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Synthminded @synthminded.bsky.social · 14h
www.twitch.tv/lanzalentzia we're back with more #AlanWake II on #Twitch!
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HALLOWEEN FRIGHT FEST: Alan Wake II Part 2
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 17h
NEW: Pentagon officials are forcing staff to watch Pete Hegseth's "Warrior" speech he forced generals to listen to.

Officials are even "testing" staff to see if they watched — and are threatening consequences if they lie about watching it or if they mock it, sources tell @swin24.bsky.social and I.
The Pentagon Is Ordering Staff to Watch Hegseth’s ‘MAGA Garbage’ Speech… Or Else
Defense Department sources tell Zeteo that staff have been warned that if they don’t watch or read the speech, or if they speak negatively of it, they could face severe consequences.
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All In with Chris Hayes @allinwithchris.bsky.social · 17h
WATCH: A new Politico report reveals young GOP leaders across several states trading racist, antisemitic, and hateful messages in leaked private chats. “People who are running the Republican Party at the ground level are immersed in this cesspit of bigotry,” says Chris Hayes.
‘I love Hitler’: Leaked texts EXPOSE Young Republicans’ racist chat, Politico reports
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Synthminded @synthminded.bsky.social · 17h
Right wing nationalism is an effort to divide and conquer globally connected humanity back into fiefdoms they can more readily control and shape to undo decades and centuries of hard fought social progress and human connection so we can be exploited en masse by self-appointed Lords and Masters.
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Synthminded @synthminded.bsky.social · 17h
There is an international right wing movement and they are coordinating their evil, hateful bullshit to demonize the most vulnerable and harmless among us in every country because we represent everything they hate.
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Unseen Japan @unseenjapan.com · 17h
ICYMI: Another member of the far-right Sanseitō party in Japan has stirred controversy with her comments. Wada Keiko claimed that identifying as transgender could “spread contagiously,” likening it to a disease.
Sanseitō Rep Likens Being Transgender to a "Contagious" Disease - Unseen Japan
Wada Keiko further stated she believed transgender people needed medical treatment instead of accommodation and understanding.
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sq🎃🎃ky from:me @skeet.best · 19h
(chanting, clapping, stomping feet) BRING! BACK! SHAME!
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 19h
"A key aspect of the way we lived with each other before these self-styled epochal developments [post-2020] involved exactly the “social shame and cultural pressure” that Klein and other influential voices now come to condemn"

tapping the 'bring back shame' sign
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20h
Q: Politico reported on a group chat of young Republicans. Does this just reflect some bad apples?

HOCHUL: Some bad apples? These are the future of the GOP. This is so vile it's hard to find the words to put into context ... there's gotta be consequences ... this bullshit has to stop.
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Synthminded @synthminded.bsky.social · 19h
…first run to better reflect the changing narrative and subsequent recontextualization and revelations for the audience.

Short version: while the NG+ runs could be improved, you definitely want to play them for the full story, which ending one is purposefully designed to funnel you into.
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Synthminded @synthminded.bsky.social · 19h
…Silent Hill game should be structured Re: subsequent runs, where the course through the game remains largely the same but with smaller tweaks where it would have benefited from a more NieR Automata-esque structure that builds its main endings and subsequent runs as further deviations from the…
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Synthminded @synthminded.bsky.social · 19h
And thematically the additional journal entries better flesh out the characters and the themes that Ryukishi and the team are exploring.

Repetition that Recontextualizes what you knew is a running theme with his works. I’d argue though Silent Hill f does struggle against the conception of how a…
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Synthminded @synthminded.bsky.social · 19h
Overall the runs get faster and your stat buffs+charms carried over make fighting more viable, and story-wise there is room to interpret that time and space are… *flexible* in this place.

