Frank

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I think apple might be one of those words that started out very generic and gradually became specific.

Also, I just realized the pom-2 computer in warfarm is because they're Canadian and French adjacent and not Pomegranate.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Apparently that's more or less how they're made. There's no frame, theres apparently just a bunch of plastic the metal is poorly attached to, and that's set on top of the chassis

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

If I took over the world I would 1349394% teach kids radio comms discipline in school. It makes it so much easier to communicate clearly when you need to.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Damn that's good

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Decades of playing on iffy PCs and modded or Indy or just jank games have me saving frequently.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

Getting brown cop lights on top of your car

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (3 children)

I have long had. Theory that the management class experiences management self help books as like of wildfire like waves of religious mania. Some book or seminar or whatever sweeps through the management class, they all believe whatever nonsense it is with the faith of converts, and they force it all to be implemented no matter how little sense it makes and how many problems it causes. A few quarters later some new craze comes through and they do it again.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago (4 children)

I've heard the unity version is very good if you like old school wandering around doing quests stuff.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I believe so. And they also fixed dungeon generation so they can't spawn impossible to complete

Iirc the procedural generation is different from most modern proceedural game's. The proceedural generation was done by the devs to populate the world, but the overworld agaik is the same for everyone. I don't remember if the dungeons are randomized or jot

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Remember Sami people, too. Indigenous Europeans who have long been subjected to anti-indigenous violence by northern Euros.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago (2 children)

This is weird to me because Norway does have a lot of really gorgeous fjords and whatnot.

The far north really is witchy and strange though. Like legitimately. The sun goes sideways around the world at summer soletice and doesn't really rise at all for winter solstice, and above the Arctic circle it stay in the sky or hides for months at a time. There are giant invisible bears that hunt you. There are two different kinds of unicorn fish. The salmon runs are the heartbeat of the world. Some of the only non-tropical rainforests are in the Pacific Northwest. Depending on how you reckon it Denali is the tallest mountain in the world. The auroras are a regular sight in the sky. The magnetic pole wanders around like a drunkard. Orcas are almost certainly watching us and thinking strange dolphin thoughts. The ravens are smart enough to know what days of the week the trash is taken out and will be waiting for it with eager anticipation. More than most places half ton mega fauna is a routine problem that people have grown used to dealing with.

This is all based on my experiences with Alaska, but having more or less grown up in the remote, isolated north (in the "big city" of Anchorage) when I'm in the lower 48 most of it, especially between the Appalachians and the Rockies, looks like a post apocalyptic wasteland. Farmland is dead land, flattened and stripped of all life to be paved over with monocrops, cattle land is dead land, huge chunks of the South East are overrun with invasives, the whole world is a network of flat, endless highways and soulless cloned strip malls and chain stores.

Alaska is a completely different world in ways i cannot adequately describe to someone who hasn't spent extensive time there. It's not magical, it just hasn't been paved flat by industrial capitalism. It still has wild animals in dense populations. Theres still an integration of the "natural" and human worlds where it's just one world that we all live in - the people, the bears, the eagles, the squirrels, the salmon, the halibut, the orcas, the moose, the whales, the ptarmigans. There's no distinctive line between the human and natural world, there's just the world. There's still active geological formation happening with the glaciers and a few volcanos, and there was much more of that i. The 20th century as the slow death of the glaciers really changed parts of the landscape. There's mosquitoes in a way that people down south have never really experienced no matter how bad they think their bugs are. Even before deet the mosquitoes in the lower 48 never dimmed the sun.

Again, it's not magic, it's just very, very different from life in most of the lower forty eight. There really isn't anywhere on the continent as shockingly lush, dense, and green as the Pacific Northwest in the summer. You have to go all the way down to the jungles in the lower Yucatan to find forests like that again. You mostly just don't see bears regularly in the lower forty eight and mostly don't have to teach kids near safety or how to deal with moose.

Compared to Ohio it might as well be Narnia. So, it seems pretty natural to me to exoticize the far north. It really is extremely exotic to most euros, to the point of being pretty alien when you consider the extremes of dark and light or some of the very weird landscapes like the tundra, proper mountains, rainforests, fjords.

 

Key keeps invading and thumbs downing me and throwing poop!

