Eduardo Ramirez

It would be garbage and everything else you said about the lack of value of that thing is absolutely true. We are already in the grim shovelware future.

If you limit ‘full casual game’ to clones of Candy crush, Tetris, and similar I’m pretty sure you can already do this. There are so many tutorials and samples to crib from you could ask CoPilot or whatever to build you something that would run and play like the original.

Two things they don’t like Trump messing with: the money (see the tortured reasoning for why the Fed is special) and the courts (As far as John Roberts is concerned the only person who gets to tell judges they are wrong is him).

The mental image of someone forming their theology by browsing a bookshelf where the Confessions of St Augustine are next to the Augusta National Commemorative Tarot Deck perfectly captures the philosophy of AI-pilled tech dweebs.

That’s especially true in this case since the company has been doing evil shit since its inception. Once you embrace the military industrial complex, you don’t get to whine just because the oppression you’re enabling is closer to home than you anticipated.

There were a couple of years they tried to branch out from fascism to marketing. They fleeced Coke and American Express for millions, fell flat on their face when it came time to show results, and fled back into the arms of the military industrial complex.

I’ve heard estimates of the global money laundering industry of $2-5T. I’m sure if we subtract the total value of $100 bills, blood diamonds, artworks of dubious provenance, and other such vehicles there will be a few billion in value left for all of crypto.

Given the magnitude of fuckups even before this hearing I’m guessing he was already deeply screwed. But to dig so much deeper… this was like reading an episode of Law and Order crossed with Waiting for Godot and also Beavis and Butthead.

I have a reputation for laughing at odd times during movies. If I’d seen this in theaters I might have been kicked out. Probably during the business card scene.

Re entry into a community, a space or relationship is earned, not a given. A resource of unrepentant abusers is that they have drilled into the rest of us that we owe them infinite chances. We don’t. Chances are finite. Those are the breaks. often they want to be absolved without changing. Pass.

Unless ‘reform’ is your too polite way of saying tried and imprisoned that is not close to what we want. Every day Stephen Miller walks the earth a free man is another day you have failed in your duty as a leader.

Being a fascist is a deeply demoralizing experience. You have to not only radically alter your worldview to make reality fit into your unhinged schema, but that worldview is predicated on the notion that the weakest, most unworthy degenerate worms on the planet are somehow overpowering and humiliating you on a moment-by-moment basis. In mechanical terms too, the lowered morale also reduces your volition score—the more you indulge in your delusions, the less you are able to exercise self-control and self-awareness. The point of fascism being mechanically detrimental—the ludonarrative theme—is that fascism is an unequivocally self-destructive ideology, the practice of which only serves to nurture that self-destructive urge and turn it outward. It's not like Dark Side points in KotOR where you can access cool new abilities and get to enjoy being such a nasty lil rascal; you are not supposed to enjoy being a fascist in Disco Elysium. Fascism is the act of self-deception in service of making your own life more painful, solely for the payoff of making life more painful for people you dislike.

There used to be. Something tells me she won’t be an AUSA for long.

What gets me is that when people on the left use liberal as a pejorative, the mental image I have of who they mean is Ezra Klein!

I forgot the first rule of getting caught in a con. When you get caught lying, back up and tell half the truth. That’ll get them to stop asking further questions.

Couple years ago I remember hearing how the reason his wife left him was because he had an affair with a 35 year old woman he met via Epstein. At the time i thought if that was the life shattering revelation that emerges from involvement with Epstein, it’s not nearly as bad as it could be.

The worst for me was Warren Ellis. I was an occasional participant on his forum in the early 2000s and read it constantly. To think that he was using that space and others to take advantage of so many women who admired him… and yet Transmetropolitan is literally burned into my brain.

In my head his lawyer is stabbing him in the side with a fountain pain trying desperately to get his attention, forgetting that Vic always wears his leather cummerbund to depositions. That’s the point he managed to finally get the tip of the pen through the thick hide and Vic deigned to notice.

40k Badcast Special Report: Is it OVA for NOVA? Say it ain’t SO-VA! Imagine we did this entire episode wearing trilbies with a little card that says “PRESS” in the band

The whole NOVA Open situation has blown up recently, and we investigated what happened and why. The news ain't great! We talk NOVA's past, present, and shaky future, plus an interview with the delightful Andrew from sdc.miniatures, whose awesome "Resist" piece got swept into this whole kerfuffle.

For that much money it better come with the shipping mall.

O is even lower since we don’t generally write leading zeroes on numbers. The pattern exists due to 100s and 200s being more common than 800s and 900s while 1000s are similar in frequency to 900s. 0 should occur even less frequently than 8 or 9.

The Court of Chancery is elegant and beautiful and cannot be replicated in baser climates.

I hope everything ICE agent wakes up screaming for the rest of their lives to the sound of whistles.

Ten years from now go to a bar and whistle and see who jumps.

Those three hours Alexander Haig launched a coup while Reagan was shot were kind of amusing, and none of the terrible things he did he did on that particular day (that I can think of).

Replacing Bovino with Homan and Noem with whatever vapid apparatchik is just wheel spinning, but defenestrating Miller could have real impact. There’s lots of evil people in the west wing, but most of them are way dumber than him.

The fact it’s a great Philly story that people twist to make us look bad is, to my mind, part of what makes it a great Philly story. It’s our story, we know what happened and why, and fuck <insert sportscaster here> for not getting it!

I knew he was drunk; I never heard he was a random guy press ganged into filling in. That certainly explains why the performance went so poorly!

By all accounts it was a really crappy Santa Claus and he absolutely had it coming.

There may be some survivor bias going on. If someone joins a community and start actively playing a game to escape loneliness, they won’t be lonely for long. Conversely, if they try and bounce off, they won’t be around for you to meet.