They were made to drink it at gunpoint (not all but many were). Some escaped by fleeing the hall they were doing it in and hiding in the complex. Jones knew it was over and had sent some members to chase down and murder the ones that left and the ones that came to offer them a way home (including a US congressman, which is how he knew it was over because the next visit would probably be with guns blazing). Now you could say that about the ones holding the guns, that pieces of shit can often find goons to do their dirty work, but most of the people who went along with it had something very different in mind and became disillusioned while they were there, but being nowhere close to home with all communications being reviewed, they didn't have many options.
Can't say I'm surprised by any of this, everything about the guy screamed to me that it would be a shitty experience. They are using purely business things to attract users: paying big for exclusive titles (eg mini monopolies that force interested users to their platform) and giving games away for free. Neither of those require a decent experience, so no shit they cheaped out on that. Those who are just in it for the money are far more likely to end up at a "ah fuck it, it works good enough, ship it" point than someone who wants to build something good, knowing people will come if it's good enough.
It also makes it obvious that they'll lean right into the enshitification as soon as they think they have that marketshare captured. So personally, I hope they don't fix that shit, because it won't indicate that they are becoming better but just that their strategy and tactics have improved while the end goal remains the same.
And tbf, that end goal might be about control instead of money, so only approved video games can be played. Oh right, they already did that with UT because it might compete with their fortnite cash cow.
Lol I was about to say I just saw her in Gen V, but I looked it up first and turns out Jessica Clement is a lookalike (and GoT doesn't show up in her credits, so another lookalike).
Did this meme evolve from it being about Jesse saying stupid shit and Walter being the smart one for not following to Jesse saying smart shit and Walter being a closed-minded idiot about it, like he was in the actual scene from the meme? Or was there ever a period where the meme treated White like the hero?
Cinnamon desktop on linux distros is based on some JS-related language. Glad to be on KDE now, it caused cinnamon to be slow enough to drop mouse updates depending on what else was going on (despite my PC being fairly high end), while KDE is always responsive.
It's very difficult for a set of volunteers to combat people being paid to manipulate their platform, so I'm happy with this platform remaining small enough to not be worth spending money on to manipulate.
That "brain matures at 25" bs is a myth that was caused by a study in brain development losing funding when its subjects (that it follwed from birth) were 25.
Concluding brain development stops there is like assuming the road ends at any point where you have stopped following it.
I'd keep getting screwed because in RL, you need to build supports before the building they support, not as an afterthought to make it look more realistic.
"Need a bridge? Zoop mode, aaaaand it's done!" Longest part of building a bridge comes from finding or fighting things on the way.
Yeah if the movie industry got their hands on it, Jack Black would be the engineer and the machines would talk (or act like animals that perfectly understand him and communicate effectively via body language) and the psychologist would end up an unlikely love interest that ends up remaining with him and his wacky machines at the end of the movie.
And after the conclusion, there will be a shot of his love interest looking at something in horror and saying, "ew, bugs!", setting up the sequel that never gets made because the people who would like it aren't drawn to Factorio, and those who are drawn to Factorio are disappointed that the only thing it has to do with Factorio is that it has machines. The execs played the game for 5 minutes and came up with a building system that involves him quickly building things by hand and Harvey Cavil quit production two weeks in, once it was clear they didn't care about the actual lore.
For where they are today, they got rid of UT so it wouldn't compete with fornite. So I don't even give them any positive thoughts for that legacy.
Also iirc it was one of the few games that targetted linux compatibility back in the day, but epic has more recently taken a "fuck linux" stance and from what I understand deliberately prevents it running on linux via proton ("from what I understand" because it might just be the kernel level anti-cheat bs, but iirc he's said things like all linux users are just trying to cheat). So he can keep his free games and while I would like to see someone actually compete with Valve, I hope some fortnite players wake up and stop spending money on dumb mtx shit so epic goes under.
To an immortal, it probably wouldn't make much of a difference. Either they die from cancer or they survive but then die anyways a few decades later. Plus, vampires have ways of extending someone's life without any medical science anyways.
Though some lores for Dracula had him very deep and advanced in science as well as magic, so it's possible he did have a cure for cancer but just didn't care to share it because humans are just livestock to him.
Seeing all the horror stories in here makes me glad that I recoiled in horror the first time MS offered the idea of me putting my files on their computers instead of mine.
Other than the ones that were bred to the point where their bodies barely work anymore.