bermuda @ bermuda @beehaw.org

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I played through the main story twice and I dont ever remember encountering a character based on Elon or a character voiced by him. His then-girlfriend Grimes has a character with a medium length side-questline, but that character isn't based on her either. Part of the quest means "dealing with" her new boyfriend, but I didn't really think that guy was based on Elon either.

There are a lot of corpo people in the game that you deal with, but most of them are just parodies of all billionaires, not really one in particular.

Would be shitty if he's in Phantom Liberty though.

Thanks for the correction about ethanol, I'm not big into alcohol so I didn't know what to write lol

Leaded gasoline has a really crazy story. People have known that lead is highly toxic since the mid 1800s, and when tetraethyl lead was invented by Thomas midgley Jr in the 1910s, pretty much everybody at GM knew how toxic it was. Dozens of workers died from exposure, and Thomas himself was sick with lead poisoning when it was unveiled to the public. GM even went as far as naming it "ethyl" to avoid public backlash.

The reason it wasn't banned until the 90s was because health officials in the 20s thought that exposure to drivers was so low that it wouldn't reach toxic levels until decades down the line. Like, the 1970s. This wasn't reviewed until the mid 70s and by that point the consequences were disastrous.There were some studies between the 20s and 70s, but most didn't gain much traction. Many adults and children had increased levels of lead in their blood and lead has contaminated the groundwater and polluted the air. For instance, there is NO safe level of lead in blood, and Herbert needleman in the early 70s found some American schoolchildren had as much as 14 micrograms per deciliter This is the reason it wasn't banned until the 90s in most countries. One could say we're still recovering from that in some ways.

And the worst part? They could have used ethanol, an organic substance that's a major additive in alcoholic beverages. It also prevents engine knocking and is highly flammable, but otherwise not even close to as toxic as TEL was. You still woudlnt want to breathe it in, but it probably wouldn't have polluted our air and ground so much. GM refused to use ethanol though because it couldn't be patented (being naturally produced?) and it wouldn't be very profitable to use it to prevent knocking. TEL was far more profitable.

I loved what the grand tour was able to accomplish on prime that they simply couldn't on BBC with top gear. The early seasons are wonky with weird formatting, but when they started focusing more on specials in the later seasons (seamen, eurocrash, the Mongolian special, a massive hunt) have been some of the best top gear content since like top gear season 7

Baidu means "100 times" in Chinese and originates from a classic Chinese love poem...

Not everyone is making something for you to consume.

DUSK

bitcoin skyrocketed and suckered in a lot of people to the gold rush. they didn't want decentralized currency or anything. They just saw that it was ~16,000 dollars a bitcoin and wanted in.

Exactly. It's called "chat" for a reason. Not wikipediagpt

In another thread I saw today somebody said the best way to learn how to make an Android app was to buy chatgpt. That was their advice...

Well I'm not interested in a more nuanced discussion. I said what I wanted to say. I really find it odd how desperate you are to gain opinions from literally everybody who interacts with your post. Not everybody wants to talk to you.

OP got mad that users on lemm.ee downvoted his post and a lot of his comments and is trying to rally support... from beehaw of all places.

that's my best guess.

Just download it somewhere else. Nexus isn't forced to host any mod thats uploaded.

edit: you also clearly don't understand why they removed it. The mod itself wasn't powerful enough to tarnish their reputation. If you actually tried to take a look at their own file submission guidelines, you'll see that:

Files that remove gender identity including pronouns from a game that have been intentionally put in place by a game developer, when the removal is clearly to be divisive or cause hostility within the community or marginalise specific group(s).

are not allowed, among many other types of files. Why this particular mod is getting attention? I don't know, perhaps the mod's creators are trying really hard to get people to notice the removal.

Face it. They deliberately made a mod that went against the site's guidelines. Why should they or anybody else be pissed off that the site removed it?

Method Man is one of Wu-Tang's best rap songs but it starts with a lengthy and disturbing section where the various members take turns describing how they'd torture people. Method Man ends the section with arguably the worst method.

It's pretty neat I guess and is supposed to show you how depraved Method Man's character is supposed to be. But when you listen to it like 20 times it just gets old fast. I don't wanna hear about rusty screwdrivers again...

Because I like having RAM to spare

So you want them to be bought out... more?

The previous world record holder before BG&E2 was Duke Nukem Forever which took 14 years to develop and 9 years from the initial announcement in 2001 to the release in 2010.

careful lads the joke police are here