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    Overrated nintendo games

    While zelda a link to the past was good for it's time it steel feels a bit off Many of us do have memories of playing it as a child and it definitely had things going for it. The game start off fairly strong with you having to get your way into a caste to save a princess. Graphics are even...
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    9x10 chess with centaurs

    1 hour per move 13900OKF I had to increase the time per move due to black sometimes winning with 20 minutes per move. 9x10centaur f3f5 d8d6 i3i5 i8i6 g3g4 e8e6 f5e6 e9e6 b3b4 e6e9 c3c5 f8f6 d3d4 d9e7 h1g3 g8g6 c5d6 e7d6 b2c4 d6e7 e3e5 h10g8 d4d5 h8h7 f2d3 c8c6 d5c6 f9h8 c2b3 h9g7 d2c3 b9c7 e5f6...
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    Ukraine has started doing counter-attacks

    New progress north of Bakhmut It seems like the Ukrainians are performing a pincer operation which has recently started.
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    PC vs console in 2023

    Last gen consoles are awful Many game studious are not even bothering to release on PS4/xbone anymore due to how awful it would have performed. Thanks to GTA online we actually knows the price of supporting weak last-gen hardware and it's not pretty. Rockstar might end up dropping PS4/xbone...
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    Ukraine has started doing counter-attacks

    Progress in Bakhmut and the south! It's slow but it keeps going in the right direction
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    9x10 chess with centaurs

    1 minute per move tests 13900KF 9x10centaur f3f5 i8i6 i3i5 d8d6 c3c4 h8h7 d3d5 c8c6 e3e4 b10c8 h3h4 g8g6 f2h3 g9h8 a3a5 h10g8 b3b5 c6b5 c4b5 g6f5 e4f5 f8f7 g3g5 a8a7 h2g4 h9f8 b1c3 f9d8 b2d3 e8e6 f5f6 b9c7 d3b4 c10a8 h1g3 g10d7 c2d3 f8g6 d2b3 d9f8 a2c2 e9e8 c1b2 i9e9 e1d2 e10f9 d2c1 f9g9 h4h5...
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    Finance

    Was there ever a reason to believe Ryan Cohen would turn gamestop around? His main claim to fame was building a store for pet supplies, he was actually successful in that but it was a very different business model compared to gamestop. It's likely that Ryan Cohen was simply overconfident after...
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    Finance

    Gamestop is failing hard now A lot of retail investors believed that ryan cohen would turn the company around, some even believed he would turn it into a new amazon. Reality however turned out to be very different from that The issue with gamestop wasn't really the management in the first...
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    The authoritiarian manifesto

    pdf https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/1in3380p3uqx5bj6l2dyh/authoritarian-manifesto-4.pdf?rlkey=k9w21jdo2oz067w3slivf7bos&e=1&st=s2g78rpj&dl=0
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    The ideal society

    Keeping young males sexually satisfied It is especially important to satisfy young males of your society sexually since otherwise you can face a lot of societal destabilization. Males with bad genetics should still be kept sexually satisfied even if they are prevented from passing on their...
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    Issues with competitive gaming

    The elo treadmill Competitive games often have rating systems where higher rating means that you are more likely to meat a tough opponent, if you get a lower rating opponent you will gain less from a win and pay more for a loss. This can be very frustrating, you might play once more "just one...
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    Issues with competitive gaming

    Playing at the higher level can require expensive hardware Higher framerate in particular will be advantagous in shooters but it often takes a lot of effort maximizing that. You want at least 240hz and you also need good enough CPU, GPU, motherboard, ram to be able to reach those framerates...
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    Issues with competitive gaming

    Cheating and the efforts to combat it A big problem with competitive games is that there will be a lot of people desperate to get some unfair advantage, since they cannot buy it from the developers of the game they will try to use software to get an unfair advantage even with the risk of getting...
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    Issues with competitive gaming

    Toxic communities People who play games 6 to 16 hours a day tend to not exactly be socially well adjusted. This results in people often behaving very badly when interacting with other player. This is especially a problem in team-based strategy games where one bad player on your team can weigh...
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    Issues with competitive gaming

    Competitive games pushes people to spend loads of time playing them If you just occasionally play a game as a hobby you will have a very hard time keeping up with the best players even if you are extremely talented. Because there isn't any time-limit for how much someone can play there will be...
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    Issues with competitive gaming

    Competitive gaming is challenging in ways single-player games typically are not due to pitting players against each others instead of very easy boss fights or pushing a button to move a log forward. The popular competitive skill-based titles will typically not have pay to win mechanics, they...
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    Ukraine has started doing counter-attacks

    Continued progress around Bakhmut Russia is slowly losing the territory wagner wasted tends of thousands of men taking.
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    Science regarding transexualism

    Study: HRT changes orgasms Trans women very commonly report changes in orgasms usually for the better. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9177875/
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    Science regarding transexualism

    Study: hrt gives you female breasts When the actual breast tissue was analyzied there was no difference after starting HRT. https://journals.lww.com/ajsp/Fulltext/2000/01000/Short_Term_and_Long_Term_Histologic_Effects_of.9.aspx
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    ongoing starfield trainwreck

    bethesda/microsoft has a history of failure Bethesda games tend to be launched with a lot of bugs and bad performance due to shitty coding. Games develop by microsoft studies tend to launch poorly and never really get fixed if they get launched at all. Just take a look at halo infinite, the...
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