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I'm skeptical. Trillian still exists, but hardly anyone uses it. It can't connect to a bunch of services because their operators decided to disable third-party access, and I remember that even back in the day it was constantly playing catch-up with network updates that broke compatibility. "One chat app to rule them all" is a neat idea, but I don't see it working in practice.

It’s not my job to hold Republicans to task. It’s republican voters that do that.

Oh also good luck holding democrats to anything after voting for them.

And you think Republicans are going to have any more success with their representatives? It is your job to hold Republicans to task, by voting someone else in. And there's only one other party that has any chance of success at that.

At least with a real leftist party all of the “the LEFT!” Discourse won’t be about democrats anymore.

It's already not really about them. The Dems do only a fraction of what the conservatives accuse them of. The whining about "the left" is going to be based on a persecution fetish fantasy completely divorced from reality regardless of whether the left in America is the Dems and/or some other party.

So your solution to the Dems occasionally enabling the Reps' evil is to put the Reps in power so that they can enact their evil freely with no opposition at all? Sorry, but I'm not convinced by that logic.

if the dems never win the Republicans won’t have anyone else to blame anymore

I think you severely underestimate their ability to find scapegoats.

It blows my mind that this kind of plan to undermine vital functions of the government, needed now more than ever, is not considered terrorism and/or treason and punished accordingly. We're facing an existential threat as a species, and their grand plan is to exacerbate it?

They had a nuclear rocket engine developed and ready to go back in the sixties. Better late than never, I guess.

I would rather vote for an actual leftist that loses and causes the dems to lose too than vote for a dem and barley win.

A vote for a leftist with no chance to win is a vote for the conservatives. It sucks, but such is the nature of the two-party system.

I'd say remembering the message she intended to send is far more important than remembering what exactly she did to the picture.

Can someone more knowledgeable about American politics please explain to me why the Republicans are allowed to do this and/or why the Democrats aren't doing the same? This seems like such a blatant abuse of the system, I'm baffled that it keeps happening.

Now he’s driving their investment into to the ground so the banks will end up writing off most of the debt rather than asking for repayment. So far, it seems to be working.

Maybe I'm financially illiterate, but I don't understand how that works. Like... if I take out a loan to buy a house and then deliberately burn down the house, that doesn't get me off the hook. If anything, I'll probably end up going to prison to boot. Why exactly would the banks just write off Musk's debt instead of going after him and his other assets in court?

The Scary Game Squad is fantastic, and Until Dawn is their finest work. It's a perfect marriage of a group of guys who know all the horror story tropes and clichés and a game that is deliberately built around them.

That Trespasser LP is what motivated me to play through the game myself, and I have no regrets. That game is insane. It's awful, don't get me wrong, but crazy ahead of its time. They basically tried to make a VR game two decades before VR gaming became a thing. Without Trespasser, we wouldn't have Half-Life: Alyx. Research Indicates' LP is a fantastic way to experience this obscure but fascinating title.

Kenshi is a post-apocalyptic sandbox open-world RPG / base-building game with a bunch of lore but absolutely no plot for you to follow.

It's unfortunate that the headline and much of the article is needlessly sensationalized. Aggression can be the result of self-control, but it's pretty clear clear from the words of the researcher and the abstract of the paper that aggression resulting from a lack of self-control also exists ("We often fail to inhibit our worst, most aggressive impulses. But that is only one side of the story." and "balanced perspective, which allows aggression to arise from successful and unsuccessful self-control").

Research indicates that the brain’s prefrontal cortex, a center of self-control, shows increased activity during aggression, further debunking the association between poor self-control and aggression.

That doesn't debunk shit. It's obvious why the prefrontal cortex would be active in the case of premeditated aggression, but this finding makes perfect sense even in cases of spontaneous, uncontrolled aggression. In that case, the prefrontal cortex is trying to exert self-control, it's just failing at it. But that activity would still show up.

Very interesting findings, but the reporting is pretty poor.

AER: Memories of Old

Feather

Both are very relaxing games about being a bird and flying around a beautiful, somewhat surreal landscape.

That's probably true, but there are always alternatives.

You can transform into demon mode and I didn’t know until I played the sequel

You didn't miss that, that mechanic doesn't exist in the first game. In Nioh 1, you can briefly power up your weapon. Nioh 2 removed that and introduced the demon transformation instead (and yokai cores, which also don't exist in N1).

addictive quality

That's exactly why I stopped playing that. I realized it was addictive rather than fun, and I could no longer stomach the business model based on annoying the player into paying (by deliberately making inventory management a living hell and then selling stash tabs to alleviate the problem).

Blade of Darkness. If you want to see the true origin of the soulslike genre, this is it. Be warned that the controls are extremely janky, though.

Right? And at this stage, it's basically subsidized by venture capitalists looking to eventually turn a profit. I see nothing morally wrong with enjoying a product or service paid for by a greedy billionaire.