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9point6 , (edited )

Tbh the penalties for simulation in a lot of leagues have been turning the tides on the egregious theatrics. I’d agree what you were saying was a lot more prevalent, say a decade or so ago.

You’ll still always be able to cherry pick incidents, and some leagues will be worse than others for it, but the game has moved on a bit, and you do see it way less frequently than we did even just a few years ago.

Edit: elsewhere in the thread reminded me of the other aspect of this

There’s also the tactical fouls which are (whether you agree with it or not) part of the modern game. A player can weigh up the risk of getting sent off if they think it might prevent the opposition from otherwise scoring. These kinds of fouls can look pretty cynical to those unfamiliar with it, not least of all because they tend to also be softer than genuine fouls as the players tend to not want to actually injure themselves and others. So just enough of a foul to stop play, but ideally not even pick up a yellow card, and often in this scenario if the victim of the foul clocks what’s going on, they’ll try to hit the ground harder to increase the chances the fouling player gets booked.

A player (or even team) can probably only get away with this once or twice in a game before they piss off the ref though, and players will start getting sent off. In the same vein teams want to avoid getting a reputation for it too, otherwise they’ll end up facing much closer scrutiny.

9point6 ,

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Because why go for the obvious

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9point6 ,

Ventoy, as everyone else says, is your friend here.

Though I saw something similar in a video recently which I’m gonna call out for completeness, the IODD devices that let you change the image on the fly:

en.iodd.kr/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

Obviously not as cheap as a usb stick and ventoy, but a pretty cool alternative for those with the additional use cases

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9point6 ,

What a petulant manchild

I hope he gets acute medical complications from whatever stimulant he’s constantly on

9point6 , (edited )

Okay buckle up, this is a bit of a crazy ride.

I’d say a big event that kicked up a load of the racism we’ve got today was 9/11.

Right wingers went on a big public islamophobic tirade against anyone who they thought looked slightly Muslim for nearly a decade. This is where they got used to being confidently racist. This actually happened all over the western world, but I’m gonna focus on the American events after this.

Then Obama got elected, and relatively quickly a vast number of them had expanded their confident racism to include him, because they could hide it behind the flimsy excuse of criticising the opposing politicians. Then you had people banging on about the Kenya thing, which was just more emboldening.

This is also when we saw a lot of these “free thinker” talking head fuckos show up, and they start filling gullible viewers heads with lies and a tiny bit of racism sprinkled in.

One of the guys behind huge amounts of that, Steve Bannon, expressly targeted “angry young men” as a specific demographic he saw as easy to manipulate. Believe it or not GamerGate was one of the sources of angry guys he specifically manipulated to great success. So all these podcasts start getting funding and certain kinds of guests, and before you know it we have the manosphere, MAGA and an openly racist, criminal president.

Then of course COVID comes along which gives another angle for them to be racist through sinophobia, and also a new hook to pull people in and then get their brain warped slowly by the other cryptofascist topics that get dripfed from people talking about it.

Basically, the original event showed some Machiavellian right-wingers that a big enough enemy can be used to brainwash people towards racism, once there, they’re incredibly easy to manipulate. They then used Obama becoming president to test the theory and got the results they wanted. Next was to get the presidency in the hands of this new right-wing, and finally the January 6th coup was supposed to be the final touch.

That failed so they’re back in recruitment mode, and now they’ve got it down to an almost industrial process whenever some celebrity/influencer espouses a right wing view, a podcast set appears around them and suddenly all the funding they need to make the pod full-time, just as long as they get some certain guests on or discuss some topics in particular.

Edit: worth noting I tried to trim this down a bit, so a fair few events have been left out.

9point6 ,

Oh man, I’d completely forgotten about that

Actual nutjobs

9point6 ,

You could also get a big sword-shaped ice cube mold, a chest freezer and probably not even a whole enemy.

You would have to do battle in freezing climates too though in order for it to remain physically effective

Though I imagine the psychological effectiveness might persist a bit longer

9point6 ,

Sparkling yoghurt

9point6 ,

Your life sounds like a dream

9point6 ,

I kinda like that’s is a new line art meme format that’s not based on wojack, it’s nice to have variety

9point6 ,

An AI controlled jet fighter is something a step above in force, compared to the dog.

I can imagine a scenario where enough civilians could stop a rogue gundog, that gets tougher with a jet fighter

9point6 ,

Is this what natural selection looks like in the modern age?

9point6 ,

Country is probably a factor, they’ve been basically extinct in the UK for 2 decades

9point6 ,

So no more timed exclusives ever then?

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9point6 ,

When they made the head move in portal 2 for the first time, the girl from the ring might as well have just climbed out of my screen

9point6 ,

Nice

9point6 ,

Holden bloodfeast?

9point6 ,

Coward

9point6 ,

No no, there’s other countries in the way of that, it’s obviously their problem

9point6 ,

I love your specific example screenshot

“Hey is this Microsoft support? Yeah, err, so I’ve got this MANUALLY_INITIATED_CRASH error, can you help?”

“Have you tried… Not initiating…a crash…?”

