Because it's fun and I have friends I play it with.
The thing with destiny is that there are somewhat diminishing returns in terms of time invested vs in-game advancements.
The min-maxing and endless search for God rolls and the best builds can push you that extra 10% or so over the gen-pop player base who doesn't spend 20hrs a week on the game.
But gen-pop and casual can still approach end game content without feeling like a total noob.
That said, there is still end game content that is geared towards "power users"... master nightfall, master raids, etc.
Also, as a D1 year 1 player who actually kinda gets what's going on, story-wise, it's great. But admittedly comprehending the story is very difficult given where they drop you in if you just started the game.
I will also applaud Bungie for making adjustments over the years. For sure it's a lot less addictive than it used to be, and less of a grind. Or maybe its as much as a grind as you want it to be. The changes over the years have made the core game more approachable while they still held some high-level end game stuff for the die-hards. They tried to do the same with the story and it kinda works a little.
Also, for me, the raids are really great. Haven't really experienced that sort of game play, teamwork, puzzle solving, and requirement for perseverance and gaming skill anywhere else. they're just plain fun, especially if you have a good group to play with.
Oh I totally agree and yes we're already on that path.
The solution here is probably more like no cameras spying on your employees for every second of their shift. Give them a job and let them do it or not do it.
Not necessarily, but there's a difference between something being illegal and something being perceived by an insurance company as increasing risk. There are a lot of things that are legal and risky.
This isn't right. Singing also counts as distracted.
Heard about this a while back. I think the real explanation is that amazon wants cameras in their vehicles to monitor their drivers. But Amazon's insurer says "if you have this video we want to see it, and if your drivers are distracted in general, your insurance rates are going up" and/or when there's an incident, any evidence of distracted driving will be leveraged against amazon... so instead of getting rid of the cameras, they are micromanaging their employees not to be distracted while driving, where "distracted" includes talking on the phone and also singing or speaking.
It's all really shitty tbh.
I get that with a company as big as Amazon, small margins can make a big difference, but... pretty sure that's just an argument against giant fucking companies running everything...
Can you provide something backing this up? I was under the impression it was at least a good jumping off point for looking at sources against the backdrop of conservative--progressive and solid journalism--blatant disinformation spectrums
Came here to suggest looking at rewasd
Eh... it's not that we're trying to create meaning in the face of the absurd. The absurd is is the condition arising from the contrast between a human need for order and meaning on one side, and a lack of order and meaning (or lack of ability to grasp the order and meaning) on the other... and it's this absurdity that defines the human condition. And we should embrace it.
Honestly someone who spends their whole life searching for a universal morality could very well be embracing absurdism as well.
I also feel that the positivity surrounding absurdity comes from the fact that the absurd is the struggle (roughly between a desire and search for order and meaning) and the struggle is the human condition. And once you think about the struggle-not as something to overcome or win-but as the basic defining characteristic of humanity... you start to view the whole thing positively.
Kinda, but also the core of the absurdity is the contrast between the human need for meaning and order - and the inherent inability to find and create it ultimately. And as an added flavor, this absurdity is the main definition of the human condition. It's not exactly enjoying pseudo-meanings. It's enjoying the absurdity.
Recommend: the myth of sisyphus by camus. I believe you can find a full pdf of it online on some university website or another.
Bambu labs all the way. Unless you want your hobby to become printer maintenance.
Wtf does "democratic process" even mean though? It's literally not feasible to restart the primary process at this point is it? Like you want people to arrange getting off work, researching candidates, etc etc etc ?
In an interview I heard, a party official made it clear than anyone who would like to run for president needs 300 delegates' worth of support. That's out of over 4000 delegates. So realistically, if someone else wants to be considered, they need to convince less than 10% of delegates that they're worth a shot, then tell the party that... like this week.
It all has to be settled before Aug 7 because Ohio state officials (who happen to be republican) set a deadline prior to the dnc convention (presumably they set this deadline after the convention was scheduled...)
This is all more or less spelled out in black and white despite the unprecedented scenario.
But there IS a process and they are following it....
Pretty sure when I counted, the numbers were off. Not even 13 people in the supposed last supper shot.
CPU and RAM are not the only limiting factors. Not only that but not everything runs multithreaded. Maybe some piece of the puzzle is not multithreaded and is using all it can from a single core (assuming that cpu is multi- core)
Depending on how much you value your time, you're almost certainly better off getting a new machine to run pfsense.
For what it's worth, it's really hard to read this post (which you seem to have put some actual effort into) because you're writing it with odd abbreviations and slang. I know you're trying to be edgy or something but when you have something worthwhile to say, it's best to communicate it in a way that the majority of people who run across it can understand, rather than wrap it in what effectively amounts to lingo and jargon.
