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https://www.pcgamer.com/games/horror/after-repo-kinda-blew-up-its-developer-asks-the-community-for-advice-on-how-to-make-matchmaking-lobbies/

They are apparently a small dev team and ... this is their first multiplayer game, ever.

So cutting them some slack is I think warranted.

They say they are considering making matchmaking lobbies as a feature... by which they presumably mean some kind of private servers?

I really don't know, 'matchmaking lobby' is an extremely broad term that could mean basically anything from self hosted servers... to rentable/configurable dedicated servers... ???

Apparently right now it is all centrally piped into their own servers, and is reliant on Steam invites to actually get people together into a session.

They say they are worries that if they add 'matchmaking lobbies', that introduces the problem of hackers... and to solve hackers, they would need an anticheat, which would break mods.

I... do not understand how that makes sense, there have been many multiplayer games with both mods and anticheat.

You could go with a less intrusive AC like VAC... it does work on many non source engine games, though I don't know what the liscensing costs would be... and then just integrate mods into the steam workshop?

Or some other AC solution, and have some other method of basically submitting mods for some kind of review and standardization with the AC... and then just also have an option for AC-off servers, so you could test your wip mods?

I guess we really have gotten to the point where modern devs just actually cannot fathom how mods and AC could work together.

I am mostly unfoundedly guessing she has been to a 'protest', but was the reason the the 101st Airborne had to get involved.

Mostly an unfounded guess.

Not entirely.

Reminds me a lot of my grandma, who watches Bill Maher regularly, and got furious with me when I told her in 2019 that the best possible thing that could happen would be Trump dying of Covid... because the alternative would be a one term, ineffective Democrat, who wouldn't meaningfully address the growing fascist movement, nor the underlying conditions that fundamentally give rise to it.

... She asked me to digitally archive a bunch of family photos and records... and I found a bunch of her old diary pages and letters... where she was quite rascist.

What if Hegseth is driving this particular bus, but Petey needs Trump to blow on the interlock device so that he can actually start thr ignition?

Whiskey Leaks 2: The Tippsyening

That certainly is the logic they use when they cruise around with Stingray devices in their cruisers that honeypot/MiTM every single 4g/5g/Wifi drevice in a 100m+ radius.

iF yOu hAvE nOThInG to HiDE yOU HavE nOtHInG toO WoRRy abOUt

They're climbing up from B6 to B2 or B1 lol.

Every 'goal' my family gave me and then forced me into pursuing?

Sure, they praised me when I accomplished those things.

Every goal I actually chose for myself, and achieved?

At best, absolutely no help of any kind when I'd ask them for help, general constant dissuasion and negging, and then after I achieve those goals, massive, massive passive aggressive jealously and constant belittling.

I now live several states away, don't communicate with them, and have finally been able to establish a sense of self, and self-esteem, based around my own assesment of what are good traits and goals, instead of basing them on trying to please incompetent bullies.

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If your goals are, as you say in another post, learning how to make a vidro game, learning to draw, learning basic programming/web design...

These are literally all goals that pretty much most people with sufficient spare time and diligence could figure out the basics of and even become decently competent at with a few years of time... not even in a formal education setting, though that could likely help.

Your goals are extremely reasonable, your family is being ridiculous.

Are you guaranteed to become wealthy via pursuit of these goals? No, of course not.

But you aren't guaranteed that in most other careers or lines of work either.

If you don't already have gobs of money and/or influential connections... chances are, you never will.

Unless you are like abadoning a fairly solid career path that you're already significantly time/money invested in, and just completely abandoning all means of keeping yourself able to eat and sleep indoors for the full time pursuit of hobbies...

Then no, there's nothing wrong with wanting to learn more skills.

The shock factor played into the logic of choosing whether or not to use the atomic bombs ... but that would have been roughly the same if they had been detonated in nearly any city, or hell, on a relatively uninhabited area the Japanese could easily have seen, purely as a demonstration.

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Indeed, the initial list of proposed targets included Tokyo Bay, which would have caused far less destruction and death than say, the center of Hiroshima, but would arguably have functioned far, far more effectively as a pure terror inducing demonstration.

(Tokyo itself had already been substantially destroyed by many other bombing raids)

They ended up picking Hiroshima as a first target because the size and surrounding terrain of the city would basically be the maximally efficient use of the destructive power of the bomb...

...and the city was a center of industrial production, and also had an army depot and port... and Hiroshima would be less effectively damaged by the ongoing firebombing strategy the US was using on other Japanese cities...

...and because Hiroshima was deemed a 'good radar target', meaning that the primitive radar tech of the time could reliably actually get the bomber to the target, which was not the case withbmany other Japanese cities...

...and finally: Hiroshima had yet to be touched by any US bombing actions up to that point.

A later target assesment and rationale document

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Nagasaki was not actually the primary intended target of the second bomb.

The primary intended target was Kokura, which housed a huge arsenal of ammunition dumps, and was also a major industrial center.

The bomber aircraft with the second bomb was having some difficulty with its auxilliary fuel supply... and made 3 attempts at targetting Kokura, but these all failed due in large part to the Yamaha Steel Works burning massive amounts of coal tar to create as much thick black obscuring smoke/clouds as possible.

After then 3rd run on Kokura failed to postively identify the drop location in the city, the bomber diverted to Nagasaki, which had much clearer weather and less anti aircraft defenses.

