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Comment · 2 years ago
i also use ublock matrix so i get to play "which third party hosts are needed to make this page work" for every new website
Comment · 3 years ago
that timeline was decided by the a conservative government after fukushima
Comment · 3 years ago
we've tried nothing and we're all out of ideas
Comment · 3 years ago
it's not actually that helpful because a lot of the skill comes from muscle memory and that's not just for aiming but mousemovement also has a significant influence on movement

for example there's something called a circle jump where you use precise mouse movement to get the most efficient angles so that your movement speed is maximized from your first jump

Comment · 3 years ago
worse even, it killed off many vibrant quake 3 communities that had been going from 1999 to 2008 because half the people started playing quake live and the other half stopped playing alltogether
Comment · 3 years ago
please elaborate where op drew false equivalencies to attack political opponents
Comment · 3 years ago
there's nothing religious about entertaining the idea that sentience could just be an emergent property
Comment · 3 years ago
hard to answer that without it looking like religion bashing to be honest
Comment · 3 years ago
it's an uncomfortable topic for a lot of people because the idea that sapience/sentience is just a side effect of our brains being pattern matching machines with a giant knowledge graph of neurons means that we're not that special
Comment · 3 years ago
maybe if you went to college you could come up with one
Comment · 3 years ago
In the 80s there was a javelin thrower named Jan Železný who was so good that they had to redesign the javelin because there wasnt enough space in the stadiums
Comment · 3 years ago
if you frequently discuss these topics you should be aware that those were always just nice sounding soundbites that were never rooted in any kind of conviction
Comment · 3 years ago
just brand it "the dark souls of x" and young players won't be bothered by complexity
Comment · 3 years ago
because it makes absolutely no sense here. what op is criticizing is on businesspeople lying to make more profit, not scientists
Comment · 3 years ago
it's interesting, when you start getting into debating politics in your teens it's easy to fall into the trap of attacking authors instead of arguments, then as you get older you try to be better about this and then it turns around again as you age because giving the people the benefit of the doubt again and again and spending time dismantling their arguments only for them to turn around and publish the next article repeating the same things is a waste of time

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