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Stargate was already approved. Dell’s largest client isn’t the consumer market—it’s incredibly small. Like the rest of the Fortune 500, Dell makes the vast majority of its income from B2B sales. You not buying their product changes nothing, which is why they don’t bother marketing to retail.

What? Deadnaming didn’t drive these kids from home. This is a site for missing children—many abducted, many likely dead. The fact that you’re conflating a policy change with the systemic abuse of children is absolutely insane. Grow up.

One is a necessary legal change due to the executive order—they have to comply with the law. The other is just abandoning them. Conflating the two as equal is wildly irresponsible. This is about the child’s safety, not about perfect representation.

You do realize nothing will happen. These companies make most of their money elsewhere. Amazon, for example, is a hyperscaler—its revenue comes from cloud services, not you. For blue chips, the commercial market is meaningless. Enterprise contracts drive everything. Nothing you do affects the F500.

That’s how you find fraud. Half of the biggest scandals in the last 20 years were exposed by hacker groups. Most of America’s most wanted are hackers who breached government databases. If you want to uncover something, get people who hate the government.

Twilight
Hellboy
How to train your Dragon

Or I just go to sleep and hope tomorrow is better

Maybe it’s just because I’m young, but as I’ve aged, I’ve grown increasingly frustrated with American economic aggression—especially in Europe. Their lack of domestic regulation threatens our way of life, yet they wonder why they have a trade deficit.

That takes me back! 😂 As a kid, you’d take empty bottles to the local ice cream van, trade them for change, and get yourself a treat.

I don’t even want to start new games anymore. 2025 gaming feels so uninspired. I can’t remember the last time I was genuinely excited for a release. The only recent game I really dived into was Path of Exile 2—350+ hrs in a few weeks. Most games now? Just the same derivative, poorly optimized mess.

World.

Windmills have been in Scotland since the 17th century—key parts of our rural history, and they look rather nice. I get the backlash against giant metallic wind turbines that kill endangered birds, but opposing a historic windmill is just silly. They’re part of our heritage.

Hot take: Trophies and achievements shouldn’t exist. They’re padding content, distracting from the actual gaming experience, and driving user engagement.

Kamala Harris bent like a twig. I can’t fathom how any American can vote for their political class or treat it like a sport. How is the entire nation duped into viewing politics as teams when they all engage in the same nonsense, filling their pockets and robbing you? Neither party cares.

I don’t know how anyone can live in New York. The towering buildings give me anxiety just looking at them, and I live in London. Visiting was shocking—the living conditions seemed worse than even in poorer UK cities. Trash was everywhere, and many people don’t even have washing machines.

The current system reduces individuals to mere economic units for multinational corporations. They feel dead inside, unable to act, fearing imprisonment for asserting their existence and desire for humane treatment. The political class has sold the union for pennies and the poor pay the price.

The poor lack financial resources; their heritage, blood, and ethnic identity are all they possess. When the rich strip them of these, reducing them to cheap labor for foreign firms and forcing them to compete globally for jobs, they have nothing to lose, and their worst traits emerge.

England differs significantly from Scotland. In regions where the poor compete for resources with foreign communities favored by local authorities, it’s easy for the rich to act morally while shifting the consequences of their policies onto the poor, then punishing them as malcontents.

Meanwhile, the wealthy are more socially liberal and capitalistic, viewing human bonds as mere labor, as they share more in common on a class level with people outside the nation. This is why the majority of SNP support came from regions like Glasgow in the west which are poor.

So you have a situation where the poor are more ethnically conscious and culturally conservative but also socially democratic in how the economy should be run to support that culture.

Meanwhile, the more affluent south, and east, cares about the economy, with Edinburgh being the fintech capital outside London, Aberdeen for energy. They see themselves as citizens of the world and have a more transactional view of human relationships.

Everyone is switched on. The split comes down to priorities. Much of Scotland is incredibly poor, so the economy doesn’t matter as much—it won’t get any worse. They value culture and ethnic bonds.

The biggest scandal outside of the environmental issues was that he banned Irn-Bru from his golf resorts because it ruined the carpets.

Did we? He’s half Scottish. The most I ever heard about him was that he was a major employer and a conservationist in the countryside. Our biggest scandal with him was about wind turbines ruining the scenery and threatening birds of prey. People only started hating him after 2016.

Did they scrub all of them from the website and replace their profiles with ones using their birth sex, or did they just remove them entirely? If it’s the latter, that’s horrific. I’ve searched for more info, but nothing is clear about how these children will be represented.

That’s not true. It was never going to be an MMO—not even considered.

Mike Darrah’s dev series on YouTube explains it shifted from a CRPG to what you saw in Inquisition because he thought traditional BioWare design couldn’t compete. Almost every top-down bad decision was on him.

Rings of Power, D&D, etc., are cultural pillars—dream projects for any artist. These should be the pinnacle of a career, something to strive for at the height of their craft. Instead, they’re handed out on day one to those with almost no experience.

Pre-crash, European artists trained for 9-10 years, working on huge industry projects. Today, many are self-taught, leading to lower-quality work. Companies take specialized work, deskill it, and turn it into cheap labor.

I don’t think they’re phoning it in, but the quality of artists in 2025 is far worse than in the 1980s to the economic crash. Many barriers were removed, democratizing art but without a set standard.

As the market matures, production value rises, but craftsmanship and artistry don’t, leading to spectacle-driven media with little substance—like dangling keys in front of a baby. Consumers are now more experienced than critics, fueling niche product, but funding those projects is brutally hard.

I work in tech. Trust me. I’ve been on the inside with companies like Dell, and my god, do you hate working in these places. Nothing more stressful than a forecast call every week to hit a ridiculous target to maximize shares so Michael Dell can treat me like a poor while you earn him millions.