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  1. Comment on Mortgage companies could intensify the next recession, US officials warn in ~finance

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    After last time, and our massive bailouts, I am sure that's exactly what they are hoping for.

    Nonbank mortgage companies have “vulnerabilities” that could cause them to “amplify and transmit the effect of a shock to the mortgage market and broader financial system,” FSOC said.

    For example, if home prices crash in a future crisis, mortgage companies could simultaneously lose money and face cash crunches that would make it hard for them to make required payments to investors on behalf of struggling borrowers, FSOC said. These challenges would be exacerbated by the relatively high amounts of debt these companies have.

    This pressure on nonbank mortgage companies would then hurt borrowers seeking mortgages and could force the federal government to assume the obligations, according to regulators.

    After last time, and our massive bailouts, I am sure that's exactly what they are hoping for.

    12 votes

  3. Comment on Please recommend me an anime to watch? in ~anime

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    +1 on DtB, one of my favorites. I would also add Ergo Proxy to that list of years, feels like a nice dark cyberpunk anime lines up fairly decent there.

    +1 on DtB, one of my favorites. I would also add Ergo Proxy to that list of years, feels like a nice dark cyberpunk anime lines up fairly decent there.

    2 votes

  4. Comment on Please recommend me an anime to watch? in ~anime

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    Currently watching and enjoying Meiji Gekken 1874. I don't use CR, but it's on there. Newer anime, has a great older anime style with some of the cleanness of modern anime, sounds like it'll fit...

    Currently watching and enjoying Meiji Gekken 1874. I don't use CR, but it's on there. Newer anime, has a great older anime style with some of the cleanness of modern anime, sounds like it'll fit in well with your group there (it's a historical anime).

    Year 1874. Shizuma Origasa, once a samurai of the Aizu Domain and now working as a rickshaw puller, embarks on a quest to locate his missing fiancée, Sumie Kanomata. However, an unexpected turn of events thrusts him into the ranks of the newly established police force, entangling him in the pursuit of a conspiracy aiming to topple the government.

    2 votes

  5. Comment on Blade Runner: Tokyo Nexus, taking place in Tokyo starring Replicant detectives in ~comics

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    Really looking forward to this, a three way patent war, new synthetics, and independent replicant detectives? Tack on the fact the fact that we haven't explored very much outside of LA, this is...

    BLADE RUNNER: TOKYO NEXUS follows the sole survivors of an ill-fated Off-World military squad - Stix, a Replicant combat model, and Mead, a battle-hardened Marine - and their dogged search for an unknown traitor who lef them to die on the battlefield. After escaping back to Tokyo, the unlikely pair's quest for revenge leads to their formation of a clandestine private detective service.

    Stix and Mead stray into an even more treacherous battlefield, a three-way "patent war" between the ruthless operatives from the Tyrell Corporation and a rival tech company known as Cheshire, with its own version of synthetic humans, and powerful Yakuza clans wanting in on the action.

    Really looking forward to this, a three way patent war, new synthetics, and independent replicant detectives?

    Tack on the fact the fact that we haven't explored very much outside of LA, this is certainly going to be cool.

    9 votes

  7. Comment on Extreme G5 geomagnetic storm reaches Earth, NOAA says, following "unusual" solar event in ~space

  9. Comment on Starminer (announcement) in ~games

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    This video was released five months ago, but they also just released another trailer focused on building. Edit: Looks like it was posted back in September, but kind of hidden in the article itself...

    This video was released five months ago, but they also just released another trailer focused on building.

    Edit: Looks like it was posted back in September, but kind of hidden in the article itself about it, they just posted the new trailer which I linked above - so I'll let this stay.

    3 votes

  11. Comment on Everything is Sludge, art in the post-human era in ~humanities

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    The video talks about this! Sludge isn't slop, sludge is primarily people-created videos and content that rely on placing 2+ videos on top of each other, so that you visually focus on, say,...

    The video talks about this! Sludge isn't slop, sludge is primarily people-created videos and content that rely on placing 2+ videos on top of each other, so that you visually focus on, say, someone jumping on blocks in minecraft, while listening to a podcast or a non-visually stimulating video at the top.

