ConstableJelly @ ConstableJelly @beehaw.org

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My favorite thing to think about as I'm drifting off to sleep at night is what this country might be like without the influence of bog witches.

If ya like the song, check out this quick-ish analysis from Trash Theory Ghost Town by the Specials: The Sound of Impending Doom

This the second comment in a week I've seen making a nonsensical criticism of a headline (metaverse is the thing the unit works on), and I swear the other was from lemm.ee too. You folks organizing some brigade or something?

Edit: I was wrong, see fer0n's response

You know one of the reasons I jump to 2, and I didn't think of it until now, is because of aerial assassinations. If I remember right, there wasn't an actual mechanic for it in 1, and the addition in 2 and beyond tied things up nicely.

By the time Assassin's Creed 2 came out, I was calling this my favorite series ever. The Ezio games made you feel like an expertly skilled badass with unprecedented success, and the stealthy, agile archetype is my favorite to inhabit. Even the gameplay loop was fresh and borderline revolutionary, and so successful it became the basis for what would soon be tarnished as the Ubisoft blueprint.

Last game I played was Odyssey, and though I spent...a lot of time on it, I've never felt more bitter at the end of the game. Seems you only get half the conclusion by completing the story missions, with the other half locked away behind the assassination list. And since any enemies 3 or more levels higher than you are always essentially indestructible, and the assassination targets climb very high in levels, it's essentially a driver for bottomless grinding. By that point I'd already had far more than my fill.

I was casually interested in Mirage, but I learned from Skillup's video that it's essentially an upscaled Valhalla DLC, which is a red flag. With other reviewers pointing out that it, well, feels like upscaled DLC, I've no interest personally.

Why is No Labels so concerned about keeping Draper and Grayson off the ballot? The unsolicited candidates, particularly Grayson, might force No Labels to disclose its donors.

Hilarious. A dark-money funded political party, nee "organization," might accidentally have to reveal its secret master plan a little early because the system, shockingly, managed to work against them, a little bit.

Agreed. Desperation or entitlement (the admission fee makes me think the latter)? Either way, I don't think I could imagine being at a level of either to intrude like that.

Being in a union,” Schrager complains, “costs money.” Even beyond membership dues, “unions work by compressing wages (and often the terms of advancement) in negotiations on behalf of all employees.” This, she says, hurts more “productive” workers by dragging their wages down to a level closer to that of their “unproductive” fellow workers.

Ceilings for thee but not for me. Libertarian ideology insists that there are select, exceptional people--extraordinarily innovative or productive Randian heroes--who must be rewarded limitlessly at the expense of the plebeians. Unfortunately for them, you really have to believe yourself to be one of those exceptional people to buy into that belief system, and unions by their nature are a repudiation of it.

This type of commentary is frustrating, but the labor momentum despite this "traditional wisdom" and other factors detailed in the article is a sight to behold.

I've had PragerU on my mind far too much since my state approved PragerU Kids to be taught in schools. Luckily I've gotten confirmation from the district that it is not being added (yet?) to their own list of approved materials.

Thanks for sharing 🙂. Sounds like your future's going to be brighter than ever! (even if it will take a little time to adjust)

The language about the hacks being “consistent” with the “methods and motivations” of “Russian-directed efforts” (Russian-directed?) is oddly weak beer, and came during the same time frame when the story was being hawked to Slate dope Franklin Foer.

Taibbi's doing the same degree of speculating he's accusing the government of. He's a smart guy, but as usual of late, he's laying a thick coat of quasi-conspiracy nonsense on top of otherwise decent work.

Haha 100% agreed. I was looking through the list myself and definitely got the feeling some contributors were really reaching.

It's actually surprisingly common!: Twin Films

Didn't realize til now that the Mad World cover was recorded for Donnie Darko (according to Wikipedia). That's an all-time great cover.

Pillars of Eternity is the only real-time-with-pause game I've played, and honestly I don't get it. It's too chaotic for me to absorb everything that's happening. If I play another I'm just going to drop the difficulty.

Hell yeah, good news!

I am so sorry, that's such a perfect storm of terrible circumstances. I recently had my job backpedal on something they promised me and it was so infuriatingly unprofessional (although very luckily I have a wonderful and very influential mentor who fixed the problem).

And the clinic, I don't know their situation but I'd expect that insurance approval should be the hard part, so to go a month without hearing from them? I'm getting upset just thinking about it.

I can only hope other people get their acts together for you very soon. In the meantime, consider me in your corner, steaming at the injustice.

Journalists communicate to laymen, and the most common name of the area you're referring to is tarmac. Personally I think it would be worse practice to refer to it as the apron, which is apparently the correct word, because it would be confusing to the audience.

For Facewatch’s Gordon, the argument against using the technology is weak. “Normal customers aren’t going to be tracked and traced. The idea that they are is complete rubbish."

In other words: Yes we have the means, but the idea we would abuse profitable data already available to us is absurd.

At least this is working as intended:

Supermarkets gripe that data protection laws are an obstacle. Walker says that GDPR laws have prevented managers at different Iceland stores from sharing photos of shoplifters across WhatsApp groups

Nonetheless...

Mask up.

Good Ness, I was going to express concern for you for spending that much time on character creation, but then I watched the Mortismal new player guide and...that looks overwhelming in a possibly good way.