It’s not confirmed, or settled, but yes, there are credible reports that a draft deal involves the US paying $300bn.
Of course drafts don’t mean much when Trump changes his mind every five minutes. But it does appear that the proposal has at least been floated and considered.
I’ve played a fair bit of the beta, and I do absolutely recommend checking this out. More than anything else the thing that stuck out to me was how absolutely frictionless everything feels. I don’t really know a good way to describe it other than to say that a lot of thought has clearly been put into making every single interaction feel good. Like… There’s a button to summon a little guide, and your character snaps their fingers when they do it. The sound design on the snap is just… Satisfying. It feels good, every time you do it. Every part of the game is like that.
Combat is great. There’s a real feeling of flow, and you get a lot of tools to play with. You can throw your weapon and then summon it back like Mjolnir. You can stagger enemies and then rip mana out of them. You can parry into a finisher in one smooth motion and it feels so good when you pull it off. And all of that is without even using your class abilities.
The setting is weird in a good way. I’m curious to see where they’re going with the story. Like Warframe (and this is really one of the very few ways it is at all like Warframe) you can seamlessly switch classes and weapon loadouts whenever you like, so there’s tonnes of gameplay variety just in trying out different builds.
Most importantly though, the game has a big theme of protecting nature, and the animators more than rose to the challenge. There are a lot of adorable little critters in this game for you to give hugs and scritches to, and the animations are top notch every time. If you want to pet every critter you meet in a game, this game is for you. Despite the soulsborne nods, the biggest Japanese influence here is definitely Studio Ghibli.
Calling it soulframe was the worst decision they could have made. I’ve played both and they are very, very different games in almost every respect. I genuinely suggest you actually give it a try before writing it off. Like Warframe it’ll be free to play, so what do you have to lose?
Zen is also really nice (based on Firefox like Librewolf).
Regarding B… Yeah, I’ve tried and tried to find an intuitive explanation for this, and I’ve never yet found one. Basically the answer boils down to “Because the math says so” and every attempt to explain that in practical terms always comes down to drawing a light cone diagram and showing the causality paradox in geometric terms. I find this intensely dissatisfying because it’s really just visualizing the math without actually framing it in any way that’s truly comprehensible beyond “Trust me bro.”
This video, while a little over padded with fluff, does contain the best and most comprehensible version of this explanation that I’ve seen, but I’d love for someone to be able to put it in terms that actually make sense without just drawing lines on a graph and gesturing at them. Maybe that just isn’t possible. Perhaps the whole point is that FTL breaks the laws of the universe and our understanding of reality is necessarily constrained by those same laws.
Edit: OK, this video is a much better version of the explanation I described. I still find that explanation unsatisfying, but it is at least highly comprehensible.
So did the dems use presidential decree to get the funding in 2023?
Biden was inaugurated in '21. Why did it take multiple years for that funding to be budgeted?
Agreed, floatheadphysics is doing an amazing job of explaining these concepts in a comprehensible way.
I’m not following how this explanation is supposed to help with their question. Like, what are you trying to get at here?
It’s the now classic answer to “Why is this happening now?” Trump fucked it up, Biden tried to fix it without any sense of urgency because he just assumed he’d get eight years, and then Trump came back and fucked it up again.
You name a fair point here. I think the part where they’re using an LLM for natural language processing makes a lot of sense. Being able to describe something you don’t know the name of is a genuinely helpful feature. But you’re right that a better implementation would drop the wasteful image generation in place of searching up real images from their product library (which they’re still doing anyway because at some point they have to find a real product to sell you). It feels like that step was maybe added to make it “more AI”, probably at a manager’s insistence.
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I guess I should specify that I’m selfhosting Notesnook, so the data never leaves my personal device ecosystem, and the central sync server is a big plus for me. No account required either (apart from the ones I create on the server I control).
“OK buddy, you want to play hardball? One month it is!”
If - hypothetically - you were trying to convince me that this is better than Notesnook, what would your pitch be?
Trump still hasn’t figured out that Netanyahu is deliberately tanking every piece deal.
Same bud. There’s so, soooooo much great music being made right now. Some of it’s on the radio, some of it is obscure as fuck. Doesn’t matter. You just gotta fucking open your ears and listen.
When it’s pride month, text bottom.
Personally, I’d argue that Warframe is “grindy”, but that’s OK because the grind is the game. You’re always grinding for something, always working your way up one of the various progression treadmills, but that works because a) the gameplay itself is fun, so you’re not just clicking buttons to fill bars, and b) there’s such a huge variety of different things to progress and different ways to progress them that you can never get bored or feel like you’re being forced into certain content to move forward. You always have the option to just switch to something else. Warframe is a massive all you can eat buffet of gameplay and you get to decide exactly what you want to take from it.