Accelerationism (to 2028)

What are they standing in front of? An impressionist painting of bales of hay?

I’ve lived in tropical/mediterranean climates my whole life (until about a year ago), so I’d say I’m the most comfortable in summer but I have a lot of fun with and I’ve always loved to visit places with snow.

Hate living with it though. I had to shovel my car out of the snow for the first time this year and that suuuuuuucked.

Germany is arresting and deporting its political enemies. who are predominantly Jewish

nothing is new under the sun

I got forced to do a thing where they warned me about Chinese spies when I was a military dependent. the paranoia is real (and not necessarily unfounded China’s got some top tier operators)

real oligarchs who back their regime aren’t real morons

There was a time when this was true, but I genuinely think we are living in the Age of Morons right now.

reciprocal tariffs

So is the party line here that these are just a reaction to other countries’ tariffs and that if those tariffs are removed the US ones will be too? I have no doubt that they’re lying and calling things “tariffs” that really aren’t that, but if that’s the logic then this move makes marginally more sense.

edit: okay I saw the thing where they decided tariffs are when you have a trade deficit and that is fucking hilarious. Does Don really expect other countries to start buying American shit? Our stuff is obscenely overpriced at the global level! The only way that happens is if he intentionally weakens the dollar, and if he does that we can’t import anything anymore.

These days the lower levels of the Ryugong Hotel are even opened up! I hope that something changes and allows the peninsula to come under one government again in our lifetime - even if they do “one country two systems” a free SK would be far better than a US puppet state SK.

Hopefully this is just the tip of the spear, and there are plans for a long-term operation to match account names to perpetrators using the info they now have access to.

In the US, CP was only outlawed within living memory, 50ish years ago. It feels like something that’s been illegal since cameras were invented but the notion of protecting children from sexual exploitation is distressingly recent.

See, shit like this is why Bad Rats got two sequels.

oof lmao

I’ve attempted nanowrimo a few times (under my real name so no link) and a bunch of people in my family are big fans of it, if the company dies then good riddance but hopefully there’s some kind of grassroots replacement that springs up.

This doesn’t make sense to me. The costly part of producing a game is making the cart, copying the data to it is so cheap it’s almost free. How on earth do they economically justify this, and why am I absolutely certain it will work and spell the end of game carts actually containing game data?

MGSV is still my personal GOAT, as far as single player aaa games go at least I don’t think its been seriously challenged in terms of scope and depth and quality.

I don’t think the people saying this and the people buying assassin’s creed in 2025 are the same group of people.

They don’t realize having shitty teammates is part of any game and knowing how to deal with those players is a skill itself.

and nine times out of ten the person in question isn’t at the point where they can start thinking about how to deal with bad players on their team, because they are deeply ignorant of fundamental concepts like map awareness and are a really sloppy player.

idk about Overwatch but in League (at least back when I played) you could get to diamond just by muting your teammates and playing one champion every game and getting good enough to where you didn’t pick bad fights or lose your lane for no reason.

Drones have a pretty big advantage over piloted aircraft in stealth terms because of their small size, the whole next generation of aircraft will be built around them.

Honestly it seems like the countries that skipped fifth gen fighters got the best deal here. Even China’s newest ones are probably going to have a very short life cycle, and lmao rip the f-35 is going to cost two or more trillion dollars and accomplish nothing.

I think they mean "Jewish Question"ing, referring to a person going off on an antisemitic rant.

The Sims also established this as standard like ten years ago. I believe the questions they asked were, “can this Sim pee standing up?” and “Can this Sim get pregnant?”