 

From a description of Miami on the Cyberpunk wiki

Naturally, these organizations were dominated by the various drug cartels. After the bioplague destroyed the drug crops in 1992, their authority faded away to nothing. One by one, the drug-producing areas of South America were destroyed. With no commercial crop to provide cheap raw materials, and no end to the drought in sight, these criminal elements began to feed off each other in a desperate attempt to monopolize the synthetic drug industry. In the beginning, violence increased nation-wide as the drug cartels beat themselves to death. But while the shooting eventually stopped in most places, it only got worse in Miami, until eventually the city was in flames. Unable to stop the warfare, the government cordoned off the area and let the combatants exhaust themselves. It was not a question of refusing to save innocent lives; most of the honest (and moneyed) people had fled Miami at the beginning of the troubles. The city had already been destroyed, and the gangs had vowed never to give up their turf.

By early 1996, the war was over; Miami was as bad a city as Beirut, a wasteland of half-demolished buildings and bullet-riddled car wrecks. Above this splendid kingdom stood the Bloods-just in time for the worst of the Collapse.

Just peak fucking liberalism, uncritical acceptance of 80s and 90s war on drugs propaganda. It's like Robocop was canon, but the writers didn't realize Robocop was a satire of America's War on Drugs politics and white media hysteria.

 

Yeah idk. The goal is to express that 2025 is happening no matter who wins, since the SCOTUS can do it by fiat. So this is just, idk, a doodle. Obviously even for my "people remember things because their eyes are bleeding" color schjeme this is too much but idk how to do it. whatever.

Please share your thoughts.

 

Buy my book!

bye

 

Instead of brigading we're a quaint magical Scottish village that emerges from the mists for one day every hundred years and a dirty owl falls in love with a local and decides to stay, forswearing modernity for a magical reactionary scottish themepark.

 

Apparently a lot of folks don't know this; The DNC and RNC run the debates jointly, setting the rules and expectations. Allegedly debate questions are not given to the candidates in advance but who knows.

The CPD was established in 1987 by the chairmen of the Democratic and Republican Parties to "take control of the presidential debates".[

At a 1987 press conference announcing the commission's creation, Fahrenkopf said that the commission was not likely to include third-party candidates in debates, and Kirk said he personally believed they should be excluded from the debates.

In 1988, the League of Women Voters withdrew its sponsorship of the presidential debates after the George H. W. Bush and Michael Dukakis campaigns secretly agreed to a "memorandum of understanding" that would decide which candidates could participate in the debates, which individuals would be panelists (and therefore able to ask questions), and the height of the lecterns. The league rejected the demands and released a statement saying that it was withdrawing support for the debates because "the demands of the two campaign organizations would perpetrate a fraud on the American voter."[5]

n May 2024, the Biden and Trump campaigns struck a deal to circumvent the CPD and participate in two debates (on CNN on June 27 and ABC News on September 10), breaking a longstanding tradition of debates organized under the auspices of the CPD.[10] The CNN debate will be "open to any presidential candidate who consistently polls above 15 percent in approved public surveys and is on enough state ballots to win a majority of electoral college votes."[10] The future of the CPD was thrown into doubt.[12]

Lol. Lmao

 
 

I figure shit's going to get worser whether we end up with 99% Hitler Blue or 99% Hitler Red. So, anyone have any ideas on what to do next?

 

I cannot get over this. Biden has destroyed an incomprehensible number of lives between the Crime bill, college debt and medical bills, the violence on the border, the extrajudicial assassinations and renditions, the genocides in Yemen and Gaza. What the fuck are liberals? What are they? Why don't they care about any of this? What the fuck? matt matt matt matt matt matt matt matt matt matt matt matt matt matt matt matt

My brain i s just making whatever noise this picture of Matt is and it's been mkaing that noise for years. How can they just not care? How is this not real to them?

 

Utterly fucking incredible. No one said anything, posted any memes. He just posted this out of the blue. Just fucking incredible. They will march in to hell screaming at everyone around them for not voting hard enough. Like just what the fuck is this? Who is this for, now, in 2024, after this debate? What do they think posting this bullshit will accomplish? Biden just spent 90 minutes shitting himself on stage and failing to finish sentences and their immediate move is to scold people before they even start saying the emperor has no clothes?

 

Jesus fuck v

 

I was having a vibe after reading some dreary shit about advertising. Remember, a weapon is only as good as the hand that wields it.

Description: against a painfully pink backdrop a drone carrying a sign that says "MARRY AND REPRODUCE" is overlaid by crossed hammers. Garish spraypainted title text reads "HEXBEAR TIP" flanked by two vaporwave hexbear logos. A text box at the bottom reads "No one wants drone advertising poisoingi the skies but how can you stop it? drones are small and far away in the sky! but drone operators are aon the ground and they can't fly their drones with broken thumbs. stay woke!!@!"

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