Orcs to replace hobbits is a conspiracy theory
Our money and power laundering schemes got to public.
Makes me think about the Molly Maguires and the Pinkerton's. The private police force is now security guards, and they work at places like google.
Funny how that always happens.
That's how George Lucas made Indy and Star Wars. He put in stuff he liked, and made visuals for it. He also lucked out by having Harrison Ford.
That sounds like Ehlers Danlos. Look into it and if you can get help. You don't need to man up if you don't have to.
It's the middle aged nostalgia factor. As you enter middle age you have the money and means to buy stuff you wanted as a kid. So, all the games go up in price by people who want to make extra money.
The best trick is to buy them before the nostalgia kicks in. My PS3 and 4 collection grew quickly because everything was around $2.
It goes back down when the same people enter geezerhood.
At the Portland retro gaming expo, we had Atari and odyssey games going for hundreds as the creators were treated like celebrities. Now I can buy all those games for $10 for the lot. The creators are still treated nicely though.
I'm waiting for arcade games to drop back. Every time I think I have the money, the price doubles.
I felt like she was being very blonde at the moment.
That would be a site to behold.
Reading this made me realize that most teens are new to having unstructured play time. The cool fun stuff is fairly organized like scouts. Going to an arcade has to be an actual choice, and it's difficult to do that when it's new.
That's probably why we have kids in so many organized things. Karate is both a skill, and a babysitter. Just letting the kid go do whatever, when they have no idea is kind of scary.
As a teen in the 90's, Seattle was amazing. I had my 14th birthday party at a Discover Zone, and my 17th was finding out all the hills were a deathwish if I wanted to rollerblade. It had tons of arcades, and weird things to find. There were still times where I felt like there was nothing to do. That sense of indecision was being a teen, and not anything to do with the world around me.
Pride Month in Seattle was a canary in the coal mine.
Online school was treated the same and has been limping along for decades because of it.
I was waiting for someone to mention Dino Rossi. What happened to him was the sign the Left needed to try it at every turn they could get.
Anything east of the cascades is ignoring half the mandates sent to them. The sheriff in Spokane literally said no one would enforce stuff from the emperor. The problem is how many they are forced to abide by.
It is an interesting thing how suddenly companies being socialist is a good thing. Company towns are ok, so long as they're left leaning and talk about socialism. It's a new truck, and I have wondered how many people have caught onto it.
That was lovely.
That is a very good point.
AI and VR are tools for entertainment. The reason why they are so scary is most people being replaced are trained to only think and do things in a specific way.
I was in an art class with a bunch of architects and engineers. They had different skill levels, but drew everything exactly the same. If I used AI to draw something, those designers are out of a job. They were drones anyway. Even using the brush in a different way was foreign to them. If you toss in how many programs are used to do their job, you see that a once lauded position is being turned into a simple system of fulfilling the requirements. I think they add archaic design to feel safe, because any level editor could do the job way faster.
When I use AI for design, it's a tool I can use. I don't expect the communist party to own the rights to use a hammer. Somehow all of these political parties think they have the rights to do such a thing. The AI needs to only give their answer, or they can't own the tool.
VR is actually useful so long as it's used correctly. Sadly, most of the stuff promoted is nothing like that. I get the feeling a lot of these bad designs are smoke and cover for the military contracts they all thought would happen once VR or AR proved itself.
VR at home is a failure. VRcades aren't doing as well as people thought. However, the experience stuff like a theme park that has things you can touch and hallways to move around in, is doing great. It basically decorates the area. If done correctly, it's a boon. But the companies only want to use it in one or two bad ways, and that's it.
So, VR or AI are just tools and the drones being replaced because they can't think outside of the box they made themselves.
My sister was told to walk it off a lot as well. The best way to check for it involves moving your neck or spin in a weird way during an MRI. Most techs don't even know how to do that, so it's difficult to even get the procedure to see if it happens. My sister's brainstem was disconnected from her skull. She could look behind herself. We called it owling. It's from a family of naturally flexible people.
It's a rare thing, and I expect a lot of grifters to latch onto it. I also expect guys not to know about it since they're told to man up a lot. So between the grifters, the idiot doctors and medical staff, and being told to man up or walk it off I expect a full shitshow on this one.
That's basically how the US got involved in Vietnam.
I'm kind of waiting for Power Rangers to be considered racist because of how it depicts the Japanese.
It's a typo, but this DM allows it.
It seems Chapek really didn't want to be involved and asked DeSantis what to do. The fact that he went ahead means there was a lot of very heated internal politics.
I would happily play a PC port as well.
I was about to chip in about Seattle and Portland.