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Cylusthevirus

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Science and expert opinion should be respected, "your own research" is usually worthless, Black Lives Matter, Taiwan is a country, Love is Love, and Trans Rights are Human Rights.

No nazis or tankies, thanks.

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She can read his emotions though. Her mom, however...

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Fuck telemetry is not something I expected would be a thing, but I should have guessed.

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Yes, clearly the only people that don't like commies are fascists, like all of those people who lived under nominally "communist" regimes. Weird how they developed fascism from the experience.

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Off topic but I love that people still remember Space Ghost Coast to Coast.

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If only more billionaires tried to visit the Titanic.

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They all say they work well under pressure after all.

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Honestly it's fine as long as everyone is in a similar power band. All you do is scale up encounter difficulty slightly by adding monster abilities or extra opponents. All power levels are relative to the campaign's conditions, after all.

What sucks is when one person is vastly stronger than their peers and sees no problem with this. Those people never learned to share and should be shunned.

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Chronicles of Narnia is a better fit. Diana Wynne Jones wrote one. There's like ... lots more. This was THE young adult genre for a couple decades.

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British authors, but extremely popular in the US. I guess we could call these Anglo-isekai?

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Gonna go buy some Listerine and rebottle it as Freedom Mouthwash but charge 30% more. Anyone down to invest?

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Imagine doing some elaborate deal with Raphael for the promise of greater power through understanding of infernal runes only to get this fucking translation done.

I would die laughing.

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Now, 11 years later, it looks like the finish line for Squadron 42 may be in sight, although CIG stopped short of announcing a release window.

[Cue Laugh Track]

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Yeah, nobody was a miserable lech who treated women like meat before the porn industry!

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Okay so here's what I don't get. I run a small team of 10. I am SUPER cool about people calling in. I don't give people grief for it. I don't have ridiculous performance expectations. I get that timelines have to slip when people call in. Even my upper management is pretty sane.

YET PEOPLE STILL COME IN SICK. WHY?!?

Motherfucker you're in a union shop with 8 hours sick leave a month and 10+ hours of vacation time per month AND at least 3 floating days you can use whenever AND other leave benefits. Most of you assholes are sitting on like 200-500+ hours of leave in your banks. I tell people to take care of themselves and their families first on the regular. The hell else am I supposed to do? Give people a gold star and a BJ for calling in sick? Keep your goddamned plague at home.

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I really do try to model the behavior and stay home when I'm ill. I had Shingles and Hand, Foot and Mouth this year, so they've seen me call out (I was happier before I knew that viral orchitis was a thing and also, boy does it suck to get a shingles out break near your bloody eye).

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Frankly I think whether or not V survives is largely a headcanon thing. Maybe you head off into the sunset with the Caldos and find help. Maybe you knock over the space casino and buy yourself something like the Relic with all of your stupid new wealth. Maybe you turn into an AI and become a ghost in the machine.

Or maybe you develop natural charisma and an impressive cock, who knows.

Point is they left it vague and uncertain on purpose in several of the good (ish) endings. I get why, but it always felt kinda cheap to me. But it IS a noir story and those aren't known for fairy tale endings.

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Aren't all hands meat hands?

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As scientists age, they begin exhibiting symptoms like takes on why other disciplines are totally doing it wrong, and how whole fields of study are bogus. Please take care of your scientist as they approach end of life. Particularly noticeable in Physicists, but found in most STEM fields.

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Berserk Ripoff with Robots

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Palestine will be free a month from now

Really?

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How about because they're not actually particularly Marxist-Leninist, but simply red flavored fascists and everyone with two neurons to rub together can see that?

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Literally less than 1% of revenue comes from government grants, but it's "state affiliated." By that reasoning a whole host of things are state affiliated.

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I bet if we mapped out the relationships between various CEOs and boards of directors we could predict these selections rather well...

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You really think enough people are going to love doing septic tank maintenance and picking berries and all the other hot, painful, messy shit that people have to do to keep ourselves alive to support that? Because I don't.

