Looking at this list of 3rd party games, I wonder if the reason for this is that most of these games have been available on other platforms already for quite some time. If you were interested in e.g. Hades 2, unless you just didn’t have a PC available, you probably weren’t waiting for an at-the-time unannounced Switch 2 to play it on. Heck, Cyberpunk is 5 years old at this point. Street Fighter 6 is 2 years old and was on a lot of other platforms.

I expect we might see different results when we see more 3rd party games getting simultaneous launch on Switch 2 and other platforms.

Pretty sure they were going for the former, but I also wouldn’t put it past anyone who would actually wear this shirt in public to do the latter.

Doesn’t actually matter.

A normally weighted die has a weight of 16.67% for each face. No matter what result the first die rolls, the second one has a 16.67% chance of rolling the number needed to total 7. Therefore, the average chance of a (total of) 7 is (16.67 + 16.67 + 16.67 + 16.67 + 16.67 + 16.67) / 6, or, 16.67%, or, 1 in 6.

Consider your example: Die #1 has the following weights:

• 1: 0%
• 2: 20%
• 3: 20%
• 4: 20%
• 5: 20%
• 6: 20%

In your example, if die 2 rolls a 6, there’s a 0% chance of a (total of) 7, instead of the normal 16.67%, but if die 2 rolls a 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5, it has a 20% chance of totaling 7, instead of the normal 16.67%.

The average chance, therefore, is (0 + 20 + 20 + 20 + 20 + 20) / 6, or, 16.67%, or, 1 in 6.

Without having stats to back it up, it seems perfectly logical to me. Cishet men are the people conservative views benefit the most, and they’re the people folks like Andrew Tate specifically target. If I had to make a blind guess, I’d have said it’s cishet men, too.

There’s a number of apps that actually help with this; I used to use SleepCycle, not sure if that one’s still good. Basically, you set up the app and tell it how long you want to sleep, then set the phone on the side of the bed. It uses the accelerometer to detect when you fall asleep, and how deeply you’re sleeping (there’s some that use fitness bands or other monitoring tools, if you use them), and will wake you up close to your desired wake time, when you’re in light sleep / between REM cycles. For instance, if you set the alarm for 2 hours, it might wake you up after 1 hr 45 minutes, if that’s when you’re sleeping lightly, rather than wait the full 2 hours and wake you up in the middle of a deep sleep.

The end result is that you don’t get those times when your alarm goes off and you feel awful, as that’s typically caused by an interrupted REM cycle.

YMMV, but they work fantastically for me.

The odds that the first die landed on the correct number are 1 in 6, though, so if you’re considering the throw of both dice as a whole, the chance is still 1 in 6 regardless of which die you throw first. (If you’re rolling the unweighted die first and then evaluating the chance of getting a 7 based on that outcome, then you’re correct.)

No, it wouldn’t, as long as only one of the dice is weighted.

If it has a 95% chance to roll a 6, and a 5% chance to roll any other number, or a 100% chance to roll a 6, or a 0% chance to roll a 6, the chance is still 1 in 6 to roll a 7 with two dice (where either zero or one is weighted).

Nice of him to give them the heads up, so they can all go find new jobs now. Sure would be poetic if they all just moved elsewhere and left Amazon understaffed.

Their entire post history is, for the most part, this sort of thing. It’s like a weird roleplay account that’s just not working out, I don’t know. That or this is just their entire personality.

That one really baffles me. Prey 2017 would have been right up my alley, but I completely ignored it because I didn’t like Prey 2006. By the time I discovered that it was a game I’d have been interested in, I picked it up on sale for $10 or so. I wonder how many other people had similar experiences.

I love the callout that the story was delivered via text logs, as if voice acting was typically present in anything except FMV-based games in that time period. “Bog standard FPS” is a really funky term for an era when there were only really a few well-known FPS games out there at all.

You’ve got to remember that Marathon 1 was released in 1994, the same year Doom II was released. What else was there at that point? You really had Doom, Marathon, Pathways Into Darkness (also a Bungie title and only sort of an FPS at all), Wolfenstein 3D, System Shock, Hexen / Heretic, and some really niche ones that most people had never even heard of at the time, never mind now.

Could it be that people just don’t want yet another fairly generic live service PvP extraction shooter? No, can’t be.

Ideally while having someone who isn’t you record the interaction, so when they drop you to the pavement and your phone ‘regrettably’ gets smashed to pieces, there’s still some external record of what went down.

Is that a ring of holes near the bottom of it? That seems unsanitary as fuck.

The real problem I have with this entire discussion is that (as you’ve been called out for here already), you’re basing it on a straw man. You’re taking statements like “Violence is sometimes the answer” and twisting that to mean “Violence is [often / always] the answer” or “Violence is the solution to the problem in this article”, and trying to paint your view as the moral high ground based on that misrepresentation. In fact, that’s the whole reason we’re even having this discussion, now - you did that to [i]my[/i] first comment in this chain. You’re trying to position other people as unreasonable and violent by misrepresenting their viewpoints.

That’s well and fine, but if your honest opinion is that violence isn’t justified in even the above scenarios, I think you’re living in a fantasy world of idealism. If violence is being done, and you have the power to stop it (even through violence) but choose not to, you’re complicit in that violence.

I’ll also point out that this wasn’t a case where you were minding your own business and people started calling you out; you were the first one to reply in this comment chain. You opened the debate, and you seem very willing to criticize other peoples’ views, but when yours start to be examined critically, you seem to shy away.

Let’s say, hypothetically, there’s a mass shooting in progress. Literally a gunman shooting people in the street. How are you going to solve that situation with non-violence?

Another hypothetical. There’s someone with the detonator to a bomb that’s planted in a full stadium. You have a gun. If you don’t shoot them, they will detonate the bomb. Are you still advocating for pacifism?

You can’t make a statement like ‘Violence is never the answer’ if you’re not willing to apply it to these situations, too, so is your position that it’s better to let tens, hundreds or thousands of people die if the only way to prevent it is with violence?

The alternative, of course, is to acknowledge that sometimes, though regrettable, violence is the answer, and once we’ve established that, we can start examining where the line is where it becomes justified.

Don’t listen to them, you can be as enthusiastic about chocobos as you like! ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Man, I’d forgotten how utterly baller that theme is.

Marathon 2 (1995) let you go underwater.