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:First off his post reads like an except "Baby's First History Book" authored by someone who loves Ayn Rand. Secondly, "full government" vs. "half government" is one of the stupidest things I've ever read. And lastly, it's not like Germany and Korea are in petri dishes somewhere, free to flourish or not based on their own merits and circumstances. It's not like they were part of the Cold War or something, no. Also this.

Imagine being this fucking stupid.

Rich Californians and Texans love bouncing to Idaho for tax and "other" reasons.

ALL Dr. pepper is fizzy you goon.

I'm not intimately familiar with Halo lore, but wasn't the SPARTAN program initially developed to counter human insurgents then the timing of the Covenant threat just kinda happened to work out?

As you'd expect, the dumbest motherfuckers on Twitter are wondering if this was a terror attack. THEY'RE JUST ASKING QUESTIONS

I think this is part of it, but I suspect that a larger contributor is the lack of meaningful consequences for when said extraction goes badly or just straight up fails. Why WOULDN'T you go all in on a shitty hand if you're largely playing with house money and your personal financial security is guaranteed regardless of outcome? I don't gamble often but if someone gave me some cash and compelled me to do so, I'd absolutely bet differently than if it was my own money on the table. If there were few meaningful consequences paid by people who punish fucked the housing market or poisoned the earth with something like eh VW scandal... why should we expect the people controlling the money to do anything but bet recklessly? The potential benefits are enormous, the downside for them is negligible.

This is a bummer mainly because I feel that Wyll and Karlach, Wyll in particular, have threads that are finished but feel slapdash compared to the rest of the origin characters. Wyll is a character to whom a lot of things happen and considering his family ties, should have had much more interesting things happen to and around him. Without spoilers here, I covered some of this earlier in the thread. One of his big consequences can simply… be undone? In a way that doesn’t make sense and isn’t particularly acknowledged. I dunno that DLC could fix this, but he feels a bit undercooked. Karlach isn’t the same, it’s just that the stuff about her isn’t really all that interesting and her endings have the potential to be just kinda… there. There’s an obvious potential for where DLC for her could go and it’s a shame we won’t get that. But good on Larian for securing the bag, realizing that Hasbro blows, and getting the fuck out of dodge.

Yesterday at PAX East I collected the final Puzzle Swap piece. Took me a week shy of thirteen years.

Yall have probably seen it but if not…

brain so smooth

haha lol

Elon is a man who thinks posting publicly available flight information is the same as posting assassination coordinates and that DEI initiatives lower the exam, testing, and hiring standards for people who aren't white men. He's a fucking moron. Of course this will be selectively enforced for the chuds.

May it grow a Jesus fruit tree or whatever the fuck.

Absolutely. If Ohioguy had $44B to spend he'd still buy games used for his stepdaughter.

Counterpoint... Ohioguy might bury a statue upside down in his yard so his house would sell despite not being Catholic but he wouldn't spend $44B on a website then punish fuck it to death while updating its TOS to placate Nazis.

Musk knows so little about so many topics he speaks so confidently about, I’d rather take advice from @ohioguy24 on a random subject than Elon.

"Super apps" seems a bit sketchy to me since I don't know that's really a thing? Also is there a definition of monopolization that would include owning half of a market at best? I don't mean that rhetorically, I genuinely don't know.

I haven't played yet, get on my level.

scargiver lol

As ever, the issue is not as black and white as “what if this version of Batman killed people” or “what if this version.of Superman was viewed as potentially dangerous.” The issue with doing that in a movie, forgetting Snyder for a moment, is that even though comic book movies happen much more often today than they used to, it’s still unfortunate that we’d see a version of this character on the big screen that’s not a reflection of the most ironic version of an iconic character. Like if Gunn wants to fuck with the Guardians of the Galaxy or Vigilante or Peacemaker… that’s probably GOOD because nobody really gives a shit about them. That’s not the same with Superman or Batman or The Flash. I love an Elseworlds or alternate take story in print. For as fun as something like Red Son was… I dunno if I’d want a big budget, movie adaptation of that especially since it’s been so long since we’ve seen a great movie Superman. Or the recent DC games in the Rocksteady Batman universe or whatever it’s called, or the Injustice universe, etc. I may not like all of those, but it’s cool that they exist in those media because they’re interesting CONTRASTS to the existing characters and their stories. The Snyder aspect of the issue is that he doesn’t take the actual question to any point beyond the superficial. “What if Batman killed?” Okay… what if he did? The other heroes don’t really react differently to Batman being a killer compared to how they do in the comics, which kinda makes sense if Wonder Woman is clicking terrorist heads and leaving their brains splattered against walls in front of children while not giving a single fuck. And we get a throwaway line about how Batman brands people he sends to prison with the knowledge that they’ll be abused in there because of that, and that’s supposed to show how “hard” Batman is… but it really just makes him a horrible person. So criminals fear Batman, sure, but Bruce Wayne is just still… Bruce Wayne in the Snyderverse. There’s no different insight into the character, nobody really treats him all that differently than he’s treated in the comics where he DOESN’T kill people. It doesn’t seem like he’s even all that fussed about killing them. He just kills them. So why change a critical aspect of a character if it ultimately doesn’t mater? And it’s the same with Superman; he’s out there brooding, he’s letting his dad die, he’s not containing collateral damage… and then people make statues of him anyway.

It's more thought out than the narrative of Bioshock Infinite

And James Woods.

Nope is fine. I don’t think it’s as dumb or pointless or whatever as some people seemed to think it was, and I also don’t think it’s as smart or interesting or has as much to say as I assume Peele thinks it does. As a vibe it’s pretty good, it’s occasionally interesting, but I don’t know that I think it works. Probably worth seeing if you like thinking about movies, if you go to them to escape and be titillated… eh.