Fauxreigner

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[–] Fauxreigner@beehaw.org 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Unless you're willing to put in some kind of response that basically says "I'm not going to respond to that" (and that's a sure way to break immersion) this is effectively impossible to do well, because the writer has to anticipate every possible thing a player could say and craft a response to it. If you don't, you'll end up finding a "nearest fit" that is not at all what the player was trying to say, and the reaction is going to be nonsensical from the player's perspective

LA Noire is a great example of this, although from the side of the player character: the dialogue was written with the "Doubt" option as "Press" (as in, put pressure on the other party). As a result, a suspect can say something, the player selects "Doubt", and Phelps goes nuts making wild accusations instead of pointing out an inconsistency.

Except worse, because in this case, the player says something like "Why didn't you say something to your boss about feeling sick?" and the game interpreted it as "Accuse them of trying to sabotage the business."

[–] Fauxreigner@beehaw.org 1 points 9 months ago

Plenty of people live in areas where monkeys raid their garbage.

[–] Fauxreigner@beehaw.org 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Depending on your use case, if you want something stiffer you could brush each sheet with slow curing epoxy resin, then layer and press it to create some DIY micarta (yes, micarta technically uses phenolic resin, but epoxy should work fine for most uses).

[–] Fauxreigner@beehaw.org 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

You can also do this in Gmail natively by using a plus sign instead of the hyphen. E.g. myemail+newsletter@gmail.com will deliver, as the plus and everything between it and the @ are ignored. This may work on other platforms too.

Or, as mentioned in another comment, you can do this easily with a domain you own. Although you may get the occasional call from a merchant validating that StoreName@mydomain.com is an actual order.

[–] Fauxreigner@beehaw.org 2 points 10 months ago

Yeah, their espresso is also roasted to death.

[–] Fauxreigner@beehaw.org 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I think there’s massive untapped demand for things like mini city cars and kei trucks.

Not just that, but even the more middle ground small cars. I'd love to have an EV truck sized the way they were in the 80's/90's (which was more or less comparable to a midsize sedan, just taller). The push to bigger and bigger wheelbases to take advantage of loopholes in the efficiency standards really doesn't need to be reflected in EVs, but it's what all the major automakers are doing.

[–] Fauxreigner@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

The important part is it lets you plug in a mouse and keyboard, which allows for much faster and more accurate response times.

You are correct that they can just route through authorized boards or spoof that they are one.

[–] Fauxreigner@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

If we're going to be pedantic, you mean that it's possible for the median to equal the arithmetic mean. The "average" is a number that represents a set of data, and could be the median, arithmetic mean, geometric mean, and several other values.

[–] Fauxreigner@beehaw.org 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It's worth clarifying this to "non-consensual", since "ending genital mutilation of children" is the drum pounded by the anti-trans movement.

[–] Fauxreigner@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

Usually that's an "and", not an "or".

[–] Fauxreigner@beehaw.org 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nah, these accusations of racism from a company owned by an Apartheid era South African emerald mine heir are too racist.

[–] Fauxreigner@beehaw.org 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Rather than deal in abstractions, here's the comment thread.

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