I wondered about it, but it seems he has to put himself in the place of Christ and require people to worship him instead (to “anti” Christ…) to really qualify. I think he is till pretending to be a Christian, so we may not be there yet…

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I’m the opposite. I don’t mind seeing a few copies of the same news when it is current, that makes sense. The zombie reposts that keep popping up every day (then once again another week later for some reason…) get really annoying.

Doing it well requires a different approach and skill set than in person learning, which can be difficult to retrofit into an existing institution, especially when budgets are tight. Plus established institutions tend to be a bit conservative about things. Even if the administration is on board, getting faculty to adjust their curricula and adopt the new technology can be near impossible.

The light novels are very formulaic and the anime does nothing to smooth it out. The meta plot does progress and the anime should end in a decent spot, but yeah, the slice of life overtime moping gets old, fast.

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Are the pictures to scale?

I’ve been enjoying the game and seem to be close to the end. I actually like that it is not overly complicated. Makes it easier to pick up for an hour or two and just play.

My problem is the inconsistencies. At times it acts like it wants to be a deeper game and at times it is just mindless action. Feels like they cut a lot of planned content and just smoothed it over. For example, both unique weapons and armor can be upgraded with materials you find and purchase, but only weapons allow upgrading the unique stat itself, and its only a single choice between two options. It seems almost pointless. They should have just dropped that system entirely or expanded it to be more meaningful.

Late in the game are two choices that feel meaningful and appear to influence the map and story. Great, except, where was this for the entire first half of the game? So many choices just seem to be for flavor that when one actually has consequences it is jarring.

Then there is stealth. The game has a stealth mechanic and skills to buff stealth attacks. However, the moment you attack from stealth, every enemy in range is aggro’d to your location and stealth is no longer possible. Stealth is effectively just a first hit damage bonus. Again, it seems like they planned to make stealth a thing, then either cut it or could not make it work, but left parts of it in the game.

Illusions… The game has several, fairly trivial elemental obstacles. Most can be dealt with in several ways. Tangled vines can be burned with fire skills, certain throwables, or a companion ability. Same for electric switches, freezable bars (to shatter them), etc. All except illusions. Those can only be cleared by a specific companion ability, which means late in the game you are either forced to use that companion or give up on anything behind illusions. There is even a spot in the throwables UI that looks like it could be for an extra item type, but I’ve yet to find something to fill it. Maybe in the last area…

Overall I do like the game, but no way is it worth $70.

When the news first broke, I assumed Russua was behind the ceasefire and had already pulled Trumps strings to their advantage.

Now I’m wondering if this administration might be too incompetent to be corrupt.

I’ve only watched the first one. Visually it was great, but the scenes over shadowed the plot to such a degree that, even having read the source, it was still hard to follow.

I would not call it a bad movie, but I’d file it with Avatar and the fountain as being more about the experience than the story.

Scene: A democrat and republican sharing an apartment.

Democrat: we need a new dishwasher

Republican: No, we are not paying for a dishwasher

Democrat: washes dishes in the sink

Republican: sets the apartment on fire

ML: democrats suck

I hate that Ukraine lost so much and that Russia will get away with this, but looking at it another way, Ukraine held on, stopped Russia from taking their whole country, and forced a ceasefire. That’s amazing and few thought it possible just a few years ago.

I just assumed she was on some sort of Disney blacklist after the lawsuit.

Irony is the opposite of wrinkly

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Pure conjecture on my part but I think…

When these first came out, Google approached them in full venture capital mode with the idea of building a market first, then monetizing it. So they threw money and people at it, and it worked fairly well.

They tried making it part of a home automation plaform, but after squandering the good will and market position of acquisitions like Nest and Dropcam, they failed to integrate these products into a coherent platform and needed another approach.

So they turned to media and entertainment only to lose the sonos lawsuit.

After that the product appears to have moved to maintenance mode where people and server resources are constantly being cut, forcing the remaining team to downsize and simply the tech.

Now they are trying to plug it into their AI platform, but in effort to compete with openai and microsoft, they are likely rushing that platform to market far before it is ready.

I wonder who will buy it if this happens. Tencent and the like are probably not allowed. Amazon doesn’t really need it. Broadcom and Oracle could make an offer. Netflix might be interested. Apple is probably not. Microsoft would face extreme scrutiny. Meta is probably a front runner, but most likely, if the rulling stands and the current administration does not writhdraw, a back room deal was already made to hand it over to X…

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