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KhanCipher [none/use name]

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  • Donald Trump is now unpopular with the majority of white americans

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  • I can only speak from a urban rural divide perspective, but it's largely because for a long time neither party really cares for anyone living outside of big cities. For the Democrats they always seem to consider this something to be prideful of, and always seem to have a disdain whenever they have to interact with people in rural areas. For the Republicans, they also have the same disdain, but they also try to keep it hidden, and go a step further and imply that they'll do everything they can to spite the other.

    It really comes down to wanting to spite the other team for percieved or real slights they've done.

  • Dudes be living like this and proudly share it like I'm supposed to see it and go "hell yeah" but all I can say is "oh no"

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  • but don't you have any knick-knacks or memories or fun objects someone gave you?

    Sure, because everyone is capable of being able to go out (or even have the time), or even be able form emotional bonds with people... Surely this criticism (and others like it in this very thread) isn't reminding me why I hate being around people, why I keep anything and everything to myself, why I willingly work night shift, why I always feel like I never belong anywhere I go.

  • I'm sad Deadlock is 'just' a MOBA—not because I don't like them, but because I'm in love with Valve's lore and characters enough to want any other game instead

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  • Personally I think the reason why Valve kinda stopped bothering with TF2 the way they did is that the various 6s and highlander leagues would have enough of a backbone to tell Valve off if they tried to exert the amount of control on them as valve does with CS and Dota.

  • Western officials continue to be deeply upset that sovereign countries conduct trade with each other without western approval.

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  • Capcom told investors they're building for PC now. A year of broken performance, 10 million to 1 million in sales, and a PlayStation audience that never showed up forced their hand.

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  • Eh, no that's not the issue. To release a game on a console, and every update you do to the game, it has to go through rigorous testing as required by Nintendo/Sony/MS. For PC this effectively just doesn't exist. Like testing on console requires you to do stuff like test the game when you have no DLC, all DLC, DLC 1 and 2 but not 3, DLC 2 but not 1 and 3, and so on. For PC the most anyone is required (and this is a stretch) to do is make sure it runs, and make sure it theoretically doesn't brick anything.

    So because the testing requirements for publishing on PC is like practically nothing compared to releasing on a console, companies cheap out on it because they don't have to spend anywhere as much money as they do unlike releasing it on the PS5, Switch 2, or whatever the current Xbox is. And historically speaking a lot of devs go "Fuck it, let the PC crowd brute force it with all their horsepower" when putting stuff on PC.

  • The risks to U.S. forces would be far greater in an operation against Iran, which boasts a formidable arsenal of missiles. The US fully expects Iran to retaliate, leading to back-and-forth strikes.

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  • The whole thing about the battleship becoming less prominent and the carrier taking over goes back to WWII, and more to the point, Pearl Harbor effectively forcing the US Navy to rely on carriers to be the flagships of their fleets in the pacific.

  • pizza pizza 😔

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  • Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month

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  • How did we live without them before 2016?

    It was mostly Teamspeak, Ventrello, and Skype before discord took over. And the first reason Discord took over was that paying for a TS or Vent server was becoming a bit unviable, partly because the people who were paying for it was also paying for a server to host a forum, and a domain name for said forum, and all that together was pretty expensive, and partly because the shadows of the 08 recession was (and I'd argue still is) still being felt. Another reason was that Skype was shitting the bed so much that when Discord came around it did everything Skype was doing and more, and doing it significantly better than Skype.

    Also the barrier to entry is significantly lower than your average traditional forum, and TS/Vent server that was most likely ran by like one guy, and if he went the whole community came crashing down.

    Hell if you really want to get into it, Skype did everything every little instant messager did better, and more when it came about.

  • NSFW

    [CW: CSA] Weird eh

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  • Build some miniatures, do green screen with em for scale, use CGI, tanks and planes and shit are easy to do with it.

    That costs money, thus increases risk, and the suits don't like that. Having DoD assistance costs nothing, thus lowers risk, and less risk = more good to the suits bankrolling the film.

  • I have no choice but to give up Star Trek.

