Or (as was tangentially relevant given the date of the election) the Guy Fawkes plot.
I'm seeing everywhere that the House is going to flip to Democrats.
Uncertain. Decision Desk has 61% chance for Republicans to win it. (though they did have Dems up by a similar percentage earlier).
Anyone want to take any bets that Democrats are ballsy enough to try it?
I'm sure some will want to do it. But, even if Dems take it, with Trump looking to have a substantial popular vote lead, only a few Dems will need to side with Rs to certify it because it won't be a big house lead.
Virtually everyone's called NC and Georgia for Trump. Assuming Alaska goes Trump, all he needs is PA (Harris can have Wisconsin, Michigan, Arizona and Nevada).
And in PA right now, Trump is up 222000 votes with Fox estimating about 700k ballots left.
Shenanigans can still happen, but I think it is too far gone at this point. Based Amish carried things in PA I think.
It also peaked at 70k players on release day. Not anything like Concord's awful release, but also not good for a worldwide release of a 10 year development AAA game. We'll see what happens over the first weekend, but given that it currently has 38k playing while the Monster Hunter Wilds beta test has 319k playing I don't think the sales numbers are going to be all that hot.
I want to believe you. But:
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As usual, the "glitch" only goes in one direction
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There are active investigations in PA about thousands (or maybe it was tens of thousands) of fraudulent voter applications
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Law enforcement was actively turning people away from early voting sites hours before the sites were scheduled to close.
PA's system is rotten.
Nah, she's always been darker-skinned. Maybe the skin color darkened a touch from 2 to I, but if so it was very minor.
What on earth did they do to Isabela?
On the purely physical level, she apparently went from pirate queen to, what, Egyptian belly dancer (along with the obligatory bust size reduction)?
And, personality-wise? You're telling me that someone who is perpetually sarcastic, who Hawke first meets in a bar fight in DA2, who approves of Hawke getting every last coin possible out of people, who disapproves of sticking your nose in random people's business for no gain, and very nearly triggered a war among the three largest world powers by stealing the equivalent of the original copy of the Koran is now teaching people how to go through apology rituals for using the wrong pronouns?
Nuke it from orbit, several times. It's the only way to be sure.
Yeah, this. Even ignoring any number of IRL things to do, there's a good amount of decent to good stuff still coming out, plus massive back-catalogues of good games. There's no need to pirate stuff. If you're going to do modding (which I do) take something good and make it great, don't waste your time pirating something bad to make it mediocre.
I mean, being a space marine would be pretty hideous. But not for any of the reasons listed in the "article".
You start out as a normal human, almost certainly on a violent, backwards planet. If you are impressive enough in your youth (pretty much the first 10 years of your life) in that barbaric civilization, you may be "lucky" enough to be recruited by whatever chapter uses your world as a recruiting world. Taken away from everything you've ever known and loved, you're rammed through a number of incredibly difficult, often fatal, tests and trials to make sure you are worthy at which point you start having extra organs surgically implanted in you.
From there, the next 6-8 or so years of your life are traveling around and fighting with the actual marines (except you have inferior weapons and especially armor), either as a scout or - in some cases like the Black Templars - a minion/squire/etc. of a full marine. And while that is happening, you're undergoing more and more indoctrination, hypnotherapy and chemical and hormonal treatments and more new organs surgically implanted every couple years.
If you survive long enough to get all the implants and finally and become a full-fledged marine, congratulations! You are now a literal mutant - not only are you much taller and stronger than a normal human, but you can do fun things like eat metal, spit acid, drink poison, even potentially survive in vacuum for short periods of time. Your humanity has been erased and you are now little more than a walking weapon, who will spend the entirety of your greatly increased lifespan getting shuttled (through literal hell) from one desperate warzone to another against the scariest things the universe has to offer, who have fun toys like guns that rip their targets apart at a molecular level, claws that can tear through tanks, and literal demons. And your "retirement package" if you get badly hurt is you get stuffed in a mech suit with advanced life support so you can keep fighting.
Plus, all normal human emotions have probably been wiped from you, except loyalty to your Chapter and the Emperor and a burning hatred of anything besides the Imperium. And if you do manage to discover some of your emotions or you start having some independent thoughts, then you are balanced on the knife's edge and falling to either side is almost certainly disastrous. On the one side is the Inquisition, many of whom will happily accuse Marines with heresy for no good reason, and on the other side are the chaos gods who desperately try to recruit new marines by almost any means possible.
So, yeah, Space Marines are in fact quite hideous, and being one would be miserable (though, again, with the whole indoctrination bit you probably wouldn't know it is horrible). But, MUH DRUMPF! MUH FACISM! is apparently more horrible.
And half of them don't even seem to list companies. "Writer" "Editor", etc. There's even someone on there listed as a supply chain manager. Now, I will grant that the logistics side of things is probably much more important than the "creative" (used very loosely) side of things in most games these days, but when is the last time anyone asked for political opinions of a supply chain manager?
Why? They've been told over and over that it's their right to vote, and voting is super important, and they need to vote for the democrat to save the world from the evil fascist nazi republican monsters, so they become the vote blue no matter who crowd.