No one. It’s a giant “plausible deniability” cluster-fuck.

It’s ‘blaming the dog for farting’ writ large and in the service of billionaires.

We should popularize using the guillotine as a symbol of the common man

Fixed that for you.

Well I guess it’s true what they say. You really can’t go home again.

Nothing broke. It’s working exactly as intended.

There have always been two distinct economies.

• There is their economy (meaning the billionaires economy of venture capital, real estate investment firms, speculative markets, etc…) It’s a market that exists on paper only. Theoretical billionaires with assets instead of bank accounts, capital instead of paycheques. Money isn’t a real concept in that economy, it’s simply a measure of profit and loss. It’s just a score keeping device and something used to leverage power.

• Then there is our economy. (meaning the rest of us, who get a paycheque, spend that paycheque, etc…) Maybe we’d be able to put something aside for retirement or college for the kids. . Money itself has a real, tangible impact in our lives. It’s not theoretical.

Maybe we have enough to play in the paddling pool of the speculation market, telling ourselves that “we’re shareholders!” like our 10 shares means squat against the 10,000 shares owned by the investment firms and LLCs run by the billionaires. Employers like to do things like offering you stock options, selling it as “you’ll be an owner and have a say in the company”. Yeah…no…you’ll have a piece of paper and a sense of self-importance because you “dabble in stocks”.

The idea being that if we invest hard enough, and risk enough, we’ll make enough to jump us from one economy into the other. But we won’t. That’s the lie they tell to keep us mollified.

Because the truth is that their economy, only works at the expense of our economy. Profit in their economy, only comes from loss in ours. A corporation can’t make more profit without taking it from somewhere. And that somewhere invariably is us; our health benefits, our cost of living, the quality of the products that we use, our lack of raises, etc…

So you’re telling me that Illegal immigrants from America are crossing the border to work in Greenland without the proper visas?

How interesting.

I moved to a safety razor a few years back and love it. Took some getting used to when using it on my head shave, but once you get the hang of keeping it at that 30 degree angle, it takes no pressure at all and I (almost never) nick myself.

Should work fine on Steamdeck. It works fine under Proton on Arch (which is essentially what a Steamdeck is).

Spot on. Very well said.

The Borg figured that out in the early nineties. Just blind them with a laser pointer if they stare.

My favourite thing to do is to order a bowl of spaghetti in a restaurant, and then loudly take credit for making it because I instructed the chef to add more garlic. After all, the Chef is just a tool that I used to make that spaghetti.

Impossible to answer. There’s a lot of different variations of “Favourite”.

• Favourite comfort show: (ie…rewatchability) Star Trek: TNG. Honourable Mention goes to Quantum Leap.

• Favourite Drama to rewatch an entire series once a year of so: Battlestar Galactic Remake.

• Favourite Comedy of all time (similar to comfort show…what’s the comedy I can just pop in a random episode of and enjoy): Night Court (The original one) with honourable mentions to Community and How I Met Your Mother.

No one of those three beats the other two. They just exist in different worlds.

A man can dream.

• Syndicate (loved), Black Flag (Fun to be a pirate, fun story, but again…that same gameplay loop)

• Original Assassin’s Creed (I recognize its groundbreaking nature for its time, but found it kind of underwhelming),

• Rogue (got it for free at some point…don’t know where or when or how. But found it similar to Black Flag; fun to be a pirate, but the same gameplay loop)

• When I had Game Pass, I also took stabs at Origins and Oddysey.

I think anyone can recognize the loop I’m talking about. Go into an area. find a point that let’s you sync a bunch of little mini games (in AC it’s syncing from high points, in Watchdogs it’s hacking towers, etc…) Then you just randomly do enough side-plot and main plot missions and kill the sub-bosses until you “control” that part of the map and then do it again. Every game. Every Franchise. They all follow the same loop.

It’s only when a game adds something somewhat different to the equation (a grappling hook in Syndicate and a train that is constantly looping through the city or sailing a pirate ship in Black Flag) that it has any sort of novelty for me.

Those cheeky buggars have made the same basic game for over a decade just by changing time periods and art assets.

It’s been a while since I paid attention to it, but last I heard Natron wasn’t maintained anymore since it was having trouble getting developers.

Some fine upstanding citizen needs to write a script that crashes the system, posts a link to it on a QR code, and print off business cards that people can flash in front of any camera they come across.

Bullshit.

Scientists have known for years now that the earth can support far more than our current population, and that’s WITH our current technology. The primary issue isn’t the earth’s carrying capacity, it’s the distribution, political and economic systems we use to manage that carrying capacity.

To put it bluntly, we have more than enough resources to feed everyone without terrorizing the environment, but we’d rather let people starve and die homeless than give those resources away for no profit.

Population isn’t the problem. Capitalism is the problem.

The resellers are Arctic consumers too.

If Arctic sells 500 coolers to “ABComputers LTD” in butt-fuck Alabama and charges them the tariff, than ABComputers LTD should get a portion of that rebate and they can add up their share against how many of those 500 they sold and pass it down to their buyers.

Ooooh…a sales promotion…laaa deee fucking daaaa

Fuckers should be adding up every sales receipt purchased during the time when the tariffs were in effect, dividing their settlement by that amound and sending rebate checks to the people who already purchased.

Anything less is a slap in the face.

I’ve always had trouble getting into the Assassin’s Creed games, even though as a history buff they should be right up my alley. There’s something about the Ubisoft generic play-loop that bores me after a certain amount of time. ( I have that same issue with the Total War series…love history, so I should love those games, but for some reason they just don’t click with me).

Weirdly enough, the only AC game that has really clicked with me is (AFAIK) one of the least popular ones, and that’s Syndicate. I think it’s because the setting. Victorian London had a lot of verticality from the various buildings that allowed a very spider-man like experience.