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Honestly, good. Should have given them more time instead of Hollywood celebrities that, frankly, seemed embarrassed to be there. People watch the game awards to hear about gaming, not listen to Simu Liu, Matthew McConaughey, and Jordan Peele monologue with awkward jokes.

I wanna listen to the people I voted for talk about the projects they love and worked so hard on. That was a huge moment for the winners, and they were just shooed offstage like they were randos no one cared about. What a way to sour their moment.

Awesome, thank you for the recommendations and the heads up! I'll definitely have to try some. Lately all my socks have been springing holes, so I'm excited to try some more durable ones

I hope you're right.

Omg I would love a gift like that! What is this mythical brand of socks?

Just a heads up, books are a very personal gift to give. I've never had it work out. Not saying you don't know your family, but it's hard to guess exactly what types of books they like. Especially if the only goal is encouraging her to read, that book will prob end up not being touched or given away.

I've had family I know really well gift me many books over the years, since I was a kid who liked to read, and it was always something I would never be interested in.

Now a Barnes and Noble/Books a Million gift card? Those are always awesome! Even though I know it feels lame to give gift cards. That could encourage her to get into a bookstore to shop for exactly something that catches her interest, and maybe shows her a whole series or author she can come back for, even!

Anyways, I hope you and your family have a happy and smooth holiday!

For me it's the nostalgia hooks they have in me. Every once in a blue moon, I get a craving for McNuggets that nothing else can satisfy. Probably because they're barely chicken nuggets, and are more of their own thing.

I just wish they have the man enough time to give a proper speech!! He was barely half a minute through his thank yous before they were shooing him off stage. It was so disrespectful. Let him have his moment, this is a huge deal. It's not like he was rambling on.

All that just to make room for more fortnite ads. Disgraceful.

Truly, trying to decide between BG3 and Alan Wake 2 when voting for GOTY was like trying to pick a favorite parent, or child. Both so good, and huge achievements in unique ways. Stacked year for awards, that's for sure!

Really? I thought the lighting and environments looked good, but the models definitely need some work. They look like clay mannequins in an HD world to me, and I feel like that's only gonna get more exacerbated since this doesn't come out for another 2 years.

If this isn't coming out until 2025, I worry about how dated the graphics already look. It's like they took the same old models/rigs and just brought them into higher definition? Idk, but something looks off about them to me. It definitely doesn't help the $70-80 price tags that companies are trying to justify when graphics look mostly the same as they ever have.

I think we might have hit peak realism with graphics and need to lean harder into art direction.

Trust me, there are plenty of songs as bad or worse. I get the same reaction to several Daft Punk songs. Mariah Carey isn't especially bad, no matter what the internet says. There are some especially brain dead christmas remixes stores play during the holidays that make my skin crawl.

Bro-job playthrough

To be honest, I think contrapoints has a really solid take on it. That yes trans women are women, but women's issues and trans women's issues should be considered separate things. Both groups face some issues that the other can't really relate to, and conflating them so much doesn't help anyone.

This article makes some pretty sweeping claims about rumors being "thoroughly put to bed" based on a vague tweet about the DLC's progress. I'm not sure it does anything of the sort, especially when the article didn't even report on the exact question asked of this developer.

The reporter seems to take the quote and run with it a bit.

What are the odds that this is just a campaign promise and he never even attempts to actually do this?

Edit: this was a genuine question. I've seen lots of broken campaign promises in my day. Politicians will promise you the moon every election cycle, but very few ever deliver.

Haha, "why so defensive"?

Right, but if the person I was talking originally to had said "I'm not from the US so I know nothing about it" it woulda been fine and I would have immediately apologized and we'd go from there. Having a nice chat.

That's not what happened. Someone new chimed in with a pretty rude non-sequitur in the vein of 'stupid Americans'. I don't think I was particularly defensive or angry, but maybe it came off that way.

I definitely don't? I was just providing my experience for the place I live. Obviously not all places are the south...? And good for you on your 'more civilized place', but we're not talking about those areas.

Seems to me that, to solve rent crisis, Americans should just move into Europeans' heads, since we seem to live there rent free already.

I'm not sure where you live, but living/growing up in the south.... I can tell you that those beliefs run deep. Deep deep deep. Deeper than you can fix by just being pleasant to your neighbor.

If you try to talk to them with kindness and openness, they dig in their heels and start spewing fox news talking points like it's the most obvious thing in the world (I'm pretty sure they like it so much because it confirms every awful belief they already had). Try to present different sources, they're rejected as fake news. I've tried everything with people around here since before 2016 and nothing seems to help. Mostly I just keep to myself.

Living in the south, if you're not indoctrinated, is very isolating. Even living in the cities doesn't really help. You still need to dig deep and look carefully for people who don't think you deserve fewer rights.

Edit: thinking about it more, I think the isolation is the point, and it's how so many people in my state believe some of the same basic things when it comes to religion and politics. You learn pretty young around here that if you don't get with the program, you're not going to have many friends. If you didn't go to church, especially, you lost out on most of the community's socializing for the week. It feels very cliquey in the smaller towns especially, almost by design.

Super not enthused with how centrist this is. Comes off as more of the "can't we all just get along and live in unity??" stuff people say, when really they mean "the left needs to chill and stop making everything a big deal."

Kinda hard to just 'get along' when the other side is trying to destroy democracy and strip large portions of the population of their basic human rights.