Personally, I’m not a fan of vigilante justice, regardless of the crime, and this is certainly what this would lead to. But the big scandal is actually that there seemed to be no investigation into people apart from Epstein and Maxwell; this is the question people should be asking in my opinion: why has nobody else been prosecuted?
Not saying this happened under Biden, but why would those files be released when they could be used to prosecute those in there? It was the Republicans and more specific MAGA pushing for a release and making it an election topic. At least for me (European), the list, if it exists in this form, is something you base investigations on. You gain nothing from releasing it to the public. But Republicans used it to feed their fringe conspiracy voter base, so the question is not exactly “why don’t they release it”, but rather “why don’t they release it after talking about it for years and then putting the radio hosts who talked about it into key administration positions just to after claiming the files are on their desk stating that they don’t actually exist while simultaneously damaging people on release”. And it’s not like any potential list came up during Biden’s admin. Epstein was arrested and died under Trump.
I’d also think that some people have some kind of Dead Man Switch for releasing the relevant documents (if they exist).
Good analysis by the OP. The Trump admin is in a bit of a pickle: conspiracy theories have always been a core part of the maga identity, and Trump at least leaned heavily into them. It’s not only pedophilia, you also have population replacement and Jewish world domination BS in there. And even if Trump didn’t say explicitly that he’d release the files, he built his admin from fringe radio hosts who talked about it, this giving legitimacy to the claim; and the deep state excuse doesn’t really work anymore when you have replaced a lot of civil servants with your cronies.
In short, there are only two options: release forged documents (risky because we can assume there are copies of the originals with people who took them as insurance) or tell his base to get over it. Really funny because there was no need to press the issue that much, it was their own choice to being the topic into the spotlight again, and they did so with full force, and now they look like the pedophile( protector)s that they are.
The “I just hate brown people” crowd won’t care about this, they don’t need to pretend to have any ideals and can justify voting for Trump with any policy of his that they can attribute some imaginary success to (“we cut education spending by 50%” or whatever), they don’t care about the files, but there is a certain crowd that have made the fringe theories their personality; and now Trump declares that the only connection these ramblings have to reality doesn’t matter? That’s a huge gut punch.
BIOS update are also dishonest because they impose limits on the CPUs for valid reliability reasons, but benchmarks are done initially without these limits.
Buying Intel for desktops in the last 5 years was kind of a gamble, I never did that, only AMD since Thunderbird (didn’t buy desktop CPUs from 2009 to 2020), but they had so many issues on so many fronts that you should only buy them if you need a feature not offered by AMD.
Disziplinarstrafen werden allerdings von Vorgesetzten verhängt, und die haben die Kontrollen ja angewiesen, es wird also nicht passieren; Disziplinarstrafen wird es höchstens gegen die geben, die remonstrieren, wegen Verstoß gegen Dienstvorschriften. Die mögen dann von Gerichten gekippt werden, aber mit Beförderungen ist es dann wahrscheinlich vorbei, wenn es um mehr als Pflichtbeförderungen geht.
Arch ist auch keine schlechte Distribution, meiner Meinung nach einfacher als Debian usw. wenn man dazu bereit ist, manuell zu konfigurieren, weil es so nah am Upstream ist und die projektspezifischen Tools recht simpel gehalten sind
It would be “Liebesraum” without the n; that word could exist.
Es geht ja um CDU-geführte Kommunen. Da hat man das Theater ja auch auf der untersten Ebene gewählt. Inwiefern schadet da der Kasper?
liebensraum
I don’t think this is what you meant. You’ve created a portmanteau from Liebe (love) and Leben (life). But that word doesn’t exist
In my opinion, the problems in Strive are nothing a new GG would fix better than patching Strive itself.
I think they had a good idea with Strive, as in casualize GG to make it more appealing to the masses. Yes, at the top, the game has balancing issues; but numbers can easily be tweaked. The game lacks a proper ranked mode, but so far, none of their games had one AFAIK so a new game wouldn’t necessarily fix that either (ranked is announced for Strive though). The only thing I see a new game improve is new singleplayer content.
The game had a relative peak last year (second only to the original release) when Dizzy was released – almost double the players compared to the Baiken release… while the player baseline is relatively constant, it seems the peaks are growing. Why go for a new game when you can actually build a playerbase with the current one?
I see some videos of players discovering Strive right now (almost surreal considering the game is four years old now…) and nobody is claiming about age issues with this game, as in bad netcode, performance, graphics or whatever. In fact, most people say that the game’s presentation is very good and that the fights are fun. There’s no need to crank out a new game for the sake of it when the teams are busy with other projects anyways, like Marvel Tokon, Hunter X Hunter and whatever.
https://github.com/derrod/legendary is the open unofficial client, I think it’s what Heroic Launcher uses under the hood
What’s the worst that could happen?
Oh this
There was no Epstein, only files about him, no there aren’t, and if we had any tapes, don’t you think we’d show you, except there are tapes, except they don’t show stuff
You don’t need the client to connect the games, I just do it via browser. And you don’t need it to launch the games either.
Apart from all this, I think they do lose money on the store, and are subsidizing it with Fortnite money. But I could be wrong.
You’re not really dependent on EGS just because of the free games; neither in the sense of drugs nor as in you build an infrastructure on it, like with other software. Let’s say you’re a student and get Microsoft products for free. You wrote applications for Windows, you create office documents. Later, Microsoft charges for new versions (since you’re no longer a student). Now you have the choice: keep using unsupported software which is a security risk; pay up; or migrate everything you have created over the years, which will take a long time. You have become dependent on the vendor.
With games, who gives a damn? It’s not like Little Nightmares 2 replaced Little Nightmares. I just keep that version. They’re completely different things. No more free games with EGS? Okay, now what? I’ll just keep using what I have. There is no lock-in effect. This is all just a promotion for their shop like a free ride voucher for a theme park where they hope you spend money on other stuff as well. Or basically any loss-leader anywhere, just that it’s not sold under price, but actually given away for free.
There’s a good reason the free games are so far down on their website, they want you to scroll all the way down and look at their stuff so that you maybe buy something. Which is fine by me, I actually even bought something there once (shouldn’t have, game was way below expectations, but that’s on me).
So yeah they’re not giving stuff out because they’re good. But it’s also not nefarious. Just really lazy and I guess more expensive in the long run.
Context from the article: they’re not against the tax, they’re against the tax going to the EU as opposed to going to the member states.
Imagine having Fortnite money and all you can deliver is the EGS. Yeah free games are cool I guess but it’s like the laziest approach regarding actually engineering and developing a solution
Same is true for games on Steam if the developer decides not to use Steam integration (some features like achievements are ok I think). For example Noita doesn’t need Steam running, you can just copy the folder to another machine AFAIK
also there are Steam emulators
Please note that the first paragraph in the screenshot does not refer to Trump. It’s still a Leopard eats my face moment, but not sure to the affordable housing stuff.
I haven’t ordered delivery food in literal years (think last time was 2021?). If I want to eat something that I didn’t make myself, I’m just going out to eat. Saves me from a bunch of trash plus I prefer not having the smell of some food at home. And the kebab place close to me where eating is uncomfortable doesn’t deliver anyways, I’m just getting it there and eat at home. Walking those five minutes isn’t really an issue…