Guess I was too in touch, then

I’m out of touch, what’s off with this?

It makes them.

Article doesn’t mention. I guess you either get them from the $100 electrochemical machine you bought to make the pressure-bearing parts or attempt to pay an undercover police officer for it, which was the way the only British dude arrested tried to obtain the guns.

Edit: That, or from a state where you don’t need a permit to just buy ammo.

I’m saying that any implemented gun control would become easier and easier to bypass. Hopefully our extremists aren’t smart enough.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassin's_Creed_Shadows#Protagonists

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Backlash_to_diversity_and_inclusion

Edit: Man, downvoted by someone without reply for providing sourced information

I think it’s about Gamergate 2.0, “fans” attacking the new Assassin’s Creed for featuring a black samurai.

Especially with the gamergate 2.0 that’s opening a new article-specific case on Wikipedia court for the first time in 8 years…

Usually your settings are saved under ~/.config

I’m not saying the same happens in the west. Indeed, these are occurrences unique to China. I’ve never understood the appeal of the shopping streams, so I can’t say for sure what’s behind the first image. Meanwhile, misguided focus on technical skill over the essence of art combined with draconian educational values are behind the second image.

they are mass-producing art to please their elites

The only people who see the art are the 9 judges who have their internet-capable devices confiscated until they judge everything. They have to filter out the images and compare them meticulously for accuracy instead of pleasantry. After that, they have to do it again for the arts Gaokao. Nobody else sees the art, and even if they did, I doubt anyone would be pleased by what aims to be carbon copies of the same image. The stupid system harms the only people who see the product as well.

Likewise I can’t find any image of any food or drink being used.

If you look at https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-grueling-hyper-competitive-exams-decide-futures-chinese-art-students, there’s an outstanding example of tea near the bottom-left corner.

They usually can’t, hence why they’re doing it.

I don’t see how that article reflects your claim. In fact, it says that passerbys ask the streamers, “Why don’t you find a normal job?”. At most, it does say that some were drove off livelihoods and forced to stream by the COVID era, which involved stupid restrictions that the government finally relaxed a few months after the article. There are also a lot more white-collar jobs. That said, I’ve never been to Guilin, so take what I say with a grain of salt. Hair salons in Hangzhou reopened at most by mid-2021, though it may have intensified in late 2022, which is right after I left.

would’ve fooled me. You’re the only one defending the images and saying the same happens in the West.

Such “us vs them” mentality is why my country and so many others are currently so divided and leads certain people to believe in authoritarian rule of utmost hierarchy.

An umu is an above-ground oven of hot volcanic stones originating from Samoans. After the stones are heated, the top layer is removed and the food placed on top to heat/cook. We chose the name because Valve’s containerization tool is named pressure-vessel. We’re “preparing” the pressure vessel similar to how you would use a stove top pressure-cooker – by placing it on our umu’s “stovetop”

Imagine our umu as a mystical cauldron, conjuring the fiery essence of a thousand volcanoes to transform mere ingredients into a culinary masterpiece. As the pressure vessel sits atop this enchanted umu, it absorbs the raw power of the earth’s core, becoming an unstoppable force of containerization magic. This isn’t just preparation; it’s an epic saga where the pressure vessel emerges from the umu like a phoenix from the ashes, ready to conquer the Realm of Gamers (RoG) with unparalleled efficiency and might. It’s a fusion of ancient rituals and cutting-edge technology, where every byte is cooked to perfection in the blazing heart of our umu.

If you believe there are better arguments to be made, go ahead.

Well, you just did that. I was pointing out that your use of those images is misleading, and as critics, we should take the moral high ground.

So much for your communist China.

Not sure what you think about me. As an anarchist, I don’t have socially positive views of China.

commercialised, mass-produced

No. Albeit with a completely misguided target of technical skill, the admissions test is not a factory. And food and drink are, of course, allowed.

then you are the ‘worse kid,’ which is an ideology in China where there is always a better child—Failure is not an option.

Honestly, it’s just involution: Everyone always looks up to the better children and apply to the best school, whose exam is what we see here. However, failure is, in fact, an executable option. Just as there is always a better place, there is also always a worse place: a worse school to apply to instead of the one with a 2% acceptance rate, a worse place to live with a much better upkeep, a worse job where you can still apply your skills with the same comfort… The aforementioned streamers can always choose to pull up stakes and find other types of less gruelling careers, yet they’re not comfortable enough with the low-key: Unfortunately, investments in mental health education are way too low to counter the ingrained Chinese culture of overachievement, and that is a very big problem. Such involution is also a problem in the United States, especially in higher education, but we have much better access to online support.

Top: Streamers going to rich neighborhoods to attract local viewers and donations after China implements policy of forcing all Internet content to show their approximate location

Bottom: largest art school examination in the world, where ~14,000 applicants invited to the exam must compete for ~800 spots

Most jobs are normal and like the western world. While there are tons of valid criticisms like the protest one you mentioned, “strict homogeneity” is not one of them and just gives tankies more ammunition. There are way better arguments you can make from these images.

ackshually it’s endeavour

999’s DS version—the original—had superb dialogue. Sadly they made it absorb all the narration way more rigmarolously than VLR’s.

(Fun fact: Makoto Naegi has a specific pattern on his hoodie.)

I agree with the legal state part, but it was not the energy use of the MRI; it was BS’d from the following:

“Franco conducted surveillance on multiple dates in 2023, reporting the ‘distinct odor of live cannabis plant and not the odor of dried cannabis being smoked,’ tinted windows–which he attributed to efforts to conceal cannabis cultivation, security cameras– which he associated with locations where cannabis is grown to prevent theft, and two individuals in similar attire at the premises – whom he concluded were performing maintenance or expanding the cultivation operation,” the lawsuit alleges.

One LAPD officer, “dangling a rifle in his right hand, with an unsecured strap, approached the MRI Office” and glanced at the large warning sign on the door that read: ‘Warning. Magnetic Field. High Frequency Yield. Metal Parts and Medical Instruments of All Types prohibited.’" He then walked into the MRI Office, according to the lawsuit.

What do you mean by the broader sense after you block the ads?

Sauce? It’s not even on TVTropes

I understand that that’s the general trend of public companies. However, I think that this specific action benefits both.