I can taste the difference. I like the HFCS better.

Nice try. That’s a dinosaur.

If you haven’t played Anthem, you missed out.

It has some of the tightest gameplay I’ve ever experienced. Combat was satisfying. Traversal was a joy.

I’ll never understand how people could throw that away just because the endgame wasn’t there yet. The gameplay is the hardest part to get right!

It’s the armpit of America. You can tell you crossed the state line because of the smell. The rest of the state gets… better, but that’s a low bar.

(I grew up in New York and honestly I’d even take Jersey over where I live now.)

… is that Dean Cain?

But eugenics applied to animals is just selective breeding. Or in this specific case you might call it natural selection (gasp).

There’s nothing wrong with that in itself, but it does suggest the existence of evolution, which doesn’t align ideologically with the Republican party.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the secretary of Health and Human Services, and Brooke Rollins, secretary of Agriculture, have floated the notion that instead of culling birds infected with the highly pathogenic H5N1 virus, farmers should let it spread through flocks. The idea is that by doing this, farmers can “identify the birds, and preserve the birds, that are immune to it,” Kennedy told Fox News on March 11.

Ok, so where is this idea coming from ideologically? Are they trying to prove a point about their hands-off approach to COVID-19? Or is it just that they were always planning to do nothing, and they’re trying to rationalize it?

This is a wonderful attitude to have as long as it’s not in the comments of an article about how Tesla’s approach is trapping people and burning them alive.

To be fair, the playable space in Anthem was in three dimensions. Meanwhile Destiny’s maps are deceptively small, using tunnels that wind in on themselves and non-explorable space to feel larger.

Yeah, more zones would have been good, but none of that compares to having some of the tightest combat and traversal gameplay I’ve ever experienced.

I never understood the hate. The gameplay was incredible.

The biggest complaints pretty much boiled down to it not having literal infinite replayability. Like, you have to give it a minute.

I played Destiny at launch, and Anthem at launch was better.

It’s true though. It’s about cognitive dissonance. Like actual cognitive dissonance, not the internet buzzword version.

When our actions and beliefs don’t match up, it makes us uncomfortable. And as much as we’d all love to think we’d change our actions to match our beliefs, the truth about humanity is that we’re just as likely to change our beliefs to match our actions.

Look at the Ben Franklin effect. Ben Franklin asks for a favor from his enemy, something small like borrowing a book. His enemy lends him the book because it would be impolite not to. Then he experiences dissonance. It makes him uncomfortable that he’s being nice to someone he hates. Instead of not being nice, he lets go of his hate.

Any outward action you take that aligns with a certain belief moves your internal compass towards that belief.

I’m convinced this is the worst effect that social media has had on society.

People become emotionally invested because they argue. Arguing fortifies their emotional stance.

It’s been over a year and I still think about him pleading with himself, trying to decide what to do.

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It’s actually because small trucks were regulated out of the US market. Smaller vehicles have more stringent mileage standards that trucks aren’t able to meet. That forces companies to make all their trucks bigger, because bigger vehicles are held to a different standard.

So the people who want or need a truck are pushed to buy a larger one.

And it was named that because it was cheap tape.

In English we used to use the word “Scotch”, like Scottish. We still use it to refer to scotch tape - cheap tape.

My friend was in the army and told me he got a special exception and didn’t have to shave as often. But that was the army, and his job mostly involved setting up communications equipment, so maybe that matters.

Thanks for the insight. Glad Lemmy can give context for worrying articles like these.

I’ve heard people describe games like this as “Metroidbrainias”, which is the dumbest name ever, but the point is that it’s a game where progress is blocked not just by obtaining in-game power-ups, but by learning how to use abilities that you already possess at the beginning of the game. The player is the one who levels up. I love that.

Also consider trying it again, but use items. The items completely break most of the fights if you just use them.

I know that sounds like obvious advice, but my personal inclination is to never use items, and usually items aren’t that great, so it was novel to me that when I got stuck, the answer was just: use items.