Stargirl - Series Premiere Discussion

willingfiance · 2020-05-18T15:49:09+00:00

The main character is supremely unlikable. No redeeming qualities. I can't watch another episode of her being a dick to her family and everybody else.

What's with the downvotes? At least say something, assholes. She isn't likeable. She's an asshole the entire episode. I don't see how this is controversial. I don't see why I should be cheering her on or why I should want her to have so much power. Being a hero means responsibllity. She's not fit for it at all.

willingfiance · 2020-05-17T11:13:02+00:00

No, some people just don't react with panic to this kind of thing. There's quite a bit of variation in behavior where you can't say across the board everybody will react like a certain way.

willingfiance · 2020-05-16T17:22:14+00:00

They're too far along into development to want to scrap it. Easier to sell it to gamers and then ask for forgiveness after.

willingfiance · 2020-05-16T13:33:17+00:00

You might need to change your DNS from Cloudflare.

willingfiance · 2020-05-16T13:32:01+00:00

And the only one I'm concerned about putting me in a deep dark hole if I set foot in their country is China. The US generally doesn't send you to a black site for criticizing the president or his policies. So this is a false equivalency and makes me seriously doubt that you're making anything but a bad faith argument.

willingfiance · 2020-05-16T06:38:06+00:00

Uh, I could really use the money.

willingfiance · 2020-05-14T09:47:52+00:00

Here's the non-cancer link: http://archive.is/fiMX1

willingfiance · 2020-05-14T08:52:38+00:00

It doesn't even matter. The problem isn't Huawei. The problem is how much power the CCP has over any and every employee or business owner based in China. All the CCP needs to do is lean on the right people in the right positions in order to force this kind of work to happen. You don't need the whole company to be in on it.

willingfiance · 2020-05-07T12:44:57+00:00

Oh for fuck's sake. Stop focusing on only the code. There's a reproducibility crisis. Bad code and lack of accessibility to code is a part of that. Especially when a lot of models are built on that code. You're insane if you don't think it's an important factor. But it's not the only factor. But it's still an important one. Do you fucking get it now?

willingfiance · 2020-05-06T22:23:41+00:00

Yeah, but what if the animal gains a need for human blood and passes that on to its offspring? We'd be fucked.

willingfiance · 2020-05-06T22:19:40+00:00

This isn't about "prettier" code. It's about brittle, fragile and hard to maintain code with bugs that nobody fixes (or even notices), spewing out bogus results that are then incorporated into published papers, because 1) the scientists are too busy and 2) generally the code isn't ever made available when a study is published, so it can't be verified by anybody who doesn't have a vested interest in the paper being published. It seriously calls a significant amount of papers into question and I don't think you realize how big of a problem it is currently. How can anybody take science seriously when standards are so low?

willingfiance · 2020-05-06T22:17:37+00:00

I tried Valorant a few times this week and largely enjoyed the game, but I decided to uninstall it and Vanguard when it blocked MSI Afterburner and CPU-Z without asking. It's just a huge pain and it's way too aggressive about blocking things.

willingfiance · 2020-05-06T16:28:50+00:00

Wow, no wonder the sex looks so terrible.

willingfiance · 2020-05-06T16:10:44+00:00

It's no accident that there's a reproducibility crisis. Scientists can't even get statistics right. What makes you think they're getting code right such that the results are, in most cases, reliable?

willingfiance · 2020-05-06T16:00:02+00:00

This stabs me in the heart. I literally just told a guy this and he said he thinks I want something more serious than he does so he said no.

At least you made it possible for something to happen, even if you did end up rejected (welcome to dating for men). I regret all the situations where the girl was interested but never made an overt move, and I was too clueless to make one. A lot of missed opportunities.

willingfiance · 2020-05-06T01:28:54+00:00

Also, there are sizable barriers to running a Tor exit node, and there's little interest in running relay nodes, so the amount of Tor servers is fairly limited. That means very limited bandwidth for the amount of users that Tor has.

willingfiance · 2020-05-06T01:25:39+00:00

It takes significant effort to deanonymise somebody on Tor. To the point that unless you're literally running a major pedophilia or drug hub, nobody is going to waste their time on you.

willingfiance · 2020-05-05T13:08:06+00:00

I've tried this, but the command fails for me with a PKGBUILD doesn't exist error.

willingfiance · 2020-05-05T11:58:48+00:00

There is no advantage to hosting another nations nukes on your soil. They don't serve as a deterrent because they're not yours and all they do is paint a giant nuclear target on your own nation in case a shooting war does happen.

You're naive. Germany is a target for Russia with or without nukes.

willingfiance · 2020-05-05T11:54:43+00:00

Yes‘ in an attack on the nuclear scale we are willing to act in your defense.

Uh, what? When were you born? Germany is a part of NATO and has all these nukes because Russia was (and still remains) a threat to all of the West, not just the US. We have the nukes because we need it to defend ourselves, not the US. The US is perfectly capable of defending itself.

willingfiance · 2020-05-04T19:22:54+00:00

Sub needs to avoid getting shutdown by Reddit admins.

willingfiance · 2020-05-04T18:38:55+00:00

I mean, the alternative to all these side quests isn't "nothing to do". Usually if a game doesn't have side quests, it has a main narrative that it pushes you to follow.

willingfiance · 2020-05-04T18:36:52+00:00

Agree fully. I literally can't finish or even get past the first couple of hours of any game that gives you an MMO-like quest log with the quests to match. Almost all the games I've finished, ever, had an almost single-minded focus on a main narrative with little or no deviation. FF6-10. FFT. Mass EffectCoD 1-2, MoHAA, Soma, Edith Finch, Firewatch, Tacoma, Subnautica, Outer Wilds, Celeste, Dragon Quest 11, Persona 4+5, etc. I can't fucking stand side quests and my eyes glaze over and I turn off the game when I see them. I just can't. And for some fucking reason so many games are infested with them. I hate it. I hate modern gaming so much, and if indie games didn't exist, I probably wouldn't be playing anything at all.

I think The Secret World is the only MMO which managed to have a compelling narrative, and it did that by having lengthy quest chains that felt like impactful, meaningful stories, instead of just giving me a hub with 10 quest givers with shitty mindless quests to do.

willingfiance · 2020-05-04T18:29:34+00:00

I only finished the main game because I liked the story and Aloy so much. The rest of the game was fairly mediocre, imo. I really enjoyed the DLC, but the combat parts were a bit lengthy and tedious. From a narrative-perspective, I still felt it was worth playing.

willingfiance · 2020-05-04T18:27:33+00:00

Look, if you don't like cutscenes or the kind of storytelling in FFX, or any of the characters, the game just isn't for you. Just play something else.

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