Yes.

Spoilers for every Monster Hunter plot:

The monsters in the wild are becoming way more aggressive/crazy, resulting in not only the ecosystem going out of whack, but also endangering human settlements.

You start off as a rookie hunter by culling them, and as you work up the ranks you discover that the source of this imbalance is actually due to a mysterious new monster (not actually that mysterious because it’s usually the cover art monster).

You gradually gain more experience and kill the flagship monster, graduating low rank (the first half of the game), roll credits.

But it turns out the mysterious new monster only invaded the ecosystem because it was escaping from an even bigger threat, the new Elder Dragon of the game, whose awakening is a once in a 1000 year occurrence and is causing even more mayhem in the ecosystem.

You work up the ranks again, and slay the Elder Dragon, graduating high rank (second half of game), credits roll for second time.

Rinse and repeat for the G rank DLC/expansion, where you also get some new areas.

Canonically everything is done for the ecosystem. Gameplay wise there is significant dissonance as you genocide multiple species just for a 1% drop to upgrade your corpse dress.

Inb4 conservatives change from

“Mary was a teenager”

to

“The Founding Fathers were pedophiles too”

The peak of a music career isn’t a Grammy, it’s getting parodied by Weird Al Yankovic

It’s better to think of working, middle, and upper class in terms of how much of their income derives from labour vs capital.

Working class = majority of income from working.

Upper class = majority of income from owning capital, i.e. can afford not to work at all.

Middle = somewhat evenly split.

Traditionally working class was associated with “lower” jobs such as labourers, and those working cushy office jobs usually earnt a high enough income to accumulate enough capital to become middle or upper class.

This is more aligned with the British definition, where their “middle class” is more equivalent to the US “upper middle class.” Make no mistake though, with many jobs not paying enough to accumulate capital, professionals such as teachers, accountants, and nurses would firmly be considered working class, because they you know, need to work.

Unfortunately this is an increasingly unviable strategy, because even “good” creators have started using clickbaity titles and thumbnails, even if their content has remained the same. Some have even retroactively changed the titles/thumbnails of their older videos to this style.

Clickbait is engineered by behavioural scientists to be as addictive as possible, and has been proven to trigger similar neural pathways to other addictions, such as drug or gambling.

Basically every creator with a shred of self awareness has admitted that they hate creating clickbait thumbnails, titles, and phrases like smash that like button and subscribe; they end up doing it anyway because A/B testing with randomised thumbnails and titles clearly show that they work.

The live A/B testing in particular obscures whether a creator employs clickbait or not - you may be under the impression that a certain creator has remained principled, when in reality you were just allocated to the control group by chance.

I feel that it’s one of those situations where the game is rigged, and the only way to “win” is to change the rules yourself.

Look into DeArrow (by same creators of SponsorBlock), which offers crowdsourced “de-clickbaited” video titles and thumbnails.

Ubisoft asked the Rayman team (who have produced some of the best platformers) to develop Prince of Persia The Lost Crown, regarded as the best metroidvania of 2024.

It failed to meet sales expectations, so they disbanded the teams and cancelled the sequel.

Turns out gamers™️ do vote with their wallets, and they vote for churned out sequels.

Would get them, just to clack them like the velociraptors in Jurassic park

Mayocide when

Clearly never been to a gay bar

No it’s an accurate reflection of drunk self destructive Cersei in A Feast For Crows and enhances the joke

Scrotox is an unironically popular procedure (for your scrotum)

Merry Christmas: no alliteration❌

Happy Holidays: has alliteration✅

Conclusion: Happy Holidays > Merry Christmas

Idk making libertarians develop empathy seems pretty radical.

Though I guess there’s also Musk as junkie with no morals

Honey is acidic with a pH of around 4, so it technically corrodes metal if left for prolonged contact.

Same reason it’s not recommended to use metal pots or utensil for curries, the metallic taste can leech into the food.

Debate isn’t effective, and its main purpose is theatrical. It is basically the modern day equivalent of gladiator fights, except with the side effect that it platforms and legitimises the opinions of the participants, no matter how extreme.

There is now mountains of scientific evidence showing the debates have limited to no effect at changing people’s minds. Instead, simply making friends and spending time with different perspective is effective.

This article won’t change your mind. Here’s why | Sarah Stein Lubrano | The Guardian - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/18/change-mind-evidence-arguing-social-relationships

Side note, the restaurant analogy is exactly why I hate the seemingly American style of service where the waiter asks how the food is halfway through.

I guess that’s a good analogy for how creepy surveillance capitalism is, it’s like a waiter judging and recording your every move and reaction throughout the entire meal.

Except that the Nordic model has been replicated across all the Nordic countries, of which only Norway has vast natural resources.

And even then, Norway, under the policies of the Nordic model, was already quite rich before it discovered oil.