Sylvanas is a bold example, considering I think most non-gooners would actually prefer her older models.

Good! Hopefully one of those other apps is federated and free from any hostile interests.

Yeah, they should shut down both. Honestly, X should be on the chopping block even faster that Meta, but Zuck seems committed to racing Musk to the bottom.

What does this even really accomplish? Obama famously pushed for greater relations with Cuba, and Trump reversed all of that progress. Trump is very likely to reverse this as well.

If it was actually something important, and it was something Biden could do kinda whenever, what is the point of doing it now? If Biden had at least done it when he took office, we could have had a few years fostering relations again. Now, we’ll be lucky to have a month.

People are hopping in to say this will be a nothingburger, but they’re forgetting something very important.

Donald Trump is a giant, petulant, attention-obsessed baby. The whole President Musk thing has been needling him. Fascists are about as easy to bait into infighting as leftists, and we’ve placed a lot of bait. This provides Donald with an excellent moment to betray and cement his power over Elon.

Obv the power dynamics aren’t fully known, maybe Elon is just an intermediary for Putin and Trump will have to just sit and take it, but I just cannot imagine Trump suffering in silence. Maybe this gets turned into an opening salvo.

Voters are dumb as hell with a collective memory of 1 month. Liberal has plenty of time to run an effective campaign, all they need is a new hottie PM to dazzle voters.

But it is the correct answer. There’s no reason for her to be given any deference on this. The 11th district court has the ability to overrule this judgement at literally any time, and I hope they will. The only reason this works is because rule of law in the U.S. is collapsing.

100% believable and 100% pointless. So much of that money is basically being wasted on their digital art team making technically distinct assets for each game. They all have to be exceptionally high quality, because Call of Duty is a AAA franchise, but do any players actually care if their sniper rifle looks slightly different if the numbers and mechanics are identical?

Feel like all of CoD’s successful competitors have figured out that FPS players don’t really give a shit and will happily play the same client on the same maps with minimal updates year after year, but Acti-Blizz is addicted to reinventing the wheel each time even though they’re reusing the good maps.

At least in recent memory, it was Dragon’s Dogma 2 teaching me that I could pick up and carry downed party members by having one of my party members pick up another one and bring them over to me. There’s so much that’s possible in DD2 that just isn’t in a typical videogame, that throughout the entire experience I was mostly learning niche interactions from my other party members instead of my own experimentation. It was a really cool experience, and felt way more impactful then a text prompt just lecturing me about all the mechanics the game has.

Hey, I’ll give him some props; this is when you should resign, not halfway through a campaign for reelection. Now Liberal at least has a chance to find someone new to beat Pierre, since Trudeau had no shot.

I don’t think any school would be hurting on donations of religious texts. In fact, I imagine most organized religions would love the opportunity to donate a book.

because the goal isn’t for more transparency in their service, CTA is mismanaged trash rn. It’s to have less transparency, so less people realize that the delays between trains still have not returned to pre-pandemic levels, and likely never will.

I dunno, seems pretty good for queer spaces and shitposting, but I guess .world doesn’t know much about either.

The thing is, the boomers of the past were wrong because none of that media was promoting violence. They were making it up.

The Tiktok algorithm promotes violence as a fast-pass to fame. It rewards people for making abhorrent trends with clicks.

Finally, you can make the skeletons dance to whatever you want! and play it in the background of your low budget Halloween horror movies

Really excited for this. Skyrim doesn’t have the greatest combat system, but Oblivion is the bastard middle child between Morrowind’s dice rolls and Skyrim’s more free system. Trying to go back to it now, even heavily modded, is really rough, but the world and stories told in Oblivion are a lot better than the constant radiant fiesta of Skyrim.

Part of what’s made this project such an arduous monument of effort has been them making sure Bethesda can’t shut them down. Using other people’s IP in mods is totally allowed by Bethesda, and always has been, as long as the mod is wholly your own original work. If Skyblivion took the easy path and imported the models of Oblivion, that might have been killed by Bethesda. Instead, they’ve taken on the ludicrous challenge of recreating a game down to the last detail, and it gives them total legal immunity.

Oh boy, can’t wait for the Israel government to sponsor some e-sports tournaments to engage in a little sportswashing. Finally, it’ll be their turn to ban all the Muslim players, as opposed to countries like the UAE who typically ban Jewish players!

This is kinda why using the pardon selfishly is always disgusting imo; it invites a constant analysis of “why did you pardon X instead of Y?” First Biden tried to make it “okay” by blanket pardoning a bunch of people, but that included a couple of people who actually deserved to be in jail. Now we’re at the stage where we’re looking at all the people who weren’t covered in the blanket pardon but were unjustly imprisoned.

It’s just a cycle that doesn’t end. I understand our justice system is completely broken, but it’s not like Biden attempted to fix it at all.

Just saying that if the people who are meant to be fans of your supposed game of the year are tearing into the dozens of issues the game has, most of which were solved in POE1, it doesn’t have a very strong argument.