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- Comment on Don't let your mind be a jar 1 week ago:
It’s definitely an experiment, but is isn’t Bill Nye.
- Comment on Don't let your mind be a jar 1 week ago:
It’s much worse than that.
- Comment on What exactly do some marketing terms mean? 1 week ago:
“Best seller” depends on the metric being used, this article has some simple explanations, including how Amazon.com niche categories can be gamed to get a book to technically be a best seller.
Because Amazon refreshes ranks at least once a day (often hourly), a well-timed promotional spike can crown you a #1 “best seller” in dozens of micro-categories. Amazon itself acknowledges that ranks are relative and heavily weighted toward recent activity. Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing One TikTok push or email blast can deliver the screenshot—hence the glut of “international best-selling authors” whose lifetime sales barely break four figures.
In something like “Rao’s Homemade” sauces, the word “Homemade” is part of the registered name of the sauce (if you look close you can see the little “R” symbol for a Registered Trademark on the label), not a defined descriptor that needs to meet some kind of legal standard. Yes, it is trying to trick you into thinking of it as being less industrially made than it really is. Marketing.
- Comment on Don't let your mind be a jar 1 week ago:
Be happy that this is what you’re getting from the picture.
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- Comment on Whatever happened to the American dream? It came true! 1 week ago:
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- Comment on Do you think that sitcoms on TV today are horribly unfunny? Compared to older ones? 2 weeks ago:
I think you’re ignoring the core point of the above comment, which is that the long pauses in the show for the laughs are a planned part of the show. If you’ve never been to a recording, the audience noises aren’t spontaneous. There are signs telling the audience when to make noise.
Live audiences sound better than canned laughs, but in terms of pacing for a sitcom, it’s the same thing.
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- Comment on Do you think that sitcoms on TV today are horribly unfunny? Compared to older ones? 2 weeks ago:
The majority of sitcoms are terrible. When you think of good older ones and compare them to bad ones today you’re doing the thing.
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- Comment on Do not draw me without reason, do not wield me without valor. 2 weeks ago:
Mouths?
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- Comment on Why doesn't Israel or the US try to fracture the relationship between Hezbollah and Iran? Instead of straight forward attack. Or make Iran see they are not worth the headache? 2 weeks ago:
Just send more weapons
All of your examples were of supporting existing local insurgencies in order to help them frustrate foreign conventional occupying forces. The occupiers did not have to choose between victory or death, but could at their leisure withdraw. Having that option creates increasing political pressure to withdraw over time. This is not the circumstance with Hezbollah.
Watch a Tom Hanks movie
Read Mao Zedong’s ‘Principles of Peoples War’ to understand the dynamics of a mid-20th century insurgency, and have a foundation for how that foundation has adapted with technology.
- Comment on Why doesn't Israel or the US try to fracture the relationship between Hezbollah and Iran? Instead of straight forward attack. Or make Iran see they are not worth the headache? 2 weeks ago:
What?
Those conflicts were conventional forces being extended to achieve friendly political stability in nations with a large enough population that was hostile to be a problem to root out.
In your suggestion the U.S. is supposed to play the role of the Viet Cong in Lebanon, and Hezbollah is supposed to play the role of a foreign occupying conventional military.
So, how exactly would this be done?
- Comment on Why doesn't Israel or the US try to fracture the relationship between Hezbollah and Iran? Instead of straight forward attack. Or make Iran see they are not worth the headache? 2 weeks ago:
How would you propose that?
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- Comment on What is a game that you know is bad but really enjoy(ed)? 3 weeks ago:
Far Cry 2.
The game is fundamentally broken in a way that mods apparently can’t even fix. The enemy militia checkpoints instantly fully respawn as soon as you trip an invisible trigger. It makes combat with them pointless, which means getting stuck in a firefight with a checkpoint tedious.
The weapon degradation feature is way overtuned to cause some weapons to start visibly rusting from shot to shot.
These two aspects turn the game into a slog. Not even in a way that makes it immersive and survivalist, but immersion breakingly frustrating.
It’s a shame because the game was so ambitious. The game having a mechanic where a player at 0 health can get randomly saved if they befriended an NPC which will drag them to safety is really cool. The fire spreading everywhere was visually and tactically great. The malaria bouts were controversial, but I think they were a good way to increase the feeling of survival and desperation. There’s a lot good with a bleak, serious, and grounded Far Cry game but it just missed the mark in all the most impossible to ignore ways.
‘Far Cry 2 (2)’ would be amazing.
- Comment on What is a game that you know is bad but really enjoy(ed)? 3 weeks ago:
FC4 and FC5 have some structural differences. I think a decent amount of feed back was taken for FC5. It doesn’t have tower climbing puzzles and the collectathoning which had gotten way out of hand in FC4 was toned down a lot in FC5. FC5 replaced some of that with the totally optional survivalist bunkers that give rewards per bunker. It’s hard to go back to FC4 and it’s “collect 300 scraps of paper” nonsense after FC5.
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