I hope this didn’t write over something important in my brain

David Chase has talked about how it frustrated him that people were rooting for Tony like he was the hero, so he kept making him do more fucked up shit. Americans aren’t good at processing anti-heroes. Part of the problem might be that they’re all played by charismatic actors, whereas the megalomaniacs you meet in real life are just assholes.

Don’t feel bad, I already knew they were several years old. But they definitely qualify as new in the context of the post we are discussing.

Modern games are so complicated, they really need the tutorials to tell you about each system at least once. The tutorials usually stop after every system has been introduced. The alternative is just as frustrating; not enough tutorials, and people complain that they have to comb through fextralife or come to Reddit for sometimes conflicting information.

The issue isn’t tutorials or handholding, it’s complexity. Some people find complexity annoying or even anxiety-inducing. For others, the complexity is what keeps the game engaging hours after they’ve mastered all the systems.

Thankfully, they still make simple retro games too, so there is something for everyone.

Rose colored glasses. Go back and play one of those old games today. When you get bored, RDR2, Elden Ring, and Super Mario Odyssey will be waiting for you.

She doesn’t break the fourth wall or mention buttons, but she does start yapping if you don’t solve the “puzzle” immediately. It’s presented as her thinking out loud to herself, but it’s telling you what to do. In God of War, it’s Atreus telling Kratos how to solve the puzzles.

I don’t understand her skeleton

Neck implant operations take a whole year?

Let’s assume there is one until someone proves otherwise.

Cool!

The theory that the universe was seeded with banana life by an intergalactic precursor race of bananas? It’s possible, but so far there is no hard evidence, and I don’t think OP is claiming to have taken a picture of an alien banana.

A couple problems here:

1. The image resolution isn’t high enough for a banana to be visible at this scale.
2. This isn’t the Milky Way (it’s impossible to take a picture from outside our own galaxy), so bananas do not exist there. This means the banana would have to be photoshopped in, in which case you might as well photoshop a map scale.

Nice picture, but I call BS 🤔

Edit: Omg, I forgot to mention the most obvious giveaway. Our supermassive black hole doesn’t have a quasar! Busted!

Newer than I thought

That’s a good point. Since it can still happen sometimes, we might as well give up and let it happen orders of magnitude more often.

That alien doesn’t even have a numeral for 4, so it wouldn’t have a word for it either. If it speaks English, uses base 4, and uses the same words we do for numbers, it would sound like this when counting rocks: “One, two, three, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, twenty…”. But when it says “twelve”, it means the same thing as when we say “six”.

I personally like our food regulations. Without them, going out to eat would be a game of diarrhea roulette.

I remember at 21 feeling like I’d been alive for a long time. The first couple decades go slooow, before the blur starts.

The joke: In any base X, the Xth number is always the first number to require a second digit. Base 4 goes 1,2,3,10,11,12,13,20,21,etc. Base 7 goes 1,2,3,4,5,6,10,etc.

Taking cash is all you do? You don’t don’t make bagels? Are you thieves? Or do you mean to say you take cash in exchange for bagels?

Do they stack? If so, additively or multiplicatively? Is this the new dick meta?