New York is a complete shithole in all respects, but particularly as a shining example of late stage Democrat policies. All they're lacking is illegal immigration to be a showpiece for everything wrong with that party's philosophy.
Hochul it's just like every other politician, up to her neck in the pockets of big business and special interest groups. Her response to the Bruen decision shows she has no respect for the rule of law. I'm kind of shocked though that New York law allows the governor to amend a bill after passage before signing it. I'm fairly certain my state doesn't allow that, or line item vetoes. Seems fucking stupid on its face. If basically the entire legislature passes a bill, why should one person be allowed to rewrite it after the fact?
Good for this guy that he left. I've never heard of him before here, but someone posted another one of his videos a few months ago where he got fucked over with fines after spending thousands of dollars in man hours trying to comply with their laws so he was moving out of state.
Jesus, it's a mental health crisis in two pictures.
I've never heard of him until someone posted Greta Thunberg's "sick burn" here. I wouldn't be surprised one bit if this entire controversy was manufactured by someone for some purpose.
I don't think backing out of the deal was bad form. Sega did the same math and came to the same conclusion apparently. I just did a little bit of research, and it was about royalties for the games put on the discs. I guess Sony wanted too much.
I take issue with how they did it. Telling Sony you're going to make an announcement about your partnership and unveil your new console at CES (not E3, which apparently didn't exist yet), and then instead announcing a partnership with their competitor Phillips is unprofessional.
I saw a show on the history of video games that said Sony and Nintendo were pretty far along and they're negotiations to release the PlayStation as a Nintendo console. They had pictures of the early versions which were basically a PlayStation with an SNES controller attached.
According to the show, the way Nintendo backed out of the deal was to let Sony believe that they were going to publicly announce the partnership at E3, and then they got on the stage and snubbed them. Regardless of how bad Sony maybe is, that sounds like bad form to me. After that Sony negotiated with Sega who also showed interest but later backed out, without the public humiliation aspect.
So, Sony released the console themselves, and the rest is history.
Ninendo's evolution would make a fascinating study in business school. I would love to see internal documents and the decision making behind their pivot to their current incarnation.
They were clearly the market leader in hardware power at the time of introduction of the NES and SNES. Choosing to go with a cartridge-based N64 instead of fallowing through on their partnership with Sony was a huge mistake in hindsight. Then even though the GameCube fell between PS2 and Xbox power wise, the choice to use smaller discs and not have DVD playback capability set them apart from Sony and Microsoft, and they were already starting to be seen as "not a gamer's console". This was also the last console they released that directly competed with Sony and Microsoft and shared most of the same games.
With the Wii, and their focus on handhelds, Nintendo seemed to abandon any pretense of competing with Sony and Microsoft and chose to carve out a niche as the fun/family/kids console maker. It sounds like it's working out for them profit-wise, but as someone who grew up with the NES and SNES, seeing Nintendo drop out of the top tier console market has always been weird to me.
Honestly, just the numbers in the linked article makes a solid case for not opposing the merger even without considering Nintendo.
There are almost 2.5 times as many Playstation consoles as XBox. How could merging with just one publisher possibly catapult the Xbox past the PlayStation to the point where it creates "an uncompetitive environment"? If anything, I'm seeing that Sony is dominant despite Microsoft's best efforts, and anything that can bring them closer to parity can only increase competition.
Honestly, compare the amount of console exclusives on Playstation with those on Xbox. If Calll of Duty becoming an XBox exclusive will unbalance the market, is the FTC prepared to tell Sony, who already has a dominant position, that they can't keep making console exclusives?
Michael Chabon (Creator, and writer of Star Trek: Picard)
Be afraid, be very afraid. Picard was total garbage; painful to watch.
Visionaries: Knights of the Magical Light
I remember these toys with the holograms on their chest, back when hologram stickers were cool and new. It sounds like studios are licensing all the 80's cartoons in a wild stab at having a nostolgia-based hit.
a trans woman
So, a mentally ill man?
I'm not really into art, I just know what I like, so I had to look up CalArts Style. TIL:
There’s really no strict definition for what the CalArts style is. It honestly depends on who you ask. In general, though, it’s been used by critics in a derogatory sense to criticize animators for a lack of creativity and a generally lazy approach to animation. It typically involves thin-lined drawings, characters with rounded faces and noodle-like arms and legs, and generic colors and shapes. The characters also typically feature large heads, small bodies, and ovular eyes.
What I found even more interesting, is it the term was coined by the creator of Ren and Stimpy, and he alleges that it's the product of a school-to-work pipeline between the California institute of the Arts and Disney. Basically these people are just lazy animators because they know that they will get a job when they graduate. Interesting.
You know exactly what I mean. Anyone that can draw the GI Joes on the left can draw Peppa Pig, but the reverse isn't true. Fuck, I can draw Peppa Pig and probably half of the characters on the right.
I came here to post this. The art on the left represents realistic humans. The art on the right is far more stylized. I'm of the opinion that the stylized art isn't as hard to draw as realistic, and I don't like it as much.
Populist politics tend to move like a pendulum. We've moved so far left that when it swings back to the right it will be hard, fast, and probably in an orgy of blood.
Nobody will give a shit about "post-war" Ukraine. Assuming Russia doesn't wear them out and there is some sort of peace settlement, the West's interest ends there. The only reason we're pouring money and weapons into the country is to weaken Russia.
The sad thing is that honest judges should be expected to issue rulings that aren't strictly party line, but the left almost always operates as a block, with the net result of the right's good faith just diluting their influence.
What kind of leftist pissants is the CIA hiring these days? Jake Ryan they ain't.
Now ask yourself why this research needed to be done in Ukraine and not the US.
The guy from Judicial Watch in the video said it was a jobs program from the follow the Soviet Union. Which makes complete sense in the 1990s, because you don't want those chemical weapons scientists freelancing because they don't have a steady income.
The real question is why the program is still running 30 years later. Everyone that they were worried about back then should have retired by now.
The only misinformation here is calling that freak a woman.
ChatGP? Haha.
I don't understand why administering criminal justice is so hard. There are unlimited stories like this, where a hardened criminal who is almost guaranteed to re-offend is released on low/no bail and then predictively murders someone.
On the flip side, there are plenty of stories of people who are arrested and held without bail after a SWAT assault on their home for a relatively minor offense.
Why is it so hard to calibrate use of force, bail, and sentences to the severity of the crime and the background of the offender? It's literally the entire point of the system.
America has limitless money and a willingness to spend it when it comes to funding wars. Imagine if that money was spent on something for the betterment of mankind instead.
mostly Sabaton
What an interesting band- heavy metal history songs. I can honestly say I never thought I'd hear that type of song about Verdun or sinking the Bismark.
I fucking hate this attitude. America is a majority Christian country and even people who aren't religious here celebrate Christmas, because it's just part of our history and national identity.
Last year, I happened to be traveling for work in a city that had a large Middle Eastern population during Ramadan. Rather than get pissed off that somebody was celebrating a holiday that I wasn't a part of, I hit up a middle eastern restaurant after dark, and they had an awesome spread of food for very reasonable price.
People living their lives differently than you isn't a reason to take offense.
I wonder in being a black actor in England is the same as being a pro athlete in the US- they're enough overrepresented that every kid thinks it can be them too.
Eh, the legislators voted for the bill is written. How many votes would have changed if that line item had been removed from the original?
I would only support line item vetoes if after the veto is made the bill had to go back to the legislature for another up/down vote without changes.