Red_October

Some states, like mine, require an ID check on literally everyone every single time. Doesn’t matter if you’re old as hell and on a first name basis with the cashier / bartender, if they get caught not checking the ID they’re on the hook.

It’s not a question of the world being too big or too small, it’s the density of interesting things. A giant world with very little worth doing doesn’t accomplish much, but similarly a small world where you’re absolutely tripping over things that feel like you shouldn’t skip them will also feel claustrophobic.

Additionally, the traversal system can help a LOT here. Even a world that has a lot of wide open dead space can feel good if the process of crossing that space is itself fun. Dune: Awakening comes to mind here, where there are large spans of open desert that you need to cross, but ripping across the dunes on my sandbike was so much fun I didn’t mind the dead ground.

Just switch over to a privacy focused mail service like… uh… like… well shit.

Well I occasionally have the impulse to tell my coworkers “That’s Minus Fifty DKP!” but aside from that, I dunno maybe there’s something to be said about just knowing your role, doing your job right, and assuming you don’t need to micromanage everyone else.

Obviously a better candidate would be better, but by the time the general election arrives you only get three choices.

• A neoliberal who won’t do enough to actually fix systemic problems and will continue to pamper the corporate class at the expense of the rest of us.
• A Fascist who will do the above while also actively pushing authoritarian policy, actively seek to villainize the most vulnerable among us, and actively try to normalize putting anyone who disagrees in concentration camps.
• Any vote for neither of the above that has no chance of actually winning the election and is as effective at enacting change as not voting at all.

Right now is absolutely the time to try to push forward the better candidate. Uplift the better option than the neoliberal, get active in the primary campaign, be heard now, because if you wait until the general election it’s too late. Our goal should be to replace the neoliberal on the big ticket. I do not like Gavin Newsome, I do not want him to be president. He has shown his true colors more than a few times. If it comes down to it, though, I’ll vote for whoever isn’t part of the MAGA-Nazi authoritarian regime, because if you don’t pick the lesser evil, you get the greater evil, and they sure as shit won’t be better than the one that just wasn’t good enough.

I’m sure there are a lot of people right now holding their heads up in pride about how they voted for whatever third party option would have been better than Harris, but their pride and conviction to their ideals doesn’t help the people being rounded up by the secret police and sent to the camps. We can’t always fix everything all at once, but that’s no excuse to allow the most egregious evil to run rampant until the perfect solution comes along.

They preferentially select for Evil first, but being both evil and dumb on so many levels is definitely how to get ahead in the organization.

Counterstrike has had loot boxes for many years, they weren’t recently added. What was recently added was a mechanic that allows 5 lower value items (certain gun skins) to be exchanged for a random higher value item (glove or knife skins). It’s acting to level the market. If anything, this change serves to inhibit loot box gambling by cutting the possibility of hitting a real money jackpot.

Obviously being nominated doesn’t mean shit, the committee has already declined to give the warmonger an award once, and he’s only increased MAGAstappo violence since then.

Yeah but Cuomo is going for MAGAt support, calling him racist only makes them think he’s one of them.

I’m pretty sure the whole timeline is on the verge of total collapse. We’re all gonna wake up and it’ll be December 31, 1999, and we’ll have to try again.

Could it? Technically maybe. Would it? No.

None of the distribution to spread the artist’s work to a wider audience, reduced duration of profit per work, and weaker copyright protections even before going public domain. You could probably find ways to cut a music label’s revenue even more steeply if your really tried, but you’d have to really try. This is barely a step up from an artist trying to self publish, except the artist still has to give the label a cut AND they can only make money on the work for 5-10 years. Nobody would sign with this label in the first place, and the label itself would implode in short order.

Yeah Krafton isn’t saving shit, they’re just making the death slow and painful.

I mean, the Barbarian asked the one question and didn’t gain anything from it. Knowing which one is the liar doesn’t… help anymore.

Yeah that’s what they said, this isn’t negotiation.

There also won’t be any negotiation after the shutdown ends either, but that part is just taken as read.

I usually really like DoubleFine games but this was the first I’d even heard of this one. Gotta wonder how much marketing actually happened at all.

Yeah that’s the problem, not enough console warring and platform exclusivity.

Jesus christ, OP over here telling on himself.

Skill issue. The phone doesn’t do anything on it’s own.

Yeah not true at all. If you think you’re worse off for having a cell phone, the problem isn’t the phone.

Ooh gosh who could have seen this coming?! We were all so sure they would actually abide by the cease fire this time, unlike all the last ones! /s