exocrinous

Outer Wilds doesn't have any combat, you're thinking of Outer Worlds.

Never seen the movie but that's hilarious. I'm glad the movie exists, solely because I get to laugh at the video of the earthbenders moving a rock.

She Hulk is great! What did you think of Moon Knight? I'm glad the MCU has not one but two confirmed plural superheroes!

It's a story about fatherhood. I like stories about fatherhood. God Of War is pretty great. It's also a story about Thor becoming worthy not just to be the prince of Asgard, but its king, by exploring his tender side. I guess a lot of people complained that Thor used the Thorforce to give other people the power of Thor, but that's literally what Odin did in the first movie back when it was called the Odinforce. It symbolises that Thor has finally become the equal of his father, following in his footsteps while learning from his mistakes. Thor is finally ready to stop being someone's son and to finally grow up, while at the same time becoming somebody's father. Thor's defeat of the god slayer not through violence but through nurturing empathy, is a symbolic victory over the flaws of his father, representing that Thor will be a better god and a better king.

I see Thor 4 as a shining example of positive masculinity. It directly answers the question: "What is a man, if a woman becomes his equal?" The answer is "himself." And as cheesy as that may be, it's true.

I agree, but the way they handled Jasmine was pretty sloppy. She had a whole song about not being silenced, which all happened inside her head and she proceeded to have no further impact on the plot.

The "thousands of people" watching your "stream" are bots. They can respond to what's going on in the video in real time because they're bots. Actually I technically think this would be more efficient and therefore is probably designed so that it's only one LLM pretending to be thousands of people, but I'll call it bots because that's easier to visualise. The bots know what's going on in the "stream" because they can understand what the "streamer" is saying, which means the pickup artist can put on a convincing performance to trick the mark. If it was just a recording, it wouldn't be able to respond to novel situations caused by the mark's behaviour.

I don't actually know if this technology even works, but that would be the intent used to sell it to pickup artist bros.

"Maybe if I date someone who's famous, they'll have enough money that I won't have to worry about paying for medical bills or groceries anymore. Gee, maybe we could even buy a house and raise kids."

We live in a capitalist hellscape where such things are no longer taken for granted, and are now associated with the heights of success.

For those who don't want to read the article but do want to understand what it's about:

1. You download an app on your phone that makes it look like you're streaming to thousands of people
2. You go to a bar and show your phone to a woman "look, I'm famous"
3. The woman fucks you because she thinks you're famous or something

The creator of this app is a misogynist scumbag who edits interviews with journalists to erase criticism and promote his app.

As opposed to Epic Games which literally has a contract saying only they can sell the game on PC. I like how you're "opposing" monopolies by defending anticompetitive exclusive licensing deals.

isn't optimising the games extra costly?

These days compilers can optimise it for the hardware mostly on their own.

I can imagine the annoyance of getting bad reviews on steam because some Dingus is trying to play the game on a 10 year old PC.

Yeah, that's the great thing about PC. You don't have to upgrade your hardware more than once a decade, and you can give feedback to games publishers that chasing ever increasing graphics trends is alienating their customers. You console gamers have to take whatever slop you're given, but us PC gamers don't have to worry about a publisher not supporting backwards compatibility, so we have more market power. We can apply greater pressure on the industry to apply pro-consumer business practices.

Also, something like 30% of PC gamers pirate their games

That's definitely not true. I wish it was.

I'd say the classic example of hard sci-fi is The Martian. There's only one scientifically inaccurate scene in the whole book, and that's when a martian sandstorm strands Watney. Weir did all the math, and indeed was so insightful about NASA's internal politics they demanded to know his source.

No, consumption is the process of taking in food for nourishment. You're thinking of conscience