Quetzalcutlass

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

They canceled the GTA V story DLC after seeing the success of GTA Online, and their long-time head writer and producer resigned. I have little faith that GTA6 will capture the same spark that their earlier games had.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

It's fixed in the development versions. If you installed yt-dlp using pip, update with the prerelease flag: pip install --upgrade --pre yt-dlp. If you manually installed it, run yt-dlp --update-to nightly or grab the latest dev from their nightly repo.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

In ~~pog~~ dog form!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

Metro also comes to mind. The highest difficulty level made both you and the enemies squishier, while also making ammo (which doubled as currency) much rarer. It played so much better that the community even recommended that difficulty level to complete newcomers.

... And then they made the Ranger difficulty a paid DLC in the sequel...

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Genie was locked up at 20 months old. I don't think they locked her up because of her mental illness. They locked her up because of their mental illness. I reference Genie because she's the most documented "wild child," which is a completely disgusting term.

I was going off old college memories - after looking it up, it sounds like her father thought she was mentally disabled and began/increased his neglect because of it, despite her only outward health issue being delayed walking due to a hip problem.

Also re: "wild child". I agree, and thanks for pointing it out. That's what they were called in my books, but catchy rhyme aside it's a horrible way to refer to a victim of such abuse. I'll edit my original comment.

Language is universal to all humans, even though it is multifaceted. Humans also have massive brains that require extra care to bring to fruition in comparison to other animals. Language is one of those things. You can learn other languages at any age, but you first need learn a language.

It would be fascinating to know what inner thoughts look like without the construct of language to frame them in. Unfortunately there's no ethical way to find out, short of uplifting a non-sapient species and asking them.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

There was an old study showing that London taxi drivers develop enlarged hippocampi, the part of the brain used for navigation, to deal with the labyrinthian London streets. The growth continued over several years even in mature adults as they used those navigation and memorization abilities. I'd like to see a study of the brain of an adult prospective language learner over a long period to see if any similar plasticity exists for the brain's language centers.

(I'll admit I'm horribly biased. I was exceptional at picking up new languages as a teen, but let that knowledge decay into nothingness as an adult. I'd hate to have wasted such a useful talent.)

[–] [email protected] 45 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (5 children)

Given the success of foreign exchange students, I'm willing to bet the age factor is much less important than people claim.

People bring up the abused or abandoned children that had trouble learning to speak when introduced to society later in life, but usually fail to mention the reason they were neglected/abandoned as children was due to mental disabilities, so they aren't really a viable data point.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

"It’s been really difficult to explain to the kids why they’re stuck down here while their Dad is safe in a fragile metal tube traveling around the Earth at a relaxing 250 MPH.”

Looks like someone mixed up orbital speed and altitude when gathering data (it's traveling at ~18,000 mph relative to Earth at 250 miles altitude).

[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

People focus on the bears thing, and not that most of the libertarians who joined the Free Town Project were men (wonder why women didn't feel safe joining; it's a mystery), and many (surprise surprise) turned out to be sexual predators or even murderers. They also quickly (and deliberately) bankrupted the town through budget cuts and spurious lawsuits, making life worse for everyone who lived there. The whole thing was a shitshow. Who knew that a philosophy of self-centeredness would attract the worst sort of people?

Libertarianism. Not even once.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago

Shinzo Abe vibes.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

"Must have been the wind."

 

Long-pressing the link in [https://lemmy.ml/comment/7302466](this comment) will cause Boost to crash.

The link markdown is wrong, with the URL in the text tag and the destination tag empty, but this shouldn't crash the app.

Alternate test link in case the commenter fixes it: https://www.example.com

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