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@jeffcliff @j @Thanh_Le idk man, I've got epilepsy and I saw people having really bad seizures after taking the vaccine. Decided I would risk a disease that mostly kills old and fat people instead of a vaccine that would potentially do a lot more damage to me. Also the whole "trust the science" thing really loses its luster when you know how often "established science" is either just flat out wrong or has been directly manipulated by bad actors. Scientific theories (emphasis on theories) are good to take into account, especially if they have been well tested and developed over a long period of time. Still, trusting it wholesale is how you get stuff like 15 years of alzheimers research being based on fabrications or several elements being "discovered" by the guy who wrote the software to discover them.

@jeffcliff @j @Thanh_Le yeah I'm not going to die so that other people who are vulnerable and not being cautious or treating their body well won't. I'm not even 30 yet.

@jeffcliff @j @Thanh_Le that's the whole point man i'm not going to live forever but i'd like to prolong my life xD and the best way for me to do that was to not get the vaccine. i'm not even one of those people who think it like had microchip implants or was even meant as population control or anything like that. i just took in all of the information i could and made a choice based on that information. seems like i made the right choice, too, because i've never been healthier.

@LukeAlmighty @sendpaws @ChristiJunior well, like pawslut said, it's mainly for practice. There are a lot of leaderboards that don't even require proof if you don't have a top time. I think that's how it works for goldeneye 007 for instance. Anyone taking it seriously enough to get a top time will definitely be playing on console.

@LukeAlmighty @sendpaws @ChristiJunior it depends on the community setting standards for certain things. a lot of it comes down to emulation accuracy as well as trying to cut off an avenue for cheating. the reason why billy mitchell was found to be using an emulator in the first place was because of an inaccuracy. emulation can also make certain things easier, like controller remapping and higher render resolutions.

for ocarina of time, emulator is allowed (pj64 1.6 or 1.7 only) only if your time isn't in the top 10%. for mario 64, emulator and virtual console runs are in a completely separate category.

@sendpaws @ChristiJunior yeah you can use emulators to practice and stuff but the real records are required to be run on actual hardware.

@LukeAlmighty there are a suspicious amount of "Christians" out there saying he was the best pope ever. Most Christians I've talked to irl or even seen online before his passing have said he sucked. I was even talking about it all the way back in 2017. Maybe I can dig up that clip lol.

@augustus @thatbrickster out of curiosity, why would you say he was so good?

@lain or you have gamer rgb so intense it blinds them

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@Alex there is a reason that one of the most common pieces of advice for fledgling writers is "write what you know" though. i once was proofreading a friend's book and the whole premise was based upon taking a trip to russia that turned out poorly. the plane crash lands in an abandoned tundra and they have to find out how to survive. the plane ride was only 2 hours because this dude had never been on a plane and so didn't really understand how long it would take to get somewhere. then, at some point they find a village and it is thematically closer to a scandinavian village rather than a russian village. it's things like that where, sure you can suspend disbelief, but at a certain point it breaks the immersion.

@Alex it's probably a case of the last of us writers exceling in emotional narrative but not logical narrative, and so the logical narrative affects the emotional narrative in a way they didn't intend. this isn't the only example of that either, it's extremely evident in the first game too. the difference is that the first game's emotional narrative is something that a much wider audience can identify with and it was very sincere.

I gave Grok a plot synopsis of The Last of Us and then asked what the most ethical decision would be at the ending: saving Ellie or letting the Fireflies perform the surgery on her to potentially get a vaccine?

I felt like it didn't quite understand what "fight through the hospital against armed guards" meant, so I gave it additional context. So the first picture is without that context, and the second is with. There were much larger descriptions since it goes through its entire thought process before the summary at the end, but I included just the summary for brevity's sake.

I LOVE how it mentions that there may be another way to a vaccine that doesn't involve killing Ellie. That's something not a lot of people bring up whenever I see discussions about it. These doctors who think it is the only way, and that only this ONE GUY can do it correctly, are extremely short-sighted.

I also asked ChatGPT this same question and it gave mostly the same result, but it did bring up another thing I've somehow never thought of before. Why the hell do they have to remove so much that it would kill her? I looked around a bit and found this post.

My answer is a resounding NO. I think it is pretty clear that the people writing The Last of Us and especially Part 2 really did not fully grasp what they were writing and tried to push things a certain way for plot convenience.

I'd like to ask Grok about the moral dilemma present in the second game as well with Ellie's decision to not kill Abby at the end. I personally think the whole "revenge bad" thing is stupid because in the end Abby gets what she wanted and Ellie loses everything, despite both of them participating in revenge.

Then there's the trans dude or whatever, who I think solely exists as a way for the kind of people Naughty Dog wants playing their games to attach to Abby in order to justify her being a good person. Just like how they showed Abby's dad freeing animals from hunting traps. The whole thing just felt so fucking cheap man... but that's a different topic.

@LukeAlmighty too many people focus on "reading the bible" and not "understanding the bible."

@LukeAlmighty i have read the whole bible, back when i was 16-17, but that's not really a good way to do it because it's extremely long and extremely boring. it doesn't work like a normal book either, it's more like a collection of simple stories than a compelling and meticulously crafted narrative. you don't really remember as much or get as much out of it if you just read it. so, the best way to experience the bible is these little stories by themselves with context. in my opinion, at least.

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general goals for the rest of this year:
1) learn enough about rpg in a box to get a working tech demo for my next game, or at least a good start
2) learn enough japanese to have small conversations with my friend who knows it
3?) add some new stuff to god's disdain