bermuda @ bermuda @beehaw.org

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pot calling the kettle black are we

(I just googled this phrase since to be honest I didn't know its origins and I really prefer the 1639 version "Pot calling the pan burnt-arsed" now)

The last part of what you said was what I was hoping to get at. To a few people I know, theyre freedom fighters and rebels before terrorists.

I know a few people in real life who are referring to them as freedom fighters.

I haven't played it yet (and probably won't, I didn't like the first) but I enjoy how they actually tried to make it look nice. It's not like the first game looked awful per se, but it definitely didn't feel very inviting in my opinion. Everything felt so grey. I know real life cities are grey but this is a video game.

It's on YouTube

There's no real controversies he's involved in. I just never liked the sensationalism. There was a solid decade or so where valve barely did anything substantial as a company and yet Tyler was making announcement after announcement about how their next new game was coming in like 6 months.

He was right about a lot of things but in the end he was so, so wrong about everything else.

I can see why he did that. Valve is a notoriously secretive company so only posting a video every 3 months when valve actually announced something substantial for any of their projects wouldn't have been a good financial decision. But on the other hand it made it really hard for me to personally feel optimistic about anything valve did when Tyler's predictions were always wrong.

And as somebody involved in the Source engine community space, the amount of times he misunderstood an obsolete feature or a simple mapping concept as a groundbreaking sign of things to come made me want to slam my head against the wall.

These are all my opinions though I mean if you like the guy then go for it. He's nice but I've rarely considered anything he did "news" back when his channel was called "Valve News Network"

Not gonna lie, always disliked Tyler.

I saw a video of somebody using these on an abandoned line in California a while back. Looks cool.

Comparing 400 to ~110,000 is certainly one of the choices of all time. Pretty much all killing is heinous imo, especially in this instance, but could we leave the atomic bomb comparisons for elsewhere?

You'll love Dubai

That 6.7 L engine agrees, spitting and snarling, almost stalling as the automated seven-speed transmission lurches through traffic. I switch the recalcitrant gearbox over to M, hoping the temper tantrum will smooth out higher in the rev range as I purposefully pop through gears using the column-mounted paddle shifters (which also make the Aventador's turn signal stalks nearly impossible to use). And those turn signals come in handy—as the crowd of Italian drivers inching along all around me might be surprised to learn—since I have absolutely zero visibility to either side, nor out of the louvered rear window.

dear author, this is ars technica, not the french dispatch

Always hated the white sneakers. So much easier to get dirty. My current pair are the vans ultrarange which has some white parts but are mostly black/whatever color you choose.

Most 12 year olds do not know how to pirate

Then why the hell do you release the game?

because they are a business that needs to make money to offset development costs.

why don't you just find something that fits well from a large established company

Facepalm... I literally do. From ll bean. Wrote about it in the post. I also wrote that the reason I had to go shopping was that I couldn't wait 10 days for the shirts to ship.

My point was that it's just not organized. I know I can ask an employee but I shouldn't have to when it's all right there! My point about sports stores is a bit america centric but just think about other stores and it applies, right? There's sections, aisles, and things are grouped together. At least at the clothing stores I've been to, it's just "mens" and you gotta sift through things on your own.

Like if I want to go to the grocery store and buy jam, there isn't a "jam aisle" but there's an aisle that has jam and its almost always listed on the sign for the aisle! If it were like a clothing store then there would be no aisles and it would have a sign that says "processed food lol good luck!"

that is not the point

this genuinely made getting an apartment such a total nightmare. Every "group" online for finding apartments in my city is Facebook only. Sure, craigslist works but it's filled with out-of-date realty company spam. If you want to avoid facebook the easiest way is just word of mouth but that's difficult for people moving in from out of town. I ended up getting my current place by emailing a guy who I heard about from a friend.

Fun fact: This is the music that can be heard playing in Neo's headphones when he's asleep at the start of the movie "The Matrix." Despite this, the track does not appear in the official "Music from the Motion Picture" album.

One that I've been on the fence about liking recently is the Metallica - Master of Puppets remaster that came out about a year ago. I can tell the two are different but it's so difficult to describe.