Also the UFO ending gives you a neat laser sword that gets bigger each time you complete and ending.
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Synthminded @synthminded.bsky.social · 19h
- ex. Previous: Watch the doors to Sakuko’s family shrine when you visit there again
- any new cutscenes are marked in the Skip UI as, well, “New Cutscene” so you don’t miss them
- the brooch allows access to rooms that were completely locked off on the first run; these are big revelations
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Synthminded @synthminded.bsky.social · 19h
- a certain set of hard to watch sequences are skipped and their changes are “gifted” to you a chapter early
- soul siphon now affects multiple enemies at once and sanity restoratives fill the seal
- there are certain environmental changes that now foreshadow upcoming events
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Synthminded @synthminded.bsky.social · 19h
- old documents stay in your journal, new ones are added revealing major parts of the story
- last part of the story shifts based on which ending you’re on track for, with a new final boss for that route
- additional Ema to keep upgrading hinako
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Synthminded @synthminded.bsky.social · 19h
@tolkoto.com from today’s show: if you’re still wondering about subsequent runs on Silent Hill f, presently on my third (more like 2.5) run:
- certain cutscenes are changed to reflect what you learned in Run 1
- others have additional shots or scenes adding context
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Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 1d
I didn't watch CBS News before Bari Weiss got there. I doubt you did either. But the mainstream media moving right really does matter, because of the mainstream media's collective powers of 1. agenda-setting and 2. framing. newrepublic.com/article/2016...
The Mainstream Media Is Moving Right. Here’s What We Can Do About It.
At The Washington Post, CBS, and maybe CNN, the trend line is terrible. But liberals do have the power to reverse these trends.
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i sob hell @isobel.top · 27d
maslow's hierarchy of needs but with hollow knight silksong fleas and it says "when you find one of these little guys and he goes "awooo"
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Zach Rabiroff @zachrabiroff.com · 19h
Great news! We have built the Blackmail Machine from the classic sci-fi short story, "Help, The Blackmail Machine Is Selling My Sex Dreams to Stephen Miller"
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The Verge @theverge.com · 1d
Sam Altman says ChatGPT will soon sext with verified adults
Sam Altman says ChatGPT will soon sext with verified adults
ChatGPT is about to get flirty.
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 19h
I do wonder sometimes whether it's just that much easier to not think about this stuff, and to construct arguments that match market consensus rather than dealing with the icky stuff like "details" and "why things are happening"
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 19h
Articles like this drive me insane. The amount of tokens being used is going up because they explicitly made it so that models use more tokens. This is the tech section of a globally-renown newspaper and it's an argument that's unmoored from reality or meaning.
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“Over the last few months, we’ve begun to see glimpses of our AI systems improving themselves,” Meta Platforms Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg said in July on the social-media giant’s second-quarter earnings call. All of that should make AI models more efficient, which could have a beneficial effect on the economics of AI. Second, data centers under construction around the world will soon begin operations, increasing the supply of computing power and energy and driving down the cost of training and using AI. Tech company Microsoft last month said it is in the final stages of construction on a $3.3 billion data center in Wisconsin and announced plans for a second, $4 billion facility in the area. And third, increasing demand for tokens could finally become an economic benefit as models improve and the supply of computing infrastructure expands. Newsletter Sign-up WSJ | CIO Journal The Morning Download delivers daily insights and news on business technology from the CIO Journal team. Preview Subscribed Another massive increase in demand for AI is likely in the coming months or quarters, just as those other forces take hold, according to Terry. That’s because the most promising corporate AI trials are likely to move into broader deployment.
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Synthminded @synthminded.bsky.social · 21h
I recently went back to watching my old Apple TV marketplace copies of Kolchak over the peacock versions because I swear there’s weird frame ramping that I don’t remember in them. Like something about the way they transcoded them also interpolated frames in some scenes (like the diner scene in S1E1)
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Chloe du Plessis @chloe-duplessis.bsky.social · 21h
have they considered that trans people are the only legitimate proletariat and the means of (re)production must be seized
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srinjig.bsky.social @srinjig.bsky.social · 21h
If trans people owned the means of production we all wouldn't be going through 10% of what we're currently going through.
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Katelyn Gadd @kg.luminance.org · 21h
if trans identity is so bougie why does every trans person i know have to post their paypal/kofi/zelle multiple times a week 🤔🥴
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Peter @wikipetera.bsky.social · 21h
Like 9/10 trans ppl I know are poor as hell
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