Obligatory monthly "what's your hot take?" question
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I'm gonna start saying "on accident" by purpose from now on
You're just saying that because you know you're going to do it on accident anyway, and you're trying to get ahead of it
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We pivoted from social justice causes like child labour to systemic racism (but only in the first world, not where our actual daily racism is practiced) and transphobia etc because the former requires personal sacrifices while the latter mostly "requires" snarky takes on social media.
We pivoted from real activism to bumper stickers and yard signs and campaign donations to candidates who signalled the right wealthy class social virtues in the 90s and haven't looked back
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Mine's that people who insist on correcting others grammar on internet forums are little shits who peaked in grade six as a teacher's pet and get off on exerting their "superiority" on others.
Fuck you "less than" is just better than "fewer then." Think I'm wrong, tell me what these symbols are called "< >" that's what I thought loser.
I've got a spicy one.
Despite all the patches and updates, Cyberpunk 2077 is still a meh game. I hate the UI, the RPG combat system with damage numbers, the edgy aesthetic and slang words, the lack of vehicle customisation, and the overall lack of non-mission side activities to do in the world.
The ratio of style to substance is heavily weighted in favour of style.
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When asking an open-ended question on the Internet, OP should put their own response as a comment, not in the post body, so people can judge it separately from the question and it's not elevated above other responses.
That's it. That's my hot take.
Yeah that's probably good advice
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It's "fewer than" not "fewer then"
I'm shaking and crying rn
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This is peak
Or is it pique?
... Probably both. Peak pique.
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Mine's that people who insist on correcting others grammar on internet forums are little shits who peaked in grade six as a teacher's pet and get off on exerting their "superiority" on others.
Fuck you "less than" is just better than "fewer then." Think I'm wrong, tell me what these symbols are called "< >" that's what I thought loser.
Family and blood relation means absolutely nothing.
It's just that people decided that due to blood relation and marriages a certain set of people should not only know each other, but like each other and put up with each other's bullshit for far longer than for other groups like friends.
Meanwhile these relations are no different from being coworkers.
Similarly, lacking this blood relation doesn't matter aside from family anamnesis (and perhaps organ/bone marrow transplants), in case of adoptions.
I don't understand why people go through so much struggle for their kids to be "their own" while there's many waiting and hoping to get adopted. People don't think anything special about adopting a cat or dog, after all, there is no other way, and yet they'll fully love their pet. But suddenly when it's small humans, which is even the same specie, it matters a lot.I don't understand if people really feel something towards having really similar DNA, but I don't see any logic in it.
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Family and blood relation means absolutely nothing.
It's just that people decided that due to blood relation and marriages a certain set of people should not only know each other, but like each other and put up with each other's bullshit for far longer than for other groups like friends.
Meanwhile these relations are no different from being coworkers.
Similarly, lacking this blood relation doesn't matter aside from family anamnesis (and perhaps organ/bone marrow transplants), in case of adoptions.
I don't understand why people go through so much struggle for their kids to be "their own" while there's many waiting and hoping to get adopted. People don't think anything special about adopting a cat or dog, after all, there is no other way, and yet they'll fully love their pet. But suddenly when it's small humans, which is even the same specie, it matters a lot.I don't understand if people really feel something towards having really similar DNA, but I don't see any logic in it.
Eh, the people you have the strongest emotional bonds with are likely the people you've spent the most time with. Logically that would be family for most people. Kinda weird obsession with blood ties their mate, don't have to be related by blood to be family.
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Mine's that people who insist on correcting others grammar on internet forums are little shits who peaked in grade six as a teacher's pet and get off on exerting their "superiority" on others.
Fuck you "less than" is just better than "fewer then." Think I'm wrong, tell me what these symbols are called "< >" that's what I thought loser.
The Snyder Superman movies were good, actually.
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How does farming fit into this picture?
Land is still zoned. If it can only be used for farming due to the zoning, then its not as desirable to most people and therefore has a lower lease rate from the government.
If the government decides to change the use of that land, the rental price would increase and then the farmer would likely give it up and lease something else.
It's not really that different from the current property tax reductions that apply to farms.
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Mine's that people who insist on correcting others grammar on internet forums are little shits who peaked in grade six as a teacher's pet and get off on exerting their "superiority" on others.
Fuck you "less than" is just better than "fewer then." Think I'm wrong, tell me what these symbols are called "< >" that's what I thought loser.
The Star Wars prequels are still bad movies. The Clone Wars may be good, but it can't fix the problems with those movies.
Also, if those movies can be widely considered rehabilitated when the kids who watched them grow up, then so can the sequels.
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Eh, the people you have the strongest emotional bonds with are likely the people you've spent the most time with. Logically that would be family for most people. Kinda weird obsession with blood ties their mate, don't have to be related by blood to be family.
don’t have to be related by blood to be family.
But is family if blood related.
Strongest emotional bonds don't necessarily mean anything positive. Most time spent only applies to immediate family, like parents. Outside that you likely do spend more time with coworkers or classmates.
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Thor/PirateSoftware is right about some aspects of Stop Killing Games and the damages it could cause to the games industry.
For example?
Patching a live service game so that it can run "offline" isn't a small task, the cost of which will inevitably be pushed onto the players. I feel like SKG sorta trivializes the amount of work that is needed to make this happen when they reference homebrew server emulators for previously-shutdown MMOs, as those custom servers take a LOT of effort from the communities that maintain them.
Publishers of live service games will likely increase the costs of subscription fees/microtransactions in order to fund the necessary conversions once a game reaches end-of-life. This creates a new problem for developers/publishers which, to the best of my knowledge, SKG doesn't suggest a solution to. I don't see a scenario in which raising development costs (especially at a time when video games are already more expensive) is beneficial to the industry as a whole.
