There is no rule that the angles of a triangle add to 180 degrees. It only holds true in Euclidean geometry, which this is not.

“Washington” seems quite convinced of an imminent WWIII, and I’m guessing they intend to spend a lot of time in Asia.

People are upset at the lack of an episode 9 and 10 to finish the season, and while upset, one is more like to pick up on everything and anything else that could be interpreted as bad. Then one wants to find validation online. So the internet is rife with people upset at the series, picking it apart and complaining about all the details that can be complained about - things that few would have complained about had there been an episode 9 and 10 to resolve at least some of the now highly pressurised cliffhangers.

Edging is fun until you realise you’re actually not getting any.

I liked the season and enjoyed every episode, except in some sense the finale. It was good TV, but I felt stressed for most of its duration because they kept drawing it out and I couldn’t imagine how they would manage to resolve all the built-up tension in the time left. When there was about 10 minutes left I began to realise that all these things they were talking about on the screen were unlikely to materialise, but thought that maybe they’d focus it all on a spectacular scene in King’s Landing. All hope left me when it was down to 5.

I want to complain about how they spent their screen time, but I’d rather there were simply 2 more episodes because I enjoy the pace. Maybe they could have cut the mud fight.

Dubious is your opinion on any subject.

Whatever your reason for saying that is, there is nothing I could possibly reply with that would make you consider any perspective I have to offer. Yet, here I go.

Al menos hablas español? O sos un chanchito del hemisferio norte jugando a revolucionario?

I understand Spanish to some degree because I have family in Colombia, but I suck at using it. I could trivially use a translation tool to help me compose a witty response, but that would change nothing.

5 M expatriates were held out of the ellection. Even with put the tallies, the ellection is a complete farse…

The fact that this is besides the point is the very point I’m making: stay. the. fuck. out. of. other. countries’. internal. politics. It’s really quite simple. Unless you are an imperialist, obviously.

It’s a statement and an intervention. Doesn’t have to be literal military aggression to qualify as meddling.

So based on suspicion, potential indications, circumstantial evidence, and bloody hopes rooted in political bias and grabby hands it must be the moral duty of the Free West to liberate all these helpless brown people that just can’t figure out how to start a revolution.

Actually, IIRC they do know how to do revolutions. I think they’ll be ok without your fat fingers in their pie, mate.

Do you think them helpless peasants that require the intervention of big brother USA whenever there is trouble?

Even if Maduro’s government is using undemocratic means to maintain power, who the fuck are the US and EU to take stances on and decide what Venezuela needs?

Let the people of Venezuela decide for themselves. Fuck’s sake.

At the very least it doesn’t handle spoilers correctly

It may be of critical importance in some games that, no matter how low the framerate is, the player never misses an event due to skipped frames.

There are also games that are not real time even in their animations, and so there may be no benefit to skipping frames rather than just letting it run at whatever framerate. Slowed tick rate mostly feels weird if one has certain expectations for the passage of time.

Once. They do not have the ability to learn or adapt on their own. They are created by humans through “deep learning”, but that is fundamentally different from continuously learning based on one’s own actions and experiences.

We are prediction machines, but nothing like chatgpt. Current AI has no ability to learn, adapt, or even consider the future.

If it is dry due to climate change I don’t see how there is an eco-system built around the drought worth preserving.

I preferred the Chinese version. Hollywood’s take didn’t have the same atmosphere and the pacing was weird.

They never let you soak in any particular moment, time, or place. Every little plot line or detail that could be cut, was. It felt to me like a very long tldr or a string of trailers glued together. So many trailer-style corny one-liners.

I’m sure I’m forgetting some parts that were actually enjoyable, but I feel like I wouldn’t have missed out on anything had I not watched it.

I don’t mind being able to see stats, either. I don’t mean to complain about this project; I fully support the author in modifying it to their preference. Just that I wouldn’t expect a “minimalist fork” out of this particular app. Regardless, it’s not unwelcome in any way!

I saw that but that just seems like their preference. I don’t feel anything in particular about the home page. It’s customizable too IIRC. I don’t know what the echo page is.

Cool if this is more efficient, but is AntennaPod considered bloated? It’s one of very few apps I feel give me precisely what I need and doesn’t annoy me with fluff.

Because they have no basis on which to decide where to go. It’s like buying toothpaste but there are hundreds of options, none of which you know anything about, so you get whichever seems most popular. It minimises the risk of ending up with something which is unpopular for good reasons.

I really enjoyed it too. The camera felt a little too excited sometimes (for example the scene where he puts the goggles on and sees the CMB flashing - the camera just sort of orbits around him and stuff for a while) and some visuals were a little too artistic (and I don’t mean the VR game, but the intro and such).

We’re definitely lacking good, non-dystopian sci-fi these days, and in general I feel that high budget Western productions have gotten really stale and predictable. So this one is a nice break!

The Untamed, a Chinese series based on a manhua called Modao Zushi (魔道祖师 / The Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation). It’s about a quasi-delinquent cultivator going against the grain, using “wicked magic” to get things done and everyone close to him has a shit time and/or ends up dying, and he gets blamed for everything that is bad.

I saw the donghua first (same name as the manhua), and while I enjoyed it a lot, it was difficult to keep up with all that was happening. The live action felt better paced, partly because it’s just longer and gives more room to digest and get used to the characters and names. I was a little unsure about it at first - it seemed a little silly, but after a few episodes I grew really attached to the characters as they were acted and portrayed. For me, the occasional silliness became endearing and didn’t detract from the overall serious, melancholic atmosphere.

I’m binging Chinese productions these days because I’m really bored and sick of Hollywood (and my part of the world sucks at quality TV fiction), and I feel seriously uncomfortable with how underexposed I’ve been to non-western cultures (aside from Japanese). SEA is massively diverse and populated but virtually all I ever see originates from within the Anglosphere or northern/central Europe, and I’m discovering that that’s not for a lack of quality content elsewhere. But I digress.

Basically, 10/10 recommend escaping the Anglo-trap.