I was one of those kids. I was allowed to record the lectures in some way, and I had rules as part of my IEP that when we did test I was supposed to be in an isolated area (usually the main room for Special Ed students). Over time, I eventually learned to work with everything so that I still had the IEP for if I needed it (like in math classes mostly), but I could be largely normal while still retaining my steel trap of a mind that remembered everything I saw and heard. And now I work a job in manufacturing, where my Aspergers means that I dont just survive, I thrive.
I think it is possible to turn it around by being proactive and building up a culture around that though. For instance, my local school district has been on top of transparency agenda's to make it easier for parents to check on what teachers are doing and what their lesson plans are. At least from what I have seen, they also still have the same focus on in-class debate that they did when I was there, so that can be helpful.
But the overall point remains: We can no longer just let schools be schools, and people need to watch that shit like a hawk now. It sucks, but that is the way it is now.
I think their fuck ups in New York last year might have undermined their confidence in their ability to rig elections.
I keep trying to tell people and no one believes me. The situation is far more in our favor than people would like to think. It will still be a slog, but it is winnable in 2024 and beyond, because there are too many bushfires in too many locations for them to fight them all, and some of them are already out of control (like Texas and Florida).
Or she is going to go full Gremlin mode and start wailing on the guy with me. Because even as much bigger than I am, she doesn’t think I should be the only one with my ass on the line.
Source: it has already happened.
I have known her for almost 15 years, dude. If she was planning on screwing me over like you think women do, I think she would have made her move by now.
That has been my attitude and why I dislike the loud Evangelicals (among other reasons). My attitude is that it is not my job to go out and find people to bring into the flock, especially since many of them are actually wolves. But if God calls someone and sends them to me, I will help them as best I can.
Meanwhile, when a woman finds a man who is bigger than her but grows to trust them, it leads to them looking at them as a protector. My fiancé has told me exactly that. About how part of the reason she likes me is that I am a titan compared to her (+50lbs, much stronger, a whole head, neck, and shoulders taller), and she has run to me before when she was worried or felt scared.
Which of course makes me feel good too as a man.
From the article:
In one group chat message, Sturgeon reportedly sent photos that included one that stated..."I know what I have to do but I don’t know if I have the strength to do it."
Is this motherfucker out here actually quoting fucking Kylo Ren? And doing it as a "This makes me a badass and a rebel against the system" statement?
Once the Ford Mark 1 had a target fix you were basically ****ed
Not as much as you think. The earliest FCS like the Mark 1 effectively only let you shoot in obscured conditions (night, fog, etc) and allowed you to correct for the Coriolis Effect. You even still had to ladder shoot to get the range on the early systems. Even with the advanced systems like the Mk 38 used on the Iowas, that was still a hit rate of like 35-40%. On the other hand, that was indeed a massive step up from "traditional" fire control which would have an accuracy rating of like 5% on a clear day.
That said, the point about guided artillery being no good against ships is true. If they are sitting around or moving slow, sure. But if they are going full bore its out of the question.
Although if you are in the market for cheap anti-ship method (which btw, is compatible with the F-16's the Taiwanese air force is rocking), they recently discovered you can destroy a ship with JDAM's.
I mean, even in the calculus here that is still just a draw.
I mean, I have been quite open about my attitude of Musk taking over Twitter from word "go". Either he destroys it, denying my enemies a means of communication. Or he fixes it, and allows everyone else to talk and take the fight to my enemies.
Either way, I win.
Poor Man's Poison is also pretty good. Although they are more Country Rock with some of their newer stuff rather than true Country.
I have never made anything that big. I use the mod for 25 tiles, but I usually only get to about 40k population before my computer starts contemplating committing sudoku.
The main mods I use are Real Time (makes ticks weekly instead of yearly, changes AI behavior by the day and time), Real Population (makes it so factories employ dozens, and high rises house hundreds), , and Lifestyle Change (helps prevent death waves by randomizing citizens moving into town). As well as infinite Ore/Oil the TMPE mod, and Unlock All.
Honestly, I am just glad there have been a ton of optimization updates to Unity since 2015. Between that and seasons being confirmed, they could change literally nothing else and CS2 Will already be as revolutionary as the original was.
Oh yeah. The business podcaster that I listen to for everything that has been going down with Disney said during the call yesterday that you know DeSantis and the Universal C-Suite guys were just popping champagne and toasting to Disney actually deciding they were going to eat the crazy burger instead of quit while they were still not getting piledrived by everyone else.
Orlando Sentinel crows about the Disney cloak and dagger winning for the moment.
This isnt going to end the way they hope it does. Lets ignore their cope about how Disney totally didnt lose out by having Reedy Creek taken away from them (because the lawyers who actually know what they are talking about have already said they are getting fucked by that). Their little stunt where they tried to give themselves powers will be squashed by the courts pretty much as soon as Florida files the paperwork. Because Disney effectively made themselves have the powers of an HOA on crack. And if they are allowed to get away with that, then the thousands of other special districts in the state will demand to become HOA's on crack.
This is not a fight Disney can win. Because despite what the Pixie Dusters and and Bob Iger seem to believe: Florida holds all the cards, and Disney needs Florida a lot more than Florida needs Disney (especially with recent growth).
I imagine investors are, too.
They are. And if the recent Disney Shareholder's meeting is anything to go by, they are becoming resentful of that fact. Since while most people are talking about the ones who just laid into Iger for going political, less talked about where a few going "So, about Disney+ profitability..."
