Thier attempts will make for good comedy, if nothing else.
I used to hate how some people referred to the Singularity in Science Fiction as 'Rapture of the Nerds'.
...after seeing how some people reacted to ChatGPT, though. I get it, now.
I would still punch Charlie Stross in the throat, though. In minecraft.
I derive atleast some bitter amusement at Disney desperately trying to ape it's betters and falling hard on it's face so much that even the normies are noticing the bullshit.
The Witches of Dathomir were a matriarchal, amazonian tribe of force users... that had an interesting habit of capturing males as breeding slaves and edging heavily toward the dark side.
And this is what we get on-screen. A bunch of self-righteous, hypocritical retards that promptly end up dead because all their offspring are self-centered psychopaths.
You'd think they'd do the smart thing and atleast have them look good. Nope. Dreadlocks and 'It's MA'AM' pinched karen faces as far as the eye can see.
I fucking hate this timeline.
My personal take on the Las Vegas shooting is that it was a Fed honey-pot that went out of control and left them scrambling to cover their traitorous asses.
Oh, Inflation can be a very good thing... if, say, you're borrowing a shit-ton of money on a fixed-rate lone, or are paying off on a fixed-rate mortgage.
Not something most people are casually going to be doing.
I've found over the years that financial stuff isn't very intuitive, even to very smart people.
Fun little aside, apparently it's a bit of a stereotype that doctors are very bad with money. Clearly, I need to work on getting a Dr Sugar Momma to make sure she doesn't spend herself into the poor-house. (I would never do this. This is horrible advise.)
Stuff like this never pops up on my recommendations(Well, not this type of porn intro, atleast).
I was thinking about this the other day. You'd think someone would have come up with a reliable way to hack the algorithm via video clicks and searches, but I've never seen it brought up.
Surprised they've decided to stick thier dick into this hornet's nest, though they're probably relying on no one having the resources to call them out on thier bullshit.
Ah, well. Just makes sourcing old roms a tiny bit harder, but not impossible.
It's the 'How would you feel if you didn't have breakfast this morning?' question writ large.
As disturbing as it is to contemplate, as time has gone by, I've become more and more convinced that alot of mental capabilities I'd venture most people on here can pull off just aren't present in the population at-large.
Growing up, I had no issue reading about a protagonist radically different than myself; Fuck, I still re-read Dragonsong and Dragonsinger from Anne Macaffery because that shit is comfy as fuck, even though I am not a girl nor do I can about singing much.
It's why the NPC meme is so terrifying, and why people freaked out about it; the idea that there are degrees of consciousness, and not everyone has the same qualia basically makes society as a whole break down. It makes people demonstrably lesser in a way that can't be ignored.
I'm expecting similar with the Fallout TV series(he says, huffing copium).
Still a little salty at the people who were hopping on the 'It's good!' train all over the place, but atleast there were people willing to call bullshit on that.
I'm already seeing articles on how to disable it. It's not in the current batch of windows machines on sale, but it will be, soon.
I still can't fathom what the flying fuck Microsoft is thinking, though. I know there's stupidity, but this has gone beyond casual and straight into S-tier professional stupidity.
Haven't had a chance to discuss stuff with my IT guys, but I wonder how that conversation is going to go, given all the sensitive information we deal with on a regular basis.
Some of the more recent trailers showing off Multiplayer gave me some strong hints that it's likely going to be shit.
Maybe I'm just paranoid, I dunno. Not like I'm going to buy it, anyways. I'm expecting a reaction to this game akin to Starfield - alot of people initially gushing for a week or so before awkwardly shuffling it off to the side and trying to forget it.
Right. My worst fears, come to pass.
Kreia is one of the best written Star Wars characters ever done. Having these retarded wordcels try to copy that will result in fuckups beyond comprehension.
You hate Nixon for opening relations with China.
I hate Nixon for founding the EPA and denying me my Toyota Hilux.
There's plenty of hate to go around.
Could be worse.
Could be 'X-Com: Into the Deep' hard.
