Basman

343, AKA "Halo Studios" is a great example of how corpos don't understand art. They fill out the mass of their dev team with contractors who are switched out once a year. It's corporate self-sabotage. How can you make any great art when you are constantly switching out the people making it? No accumulation of skill and experience. No chance to learn from failure. No vision is being developed. No wonder they are so mediocre compared to the OG devs at Bungie.

Too many fake jobs in game development now. Imagine needing 2000+ people to make a mediocre uninspired remake of a 20+ YO game that took less than 200 people to develop. Office politics and justifying your payroll become more important than making actual art and it weigh down development. No clear decisions are ever made. No one is accountable for anything. That's how you get toxic positivity and lame writing in modern games (see Concord). The budget balloons and safe and samey design rules to hedge the bet. And even when they are successful they will still struggle to just break even. It's like a workout. Over an hour and it's no longer a workout. Over 200 devs and it's no longer a dev team. It's a corporatocracy.

RD2 was one of the least creative games I've ever played. Just graphics and story. I wouldn't be surprised if GTA 6 is largely same.

You probably have a bias though. Seemingly narrow interests, dismissive of things you don't find worth your time and a lack of energy due to chronic illness. Am I wrong?

Nobody thinks of it like that. It's the ritual that counts.

It's funny how it seems the more insular and tribal a group is, the more weird and specific they tend to dress and look. Like those orthodox jews or various hunter gatherer tribes. People in western countries, which is about the most diverse cultures, people dress relatively bland comparatively. Just shirt and pants with no flair.

Gooner mods will go crazy though. GTA 6 will hook a generation of kids on latina porn. That milf with the freckles is converting me ✌️😭

Honestly, I'm kinda skeptical. Vibes way different. Much more melancholic, sort of noir vibe and less comedic. Less stereotypes and nutty dialogue. Feels more like a cop drama, which I think might result in a weird juxtaposition between cutscene and gameplay, where in the cutscenes characters are grounded in reality, but in gameplay you are running over grandmas with a truck. I bet it's going to be harder to play like a menace in general in order to incentivize the player to immerse themselves into the role of the characters as opposed to 5, which was more of a romp. It has already been confirmed that you can only carry two weapons at a time, unlike 5, where you could carry every weapon in the game. I've also heard rumors of cars needing gas and cops enforcing traffic laws. The RD2 genes seem quiet dominant. I kinda disagree with this design philosophy since it deprioritizes the player and gameplay in favor of cinematics. I'm worried that the game is going to be overly scripted, uninteresting and too melodramatic. It's already clear that it's not going to be as funny and satirical as 5. You'll walk 5 meters off script and get sent back to checkpoint. But we'll see. It'll probably work like in RD2.

There's no paradox. They are quiet different things. It's not a serious comparison. Besides, I don't think it's the argument you would want to make if you support trans surgery for kids, as circumcision is a highly conformist and unnecessary.

Horny old men can be quiet overbearing and shameless. It's like their brain turns off.

I don't think you necesarilly need to spell it out. People say weird things all the time. Just don't reciprocate anything that isn't business relevant. Cold like a glacier. It's only if he crosses a certain line that you need to be firm, like if he tries to pinch your butt or sends a dick pick.

So you agree it makes no sense lol

Imagine the hoes though.

It's not post-modernism as much as it is a false equivalency. Circumcision is a lot less invasive and life altering. It's also completely unnecessary, so I don't see why that would justify trans surgery as an argument from that perspective.

How do American hosts manage to look so plastic? The hair is like a lego piece you can take on and off

Comparison is the rhief of joy 🤗❤️

You just need to be stricter with your boundaries. This shouldn't have gotten this far in the first place. You need to ignore anything that's not business related. Don't respond. Don't reply. Don't even look him in the eyes if it's not relevant. Reject any advances or touch. And don't accept any money that hasn't been previously agreed upon. That could be used to pressure you. Follow the agreement. If things go out of hand you can always fire him and send the messages to his wife.

Healing and therapy itself can become an endless rat race. I'm wary of therapy culture and this incessant focus on what's wrong with your personal life (besides it being quiet classist $$$). There's a reason why the stereotypical therapy client/new age healing people are middle-upper class women. Gotta keep em busy somehow. In my opinion, you'll gain more self-autonomy by developing your talents in life. I think it's more common that something external is keeping you down in most cases. Besides, you can accomplish a bunch through just journaling.

As she confessed to the murder of her three kids, it's just a question if she goes to jail or the psychward. There's a strong argument to be made that she's basically insane but also mishandled as mental patient (IE. her carers are responsible for the incident is the argument they want to make). That said, I don't think being able to plead insanity should relieve one of culpability. It feels like a loophole to get away with murder, and it does get used like that broadly speaking. I also think that because she's a women she gets treated with kid's gloves, as if women aren't capable of responsibility. It's weirdly sexist and infantalizing. Like, they want to make the case that it was largely the fault if bad psychiatry and that she's basically not culpable. Idk man. A man in the same court room would have a much harder time garnering sympathy. Sorry for going there.

Bro never heard of a condom. Now his "happy little accidents" are coming for his bank account and demanding royalty.

You live a wonderful life by developing your different talents as much as you can. Very seriously and deliberately, for a long time. I feel I'm yet to truly begin living my life myself.

That's already the case. Her psychiatrist is probably cooked in the upcoming malpractice lawsuit. Her cross examination was a train wreck. But your kind of zoning in on two different dialogues. I don't think it's obvious that medical malpractice means there's no culpability.

Justice isn't only for the person on trial. This almost reads like you care more about the perpetrator than the victims.

There's no disputing that she was crazy, but that doesn't prove that she didn't know what she was doing beyond a reasonable doubt.

That doesn't necesarilly rule out that she knew what she was doing. She sent out her husband and would spend 5-8 minutes each strangling her kids to death. She was definitely crazy, but I'm not convinced her controller was unplugged. Even if it was she deserves punishment. You don't cross a certain line.