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Part of it is also the constant push to try to weave the principles of confederacy into the fabric of American history via monuments and memorials, to build up this idea that the confederacy is part of the modern American identity rather than antithetical to it.

See for example the recent controversy surrounding the military installation called Fort Bragg. Braxton Bragg was a slave-owning confederate general who, by all accounts, was not even a good leader. But given the fort's location in North Carolina, one of the former confederate states, it got its name presumably due to local military officials sympathetic to the "Lost Cause" narrative, and stuck until just recently.

In 2023, the Biden administration pushed to change the name of the fort to "Fort Liberty" so as to continue removing these Lost Cause memorials and end this myth, but this year the Trump administration just recently renamed it back to Fort Bragg, ostensibly now named after a different Bragg who was just a paratrooper during World War II. But no one is fooled by what they're trying to do.

It's almost sad, really, just how badly they're clinging to this myth even today. But I guess more scary than sad, given that half of the government is essentially run by traitors. And it's really been that way for a long time now I suppose, but shocking how strongly they still choose to hold their ground on these ridiculous narratives when pushed.

Honestly that is much more likely how he'd say it.

"John Marshall Roberts has made his decision, now let him enforce it."

• Andrew Jackson Donald Trump

our system has yet to fail.

It's already failed.

Acht and neun.

Neun sounds like English nine, and acht is like October, which used to be the 8th month.

English, Mandarin, Cantonese, Korean, Japanese, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Latin, Classical Greek.

That makes 11, I guess.

can you summarise this lol

It has an abstract...

I'd more assume it's because it's approaching the end of the school year. If ever there was a time for a student to have a psychotic break, it would be right before finals.

Being gay or bi has nothing to do with this, so why bother mentioning the fact?

I wouldn't go that far, I think it's a very relevant detail for OP's situation.

Internalized homophobia is a real and unfortunate phenomenon for people who grew up in restrictive environments, and it can result in a lot of self-hatred and mental distress, including diagnosable disorders.

And the worst part about it is the shame some people feel about the whole thing might have them feeling that talking to a doctor or therapist is simply not an option, as they are not prepared to be "out" to others, even under the protection of medical confidentiality. The very idea of being out can be internalized as a failure, especially if it would burn bridges with bigoted family members (which is easy to say from the outside looking in that bigots aren't worth your time anyways, but not so easy when that is your entire support network and every happy memory you had since childhood).

It's definitely not simple, at any rate.

Luckily digital signboards will always be an option to replace TVs with if the situation becomes truly dire. The sorts of no-frills displays corporations buy to display whatever media they want in store.

Might not come with sound, but you can pick up a cheap sound bar and it will still be better than whatever cheap speakers commercial TVs try to cram in there.

Why is that? It's being done by a different studio entirely that specializes in ports and remasters.

This is definitely a ground-up remake, not a port with original code.

I mean sure, if what America wanted to hear was "day 1 dictator", "mass deportations", "tariffs", and "finish the job [in Gaza]".

He's doing exactly what he promised. This is exactly what America voted for.

And yet America wouldn't even elect that, given the choice.

It'll happen. I don't think it'll be good, but it'll happen.

This remaster was made by a different studio, not Bethesda, so I do believe them after they said that TES6 is now in full production following Starfield.

Microsoft likes doing shadowdrops, apparently. Hi-Fi Rush being the most prominent, but they also shadowdropped the Ninja Gaiden 2 remake a few months ago.

I mean, despite whatever reputation UE5 may have, Oblivion was legendarily buggy. Oblivion defined Bethesda's reputation for producing bug-riddled games.

But that is honestly part of the charm.

Well...more room for improvement, then?

I am actually not even sure how much input Bethesda had in this. It was remastered by an outside studio contracted by Microsoft. The same studio handling the remaster of Metal Gear Solid 3, apparently.

The only part that gives me pause is that this is supposedly in Unreal Engine rather than Bethesda's usual engine.

Not to say that there won't be a modding scene, but it will be substantially different without the equivalent of the Construction Set/GECK/Creation Kit.