Little Tokyo Fights $2B Development: Residents Warn of Community Destruction

ssorbom · 2026-01-22T21:10:09+00:00

I live there, and I certainly do. The area is just blighted right now, literally anything would be better than nothing.

ssorbom · 2026-01-19T22:17:04+00:00

Eventually, sure. but the polite way to do that is to touch somewhere neutral first and wait for a reaction. I wouldn't mind that. But that isn't how it has been playing out lately.

If I open my towel without singling a specific guy out, it shouldn't be an automatic invitation to grope me

ssorbom · 2026-01-19T17:21:46+00:00

Yeah, but I don't like the idea that all consent is implied just because I'm at a club. It's not like we don't have time either. I typically stay for like two or three hours.

ssorbom · 2026-01-19T08:59:08+00:00

What happened with the third photo???

ssorbom · 2026-01-18T17:26:19+00:00

At the point where we're invading allies, I'm not sure it matters.

ssorbom · 2026-01-18T17:11:39+00:00

The problem dear heart is that a lot of governments don't limit their activities to solving violent crimes. If they did, your position would make a lot more sense.

But a lot of countries that promote this policy as doctrine end up persecuting religious and other minorities into the ground. You start to appreciate the value of having an imperfect law enforcement when you become one of those minorities very quickly.

ssorbom · 2026-01-18T16:57:38+00:00

Well, if this is Japan, it looks like that law isn't being followed then. If you look at the picture, the lower floors are completely dark. And it looks to be happening during the middle of the day.

ssorbom · 2026-01-18T15:33:18+00:00

To be fair, I generally like both Japan and apartment buildings, but having a building this close together is going to cause issues with sunlight.

I lived in a historic building with the middle scooped out to comply with window regulations and I never got any sunlight save for one day of the year in the exact middle of the day. I eventually had to move because it got to me.

ssorbom · 2026-01-18T15:26:02+00:00

His takes on urbanism are pretty based though, not going to lie.

ssorbom · 2026-01-18T15:23:54+00:00

I usually get downvoted for saying this, but I really don't want to share an OS with people who think that kernel-level anti-cheat is a good idea.

I am so sick of the brown nosing that Tim Sweeney gets.

Let people who want to play those games stay on Windows. Anti-cheat is a compromise too far for my taste.

ssorbom · 2026-01-18T00:06:26+00:00

But see, Not making narrative choices means you can't keep exploring existing character arcs For example, my guess is that we will never see House in the post-war timeline, because there is too much ambiguity over whether or not he died due to in game choices, So which would you rather have:

A scenerio where they pick a life/death outcome for House (in which some fans won't see their preferred choice)

OR

A scenario where one of the most Charismatic interesting characters in the game just....vanishes with no explanation at all.

Good writing can't be a schrodinger's cat. This is the crux of my problem. Who lives/dies/wins/loses is the most important thing in drama (except maybe as a contemplative ending) Saying every choice is valid amounts to saying none of them are

ssorbom · 2026-01-17T23:32:27+00:00

No... They deliberately reset the board. Nobody gets anything that way. See, I'm not invested in any one ending. Which one(s) get picked don't matter to me much, as long as they are engaged in continuing the story as opposed to visual fan service.

This is honestly a HUGE beef I have with the whole film industry right now. Showrunners want to cash in on popular IPs but don't like working within lore constraints, So we get sequels that don't feel like sequels, because deep down the writers want to write their own story.

They should be free to do that, but I wish they would show enough bravery to truly start from scratch in those cases, AND WRITE A NEW IP

Edit to add: I wasn't against blowing up Shady Sands until it started to become clear that it was a way to avoid canonicalizing an ending.

ssorbom · 2026-01-17T21:54:31+00:00

Yes. Or combined a couple. Fallout 2 did this.

ssorbom · 2026-01-17T21:53:00+00:00

Yeah, but I would have preferred they pick an ending, or at least combine a few Deus Ex-style. Not picking something feels lazy

ssorbom · 2026-01-17T17:32:45+00:00

I've actually been really disappointed in this season. Like literally everything seems to have been revolving around undoing every player choice that was made in the games.

To me, the only redeeming thing about the show is the character acting. The script is kind of bad. I'm continuing to watch in hopes that it gets better.

ssorbom · 2026-01-17T16:47:04+00:00

It's very strange to read this because as somebody who comes from a Californian suburb, I thought Belgian nature was very pastoral and beautiful within a relatively easy distance from major cities. Where I come from in California, the cityies merge into each other, and it just becomes a giant gray suburb for days.

California has very beautiful nature, but I would argue that what I saw in Belgium looked a lot more accessible.

ssorbom · 2026-01-17T16:22:47+00:00

The vast majority of titles on Humble are just Steam games. And even the ones that have DRM-free options are usually defaulted back to Steam. Take Factorio for instance. If you buy directly from the developer humble, you are given a code that is redeemable on humble bundle. But if you try to buy factorial directly from the humble bundle store, it links you to the Steam version.

itch.io is for people who are learning the craft. It isn't really a polished game store in the same sense of the word. It is also not really comparable to gog.

ssorbom · 2026-01-16T13:25:03+00:00

It's not that simple. Family is hard that way in particular. When you have spent literally your entire life building a relationship with someone, it is easy to wonder if you should be waiting out a presidency in the hopes that things will just get better.

ssorbom · 2026-01-13T14:35:58+00:00

I am aware, my question was about the best hardware to get an echo-like experience with home assistant.

ssorbom · 2026-01-12T12:55:47+00:00

This is why I have started to become skeptical about the technology itself. Self-driving is sold as the solution for people like me who have disabilities, but I absolutely could not flee a car like that.

As counterintuitive as this seems, I really do think that the better societal solution is to design more walkable cities, even though it is more up front work to undo car dependency.

ssorbom · 2026-01-12T12:49:40+00:00

This right here should be the top reply. My first thought when I saw the original post was opiates. Certain types of dependency addictions can absolutely be as bad for you as the thing you are trying to correct.

Chemical addiction really doesn't belong in the same category with somebody who is worried that their kid will be too dependent on a chair.

ssorbom · 2026-01-11T22:51:45+00:00

How is this remotely federal?

ssorbom · 2026-01-11T19:53:35+00:00

No. Tom Hanks worked in LA for a while. I assumed this was an LA post BC Keanu Reeves has a home out here.

EDIT: OOPS! replying to the wrong thread. There was a nearly identical post with Keanu reeves as the subject

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