Maybe when we've got amazing robots that can do all that I guess, but then we've just moved on to robot maintenance and coding. Granted more people will be ok with those tasks, but they call it work because it's WORK.

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Woke is when no like thing.

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It is for me. We have assigned seating, huge comfy seats, and it's just ... a whole thing. Movies at home don't compare for me.

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Same thing with the MAGA people. There's no actual principles, just an aesthetic and vibes.

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"Old man yells at [the] cloud"

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Can't wait to get the HexGrad take on why is definitely a very free, very cool thing to do.

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"If you've got no good moves, scramble the board" is old advice.

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Not Trash Pandas. Waste Management Pandas.

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Pretty sure that's these people, right?

https://i.imgur.com/hVeDn48.png

Edit: Actually this guy signed onto Unity in 2014 Unity was still privately held. It went public in September of 2020. Unity's founder, David Helgason is still on their board and served as some sort of Senior Executive whatever position at Unity. Dude still has a 4% share of their stock.

So anyway, probably this David Helgason character who hired him. And/or whoever else (including Riccitiello!?) who was on the board at the time.

The relationship between CEOs and boards of directors is so fucked up and incestuous...

In any case and in retrospect, Johnny boy was 100% hired to cue them for up for the eventual IPO and boy did he ever. It's amazing how fast companies go down hill when they become publicly traded.

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"Know who should make big decisions about running our software company? Finance lizards, obviously!"

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Not how Android works, but ok. Android is just an OS. Each specific combo of OS and phone is unique. You can modify Android to the point where it's a completely different user experience between two implementations nominally using Android.

Maybe you just like iOS, that's fine, but it's good to understand why you like it. Personally I've been saddled with an iPhone for work and I hate the GUI, but I can appreciate the materials and some design choices.

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Kinda looks like she came from a McRib tbh.

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YES. MORE.

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Nah, everyone else is playing CSS tag. They're all clipped through the walls.

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Paladin massages would so next level it's honestly hard to imagine.

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Sounds like a space management skill issue. Git gud.

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[Angry French Noises]

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He's breathtaking.

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Probably they're more like Quakers, Episcopalians, Presbyterians, United Church of Christ, or United Methodists. You know, the denominations with openly gay clergy who see their role as advancing the cause of social justice and helping the poor and disenfranchised in their communities.

Giving people shit for a label is bigoted as fuck. Also, thanks for making a dad joke thread about your unresolved religious trauma.

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Ah, the rhetorical equivalent of "I'm not touching you!"

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True, sadly. Though there's been a lot of local defiance of that and in 2024 they're expected to vote on it again.

The local UM congregation in my city has a gay pastor and giant banners up detailing that they are open and affirming. There's a whoooole splinter going on right now.

Some of the conservative nutjobs are breaking off too, but a lot of that is in the US South (and Africa, interestingly; still a lot of homophobia on that continent).

Also should be mentioned that there are two similarly named Presbyterian church denominations and one is cool and the other is VERY not.

Still, all the more reason to not get hung up on labels.

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Edgerunners was a better story than the game, honestly. You're not missing all that much if you don't enjoy the gameplay.

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Or we could start tar and feathering boards of directors. We could even use chicken feathers!

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It's hard to get in certain places and people don't understand the different varieties. If anyone reading this wants to try it, check your local Asian grocer if you're lucky enough to have one.

IMO Thai food does vegetarian better than anyone.

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It's definitely not human nature and is, instead, an improbably well coordinated conspiracy by a gigantic corporation known for being full of internal conflict over a span of decades to engineer helplessness in users. Whereas we all know that users are normally such resilient, inquisitive souls, more than willing to engage with a piece of technology in order to understand it. Or they were, until Microsoft attacked. Alas, if only it were not for the great evil empire, all would be well. At least this very real conspiracy serves the additional purpose of flattering the community's vanities and affirming its values as both morally correct and intellectually superior. So we got that going for us, which is nice.

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