I don't think this is a reason to be against SKG as a whole, though. Especially not to the "eat my entire ass" level. But it is a nitpick that I have with it.
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Armchair activism. The least you could do -- literally.
It's "hashtag activism" these days, which is a term I really hate.
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The Star Wars prequels are still bad movies. The Clone Wars may be good, but it can't fix the problems with those movies.
Also, if those movies can be widely considered rehabilitated when the kids who watched them grow up, then so can the sequels.
The prequels have a solid narrative throughout, the sequels don't even have a consistent narrative in a single movie.
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I've got a spicy one.
Despite all the patches and updates, Cyberpunk 2077 is still a meh game. I hate the UI, the RPG combat system with damage numbers, the edgy aesthetic and slang words, the lack of vehicle customisation, and the overall lack of non-mission side activities to do in the world.
The ratio of style to substance is heavily weighted in favour of style.
I've been complaining about the cyberpunk genre for years and 2077 is basically a distillation of everything wrong with it at current. They use the aesthetic and gut the meat, to the point where they're often the very things cyberpunk is supposed to be critiquing. Soulless cash grabs its embarrassing we let it happen. 2077 wasn't even mechanically fun for me. My favorite genre and I feel like we've rarely made things better than just reading neuromancer. We should have plenty of really mind blowing rhings with this much time to improve on it but it's so few and far between
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The only grammar thing that annoys the hell out of me is "on accident". No idea why, it just really sticks out and bugs me when I come across it. I rarely mention it when I see it though, because I know that noone actually cares.
That bugs me as well. Another is 'off of'. There is no use case when 'off' isn't sufficient.
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I've got a spicy one.
Despite all the patches and updates, Cyberpunk 2077 is still a meh game. I hate the UI, the RPG combat system with damage numbers, the edgy aesthetic and slang words, the lack of vehicle customisation, and the overall lack of non-mission side activities to do in the world.
The ratio of style to substance is heavily weighted in favour of style.
wrote last edited by [email protected]I didn't dislike it, but it didn't live up to my hopes after all I'd heard about it.
I don't regret having bought and played the game, but I never bothered to go back and fully finish all the side missions.
I do think that the edginess is kinda part of the cyberpunk genre. I can't beat up on them for that.
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It has high production values, a lot of modeling and texturing and such --- I'm amazed how much money they have to have sunk into assets only to use them briefly --- but the actual core gameplay didn't grab me the way, oh, Halo did when it first came out and I played it. Night City is painstakingly created in tremendous detail, but end of the day, the point is to create the backdrop for gameplay, and I feel like they spent a disproportionate making of resources on that.
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The combat is pretty, but for all of the work that went into various systems, I didn't play it much differently from the way I would another shooter.
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I also had been expecting something more like a Bethesda RPG, and got something more Grand Theft Auto-ish with a beefed up skill tree.
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I wasn't that impressed with the braindance stuff from a pure gameplay standpoint --- it's kinda "hunt for the hidden object" stuff --- but I do think that it was original and it served as a useful justification to show "flashbacks" to earlier events.
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Obtaining and managing clothing is a significant chunk of game and content, but I almost never actually see the main character, so the clothing doesn't have much impact. Maybe if there were a third person camera mode or frequent reflections or frequent looking through a camera or something.
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Having played some games like Saboteur and Grand Theft Auto, I kind of expected the differences between autos to matter more, given how much work went into creating them and all, but from a mission standpoint, they're surprisingly interchangeable. A couple missions are easier with some, but a lot of the vehicles don't really have that much gameplay point.
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Johnny Silverhand is a major part of the game, but wasn't really a character that I found very plausible or super interesting. I dunno, maybe if I had been into the punk music scene, it'd be different. I felt like they really were trying to shoehorn a punk band leader into the role. That being said, I did think that most characters were pretty solid.
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That is indeed a hot take.
Why would people ever develop/improve (aside from maintenance/keeping living standards) on their land, build more, change zoning, generation house on the same lot, etc, when that would only result in their government rent (aka tax) going up?
Wouldn't rich people be able to rent a lot of land for higher prices than normal people, driving the prices up until they control most of the government rentals, then rent it out to the rest of us for insane prices (kinda like now, except their whole revenue has to come from tenants, without the security of being able to sell the land and recoup the losses that way)...?
You say the government makes no money from the transaction of the specific buildings on the lot so they have no reason to overvalue it, except that you said the lots value would depend ont he buildings on it, so the government would receive higher rent fron higher valued buildings in lita so they have incentives to value it higher to collect higher rent...
You misunderstand how the tax works. It's only on the land. The buildings on it have no impact on the monthly tax amount. That's why it's beneficial to densify the land, because then that amount is split between all of the people who live there (or among multiple businesses using it)
The whole rich capturing it all can't really happen.
They can't actually profit from it sitting there, it all has to be used efficiently or it loses money. People wanting a house don't have a problem paying for it every month.If they try to monopolize all the rents (which would be prohibitively expensive) then the government can simply step in and force a sale because its their land and prevent certain groups from bidding on it. Instant monopoly break, or rather the government is the one with the monopoly.
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Mother Nature is really, really angry at us and payback is only barely beginning to start.
I am not religious or superstitious or whatever, it's just a way of expressing that very soon we're gonna have it very bad. The heatwaves, the storms, the utilities unable to cope, the displaced populations, the overwhelmed over-egotistic political systems - we're in for a ride, and that ride starts yesterday.
This is not even a hot take. It's just facts.
