u/GeckoGary

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  1. 12points

    Best small board game or card games that can play at least 5? (self.boardgames)

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  2. 3points

    Are there any fights in the series where adding Miwa (before the no katana vow) to one of the teams would actually change the outcome? (i.redd.it) [Question/Discussion]

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GeckoGary

I think no one is linking a source because there isn't one. I found a pretty good article going through the different studies on the topic and, while they all had varying results, they all came to the conclusion plant based meat alternatives are significantly better. knowablemagazine.org/content/article/food-environment/2022/how-sustainable-are-fake-meats

I also found this article which may be the cause of confusion, which compares cultivated meat unfavourably to cattle farming. This is however talking specifically about cultivated animal cells which is a different technology to the process used in the majority of supermarket meat alternatives. It also only depends very heavily on the CO2 emissions of energy production in the future. https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/sustainable-food-systems/articles/10.3389/fsufs.2019.00005/full

GeckoGary

They do pretty frequently in my experience. For example: Vegan restaurants usually serve ethical soft drink alternatives despite brand versions already being vegan. Vegan clothing brands tend to be registered B corps or at least well document their production processes. The average vegan is someone who wants to live more sustainably and ethically, and going vegan is a natural part of that. Its rarely the other way around.

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Why is everyone so obsessed with making tofu crispy? The best way to use tofu is to microwave or steam it to draw out the moisture and then cook it in a flavorful broth so it can absorb that flavor.

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I think 1000 dollar is such a small amount you'd always go with the billion cents. Like it'll be hard to turn a billion cents into 10 million usable dollars, but it'll be very easy to get more than 1000 dollars of use out of them.

GeckoGary

3 hour movie, with half an hour of trailers and a large diet coke is definitely going to have the average person needing a cheeky piss break

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I think there's a good argument that Mahito's soul manipulation wouldn't affect Toji at all. When he is channelled its without his soul yet his body is easily able to overpower grandsons soul. There's a good chance that Mahito could shuffled Tojis soul into any shape he wanted but it wouldn't have any affect on Toji's physical form.

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Nikki isn't a villain but Wish Nikki pretty clearly is. I don't think there is really any interpretation of "love me more than anyone else in the fucking world" that translates to smashing someone's head into a brick 37 times.

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I'd heard of it before because I'm quite into that style of alternative Australian comedy and I ended up finally watching it because of these posts. Its not the best movie ever but it did have me laughing a lot and I found it reasonably charming, A solid 7/10 adult comedy that makes some good natured jokes about gender roles and queer culture. Its nothing ground breaking but I'm very surprised it is getting so much hate.

GeckoGary

I think its one of the pusher movies

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100% the TV was already broken and this is a staged video

GeckoGary

The next quickest and easiest is the tesldora church, which also has the advantage of being right next to all the upgrade materials needed for a +10 weapon.

GeckoGary

I don't think the doctor scales particularly high but why is everyone ignoring the "comes back to life when shot" power. Feel like that's pretty relevant to this discussion.

GeckoGary

Its not a perfect analogy but a good way to think about AI is as a really good autocomplete algorithm. It looks at what text already exists and it uses maths to make connections to other text that already exists and it somewhat randomly fills writes some more text based on what words would be used in a similar context. Obviously in reality its a bit more complex but fundamentally that is all it does. This is why AI can "hallucinate". If you ask it a question and it doesn't have enough similar examples to draw from it starts to draw from things that are close enough but a bit too different and this results in it producing an incorrect or irrelevant result. This doesn't seem like it makes sense but remember it is just maths. It doesn't understand what any words mean only how they link to other words.

In this example (which we can assume is a real world AI rather than a Halo style AI) the model doesn't understand anything. All it understands is that when somebody says "I want to give up" the most common response is "don't give up you can do it". That is why you cannot attribute good or bad to it.

GeckoGary

I don't want to be healthy, I want to be cruelty free

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He doesn't like CGI and he wears a suit to work

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you're too young to use the internet

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I think this a lot of these instances they weren't planned as trilogies from the start. They just made movies in a series and then when the third movie was bad they stopped making more. Hence leaving you with a lot of "trilogies" with underwhelming third movies.

GeckoGary

yeah its dumb to actually take it as a "fact". Dragons are made up and you can do what you want with them. I just think its neat that its a dumb nerd fact that dates back hundreds of years.

GeckoGary

TBF its not a distinction DnD invented. It originates from European heraldry where everyone thought dragons were cool and different words ended up refering to different styles of dragon. I do think its silly to apply it rigidly to every fantasy world but it is pretty cool that its got real historical basis.

GeckoGary

Loveletter never lets me down. Easy to teach to anyone, very accessible theme, just enough strategy for experienced players to have a lot to think about but also enough randomness that basically anyone can end up winning.

GeckoGary

This would make more sense if the dlc didn't have you fight and kill a tank

GeckoGary

tbf he could have wanted to extend the chase to get further from Naoya before executing Yuji.

GeckoGary

The 10s technique is about taming beasts with the stronger beasts being harder to tame. Mahoraga represents humanity and our ability to quickly adapt to anything. You can't tame mahoraga because you can't tame another human. Sukuna is able to tame mahoraga because he is a monster seperated from humanity.