So a fan of squirting?

https://disturbed.fandom.com/wiki/The_Guy

The Guy is the mascot of Disturbed. He has appeared in several albums as the “cloaked character” on the cover art, and in music videos as the “hero” that ends up defeating large corporations or armies alone.

A character consistently depicted as going against the rich and powerful commanding the media and armies to provide some semblance of justice and liberty to the masses… And the front man was all in on the IDF operations at least as late as second half of 2024. I might have seen it in October of 2023 when some might have assumed the IDF were going to be surgical, but indiscriminate bombing and famine inducing siege had already happened by summer of 2024…

I could maybe even give him the benefit of the doubt that he was in a bubble and oblivious to the wider issues, but after being booed and called on by the media to examine the situation closer to comment, he double downed at a point that should have been eye opening.

Right, that Steam Deck and myriad of PC handhelds I think is why I don’t consider the Switch quite so uniquely gimmicky… It’s a recognition that normal controller games can be played in a ‘tablet’ with better controls more than a particularly unique, possibly patent protected thing like the wiimotes, or the Wii-U tablet+main display, or the DS dual screens…

In short, if they made their low-spec games ported to PC it’s quite likely to be a nice additional revenue stream without having to compromise the game to be workable on PC. If the Wii-Motes were still a big thing, then Nintendo would have a hard time trying to make PC ports without screwing up their console.

Like with the Wii, I’d be with you and the Wii motes were super gimmicky. Also if the Wii u had panned out.

But the switch is not particularly uniquely gimmicky. Pretty conventional controls, with maybe the residual gimmick of those NFC figures…

MTG entered office as a ‘the establishment is corrupt, all the conspiracy theories are real’ under Biden.

Now that ‘her team’ has won, now the establishment is all corrupt and there’s tons of actual conspiracies… So in a way, she’s actually shockingly consistent…

It’s like if Rage Against the Machine were actually very much on the side of the machine.

It also turns out they must think “The Guy” is actually the bad guy.

I think that unlike some others in the maga leadership, she was a true believer. She believed in all the most dubious deep state conspiracy theories. She thought this movement was about purging deep state corruption, and replacing it with some more meritocratic system. A big old dose of racism in there but with her rationalizing it with convenient conspiracy theories.

Now she’s faced with more blatant objective evidence of conspiracies. So she gets turned a bit by the betrayal.

Over a long enough time span, I think MTG is doomed to always, eventually turn against whomever is ostensibly “in charge”. She’ll go for conspiracy theories and of course the people in charge are to blame.

For all intensive purposes, it doesn’t matter. Case and point, I understood fine.

No need to call out a clanker as an escape goat.

Ultimately it’s all a moo point.

When it’s totaled, then you get a cash payoff for what they declare it to be worth. It being the other person’s insurance does give you a bit more leverage than is it were your own.

At least in my case, I was able to negotiate a bit and got the other person’s insurance to at least go up to paying the blue book retail for mint condition of the car. They also tossed in a few thousand for pain and suffering and covered a full month of rental car. In my case someone in the other car was unresponsive and needed an ambulance ride, and on my part I had been very thorough in documenting everything that legally would count including damaged contents in the trunk, missed work, and other things.

However ultimately it is a check and car sales can be rough. So it may be that they were underpaid, or that the car’s general book value didn’t match their subjective value for the car, or they were thinking they should get what they paid for it. I could imagine if they bought a 2015 in 2019, they were probably getting a decent, off lease practically new car. Now they have a check appropriate for buying a 2015 of the same make and model and the 2015s now available are in worse shape than they kept their own, previous owners that neglected their car over a longer period.

With hookers and blackjack

I’m with you, it seemed still sufficiently performative to be really intended to get his base in on the pressure to go after his personal enemies.

Generally I see a few:

• People wanting the highly deterministic, but slower behavior of the rc scripts.
• People liking the fact that the rc startup was generally almost entirely defined in plain script files
• Some folks criticizing certain opinionated things in systemd, as systemd delves deeper into things like capabilities and users.
• Systemd can sometimes be a bit weird about how it does/does not capture stdout/stderr as one might guess in some situations.
• Some folks not liking the journald angle of binary-only files

Mainly the last point is the only one I personally find potentially aggravating, but since I never really am in a broken system without journalctl I’m not too bothered by it. I have saved myself some effort thanks to systemd including stuff that the daemons used to provide for themselves.

AI because its dumber than them and useless.

I am much better at washing dishes by hand than my dishwasher. I still mostly let my dishwasher have a crack at things to spare me from usually having to bother.

It’s a bit trickier with AI, as it’s more obnoxiously screwing up when it screws up, but at least upon occasion it’s able to spit out a few mind numbingly obvious lines of code that would have taken me longer to type myself, because I can only hit keyboard buttons so fast.

He’s so much worse than Trump himself

I didn’t suggest that people who are abused tend to go down this path, I’m saying of those that abuse others, they themselves were likely abused.

I don’t know the percentage, but hypothetically if 2% of people abused go on to abuse others, this would be true without even saying anything about 98% of abused people.

If in March he announces an end to the tariffs and prices have a sudden relief, then the GOP can sail in on the realization of lower prices.

It’s easier to make things better when you deliberately make them worse first. There’s the lovely strategic thing of the non-election year.

Abusers often are “paying forward” abuse they suffered.

I don’t get it but for whatever reason he has an enthusiastic following specific to him.

There are a number of races where people tried to ride his popularity, but unless Trump is directly in the race, it doesn’t seem to matter so much.

What about a compromise, Trump doesn’t get one but we also rescind Obama’s? I like Obama and all, but that peace prize was not really warranted.

Obama is certainly way way better than Trump, but the peace prize was silly.