New York recently decided that the statue of limitations doesn't apply for sexual assault. They also decided to apply this retroactively, so crimes that had expired decades ago are now fair game. However, that's extremely illegal, so the act only applies to civil cases. Anyone can now sue for claimed sexual harassment infinitely back into the past.
This sounds like a joke, but it's true. It's called the Adult Survivors Act.
Not The Bee needs to learn that the "Democrats are the real racists" gambit and its subcategories never work, have never worked, and never will work. Gays will vote Democrat 90% of the time no matter what. Stop trying to court them.
even an absolute moron can shit out a complete game in relative ease.
And then Kemco will publish it.
The more complex the software becomes, the higher the chance of some unintended interaction. And it isn't linear. It's exponential. And as the complexity grows you start shifting the time burden from dev to QA.
I've made a couple of games. None of them were even approaching the complexity of your average Super Nintendo game. I still spent probably 90% of my time testing and bug fixing. Hell, 90% may be underselling it.
As you go through the dev cycle, the work quickly shifts from adding new stuff to testing and un-breaking the existing stuff. And it never goes the other way. You spend more and more time testing and fixing and you only stop when the project is completed. And these days, not even then.
The hard part isn't making a game, it's making a finished game.
32% of GenZ reports drinking or smoking, the lowest among any generation by far. They also point out this has a social knock on of people not going to the bar and finding a romantic partner by sharing a drink, and is also causing women to lose bearing on reality as they have no romantic partner so turn their natural instincts to activism to have something to do.
This is some premium doomer shit right here. Managing to take a lack of vice and somehow making it negative. Truly potent stuff. I feel like I might overdose just by talking about it.
It's only a matter of time before the next generation of kids grows up thinking "fascism" means "strength, determination, and intelligence". What happens next I'll leave up to your imagination.
The expert riposte to this kind of purity check is to start naming trannies and only trannies. They'll be forced to concede by their own rules even though you both know it doesn't count.
I've been a capital G Gamer for longer than most of you have been alive, and I rarely buy games any more. They're all just so bland and corporate. The only things I really care any more are Nintendo flagships and the odd out-of-the-blue GotY contender.
My parents always told me one day I'd stop caring about getting new video games. I doubt this is what they meant though.
Being the straight man in an absurdist comedy is usually a nightmarish experience. We're just not meant to think about it because he exists not as a person, but as a vehicle to highlight the absurdity.
Exactly, women can go through the hero's journey no problem. Sometimes women really do have adversity to overcome. It's rare, but it happens.
It's just that part of the hero's journey is being flawed and useless by definition. Being born amazing and then saving the universe with zero effort isn't a hero's journey, it's self-insert fan fiction.
The Galbrush paradox is responsible for 90% of bad writing in the past twenty years.
"Ackshually the reason the US put an embargo on Japan was because they were known as 'The China Defener' and now everyone knows not to fuck with the US and their China"
The community notes don't even make sense. We baited an aggressive, expansionist empire into attacking us because they were being big meanies to China? And people really believe this?
How the fuck would that work?
Not OP, but I can see where he's coming from. In an ideal, impossible community where everyone gets along, watches out for each other, and works for the common good of all of them, the pooling of all resources is the most logical way to live. Anything anyone acquires goes into the pool, and if someone needs it, they take it from the pool. If I grow a bountiful harvest one year, I give what I can't eat to my community, rather than selling it to them. In turn, I receive necessary goods and services for free. Nobody pays for anything and everybody wins.
Of course, even a single bad actor instantly ruins this economy, which is why it exists purely as a thought experiment.
Imagine voluntarily living among people who will destroy their own country just to spite you. The white guy is barely more intelligent than these feral animals for thinking he can fix any of this.
It's also basically a retelling of Of Mice and Men, which explains why it's so much better than anything else in that show.
In my experience, at this point it's less True Believer NPCs and more people who are in deep denial because they have a tiny, but non-zero, chance of suddenly dying at any point for the rest of their lives because they trusted the system. This is a very hard pill to swallow, and it's easier to just pretend everything is fine than confront the truth.
I mean, technically we all have a tiny but non-zero chance of dying suddenly at any point, but you know what I mean.
Sauron bad
Right wing bad
Therefore Sauron right wing
We live in an age when every human being is constantly carrying a high definition camera. If people were blaspheming using racial slurs, it should be trivially easy to prove it. Right?
Yeah, honestly the simile is pretty accurate. Fox News does turn boomers into paranoid, misinformed lunatics. But so do CNN, MSNBC, etc. And they do it much, much worse, because we're deep into clown world where Fox is counterculture. The rest are all establishment.
100% of criticisms of Aloy's appearance come from that one photoshopped image where she looks like Nikocado Avocado. In the actual games she's easily a 9/10 aside from her gross dreadlocks, but those make sense in-universe.
Don't forget lack of empathy. Not that many kings really gave a shit about the lives of commoners either, but I imagine it's much easier to send men off to die when you are not one yourself.
Way ahead of you. I saw the fall of the American city coming years ago. Got out as soon as I could and I'm so glad I did. All of my old neighborhoods have become run down shitholes crawling with criminals. New one has a murder rate of zero. I'm perfectly happy to commute if it means feeling safe in my own home.
Irn Bru hasn't worked since the sugar tax ruined it.
Not for long! Especially not in the cities. The western metropolis is in for some very, very bad times in the coming years.
Star Wars has one of the most dedicated, enduring fan bases of all time, but the holiday special was still instantly and universally panned. Today if something like that came out we'd have infinity Reddit posts defending how important and groundbreaking it is and how anyone who doesn't like it is a fascist. Because as you said, it is no longer about the work. It's about the brand.
Pure blood libel. We have historical written examples of it being used on men, but all modern "information" insists it was used exclusively to do a heckin misogyny.
Never, ever believe anything that presents men or whites as uniquely evil.