Eh, its not the first time that has happened. So I am a bit more willing to look the other way on that one.
Go see the movie, shows, and games you like and be happy.
This is the stance I have come around to as well. I dont really go out of my way to try and decide if something is "woke" or "based". If something catches my eye, I will take part in it. And both sides can fuck off.
Of course, that still usually means avoiding your typical Hollywood bullshit since they couldnt write an interesting story to save their lives.
I didn't mind her character at all
Seconded. When you actually watch her fight, most of what she does is by being faster than everyone else instead of just overpowering them. And just to show that she isnt some extremely strong person, there is that guy that it takes her a good several minutes and dozens of stabs to kill. And in the same time, John has already killed dozens.
If I could reconcile these factors, I could consider him a decent character.
The way I took it, was that since he is more or less working semi-officially for The Marque, that the High Table just kind of wrote it all off as "Marque is the one putting his neck on the line with this strange assassin." I do foresee him being more prominent in the inevitable John Wick 5 they have already confirmed they are working on.
THE FUCKING BULLETPROOF BUSINESS SUITS.
It is probably the only thing I actually disliked in the whole movie. I was fine with them in the last few movies where it was shown to provide limited protection, but it still came down to skill and not getting hit to actually avoid damage.
Now the damn things can be used as actual shields, they can apparently stand up to extremely high caliber damage like shotguns fired from short range, and apparently even let you survive falling from buildings or getting hit by cars.
Damn, I hate it.
Still, overall I enjoyed the movie and would recommend to anyone who has enjoyed the series thus far.
It’s worse than that. You have plenty of examples where they will take characters who are explicitly stated to be over 18 and who have large breast and say they are “loli” because they look youthful and/or are short.
I would say yes. They did a big update that allows you to buy specific weapons and then reforge with specific upgrades so that your game is much less reliant on praising RNGesus. It can still get pretty grindy to get the gear you would need for a higher level mission though.
EDIT: Outside of those issues, I always thought the gameplay itself was pretty solid, and the interactions between the different types of characters were always fun.
I will say Anno is more of an economy sim rather than a true city builder. Almost all of the challenge of the game revolves around creating efficient supply lines and trade routes, and the city you build essentially only exist to provide workers and buy your goods. And like I said, once you get to the higher rank of workers (Artisans, Engineers, Investors), then you need imported goods from the "New World" to fully fulfill your needs. Which involves setting up islands with what are for all intents and purposes Hispanics working on them.
I will say that the campaign has some stuff to imply that they believe that the people in the New World are more "at peace" with nature. But the game depicts colonization as a symbiotic relationship, and it suffers from the usual attempts by the Left of making the "Old World" look bad, but then having them live better lives with more prosperous cities.
My rotation at the moment is as follows:
Victoria 3: Currently trying to do an "Asian Empire" playthrough with as Vietnam, since Vietnam has easy access to almost every important resource (about the only thing it is missing is sulfur). It is quite entertaining to dunk on other Asian nations with a Napoleonic army when they are are still fighting with Peasant Levies.
Company of Heroes 3: It sounds like the mutliplayer is busted, but the single player has been fairly interesting. Also, one of the campaigns is you playing as the Germans (Africa Corp specifically), which is a rather unusual thing the game did in this day and age.
Forza Horizon 5: I had been in the mood for some old school semi-realistic racing, so this fit the bill. Not much else to really say about it.
Cities: Skylines: Doing one last build before the sequel comes out later this year/early next year, which looks to be improving on a lot of things. At least that is the hope. For the current build, I basically just want to build the biggest city I possibly can with the fewest issues.
Warhammer 40K: Darktide: Me and my friends have been getting back into this now that some of the issues with it have been resolved. I personally thought it played well enough before, but the changes to make it so you are not as reliant on RNG for your builds was extremely helpful.
The Great War: Western Front: A WW1 real-time strategy game? It works better than you think. Obviously, you are typically going to get absolutely dumpstered on offense, but will absolutely body people on defense much like in the real war. It also has a novel way of making you actually fight like a WW1 general, where the frontline only moves in a way that makes it difficult to do, and you sometimes just launch attacks to disrupt the enemy instead of trying to take ground.
Greedfall.
See, I played it, and while I agree with the "resounding meh" critique, I actually still enjoyed it enough. I also didnt really have an issue with the multicultural-ness of the factions. Its set in a fictional world, and the factions and races follow their own internal logic as set by the game.
If you want a game that focuses more on colonizer's though, and are into more "city-builder" types, Anno 1800 requires you to colonize to get to certain later stages of building. It starts with you needing Cotton for making Fine Clothing (combined with fur), as well as Sugar to make Rum. Victoria 3 is also not just a Colonizers dream, but an Imperialist dream since you can expand though invasions and firepower.
Initial charges dropped, possible charges pending.
I mean, I know I am not a lawyer. But that sounds like Double Jeopardy to me.
In case you were wondering why so many churches are bowing to the Woke.
Also, I can believe history being that low. I got my degree in History from a state college, and not only did I have many openly Conservative/Libertarian professors, my Dean was a Conservative who mocked the fact that everyone else was a bunch of Lefties when we were preparing for graduation ("They are all a bunch of Commies who probably forgot how to even do the Pledge, so you are going to have to hold their hand and walk them through it.")