Careful what you wish for, that probably isn’t out of the question.

That’s almost literally exactly what RCV is.

He won’t live forever, and the power vacuum will be legendary

There’s some attempt to try and make it genuine, and there are guidelines around it to support that (e.g. 1 = barely noticeable, 3,4 = distracting, 5,6 = unignorable, 7,8 = prevents normal activities, 9 = prevents conversation)

But in practice you’re going to get about one in every dozen patients who engages with this scale in good faith and you’re going to get a number between 8-11 from everyone else.

John McAfee is the only person I genuinely believe may have successfully faked his own death.

Because people are scared. If you don’t show up to work and cite “General strike” or “political protest” as your reason, you won’t have a job when you return for 90% of people.

No job means no food and no home. SNAP/EBT are being cut so you can’t rely on the social safety net to survive. Being homeless means you’re free game to get snatched off the street and shipped to El Salvador in an unmarked van.

The average American is in a vise. Many federal workers now don’t have much left to lose because they aren’t being paid anyway, most everyone else is just trying to survive.

Previously uninhabitable tundra is about to become prime property if the climate continues on its current course.

Invest in a few acres of frozen hellhole now, and in thirty years flip it for a gorillion bitcoins

They also have the highest incidence of fire based death of any car of all time, including the Ford Pinto, which was best known for catching fire.

https://www.news.com.au/technology/motoring/on-the-road/fiery-death-trap-most-dangerous-car-killing-its-passengers/news-story/ab364eb2e1ad2b569e367664f08aa705

Hey I was that weirdo that down voted this, and I assure you it was by accident and I changed it now. I actually never got the chance to play Apocalypse and hot damn, I had no idea it was a whole sequel, I thought it was an expanded release in the same vein as a bunch of the Persona games have (P3->FES, P4->Golden, P5->Royal).

So, amending my statement, play SMTIV and then play Apoc.

Also, excuse me, I have some shopping I need to do.

They’ve been putting AI slop all over official white house correspondence all year, I promise they didn’t need me to give them this idea.

but it would be an incredibly stupid thing to do.

So we can pretty much bank on it definitely happening, got it.

I for one am extremely surprised that we didn’t recieve some obviously bullshit, AI-written “files” that conveniently implicate all of Trump’s opponents while leaving him and his posse out.

Pleasantly surprised, don’t get me wrong, but I fully expected that out of this administration. They’ve already proven time and again that they have zero shame or accountability, this would be right up their alley.

Yes.

ODST-Dropping your barbarian is objectively the best way to have him enter combat, and it inflicts psychological damage to anyone close enough to witness it.

Watch everything that PancreasNoWork has ever posted on YouTube, read the entirety of 1d4chan and The All Guardsmen Party, and then you’ll be ready to begin.

God, how I wish that US Democrats were even half as absolutely based as the right wing makes them sound.

Hah, I perceive myself the same, as just standing in the corner shouting about things as other people have all the social media fun.

Wallflowers unite!

I mean, ha ha funny joke, but Stamets you’re one of the most socially active people I know of on the fediverse. There’s like a dozen people I recognize by name here and you’re one of them.

Now, me? Yeah I fit this meme

Leave Pokémon behind, play some Shin Megami Tensei, thank me later.

There’s a pipeline of former Pokémon fans thinking “Huh, these games have kind of gone to crap, I wish I had this same monster-collector style game but with a real plot and interesting characters” and then SMTIV falls from the sky like manna from heaven unto them.

I don’t think IV is actually the best SMT game, I think that honor goes to Nocturne - which is available on the Switch - but SMTIV is a good showing of the series that is available for 3DS. If you have the option, pick up SMTIV-Apocalypse, it’s an expanded “GOTY-style” re-release of IV, but the base game is also fine.

“Nukular” never fails to make me seethe a little bit internally.

Um, there is more than one type of anticompetitive practice? Amazon uses predatory pricing to drive companies out of business, Microsoft uses tying to sell Teams, Google uses self-preferencing for their own services in search results, Facebook acquired Instagram rather than compete with them, etc.

None of which are related to Steam nor has Steam done anything resembling any of these examples to my knowledge.

One of Valve’s favorite anticompetitive cudgels is requiring “most favored nation” clauses in their contracts, prohibiting devs from selling for less on other storefronts (which Amazon also has used).

Valve prohibits people from selling steam keys for less on other storefronts which I think is perfectly reasonable. You can list your game on Steam for $20 and distribute it on Itch for $5 or even free and Steam has zero problem with this, so long as you aren’t distributing steam keys via that storefront. This is to try and prevent a developer from leveraging Steam for advertisement purposes but making all their actual sales off-platform.