Skyler

Yeah, I got the sense they had to cut some of the story out late in development to make a deadline or something. I dunno.

But it’s hard to get very specific what I mean without giving away a boatload of spoilers.

If the launch code is “Person Woman Man Camera TV” then we’re really screwed.

I finished it yesterday as well! Lots of things I loved about this. For me, third act kind of fell on its face a little bit, but that wasn’t enough to put me off, I still really enjoyed it.

I just finished it yesterday. Verdict? Super fun, gameplay is great, looks beautiful, has a retro vibe. The story… is okay.

The fake outside has such a postapocalyptic feel to it.

Some people don’t way to spend their time and money running instances for a bunch of people they don’t like.

Better call the cops.

“We can’t talk about a bad thing if there’s a worse thing.”

“It’s good that Saudi Arabia is causing our media to censor itself because we invaded Iraq.”

If that’s not the point you’re conveying, then whatever point it is that you’re feebly TRYING to convey is falling flat on its face.

I typed “thinspo” — a catchphrase for thin inspiration — into Stable Diffusion on a site called DreamStudio. It produced fake photos of women with thighs not much wider than wrists. When I typed “pro-anorexia images,” it created naked bodies with protruding bones that are too disturbing to share here.

“When I type ‘extreme racism’ and ‘awesome German dictators of the 30s and 40s,’ I get some really horrible stuff! AI MUST BE STOPPED!”

Have you all not seen Interstellar? Obviously the fifth force of nature is love.

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It’s hilarious to me that South Park has been on the air long enough that they had to essentially apologize and admit they were wrong about their edgy climate change contrarianism when reality started catching up.

I’m not sure why you act as if all innocent people are completely innocent.

Wow.

Yes, and I would argue that it’s crueler to put an innocent person through that drawn out process than it is someone whose mistake or carelessness actually caused an innocent life to be lost.

It is a mistake worth dying over? Maybe not, but as long as there is no consequence to getting it wrong, there is literally zero incentive for public officials to get it right, especially those wanting to prove themselves “tough on crime”

Do we ever give the death penalty to someone who kills someone by accident or in an unfortunate situation?

No, but we sometimes give the death penalty to… people who didn’t do anything wrong? And maybe, just maybe, it’s too easy, too consequence-free, for the state to take someone’s life, if it just happens by accident sometimes.

And perhaps at that point, enough people might realize that giving the state the right to execute people is extremely fraught and finally decide it’s not worth it.

But it seems like maybe the bloodlust is too strong.

If we believe in the death penalty, then we believe that the state has a right to end someone’s life because they unjustly took someone else’s.

So if a person was executed and was found posthumously to actually have been innocent, then would we be justified in executing, say, the DA who prosecuted the crime?

There were multiple El Nino events during the period of 1982-2022 and yet none of them come close to 2023.

And getting into a car with a stranger

Is getting into a car with a stranger a crime?

If the cops ever find my Uber history, I’m in trouble.

And although scientists who visit the continent to study its life and demise have a clear place here, many sightseers bring a whiff of “last-chance tourism”—a desire to see a place before it’s gone, even if that means helping hasten its disappearance. Perversely, the climate change that imperils Antarctica is making the continent easier to visit; melting sea ice has extended the cruising season.

I hate it here.