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Without the good PR he used to give before showing his real face, he has zero value to any company he is part of, other than the money he has invested in it.

In fact, any policy influence he has with any of these companies is actually a detriment.

Elon never had any technical, intellectual or other expertise in any of the companies he was involved in.

All he ever had was the illusion of charisma and being a master bloviator.

Now that he has been exposing himself as nothing more than the petulant narcissistic manchild he is, that value he had has been dispelled.

This, the USB standard for phones and so many other things are shit that happened before, over a decade ago.

The moment these companies see a technicality or loophole to skirt the rules, they do it.

When IBM, the guys that developed the computer system to schedule and track the holocaust itself, go "OY, cool your rhetoric Elon", you know you're well off the deep end.

That's an other issue the game has.

It brings several features that are done 1000x better in other games, like Empyrion, NMS, Elite, etc, etc.

There's also that people that age don't give a fuck anymore, they just fuck.

Not really.

Look up some STD transmission stats for retirement communities. It's a real issue.

Part of the issue is that it also took them 2 months to get any sort of qualified patch out the door.

The previous ones only fixed like 2-3 game breaking bugs each and that was that.

The most recent one does a tad more, but still nothing to write home about.

Some people keep parroting that Bethesda has always had a absolutely horrid trackrecord of patching their messes, so you shouldn't complain about that, but I refuse to give them a pass on that.

People that keep saying that are pretty much saying "yeah, me dog shits in my bed every single day and I'm not going to do anything about it because they've always done that."

Stiffed?

To get an award you have to have earned it.

They weren't stiffed on anything as they didn't earn anything.

This while from day one they were talking like they deserved a Grammy (which they literally posted on their press release page).

There's two sides to it.

1 is that it was heralded as being this massive intricate space game with a near endless things to do.

2 is that it was heralded as being the first of Version 2 of Bethesdas game engine.

1 turned out to be a play with words as while there is quite a bit to do in the game, barely any of it is captivating as it's even less deep than most things you do in Skyrim and FO4, but it's kinda true as the game creates an NG+ loop where your gameworld resets whenever you do the main quest (which you can do in a rather short time) which results in a virtually infinite things to do, as you get to redo the same content over and over and over.

The NG+ loop also makes it so that no matter what you do in the game feels like it's an utter waste of time. As you will reset it after finishing the main quest and don't have the ability to go back to universes you've already interacted with.

2 turned out to be utter bullshit as the engine has all the same bugs it has had since Morrowind, no new features to speak of (some say the ability to load more planets and generating those small landing areas is new, but you could load DLC maps in their engine going back as far as Morrowind and the procedural generation of the landing areas is very barebones and done better in ARGP and other games going back 25 years) and the engine only has a couple graphics features tacked on that FO4 didn't have yet.

And I mean tacked on, the new graphics capabilities aren't really integrated in the engine, just tacked onto it with ductape and superglue from external APIs.

What their version 2 of the engine needed was an actual ground up rework of the graphics pipeline to integrate natively all the crap they tacked onto it since Morrowind.

This while the new version of the engine also reduced a ton of modding features that made all their previous games so great, to be extremely watered down and some ultimately useless, meaning that it'll take even more time for mod authors to bypass Bethesdas programming to integrate features the old games already had.

Added, it took all of a week for a modder to add XeSS, DLSS and FSR into Starfield, which should've been part of the game out of the box.

And it took Bethesda 2+ months to integrate these same features themselves.

Judge said they had thick enough skin to deal with whatever he said.

I doubt the judge is OK with Trump openly calling for people to do harm to them.

Yes.

In Belgium.

Generally you can only easily buy hunting rifles here.

But you can buy every kind of firearm if you get the proper licenses and have them registered.

My uncle is a gun nut. He doesn't fire them other than the required qualification renewals. He's more into them to show off and simply have them.

His most prized guns are a Barret M82-a1 and an antique "elephant gun" chambered in .577 Express.

He has a load of various revolvers, handguns, a couple ARs and an AK, all bought legally.

All but the "normal caliber" hunting rifles he owns are to be either disabled (firing pin removed) or stored at a shooting range.

Most of them are disabled and in a display case at his home. The Barret, 2 ARs and some of the handguns are at the shooting range.

EDIT: note, there are of course different regulations when you're in a profession that requires a gun, like security.

My answer is how it is for your regular person that just wants guns for recreation or show.

Not per se, but they need stimulation and something to do.

That's why enrichment therapy is so important.

Animals (including humans) don't generally like their environment drastically changing.

That's why so many people get sick or depressed when they take long holidays or get fired/quit without money pressures (still do with money pressures, but then the illness and depression not only comes from the change of their environment, but also comes from money woes).

It's because this "solid economy" is only filling the pockets of a select few while everyone else isn't even keeping up with inflation.

Have to or need to?

Considering nearly every empire that didn't get ganked due to major natural disasters, be they volcanos, storms, earthquakes, multiyear heatwaves or multiyear coldwaves was an absolutely horrible shithole to live as anyone not the ruling class.

Isn't the stat on "how long do empires last on average" about 250 years?

How old is the US again?

Doesn't need to be absorbed by the skin.

Opening it and having trace on your hands can land some of it in your mouth, eyes, nose, etc.

Don't know if it would be enough to do harm, but pure fentanyl can kill at 2 milligrams. Which you could get in you through simple trace.

Except, Ukraine called for a boycott against Nestle because they are one of the few that keep operating in Russia and nobody listened.

And Ukraine is actually at war.

Israel got attacked by a load of extremists and since has been massacring civilians in retaliation. That's not a war.

Now I know why I'm getting scam mails on the email address that I never use online and scam phonecalls on the phone number I never use online, except for LinkedIn.

The area it is in.

The park itself is 39 miles² or 101km².

That's the same size as the city nearest to me (which is 102km²).

The city of Boston is 125km².