Meh. I think it’s pretty accurate. Try meeting up with a friend* at a random public place, like a grocery store, and then pretending to lose them. Describe them to a security guard or employee and I guarantee the clothing description you give will be better and more detailed than you trying to describe their bodily features.

Now imagine you’ve only met the person once, and you were in a delicious haze of alcohol, whatever drugs they used in cinderella’s time/local, and the raging sex hormones of being a prince that was pursued by many different ladies. He might have the dawning sense of familiarity upon seeing cinderella’s face, but if she was dressed completely differently, like a common scullion ordered about by her wicked step-family, and thus had her hair done differently, covered, and demeanor and bearing were changed, because again she’s basically being beaten down by her step-family… well, I wouldn’t be surprised he couldn’t immediately tell who she was.

*a child, 4-10, is much better at doing this with for the experiment, but good luck getting the child to understand what you want without spoiling their ignorance for said experiment.

Well, either the thing should be done well, shouldn’t be done, or, if put in the game and it isn’t a good part of the game, it should be criticized.

They decided to put it in the game, full stop.

It was a terrible portion of the game, and I’m criticizing it. As the other fellow said, the developers put it in to craft a certain feeling, and it absolutely sucked at creating that feeling AND dragged my enjoyment of the game down.

I don’t think it was even anything to do with being ‘libertarian.’ His dad was a cop. He had likely been indoctrinated since birth into thinking that criminals do crime because they’re bad, and would stop doing crime if the punishments were bad enough / a certainty. He’s obviously self-masturbating by telling himself how much good he’s doing for society, much like a very certain type of government worker we all deride tells themself…

Jesus. That’s going to cost you a lot more than you think it should. Prize bull semen doses can go for thousands, and if I remember correctly, prize winning horses are going to be about the same.

I just went and looked it up. Page 43 lists them from a little under a thousand euros to nearly two thousand. I didn’t bother reading through all the terms and conditions, but maybe you could convince them to not charge you the foal fee since, well, you degenerates aren’t buying this for horse breeding purposes…

Anyway, a quick search found a hilariously bad SEO website that looks good enough for me. 30-100 milliliters sounds like you’re going to need minimum 40 emissions worth. And I bet you’re not getting a full load from the supplier, just enough for your highly paid vet to do IVF, so I’m betting we’ll be buying about 150 doses or so.

I can see trump believing something so stupid as that, and putin might saber rattle about it, but the majority of the world, and china/india especially in this situation, probably would not go along with it. Europe still has functioning nuclear capabilities. Putin does not want nukes hitting his country, full stop. China does not want a nuclear situation kicking off with their neighbor to the north, and knows that the US under trump would likely turn on them despite a war ruining both countries. India no more wants china controlling the waters to their east than the countries immediately around those waters do, and would likely cause issues, which china also doesn’t want. As we’ve seen in the modern times with ukraine and some of the middle east conflicts and the india/pakistan border, nuclear powers tiptoe around anything that resembles direct conflict. The recent dogfight over the border was a pretty good idea of how reserved even ‘open’ conflict is.

So putin is likely not going to do anything more than a symbolic grunt at his western border, and china will just slowly weather down taiwan if the u.s. is withdrawing its influence. The idea of reunification isn’t THAT taboo in taiwan, and the candidates for it gather a decent chunk of votes. If the u.s. starts acting like a bitch around the world (oh, gee, just look at what’s happening right now), the sentiment towards it and china could easily see a rapid shift.

I mean “get away with” as in they think they can do it in a half-assed manner. In a movie, as you mentioned the director is a wannabe film director, you don’t just throw in sad music and expect the audience to ‘buy into’ the quality of the scene. You have to craft the previous scene, and set up the flow into the current scene, and have decent dialogue, decent acting, decent lighting, decent sound, etc. etc. etc. If you just half-ass it and throw in sad music, the audience is going to either realize you’re just trying to jank with their emotions in a sloppy manner, or be completely pulled out of the experience.

The walking in furi may have been okay if it was just in one section, or had waaay better dialogue rather than eye-rolling pseudo-philosophical wanking that was actually interesting to pay attention to during the walking… but making it a repeated thing? It was annoying. It ruined verisimilitude. It made me angry that I couldn’t make the character decision to just stab the dude cosplaying as a rabbit right in his rabbity face.

I loved furi, but damn those walking sections just made me roll my eyes. Developers think they can just get away with forced slow walking to build atmosphere.

40? Don’t quote the old magic to me, not-wizard. I was there when it was written… and can probably dig out the year 2007 or so meme to prove it!

Only with your consent.

Because otherwise the cops get called when I get that good hit in.

As a kid, I always preferred the knex. Something about the blockiness of legos has always seems… I don’t know, just boring to me. I want the long spindly plastic not-tubes that barely resemble the stick figure drawing I made of crap!

F you.

if you write it how people would really act… just a guy killing other guys with a book

I mean, yeah,sure, but if you wrote it much like reality (ignoring that the supernatural killing bit isn’t like reality), then light’s plan wouldn’t have worked in the first place. To me, that was the biggest suspension of disbelief. The credible threat of prison, or execution, doesn’t stop crime now, why would it in light’s world?

The method of death can be specified, and it never says that you can’t summon a moderately sized bomb, or a virus that only kills under very specific circumstances. We’re dealing with the supernatural, let’s go a little wild.

…honestly, it never said you can’t make the deaths wicked cool, man, so why don’t we have a pile of gold fall from the sky onto our hated enemy that just by happenstance happened to be near me. Strange how the gold is mostly gone, officer, but I swear, it was like a dragon’s hoard or something.

The dog loves me, my blankets hug me, and my hair ties itself in knots. One day I’ll get to that picture’s level.

You shouldn’t ask questions that cast subtle shame like that. The poor trees are just doing their best to survive out there, and you’re trying to get them to compare themselves to the great elder trees like redwoods?

/for_shame_on_you

/whoosh

I think the tactical issue should have been the giant flashing neon sign.

It’s interesting to hear how people’s experiences differ so much. I couldn’t get endeavor to work on my laptop (absolutely nothing would launch after the install), but manjaro was the definition of ‘it just works’ for me. I’d love to stop having things break because manjaro holds back updates for a week.

That makes me sad. Bazzite just refused to install on my new laptop (as did several others, amusingly) so it was back to manjaro for me.

Less if you replace your tongue with a snail’s radula.

Fucking cream with berry liqueur flavors are always on top.