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Is that mostly funded by large / billionaire donors?

I wouldn’t otherwise care, it’s kind of unavoidable when the story needs to branch this much, except it makes mysteries and intrigue less mysterious and intriguing when explanations don’t have to really make sense.

(Spoilers, my specific complaints rn are about the Retsnom route. The stuff with the Old Man and the location in the books and whatever doesn’t really make sense, and even if it does later Takumi should 100% care it doesn’t make sense to *him*. And also, he should really care there’s another human!)

Like, the writers will just write themselves into corners and then make up a nonsense fix, or write in a device to drive the plot in a certain direction without working through how that should affect the story, and how the characters should react.

The plot construction in Hundred Line is all fucked up

Relatedly, every aspect of the 100 days 100 endings gimmick is seamfull

Still really enjoying it but it takes away from that sort of THH-like atmosphere it otherwise has, of the truth about the world being hidden to an almost unfair degree

Like, I should be able to mourn the version of the characters from the end of this journey upon beginning part 2, but (with a few notable exceptions) they’re basically the same as they started, just knowing fewer things

I see the vision there, but the first half could have had an interesting story with characters that have real arcs and still been tragic or intentionally narratively unsatisfying or whatever. Do a Chinatown thing where everything falls apart at the very end. Instead it just feels kinda flat.

It’s kind of unforgivable how long it takes hundred line to get good but it has now Gotten Good

drag king named steve adore

Was that really an issue of the LLM being Misaligned in the sense Alignment People meant it in 2014? I don't really think so, although I could imagine an argument that it is. At the very least, it doesn't look like the kinds of "overly-literal genie" style scenarios that was how the issue was framed

Brightline death toll surpasses 180, but safeguards are still lacking Brightline trains have killed 182 people, significantly more than publicly known, an investigation by the Miami Herald and WLRN has found.

huh, apparently very few of the brightline deaths (only 24 as of this article) are people in cars being dumb
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/a...

I think it's strictly rational for any individual political or media elite to stay on X in the same way it's strictly rational not to join any collective action.

But, it's an enormous failure of the entire progressive media and organizing world that they're still collectively on a neo-Nazi website.

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spotify dj loves to call ag cook "ahdge cook" and cut out the best part of songs

What did New Hampshire do to John Linnell

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remember promare

Remember when they did mini partner showcases

There's still a lack of cohesion to it, I noticed also on BGF (kind of skipped O Monolith, I'll have to go back to it at some point)

a lot of their songs have direct literary inspirations and it leaves the album feeling a little more like a curated exhibit than a single narrative (compare Hellfire)

the album Cowards by Squid is finally, finally growing on me

I bounced off of it like three times but this time it landed in heavy rotation

The NL Food Poisoning Saga is kind of terrifying in retrospect

Like chat was basically watching a guy slowly die on camera over the course of months

second verse on this is one of the funniest things i've ever heard

I have to replay immortality

I played through all of it on a whim on an iPad in a single delirious day after being awake for 24 hours and so I feel like I got a lot of the vibe and none of the story

#TheMelanoment

The cause of the male loneliness crisis is that they arrested Jeffrey Epstein, the only man who appears to have had friends.

getting into condensed mathematics for all the wrong reasons

How does simulating a drug experience in an LLM work?

Gives “colorless green ideas sleep furiously” a run for its money