    Roosterteeth practically pioneered this in the early days through their "podcast as video, by using minecraft or GTA in the background" scheme of keeping listeners and people involved in their content. But, now its people repackaging content and applying a secondary visual layer to the bottom to hyper-increase mental focus.

    Slop on the otherhand, is for all the AI generated garbage that is being pushed out at a (literally) inhuman rate.

    6 votes

  12. Comment on Everything is Sludge, art in the post-human era in ~humanities

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    Sludge has absolutely won out, in fact "slop" being used was the first time I had seen it written like that there. Everyone I know who has written or talked about it, knows that "sludge" is...

    Sludge has absolutely won out, in fact "slop" being used was the first time I had seen it written like that there. Everyone I know who has written or talked about it, knows that "sludge" is definitely the term and only use that one, probably because its much cooler sounding.

    Then again, sludge is perhaps different than slop, because sludge isn't primarily AI generated.

    5 votes

  13. Comment on Everything is Sludge, art in the post-human era in ~humanities

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    Left the capitalization on "Sludge" because that is what this type of content is called. This is an incredible video essay, and the usage of Sludge content to explain the situation is brilliant.

    Left the capitalization on "Sludge" because that is what this type of content is called.

    This is an incredible video essay, and the usage of Sludge content to explain the situation is brilliant.

    4 votes

  15. Comment on Microsoft closes Redfall developer Arkane Austin, Hi-Fi Rush developer Tango Gameworks, and more in devastating cuts at Bethesda in ~games

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    For more information on that, Japanese law requires layoffs to only be enacted when a company has been running in the red for a very long time, and even then they have to have executive...

    you can't just "layoff" people in Japan at the tip of a hat (see: Twitter),

    For more information on that, Japanese law requires layoffs to only be enacted when a company has been running in the red for a very long time, and even then they have to have executive firings/demotions/massive paycuts before it can reach the worker layer. Which, honestly, is how it should be everywhere.

    On that note, I also heard a rumor that there is a clause that if there was a 'layoff' initiated in Twitter Japan, then the corporation out there can take the entirety of the tech and company itself entirely independent, one of the benefits of being one of the most popular and income generating segment of the business I suppose. No idea how it would work, but its something that has been mentioned once or twice in my tech exec circles.

    18 votes

  16. Comment on Classical composer reaction/analysis to Final Fantasy 7: One Winged Angel in ~games

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    Nobou also has a live metal band that mostly plays Final Fantasy music (can you call them covers if he wrote them? lol) Here is a live concert, that is just incredible.

    Nobou also has a live metal band that mostly plays Final Fantasy music (can you call them covers if he wrote them? lol)

    Here is a live concert, that is just incredible.

    3 votes

  17. Comment on Classical composer reaction/analysis to Final Fantasy 7: One Winged Angel in ~games

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    He also did one on "Dancing Mad" from FFVI (one of my all time favorite tracks in the franchise), and I love the way that this is phrased:

    He also did one on "Dancing Mad" from FFVI (one of my all time favorite tracks in the franchise), and I love the way that this is phrased:

    "Nobuo Uematsu composing Dancing Mad on the SNES sound chip would be like Michelangelo making the Sistine Chapel out of crayon."

    5 votes

  18. Comment on Classical composer reaction/analysis to Final Fantasy 7: One Winged Angel in ~games

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    I figured this works better in ~games than ~music, but if you want to switch it go ahead. This top comment entirely encapsulates how I feel: Edit (side note): I love how "bass face" is universal...

    I figured this works better in ~games than ~music, but if you want to switch it go ahead.

    This top comment entirely encapsulates how I feel:

    "I was not ready."

    On our first time hearing this, neither were any of us.

    Edit (side note): I love how "bass face" is universal for all types of music enthusiasts.

    2 votes

  20. Comment on Spidergawd - All And Everything (Live @ Byscenen, Trondheim) (2020) in ~music

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    If you liked this, just be warned they have an insane level of output. They are on their eighth album since 2014.

    If you liked this, just be warned they have an insane level of output. They are on their eighth album since 2014.

    1 vote