TheDannysaur

This post is both insightful and troubling. Using generative AI services to simulate conversations without explicit disclosure can be seen as unethical. Some might argue that this damages the connection that users can feel towards each other, even in an online community. Such matters should be addressed in order to restore consumer trust in the platform.

(I wrote that to sound like a GenAI response, how did I do?)

Just to be clear you're totally allowed to find someone of any gender or orientation charming without people questioning your motives :)

I think this is rather impossible to answer.

One of the biggest issues is that context changes over time.

FF7 in particular is nearly unplayable by modern standards, imo. The amount of transition times (random battles with 20 second intros and 20 second outros) and lack of QoL features make it ridiculously hard to swallow. There's also an expectation of mindless "grinding" that has largely written out of modern games. Even the remake uses side missions, which at least have some interesting elements to them, rather than pure mechanical "go spend 2 hours killing basic enemies".

OoT has many good things going for it, but the live controls and weird camera behavior have been largely solved by games nowadays.

If you consider them in the context of the current time, both were unlike almost anything that had been seen. And given the price/console exclusivity at the time, I'd venture that very few people actually played them at the same time in their contexts.

Both were absolute revolutions of their time, which isn't capturable anymore. It reminds me of the movie Predator. It became the foundation for so many things, but modern movies have taken everything that Predator did and did them better. By modern standards it's a clichéd action movie with basically no plot. Makes it hard to judge.

The saddest comparison that I can make is that they both cost 1% as much as your rent payment.

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Depends on the dealership. I went in and asked if I could get additional money off the car for using their financing. They say yes they gave a $1,000 credit.

I then asked how many payments did I need to make for them to get their full incentive for the loan. They said 6 months. I asked if I could pay it off after that, and they said sure, they'd have their kickback from the bank.

And that's what we did. It was a pretty frank conversation with the dealer, they were cool, we were cool.

Hell yeah. You'll experience in a way that's unique, so don't let other people tell you what to feel. It's ok to like stuff that everyone else doesn't like, for no reason other than you want to like it.

I mean generally it's all correlated. It's not perfect, but typically a 2-3 point national poll lead is close to an electoral college tie.

I feel like not having Miami Connection here is a huge miss. Definitely the worst I've seen.

I have to say this is not a good take. Polls aren't all the same, but news outlets treat them like they are. Even the same pollsters come up with slightly different numbers each time they run them.

Because there is a certain amount of uncertainty doesn't make them invalid. We just need to be more educated on filtering the good from the bad.

You sort of have 2 options:

1. Get educated on polling errors, the statistics, and the methodologies of the polls and arrive at your own conclusions.

2. Ignore anything written by the main media outlets about polls, because looking at a single poll is really dumb.

They definitely do matter, and there's validity to them, but they don't claim to be the exact truth. If you know how to use them, they are quite helpful.

These are great points. I'll have to think on this a bit further - thanks for the info!

I see your points here. I don't think they are wrong, but I have a different opinion on Trump's election.

I think the onset of social media created a real shit storm of misinformation particularly during the Obama years. I don't think it was backlash because he was black (though I admit this is not knowable, just my opinion), but more because of the overall grievance with how things operate.

You can't really separate race out of the equation, because I think Democrats had good messaging showing the effects of institutional racism and sexism against minority groups, particularly at a systemic level. However, there was a massive concentration of wealth in America at the same time.

Trumo came along and his message wasn't really that novel. He just said hey, this shit sucks for everyone, not just minorities. White people are getting screwed too. And I'm the guy that's going to fight for the rural voter.

I take your point that it's not outright racism. It's not someone saying I'm not voting for this person solely because they are X, it's some end around way of going about it. But I think Trump played the White Greivance card and I think Democrats are getting a little better at leaning into it. The unfortunate truth is that both things are totally true. White people are getting screwed (concentration of wealth to hover levels) AND minorities groups are getting screwed (because of systematic racist effects that are still residual in daily life for them).

As I'm talking this out, I'm not sure where to land. There's multiple pieces here that intersect with race, but I'm not sure they are the core tenant. I think there might be some voters who realize that everyone is getting screwed, but maybe worry that Harris would prioritize racial issues before overall everyone getting boned issues. Maybe that's the group?

Didn't come to a great conclusion, but your comment had some layers to it so it got me thinking.

I think you skipped part of the argument. I'm sure those people exist, but what about the number of disengaged voters who were over Joe Biden or disagreed with him on various issues? I think the number of votes lost because of race or gender is not 0, but the gains through reinvigoration are far, far higher.