You'd think that at the minimum, they'd require them to adopt the opposite sex (not that I think they should be allowed to adopt in general) .
Mexicans? Sure. Muzzies? Nope.
PDW has never been organic. I remember posting about it years ago, but it's obviously intentional. It's almost impossible for anything to rise up to the top page without a sticky. Anything that shows up on Rising dies in an hour and falls into the abyss. An hour would have maybe been sufficient in the T_D days, but PDW isn't nearly as active as that place. Not even remotely close. As such, the mods completely control the flow of information. If they only used stickies sparringly, it'd be different, but we know that's not how it works.
It's also easier go in and blow shit up vs capturing a region and keeping control with hostile citizenry arming up to prevent that. I guess in pre modern times you'd give people a choice to fall in line or be eradicated. That's not possible in the modern world, so military conquest is insanely costly.
It's true, it's only a matter of time. This AI/LLM technology seems to be a key piece to the puzzle.
Anonymity only applies to people in your real life circle. To the authorities and big tech, it's non existent.
That's true, but it seems that a monarchy is the only thing that can reign in a corrupt populace and a republic or a revolution is the only thing that can reign in a corrupt monarch. Therefore, a political system cannot be fixed indefinitely.
Corrupting hundreds hasn't seemed to have been much of a problem.
The more I've learned about our government, the more I've become a monarchist. Not that it's really that good, but overthrowing a single shithead is simpler than toppling a corrupt behemoth that's gives the people the illusion of choice, but is really just beholden to a certain group in people.
Won't happen. The show runners had to do a lot of gymnastics to not force the middle seasons to be a big mess of characters being all over the place with tons of strings to tie back up. They partly succeeded (putting aside the horrid S8) even if the quality was poorer than S1-4.
George spread his characters out even further and even added new ones on top of it. He can't finish the story because he can't figure out how to do it properly. Even worse is that his outline for the ending that was used on the show was universally hated by fans.
Yep, OG GoT is dead. George RR Martin and D&D made sure of that. Truthfully, the show runners got the worse end of it anyway. Their Star Wars project was canned and then who even hears about them anymore? People hate them. I doubt they ever figured that they'd run out of source material when they started the show.
Meanwhile, George continues to refuse to finish his books (probably because he can't figure out how and people hated his ending) and instead works on other projects, people eat it all up, and he continues to collect his big paydays.
Making bank on Steam transactions is just a mechanism to either buy more useless skins or get free games. Although, let's be honest, most people likely spend more than they make.
Sears was my part time high school/early college job. Place was going downhill long before Lampert came on the scene. Lampert just accelerated the death spiral.
It depends. I personally find PS1 games to be unplayable. Yet if someone made a faithful remake of some of those games, it'd be pretty sick. I think somewhere around 2010 is about as far back as I can go without needing a massive adjustment to wanting to get used to a game. 2D games are a different story since 8 and 16 bit games still look great for what they are.
In theory a remake is an easy way to make some money and get a new generation who won't be willing to play games with badly outdated graphics into a game or series. You have a script, voice lines, map and model concepts, quests, everything, already completed. The amount of work that's necessary is likely massively reduced and even moreso if you have a more recent game you can use as a framework.
You can remake a game 1:1 with better graphics and people would be super excited. Add some new side content that fits well with the existing story, even better. Yet somehow these devs just can't help themselves to make stupid changes.
I tend to think that AI bots spamming the Internet and retarded programming bias coming together will cause AI to eventually become retarded and unreliable (moreso than it is). It'll be interesting to see how it shakes out.
Part of me thinks that the death of monoculture is a big reason. When we used to have a monoculture, sure the biggest blockbusters made the big splash, but you also were more easily able to hear about less prominent projects. Shared media, fewer choices, less fragmentation. Today, you still hear about the big blockbusters, but everything else is spread so thin that it's not worth it to sit in the middle.
I'm a fan of traditionalism. Conservatism is a sham.
There are so many sites out there that not all would be blocked. VPN also makes DNS level blocking worthless. If you're the admin of the PC you can undo anything within a few moments.
At the end of the day, the only thing that works is building discipline and willpower to stop using. Every day longer than you go than last time is a victory.
I remember they used to trot them out on the regular in old episodes of The Fresh Prince. I guess they went extinct.
Even within the "white" race, people often stick with people from similar cultural backgrounds. Only as generations get further away from the immigrant ancestors does that change.
Most logical answer. All things considered, Trump himself seems fairly clean or he would have been ruined by now. It's why a revolution needs a leader who has no strings to hold him back.
Afaik, only Ivanka. Rumors of Lara being Jewish are unfounded. Tiffany's husband is Lebanese and Christian I believe. Jr. is single at this point, but there's no indication his ex wife was Jewish either.
I got 2.5 years for $99 in 2022. I didn't renew, but the offer they sent me was way better than that.
Why are these studies never about men who live in relatively sexless marriages and given permission to wet their wick elsewhere? Would that lead to greater martial satisfaction too?