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Movie/game ratings are essentially trigger warnings by a different name. I think to include content warnings is perfectly fine, the difference is that in once instance the responsibility is on the user to approve material for themselves or for those they are guardian to. With trigger warnings, these are things that are not required, but failure to give one is often met with extreme social hostility and tantrums. Solution? Put up content warnings, don't call them trigger warnings. Most of the controversy around them is people "acting triggered" when they aren't really experiencing anything close to a panic episode. When it comes to artistic mediums, I'd expect someone to inform themselves about what they are seeing, and if something is unpleasant to excuse themselves. The most incendiary behavior around trigger warnings is more in the University scene, where there is required course content. Because regardless to whether there are warnings or not, people object wholesale. You have people refusing to deal with the very content of their field. Instead of advocating for their own personal considerations they'll opt instead of publicly demonize a professor and interrupt a whole class. This is the whole issue that I'm more familiar with.

Seeing as we have to live with those _____ (whatever you call them these days), at least you can defeat their game merely by putting up trigger warnings then going about business as normal.

All hail our tyrant overlord.

If some sort of recovery is free, and the only cost is your time, then it should be automatic. But usually you want something with a cost, and it's up to you when to manage the resources/cost with whatever action. The game is the choices and management, so automatic recovery should be seen as a way of starting each battle somewhat fresh. But I wouldn't call that a quality of life feature either. Qol is more making something that is manual, minimally tedious for what it is.

It's seems to become more true the more populated an area is, assuming the area isn't populated as a result of some temporary festivity.

I generally don't talk to anyone (regardless of their sex) on the street unless I'm asking for help, or there is something to collectively comment on that is external to both participants. Like a dog holding up traffic or something. Seems to be pretty general social practice. I think day to day there isn't much reason to impose yourself out of the blue on a stranger.

I do prefer a more pleasant expression when looking at a party member for many hours of gameplay. Expression and compression aside, the improved shadowing and additional detailing on the clothes is nice. I also like the change in color tone towards plum.

I think some of this concern is partially being met by weapon's unique specials/modals that are unlocked through weapon proficiencies. Sawyer is a bit of an RPG elitist. He doesn't want to play the normal, typical RPG and if you do, he is frustrated by you and doesn't understand you. "Player inertia" in this context is literally just "people don't want to play that, they want to play this". It helps to make him a really good game designer, as long as he's bound by editors and rules to prevent himself from going to far. I think we need people like Sawyer to move rpgs forward. Forward doesn't even have to be a specific direction, simply off the map into uncharted territory. Sometimes you just need a whole new set of first principles to hang your mechanics from.

Has anyone tried to eat Panda? It's recently come to my attention that they make rather convenient livestock.

The US has been caught with it's pants down, the only question is how far down they went. In fact I believe they are still dropping.

I think it's just continuous future-in-past tense. Which is valid formal English.

Yeah gotta say, liked the original one more. Had better mood to it, she seems a little too .... "cheeky" now. To reference the original horror show of a thread, they've flip-flopped her from tsundere to yandere. How prophetic that thread turned out to be.

I liked it before, I liked it now.

I sense another Nasa budget cut incoming...

Because they filmed this update with a zoomed in camera, It makes me wonder if they use any LOD on 3D assets, it would seem like they don't. I wonder if that is something they could do though. I know the models all start from a higher fidelity base.

Well they were always going to be less involved then Pillars1 companions. I read the initial pitch as essentially "themed mercenaries." Which is neater than just Joe Merc Schmoe.

Is the celestial pig for sale?

On thing I remember is how the journal annotations updated in what often seemed an illogical manner. I think it would be great of it took into account a quest's own partial ordering and allowed those sections to be order in the manner which the player tackled things.

Now you can too can reenact the Khmer Rouge!

https://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2017/10/14/lies-lies-lies-lies-lies-lies-lies-lies-lies-lies/?smid Solid run down on the discrepancy of the GOP's tax policy claims and the real models. Which also leads me to think all this talk about fake news is just new speak euphemism for what we should really be calling lies.

What do you think all those trips to Mar-a-lago are about?

The media is propaganda of a different kind, news organizations are more collectives of people buying into their preferred bias. If you're diligent enough to wade through all the details and come to a more discerning picture of the truth, then for yourself use that truth to out live others then go far it. I don't think we need to expect the news to be our friends, and I don't think it needs to be shut down. The more people leave those sources, the more they double down on their base. The fact that we have so many choices to get our news, while a double edged sword, is also a liberating thing. Propaganda doesn't work the same as it used to, it's more about competing narratives and overwhelming supply of spreading grievances upon those who have no way to contribute. In many ways they are machines that sell superiority complexes.

Sometimes I feel people actually live by this...

The entertainment factor of Trumps presidency has basically vanished for me. Especially after the pettiness towards Puerto Rico.