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@Wiz@loli.church On the plus side, because Windows 11 has dumb artificial hardware restrictions, a lot of Windows 10 era tech stuff will be thrown away or sold very cheaply now. Not just computers, but peripherals too.

I personally recommend getting a Windows Mixed Reality headset, as they are no longer supported on Windows 11. They are essentially ewaste unless you run GNU/Linux with glorious Monado OpenXR.

Why is anyone surprised about the upcoming Pokemon game being Agenda 2030 propaganda when it's been confirmed that Pokemon Go was used as a military AI training tool?

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Animal rights are a self-contradictory concept. Is it against a rat's rights to be eaten by a snake? Is it abuse to eat a hamburger? Or worse? What about the chemical warfare we use on animals to protect our crops and homes?

I am sorry, but although animal abuse is retarded, it is still a priviledge of being a supperior entity on this planet. So, this poll is offering one choice that is clearly a positive one, and one negative.

And to clarify, "libertarian animal rights" mean that the pet owner can abuse and/or slaughter their own pets because it is their property.

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Which would you rather have?

RPG and adventure games (especially those of Japanese origin, or at least are Japanese inspired) REALLY need to ditch the "collect all the MacGuffins" plots or any variants (destroy/awaken/place the MacGuffin plots) because it turns what would be an otherwise epic story into a scavenger hunt.

The only games I know of that ditch this are the original Phantasy Star games and Chrono Trigger. The first Phantasy Star game in particular does involve hunting down items, but each item on it's own has it's importance instead of just being a number of similar items that needs to be collected, such as weapons that are needed to kill the next boss and all that leads to the final item needed to get to the final dungeon.

Naturally, any JRPG or action-adventure game that does this plot structure would be linear, but if you still want non-linearity, you can just go the WRPG route and have the quests and dungeons be optional tests of skill and experience before defeating the final boss. WRPGs tend to have the whole world open from the onset and the quests and dungeons only exist to leave hints on where to go next. This does handicap the story, but you can make up for it by having backstories and worldbuilding for the characters and setting.

When you see people complain about JRPGs being derivative garbage, this is why. They can all be original if they just drop the "collect the X MacGuffins" plot.

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Today I'm working on IONA Memorandum 0001: On Curricula.

> To estimate the effectiveness of current era educational protocols, we might look to the Amish. The Amish have maintained largely the same simplistic educational strategy over the past 300 years - and yet still have surprisingly good outcomes to show for it. The fact that classical western education does not reliably produce better outcomes than that of the Amish is strong evidence that current curricular design is in fact ineffective and needs to be re-thought.

> If we are to take a formal approach, we may consider curriculum to be a form of investment, thus allowing us to use Decision Theory to model the value of skills which we may aim to build. In a Venture Capital firm, the goal is to achieve success in each of the startups they invest in, both individually and as a group.
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Now CNBC is on it, I think silver won't climb much more.

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@LittleTom @DrRyanSkelton @EdBoatConnoisseur >anti capitalism game (please buy on steam)
Trooncoded indeed.

How many Native Americans still care about muh colonialism?

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The Culture war is going to kill software freedom if people don't chill the f out.
But I'm sure rage-bait and pwning the libs/right in destructive but silly ways will be worth letting Apple/Microsoft run rough-shot over everything.

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@SuperSnekFriend @smugumin Disney and Nintendo
>reliant on the achievements and works of long ago
>uses nostalgia and emotional attachment to their franchises to manipulate people into buying slop
>deeply anti-consumer
>army of manchildren who will die for them
CoD and Pokemon
>annual franchise
>stopped being good years ago
>currently entries are desperate slop that barely resembles itself
>rips off competitors
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