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  • So there was this man in Bulgaria who drove trains for a living.

    He loved his job. Driving a train had been his dream ever since he was a child. He loved to make the train go as fast as possible. Unfortunately, one day he was a little too reckless and caused a crash. He made it out, but a single person died. Well, needless to say, he went to court over this incident. He was found guilty, and was sentenced to death by electrocution. When the day of the execution came, he requested a single banana as his last meal. After eating the banana, he was strapped into the electric chair. The switch was flown, sparks flew, and smoke filled the air - but nothing happened. The man was perfectly fine.

    Well, at the time, there was an old Bulgarian law that said a failed execution was a sign of divine intervention, so the man was allowed to go free. Somehow, he managed to get his old job back driving the train. Having not learned his lesson at all, he went right back to driving the train with reckless abandon. Once again, he caused a train to crash, this time killing two people. The trial went much the same as the first, resulting in a sentence of execution. For his final meal, the man requested two bananas. After eating the bananas, he was strapped into the electric chair. The switch was thrown, sparks flew, smoke filled the room - and the man was once again unharmed.

    Well, this of course meant that he was free to go. And once again, he somehow managed to get his old job back. To what should have been the surprise of no one, he crashed yet another train and killed three people. And so he once again found himself being sentenced to death. On the day of his execution, he requested his final meal: three bananas.

    "You know what? No," said the executioner. "I've had it with you and your stupid bananas and walking out of here unharmed. I'm not giving you a thing to eat; we're strapping you in and doing this now." Well, it was against protocol, but the man was strapped in to the electric chair without a last meal. The switch was pulled, sparks flew, smoke filled the room - and the man was still unharmed. The executioner was speechless.

    The man looked at the executioner and said, "Oh, the bananas had nothing to do with it. I'm just a bad conductor.

  • Deep Rock Galactic? It has the mining component....that's about it though. It's co-op mining along with first person shooting combat.

    I know it's not exactly what you asked for but I thought I'd throw it out there.

  • After looking at the picture of the bridge in the article, it looks like it should have either been fixed or blocked by a large only moveable by heavy machinery barrier of some description.

    What if someone was using a 15 year old paper map? Would they get to sue the cartographer?
    What if the bridge had collapsed yesterday? Last week? As much as I don't like Google, I don't think they're at fault here.

  • Yea it is but it's still made in New Zealand, and personally I suspect it was a way for them to break into the Chinese market, especially as Tencent facilitate online gaming services. I don't have any proof of that, it's just something I've thought about.

  • Yep they're owned by Tencent, however from what I've read, seen and experienced in game, Tencent don't have much, if any, of an input on the development. Yes I know that Tencent staff sit on the board of GGG.

    GGG did a rough patch a few years ago, I was out of the loop and not playing then, but it seems it's made a fine comeback.

    Lastly, if I'm not giving my money to a NZ company owned by Tencent (who I agree are very not cool), I'm most likely giving it to some equally bullshit, corrupt, money grabbing AAA developer in America so what's the difference?

  • Hell yea the poop knife. His family had one because their shits would block toilets. He thought it was a normal thing to require and have a poop knife but after going to a friend's house and asking for it, he discovered that it was indeed (Samuel L. Jackson voice) not a normal thing to possess.

  • On reddit someone did a "I've slept with my mother, AMA.". The story was he broke his arms and his mother helped 'relieve him' and then it progressed.

  • Haha money well spent supporting an independent studio from a little country at the bottom of the world made by a group of people who are legitimately passionate about the game!

    Also just for fun $1k over 10 years = $100 a year. That's not a bad amount imo! Also I'm guessing if you've spent that much money that you've spent an equally large amount of time playing!

  • Something to keep in mind is that a new season of D3 has recently come out (more interest) while D4 hasn't had anything in a while (less interest). These two things will be bumping the numbers.

    P.S I'm a long time PoE and formerly D3player. I'm stoked I didn't buy into D4. If anyone hasn't tried it yet, a D4 YouTuber called Darth Microtransactions described PoE as 'everything I wanted in D4 but more and free'.

  • Why not add a basic intelligence test too? Imo asking for someone that's cognitively coherent and isn't a complete moron isn't asking much for a leader of a country.

    The question is, which one would Trump fail first?

  • Honestly he got the exact same amount of votes as me, and I'm not even a US citizen!!

  • Now, the other people that we talk about, including Biden, he wasn’t president. So what he did is a different standard. And he should have real problems. They really should be talking about that. Not about me. I did absolutely nothing wrong.

    The level of cognitive dissonance here is just absolutely mind blowing.

  • But damn the beer is good. I don't like beer or alcohol really, but I make the exception for Bavarian or most German beers.

  • This move is part of a larger trend for the insider, who over the past year has sold a total of 50,610 shares and purchased none.

    Nothing suspicious about that.

  • PoE rep! We need a community on lemmy already. I lack the, well, everything, to make/mod one.

  • ...I appreciate the argument that we’ve, our discussion that we’ve been having. But for me, it’s a little too conceptual or I don’t know, metaphysical or geological or whatever you want to call it.

    Geological??

  • That includes the end of Medicaid rules that protected recipients from getting kicked off because of administrative errors

    Sorry what

  • Super interesting.

    Does that mean that we're pronouncing either helicopter or pterodactyl wrong? We don't say the 'pter' parts the same way I think?