Same here! I spent a lot of time in Midgar, so it felt like the whole game could take place there. But stepping onto the world map was an amazing experience partially because of how amazing Midgar was to me.

I played it as a kid in the 90s though, so that might’ve coloured my interpretation of it.

Wow, Midgar was my favourite part of the original FF7! I remember thinking the whole game was going to take place in Midgar.

Why not a controller?

It’s actually normal for a married man to lose his “separate” friends and end up becoming more family-oriented and friends with his wife’s friends. Or, if he doesn’t end up being in that group, he may end up turning towards work for some of that same camaraderie.

Your situation sucks. It’s not uncommon though. I hope that takes the pressure off of you.

30 is a bit of an arbitrary number. Maybe you could make 31 or 32 the big year, and focus on trying to find new friends (or rekindle old friendships) until then. It’s harder than it was when you were younger. But if you had friends before, you can probably do it again!

Don’t feel embarrassed about your situation. Don’t feel embarrassed about inviting your wife’s friends (as long as you actually like them, of course).

Your birthday is ultimately about you. Not putting on a show or proving anything to anyone else.

Happy birthday, and wishing you many more ahead with many loved ones. Family and friends.

Maybe 6. One prescription, and two dollar store pairs. I wear sunglasses pretty much any time I go outside unless there’s no sun. Year-round.

Yeah, I liked it there. I would never deny that the sun was left-leaning, because it inevitably attracted a left-leaning crowd. But it never silenced right wing opinions from what I recall. Downvotes, sure, but not deleting posts or unbalanced moderation.

They were never even telling right-wing people things like “You already have at least 2 other subs to discuss your views. Let us discuss ours here”, like places like r/Conservative say.

I think you’re missing the key part of the problem. It isn’t the AI that’s the issue.

The problem is that he was being paid for how many listeners his AI songs got. But he used bots to “listen” to the songs. Nobody actually listened to his AI music.

The flaw in the system was that they couldn’t detect his bots. (And the bots are not AI)

Technically it didn’t have a WiiU port, only a Switch port. It’s only a port if it came from another console! /semantics lol

I believe the performance is generally better docked. If I’m laying down though, I’ll want something smaller and more mindless like my phone, lol

I feel like the WiiU being a handheld is a bit of a stretch! Haha

But seriously though, I keep forgetting that the Switch is a handheld. I like playing docked, and it’s too big for me to carry around, generally. But I know I’m in the minority there.

r/Canada was taken over by right-wing mods, including some fsr right extremists and at least one open white supremacist.

The sub isn’t made far right though. The moderation is more subtle, with clear bias in moderation regardless of source.

Articles critical of right-wing parties, policies, and politicians (even fact-based pieces) will often be silently removed, often for being “repeats” since there are multiple articles from different sources about the same topic. So only one post will stay up. Yet “repeats” of articles critical of left-wing stuff are allowed, as are “repeats” of non-political topics.

Comments are not as heavily moderated, but left-wing biased comments are more targetted.

Outright racism is generally removed. But plenty of comments talking about “certain types of people” or “people from certain countries” are allowed… unless those comments are talking about white people or Canadians, in which case even those “subtle” comments are removed for “outright racism”. The up/downvotes also tend to follow this trend.

The sub got to this point probably around the pandemic, when Canada’s explicitly far-right extremist sub, r/MetaCanada got shutdown. The userbase migrated to r/Canada, and some of the mods from r/MetaCanada were welcomed into the r/Canada mod team (including the aforementioned open white supremacist). The right-wing extremist mods also started pushing out the more moderate, centre, and left-wing mods.

It’s the kind of shitshow that an outsider would never notice. Makes me sad that they have the “official” name, just r/CountryName…

I didn’t say that it is.

But to your second point, as others have mentioned, body image issues are likely the biggest reason for the change discussed in the OP.

Weightlifting at certain young ages can be harmful. I’m not sure if that’s part of the motivation as I’m not certain what the ages are, but that’s something else to consider.

EDIT: Typo

The point of assignments is to help study for your test.

To me, “assignment” is more of a project. Not rote practice. Applying knowledge to a bit of a longer term, multi-part project.

I put each one in a ziplock style bag (unless they’re short, then I’ll put a few of the same in a single bag). Helps to prevent the tangly part!

You’re right. The commenter who made the comparison to Wikipedia made a better point.

I remember teachers telling us not to trust the calculators. What if we hit the wrong key? Lol

Some things never change.

Traditional instruction gave the same result as a bleeding edge ChatGPT tutorial bot.

Interesting way of looking at it. I disagree with your conclusion about the study, though.

It seems like the AI tool would be helpful for things like assignments rather than tests. I think it’s intellectually dishonest to ignore the gains in some environments because it doesn’t have gains in others.

You’re also comparing a young technology to methods that have been adapted over hundreds of thousands of years. Was the first automobile entirely superior to every horse?

I get that some people just hate AI because it’s AI. For the people interested in nuance, I think this study is interesting. I think other studies will seek to build on it.

They don’t assume we have unlimited money, they assume they’ll make enough sales to justify making it (and paying all the people who made it).

Yeah, some companies are making ridiculous profits and underpaying staff. This isn’t some pro-capitalism comment.

Taking things off of streaming platforms or not making old stuff otherwise available usually boils down to bureaucracy and legal stuff. Certain people need to be paid, or have the right to veto their content being sold, or stuff like that sometimes. And sometimes the companies have a legal obligation to either protect their IP or ensure things stay “offline”.

I don’t like it, but I know it’s not always simple.

Lol, that seems like weird criteria to me. Politics affect adults that are alive right now too.

I believe technically-inclined people could monitor the traffic that exits the phone, or at least passes through the router.

Audio recordings would be larger than the kinds of stuff that’s just sent passively.