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This movie just continues to be the most exemplary distillation of our modern consumerist culture that I have ever seen.

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Cities at this point are all but allergic to capital expenditures.

Why the fuck was Stephen Colbert the emcee for the broadcast?

If they can drive military trucks, they can drive big rigs. Sounds like this needs to be paired with something that, if voted down, triggers an increase in the military age.

Whatever we did before 1989 when the FICO score was introduced. It's a capitalist version of Chinese CCP 'social credit.'

In part, this is Wells Fargo's problem. But looking at a higher level, credit scores shouldn't exist.

I wonder if there's anything to the mix and match approach. I'm fully Pfizer'd up, but I wonder if I need a booster, I could get a J&J vax instead.

This is entirely the best thing. It would also bring a constant cycle of tourism dollars to Greece to spread the investment out over the years. A fund could be established paid for in part by host countries, but also in part by the IOC (lol) to keep the costs from being entirely on the back of the host. And we should do the same in some winter city as well. I have no idea what the best option for the winter olympics would be in terms of location.

So whose plane will they paint these kills on?

The pettiness behind all of this is what confounds me the most.

The Onion nails it again.

Yes. Which was the only outcome that there ever could be.

Gee, I wonder why she was killed by the French Resistance. Oh...

May we enter into this week with the confidence of a white guy on twitter with 100,000 followers.

So that one in Azerbaijan... not an oil rig. It was a goddamned VOLCANO.

@Brick Squadrons was overall fine. The story mode was pretty thin and quite obviously a tutorial for when you'd get into online matches. That's okay, I guess, but that's one place where the original X-Wing Alliance and TIE Fighter games shined: their story missions were all they had. And they were rich in gameplay and replayability. The only time I've replayed any of Squadrons' missions was to re-learn how to boost. Which brings me to the next problem with Squadrons: Online mode. This is just from my perspective as a very casual gamer that doesn't hardly get online. But when I do, I just want to pick up a game and be able to have fun with a minimal learning curve. Squadrons' online mode is not what I want to play mainly because of gameplay exploits. Boosting in your starfighter is one thing. But there are bugs in the design of the game that can't easily be corrected that allow boosting to be used much more frequently and much longer than I think they intended. You can also maneuver during boosts, so this turns into things like drifting, boost gliding, and other things that are just silly. Not only is it not what was in the original TIE Fighter, it's not something I expected. But most of all, I hate that it's an exploit that is essential to next level play in online matches. All the 'pros' that play the game got good at boosting. Boosting and the associated maneuvers make it to where I do not want to invest the time in learning an exploit that I don't want anything to do with anyway. And there's no point in playing 'straight' without using it. You just won't do well. The balance of the starfighters is also reasonably in line with one another. But the studio isn't doing any more updates. So it won't really change going forward. For a $40 game, it's fine. It's nostalgic. It's got good graphics. The missions are cool. And there's a mode where you can fight against AI. And that's fine for a half hour gaming session between the end of a workday and dinner. Unless you want to be a little more serious about getting into the exploits like boosting maneuvers and learning the intricacies of how to do that, I'd just get X-Wing Alliance with that TIE Fighter mod. They may have the same DNA, but Squadrons is a fundamentally different game from X-Wing Alliances and TIE Fighter. I think the days of expansive and well developed single player arcade flight sim games are behind us. Ace Combat is about the only series that scratches that itch for me anymore. And even it's lost a bit of that magic since the PS2 era. If anyone wants a Star Wars starfighter flight sim game, get X-Wing Alliances from Steam or GOG and download that TIE Fighter mod. That's probably going to be the pinnacle of this genre and will likely not be topped.

This is what Squadrons should have been. And this is what I've always wanted the original TIE Fighter game to be. This looks absolutely spectacular.

It's a great meme format at least.

Why are they spraying water on it lol

I feel like you don't let EMTs work scenes that may definitely involve their own loved ones.

I did read it. You're not drawing the line close enough between a mealy mouthed defense of one specific instance of busing and the general dismissal of busing at large to the segregationist goals.

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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAA Jesus christ, the first thing I noticed was how everyone has visible boners.

This could be entirely a story about the Trump administration. I took the liberty of editing some of the copy to make that point: Good to know that nothing has fundamentally changed.