Nagasaki also had an arsenal of ammo and weapons, and a Mitsubishi Arms Plant and Steel Factory, and the Nagasaki drop site was specified to do maximum damage to those... which the bomb did.

The bomber then barely made it back to a US controlled airfield in Okinawa, having only enough fuel for a single landing approach pass.

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_and_Nagasaki ...

tl;dr: Shock and terror were absolutely very important considerations in the rationale of deciding where to drop the bombs, but maximizing damage to military and industrial targets, and other more practical operational factors played significant roles as well.

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Additionally... if Japan did not surrender... the actual plan was to basically re cycle all of the troops from the European theatre into the Japanese theatre... into a total ground invasion of Japan, which was projected to last into 1947...

... and cost more than a quarter million dead Allied soldiers, more than half a million wounded Allied soldiers...

... and estimates ranging from 3 to 10 million dead or wounded Japanese civillians and military.

Those numbers come from the increasing conscription of essentially all abled bodied Japanese either formally or informally into some kind of armed resistsnce against the invasion, as well as projected losses of remaining noncombatants.

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Downfall

It is also worth noting that after the second Atomic bomb was dropped, the Emperor was almost couped after he decided to surrender.

A group of very high ranking Japanese officers attempted a coup with the goal of continuing the war, never surrendering.

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Ky%C5%ABj%C5%8D_incident

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EDIT: A perhaps more interesting counterfactual... or idea for a HOI4 mod... would imo be something like...

What if all or some of the original US nukes... failed to detonate? Were duds? Their bombers got shot down or crashed? Accidentally got released wildly off target?

What if the US ... decided against using them?

What if the Emperor did not decide to surrender, or the coup was successful...

And Operation Downfall actually went into motion?

The US only had a few atomic bombs, and could not churn them out rapidly, there were no stockpiles of hundreds or thousands as we are used to in the modern day or basically from the mid 50s ish onward.

How many people would have died then?

... Does maybe Stalin backstab the Allies as Hitler backstabbed him years before, and attack Western Europe after the bulk of US and Commonwealth forces moved over to Japan, with the Soviets just making a show of doing very minor attacks on Manchuko?

WTF happens to China in that scenario, with the Cold War basically having been skipped, and Kai Shek and Mao still yet to decisively win or lose?

Same 'wtf would happen' to Korea, in this scenario.

You could make a decent alt hist out of some timeline where Operation Downfall ends up happening and/or the US nukes either not being used, failing to work, being sabotaged, etc.

I try to keep between 68 F and 72 F, but uh, the thermostat's method of measuring the actual temperature in the apartment is completely, laughably busted, so... hot days it goes on 62, cold days it goes on 84.

No. Autism is not a reason to be a bigot.

Autist here, completely agree.

Many subtle, more context dependent social cues took me a lot longer than NTs, Allistic people, to figure out... though I excelled at school and have gone on to hold highly technical data analysis/reporting, db admin type jobs.

Blatant bigotry is... not a very subtle or context dependent thing to understand.

This fairly young 19F girl comes from a bigotted family that has completely or mostly normalized this kind of behavior, and has also infantalized her into believing Autism and ADHD are excuses for her poor behavior, as opposed to explanations.

Right wing bigots tend to treat Autism (and really any mental disorder) as basically 'they're retards, just expect them to be shitty, and also I am a hero for raising a retard baby', as opposed to actually taking time to learn the ins and outs of how their minds operate differently, and learn together how to bridge that gap, with a bit of accomodation coming from both sides.

This often results in infantilization of the kid, of just taking away their agency, instead of actually putting in the extra work to help them build up their agency and tweak or tune their worldview to be a bit more aligned with, or at least aware of, how much of the world doesn't operate by the rules that an Autistic person would default to.

(Just go look at how RFK Jr apparently think we are literally pants shittingly stupid and will never pay taxes or go on a date... given the Kennedy family history of literally lobotomizing his own aunt I think it was, for her mental disorder... yeah not looking great for us NDs with this frat boy fail son with a brain worm where his brain should be as fucking Health Secretary.)

Right wing idiot bigots are not very good at critical thinking, so... yeah, it makes sense that they also suck at teaching critical thinking.

I have often seen this produce many additional behavioral problems in other younger Autistic people... because their idiot familes basically Munchausen-by-proxy their Autistic kids into beleiving they are far, far less capable generally than they actually are.

In a sense, her family was probably bigoted toward her by treating her as a caricature of what Autism actually is during her most fundamental developmental years... needlessly stifling her mental development... so now she is doing the same and broadly being bigoted toward other people with other 'labels' that fit into other 'boxes'.

This girl needs to learn to stop excusing her bigotrd shittiness by pointing at her mental conditions.

There are plenty of people with Autism and/or ADHD who ... yes their minds work differently, but they aren't all raging bigots, thats on her.

Yeah you type MS13 in Wingdings and that's what you get!

/s

I remember a few more terms and phrases...

But... ok so this may also sound ridiculous, but basically, when I speak in Japanese, I find my tone just naturally shifts to be lower, bassier.

I am decently good at singing in English, and am a baritone.

But when I just normally speak in English, its usually a bit higher pitched than the middle point of my singing range.

... But when I speak in Japanese, it is either at or lower than the middle point of my English singing range.

I do not do this intentionally and am not sure why... I do this, lol.

Maybe it is again trained into me from associating shouting out numbers and osu in Japanese with very intentional diapraghm/breathing control from Karate?