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  • and if you're near the cardassian border just go pick a different one

    You do have to admit they got done super dirty by the Federation, and it happened because of the Battle of Wolf-359 had demolished quite a bit of Starfleet, enough to get the Federation to negotiate for peace with the Cardassians.

  • New term: planeslop. For when you lied on your resume and now the plane is making all kinds of alarms and you can't learn what any of them do because the others won't shut up

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  • I have the RBT-5, AU-1, T-V, both reward soviet P-63s (C-5 and A-10), the Me-262 'cas' variant (I think it's the A-2a. It's the one with half the 30s of the normal 262, but it can carry a 500kg instead), the T30, and a bunch of other stuff.

  • First look at Jared Leto as Skeletor in the live-action ‘MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE’ movie

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  • MACGUYVER. Leto plays the eponymous cia-funded physicist infiltrator. or the antagonist Murdoch. or both.

    It can't be any worse than the reboot.

  • "The game is free"

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  • I will provide a counter argument, Mechwarrior Online, sorta, it's complicated.

  • Quick question from across the pond. What's the point of a jury if the judge decides they made the wrong decision and punishes them?

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  • From the one time I had to report for jury duty, it's because juries are supposed to consider only the facts presented by both the prosecution and the defense when making their decision.

    Edit: Essentially like everything in the US, we like to think it's all a carefully managed system with checks and balances. In reality it's just a byzantine nightmare of rules, norms, and loopholes.

  • RedLetterMedia - Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Season One (part 2) - re:View

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  • I think you need to watch it again because that's not what the ending was at all.

    The episode has several tragedies going at the end, the most prominent and obvious was that Maritza killed in a random act (I know it was targeted, you know what I mean). The other tragedy, with future knowledge in a later episode, was that Maritza's plan wasn't going to work in the first place as it heavily relied on how the cardassian justice system works.

  • Canada preparing for posible USA invasion

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  • Also armed civilians?

    Not to mention that doing that is great way (and very grim way) to getting a one way ticket to experiencing a very sudden, and sharp decline in the Military Age Male population. Especially since this is US military we're talking about, and they have a very long history of resorting to that method when dealing with irregular forces.

  • I get the feeling somebody should've taken a long hard thought about the implications before hitting the print button here.

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  • I wouldn't be posting this if it was just a joke shirt, and if was sold as such it'd be a little funny tbh, despite some implications.

    This shirt is in the kids section of apparel in a walmart, which means somebody thought this was a cute idea, and didn't really think about. Or worse, (and imho highly unlikely, but I wouldn't be surprised) was absolutely intentional about it.

  • I get the feeling somebody should've taken a long hard thought about the implications before hitting the print button here.

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  • I don't think that would be better considering the valentines day theming of the shirt.

  • being behind an unmarked cop car going 70mph (15 mph over the speed limit! criminal!!) the entire way home should get me out of this speeding ticket AND an apology from the state

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  • Oh yeah, that's bullshit. Here in ohio a divided highway like that is a 60mph posted limit, though it's somewhat a 'gentleman's agreement' that you don't go well past 70 on those kinds of roads here.

    Also, like I said, cops doing the same shit they accuse me of criminal speeding for, as do >90% of drivers pon this road (gee i wonder why state troopers live on this 8 mile stretch despite there being one for every 90 miles of highway in my state)

    I'd bet you that the county the stretch of road is in is making a big stink about people speeding, and or the county is using speeding tickets to fill the holes in their budget. The time I got booked for speeding (90 in a 60, on the same type of road), when I went down to the county courthouse to pay it, I noticed an awful lot of speed limit traps on my way down there.

  • Chapotraphouse @hexbear.net
    KhanCipher [none/use name] @hexbear.net

    I get the feeling somebody should've taken a long hard thought about the implications before hitting the print button here.

  • Games @hexbear.net
    KhanCipher [none/use name] @hexbear.net

    Halo: Campaign Evolved gameplay trailer...

  • Chapotraphouse @hexbear.net
    KhanCipher [none/use name] @hexbear.net

    The evil Klaus has extended his unprovoked invasion to September as well.

  • Chapotraphouse @hexbear.net
    KhanCipher [none/use name] @hexbear.net

    Please lord help me help me not cause a scene...