GAM covered this on their podcast, and duh. Unfortunately the episode is less funny post-election…

Man, I still having had time to do my wild mage run. Granted a friend wanted in on that for the shenanigans.

While that take is correct in 98% of circumstances, this isn’t one of them for a couple of reasons. BG3 has enough content at release to play for several years and have different experiences each time. The fact that it’s getting free additional content is more so because of people making the game popular in it’s first year, showing that CRPGs aren’t dead, etc. The game won literally every GotY award, for crying out loud.

There’s not a ton of other games I’d say this is bad take, but you know, it’s like complaining about Terraria or Dead Cells or something. At some point you get the game and you return to it periodically.

The only two reasons to put it off? You’re too poor or you don’t have time for a 300+ hour time investment. It’s not gonna get a steep discount anytime soon, though.

My mom used to always buy budget TP from outlet and dollar stores, this would be on that list. It’ll also feel like sandpaper and tear the moment it touches your ass, the spiders might be the least of your problems.

Yup, it’s generally half baked science. Now, I will concede that age and education represent something, but all groups are at best proxies for what’s happening to people. But racial groups have always been pretty bad proxies, especially pan-asian and Latino.

It’s a good thing that market is so saturated that there’d always be a cheap uncomplicated mouse with all your features, unless you’re some sort of MMO mouse person.

That said, a company can probably still sell this to the government with enough lobbying. Those chumps love wasting cash on subscriptions they don’t need (looking at you, Adobe Cloud).

I’m just so glad all the comments have such useful advice for folks. I second the tips suggesting throwing it in frozen and adding more water when things get spicy.

Probably! I think they just didn’t defed from lemmynsfw or whatever it’s called. They always appear around the double digits.

Used to also include furry porn but I think they defederated from that. Honestly I either ignore it or say “you go girl” and move on.

It’s Lemmy, even the All feed has an end (and that end is usually porn).

Oh, that’s the anxiety version!

Let’s be real, though, it really is bliss when there’s no one else around. Hell is other people, after all!

When I had mandatory in person office work, almost my entire team took time off, including the boss, leaving me and my mostly automated data job alone. I brought my steam deck on those days. It was bliss.

If I remember right, it’s a supply chain thing where a ton of stuff gets made in China but is still a US product and sometimes finished here. Think iPhones, for example. Apple is still a US company, it’s not like China can just sell Mexico iPhones direct.

Ps this is also why tariffs are extremely stupid.

Tesla was one of the very few federal options, too. I still want an EV and Cali might be my only shot at affording one (but honestly I’d prefer seeing renters assistance as a higher priority to fight homelessness first, though. Too bad that’s not popular with neolibs)

I imagine that’s still their property, given the fence in the foreground, but those screws sticking out could have been a great slip-and-fall style multi-million dollar lawsuit my just cutting yourself a little with a “rusty” screw. My building HOA got sued for less before I moved in, and insurance just caves without checking if it’s legit since that can just up the premiums.

I mean, it wasn’t too different 100 years ago. And the 1920s lead to a decade of economic stability, right? /s

NPR was literally talking about this earlier in the morning, specifically within academia. I forget the speaker, but they cited that after Brexit, neighboring countries saw a rise in quality researchers who opted not to stay or study in the UK.

Honestly, even 2016 gives us some insight though and if I recall correctly, it never really caused significant brain drain. A little hard to measure people who never were here to begin with, but even my wife mentioned her reason for staying after the election and it’s because there’s still money to be made here.

I read this, got upset, took a drive and rationality kicked back in. Even if bullet ballots were higher and Trump had access to software after 2020, it still seems more likely that the average American was stupid, blamed Biden for inflation, and voted against their own interests. I’d still like an investigation in any case (Lord knows every accusation is a confession with these people) but let’s consider a few problems.

First, there weren’t really a lot of evidence of tampering day of, and logistically it would be hard to pull off some kind of ground game tampering without at least raising some eyebrows. In fact, day of exit polling was in line with things looking bad for Harris. There were of course actual interference in the form of bomb threats and of course record breaking disinformation, though the latter is somehow legal.

Second, the bullet ballots argument could be true but is more an indication of an abnormality. That could be a get it the vote with Gen Z males in swing states, it could be people paid to cast votes, it could be a lot of things. I think that deserves investigation, with emphasis on investigation and less on recount because even an influx of real bullet ballots is weird. If it’s a legitimate reason, it’d help both parties to know that that secret sauce was.

Lastly, Harris had a lot of legitimate problems with her campaign, mostly a result of the aforementioned inflation and general discontent people have after 2020. I literally teach social psychology and let me tell you, average human brains are easily manipulated into biased memory. She’d have done herself a service sticking to her initial vibes campaign and distancing herself from Biden as the do-over we were promised when he stepped down. Big R.I.P. there but whatever.

Point is, this was rattling in my brain on my drive home and now it’s a rant on Lemmy.

Better than a raspberry!

NGL, I hate cruises so much I think I’ll chance it with the dictator.

I’ve said it before, the man steals political capital. When you can lie like he does, you don’t need a tit for tat, or even approval from the masses.