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toarmspunies [none/use name] @ toarmspunies @hexbear.net
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  • Fun NBA story. Hansen Yang, a Chinese Basketball Association player, was drafted about 40-50 spots above his draft projection by the Portland Trailblazers and everyone was doing some major headscratching about how much ofba stretch the pick was.

    Fast forward to today and he's tearing it up in his 2nd summer league game after an incredible opener a day ago with court vision way, way beyond his age.

    He has a few things to figure out (primarily defensive intensity and also needs to put more muscle on like most players as they transition to the pros), but he's been incredibly fun to watch and I can't wait to see him develop more. Incredibly exciting player and a joy to watch in his early, early NBA career.

  • You hit the nail on the head. It's a fundamentally flawed game as a result of its original pay-to-win design that was merely band-aided over by converting it to a progression system.

    The only way to assess it from a balance perspective is in a lobby where everyone has everything unlocked, and that's infeasible because of player retention being so bad.

    I'm hoping Kyber (private servers) take the structural bones of the game (technical performance and aesthetic) and allow modding to fundamentally mechanically change the game to the same extent that modding has for skyrim because I don't believe a better base for community improvement will ever exist.

  • Copyleft licenses help without mitigating the full extent through other means.

    Telling angry libertarian tech bros that you believe freedom for the Commons is more important than freedom for the individual is always fun though as they scream at you about your licenses for whatever application you've made that they want to parasitically extend without sharing code and selling to others as a service.

    One of my favorite things.

  • There will be a cascading effect of rural healthcare providers folding due to lack of medicaid funding causing overstrain on suburban and urban health systems. This will further increase care costs and wait time while simultaneously decreasing the quality of care throughout the entire system which was already cratering prior to this proverbial gunshot wound.

    Many more extremely vulnerable people will die as a result.

    ICE funding was massively increased (I think on the scale of 17-20x yearly) which will further enable the Trump admin's war on specifically Democratic-led cities. It seems pro farm-indentured servitude capital has convinced Trump of the necessary of undocumented migrant works to keep the profits high against Stephen Miller's (probably the largest and most powerful Nazi ideologue I'm the administration) wishes. The hospitality service will probably end up striking a similar deal giving them absolute economic power via threat of selective deportation over their undocumented workers.

    I'm sure there are many other facets of BBB that are additionally horrendous but at this point spending my time on "here are the specifics of domestic American horror" just feels like a waste. It's going to be terrible and I hope my American comrades are able to find at least some sense of unrelated personal peace in the novel depravity that awaits us.

  • These are mostly assumptions based on games previously releasing on Wii U/3DS and games that I feel are probably less intensive

    • Captain Toad (Switch edition + DLC)
    • New Super Mario Bros Deluxe
    • Monster Hunter Generations Ultimate
    • Metroid Dread (based on its PC emulation performance being incredible)
    • Diablo 3

    Let me know how it goes based on these and I can try to recommend more later if its feasible

  • It certainly is, but libs getting tear-gassed/shot with rubber bullets is about the best case scenario for them actually waking up to what they're dealing with so I'm glad to see it happening. They need to be directly confronted with aggressive policing at a protest to start to "get it."

    It took one of my lib friends getting flash banged at a protest to actually start seriously engaging with leftist theory and I imagine that's what it'll take for convertible masses too.