She carries things on her belt? I’m sorry that’s just not a good signal in outdoors stuff. Carabiners are used for all kinds of things.

Nvm, I found a couple good articles on the subject.

The bouncer is a God. The DC is 500. Crits are the only way through. There’s an instant kill atmosphere in the front room that requires all elemental immunities to survive. If they make it past all of that they are disintegrated by the unfiltered visage of a naked god. I hope they brought another character sheet.

Nope sorry, you found the one city with no brothels.

There’s always Star Citizen… :)

Okay but really I agree that Starfield is a mess. The thing is, nobody else has really delivered on the whole package yet. Ground and space combat, trading, and a narrative.

Mass effect and Freelancer gave two different sides of the coin and I think they’re the next closest.

Ah that’s what I got wrong.

Lol, fair play, I editorialized the titles too. But really once you click into them it’s super obvious these guys have an axe to grind. For example, (from the relevant paper) they state that serving up less Anti CCP content is a bias. But they compare it to YouTube and Instagram. Two services pretty famous for taking people down far right tracks if you let their algorithm auto play. So in this case even a neutral position is going to have less Anti-CCP propaganda.

And the entire paper is flawed in this way. The baseline they establish is itself flawed. They also claim causation but can only show correlation with their skewed baseline.

What? Heresy!

Yeah I’m pretty sure I remember it getting called out there.

Just checking your password is *******, right?

The first one is NCRI and the second one is paywalled.

NCRI is known for hit songs like -

Colleges that deplatform conservatives are anti-semitic;

DEI causes violence, and my favorite;

Luigi Mangione’s support means the left are digital insurgents

Reader’s Note - There has been no evidence submitted showing any of the allegations towards TikTok are true. In fact TikTok publicly embarked on a project to silo all US Data.

That assumes ByteDance and TikTok approve a sale… They’ve been very adamant they will not.

The knife is barely there because it’s supposed to be a convenience thing. Anything tough means the pocket knife comes out.

It’s not just short form video algorithms. Streaming TV shows are made to where they effectively end about 15 minutes into the next episode. Video games are workshopped right down to the sounds they use for loot boxes.

And all of that might have an effect, but that effect is pretty clearly to draw in normal people. Not to somehow create ADHD.

It was Saturday morning cartoons when I was a kid. Then it was video games. Now they blame TikTok.

Don’t believe those people. They want any excuse except the actual answer, that humanity exists on several sliding scales. And while there is a normative zone, it’s not at all abnormal to be outside that zone.

You forget, that first question is asked in a positive way in the Military Industrial Complex.

Thankfully the lack of steak qualifies as breach of contract so I can avoid eating that and go have a heart attack at Buffalo Wild Wings. As God intended.

We’ve already run into problems with that where mods banned people talking about Israeli war crimes as “misinformation”. Despite it being headline news.

So that’s obviously not a great system.

Sounds like a good old leadership trust issue. Unfortunately the only thing that solves that is time, beer (or other social activity), making yourself useful to them in other ways, and being honest with them.

If they’re afraid of punishment you can always try an amnesty box. They put what they would say in the box, anonymously, and you discuss it without trying to figure out who submitted it. Even if it’s obvious. Then they don’t have to trust you so much as the process.

Of course I know how thermo dynamics works! But uh if you could just explain it for my friend here, gestures in general direction of dog, that would be perfect.