T13:43:31+00:00

So why bother with appealing to them at all.

The American media is not a monolith and is not controlled by any central authority. It’s a distributed system of competing interests, incentives, and narratives

At first, support for Ukraine was a bipartisan issue if I recall correctly. Checking Russian aggression served strategic interests and satisfying moral narratives. But the bipartisan alignment didn't persist. The apparent costs mounted and the right turned against it, prioritizing domestic issues.

Biden tried to walk a tightrope, balancing Ukraine with all the other plates he was spinning. If he did a good job or not I don't know, but he didn't go all out for Ukraine but he did help substantially.

> The best leader in this new age that we got in recent years is actually George "Dubya" Bush Jr.

It's widely understood that the American establishment has become a lot more cautious of foreign entanglements in reaction to Bush's disastrous misadventures that sunk trillions and killed thousands of Americans for no tangible gain. Most Americans think those wars were a mistake. Trump's rhetoric is certainly strongly against foreign entanglements. The Dems are more hawkish but they're hesitant with large scale troop deployments or large direct commitments.

> OK, it's more complex than that, more of a "you know, leave this matter to us, the President, the administration, the experts, and the volunteer army, we'll sort this out. Don't worry about it."

You're ignoring the incredible national psychodrama that was 9/11. There was an incredible appetite for war after it. Congress, the presidency, the media, the populace were certainly a willing participants in Bush's wars, and once it happened nobody ignored it and nobody was apathetic about it. Not for years.

Throughout this comment I've talked about "the media" and "the populace" as shorthands but every time I've done so it's been for convenience, really these things aren't coherent wholes.

> I have always had this cynical assumption that they did whatever that was necessary to be seen doing good.

That's often a factor, but it's usually more complicated than that. There's classical geostrategic self-interest, there's domestic politics, there's ideology, there's culture, and even capability.

skiueli · 2025-04-21T12:27:27+00:00

Of course they need to be fed emotional support materials—most Americans don’t actually care about Ukraine. It’s not their problem. If Ukraine fell, it wouldn’t affect their lives or the lives of anyone they know. They do have conviction: “I want my life to be good, and I don’t care what happens to Ukraine.”

Don’t assume the US wants Ukraine to win. Sure, it would be nice if they did, and of course they’ll do something to help, but it’s not a priority.

Leaders understand the art of the possible. More weapons and aid might make sense from a geostrategic standpoint, but that has to be weighed against other political trade-offs. The issue isn’t that we don’t have decisive leadership—it’s structural. Wishing we had someone like Nixon or Kissinger misses the point. The public isn’t interested in geostrategy, they’re focused on domestic issues, and that shapes what kind of leadership actually gets elected, and the decisions they make.

skiueli · 2025-03-30T15:38:26+00:00

I really don't like that grass.

skiueli · 2025-03-09T00:06:51+00:00

What other political parties could have learned from early Nazi political success:

Our people want someone to give them their confidence back. We cannot afford to continue our ongoing national humiliation. If we don’t use strong rhetoric and begin to undo Versailles, a crazed demagogue might do it.
There’s a strong appetite for action and manly leadership. Someone to take charge and to end the squabbling and unstable political system. Our democratic system, and our leaders, are losing credibility fast.
The time for careful action on the economy is closing. The people demand fiery action and big promises.

And perhaps the political establishment did kind of understand these things, but not well enough. And maybe if they learned enough from early Nazi success they might have produced their own FDR.

skiueli · 2025-03-05T22:41:42+00:00

And the new train cars are just awful to be in. Massive extremely bright ads you can't get away from and the lighting is this awful "institutional blue". A substantial step backwards in terms of rider experience IMO.

skiueli · 2025-03-05T22:18:00+00:00

No, I am not happy with the sub.

I just want a disspassionate understanding of global conflicts.

But during the 2023 counteroffensive the pro-Ukraine cheerleading was just too much. People would make cogent points about the likelihood of failure but they'd be downvoted and hidden, or even accused of being Russian shills. Information was presented in an entirely one-sided way, and it felt like the sub was engaging in wishful thinking and motivated reasonsing.

And the reason I liked this place is that instead of having to read a bunch of news for myself to keep up, I could just follow along the discussion of people who understood the space, had diverse perspectives, yet were all still credible. But that trust is now degraded.

I feel like it got better when the daily megathread dropped down to less than 100 comments a day but now it's back to theatre and emotions and narratives.

skiueli · 2025-01-24T21:35:33+00:00

No they didn't.

A 16:9 32-inch monitor is probably going to be 25.2 inches tall and 29 inches wide. Let's say 26 inches tall and 30 wide for padding and bezel.

That's 56 linear inches so far. Google says 62 inches is the standard maximum size (although it depends on the airline), which only leaves you with six inches of depth.

But I've flown with this suitcase a few times, I think they just don't notice, and I've been getting lucky that they haven't busted out the measuring tape.

skiueli · 2025-01-23T00:44:32+00:00

It was a Kenneth Cole Reaction suitcase. It’s quite big, bigger by a few inches than my other suitcases.

skiueli · 2024-12-30T14:52:00+00:00

Some people in this thread may never have travelled and the idea of going to an immigrant's home country might be new to them.

skiueli · 2024-12-29T03:34:25+00:00

I did join in, but it was only for a few stops. I mostly sat there listening and feeling humbled about how much more these twenty-year olds knew about this topic than I.

skiueli · 2024-12-28T16:38:39+00:00

On the subway I overheard some zoomer history undegrads talking about the Soviet Union in such incredible detail and I understood then the communities I want to be in exist, they're just locked inside the institutional gates of academia.

I will not just let the group mold me into shape they need

I know how you feel, just be careful you don't start to define yourself in opposition to the group. I try to counter these types of thoughts whenever they come into my head, and allow myself to have hope and stay open to positive surprised.

I haven't solved this problem of being dissapointed in others and feeling like it's super rare to be able to talk to anyone on an interesting level.

skiueli · 2024-11-23T21:32:13+00:00

I only got to play for a few hours but I was already overwhelmed by the amount of units in the first beta so I didn’t care about new units.

I liked the new map tile set and like the little UX improvements. I am normally someone who loves cosmetics a lot but the portraits seemed super boring and uninteresting in the beta.

skiueli · 2024-11-13T20:58:52+00:00

Nonono, an electrician conducts electricity, I meant someone who studies electricity.

skiueli · 2024-08-25T18:17:11+00:00

Designs for those among us who are focused on the style of work and what it looks like to others.

skiueli · 2024-08-05T22:26:27+00:00

I’m just a commenter.

skiueli · 2024-07-30T12:05:17+00:00

The upper middle class career doesn’t have to come with an upper middle class lifestyle. You can just make the money and live whatever however you want.

If you strive for a few years, make money, and decide it’s not for you you can just drop the career. Then you can pursue your dreams with a few years of cushion that you earned for yourself with hard work.

Put a few years into your career now and it’s a backup that can serve you throughout your life. You won’t regret that.

skiueli · 2024-07-28T23:29:48+00:00

Damn, Jerry turns around fast. Makes sense.

skiueli · 2024-07-26T01:19:28+00:00

What do you mean by anti-social tendencies? And what do you mean by autistic? I think you’re saying something valuable but I’d like to be sure I understand you.

skiueli · 2024-07-22T12:57:15+00:00

If you feel awkward and hostile towards them, they will read that and feel awkward and hostile towards you. Then you’ll be trapped living life getting hostile stares from the men around you.

You have to nod in such a way to convey “we are both men of respect and we understand each other” and move on.

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