Oni_eyes @ Oni_eyes @sh.itjust.works

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Did I say it has been banned? No, I said that it is being banned, meaning still in the process. That is unless the owning entity sells it to another company that doesn't have significant foreign government controls.

Read critically.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/anishasircar/2024/12/17/the-tiktok-ban-countdown-whats-next-for-creators-and-businesses/

It's almost like it's been a news story for the last year or so...

So tell me about how the restrictions against free speech designed to promote public panic and hazards "fire in a crowded theater" isn't precedent for this?

Tik tok?

Literally being banned unless it is sold by the foreign company that owns it.

How much of Twitter belongs to Saudi Arabia due to their massive investment for Musk (South African) to buy it?

Pretty sure you could push the same foreign interference line.

Yeah that's what I was thinking. So it's either cost of materials increase, increased environmental regulation, or greed.

Hmmmm I wonder which one contributes the most

Seriously though, have there been battery advances that warrant that price increase or is it just capitalism rearing its ugly head again?

For me it was an old acquaintance in college. Dude was Japanese and the things he said about other Asian groups was distressing.

I still don't like the combat system.

That fucked a lot of the game up, aside from the whole "releasing in parts across two console eras"

Do a barrel roll!

Racing gets me if I can fully customize my vehicle and the changes actually have meaning.

Is this the same dance as shuffling or is that somehow minutely different?

Bunnicula, the scourge of vegetables everywhere

How dare they mess with Sh, It Just Works.

De bang de bang

Probably out of some sense of getting the rest of the school to learn a lesson, and creating anger at the racists. Probably misguided.

Well that's a shit way to put it.

Biden was an ok choice and he was still polling strong. Him deciding to abstain from the final run doesn't mean he was a bad choice, not does it make any of your analysis correct.

Also: You're still a doomsaying asshole. Not once did you make a reasonable argument supported by data other than your feelings but you continued to push out "If we keep behind a president who has arguably been extremely effective at doing shit, we're handing the election to the guys who eat horse paste and spent double Bidens addition to the deficit for tax breaks while screaming about fiscal responsibility..... because he's a couple years older than the other guy and seems like he's old instead of spouting gibberish and easily proven lies".

With Kamala now the democratic nominee?

I'm not a big fan of former law enforcement (prosecutor at least) being in charge but everything else she's done seems to at least suggest that she takes her jobs seriously along with the responsibility they entail.

I'm waiting to see who the VP is before I get too gung ho, but so far I'm pretty on board.

I don't know exactly why Biden waited so long to decide not to run again but I am happy he provided a good bit of shielding and wasted a ton of the GOP's money on attack ads that can almost be mirrored for free against their nominee.

I think we're gonna see some really ugly rhetoric from the right over her being the nominee and that doesn't make me jazzed. I worry that it will spark another rise in anti immigrant/minority rhetoric and violence like the BS about COVID did, and I work in and among minority groups so I worry what it will do to their outlooks on their future and how they feel about the country they are a part of.

Any specific aspect you want to ask me about or is that just a generic response request?

Yeah but you could say the same about a lot of people. Doesn't mean it's a "good movie" so much as a lot of people want to see that person in a thing and would pay regardless of what the thing is.

That's the attitude that gives us the race to the bottom in creative work

Well, yeah. But that's an exception to the rule not the rule itself.

I mean, it probably will be cheaper while also being a logical move for what could be a dope passion project.

Good movies don't need big name actors to be good, they need a good story, good world, and a cast that can pull off the immersion with a director that knows how to harness it all together. Big name actors are just a draw and I would argue a lot of the time they don't help so much as ruin immersion a bit.

Like in nineteen ninety-eight when the undertaker threw mankind off the top of hell in a cell.

I thought that was the way for them to say it was more of a passion project than a full AAA film. Like, when directors know the material and do a trial run of what their view is to test the waters for a massive sequel.

Also probably cheaper.