You forgot about ties. They’re rare, but they happen, and in this scenario they work like the 0 in Roulette - they fuck over your nice and comfy 50/50 chance.

And as others already mentioned: I’m pretty sure that whole scheme wohl just be plain fraud.

I never got the appeal of achievements in the first place. I see them more as friendly reminders than something actually worthwhile pursuing. Chasing them is only making things stressful and tedious, oftentimes annoying and grindy. That’s kinda the exact opposite of any of the reasons I play video games for in the first place. If you want to use guides to get that 100% completion badge, do it. But if you ask me, your question means that you’re letting other people tell you how to play your games on 2 different levels: first by the devs in telling you what “completing the game” has to mean for you and now, secondly, by strangers on the internet in their opinion about which ways to get there are appropriate. Play it the way you want! If you want to hunt achievements because it’s fun to you, do it! And if you feel like referring to guides to get there, then do that, too!

I got my wife a Swarovski ring back then because that’s what she wanted. Looks just as nice as any diamond ring, unless you really inspect it closely. And they come in all kinds of colors.

Funnily enough: revealing plagiarism. Or even just judging the originality of a given text. Train it to assign an “originality value” between 0 (I’ve seen this exact wording before) and 1 (this whole text is new to me) to help universities, scientific journals or even just high schools judge the amount of novelty a proposed publication really provides.

I love it when sequels DON’T include that the couple that fell in love towards the end of the first movie has now broken up again, just for the sake of some kind of forced tension between two character that’ll just end up together all over again anyway.

On a side note, that’s also one of the things I loved about Brooklyn 99: once Jake and Amy got together, it stayed that way. There wasn’t this boring “they’re together again, oops, now they’re not” so many other otherwise good sitcoms used to death for their main cast (looking at you, Scrubs)

Ooooh, you’re a mod. Makes sense you’d prefer a browser in that case.

Have you tried Boost yet?

Boost, hands down! It was my favourite for Reddit and is still just as amazing in it’s Lemmy version.

I’m getting married next week. Met her on Tinder. Sometimes they absolutely do work

Do you know the context behind there’s no fucking context to genocide, it’s just a fucking holocaust?

A lot of stuff. But that your point basically boils down to “not all of China is about genocide!” is more than enough to know that it’s not worth my time arguing with you.

Yeah: mass transit (transit) into camps (housing) for “re-education” (education), with the chance to get forcefully married to a real Chinese man (social mobility), or end up having your organs harvested (healthcare)

It’s always a blast to show it to people who have no idea what it’s about. All of my friends loved it lol

The whole “the world will end in 2012” hysteria back then. It was my first glimpse into conspiracy theories, which I’ve spent a lot of time learning about ever since. It made me realize that nothing is ever too idiotic to not have an alarming number of people fall for it. It’s why I wasn’t surprised by the rise of the Q-movement or the resistance against the absolute bare minimum of COVID measures because of microchips in vaccines etc. All of that were just yet additional “of course people believe that shit”-moments for me.

Like Tommy Lee Jones said in Men in Black “A person is smart - people are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals.”

I haven’t been surprised by how stupid people can be in a long time.

I appear incredibly smart when I get to flash my surface level knowledge about a, quite frankly, impressively broad spectrum of topics. But I always feel dumb as hell when people who really know their stuff about some stuff talk about the stuff they know so much about.

there’s too much evidence to the contrary

You just have a way bigger sample size about your own idiocisities than you have for the people around you

In my opinion not enough people know Hard Candy from 2005

Depends. How many kids do you have?

Which isn’t to say that Sony hasn’t been actively trying to ruin their reputation all by themselves over the last 1-2 years. This whole console generation has mostly been about both companies getting just a little too comfortable and screwing over their customers in the process.

Ah yes, another very “for the players”-move indeed