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SuddenDownpour

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  • As Starfield Steam Reviews Plunge to ‘Mostly Negative,’ Todd Howard Responds to Paid Mods Backlash (Confirmed plans to look again at Bethesda’s pricing for Creations content.)

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  • I took a good look at Skyrim's Creation Club content after getting the latest release on Steam. I will, in an extremely polite manner, just say that it was underwhelming. I could accept paid mods if it was passion projects of people making DLC-sized content, such as Beyond Reach or Enderal. But that's obviously not what this is all about. It's just about further privatizing and exploiting whatever spaces of free community efforts do exist in an increasingly commodified world.

  • TIL norway has a homicide map with exact locations of murders.

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  • Be the change you want to see in the world.

  • Teen self-immolates in front of Winnipeg Mosque to protest the genocide against Palestinians and Muslims in Gaza and the rest of Palestine

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  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Th%C3%ADch_Qu%E1%BA%A3ng_%C4%90%E1%BB%A9c

    Thích Quảng Đức was a Vietnamese Mahayana Buddhist monk who died by self-immolation (...) protesting against the persecution of Buddhists by the South Vietnamese government of Ngô Đình Diệm, a staunch Roman Catholic. Photographs of his self-immolation circulated around the world, drawing attention to the policies of the Diệm government. John F. Kennedy said of one photograph, "No news picture in history has generated so much emotion around the world as that one.

    Calling them brainwashed is disrespectul and ignorant of similar acts that, while they haven't been enough to change policy, have invigorated social movements that sometimes resulted in the goals they were aiming for. The fact that you use "brainwashed" specifically almost makes me think that you can't even understand how people could see the murders of tens of thousands of children as something worth taking radical action for.

  • French left finds governing agreement for 'new popular front' alliance

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  • Wow, thanks a lot for the extremely detailed response. I suggest you copy it to a txt file at some point in case you get the chance to post it again somewhere else, because it almost feels like a waste that not much more people will pass through the thread.

  • Over 50,000 Palestinian children require treatment for acute malnutrition, says UN agency

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  • Ironically, claiming that the people who call you out for committing war crimes are antisemites is EXTREMELY antisemitic.

  • A Christian writer attacked Dolly Parton for being pro-LGBTQ+. It didn't end well for the writer.

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  • Wholesome news.

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    Lakota elders helped a white man preserve their language. Then he tried to sell it back to them.

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  • I've seen the money management in US NGOs earn. If they want to claim they have tight budgets, they have to tighten their belts first.

  • French left finds governing agreement for 'new popular front' alliance

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  • What's the front's position on Palestine-Israel? And taxes?

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    Lakota elders helped a white man preserve their language. Then he tried to sell it back to them.

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  • Why is a non-profit trying to make profit out of this operation, rather than freely distributing the knowledge they've collected? The US are so permissive with their NGOs that it's far easier to find a nest of grifters than a legitimate one.

  • As War Drags On, Gazans More Willing to Speak Out Against Hamas

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  • I'm not attacking the UN, I'm establishing the comparison that explains why neither can do all they want so that you can understand why the argument makes sense. My mistake, because I assumed you did actually have working brain cells.

  • As War Drags On, Gazans More Willing to Speak Out Against Hamas

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  • Are you daft? "Well where is the UN on Xinjiang protecting the Uyghurs if it's about protecting human rights?" Not all organizations have the means to achieve their goals. Think for two seconds before posting shit.

  • As War Drags On, Gazans More Willing to Speak Out Against Hamas

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  • Sure, but in the meantime, Israel would have the capacity to do absolutely anything they want, which would permanently cripple Gazans. If you want proof, look at the settlers in the West Bank, who have been eating Palestinian territory uninterrupted because the Palestinian Authority plays nice with them, even though they're criminals.

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    House Republicans Propose Renaming Oceans After Donald Trump

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  • Ah, yes, good to see Republicans are focusing on the most pressing issues their voters face.

  • As War Drags On, Gazans More Willing to Speak Out Against Hamas

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  • If there's one thing worse than getting ruled by Hamas, that's Hamas unconditionally surrendering to Israel. What do you think would happen to Gaza's borders if Netanyahu could do whatever the hell he wanted without insurgences nor opposition?

