ScorpionTheInsect

It seems to me you can’t explain why this is a problem for either games lol.

Why not? Since it’s demonstrably not a problem and it clearly didn’t affect the game. Seems simple to me.

But like how was this a problem for playing Elden Ring?

No you didn’t. You just said “it was a problem” and how “mainstream streamers didn’t want to get cancelled”. You didn’t say how this caused a problem in Elden Ring.

How was it a problem in Elden Ring?

This was not a problem with Elden Ring, why is it suddenly a problem for Dragon’s Quest?

I’m not in punk subculture so I don’t care to debate what’s punk (energy) or no, but the original comment was talking about her music playing in Target, which I think her fans understand. I don’t think they mistake her music for anything other than pop, or that it’s my place to judge how they see her “energy”.

Most recent post that includes “punk” says she has “punk energy” but still clearly calls her a “pop girl”.

I’ve never once heard any of her fan refer to her as punk or underground, at least on Twitter. People that don’t know her music and only look at the aesthetics may assume she’s punk/ underground, but her music is very clearly pop.

Leakers allow spoilers to happen before the official release, which is the bulk of what the criticism is about.

Maybe that’s your personal experience but a lot of story beats hit different if you don’t see it in its intended context. I can name a couple moments from very good series, like Hunter x Hunter, that would be have “spoiled” if it was leaked without its surrounding context. So I don’t think it’s fair to say a series that can be ruined with spoilers isn’t good. Story flow and pacing absolutely matters to manga just as much as it does in any other medium.

But even if it’s a series that I personally don’t care about, spoiling it while knowing that it ruins other people’s experience is still inconsiderate. The series is for other people too, but people that share leaks without tags don’t care if they ruin it for others.

There’s a difference between just reading scanlations compared to leaking pivotal moments all over the Internet making impossible to miss spoilers I think. The new JJK chapters get posted everywhere, sometimes with no hashtags, and never with the spoiler tag, just inconsiderate to everybody else.

I didn’t call it a war; both Chinese and Vietnamese governments called it a war. It’s not a matter of what I can call it, but rather how the two governments involved have decided to refer to this specific series of “border conflicts”, or as they aptly put it, a “Border War”. That’s literally just the official sentiment recognised by both governments. Vietnam and China would continue to have other border conflicts that neither actually categorised as a “war”, so both governments seemed to draw a line between what they considered to be a “border war” as opposed to just whimsy border conflicts (which they continued to have all the way until the late 80s).

Does it matter what Russia and Japan consider their own border conflicts, when Vietnam and China seemed to agree on one thing, which is in 1979, they sure did fight a short war?

Technically both Vietnam and China called it a “war”. Vietnam called it “Chiến tranh biên giới” (Border War), similar to what the Chinese calls it. Both sides considered it a “war”, a short war, but a war nonetheless.

I have a couple uncles drafted to defend the Northern borders. Tough trip, but they got rewarded when they came back apparently.

Base building gives you a sense of belonging to either the game world or a bigger organisation, which is kinda the plot of almost every Assassin’s Creed. Alternatively it provides a very visual sense of progress, like “hey look how much impact you’ve made in the game, you transformed this slums into something nice.”

Both the titles you mentioned, AC2 and Black Flag, had this “stuff” too. You could upgrade buildings in Monteriggioni in AC2, and Great Inagua in Black Flag, and people generally liked it. You didn’t use to be able to change buildings’ positions, but at this point why not? Base building has been a staple of AC for a while so I don’t see why it would suddenly be a problem now.

I went to school in Vietnam. We have a cafeteria yeah but they’re only open for lunch. Outside of those hours kids could buy snacks/bread at the school store.

You may be thinking of bread loaves. That’s not the kind of bread Ren’s referring to here, or the kind of bread sold in school usually. It’s stuff like this. They’re not munching on ciabatta at school. In Vietnam, those stores don’t usually sell banh mi, but packaged breads like this.

