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This is what I've been using for years -> https://github.com/samhocevar/wincompose

I'd looked up a score card first and there were precisely three checkboxes for extra, succulent, 100-point-scoring yahtzees. What I don't know is if this is a limit of the paper or of Hasbro's imagination for crowning human achievement.

The em dash is just something you can use to diagnose the "AI-ness" of some text, the same way a cough could mean a cold or it could mean something else. You don't need to be self-conscious about it.

Somebody else replied with the video that popularized this bit of insight.

If you were playing yahtzee, and your opponent only rolled sixes, would you not say anything? No, no, rolling a six isn't proof of cheating—that's... that's ridiculous.

Also, don't tell me you need to roll more than sixes to win yahtzee, I don't know any other dice games.

Mate, humanity is not going to make it if we can't learn to sympathize with and protect each other. I'm sorry your life is hard. It's not a god damn contest.

What industry are you in, anyway? If you don't mind me asking.

Okay, not sure how much this matters considering where the world is heading, but:

If they can't get better working conditions because you'll complain (it's not fair, yadda yadda), how will you get better working conditions when they complain (it's not fair, yadda yadda)?

I'm just saying, if you're not willing to play ball, why should I care about your sick pay?

Medicaid is gonna burn up soon. Should I be concerned that you'll be losing coverage, or are we just fully on board with this petty individualism?

That entertainment is labor. What are you talking about?

This made me laugh so hard

By letting Ellie go you are robbing Ellie of her vengeance, making her sacrifices pointless, which would hopefully show her that her violent ways only lead to violent ends

This more or less happens in the middle of the game, and it does not stop her. She's not ready to stop then, so she just invents new reasons to keep going.

We just helped her kill hundreds of people without shedding a tear. That person would not stop when they finally had their chance for revenge

I don't think this is true. I think you're looking for a simple way to understand why she did what she did, but in doing so, you're kind of reducing her to a cartoon character.

When Ellie found Abby, she was already strung up, starved thin, possibly victim of a lot worse, and in the middle of being executed. And now Ellie's come to beat her... more? There's very little satisfaction to be gained from this. There's very little to do here that would feel like victory.

When Ellie cut Abby down from the pole, she was already having doubts. When Ellie moves to the other boat, the way the camera follows her almost feels like she's about to get in and paddle away. She doesn't start on Abby until after looking at her own blood, as if it had to remind her why she was even there.

In that moment, I think Ellie had already given up. It was only through inertia that she continued. She might've been thinking, as you are, "if I'm not going to kill her, what was the point of all this?"

If Ellie were so focused on the uncomplicated style of revenge I feel like you're suggesting, you might ask why Ellie cut her down at all. Why not just stab her on the pole right there? Why threaten Lev to make Abby fight back? Ellie had plenty of opportunity, but she chose something approaching fairness instead.

This comment is already long, so I don't want to burden you too much further. But I don't think the deaths from elsewhere in the game don't weigh on Ellie either. I think she's fine with it in a "you gotta do what you gotta do" kind of way—if I remember, she was rattled after she tortured what's-her-name. And when she let Abby go, I don't think this is because she suddenly adopted a moral stance against killing people in general, I think it's because the weight of what she was doing, the weight of everything she had lost, and the deeply unsatisfying nature of her victory finally got to her.

And just a final note, none of this is a defense of Ellie as a good person. I agree with you that Ellie was a villain by the end. I liked her character more, but if only one of them could live, I did not think she deserved to; the game knows you have an emotional attachment to her from the previous game and tests the strength of that feeling very heavily.

Okay, my guy, you need to read more books. I mean this in the strictest terms possible. Your country depends on you. America is stuck at a 6th grade reading level, and you're not giving me much hope.

Why are the curtains blue, sepi? Why are they blue?

What is a Dutch angle? Why do films use them?

Why is The Matrix so green? Please!

I'm really excited for The Last of Us 3, whenever that finally happens. For a while, I didn't think a Part III could even happen, but luckily Druckmann said some time ago he'd actually come up with a concept for what a Part III might even be, and I'm just so ready for whatever exciting, messed up stuff he's got in store for us!