People who are beguiled by ego stoking fiction over fact are his natural prey.
It’s also not just him, but basically an industry of Big Data profiling and proprietary Cambridge Analytica social network profiling who are deciding which bubbles can influence people the most and creating them by cherrypicking contradictory claims and evidence to whatever most suits appealing to them. Whatever money can buy for whatever can serve money the best. Social networks are human slaughterhouses to them.
Star Control 3
It received a lot of criticism at the time because they sort of bought into the Star Control 2 / The Urquan Masters IP and ghosted the main devs, but I found it fun too. It’s sort of funny because it has become such a trend of the serious, they also got into a row with the Star Control Origins guys, another fun take by another good studio in the same sort of genre, and even went to court against them. Now the original devs have crowdfunded FREE STARS: Children of Infinity as the official sequel.
In regards to multiplayer gameplay similar to Star Control, there’s Subspace Continuum, particularly the Trench Wars server if it still exists. It’s probably still active. I also remember Stardock did its own take on it called Stellar Frontier. There was also a shareware game called Solar Winds from long ago which was single player but had similar gameplay.
He’s not kidding. The whole “no rules of engagement” speech by Hegseth, Canada should be preparing a drone army by now, Ukraine style.
The cycle the US finds itself in this cycle now:
“I’vE nEvEr SeEn ThInGs Be As BaD aS tHeY aRe NoW!” - Please, tell me more.
… Have you ever used public transportation in any major city? It is about the only instance in modern age where you are in a vehicle that may be going 50 kph and you are standing. If you are going to be making claims, I would drop that “10x as comfortable” bit.
Comfortable is probably the biggest reason most people don’t use public transportation. With their own cars, they don’t need to wait, they don’t need to worry about whether they are going to be packed like sardines because of the work rush, or forced to even wait for another pass because it got full before they were able to get on, or have to worry about getting cramps from not being able to sit, or having the transit take significantly more because it’s not direct, or pickpockets…
About the only comfortable thing about public transport is if you can get on it during off-peak hours when seats are available, in a route that doesn’t require a lot transfers, that isn’t much longer due to the stops and side-routing, and that doesn’t have a high wait time. All the stars have to align.
In comparison, bikes are probably the better option overall, and it would be epic if public transport started incorporating e-bike/scooter transit along with it. Unfortunately it seems to be quite the opposite where I live due to concerns about Lithium battery fires, but hopefully someone somewhere realizes that that is just a standardization issue.
People should remember, regardless of what the creative lead has said, Randy Pitchford has not backed down his comments. He literally has told you to play something else.
The best thing you can do if you enjoy Borderlands is not to get hooked on its predatory hooks, like the limited time SHiFT codes. That BS is toxic, and the moment they become a requirement is the moment I stop having interest in the franchise altogether. It’s basically a hook for the whales who will continue purchasing from Randy no matter what.
Some people learned from the Holocaust not to ever condone it again. Other people learned how to hide crimes against humanity better.
Not surprising, it’s your natural state of mind.
The rapture happened, unfortunately the only guy they pulled up because he didn’t follow proper procedures and suit up, so he’s a stiff now. Still legally fulfilled according to celestial law.
Have you even said thank you yet?
Trust and regulations that are lacking in crypto make it what it is. If a collective of people are willing to offer something in exchange for something else, even just because it is a crowdsourced confidence scam, it doesn’t really ethically exonerate what you are supporting. Every person who participates in crypto is also holding up its underground international market. It was bad enough under normal markets, but the difference is between night and day with crypto. Crypto is far too easy to turn into a bunch of excuses and anonymous pseudonyms.
Only because the trade power of US dollars is like 10000madeupbagillionzillioninternetnumber0000 order of magnitude more. Talk in fractions. Preferably in not also made up ones. I know, I know, crypto habits die hard.
Trust and regulations that are lacking in crypto make it what it is. If a collective of people are willing to offer something in exchange for something else, even just because it is a crowdsourced confidence scam, it doesn’t really ethically exonerate what you are supporting. Every person who participates in crypto is also holding up its underground international market. It was bad enough under normal markets, but the difference is between night and day with crypto. Crypto is far too easy to turn into a bunch of excuses and anonymous pseudonyms.
If only one man dies of hunger, that is a tragedy. If millions die, that’s only statistics. — Leonard Lyons’ Stalin
If you shoot one person you are a murderer. If you kill a couple persons you are a gangster. If you are a crazy statesman and send millions to their deaths you are a hero. — Watertown Daily Times
If schools shootings happen because of gun culture, it a necessary evil that only the radical left would want to oppose. If a political pundit who defended that argument is shot due to the same gun culture, it was the radical left that must have been involved in some way or just took advantage of the shooting by using it to continue to criticize gun culture. — MAGA, probably.
Technically, I can see where you are right, but in practice, you have one single party to choose from all the same, with a heavy cultural divided determining which party that is for you.
I would focus more criticism as to why there aren’t more than two parties in the US government than fighting over a word definition that just absconds the real problem.
Being able to choose between slave owners or the only other option is totally a real choice…
Both parties are not the same, but it is still a uniparty. Worst of all, it is one where the other side of the country has been conditioned for the same: choose what they believe to be the depravity and downfall of their way of life, or the only other option.
This is why in other countries we have more than two parties, and why the ones that are Heritage Foundation funded influence operations want to change this.
They aren’t dumb, they just have completely different values that seem obviously wrong to us. Colonialism was powered by divide and conquer, and that is what has happened in the US. It’s been like that for a while due to the brilliant idea of winning the Civil War yet letting Confederate values to hibernate like they have until now.
That’s a DLC feature.