Kiss Rule
Yeah they could stop giving away free games in a weak attempt to get people to use their shitty sub-par service. That probably costs them a good bit.
The only games on Epic I "own" are the free games I've cared enough to grab... and I still have opened Epic exactly zero times to play any of them. Pointless.
The guy who did Medium Large writes for Sally Forth now, too.
I'm so sorry for your loss, chochacho.
Yeah, Gen Z generally has good politics and seem like good kids, so I couldn't care less that they have silly slang. We had our own dumb slang our parents hated, too. If they can all understand each other clearly, what's the problem? Access to Urban Dictionary indeed is a game changer. I doubt all of them talk like this in a work environment, as well. So let them be themselves when they're not at work.
Data: What do we need a mattress for?
Lore: What do you mean what do we need a mattress for? Why in the hell do you think we just spent all that money on a ship? The whole purpose of buying the ship in the first place was to get the ladies nice and tipsy topside so we can take 'em to a nice comfortable place below deck and, you know, they can't refuse, because of the implication.
Data: Oh, uh... okay. You had me going there for the first part, the second half kinda threw me.
Lore: Well dude, dude, think about it: she's out in the middle of nowhere with some dude she barely knows. You know, she looks around and what does she see? Nothin' but open space. "Ahh, there's nowhere for me to run. What am I gonna do, say 'no'?"
Data: Okay. That... that seems really dark.
Lore: Nah, no it's not dark. You're misunderstanding me, bro.
Data: I'm-I think I am.
Lore: Yeah, you are, because if the girl said "no" then the answer obviously is "no"...
Data: No, right.
Lore: But the thing is she's not gonna say "no", she would never say "no" because of the implication.
Data: ...Now you've said that word "implication" a couple of times. Wha-what implication?
Lore: The implication that things might go wrong for her if she refuses to sleep with me. Now, not that things are gonna go wrong for her but she's thinkin' that they will.
Data: But it sounds like she doesn't wanna have sex with you...
Lore: Why aren't you understanding this? She-she doesn't know if she wants to have sex with me. That's not the issue...
Data: Are you gonna hurt these women?
Lore: I'm not gonna hurt these women! Why would I ever hurt these women? I feel like you're not getting this at all!
Data: I'm not getting it.
Lore: Goddamn.
[notices woman staring at them]
Lore: Well don't you look at me like that, you certainly wouldn't be in any danger.
Data: So they are in danger!
Lore: No one's in any danger!
Sinfest still existing and somehow going off the fucking rails because Tatsuya became a TERF still baffles me.
Achewood is back again. It's behind a donation paywall now. I've heard it's pretty good, but I've been too broke to pay for it.
For larger groups "All y'all" is really more appropriate.
Seriously, this fucking sucks. So likely to see all the good things about Bandcamp disappear.
Things seem to have stabilized for the moment.
Decent amounts of content abound, imo.
I visit reddit sometimes, logged out, because I don't have an account anymore, but I really like the community here better, at the moment.
Anyway, things seem pretty smooth sailing these days on Lemmy for the most part.
Much like a Magic Eye, if you can't see it, it's your loss.
I hate that I can hear Lore saying "...because of the implication."
It's got the electrolytes autocracy plants crave!
I mean, to be fair to Picard, it's unlikely that any conventional weaponry is useful on Q nor is there any way to contain Q. Trying to use weaponry on him or trying to contain him could make him respond in ways most unkind, and Picard knows this.
Poetry isn't the worst place to start, but maybe he should have tried some Vogon poetry if he really wanted to get the point across.
From the article, it sounds like there's been specific legal stuff going on that influenced this:
Newsom’s signature on Thursday reflects the power and influence of labor unions in the nation’s most populous state, which have worked to organize fast food workers in an attempt to improve their wages and working conditions.
It also settles — for now, at least — a fight between labor and business groups over how to regulate the industry. In exchange for higher pay, labor unions have dropped their attempt to make fast food corporations liable for the misdeeds of their independent franchise operators in California, an action that could have upended the business model on which the industry is based. The industry, meanwhile, has agreed to pull a referendum related to worker wages off the 2024 ballot.
So yeah, labor unions bringing cases that could effectively dismantle the corporate/franchisee relationship is a big, big deal to fast food companies, which are generally the most "franchised" types of businesses in the US. Agreeing to higher pay to slow unionization efforts and to outright stop cases that change how the core of their businesses function seems like a smart short-term move on their part.
It would still be better if it was for everyone, but this particularly seems to have some history behind why it happened for just these workers.
You could have also referenced the abortion issue, where it's been proven without a shadow of a doubt that police are using surveillance powers to monitor women who are suspected of being pregnant and trying to terminate the pregnancy. It's literally already happening in one instance, which helps prove that you're very right in being worried about the things you're worried about. Because those things will surely come to pass as well.
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It's the plot for Superman 3.
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Being glad that the person in question is so absolutely off-the-walls crazy that it actually drowns out anyone Googling for me.
They're a right-wing conservative crank who is absolutely referenced everywhere and whines constantly, he's part of a right-wing media organization. My politics couldn't be farther from theirs.
This guy is everywhere, and it makes it kind easier to be more pseudo-anonymous, because the internet will filter for this guy before it filters for me.
CS:GO went free around when PUBG came out. Before that, it was a paid game. I'm one of the many who paid for it.
No wonder Mordecai kept blowing it with women.