I remember my grandad used to go on about not wasting time on a degree you can't get a job with. He had a degree himself in a time when it was much less common. It was more so with my brother who would come up with some stupid shit like Egyptology. "You can't get a job with that, don't waste your time with that!"
We need more of that. It's really not, "If you just believe in yourself and try you can be successful doing anything."
Any time they talk about money and the rich, they are automatically right-wing. It's simple commie class warfare. Except most of the billionaires are leftist, but don't tell the useful idiots that. The billionaires end up as the commissars in the new government.
Keep my ass here.
I actually used to be interested to go to Minnesota. Now, well if I'm going to visit a Muslim country, I'd rather go to UAE over New Somalia.
There has to be like a mindset, aptitude, interest, or what not element to this, because I find doing artwork about as interesting as watching paint dry. I could get interested for weeks if I’m doing some code though. Probably why I’ve never finished a game, I’ll get many things working, then look at the 1000 hours of art detail work I have ahead of me and go do something else.
Really interested in what they do with their next release. I very well may get one. That market badly needs more competition.
I've had a HD7970 that I loved. Currently have an RX 6600. Also a GTX 1660 Super in there too that I still have on a second PC, I never really worked it hard as a "main" gaming GPU. I generally don't have brand loyalty, I've had from an ATI Rage to a couple GeForce and a couple Radeon mixed in there over the years leading up to the 7970. I do discount Nvidia a bit, because they honestly seem like a total shit company to consumers even more so than the others. I'm not going to document or evidence this opinion, so don't ask, it's based on multiples of little news tidbits, etc.
At the moment I'm waiting to see what the 8000 series Radeon and maybe even the new Intel stuff before I look to upgrade. Likely a year from now, and into something like 8600/8700 XT. I much prefer the AMD software experience. It's simple enough to set up, overclock if I want, no logging in, and I much prefer how the GPU upscaling works where it's essentially any resolution I want with a 4K output. There isn't like an "experience" and a control panel app. I never have to screw with anything.
Nice! I never got that on my list somehow when I've pushed back into older moved, so it's on the list 100% now. WW1 history and the lead up to it is not often enough given attention.
I bet those games are a sex fest now too. I was playing my final Ubisoft purchase back in April when I was sick for a weekend--Assassin's Creed Odyssey. I accidentally pick one dialogue option in a random quest, and next thing you know, I'm going into some guys house for gay sex, then the blacked screen fade to the next day. One option. I almost never do any of the romance shit in any game, so it wasn't like I led them on or had been romancing them at any point. It was no more than a nice way to click "let's go fuck right now."
Can confirm, started school around that time in the nigga hood. I wasn't even that nerdy at the time. I liked computers but I wasn't really obsessed with fictional universes or anything like the pic. Always black future inmates doing it too. I went to mostly white schools from 7th onward. I don't recall ever being bullied once after that. All the typical bully stereotypes you'd think like jocks or what not liked me and were cool.
Makes sense. I've always been a very bad follower and had no problem sitting in a party with friends hanging out and playing something else. Others couldn't seem to do that.
Even so there's things I'll still play with friends I wouldn't have otherwise, but not buying mainstream things usually.
None of them can just quit and realize it is better that way. My last normie game thing is going to be gone in two weeks (MS Game Pass). I downsized games and systems a TON. The only thing I maybe miss? Maybe the PS3. But RPCS3 does a good job on that gap and would probably be perfect if I'd upgrade CPU.
Still, I kinda believe at least some of this. I've still got a bunch of old friends on Xbox from years ago. All of which were people I either new in person or friends-of-friends. Most I haven't talked to in 5 years at least. They generally are all playing top 10 mainstream stuff, excluding the one guy like me that always played weird things.
I've thought about that, but never read into it. There is some sort of weakness for sure. Having not lived through an amendment really (I suppose the 27th), it's hard for me to say, just because I don't know how the landscape and the feelings of the actual people were when they were ratified. The 26th makes some sense to me, with that being during the whole Vietnam draft, albeit it didn't really work to stop America being the world empire anyway.
I mean if I were to be given perfection, I'll take a benevolent dictator. But good luck making that happen and actually work. Second to that, I still think the US is better off than moth.
