Where do all the runners go? Do they still go running outside or go to the gym? If it's the gym, they must be overflooded by people trying to use the treadmill by now.
We see so much fear and panic from the media on the unhealthy quality but how come nobody outside I see actually seems to give a shit about bad air quality and lung cancer?
I even walked past a group of preschoolers yesterday at the worst point in the haze's PSI in my area where the burning smell was present.... and none of them wore masks either nor did the teacher.
Social media, especially Tiktok, is seriously conditioning girls to raise their expectations of guys to such a ridiculous level of pampering yet they now think this is the 'minimum standard'. My feed is full of girls who are only like 5-6 out of 10 in looks boasting about their boyfriends fetching them to and fro in their cars everyday, cooking for them every morning, planning their travels and funding everything...
Damn, are SG guys this desperate now? This country is becoming worse and worse like China with simps and the government of these kind of countries still wonders why the birth rate has cratered and the singles rate has shot up to like nearly 50% for adult men...
In the recently declassified cam footage showing the rescue of the downed US pilot from Iran, there's apparently some kind of helicopter the soldiers used to retrieve their target.
The helicopter is censored and looks smaller than a typical helicopter. Is this potential some kind of eVTOL the US military is already using? It reminds me of the time people had the New Jersey 'ufo' sightings from before. Maybe it's the same vehicle being used?
With word of Russia heavily considering an attack on the UK which would open an entire NATO war front... and the dangerous shenanigans going on with China and Taiwan, it got me wondering if this could be a boon for the eVTOL sector.
Yeah you may think this is crazy since everyone would be going crazy over such a large war happening but I really do believe a large global war is coming soon... and hey might as well look on the bright side, right? The evolution of the first use of airplanes also was heavily accelerated due to WW1 after all.
This is why I think the real market for eVTOLs is in the military industrial complex, not with air taxis. We saw the same with airplanes used in military first before commercial civilian adoption came only decades later.
I haven't seen any flight log updates since a few months back. What happened?
Everytime I see one of these guys sitting at a restaurant table with a girl talking to him with an iPad presented, I shake my head. These are the guys female FAs just love to prey on and no wonder the top female FAs are always the most chio. And I can tell these guy victims the lonely kind since they are always sitting nervously like clutching their bags tightly or appear very awkward while facing the girl.
It's surprising there's so many out there who seem clueless they're just being led on by the FAs to sign their bullshit endowment plans and ILPs. Or maybe some are well aware yet they just succumb to the temptation of being able to go on this kind of fake dates with attractive female FAs they know they can never land IRL.
The stupid term 'incel' has gone completely off the rails here nowadays I notice. Women here are just misusing the term heavily to just label any guy they disagree with to quickly avoid proper discourse on gender arguments.
First of all, of course the extreme misuse of the word in referring to guys who don't have sex is blatantly fucking untrue and outdated. You think it's so hard to remain virgin these days? Walau any hopeless guy just go to any red light district in Geylang and overseas and they can lose it already. I highly doubt there's even many virgins left except for maybe those voluntary ones like anime weeabs who just prefer hugging their waifu pillows.
Secondly to the topic here... the most ironic thing I notice is that it's actually the married/attached extrovert loudmouth guys who are the ones displaying most 'incel' traits. If you also think about it, how can most guys here on Reddit be so leftist/feminist when most guys browsing it look like nerds?? Everytime I notice people scrolling on Reddit in Singapore, it's always the nerdiest looking guys who girls obviously have no interest in yet it's actually these guys trying their hardest to play the white knight. Maybe it's to compensate for their lack of appeal to women that they end up siding on the feminist front.
Instead, the guys who always display the most nonchalant attitude and criticism toward women are always my guy friends who are already attached and financially/socially successful. They can always openly joke about gender problems and criticize women even in front of female colleagues and friends and everyone's actually ok with it because they carry the charisma with them. But suddenly when they do it on the internet, it becomes 'red pill' shit. And guess the biggest IRONY? Of course, these are the guys girls actively chase instead lol.
I personally have friends who are like this and in fact, I've NEVER seen an unattached single guy friend of mine demoan women in any way in our convos. It's always my extrov. attached guy friends who do it. Perhaps it's because they're the ones who know the problems of women first hand but I've also had a few guy friends like this in school and they were easily fucking swapping new girl friends every new year or so.
I'm getting tired of seeing those stupid subs' posts on my feed. Subs like r/archeraviation and r/jobyvsarcher is practically just full blown Joby fanboy subs these days where the subs' whole purpose becomes just hating on any Archer news. Even good news from Archer are desperately turned by those subs into bad news narratives.
The former sub (archeravation) wasn't even a hate sub until like the past year or so. It's like something shifted, Joby fanboys get a lot more jealous and scared about ACHR and they just hijacked the whole sub to spread their new propaganda since nobody was going to their own Joby sub. It doesn't help the moderators in those subs dont moderate shit and just all the hate brigading continue
From the looks of it, the original concept looked like:
From my insight, I theorized the story was somewhat similiar to what we have but a far far more grounded, realistic but darker and substantial take on the characters:
Kliff, Yan, Oongka and that 'Damiane' woman are probably the last remnants of the Greymanes who got killed off from some antagonist. I don't think it's the Blackbears as the villains since they're never even shown, but that king we see in the trailer repeatedly, probably Caliburn. You can also see a noble boy with them so I assume that young boy is the true heir but the villain Caliburn stole his place to the throne instead. So somehow the protagonists found themselves with this special boy and realize he needs be restored to the throne to save the kingdom or whatever. They then journey in the world of Pywel together but alone as one small bunch while, trying to make a living or something. It's mentioned by Kliff here also that they're being 'hunted' and shunned against for some reason, so maybe they've been ousted by the king as outlaws or something.
