bermuda @ bermuda @beehaw.org

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Once you find yourself arguing over words, you simultaneously find yourself missing the forest for the trees.

As if I would ever willingly move to Arizona /s

(sort of not /s though I hate heat)

I'm sorry to hear that. I'm in the far northwest USA and it's 51 F here which is also way too hot for November. It should be 40 F or even 35...

I liked GTA V and I think RDR2 was a wild change of pace so I'm interested to see how (if at all) they implement RDR2 style systems into the game. Hopefully that means less GTA:SA/GTA IV chores though. Those SUCKED. I am 100000% going to wait on this one though, after the remasters it really just seems like Rockstar is after cash and nothing else.

I do hope that after the travesty of RDR Online and the sort-of-disaster of GTA Online (it made them a lot of money but people hated it) they learn from their mistakes. I don't doubt there'll be an online mode. One of the major problems with GTA Online was just that they kept updating it without a really good direction for it, so maybe this time they'll start off on the right foot. It seemed that way with RDR Online but they fucked up the economy to the point of no return.

Eh, the actual country has gotten absurd but I think a lot of the GTA V jokes are still very prescient. Just replace the scientology jokes with QAnon jokes.

I'm just saying it felt like you were grandstanding.

at the risk of sounding too rude, I don't think the post was asking if u were going to buy it

A spokesperson for Rockstar didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment sent after business hours.

Shocked! Shocked, I say!

edit: It's worth noting that I did not vote for what's below because, after recently moving, my residency is still in another county in my state. I still voted, but not for the vote I'm about to talk about.

There's a vote in my town for a new jail. It's very hotly contentious. The current jail is pretty much universally recognized as crumbling and out of date and overfilled with inmates so I don't think many people argue about that kind of thing. There was an expose posted in the local newspaper a year ago with photos of the thing. Most rooms had upwards of 6 - 12 people in them, and the former "games room" of the jail was now a living space for 30 inmates. There's pictures of black mold and crusty toilets and shit like that. The elevator also doesn't work, period. Proponents of the jail are pro new infrastructure of course. People anti jail are split up into like 3 camps that seem to spread throughout party lines. Some are anti jail tax (there are even signs saying the 10th of a percent sales tax increase will lead to "financial ruin."), some are anti this specific jail saying it's the wrong location etc., I think the rest are anti literally all jails in particular. What I find interesting is a lot of the anti jail tax people seem to be progressive teens which is really odd to me. They canvas support a lot in the local university. I always thought the anti tax folks were the libertarians. I know taxes suck but I think the pragmatic way of looking at it is that it's really the only good way we have of getting things done in the society we currently live in, especially when it comes to infrastructure.

What I will say is that the "say no to the jail" people are very in your face about it. Lots of botting on the local subreddit, lots of downvote spamming there too. Very toxic from my experience, although I think the toxic ones are more the anti tax people than anybody else. I have yet to see very many pro jail people who are very active about it. Just lots of passive support for that. It'll be interesting to see what the results will be but I think that a lot of people will be mad in the end.

I only just moved here so I don't think my opinion has a lot of weight, but data shows that the city boomed in the past few decades in terms of population. IIRC it doubled in the last 20 years alone despite almost 100 of history. So I've been personally looking at it as a "now or never" type of deal.

People have definitely mentioned that we should be incarcerating less, and I think I agree with that. However, knowing how long politics take, I do worry for the folks who will be stuck in there until we can pass measures to free up space in the current jail. The mold problems and straight up broken elevator though? I think that requires a bit more work.****

rare ohio w

I definitely recommend looking at Avi's filmography. He's produced some good movies but man... some of those were total stinkers...

The fact that a majority of it is superhero or superhero-oriented I think gives us an idea of what this movie might be like.

edit: a bad producer is in no way a surefire predictor of a bad movie by the way, but it definitely doesn't help.

Pubert

It's not news. It's from 2009. The data on their returns recently did come out but the deal is already 14 years old. Stop treating it like news. They didn't "just" do this. Chicagos news media exploded about this in 2009 when it happened and this is more of a political analysis about the situation.

And yes everybody is projecting except you.

god I hate wikipedia abuse. It even happens from non admins. There's this one movie I watched and I realized that it wasn't on the lead actor's filmography so I added it, and within minutes it was removed without reason. I go on this guy's talk profile and it's full of people claiming that they religiously remove edits on a number of random articles. Probably 80% of edits in the past year alone on that filmography page were from this one guy and almost all of them were removing tiny contributions from other users. Some people just like to act like an article is "theirs"

in the english language, like many other languages, we can prevent "overloading" of words by using context.

Why not, exactly? If you don't like or trust the content that one format of media provides then you are more than welcome to report it to the staff of the community, but the fact that one is a visual media and another is reading doesn't make it unfit for a community about politics, especially when the topic LITERALLY IS politics.

To me this just reads like insecurity. You want politics to be more "mature" than news which is why you don't watch youtube videos.

i believe they're called communities instead of sublemmies. too reddit.

Yes, this is what dubstep used to sound like. I don't want to go all genre nerd and say modern stuff (post-Skrillex) isn't dubstep, but it sounds pretty different. If you said "dubstep" in a record store from 2005 - about 2009 then this is the kind of music they'd point you to (if they had it)

my "review" of it so far after 15 hours: marked as spoilers, but it's not really a spoiler in terms of the story. I guess just don't read if you don't want to already know the game's structure and difficulty (from my experience).