Schizo rant incoming;
I've always been highly skeptical of the claim that Female Custodies were due to Amazon - come the fuck on, people, it was a goddamn 4chan thread of all things - but the more I've considered the matter, the more I've been confused.
The whole thing around female space marines has been a contentious topic. People at GW know this, and while Games Workshop is really fucking stupid, they're not normally stupid in this way. So not only did they drag the whole 'female space marines' non-start out back at shoot it in the head - twice - we have female BETTER than Space Marines.
Yet, there's no female Custodies models, and no plans whatsoever to have any female custodies models. They launched a tactical nuke into the fandom in the most limp-wristed manner possible - via twitter posting and a little fiction blurb in the new codex.
The idea that Amazon has GW over a barrel - and GW knows it, and are freaking out over the entire deal and the devil they've signed a pact with - is looking more and more likely. I'm not sure I believe it, but I really hate how much sense it makes.
Games Workshop is still a piece of shit company, though.
Holy shit.
This is the first time I've seen actual photos of the people he had grief with. The Thompsons look like goddamn radiation-scarred mutants.
I can see how this might have been a good thing.
Once.
But in the current environment(never mind the monstrous shoes they'd have to fill for some characters - Londo and G'kar? Good fucking luck there), I can only hope it never sees the light of day.
...and for the record, I'm still salty as fuck that Crusade was canceled.
You'd think that knowing about blatant political assasinations in a so-called 'nation' that's right up against the border to the one I live in would be fairly fucking important.
But I find it telling that this is the first that I've actually heard of this.
I wonder why.
(I know exactly why - reporting on this would make people realize that Mexico is an utter, lawless shithole and anything coming from that direction should be met with [REDACTED] force.)
Disregard multiplayer, return to single player.
I'm gearing up to give Stalker GAMMA a try this weekend, given my free time. We'll see how that susses out.
There was an NPR article on testosterone from years back - I'm too lazy to look around for it at the moment - where the entire station got tested for their T-levels.
The guy with the highest T level? The gay man.
There's also implications that high T is indicative of your political choices. Implying that Low-T literally makes you vote democrat.
Fun stuff.
People aren't taught how to utilize college properly. It's always 'Get degree, magic happens'. Which might have worked at one point, but the environment has changed, drastically, and people need to recognize this.
If there's one thing I could hammer into people nowadays that I had to learn the hard way - never, ever graduate college without having a job lined up and locked down. You should be using your last year taking 'easy' classes and wringing every last drop of advantage over the social network you've built up amongst all your college professors to get yourself a nice lock-in. This is critical. I'd go so far as to put off graduating if need be. It's that important.
Kind of, yes, but not really.
The basic gist of that kerfuffle boiled down to the area wanting to have their own schools and not send their kids to the shitholes in Baton Rogue to be abused by feral blacks.
Baton Rogue basically said 'hah hah fuck no you're not a city get fucked and be a good little pay pig'.
The area basically replied 'WELL THEN' and started off the entire process of turning an unincorporated area into it's own city.
Cue alot of legal screaming because, all of a sudden, this area was really fucking important FOr sOme reaSON(money), several rounds of voting, legal challenges, and here we are now.
For Oregon, it's not like a portion of a previous state getting turned into it's own area isn't unprecedented(West Virginia), but that required, well, an active shooting war.
Hmm...
It's the only MMORPG that actually let's me fucking roleplay any way I want without shoe-horning me into a specific role.
I still love the mission in the 'Rise of the Hutt Cartel' where you basically get to flirt and sass with your Imperial Minder... only she doesn't know who you are. And when you finally meet face to face, she freaks out because she's been chastising one of the most powerful people in the Sith Empire.
And I'm just over here thinking... why? Why can't I get this shit elsewhere? What the hell is up with this timeline?
Acts like a man, immediately backs down when she gets treated like one in turn. Fucking coward.
I'd fight her in a fucking heartbeat. No, I don't care that I probably have a good hundred pounds on her. Talk shit, get hit. It would be a good education for her to get the Sean Connery treatment.