Demut

Poor guy can't catch a break, huh. Well, good for him.

Euphemisms, man, what a riot ...

Is that what's actually happening though? I do remember the initial slew of negative press coverage (something something firing critical personnel, debt ratio being too high, arbitrary moderation, paying for the checkmark, a bunch advertisers leaving and so on) but neither the exodus that certain attention-starved celebrities were trying to get going nor the complete breakdown of the site's infrastructure that was prophesied has happened as of today. So by what objective metric is he "burning it to the ground"? From what I remember from a recent shareholder meeting/earnings call/whatever they're already trending toward breakeven. Maybe I'm just missing something but to me it seems like the demise of Twitter under Musk as proclaimed a bit premature. And at least to him, for whatever that's worth, engagement numbers and such are up, not down.

So what? Neither do console manufacturers historically, they make their money via the video games that get played on their console.

Would they though? Flight time costs resources (fuel alone can apparently come with a six-figure price tag for these missions since it's not just the jets but also the surveillance aircraft that kept an eye on the balloon for example) which wouldn't have been required had the planes not been scrambled for this. It's not like they're canceling training flights and replacing them with these missions so sorties like this one are definitely an extra cost that has to be paid in addition to whatever else they've got regularly scheduled.

Not just said, there is video evidence, apparently.

While it's nice and all to have a thread dedicated to entire albums, I think I speak for most people when I say that I usually listen to individual songs more often than entire albums and so I'm hereby reviving this similar thread from way back when. At the moment I can't get enough of this French electronic artist in general and this bangin' track in particular: Gesaffelstein - Opr

Sheesh, is the Musk hate on this board universal? I don't recall being him this reviled when last I posted on D1P.

What's Valve banking on here? Their customers being too dumb to figure that "loophole" out? Why wouldn't they offer a sensibly priced higher-tier model to get the sales that would otherwise go to whoever produces these SSDs?

Not a good look either that they arrested/detained that reporter who was there to cover this clusterfuck. Hard to believe that these imbeciles still think that they can hide a colossal fuck-up like that in this day and age.

What a tool. Even got the Eszett right, very nice.

I was referring to this. Equity!

I mean ... hard to avoid that when making a game loosely based on the SCP universe.

Both. Not only could a type II civilization send out hundreds of colony ships a year on a whim, they could also bring them up to relativistic speeds through the use of, for example, continuous laser beams (relayed ones if need be). Sure, even with 10% of light speed, say, we're still talking about travel times in the decades but that is orders of magnitude more feasible than the aeon-long voyages which we'd otherwise have to contend with.

Chad and stud country?

What is it with you guys and intergalactic visitors? Also, anyone going on about "muh cosmic distances" just isn't thinking big enough. With the kind of power that you get access to with a Dyson Swarm the problem of traveling between the stars becomes trivially easy. Now, that we haven't seen any evidence of said megastructures (and you'd expect us to if they were out there) is a different matter

In terms of the setting? Or what you as the PC are supposed to do? Or ...?

I don't think so. I listen to less Death Metal and the like (but to more Classical) than I used to. That's about it. Not like I stopped listening to it at all though, just not as often. Other than that it's more or less the same.

Same difference. That'd drive me crazy. I don't wanna hear anything but whatever's playing in my headphones when I'm at my computer.

Are those the ones who WANT their keyboard to make loud clickety-clackety noises when typing? That always seemed bizarre to me, I'd rather my keyboard makes no sound whatsoever.

Did you mean to type "intragalactic" for some reason?

Well ...

I think what they actually pride themselves on is their socialized healthcare and lack of mass shootings, to be fair. How come? Not that it's likely either way but the details surrounding these most recent incidents are pretty sparse. Or have they released any info yet that confirmed the balloon or whatever hypothesis?

This isn't exactly the first UFO they're dealing with. Some of the more esoteric accounts of the government's handling of this phenomenon even allege that they made contact with several different species. Maybe they made a deal where they get to shoot down the X's crafts in exchange for leaving alone the Y's crafts or something Also, if some hairless chimps' primitive gunpowder missiles can easily down your interstellar spaceship then you kinda had it coming, just sayin' ...

Yeah, so I was just told. For some reason I never knew that. From what I recalled they were "just" two edgy loners with anger issues. But what that article points out is pretty clear-cut, going around shouting "Heil Hitler", obsessing over WW2, planning the massacre on Hitler's birthday and so on. Was that a common part of the reporting at the time? Maybe that wasn't emphasized here for some reason. At most I remember certain outlets going with the "violent vidya!!!1one" angle, same as the Erfurt school shooting here three years later (where the perpetrator got inspired by Columbine).