Quetzalcutlass @ Quetzalcutlass @lemmy.world

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Is this just cope because he really wants to drop a nuke but his handlers won't let him?

Charlie was my first crush and I'd still let him wreck me

Instance checks out? Though that result is better than being scarred for life by ADGTH* like so many other children were.

• This can be replaced with any other Don Bluth film.

You can't just share a story like that and not say how it ended. I'm invested now!

I'm normally a cat person, but this photo is making me doubt myself.

the same small group of lemmings was transported to the location, jostled on turntables, and repeatedly shoved off a cliff to imply mass suicide

That Wikipedia quote implies it wasn't deadly, but checking the end line citations, their reference calls it a "mass animal killing made to look like natural suicide" and makes no mention of using the same group multiple times.

Plus since the proceedings were guaranteed to fail (even setting aside the party votes, while Trump has committed many constitutional violations, this one is shared by several of his predecessors and was an especially stupid thing to hinge an impeachment vote on - doubly so because it's not technically a violation until 60 days have passed), all they'd accomplish is burning a substantial amount of political will (something the Democratic party is severely lacking in) to... accomplish nothing but making Donald even worse? He already attacks Democratic states that have shown relatively minor opposition; if their representatives supported impeachment then life could suddenly become a lot harder for their constituents. Unless you're an accelerationist it was a bad idea all around.

(I should note I don't support this rationale - cowardly appeasement has never worked - but I can understand it, at least in theory. I'm mostly pissed that they pulled this stunt on such a flimsy pretext when there were plenty of rock-solid justifications to base an impeachment on)

Added the new feature: looting of mutant parts.

I look forward to ignoring the main storyline and roleplaying a wandering monster hunter instead. Hopefully the new mod support can flesh this out even further!

Thanks for the detailed write-up! I'll have to pick it up at some point; even if it doesn't hit the same highs as JA2, there hasn't really been much else that comes close and a more modern coat of polish would be welcome.

What did you think of the new aiming system? I've heard mixed things, but it sounded good to me (or at least way better than a flat percentage).

Many programmers who start working on new personal open source projects wrongly assume that building something cool guarantees users, fans, and revenue will follow. Maybe it’s because they have seen too many cool stories of influencers on Twitter and believe it is true.

It's statements like these that remind me just how different the internet is for some people. I don't think I've ever strayed far outside of the "look at this cool thing I made!" parts of the open source community. The idea of chasing fame and monetization isn't really a thing in those circles, let alone "influencers" shilling content like that.

ReVanced (a patched version of the official app) is straight up better than Premium because it can get rid of all the crap corporate insists on shoving into customers' faces. My YouTube app has a subscriptions tab (that only shows videos, not shorts or random "informative" carousels) and my profile tab with all my playlists, and nothing else.

It's glorious in its simplicity. Why would I ever pay Google for a worse product?

I've heard good things about 3, but haven't bought it myself. I'd be interested in hearing your thoughts if you ever get back into it!

Oh of course, but I doubt anyone else on the list rivals him in quantity.

How often do consoles get the kind of deep discounts that games get on PC, though? Or even the base price drops over time? It's not really a great deal when a $60 title drops to $30 on PSN, but the same game costs $30 as its base price on Steam and is currently discounted to $8.

And let's not even get into Nintendo's pricing...

There was also COVID screwing up sales projections for the last few years. People were stuck at home for months and ended up buying a ton of digital media such as games to stay sane. Executives are stupid and were somehow shocked when numbers dropped after quarantine ended and people went back to their regular lives. Since then, a bunch of projects or even entire studios have been axed due to "underperforming" because they couldn't compete sales-wise with a period where the entire world was a captive audience.

It turns out conservatives are offended by sex, not sexual assault. They're historically pretty okay with that one.

Though Henry Kissinger is pulling a "Spiders Georg" and really skewing the numbers there.

As an incentive to get Trump to aid them. He's entirely ego-driven.

Aww, but look at the little murder-blenders with their tiny needle-toes. They're so precious!

Speaking for myself, I'm too paranoid to buy a used book from some random charity because I can't trust they ensure the books are clean before selling them.

My family brought home a bundle of music books from some charity event when I was a kid, and it unleashed an infestation of silverfish that proved impossible to get rid of. It's been more than twenty years and they still pop up on my parent's walls every few months.

Edit: to be clear, I'm not blaming the charities for this. Some people use donation bins as an excuse to offload literal biohazards - just ask a Goodwill volunteer how often they receive soiled clothing. Books are simply harder to check than many other goods due to the literal hundreds of hiding spots between the pages and in the bindings.

Okay then, the labyrinthine structure spontaneously generates tiny minotaurs, which then consume the disease-causing miasma.