This creates a problem for the education system that instead wants uniform education

That desire is immediately dumb for reasons that any sociologist, psychologist and pedagogue can explain in much greater detail than I can, but it boils down to “people are different and even if you force them to be uniform, they’ll remain different”.

Sure, it’s great for standardization and economics, but awful for humans.

Super relatable. I have a total memory hole in my mind about what was “taught” of trigonometry back in my high school years. I know it was part of some of the math classes, but it was one of the many things I completely dismissed for being “useless” since it was 100% abstract.

Fast forward some 13 years and I see a video explaining how 3D graphics work. Lo and behold, it’s trigonometry from top to bottom! Plus, when computers were much weaker, the trick was to use lookup tables with the 360 values of sin and cosin instead of calculating in real time, which is what John Carmack did in Doom.

I won’t say I’d have remembered the classes better if the teachers had showed at least one fucking real life use (like measuring tall buildings based on their shadow or trying to guess a star’s distance), or if any of them knew how it could apply to programming polygons, but being aware of “real world use” helps me a lot in not completely dismissing certain things.

Not only schools, normies can also very clearly show something akin to disgust to being infodumped. I recall getting excited and doing one such about how the Islamic conquest in the 7th century reached the Iberian peninsula, how that led to the Reconquista and stopped around there when I realized the folks listening to me really wanted me to stfu. Their faces were an… “educated” mix of confusion and “please stop”.

Nah. Some cheeses hit much better when they’re hot/melted over the food. Same goes for meat, I don’t want it cold, it tastes better warm to hot.

Instructions unclear, went all in before folding, now I’m baked

imperialism, state policy, practice, or advocacy of extending power and dominion, especially by direct territorial acquisition or by gaining political and economic control of other areas. https://www.britannica.com/topic/imperialism

Gee, totally not what Russia is doing, my bad

/s

It’s one of those great ironies, because flight was a requested feature since the beginning and being locked into fixed flight paths left people wanting free flight even more. Back in 2006-7, I don’t think most people, or even Blizzard, could predict how much it’d hurt the social aspect of the game.

Starfield? I would argue it’s much worse than NMS, though I don’t know how the current game is. Back when I played, a couple of months before the first dlc dropped (before the buggy update, even), you were extremely limited in choices for base building. You had like 4 or 5 prefabs of a living quarter which came pre decorated.

Starfield offers good ship customization (and stupidly talent-locks a lot of it), unlike NMS, which only added a tiny bit of that in an update last year I think

Evil org tries to take over the world, 10yo kid beats them with the power of animal abuse FRIENDSHIP. Absolute cinema, my friend

Sometimes you are high on hopium and copium, you’re hoping that it gets better later on, or you just overlook some problems.

Sometimes you’re already too used to the game, so it doesn’t fully entertain, but it isn’t “feeling” like a waste of time yet. This happens a lot with “endless” games like most MMOs and “game as a service”

If you don’t mind, I can spoil the story for you:

The only thing they feel is the weight of aeons past on their backs

Luckily, it’s one of the cases which can be fixed with a little oven time

Skrymir

Oh great, those nords are now copying Skyrim and changing letters around to try and hide it!

This just in: Andrew’s name will be legally changed to Bernie, in order to better conform to his new beta status in prison

They’re not “fighting NATO”, they’re fighting for their own imperialistic bullshit.

As someone who hopped between dozens of private servers throughout the years… You’re right in being scared.

internet is just for filling the void at work where I can’t engage in any productive personal interests, because i’m on company time.

Well, hello me, fancy meeting me here

I don’t remember the exact quote, or if it was an old demotivational poster, but it was something like “if an airplane full of furry convention goers crashes, you can say goodbye to the internet”