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  1. Comment on Originle: Every day, guess the guest's country of origin in ~games

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    This looks like a really high-effort -dle. For each daily puzzle, you are given up to 7 hints and 3 guesses as to where that day's guest is from. Really interesting!

    This looks like a really high-effort -dle. For each daily puzzle, you are given up to 7 hints and 3 guesses as to where that day's guest is from. Really interesting!

    2 votes

  5. Comment on Examples of humanities or social sciences articles written in an inspiring, lively, engaging style in ~humanities

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    In the IR field, I enjoyed reading “War Making and State Making as Organized Crime” by Charles Tilly (1985) and “Dictatorship, Democracy, and Development” by Mancur Olson (1993). “Diplomacy and...

    In the IR field, I enjoyed reading “War Making and State Making as Organized Crime” by Charles Tilly (1985) and “Dictatorship, Democracy, and Development” by Mancur Olson (1993). “Diplomacy and Domestic Politics: The Logic of Two-Level Games” by Robert Putnam (1988) is also an interesting read, though its more technical/theoretical content makes it perhaps less readable than the first 2.

    If you want to go in a more controversial direction, Samuel Huntington's 1993 article "Clash of Civilizations" and Francis Fukuyama's 1989 "The End of History?" are both well written imo. Even if Fukuyama seems to have been pretty decisively proven wrong and Huntington is almost certainly full of shit, the fact that they're both well written means they've stuck around in the field longer than just controversy may have carried them.

    I'm on mobile at the moment so I'm too lazy to find the articles to link, but since they're all pretty important texts in the field it shouldn't be hard to find open access copies. I'm curious what do you study, and which articles, if any, you find engaging in your own field?

  6. Comment on Is sumo just offensive line without pads? in ~sports.combat

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    Yeah, I agree. Had this just been a football player just going at it I probably wouldn't have bothered sharing it here but I did appreciate showing the training routine and some light discussion...

    Yeah, I agree. Had this just been a football player just going at it I probably wouldn't have bothered sharing it here but I did appreciate showing the training routine and some light discussion at the beginning and end of the similarities with offensive line made it a much more interesting video

  7. Comment on Is sumo just offensive line without pads? in ~sports.combat

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    Former NFL offensive lineman Jason Kelce tries out sumo training

    Former NFL offensive lineman Jason Kelce tries out sumo training

    4 votes

  10. Comment on Thoughts on AI in game development [from the CTO of PH3] in ~tech

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    If you’re on Firefox the Old Reddit Redirect addon has a feature to bypass the login requirement, so it hasn’t bothered me since it was implemented

    If you’re on Firefox the Old Reddit Redirect addon has a feature to bypass the login requirement, so it hasn’t bothered me since it was implemented

    2 votes

  12. Comment on Jet Lag Season 19: Japanorama | Trailer in ~hobbies

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    Finale is now on Youtube Click to expand spoiler. One thing that occurred to me: Adam and Tom's original plan at the beginning of the day was to get to a certain stop on the Wakkanai route in...

    Finale is now on Youtube

    Click to expand spoiler.

    One thing that occurred to me: Adam and Tom's original plan at the beginning of the day was to get to a certain stop on the Wakkanai route in order to take an earlier train on the final day. Had they managed to do that (and it seems like they could have, given there were no apparent delays) without Ben and Sam realizing what they were doing, the Golden Carriage curse would have been forced to be used on the earlier 6am Wakkanai train the next day, allowing Adam and Tom to force the tie with the 9am train that Ben and Sam would've had to take.

    Regardless, incredible season, arguably one of the best. Well played by all teams

    5 votes

  14. Comment on How to get into motorsports? in ~sports.motorsports

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    IMO one of the most effective ways, for me at least, to get into any sport is to watch post-race/post-match highlights. You can usually find these on official league YouTube channels (the official...

    IMO one of the most effective ways, for me at least, to get into any sport is to watch post-race/post-match highlights. You can usually find these on official league YouTube channels (the official F1 channel posts race highlights, for instance). This has a couple of benefits:

    1. You can see if you actually enjoy the sport without committing yourself to watching hours-long games or races, since it’s by definition just the most exciting moments. Keeping up with one 15 minute video once a week or so is much more manageable. If you find you don’t really enjoy watching, then there’s nothing wrong with that! I also like to check the standings after I watch highlights, so I can get a sense of the grander scheme of things

    2. You begin to encourage your YouTube algorithm to start showing you more Motorsport content. This lets you discover which aspect of competitive Motorsport you enjoy most, since there’s channels for everything. Maybe you enjoy the strategy and tactics, or are fascinated by the engineering. Maybe you will become interested in the history of the sport or the drama between drivers

    The only Motorsport I really follow is F1, so I can’t speak to how useful this strategy is for other kinds of racing, but I’ve used this approach to really get into f1, the nba, and the nfl. I would later get more interested in watching full matches or races after getting more knowledgeable about the history and strategies of each sport, since spectacle alone doesn’t move me as much

    2 votes

  15. Comment on NFL head coach Mike Tomlin shows off the Minecraft world he has worked on for twelve years in ~games

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    If it makes it better, I've seen nothing but praise for the guy, you can see that with the comments under his Youtube video. I, for one, am excited for the next episode

    If it makes it better, I've seen nothing but praise for the guy, you can see that with the comments under his Youtube video. I, for one, am excited for the next episode

    7 votes

  17. Comment on What is your pet peeve with language acquisition? in ~humanities.languages

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    I’m actually also semi-native, so I have pretty decent pronunciation most of the time. I agree that running everything in tone 1 works (though you might get asked to repeat yourself in my...

    I’m actually also semi-native, so I have pretty decent pronunciation most of the time. I agree that running everything in tone 1 works (though you might get asked to repeat yourself in my experience). My issue tends to be when I’m tired or stressed my speaking slips more towards my native English accent where I have a harder time controlling which tones I’m using, even if it’s just trying to maintain tone 1

  18. Comment on What is your pet peeve with language acquisition? in ~humanities.languages

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    I mean the tone of your voice is separate from the tone of the characters you're speaking, so there's almost certainly a sarcastic tone of voice in Mandarin (though I'd probably butcher the...

    I mean the tone of your voice is separate from the tone of the characters you're speaking, so there's almost certainly a sarcastic tone of voice in Mandarin (though I'd probably butcher the character tones even more than I already do if I tried it)

    3 votes

  19. Comment on What is your pet peeve with language acquisition? in ~humanities.languages

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    Mandarin Sometimes I’m too tired to sound the tones correctly

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    Sometimes I’m too tired to sound the tones correctly

    4 votes

  20. Comment on X corp is taking down Nitter instances and demands takedown of project repository in ~tech

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    Seems it’s down again. Xcancel cites ‘new developments’ in their legal proceedings

    Seems it’s down again. Xcancel cites ‘new developments’ in their legal proceedings

    4 votes