Train to Busan is generally a good movie, but one scene involving passenger infighting is very much a statement on the country’s class warfare; so it may not make much sense to people otherwise.

For those who, for whatever reason, can’t risk piracy, library services are another option.

On top of rented DVDs, many offer streaming services that are ad-free and tend to have some good options.

It might be a fun moment in a soulslike when you’re fighting a same-sized story character that used to be a friend, they display the health bar as “x8”, and then each time one is depleted, they use a healing item inbetween swings.

On the other hand, this has been a tactic of the right, and it’s somewhat successful: Keep showing new avenues of attack, and you put your adversaries constantly on the defensive.

What’s sad is, many voters don’t care about the merits of an issue; just the optics of power and assertion. Person X is on the defensive, criticizing a bold statement and thinking they should walk back on it, Person Y is already spouting a new message.

My work computer is on W11. Notifications got much worse, and moved to a harder-to-reach shortcut. There’s a persistent bug with maximization, in which many forms of apps will suddenly take over the region normally reserved for the taskbar (no, I’m not referring to full screen modes) that so far as I can tell can only be fixed by logging out.

The UI is worse, making settings pages even more confusing. Windows Explorer has dived deep into iconography, while still not being clear about what those icons mean. The new context menus are missing options, so they need an extra one to go back to W10’s options.

This is of course setting aside their blatant lies about “It’s not spyware we promise we promise”, among so many other hundreds of problems. I’m doomed to stay on W10 for now to finish a project, but afterwards, I’ll be finding a distro I prefer.

Why do they keep trying to fuzz the terminology?

Zionists and Jews are not the same thing. They have very little in common.

Maybe just to highlight some positivity, Trump’s niece Mary runs a very positivity-driven channel alerting the world to the dangers of her uncle. Nice way of showing we don’t still believe in “Sins of the father”.

The bullet engraving does sound weird, but I have heard of traditions where people engrave names onto dry grains of rice.

I never played Remake, but when a YouTuber recently did a comparison video between some of their major scenes, I ended up respecting the original so much more.

A great one was when the plate falls. The original made directorial choices that emphasized the brutality of it all so much better, especially by choosing to cut the music. It just seems like Remake’s director was adding so many things simply because he could, making short and direct scenes so much worse by excess creation.

Of note, another JRPG from that general time period, Trails in the Sky, is being remade soon, and that one seemed quite a bit more faithful to me. Still taking liberties to change dialog, but only where it makes sense - they also greatly retooled the battle system with full respect for classic turntaking style.

That’s not always true when members of the team feel really motivated and inspired by a concept.

I’ve been in that zone a few times before. “Well, I’ve been working for a few hours. I guess I should take a break and play a game. …Or, I could just keep at it…?”

Of course, with such large teams now, you’re unlikely to see that happen to many of them. They’ll be working late, but usually zombies.

Playing an indie mystery game called Dragon Detective. I’m on case 4 so far, it’s definitely held my attention with the story. It manages to do a good job with its worldbuilding.

My only response to “Antifa” is to continually ask “Anti-…fa-what?”

We are seeing many of the “voices” that are attempting to capitalize on the violence. What we’re not seeing are the “ears” - the ears that just saw their fearless leader is in fact a pedophile, who just sent troops to cities with no remarkable record of violence, etc.

I know these people don’t mean what they say because they’re saying them - tweeting them and vaguely implying others do it for them, minding their wording so they can’t be sued or found liable later. The people that take action are the gullible hacks that buy into their narrative. The question now is how compelling that narrative still is.

I’ve still been using it lately to animate a video. It’s nice that so many tools have been refined in that time.

This makes me realize the last time I interacted with Digimon was the age-old TV show that began with an Isekai.

I’m curious how the series has changed. Apparently some of the newer stories lean a bit darker?

When listening to the dev commentary of Valve games, they talk about how much work goes into level design planning even just for the sake of optimization, like clearly delineating barriers between major regions (doorways) so the engine can unload objects from other areas.

I get the impression the “First step easy” setup from UE5 may have made it so that more people can give us unoptimized messes, but still only a few rare devs understand proper optimization at all levels of development.

When I run a social media site, it will be a rule to use uncensored terms, and any use of asterisks or alt-words like “unalive” will result in a warning or suspension.

I remember that talking point about walkable cities being “digital prisons” and never understood the gymnastic logic people go for with those.

Do they think that only being able to leave via a registered electronics-laden metal box on roads built by the government is “independence”? Do they realize in some countries even assassins will use public transit to evade attention?

I mean, you changed the topic onto the subject of pricing, which is the main thing driving sentiment that Microsoft is anti-consumer. There are other smaller gaming subscriptions out there, and I don’t call many of them anti-consumer.

I guess it occurs to me that the shooter was lucky to target so accurately.

Emotionally driven rogue shooters often aren’t going to have steady aim. We’ve even seen from many similar incidents, it can happen that multiple unrelated people to the object of their hate can get hurt. It’s often how gang violence spreads - the gangs only care about their opponents, but stray bullets still hit innocent people, dragging the mess forward.

If they’d hit anyone else, which is purely a matter of luck and lack of discovery, not shooting skill, I imagine this wouldn’t be so clear cut an issue. For that reason, I’d rather we not generate imitators, especially not in crowded events like these.