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i like the original series and the reboot trilogy a lot and will be down for as many more as they want to make

1 hour ago, Spawn_of_Apathy said:

Careful with auto upgrade. I’ve been seeing where if you do it you get stuck in this loop of applying the upgrades. After that it wipes your progress for that cup you were in, making you do all those races again. 

interesting will have to keep an eye out

I havent played a forza motorsport since 2 but fired this up since i have gamepass

put a couple of hours into it and find it pretty fun and i like how easy it is to adjust difficulty to my liking to create competitive races that i dont know off the bat that i will win

graphics on series x with performance rt are pretty good though maybe a bit underwhelming

i like the auto upgrade feature because im not into cars enough to care about the parts differences just make my vroom vroom better

disney painted itself into a corner by overextending the creatives at marvel and lucasfilm to produce content for d+ and movie theaters

two movies and one series a year lets it all breathe more and feel somewhat special

i gave up being a regular user of youtube a while back and havent looked back

2 is decidedly not terrible it just is not as expertly crafted as the original

i would watch a 3rd entry 

watching trey yingst on twitter it seems like the plan by israel is to keep ramping things up in waves for the foreseeable future as each night the raids into the strip grow in scale

winners win

2 minutes ago, Commissar SFLUFAN said:

A reporter on the Israel/Gaza border claims that the level of intensity of tonight's airstrikes completely dwarfs anything that has occurred since this entire catastrophe began.

war zone correspondent trey yingst is posting videos directly from the border and it is getting hot

i just want more adventures with luke skywalker without the questionable cg

the universe of star wars is not actually interesting and i dont know why we pretend it is

13 hours ago, Greatoneshere said:

In that case, I'm pretty sure Palestine was like: "why do we have to give up any land?" and it seems like your response, if I understand  you correctly, is that Israel is being given just slightly more land so Palestine should bargain with the UN to work on something more fair. But from the footage of the vote for this during the UN Palestine was barely heard. There was no chance that once the lines were drawn and approved that anything would change afterward.

the leading palestinian orgs boycotted the entire process while jewish orgs actually participated in it

from benny morris’ book on the 1948 war

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The immediate trigger of the 1948 War was the November 1947 UN partition resolution. … The Palestinian Arabs, along with the rest of the Arab world, said a flat "no"… The Arabs refused to accept the establishment of a Jewish state in any part of Palestine. And, consistently with that "no", the Palestinian Arabs, in November–December 1947, and the Arab states in May 1948, launched hostilities to scupper the resolution's implementation

they didnt have to give up land as they didnt own all of it but a good way to get stuck with a bad deal is to not participate

abbas himself has made this point that it was a stupid decision to boycott the process

1 hour ago, CitizenVectron said:

The patch today has improved performance massively. It's actually boggling how they decided to release before this patch, considering the improvement. Obviously the game still struggles at high populations (and that will continue to improve), but it's sooo much better.

this changed my mind on downloading it so thank you

powell on the economy 

trump being bogged down in a billion criminal cases brought on by his hubris more than anything else is the funniest way for the 2024 election to go

24 minutes ago, Greatoneshere said:

Palestine had the whole country

there were people of palestinian ethnicity living in the region there but it was the ottoman empire for 400 years and then the dumbass brits from ww1 until the founding of Israel so i dont follow this notion that palestine had it

and honestly this point makes sense of your entire pov as if your position is that the whole thing belonged to a state called palestine it is understandable that you might feel as you do

8 minutes ago, Spork3245 said:

 

They certainly used to but I'm unsure of their current stance on it, as they currently believe in Israel and it's right to exist.

i know at one point abbas suggested the right of return to a palestinian state in the pre 67 borders and hamas was like fuck no so it isnt as though there have never been leaders willing to budge of full right of return

but it has been the stickiest of sticking points in the actual peace talks for longer than any of us have been alive

Just now, Spork3245 said:

Yes, I know, that's largely the problem, and it's also one of the (many) reasons why Hamas having 60% support in Gaza is extremely bad. The PLC in the West Bank at least recognizes Israel having a right to exist now and would seemingly be willing figure out a two state solution.

has the plc talked about right of return from what you have read

1 minute ago, Spork3245 said:

 

Feel free to chime in with the resolution. 

you cant have right of return and a jewish state so one side has to give up a thing that is foundational to their identity

there is no resolution to the conflict that doesnt begin with the two sides resolving that

lots of writing and no actual thoughts on how to resolve the foundational conflict of the need for a jewish state in the eyes of the israelis and the requirement of the full right of return for palestinians

16 minutes ago, TheLeon said:

You didn’t book a Ticket to Paradise?

for the goofy genre it belongs to the movie is decent

about 75 hours in and i find myself annoyed that two quest lines are broken because some action where i need to talk to a character is impossible because they are stuck in a room with a non functioning door

i still have only completed one of the main story quests lololol

3 minutes ago, Greatoneshere said:

Sorry, this is barely coherent English, I genuinely don't understand what you're saying. Yes, so far it seems like typical "horrors of war" stuff but given the bloodlust I've seen I'm sensing/feeling war crimes incoming

what is a war effort you can think of where any side in the conflict did more than what israel is doing to avoid civilian casualties 

but now it seems you have no example of a particular thing that is an issue and instead are predicting the future which is a weird route to go so ill take that as a sign to move along

have at it

24 minutes ago, Greatoneshere said:

The right side is minimizing casualties as much as possible and using non-violent means wherever and whenever you can but that's not the vibe I'm getting.

what is a war effort where any side did more to avoid civilian casualties than israel 

it look from my limited pov to be pretty standard horrors of war stuff which is why avoiding war is good

1 minute ago, Greatoneshere said:

Yes, is Palestine way more fucked up, run by gang governments and the like? Yes, of course! All that needs fixing - and they ended up this way in large part to Israel's policies towards them over the decades, that's my entire point about how Israel is a large part of the problem.

even israel is at fault for the religiously derived views on lgbt people which are views shared by most countries in the region except israel

that one seems like a stretch amigo