Connecticut Superior Court Judge Barbara Bellis cited the defendants' "willful noncompliance" with the discovery process as the reasoning behind the ruling. Bellis noted that defendants failed to turned over financial and analytics data that were requested multiple times by the Sandy Hook family plaintiffs.
It was so much fun fucking around, Alex, but the time has come to find out.
The Infowars host had argued that a judge was wrong to find him liable for defamation and infliction of emotional distress without holding a trial on the merits of allegations lodged by relatives of victims of the shooting, which killed 20 first graders and six educators in Newtown, Connecticut.
Alex Jones and his lawyers were repeatedly warned that if they did not participate they would receive a default judgement.
Connecticut Superior Court Judge Barbara Bellis cited the defendants' "willful noncompliance" with the discovery process as the reasoning behind the ruling. Bellis noted that defendants failed to turned over financial and analytics data that were requested multiple times by the Sandy Hook family plaintiffs.
It was so much fun fucking around, Alex, but the time has come to find out.
It's largely reactionary resentment about loss of cultural supremacy stirred up by the ultra-wealthy as a way to get the government to let them do whatever they want in exchange for letting the lower-status conservatives take out their anger against people they hate.
After the murder of Pertinax on 28 March 193, the Praetorian guard announced that the throne was to be sold to the man who would pay the highest price. Titus Flavius Claudius Sulpicianus, prefect of Rome and Pertinax's father-in-law, who was in the Praetorian camp ostensibly to calm the troops, began making offers for the throne. Meanwhile, Julianus also arrived at the camp, and since his entrance was barred, shouted out offers to the guard. After hours of bidding, Sulpicianus promised 20,000 sesterces to every soldier; Julianus, fearing that Sulpicianus would gain the throne, then offered 25,000. The guards closed with the offer of Julianus, threw open the gates, and proclaimed him emperor. Threatened by the military, the Senate also declared him emperor. His wife and his daughter both received the title Augusta.
M.U.L.E. (1983) still holds up, though I'd appreciate some QOL improvements. It's a multiplayer game where you develop your production and then sell your commodities at auction to the other players (or what the bank will pay as minimum). The theme song is a banger.
Sid Meyer's Covert Action is a fun espionage game. Break-ins, wiretapping, following clues, etc. Released in 1990, so on the line.
Abiotic Factor is an interesting crafting game that takes place in a science facility during a mysterious emergency. I'd recommend playing with friends, but I think it'd be fun solo, too.
I also had fun with Subnautica, though that one is a few years old now. I have not tried the sequel, but I'll probably pick it up some day. It's a game where you have crash-landed on an alien ocean world, and you have to explore to make better tools to try and escape.
I've been playing Hardspace Shipbreaker lately, where your character is someone who disassembles spaceships. The fun of the game is moving around in zero-g and safely take stuff apart without setting off the nuclear reactor, or explosively decompressing a ship right next to you. You upgrade your tools as you do more jobs.
There's a popular indie game right now called Megabonk; if you like rogue-light games, it's a fun one. Avoid waves of monsters and upgrade your character by picking the best of three random power-ups as your level goes up.
The rescue where they jump the Galactica into the atmosphere of New Caprica, scramble Vipers, and then jump out again is maybe the coolest scene in TV sci-fi.
Pretty good article, but this part stuck in my craw:
Reid has Zelig-ed his way through just about every stage in the GOP’s metamorphosis from anti-fascist family-value conservatism to its current incarnation as the profa (as opposed to antifa) party of pervs.
The GOP has been the party of lost-cause reactionary hatred since before I was born. They're just more up-front about it now.
I actually don't think I've ever played a game by an Indian studio, which is a shame because I'm sure there are some great storytellers and coders from there who make spectacular games. I should look around and see what available.
A lot of the "old games were better" is because we mainly remember the best of the best. There has always been shovelware.
On the other hand, I do agree that AAA gaming is fairly stale. I believe it's mainly because the games are huge investments that have to be a "safe" bet, which is one way to make art (of any type) boring.
But there are indie studios making amazing games these days, because the incentive there is to differentiate their product from the others. Once an idea gets popular enough, AAA studios will pick it up and grind it into the dirt.
I would disagree with the idea that games are worse now. I think the best stuff is getting made today, it's just harder to find it in a deluge of shovelware. Look in the indie and AA space for interesting games.
Alex Jones and his lawyers were repeatedly warned that if they did not participate they would receive a default judgement.
From a contemporary article:
It was so much fun fucking around, Alex, but the time has come to find out.