You do know most of those lockdowns, curfews, etc. were initially issued prior to the 2020 election, yes? And are you going to sit there and tell me to my face that Trump would have, had he been re-elected, tried to force the Democrat governors to reverse their mandates when we've got an active thread on here from 4 hrs before your post about Trump claiming Cuomo did a better job than DeSantis?
I gotta ask - why? What does ChatGPT (or what would an unfettered version of ChatGPT) give you that a regular search engine couldn't? Yeah, I know the AI chatbots are the cool new thing, but for the public use portions of them I've not seen them do much than trawl and summarize a bunch of search results or be able to solve some math problems.
Yep. This guy was a special appointment to the senate in 2009 and, being (D) I have to assume that he voted to convict Trump on both impeachment attempts. Sounds like we should impose the penalties in the bill on him now.
As someone who lives in NY,
Who was told 2 days ago I needed to mask to get in for a doctor's appointment,
Who - multiple times per week - drives past multiple abandoned shops and restaurants which were shut down by covid lockdowns,
Who works at a college which only lifted the Covid shot requirements for students on April 14th of this year,
SCREW YOU TRUMP. STOP TELLING ME TO DISBELIEVE MY LYING EYES.
Don't think he's looked into alt-tech platforms yet, as he said he's hopeful Youtube will restore monetization - he seems to be thinking it may have just been a mistake, hence why I said his video was probably naive.
So, is this at all related to the LotR MMO Amazon was working on with Tencent a couple years ago, or a new thing?
Hartmann also discussed a number of learnings that he and his team discovered during the development and launch of their most recent MMO New World. Specifically he noted MMOs need to have instant rewards.
He explained, “Everything is about instant reward, and since social media and internet and so on, that instant reward thing is so important. It has to be faster and faster.”
“If you just rely on people figuring out the mechanics very fast because it’s very similar to what they had before, that’s great, but it’s all about accessibility and very early having rewards so they feel progress,” he shared. “And then slowly letting them get better and better, and basically give them an option they can start at a different pace, and not getting frustrated. That’s what’s important.”
The most important thing you should have learned from New World is do your networking and server architecture properly and not rely on client-side validation. Oh, and have a solid amount of content (especially non-PVP content) at launch.
But, that aside, and the woke garbage aside, these paragraphs immediately turn me off to the game. MMO need constant, early rewards is code for "flood them with lootboxes, gifts, etc." as soon as they log in. And every single MMO (heck, game, not just MMO) that has done that inevitably ends up pushing you to the cash shop so that you can keep buying more rewards. And forget that nonsense.
which encourages people to send in sexist beer ads so Miller Lite, which is owned by Molson Coors, can turn them into fertilizer.
How on earth does that even work? Are you supposed to find old magazine ads, mail them in, and then mulch them up to get a very low-grade fertilizer out of it?
“Fuck the rich. Fuck the police. Fuck the state. Fuck the colonial death camp we call Canada.”
Such a lovely-sounding person. Given his attitude, and his business practices, I can't imagine why his cafe didn't take off.
The FBI, DHS and DoJ did jack shit during the Summer of George.
That's a blatant falsehood. They were extremely active during the Summer of George. After all, they were orchestrating the Whitmer kidnapping scheme, bullying social media companies into taking down anything about the WuFlu that disagreed with Fauci's analysis, going after people for leaving tire tracks on the pro-BLM stripes on roads, conducting surveillance on people complaining about the lockdowns at school board meetings, and probably more stuff I'm forgetting.
And that's just the confirmed stuff! I wouldn't be surprised if they were involved in prepping 2020 election shenanigans, actively agitating the BLM rioters, and more stuff.
Le gasp! You mean loony Watermelon* activists were too stupid (or maybe - likely - just acting stupid to hide their malice) to realize that most timber industries actually grow more trees than they cut down (otherwise, they run out of trees to cut) and thus have screwed over the entire country for nothing? I'm shocked, shocked I say!
(for anyone who hasn't seen the term before, Watermelon = green (environmental) on the outside, red (commie) on the inside).
Look, I'm all for bringing Blood Bowl into reality, but this is the part of it I want the least! Bull Centaurs, Ogres, Greenskins, etc. on the field beating the other team to a pulp? Sure! Black Orc cheerleaders? not so much.
First freaking picture - a ghoul in a vault suit.
So, option 1: There was a catastrophic failure in the vault's design which mysteriously somehow turned part of the vault into ghouls but left the other half looking like they just walked out of a San Francisco coffee shop
Option 2: The vault dwellers were super progressive and, upon opening the vault and seeing ghouls, decided to welcome these guys that look like zombies into their previously secure environment (and, of course, that decision was beneficial to everyone and is widely praised now)
Option 3: The writers don't care about the setting at all and just said "There's ghouls! There's vaults! Wouldn't it be cool to have part of the vault population be ghouls!"
I'm going to go with 2/3 chance of Option 3, 1/3 of Option 2
I don't know. I don't even know how to begin fixing this.
I'll admit I also don't have a plan for fixing the whole thing. But, in my case, it is because I can't see how having a culture where it is considered perfectly normal for individuals with 40+ convictions to go around shouting at people on public transit while the DAs think up ways to go after their political opponents is not just rotten to the core.
If I recall correctly, the victim had started hooking up with the ex of one of the cops, and the cop got angry over that.