I put this together for my raid group text but thought others might like it. Kind of a summary of the 15 voice over messages from Osiris's data crawler decoding saved log entries about the Veil.
Please chime in if I've got something wrong, or with more info!
> The tldr on that lore is that some Ishtar researchers (from the collective on venus) were working on / exploring a moon of Saturn, started terraforming Neptune, got attacked while traveling from the moon of Saturn to Neptune. > > Crashed onto Neptune, found the Veil. Didn't know what it was. Electromagnetic anomaly. No mass but a tangible surface. The first team of researchers to touch it all died instantly by way of brain death. It also immediately was causing problems with all the exos that were with them because of electromagnetic radiation. > > They quarantined all the dead bodies while they built an outpost (with the help of SIVA). Ended up using the Veil as a power source somehow in the process, even though chiomi was against the idea (the logs are all from point of view of chiomi esi who was one of the researchers and most are about Maya sundaresh who was her wife)... Maya was in favor of making an outpost next to the veil... > > Soon after vex attack. They had started fucking up Neptune the same way they did with venus. But the Veil seemed to have prevented it. In their attempts to work around the Veil, the vex created some sort of field to isolate the Veil but this field also effectively hid the outpost (which would become the city neomuna) from the outside world. > > During the analysis of the logs Osiris begins to see similarities between Maya and himself in terms of how they became obsessed with their research (Osiris obsessed with the vex and time travel, Maya obsessed with the veil) > > Later... Maya and Chiomi theorize all their exos died because the Veil affected the "clarity" inside of them (clarity as we know is basically darkness extract, but Maya and chiomi didn't know this as it was a braytech secret). They think the Veil interacts with clarity and overpowered them and erased their minds the same way a magnet can erase like a hard drive or a floppy disk. Maya believes they can reverse this and instead use the Veil to write consciousness back to exos (or anything else that uses clarity). Chiomi thinks it might work but has concerns about if it's morally right. Maya says they're past the point where morality matters. > > At this point in the play back Osiris even further identifies with Maya. He also asks nimbus what he knows about how the cloud striders were created. Implication that the cloud striders were exos created by maya/chiomi using the Veil to write consciousness into brain dead exos > > Later, they talk about SIVA and how it's similar to radiolaria (radiolaria is aka vex milk). This was another Bray family invention (and we all remember how the siva "virus" fucked everyone back in rise of iron). It becomes clear that Maya and chiomi were now working on combining disabled vex machinery with brain dead exos and using SIVA instead of vex milk but just shielding the SIVA nanomachines from the Veil radiation. Implication that this is how the cloud striders were created. > > Chiomi and Maya create an interface to connect a human/guardian to the Veil. The design is like an orchestra of sorts. There will be a conductor who directs what they believe is an orchestra of minds inside the Veil. Chiomi thinks it's dangerous. Maya thinks it's the only way to survive. > > Next entry: the interface didn't work right. Everyone who was connected to it died. Their minds were erased. Brain dead. Basically the entire research team outside of Maya and chiomi. > > Osiris draws parallels to what they've learned about the witness and how the witness is actually a collection of consciousness of an entire race > > The next log entry is entitled lakshmi-2 and Osiris freaks out a little. > > At this point chiomi has removed herself from participating in any more experiments. As soon as she abandoned the experiments Maya started pulling brain dead exos out of cold storage/quarantine. She atarted using veil and Veil interface in reverse to start writing consciousness into brain dead exos. She re-creates lakshmi-2 off her own memories of lakshmi-2 but it also contains Maya's own self. This is problematic to say the least. (Reminder that lakshmi-2 eventually ended up back on earth as the leader of future war cult who was super xenophobic re: fallen moving to the tower) > > Next entry: they get the Veil interface working and it doesn't kill everyone. It becomes clear that the Veil is some sort of web of consciousness. A collective consciousness. Like an organic version of the vex network. Maya is happy. Chiomi isn't. She feels that the Maya she knew and loved is gone. > > At this point neomuna is a full city with an entire generation of people that were born there. > Nimbus says they don't want to listen anymore. Osiris says "Obsession is a beast with long sharp talons. A beast that does not easily release its prey." (Direct quote.... also... my own note.... are they talking directly to the destint-obsessed players? Breaking the 4th wall?) > > Osiris says he found a way out of the grasp of the obsession beast. "By losing" > > Next log: things seems to be going OK but then Maya and chiomi's spot on the moon of Saturn (this moon is called hyperion) detects that the warmind has reactivated and has