The handouts also actively prevent people from developing skills.
If you want to start a shoe business, for example, and some foreign guy comes in and gives everyone in town free shoes, congratulations, you're out of business
Lower left: The guy is admitting mRNA jabs are deadly, but complaining that someone is finally doing something about it? Am I reading that wrong?
I took it as him saying "without my 50th mRNA booster muh covids will kill us all! And the bad man is taking my booster away!"
It takes a special sort of stupid to think the left has moved "to the center" over the past decade or two. (top right) That's just plain retarded.
It is retarded, but makes sense with one assumption that most of them are making. They tell themselves "I am a rational, kind, average person, I must be a centrist, or maybe center left". And then they leap off the cliff while still claiming to be near the center and then wonder "why is everyone else far right?!?!"
The mods aren't AFK. The mods are actively working with the server owners to get more VPN players. Just this weekend, they added a new rule to one server that players were not allowed to even protest against VPN players.
One thing I really want to see is RPGs where the world acts and moves as a genuine setting rather than just being a sandbox that pauses once Captain Protagonist leaves the immediate area. Things like:
Time limits which actually matter! No more of this "oh, I know Alduin is going to destroy the world imminently but I'm off to spend the next month doing odd jobs for the Thieves' Guild!" And, frankly, also have something cool that you can only get if you devote yourself to the Thieves' Guild too.
Factions who actually impact the world if you help/hurt them, beyond flags and guard uniforms changing. Take the Legion from New Vegas. If you help them, they should take over places like Novac mid-game, and then actually enslave and/or execute people who opposed them (like Boone and the other sniper). Alternatively, if you oppose the Legion, then have something where you raid a slave camp and NPCs you get out actually have story and quests you can access if you safely get them home.
Going back to point 1, have factions and groups actually pursue their own agendas and missions outside of player input. Sticking with New Vegas, have the NCR and Legion actually throwing armies at each other (ideally with some level of randomness to it so NCR might win one game, Legion another, etc) instead of Forlorn Hope and Nelson will just keep staring at each other forever unless you get involved.
Groups that have standards. No Todd, a dumb brute barbarian should not be able to join the Mage's Guild. If you are head of the mage's guild, then the fighter's guild should at least reject you from becoming their leader, if not bar you outright. And solving two problems should not lead to the supposedly prestigious ancient chivalric order of knights suddenly declaring me their commander and the best leader they've ever had.
Don't always have a "best" ending to conflicts. I say this as someone who loves playing high Charisma/talky characters, but why can you almost always speech check things into an ideal outcome. It's a bit better when you actually have to do work beyond just the speech check, like with the Geth and Quarian in ME3, but as cool as that is in the moment it seems like speech checks are borderline mind control and almost always give the optimal outcome in most games. But I shouldn't be able to erase centuries of conflict with one rousing speech.
I think a lot of this comes down to two main things:
- Achievement culture means that lots of players insist on "completing" games, and often quickly, so the average gamer will not want to go through a 100+ hour RPG multiple times to see everything
and
- Devs worried about players "missing" content. I don't know really if this is a publisher-induced concern (fear of money being spent on content only a small amount of players would see), a writer-induced concern (see Emil Pagliarulo's ridiculous paper airplane argument about game story and dialogue), reacting to achievement culture, or something else, but devs seem to want players to be able to see most stuff in one playthrough too.
And now we're copying the same UK muh child safety act in here too.
It doesn't make things better (and honestly, maybe worse), but KOSA is hardly new. The current version was proposed back in May, and it's on it's third go around. Definitely still worth pitching a fit over though,
While they're not groundbreaking by any means, I personally think the graphics hold up fairly well. But, if you are concerned about that, nerds got you covered, man
Updated graphics and texture packs? yep.
New campaigns? yep.
Total conversion mods if you want those? yep
A dedicated Freespace 2 mod manager to make downloading and installing all the above simple? They've got that too.
This is a big thing that usually gets left out of the dispensationalist discussions.
On the religious side, following the three Jewish revolts against Rome - and the massive devastation that resulted from them - Rabbinical tradition became increasingly important and even superseding the Old Testament texts. A couple hundred years later, this was codified in the Talmud.
Additionally, and much more significantly (in my mind), was the Haskalah in the late 1700s and 1800s. One of the big consequences of that was the development of a non-religious Jewish identity. And over the 150-200 years since then, we've seen a very large growth in secular or cultural Judaism. And even among those Jews who are still religious, a huge part of their identity is often tied into the cultural idea of "being Jewish".
Again, this is Europe's century of humiliation.
Are you surprised? A bunch of unelected bureaucrats have been doing their best to destroy all civilization on the continent for decades, and many of you idiots act like sheep and just happily bleet your support for them while silencing those few people with the brains and balls to speak out against them.
How are you surprised at humiliation where you've spent the last several decades bending over and begging Daddy EU to pound you?
Supposedly, there's even a religion in Russia devoted to her! Which...does a lot to make me curb my sympathies.
I'm starting to think that a lot of phones removed the spellcheck feature, just because of the sheer number of online posts I've seen with blatant misspellings. And if someone else mentions it the response is inevitably "well, I'm on my phone and you know what I meant!"
Plus, I'd love to see a citation/source for the claim that the first 15 popes were Jewish. I assume the name mentioned is Eusebius of Caesarea, as I think the pronunciation matches and he has been called the father of ecclesiastical history.
But, at least going off the Internet Archive version of his Ecclesiastical History, which documents the early history of the church, I can't easily find it. Granted, I have not gone through all 1000 pages in detail, but of popes 2 and 3 (Linus and Anacletus - spelled Anecletus by Eusebius) - who are typically considered to be Roman and Greek respectively - there's no mention of them being Jewish (or their origin at all). They only come up a half dozen or so times each, and with Linus it is typically "this is the same guy who was mentioned in 2nd Timothy" and for Anecletus it's just "he became pope after Linus stepped down".
Maybe it's in there, or in one of Eusebius's other works, or maybe it's supposed to be a different author entirely, but given that I can't turn up anything online that even comes close to supporting the claim, I need a source
But why are you gay?
Saying that, part of me is now thinking she tried to copy Elon's and DOGE's success for herself but that doesn't translate to her department and what she is SUPPOSED to deal with.
Now that's an interesting idea. If true, that would help explain Elon's crazy freakout.
As if we didn't see all four of them blatantly lie about Epstein in the last two weeks.
That was my first thought when the rumors started that Dan was angry as thinking about leaving. If he had done it a couple weeks or a month ago, and said it was because the Epstein stuff was being covered up, I would have said he still had credibility. After what happened, though? Nope. Taking part in the coverup and then saying "I didn't like the coverup" doesn't work.
for example I imagine Supercell would be shitting itself at the idea of having to keep the servers open indefinitely for its long list of failed follow ups to clash of clans.
Stop Killing Games (as an initiative) isn't asking for servers to be kept up indefinitely. Adding a "vs bots" mode (if one doesn't already exist, never played clash of clans) or allowing P2P connections to let people keep playing would suffice.
Yeah, this one isn't happening. Tor was designed and built with DoD funding, and almost certainly has massive sections of it that are infested with feds.