I'd argue the constitutional republic as designed hasn't existed for at least 100 years, likely longer. It was supposed to be a state-dominant government. So if California wanted to fly the fag flag and Texas wanted to ban it, sure, fine. It keeps changing so some states can use the federal government to force others to comply.
Even after all the civil war stuff, the amendments passed in the early 20th century, they are terrible.
- 16th: federal income taxes -- removed the ability for each state to figure out how to levy taxes, allows growth of federal government due to being able to directly fund itself
- 17th: direct election of senators -- now states can't decide that on their own
- 19th: women voting -- states could have decided that by state, it was never prohibited to allow women to vote
- 23rd: DC getting electors -- not a state, federal district gets a say now
- 24th: poll tax -- again, should be up to the states
- 26th: voting age -- also should be up to the states
Don't get me wrong, I still think the US did way better in everything you mention because of the Constitution. I just argue to anyone going on about the failed "constitutional republic" is we barely have much of it left.
Yeah I noticed some sort of spike when I looked at it again. I'd be curious to see a chart of short interest over time. It dropped back off very quick.
I'd be careful with it still at best, losing money while the bankers walk away laughing is the opposite of beating them at their own game.
parents and teachers of children who download the content in order to inform law enforcement...
This sounds way too much like something they'd all use as a convenient excuse too. "Oh yeah of course I was planning to take these to law enforcement!" Still better as an exception than no rule at all.
We all knew this is where the slippery slope was heading for years now.
Ploy to gain voters I assume?
I've yet to see any reason to actually buy Gamestop stock outside of the initial run when it was very obviously over-shorted. That's not the case anymore, and I'm not sure why to waste time with a loser otherwise.
the $70 price tag
It's a Ubisoft game. The price tag is irrelevant. It could be the most perfect historical depiction of Japan ever made, and it's still on sale monthly for 75% off before you know it.
Yeah maybe. I threw that in after the fact. I misinterpreted what was going on in my initial response, just don't really believe in deleting my comments and hiding when it doesn't turn out perfect.
Wow, they discovered electricity! Or probably more accurately bought some Chinese electricity generating stuff and managed to make it work.
Africa has tons of natural resources more than enough to support flourishing countries. Poverty? Get your ass up and farm, hunt, forage. It's no worse off than frontier America 200 years ago. The difference? People.
Oh and third world isn't poverty. It's a political alignment. Saudi fucking Arabia is a third world country.
Edit to add: I had to look this up. This was the doing of white people apparently. Afrikaners are white. I was wondering why all the pictures were doing a nazi salute.
Wait, I thought that was a dangerous war zone?
I go through there randomly to buy Lego stuff for my nephews. You're right, outside of like infant toys, it's 1/3rd Legos.
Do kids even play with action figures anymore, or are they just intended to sell to collectors? I've never seen either of my nephews with action figures. The closest they have is some plush video game characters.
Without my body being threatened
The only man threatening your body is Ronald McDonald.
I don't care if it's a jew or an American Indian, or one of those gobbledygook in Australia. It's never stolen land. It's conquered.
Windows problem has long been forcing bloatware, going way back to at least Windows 95 and the forcing of Internet Explorer stuff everywhere. Then they started with telemetry. My favorite Windows, Windows 2000. It's XP without all the shit.
I did have to roll my laptop back to Windows. I'd put Linux on it, but I forgot a large use case of that machine is OBD interfaces for car work, and I'm not taking the time to make those already janky programs work in Linux/Wine.
Still, I went back to 10 instead of 11, and it's really better. I hate the push for all these big giant icons in the middle of the screen, no labels on the taskbar, etc. It's why I hate Gnome in Linux too. If I wanted a Mac, I'd take out a second mortgage and buy one. If I decide to mess with the SSD and dual-boot my gaming machine, I'll probably put it on 10 again too. I'm on the fence as to whether or not I care. It might as well be a console, I only game on it.
It was never school for me, ever. They'd go on about follow your passion and such. It was actually grandfathers the most if I think about it, and it wasn't from being rich as they weren't. They were both involved in the small towns where they lived, so whenever I'd visit I'd inevitably end up at lunch at the cafe where they always went sitting around with a bunch of independent men with small businesses. There's a ton of osmosis for a kid in that environment, outside of the "ol yeah you should get your grandad to bring you by and I'll show you my <whatever it is they did for a living>."