I liked heliboard. It doesn't require network access, has gesture typing that works well, though you have to manually add the library, lots of configuration, and some stuff I use all the time like slide on delete to choose how much to delete and slide on space to move cursor.

Basically it is both private and a pleasure to use (after configuring)

I've played FF8 more than any other FF and it's partially for what the author is complaining about.

I can see complaining about the battle systems because they're pretty loose, but personally I think it's fun to play anyway.

The complaint about the characters not having a much of a story I guess is technically true if you compare it to the hamfisted diversions from the main story a lot of rpgs do to force a story arc for a character, but all of the characters feel like they are part of the group for a good reason because of their back stories and they all grow during the game.

I would just have to disagree on the writing. The story is why I play the game every few years. In fact, counter to the author's claim that it is incoherent, almost everything you do has to do with the sorceresses and history of the garden, without ever feeling like you got sent on an inconsequential side quest in the middle of a crisis.

You're agreeing with the comment you replied to. Why the fuck are you trying to be so smug???

Get fucked Atlus. I'm not sure I have an appetite to load windows to use these but I'd have bought every game by Atlus on release like I did up until I decided I'd rather skip the ps5 and stick with PC but instead I've bought one of them (persona 4 ultimax which I didn't realize had it until now)

Would you look up something if you didn't suspect it was anything more than a random skull and crossbones? Why do you think people told him it was a nazi thing? I dunno this actually seems like a totally feasible story to me, especially when you see how shitty the thing looks.

People are acting like this is a well known symbol but I didn't know it nor has anyone in real life I've talked to about this

The joke exists because there are people out there that do feel shame for their body,

Yeah. Because society is body shaming them. Like in this comic. It's baffling to me that people are so attached to their small dick jokes they'll do these mental gymnastics to try to assert it's not body shaming. If you want to be an asshole at least be honest and own it.

I'm sorry but you just straight up don't know what incident is being discussed here. Go look it up instead of talking about unrelated bullshit.

This is a good callout. If enigma is still an always online DRM that's still a dealbreaker for me. Will have to check

That said, this year’s crop of interns at work seem to be thin wrappers on top of LLMs and I worry about the future of critical thinking for society at large.

This is the must frustrating problem I have. With a few exceptions, LLM use seems to be inversely proportional to skill level, and having someone tell me "chatgpt said ___" when asking me for help because clearly chatgpt is not doing it for their problem makes me want to just hang up.

Lol this is ridiculous.

1. Small changes across many people add up. IE meatless Monday has a positive effect even though it's not full abstinence.
2. If someone truly can't economically afford to change their eating habits I'm not talking about them. You're extrapolating to them in order to make a bad faith argument against anyone making any positive change. (Though beans and rice is cheaper than beef lol)
3. Corporate America, while it can't be controlled exclusively by people's habits, actually is able to be influenced by enough people's spending habits. It has to make money after all.

Have fun completely abdicating your agency and making absurd rants though, I guess

P.S. no one argues that people should make personal changes in lieu of government/business changes. This is another bad faith assertion people make to attempt to abdicate personal responsibility.

I know what I’m doing

I don't believe you

Did you try it?

Yes I did.

1. Writing code isn't actually the majority of software engineering unlike what naive people believe.
2. Most of the code I write isn't boilerplate for new projects because I actually work on real software that people use.
3. It's not faster to review code written by a moron (artificial or otherwise) than to just fucking write it.

Biden/Harris: [drops the bare minimum of crumbs from the table without pursuing any enduring change]

Harris campaign: [runs as far and as fast as possible to the right, abandoning policies to help the working class Harris campaigned on in 2020]

people that have no clue what they're talking about: tHe wORkiNg cLasS wAs DOiNG gREat aCTuaLlY