Yes. She retains her seat in the House of Representatives.

Primaries are meaningless when it comes to presidential candidates. The courts have ruled that the political parties are under no obligations to respect those results.

The 2016 and 2024 DNC actions certainly proved that.

No, you’re pretty much spot on.

They also spoke a lot about CAGRs (Compound Annual Growth Rate) and MAUs, demonstrating how passionate they were about making cash a great game.

Highguard’s leadership and at least one of their former devs said they were making this game in order to line their pockets.

They really never mentioned wanting to make a great game because they love these type of games.

It was they want a bigger piece of the pie and these games generate lots of revenue.

US military is striving for Russia-level military (in)competency.

Probably. I’ve seen some Leafs’ fans declare they’ve jumped ship, for the rest of the season at least.

One said they feel bad for the Eastern Conference bc there won’t be a “Get Out of 1st Round Free” card since the Leafs won’t make the playoffs.

If Buffalo wins it, would that count?

They’re white and rich.

ICE is arresting and detaining US citizens who have their passports on them.

Anyone coming to the US at this point is taking a big risk. Especially if they’re not white.

The whole thing was rigged to fail. There appears to have been almost zero outside input during the development. All the feedback they got were from internal sources or carefully vetted content creators - ones that rarely say anything bad about a game.

They created an echo fart-sniffing chamber.

They released a few updates almost right away which were received positively but it doesn’t appear that the company had the money to ride out a few months of poor microtransactions.

No open beta, no Early Access. They disappeared from social media right after the trailer dropped then, when they returned, all they did was whine.

Thousands of players quit and uninstalled before finishing the required tutorial.

I’m sure a lot of the creatives and devs are capable of creating great things. Management created an environment of groupthink, not of questioning and innovation.

Look at me, I’m the Spider-Man now.

Praise Jesus

Highguard is free to play and nobody is complaining that it turns into pay to win.

It’s just not a good game and the trailer did nothing to set it apart. There are lots if good breakdowns but it all comes down to that it’s just not good.

It started off with almost 100K concurrent players and then dropped to 37K in 24 hours. It’s been sitting at just 2K since.

Nah. It’ll be an online hero shooter.

If they took a sponsorship, then we should be looking into those sponsors.

I get your point about it being difficult to give up going and I hope a lot of them are having some sleepless nights over it.

By sending the couchfucker and a contingent of ICE goons, it is a political statement to be there. It’s not about the sport, it’s about the glorification of the Orange Rapist.

I don’t think a finger was the primary appendage used in this case.

In most states, manufacturers are prohibited from selling directly to consumers.

There are a variety of reasons for it, some were consumer-friendly (like preventing the manufactures from monopolizing repair/service), but it basically created a system of middlemen that raised costs.

I worked at a Honda dealership in college and I learned a lot.

For example, when you finance through a dealership, the dealer doesn’t actually put up any money. They find a 3rd party financer then tack on a few percentage points.

Salespersons also earn higher commissions on dealer-provided upsales, such as window-etching, rust-preventative, custom badging, extended warranties, etc, so they try to push those things.

Dealers are also locked into individual manufacturers, usually. That is, a “family” of dealerships, are actually multiple businesses, each with a contract with a different manufacturer.

The person that owned the Honda dealership I worked at, owned others. On one side, they had a Pontiac-Buick-GMC dealer, then Chevy, Chevy truck, and Cadillac on the other side. Even they it was all General Motors, they were run separately. Down the street, they had a dealership that sold both new Toyotas and Subarus.

We’re pretty much already there. Having worked at a “good” dealership, it became pretty obvious that only the owner and their managers were making good money. Everyone else? Not at all.

Which one?

Like with most other forms of content, there’s a variety in the quality.

Admittedly, I do watch a few reaction channels. They’re mostly covering content I enjoy and the reaction portion is usually one part. They react then discuss it and I usually enjoy the discussion more than the reaction.