classified the location on Neptune as the nefele stronghold. Chiomi thinks that if rasputin can interface with their network and learn what they know about tue Veil, it will be certain doom. Chiomi sends stargazer (one of the first cloud striders) to go deal with the warmind. Taking lakshmi-2 with them (I guess this is how lakshmi-2 gets back to earth). > > Osiris says it's clear then that stargazer is the one who redacted all information about the Veil and Neptune from rasputins memory banks (this was a plot point in the season where we were working with Ana and rasputin) > > Later: Chiomi decides the Veil is too powerful and must be contained and hidden. They will attempt containment and close down the interface facility, but allow neomuna to continue to exist and flourish. > > Next log: chiomi is losing it. She remembers how on venus the vex simulated copies of all of them and trapped them in a virtual hell. She wishes the Maya she loved was still around. She says it's time to let go. She reaches out to the vex. (Intentions unknown but maybe to see if they are willing to upload her consciousness back into a happier simulation of reality) > > (The real tldr tldr) nimbus asks "what did we learn here osiris?" And he says > > "the Veil is Darkness — the power of consciousness made manifest — as much as the Traveler is the Light, the power of the physical world. The implications are great. But so too are the risks." > > Osiris seems bitten by the old bug of going deeper. There are no more logs but Osiris is able to sue the decryption protocols of the logs so far to explore the network. Finds a way into an archive of the vex conceptual mind. This is the vex entity thay created one of the first big bads back in destiny 1: the black heart of the garden. Comparing the vex logs to chiomi's notes, it's clear that the black heart was a vex attempt to recreate the Veil. But they failed. > > He confirms that both the traveler and the Veil operate parallel to the laws of nature but in synchrony with each other. The vex were able to link the black heart to the traveler but this wasn't the connection the witness wanted (implication that the witness controls or directs the vex in some way to some extent). > > Osiris calculates then that the connection beam from the Veil to the traveler created by the witness with our accidental help (he connects through our ghost remember) cut through the traveler shell to something inside. Something they're calling the pale heart of the traveler. > > Osiris says that some current time Ishtar researches propose that the Veil and the traveler were possibly 2 part of the same "thing" or were effectively one thing cut in two. Veil is darkness, consciousness, memory, thought, feeling, logic. Traveler is light, physical reality, color, sound, movement, chaos.
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> “the perfect nonalcoholic beverage to quench your thirst and refresh your senses”
Coverage guide for the open. From @NoLayingUp on Twitter
How to watch The Open (times Eastern):
> Thu/Fri: > 1:30-4AM: Peacock > > 4AM-3PM: USA > > 3-4PM: Peacock
> Sat: > > 5-7AM: USA > > 7AM-3PM: NBC
> Sun: > > 4-7AM: USA > > 7AM-2PM: NBC
Let’s see the poorly generated art, the “self driving” failures, and THE HANDS!
https://lemmy.world/c/butlerian_jihad
This was from around 3 weeks ago. I pretty religiously (pun intended) blocked and reported ads from the "hegetsus" fundie christian bs group for probably 6-8 months. Naively I thought it actually started making a difference.
Then I just get served an ad from them with a little note that this was "Posted from a blocked account".
"Blocked"... you keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means...
I really like nearly all of Wes Anderson's work. I heard someone say this was like Wes Anderson trying to make a Wes Anderson movie... and I agree. Not that that's a bad thing, but things can often come across a little cheesy when someone knowingly "turns it up to 11" so to speak.
Also, it felt like this was (perhaps arguably) Anderson's most "meta" film. Again, not terrible, but also very on the nose and not very subtle.
All said, I do feel like I would like to watch it a few more times before really cementing where I put it among Anderson's other work. Right now it's probably mid-tier for me.
Love to hear other people's thoughts.
I know that guy who supposedly popularized the term wouldn't necessarily agree with Steely Dan as Dad Rock, but to me it fits the bill.
Finally got the Wingspan Nesting Box. It fits all the current expansions and has room for the future. I swear it must clock in at like 20lbs.
Still a little annoyed that all the Wingspan stuff that holds sleeved cards won’t fit the mote or less widely available and “standard” sleeves (Wingspan cards are not the same size as many other games) but thats not really anything a little 3D printing can’t fix.
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Also, the last 3 pairings tomorrow are STACKED with great player. Gonna be awesome.
Finally got the Wingspan Nesting Box. It fits all the current expansions and has room for the future. I swear it must clock in at like 20lbs.
Still a little annoyed that all the Wingspan stuff that holds sleeved cards won't fit the mote or less widely available and "standard" sleeves (Wingspan cards are not the same size as many other games) but thats not really anything a little 3D printing can't fix.