If so, it's such a wasted story shelved by PA's top management. On the bright side, I do appreciate that the final game gives so much more freedom now. I think with a tighter story, PA probably wouldn't have been able to fit in 70+ bosses or expanded the world as big as it became and let players go batshit crazy doing whatever fun stuff like flying mechs and shooting out lightning. Given this trailer came out 6 years ago, PA had only that period of time after that to quickly overhaul the entirety of the story and game structure so at least kudos to them for putting together this final game with a messed up half-written story in the end.
This also explains why our protagonists (Oongka, Kliff, Damiane) have so little dialogue lines and have to in fact share the dialogue lines for all the side quests with one-liners. In many cases, they dont even have any dialogue responses to NPCs. The voice actors probably weren't hired for enough time since they spent so much on the first concept story already
Making comics with GPT Image 2.0 is still an absolute pain in the ass and travesty. The AI hallucinates in every next panel with completely different looking characters and can never get the details of the faces and stuff right. And each time I tell the AI to just fix one part of the image it changes not only that part but again, all the characters' appearances. And this keeps happening even after I upload like a gazillion very detailed concept art pictures of the character to ChatGPT over and over again.
It's a really sad state what image generation is like for AI right now compared to video generation. And even sadder considering ChatGPT is supposed to be the very image generation tool currently in the market. I'm not sure if any China models even come close.
But why the lack of investment and support? Did the AI companies all give up on image generation or something. I know it's making AI comics is not most popular right now but there's still huge potential given everyone else is doing videos instead currently
I'm referring to those larger animals you can't tame BTW. Like the elephants and bisons for example. It pains me to have to kill these innocent peaceful creatures but I had to in order to register them in my journal and complete that encyclopedia challenge thing
Just look at the top endorsed mods on Nexus right now.
It's no longer just about gooning to regular women. You can't possibly tell me the community has been getting weirder and weirder in fetish nowadays.
Yet somehow I never see the gonner epidemic sweep up in this sub. Everytime gooner/sex mods are discussed here, people just quickly shun it or claim it's 'disgusting' or whatever. Or is everyone here just pretending to act all high and mighty when they're also secretly gooning to their modded games?
Do you feel aimless in life?
Do you still maintain contact with your friends or have most drifted away with family and rs priorities?
Have you chosen to BTO as a single or still looking for a partner to BTO with?
I keep hearing constant talk by people claiming the game can only look good with RR (ray reconstruction) enabled so I'm here to show that's really not the case. My AMD card doesn't support RR so I worked with what I got. For my current setup, I'm getting easily 90-120 fps on 99% of all places. I only ever dropped below 80 fps during one of the sky Abyss puzzle locations but that's about it.
I'm doing a super completionist run here so this is what I'm aiming for. Even though Abyss artifacts are relatively easy enough to come by, the skill requirements can be quite daunting. I'm right now in midst of Chapter 9 and have Kliff 95% maxed out, Oongka 80% maxed out and Damiane 90% maxed out, but my HP/Stamina/Spirit is still only around half their max levels. Am I on the right track or too slow here
Nobody in my office except for one foreigner cared about National Day. Some people even forgot the PH was National Day. I don't even see any flags hung at HDB corridors and balconies anymore compared to one or two decades ago. Nobody even cares about the newest NDP songs either and they only recall the old ones from the early 2000s and 1990s. When I asked most of my friends if they were going to the NDP or at least watch the fireworks, most of them weren't interested either. I remember the huge media attention and crowds everywhere from past NDPs.
What the hell happened? Is this just a subtle sign of this country slowly being depleted of its original local culture and locals themselves?
I don't know if it's just my algorithm or what but I've been seen lots and lots more of these women-centric posts on Tiktok recently. Just today I saw one on a girl posting publicly her texts with her BF constantly pranking him like she's about to breakup only say it's a joke at the last minute and this spans multiple occasions. And in the post, she admits she's just doing it for clout and attention online. I can't even believe her BF can put up with this shit. And most crazy of all is that most comments seemed to encourage and defend the girl instead.
Another post I saw was about a girl posting about how her BF did literally everything for her during their trip overseas from paying the airfare, the food, the transport to planning out every single itineiry, cooking all meals and all the while she does completely nothing on her part. And the comments as expected, were mostly from other girls all cheering her on with comments like, "I wish I had a BF like that." or "this should be the bare minimum standard for men."
Everytime I scroll on Tiktok, I'm just going WTF at these posts. Also most comments seem utterly braindead and moronic most of the time. It's also such a stark contrast to other social media apps like IG, YT and X. IG even has surprisingly way more anti-feminist/woke content and comments but the comments also feel more genuine and educated than the braindead ones I see on Tiktok. Is it just me or does most people also notice this same trend?