a bit strange but I don’t really see the problem tbh. Are these references I’m not getting? I recognize joker and thanos.

Toxic masculinity (femininity) are negative behaviours associated with men (women), but anyone of any gender can have toxic masculine traits / toxic feminine traits. They are labelled toxic masculinity (femininity) to emphasize that men (women) should be particularly cautious about developing such traits. Learning how to recognize such traits in oneself is important. No gender is gatekept here – the only gatekeeping is “don’t be toxic.”

That said, the terminology is provocative, and it’s the kind of thing which drives people away from the left, so we should really rebrand it.

beautiful

Instead of becoming an incel, you should first consider acting like the woman in this comic when somebody doesn’t want to date you.

so do mine, but i’m a woman who’s shorter than you with size 20 billion feet

Oh I assure you, I would have used IPA if my goal was to accurately convey my pronunciation.

I know it’s wrong, but it’s ok right? 👉 👈

I pronounce it like that, but I call the character “dah-ta”

Could not tell if this is fake or not. Saying they’re bigger than Jesus is something famous popular people do all the time.

Right, it’s the fact that melee does no damage in Doom Eternal which I find aggravating. It worked just fine in 2016 as a last resort. They clearly removed its ability to deal any damage in order to force the player to engage with the flamethrower mechanic, which provides ammo (and also does no damage). It seems to me like clumsy design – it achieves the desired gameplay loop, but in the most heavy-handed way imaginable. Fun gameplay loop sure, but zero effort to justify it with what’s happening visually on screen.

I did enjoy the combat ballet though; in particular, it was fun to be always switching weapons. I just found myself often shaking my head because it’s so contrived how it’s implemented specifically. I’m sure most people didn’t care, but it did pull me out of it.

Also, I couldn’t understand the plot in Eternal whatsoever. Am I supposed to be saving Earth? It sure doesn’t feel like Doom Guy gives a damn. He’s just there to do some kind of prophecy I didn’t really find myself pulled into. In contrast, 2016 is punctuated sporadically by plot points I at least understood and felt some amount of motivation for. Take, for instance, the scene where Mr. Glados says “don’t dismantle the power generator things! They’re really expensive!” And Doom Guy is like: “IDGAF. Demons bad.” Best scene in the whole franchise if you ask me. (I’ll admit, some of the dialogue moments that lock you into a room are way too long though.)

It’s been a while since I’ve played it, but as I recall, melee combat worked very differently and much more intuitively in 2016. It’s always there in case you run out of ammo.

Agreed about the story. What I didn’t like in DE was the transparently arbitrary gameplay loop. You can’t punch enemies to death anymore, and your flamethrower instead of doing damage causes… items to appear. All are obviously in service of a gameplay loop, but they are terribly contrived. I wouldn’t say I go into Doom for immersion, but c’mon.

I liked this game better than Doom Eternal

This is really not very accurate in my experience. What is your process? How are you screwing up LLM usage this badly?

*manhwa

I’m intrigued by the differences in the media honestly. Isn’t it odd that manga is practically always black and white? There must be next to no demand for colour manga. Meanwhile, I’m most familiar with manhwa as vertically scrolling colour comics, and manhua similar with a bit different conventions. Regarding manhua, I like that this group posts comics with same-sex relations for both men and women. That’s pretty cash money. Shame Tan Jiu isn’t allowed to post anymore.

you may define life however you like; the thing I said still makes sense regardless of definition (0 or many)

My experience with random processes: on large scales, things either happen 0 times or many times. So I find the idea that life exists in only one place pretty implausible.

That’s right.

Sounds like “the purpose of the system is what it does.” Every invention that gets funding does that. I watched the development of ML techniques over the last decade or so; none of the researchers developing AI would have said that was the purpose. They had much loftier hopes for AI.

AI is a tool. Misuse it and it sucks.