Confirmed.

Technically, technically, technically the term “semite” is primarily used as a linguistic term for speakers of Semitic languages. In that sense Hebrew speakers and Arabic speakers are equivalently Semitic

I think the main source of ambiguity was the coinage of “antisemitismus” now “antisemitism” which was an application of a purely linguistic term into the ethnic context of oppressing Jewish people. Which is the source of the argument that antisemitism only refers to prejudice against Jews. If you accept that, then the term is really a confusing misnomer, even if it’s usage/meaning has been consistent.

Technically it’s semite-on-semite violence 😬

The primary function of quotation marks, especially in journalism is to quote people, i.e. indicate when something is exactly as said by others. In news reporting, the convention is to only report facts like title and profession directly, and what people say. Things like qualitative characteristics and moral judgments are almost always a quote from someone else, because it’s the news reporter’s job to limit their own subjective voice in the report, and to report other people’s voices.

Yes. The comment was about explaining the under acknowledged problems/barriers to overcome, onea, that are smaller problems in China. It was not an argument against HSR, but a prediction on how political will in the US is more likely to be placed behind different infrastructure solutions than HSR. I think HSR is great and would love to see it in the US.

I hope so. It seems I came across as anti-HSR in my comment. But I would very much like to see investment in HSR in the US. I was more acknowledging the barriers are different there than compared to places like China.

Do you have a good reference I can check out on why tge barriers mentioned in the video aren’t as big as it makes out?

The US environment, systems, and societies are not conducive to HSR. You will see widespread cheap electric flights before you see HSR. Here’s a good video explaining why: https://youtu.be/753xlF0EWsI

Basically the land costs way more, it’s viewed as business that needs to profit, not infrastructure you spend on, and you cant bulldoze over people as cheaply to make the necessary routes.

You’re not wrong, but your last statement is also quite telling of what these city council meetings claim to be, which is genuine public consultation, vs what they actually are, a token and ultimately silly nod to democratic process at the end when the decision-making is 99% complete.

World War II was also the most geopolitically complex issue on the planet.

There’s always a black flag.

Ads are already everywhere, nobody said anything about it being unimaginable. You have product placement (especially IP crossovers) in lots of live service games. That doesn’t mean you won’t be able to pay for an ad free experience. You can watch a movie on cable TV with ads every 15min, or buy the movie, or rent it, or stream it ad-supported/ad-free or go to the movie-theater with front-end ads. If you don’t want to watch Dune with a commercial break interrupting the middle, there’s an option for that.

Or the ads are incidental to the aesthetics of the activity, like sponsor ads on sports jerseys, in the stadium, and TV/stream. So what if the car chasing James Bond is an Audi because they paid for that.

I’m not pro-advertising, I do think “all major gaming experiences will be ruined with advertising” is a bit overblown.

Me too, but clearly there’s a huge part of the market that would rather put up with ads than go with an alternative

This is to refine existing F2P advert inserts so the timing is less abrupt. It is also for an ad-supported game-pass tier so they can inject ads into any game in the library.

Will it mean more developers/publishers choose to inject ads into games? Maybe. But plenty of games already have convenient spots for ads that don’t require this kind of tech, like match queuing, etc. and they don’t run ads.

What is this lawsuit trying to accomplish? It seems like a nothingburget

I remember thinking oh, they’re doing First Contact vibes, I enjoyed that for them. And the end credits music ever gets old hehe. But honestly, I don’t remember S3 much beyond that 🫤

Why is center-left in quotations? The center-left has always had a threshold on macroeconomic/corporate stability where they switch from pro-labour to union-busting… That’s part of what makes them center-left, especially the more neoliberal elements. Even the NDP has a complex relationship with labour. Part of that is because civil service unions will always be on the opposite side of negotiations from government by definition.

It’s a mid-deal. He’s not nobody, he’s a privileged artist who writes sappy music that a lot of people bop their head to. So this contributes to the overall sustainment of outrage over what Israel is doing to Palestinians. But it’s not going to move the needle on what’s happening even marginally and honestly it’s not going to change how audiences feel about the genocide one way or another. Maybe a handful of people will pause and question or pay more attention if they’ve been tuned out. It’s a mid-deal.

Banana ice cream is just blended frozen bananas at the most basic. Sure you can add some (non)dairy milk and sugar, but it’s still mostly just banana. And it’s delicious!

Planescape Torment, The Longest Journey, Max Payne, Mafia the city of Lost Heaven, BioWare games (KotOR, Mass Effect, etc), Persona 3/4, Dead Space, Alan Wake, Deus Ex… I mean storytelling over gameplay is Quantic Dream’s whole schtick, success/failure aside. Previous Naughty Dog games.

There’s a bit of a a conflation between cinematic presentation and storytelling. I literally grew up on story driven games well before TLoU. Homeworld was absolutely haunting with its understated dialogue, sweeping score, and timeless themes.

Even the year before TLoU, Spec Ops the Line came out, a deft and timely reimagining of The Heart of Darkness for the late Iraq war era–adding into it through the mechanics of the shooter genre. Talk about literary.

Ah, so municipalities should ration water to data centers just enough to cover sanitation and drinking needs, got it.