Quetzalcutlass @ Quetzalcutlass @lemmy.world

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A reminder that in Florida in 2000, Republicans were experimenting with these disenfranchisement tactics (roll purges, closing polling stations, convenient road blockages in cities, the works). They won that state* by a few hundred votes in key districts, and these dirty tactics became a mainstay for the party. And that was before the SCOTUS basically said "racism is over, these voter protection laws are unnecessary now". Every vote counts, especially where they've made it difficult to do so.

Gore probably would have won Florida, and thus the presidency, if the SCOTUS didn't halt the recount - in large part due to Roger Stone, one of the biggest pushers of dirty tactics. There are a small number of people who have caused a great deal of harm in this country.

I remember registering my fingerprints as a kid as part of a Cub or Boy Scout activity. In retrospect that was really messed up.

How old do you think Dunmer are before they get the face wrinkles? Maybe they hide their infants because they all look like charcoal raisins?

Prosecuting the president for stochastic terrorism? That's a precedent they really don't want to set with Trump as their candidate.

That they are pushing it is evidence they don't think they'll have to follow the rule of law if they win.

By the same creator, "this ham gum is mostly bones!"

Are they at least ill-tempered?

Basically the original Cave Story fan translation versus the official one done for Cave Story+.

Either way, bears may have been involved.

Instead of the top of a building, it goes at the bottom of a cliff?

(I know, I know. Evil Disney and whatnot. I couldn't resist.)

Trump picked General Mattis as his Secretary of Defense purely because he had the nickname "Mad Dog", then got upset when Mattis wasn't a psychopathic warhawk who'd do anything Trump wanted.

And the rest of his cabinet was a revolving door of awful people. There's no failure of character he won't tolerate as long as they bend the knee and stroke his ego enough.

I'll grant you the Psycho Mantis fight, but the other two are Easter eggs and not the way the game expects normal players to handle things.

I second this. Heat Signature is the perfect heist game, and there's no feeling as good as when you get into the zone and take out or avoid everyone in a high-ranked mission and escape without being noticed. And when you're not in the zone and screw up, it turns into pure chaos as you desperately try to salvage the situation. It's great fun.

It's by the same guy who's making Tactical Breach Wizards, if that helps.

The battle pass from Genshin/Star Rail boggles the mind. You have to grind like crazy or play almost every day to complete it, and the majority of the rewards are character and weapon advancement materials. You know, something you'd usually have to grind for.

Escape the grind through more grinding.

Oh, and you only get 1/6 of the battle pass rewards as a F2P player. It's ten bucks to unlock the majority of the rewards. And the headline feature, the weapon/star cone you unlock at tier 30 (only it you pay, naturally), is easily outclassed by stuff you'll get as a F2P player.

In a similar vein:

"A silvery thing in another cabinet, like a three-pointed star inside a circle, was made of no substance she knew; it was softer than metal, scratched and gouged, yet even older than any of the ancient bones. From ten paces she could sense pride and vanity."

From the Wheel of Time.

Gacha games, but surprisingly not for the gacha elements. FOMO events, where you either play during a limited period or miss the event and its rewards forever, killed my interest in every one I played.

The worst are the ones that put critical parts of character stories in them, then never rerun the events. Genshin and other MiHoYo games were especially bad about this (Albedo's evil twin says hello).

What? X is all about the passive income and telling NPCs what to do. You play long enough to afford a cheap cargo runner as a second ship, put an AI pilot in it, and tell them to run trade routes in the background while you do whatever you find fun. Your income snowballs from there as you buy more and bigger ships and unlock better trading automation, then becomes ridiculous once you start building stations and producing entire supply chains yourself.

I say this as someone who also bounced off X4, because even with all that and time compression it still takes ages to get to the fun endgame stuff I actually enjoy.

One does not simply wok into Mordor.

One-time pads require no machines and are unbreakable in theory, though in reality they're a pain to set up and use so people reuse keys out of laziness, making it possible to analyze and decipher encrypted messages.

Security is only as good as its weakest link, and people are morons.

He's "Sir Keir Starmer" or "Sir Keir".

Oh, so when you say it it's alright, but when we say it "it's called football". Double standards much?