9point6 ,

Time to do LFS

9point6 ,

Someone should maybe have thought to have her checked when they saw the five feet

Especially when, inexplicably, 6 of them were notably hairy

9point6 ,

Interesting, I still see it pretty consistently in the first few results in my experience and usually with a pretty recent one too

9point6 ,

Tbh this, when you actually just leave it properly attached it’s not much different from a water bottle lid at that point

9point6 ,

Rotate the bottle 90 degrees so the cap goes to the side of your face rather than mashing it into your nose.

9point6 ,

I guess because I’ve got used to it now and it’s entirely a non-issue in my life, I wouldn’t say it scratches my cheek at all.

If it means less microplastic in the sea, I’m all for it

9point6 ,

I can’t see how attaching them wouldn’t increase the rates at which they’re recycled.

You can believe this was never a problem perhaps, but then you’ve got to wonder why the change was made—no one is gonna profit from the design of bottle caps changing, so what’s the motive for the change if it’s not a problem? Contrary to the somewhat common belief, politicians tend to try and not waste time on useless legislation.

A refund system costs money, this change basically doesn’t.

9point6 ,

Yes I completely understand the lobbying the fossil fuel industry does and the tactics they use.

This is not the only policy from the EU regarding climate change however. If it was, I’d be with you that it’s absolutely not good enough.

No one is sat thinking we’ve solved climate change and plastic pollution by making plastic bottle lids slightly differently, and given this thread it clearly carries a negative sentiment. So it’s a pretty bad symbolic gesture.

We currently have a problem with microplastics.

I fail to see how this change will not increase the rates at which the lids are recycled.

This change was basically free, so even if it only moves the needle slightly, it was a change worth making.

There’s no silver bullet for fixing the problem, pretty much everything has to change, and this is just one of those many changes.

9point6 ,

where is micro plastic coming from?

Literally everywhere

And what would be a good lever to reduce that?

Many, many, many individual pieces of legislation

Bottle caps are not the answer for any of that.

If you’ve read what I’ve written, you would know I’m not saying that

So the result is barely any change in the amount of plastic introduced in the environment

Where it ends up is the most important thing

but people (like you) become complacent, because we added those cap straps after all!

Again, read. I, or anyone else reasonable in support of this, are not saying this is the silver bullet. It’s one of the thousands of points of iterative improvement we need to make.

but it’s far from being free

In terms of green legislation, this is literally as cheap as it gets

this exact bullshit makes people ignore the real problem. Your view is far too myopic.

You have clearly not comprehended my previous comments remotely correctly.

9point6 ,

Is that Alvin?

9point6 ,

I don’t like where his life seems to have taken him

9point6 ,

Ah, meme memetics

9point6 , (edited )

He’s also become a bit of a nut job in recent years unfortunately

Edit: because he’s been a shithead for longer than I realised

9point6 ,

Give The Smiths a go if you’re intrigued. It’s the band that he broke out of, and personally I prefer more of that compared to his solo stuff (though he does have a few bangers, but the aforementioned nut-jobbery means I don’t really play much of his solo work these days)

9point6 ,

Damn that was a blind spot. I was under the impression it was only the past half a decade or so that he’d gotten that shitty

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9point6 , (edited )

We’ve got a pub from 1552 still standing and operating as a pub

We’ve got Roman ruins from 79AD too, but obviously they’re not still a building really

9point6 ,

Depends how they do it—given a game is running locally, they don’t need to connect elsewhere to get ads. They could easily bundle a load of ads with the game installation. In this case, it would need game mods, and they’re not gonna be the kind of mods EA will ignore, they will actively combat it.

If they do function like a regular ad platform and fetch ads as they’re needed, something like pihole will be able to block it.

9point6 ,

The point of modern PPC style advertising, yeah. But traditional advertising models (such as TV spots, billboards) are based on upfront payment for a given amount of time. They don’t require the tracking aspects and the ad selection could be kept up to date via patches

It also would mean they can get ads in front of people playing offline and that they’re much harder to block using traditional methods

I’m not saying this is the way they would go, but they don’t have to go the PPC style route.

9point6 ,

You get focus time?

Also, what the hell is the point in an EOD standup if you’re gonna have another one in zero working minutes?

9point6 ,

So what’s the point of the EOD one?

I honestly see zero benefit in it unless it’s a 24h operation with a shift handover.

9point6 ,

Nothing is permanent

It will get cracked eventually, and it’s morally justified to crack (only) DRMed games because it may eventually pressure companies to back off

On the flip side, never pirate DRM free games, reward the developer for not being a shithead

9point6 ,

Moses clearly owned a liquor still

9point6 ,

And this is why I will never work in biotech, finance or (especially) military software engineering

I don’t want the risk of something I do causing direct harm to another person

9point6 ,

I had a few Xperia phones before I switched to pixel

I remember the display and camera being phenomenal and then the battery life still lasting over a day.

Great phones hampered by rubbish update support after the first year or so (back then)

9point6 ,

That SA part needs to be tested in court against the AI models themselves

A lot of this shittiness would probably go away if there was a risk that ingesting certain content would mean you need to release the actual model to the public.

9point6 ,

No, let’s skip to Thursday

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I can’t wait to download my own version of the latest gpt model

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