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Behold the man who is a bean.

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Yeah if Shape of Water is the worst movie they've seen, I gotta assume they've seen about 10 movies total.

Even if it's slightly overrated, in the grand scheme of all movies that one is way above average.

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Dunno if this is exactly the kind of thing you have in mind, but a person known as 'Yuvi' has been singlehandedly maintaining publicly available servers for the original Demon's Souls for about 4 years (the official servers shut down about 5 years ago).

Thanks to Yuvi, you can still play the original game with all online functionality, regardless of whether you're playing on PS3 or RPCS3.

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My wife likes Rick and Morty more than I do, and I think it's a great show.

What is something (feature, modes, settings...) you would like to see become a standard in video games?

I’ve been thinking about making this thread for a few days. Sometimes, I play a game and it has some very basic features that are just not in every other game and I think to myself: Why is this not standard?! and I wanted to know what were yours....

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All the From Software RPGs since Demon's Souls work like that too. (Not the lack of menu, but the lack of an interactive save system because it's just constantly autosaving).

It's incredibly convenient to always be able to quit the game at any time and know you'll be in the exact place and position you were when you start up again. And it has the added benefit of preventing players from save scumming.

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I want an AI based translation of all the Dead Sea Scrolls as long as we can remove the bias from the training data.

Emphasis mine. So then you don't want an AI based translation of all the Dead Sea Scrolls?

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Presumably he meant 'hanged.' But Freudian slip gonna Freudian slap.

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If we're thinking of the same clip, you're slightly misremembering it. The woman was insisting Obama was a Muslim, and that's what McCain was shutting down. But yes, the crowd booed him for clarifying that.

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Best Android app for emulating DS in my experience is DraStic.

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There was a brief period of time after I de-converted where I was glad there was a mainstream talk show host in America who is vocal about being nonreligious. But soon after that I learned he is a terrible representative of that identity, just as he is a terrible representative of any other identity he has.

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In philosophy, what you're asking about is called the paradox of fiction.

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Expression looks like Kirk doesn't want any damn vegetables.

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e.g. means 'for example.' I think you were looking for i.e. (which means 'in other words' or 'to be specific').

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I don't think a play on the saying 'what doesn't kill me makes me stronger' is a retro music reference.

How To Torrent Software Safely (For Dummies) (andscape.notion.site)

I wrote this post for a friend, I’m sharing it here for anybody it might help. I got asked multiple times how I download cracked music software so I figured it’d be easier to write it down once. It’s meant for people with very low technical skills who just want to start torrenting software without major risks, and it...

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I mean, PIA is like 40 bucks for an entire year. You're not gonna find any prominent streaming service, pro-grade subscription software, or pro-grade software license that's as cheap as that.

If the goal is to access all desired software and media safely while paying as little as possible, it's a great choice.

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Other than in terms of physical hardware innovations, Nintendo hasn't been anywhere near the cutting edge of computational power since the mid-90s... Or maybe never.

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I think you'd have a lot more than three nickels.

How do people disconnect from work when they enjoy solving technical work problems?

I’m struggling to disconnect from work. I’ve been working on an interesting problem for the last couple of weeks (compacting change data capture events from sharded MySQL servers into BigQuery). It’s an interesting technical problem. There are lots of optimization opportunities and novel patterns I can introduce....

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And don't forget that the current API shit won't really hit the consequences fan for another week.

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I'll be the one to say that: if miraculously they reversed course and undid all of the projected changes by the end of the month, yeah I'd keep using Reddit. I didn't really leave on principle. I left because I heard my preferred format for accessing the site was going away, and I started looking into alternatives.

As long as I had RIF on mobile and Old Reddit with RES on desktop, I would have stayed there because the population is there.

But with all that being said, Old Reddit was slowly getting buggier and more and more users were cluttering discussions with asides about features that were completely absent on Old Reddit, so I was ready for a change. And with that being the case, in the extremely likely event that the third-party apps actually die at the end of the month, I'll see that as a welcome sign to continue giving this place a chance instead.

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