    All my support to Gazans for them to regain their own self-determination and democracy, but this might be the worst possible moment for Hamas to disappear from existence.

  • In Snap Election, French Left Forms Alliance To Counter Far Right and Neoliberals

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  • It's incredible, because by the looks of it, Macron's party seems to be the one that's reacting the worst to Macron's own move, the fascists haven't been caught on the wrong foot, and the real surprise is the leftist coalition that has been pacted in record time after they were at each other's throats during the European elections, so Macron might actually be the most fatal victim of his own strategy if he doesn't even make it to the second round.

  • CDC warns of disruptions to ADHD meds after $100M fraud arrest

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  • Adderall is a drug that:

    • If your brain typically produces very reduced amounts of dopamine (as it's usually the case with people with ADHD), it helps your brain achieve more standard levels of dopamine. This usually means that you go from a need for constantly get new, interesting stimuli (so that your brain generates dopamine until it reaches standard levels), to actually become capable of focusing on what you want to do, which usually means in not getting fired and being capable of putting your life in order.
    • If your brain typically produces standard amounts of dopamine (as it's usually the case for neurotypical people), it acts as an stimulant, gets you high and is potentially addictive.

    There are countries that have extremely tight regulations on Adderall, to the point of enforcing how much it should be produced based on old data from doctors' prescriptions who may or may not be predisposed against believing their patients, for the sake of protecting morons who want to irresponsibly get high, even if it provokes shortages that may potentially destroy the lives of people who do need the drug in order to function without issues.

    Do you see the problem with priorities here? If you have to choose between protecting people consistently choosing to behave irresponsible until they need treatment, and people who, beyond their own capacity to choose one way or the other, do need treatment now in order to have a good life, choosing to restrict its production and distribution provokes widespread healthcare issues (with ramifications at the economical, social, and most importantly, human level) in order to prevent another that may or may not actually take place. It's completely moronic.

  • French election descends into madcap reality TV

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  • Let's cross fingers so that the two sides of the French left compromise on taking the good side on Ukraine, and the good side on Gaza, and not the other way around 🤞

  • Cancelled standalone Disco Elysium spin-off would have been "most hardcore Disco since Disco"

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  • However, even when the project had been given the go ahead, Klindžić said the team was "set up to fail from the start", due to not having been allowed a pre-production period. "Whenever we raised concerns about this and expressed we needed more writers if the deadlines were to be met, we were accused of not wanting to do our jobs," Klindžić said.

    "Pretty much from the moment the writing team's pitch was approved in August of 2022, the other teams started production," Tuulik added. "We didn't even really know what the story or the characters were gonna be, when art teams were already making first character and environment concepts. I'm sure you can see how this is a big problem, when you're making a narrative-led game.

    "Essentially, the writing team had to work double-time from day one to supply other disciplines with work, whilst trying to write the first dialogues and sketch out the rest of the game at the same time. The writing team consisted of myself and Dora at the time." Another developer added: "I don't know if Dora and Argo ever felt in control."

    Yeah, I'm going to go ahead and call the headline bullshit. It should also be noted that Disco Elysium had 8 writers, on top of Kurvitz, and Kurvitz himself still argued that he went through crunch. Current ZA/UM's management is a disaster and nothing good is going to come from it unless a brick falls upon their heads, and they magically learn that making good games requires a lot of work, or if you're a capitalist, a lot of investment.

  • Hezbollah and Hamas flags waved during pro-Palestinian demonstration in New York

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  • For your own link:

    The ANC repeated its position that the armed struggle against the country's white-ruled government, which began in 1960, was a just war and that civilians had not been deliberately targeted.

    But the ANC statement said some of its guerrillas weren't sufficiently trained and "were never thoroughly under the discipline of the ANC."

    Avoiding harming civilians was a deliberate modus operandi of the ANC, the same way that Hamas deliberately kidnapped civilians. They cannot be blamed for attacking military bases - they should be blamed for attacking that which was neither military bases nor infrastructure.