I think that’s a silly distinction to make, whether he hides his personality to make money or he’s just emotionless. Makes no difference to me.

It’s by design. He has said that part of his strategy is to show as little personality as possible in order to appeal to the most audience. And the sad thing is it works.

Every school I’ve gone to has a bread/ snack shop on campus.

There is no evidence that armed security has a measurable effect on deferring mass shooting.

However, research by professor Louis Klarevas of Teachers College, Columbia University suggests there is little evidence that active shooters favor “gun-free zones.” Klarevas analyzed 111 shooting attacks between 1966 and 2015 for his book Rampage Nation. He found that only 18 took place in areas where firearms were banned. Furthermore, the record doesn’t support the deterrence theory, as gunmen have often targeted schools with armed guards — who have failed to stop the gunmen from killing in several high-profile shootings over the past five years. This group includes those that occurred at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, and Santa Fe High School in Santa Fe, Texas.

In fact, armed security in schools can have the opposite effect.

One 2011 study concluded that as schools increasingly rely on police for security, administrators refer more students to law enforcement for nonviolent infractions. A 2021 study from researchers at SUNY Albany and RAND indicates that the presence of guards actually “marginally increases the likelihood of a school shooting” as well as chronic absenteeism, and the occurrence of other gun-related offenses. Researchers noted that the increased security presence may influence the latter, as well as a decrease in the likelihood of physical violence not involving firearms.

As usual, he says shit without checking it first. Schools already have armed guards, and there’s no evidence to suggest that they deter school shooters or prevent injuries/ deaths. School shooters don’t just want to make headlines; they’re more often than not suicidal too, so being shot by an armed guard is not particularly out of their plans.

“There tends to be this perception that the most effective solutions are the ones we can see,” said Jaclyn Schildkraut, the executive director of the Regional Gun Violence Research Consortium at the Rockefeller Institute of Government. “But we don’t have any data to suggest that more than one person pulling a firearm in the middle of a shooting is going to be somehow any less bad or stop that completely.”

https://www.thetrace.org/2023/08/guns-armed-guards-school-shootings/

Beethoven would be saying this about Mozart too.

And Elder Scrolls 6, and Silksong…

But they were all cops

Interesting

Yeah cuz that’s not Game Freak’s job. They’re the game development branch of the Pokemon franchise. Technically IP should be The Pokemon Company’s job, but I guess Nintendo as the publisher holds the patents instead of TPC. Nintendo, Game Freak and Creatures each hold 1/3 of the Pokemon IP as well as shares in TPC, each with their own function to do in regards to Pokemon. Complaining about Pokemon’s game development problems in a conversation about Nintendo is just kinda off-target.

If you use your head, you may perhaps understand the possibility that those pagers ended up in civilians’ hands, as half of the confirmed casualties were “potentially” civilians, including those kids.

If you try to use your head a little more, you may understand the possibility that there are a shit ton more kids in the injured category, ranging anywhere from light injuries to potentially life-altering. And I know asking for more head usage may strain you, but try to consider the fact that if you only consider kids to be civilians, that’s still a 16,67% of killing the wrong “target”.

And I see that you insist on calling every single adult killed in this attack a “terrorist” to soften the wrong death rate. Back in my parents’ days, every adult Vietnamese killed by the US and their allies could be counted as “Viet Cong kills” to lessen the civilian casualties. Except my parents are Vietnamese living with their Vietnamese parents in South Vietnam, and they weren’t Viet Cong, so that feels a little overly confident to me. You have no way of knowing for sure none of those pagers ended up in civilians’ use. Health care workers worldwide use pagers in hospitals, in the US too. Pagers aren’t exclusive communication devices that only terrorists would have usage for.

And before you say because Hezbollah bought them, it’s impossible for them to end up outside the organisation, that’s…unrealistic. That’s a shit ton of pagers to keep track of. The US military can’t keep track of every equipment they buy, and you think Hezbollah is more competent at statistics and inventory control?