Apparently the laws are really lax about possessing certain underage stuff (not sure how much, if it was jailbait or worse) but apparently he had SO MUCH OF IT that what got him in trouble was that law enforcement assumed that he was a distributor.
She's a stupid flat earther bitch. She believes that if something is too complicated for her dumb ass to understand, then it can't be real. But she'll take whatever side of any argument that looks like it has a chance of giving her money. You might as well as entrust a methhead to keep safe the family heirlooms.
Okay right off the bat
Joel's decision to save Ellie, or rather, to murder a load of doctors who were planning to use Ellie's immunity to create a cure that could have saved mankind, has always been shrouded in a level of ambiguity.
Let's call a spade a spade: Joel killed a lot of people who were trying to murder Ellie. I mean if what Joel did was murder, then killing a kid is also murder.
"Now, is our science a little shaky that now people are now questioning it?
People were questioning it from the get-go why these doctors were chomping at the bit to kill Ellie immediately rather than try other approaches with her first before resorting to death. Like a biopsy. Ever heard of a biopsy? Doctors certainly should know what a biopsy is. Try a biopsy first instead of chopping her whole brain out, holy balls.
I don't care that much about whether the Fireflies could pull it off since Joel certainly didn't care.
But don't forget: anyone saying that Joel deserved to die is implicitly saying that Ellie deserves to die.
Trump has slashed the NIH budget including parts reserved for cancer research and pushed for elimination for cancer screenings for poor people (also early detection in cancer tends to lead to less expensive treatments) so I guess people with cancer can get fucked kek
I'm sure it'll balance out for more phone calls for more Scotts to come
Nintendo: "Pre-orders for Nintendo Switch 2 in the U.S. will not start April 9, 2025 in order to assess the potential impact of tariffs and evolving market conditions. Nintendo will update timing at a later date. The launch date of June 5, 2025 is unchanged."
So just the pre-orders are being delayed, but the launch date itself is unaffected.
I wouldn't be surprised if there are some 'dormant' channels with nothing but bot subscribers cultivating for years and eventually getting assigned to someone. People talk about youtubers selling out, but corporations are taking it a step further and starting from the ground-up using actors to pretend to be a regular person. It lures viewers into a false sense of trust. It's like the new reality TV: 99% of it is scripted but people still get duped into thinking it's somehow more real than a Disney studio.
There is basically no quality control about this. Any kid with a phone or tablet will watch and fall into a parasocial relationship with a Youtuber, thinking it's a real person, so the actor can sell shit.
If my wife needs to take so many steps to essentially "take the India out of India" so she can visit India safely on her own, then India doesn't deserve any tourist money. Yes, there are basic safety precautions to take when you travel anywhere, but you know it's bad when even other Indian men complain how rapey Indian men are.
Isekai/regression/transmigration are super popular due to the escapism they offer, but they also end up being painfully derivative. So much of it is copying what other stories did, but lack the creativity to do something new with it. It's like the Human Centipede of anime.
Since anime runs behind the manga/manwha/manhua, I would say you are experiencing anime that pounced on Konosuba's popularity and are running "loser MC haha" into the ground.
Even this was originally considered to be a fresh spin on the typical MC, at least from a few years ago. It's sort of like how bog standard harem MC dudes were very bland losers (think Love Hina, etc.) so the male audience could project themselves onto, but then once light novels started to pick up the MCs started to become competent and a little angster (think Sword Art Online, etc.).
I've fallen off a lot of anime since isekai is so prevalent. And one of its major pitfalls is the determination to make the MC such an OP as fuck character that the story is incapable of producing a compelling villain character. When the MC does nothing but steamroll over any opposition he has, and antagonists all have to be incompetent and stupid, shit just gets boring.
But the whole "people just can't see HOW POWERFUL I REALLY AM" is slop that 13 year olds eat up and once they get sick of it there is always the next back to 13 year olds to get in line. Which has made isekai almost impossible to get stale at this point. It's frustrating because there is nothing stopping people from writing better, but why make the effort when you're going to get rich all the same?
A software friend of mine pointed out that 2023 had a huge amount of layoffs in this field. According to Linkin, Crowdstrike had a bunch of unfilled positions even halfway into 2024. Which is nuts, because the layoffs last year would have had people firing up their resumes and Crowdstrike should have been swimming in applications, and filling those positions. People like to gripe about unqualified people, but the sheer numbers indicate that this cannot explain the discrepancy.
Basically, Crowdstrike either did some really shoddy outsourcing to India while still saying they're hiring, or these chucklefucks thought they could depend on generative AI to make up the difference.
They certainly will but the thing is they were desperate to keep Biden for a reason
The reason? Hillary.
Something must have finally happened that made the rest of the confident that Hillary "It's MY turn!" Clinton won't try to snatch and run.
GTA Online and Fortnite have done so much damage to the industry. Of course, it's not just them: Overwatch loot boxes, gatcha games in general, everything all the way back to the fucking horse armor.
If gamers just hadn't opened up their wallets to buy the slop, we wouldn't have this metastasized cancer running around.
I agree, Rockstar is definitely making some GTA content that they have no plans on including it in GTA6 - it's going straight to GTA Online 2 or whatever.
The silver lining is that yeah, it's easier than ever for people to start an indie game company.
Yeah there are photographers whose entire job is just to follow politicians around and take pictures of them at rallies or other public events. It's like saying wow this wildlife photographer who captured a rare bird species also captured another rare bird species two decades ago.
The Jackson movies aren't perfect but they are the best we're going to get for at least another century. He approached it how people should approach adaptations: how to adapt a story from one medium to another. Going from a literary medium to a visual/audio medium.
The "oh boy now we can stuff this with diversity cookies to reach arbitrary quotas and add our snide little dialogue" approach is just taking the Mona Lisa and spray painting all over it.
Musk's brain is permanently stuck on Silicon Valley bullshit, too enamored with what he can do and doesn't spare a thought about the practicalities of someone actually having to live or raise a family under his decisions. He's seething that he can't run for President himself - and it doesn't look like Trump will try to abolish that anytime soon - so he's trying to build his own little army by throwing money at third world engineers to astroturf a political party for him.
Remember, this is the guy who told Americans "fuck your own face" at the prospect of his precious H-1B slave labor being regulated. He'll prattle on about culture wars but he'll turn around and import as many brown people as he wants so long as he can save a few pennies. He wants the American middle class to die.