Why would I buy this?
I can only think of one reason, because it’s the game your friends are playing.
You have two choices; buy the shitty game with the understanding that the game itself is not what matters but the time spent playing with your friends. Or, don’t buy the game and spend the next few weeks, or months, not playing with your friends and hope they grow bored of the game soon.
I’m always amazed at the hoops some home owners will go through in a vain attempt to renovate an existing bathroom in their house, rather than just burning their house down and building a new one from scratch. It’s gotta be Stockholm syndrome or something.
Despite it being literally the biggest barrier brought up anytime someone suggests people should switch to Linux, it’s like you guys just can’t seem to get it through your head that literally 99.9% of PC users lack the technical knowledge needed to make the switch and find the amount of time and effort needed to learn how intimidating to the point that, yes, those “hoops” you mention are actually the easier option.
Sensory nightmare
How much money do you think 4chan gets from the UK? I promise it’s not much.
Are you seriously trying to say that if you have a website, no matter where it’s hosted and what you are hosting, you are subject to the laws of EVERY SINGLE COUNTRY that has internet access?
Here’s a text picture of Muhammad lying down: O<–<
Are the admins of lemmy.world now subject to being put to death in Somalia? Under Somali law, that is blasphemy and punishable by death.
I would like to see a random person. Put the entire adult population in a lotto and draw a name. Congrats, that person is now president.
The knee-jerk reaction is to be horrified by this prospect, but I want you to stop and really think about this for a sec. I think we can all admit that most of our leaders/politicians are, to put it mildly, fucking monsters. Those positions attract personalities that fall firmly in the Dark Triad (machiavellianism, narcissism, and psychopathy). And those that are capable of getting themselves elected are pretty much guaranteed to have at least one or more of those traits.
But these traits are relatively rare in your average, everyday person. Although the media tries it’s best to warp our view of the world, individual people are, for the most part, good, decent folks who want to help those around them. It’s practically built into our DNA. The problem is it only takes a small handful of selfish jackasses to ruin things, and our society tends to listen to those that are being the loudest.
By this metric, if you take a random person off the street, you have a higher chance of them being a good person; rather than if you selected from a pool of politicians.
Another benefit to this is the person entering office has zero ties to any company or billionaire. Lobbyists spend billions to ensure that anyone elected is already in the pockets of whatever big industry wants to fund them. By the time someone is elected, it’s already too late as they’ve already had their hands greased and have accepted gifts, officially or unofficially. That’s just the way the game is currently played. But a random person? They can’t bribe someone ahead of time if they don’t know who that person is going to be. Oh sure, I suppose they could try to appease the public as a whole so that your average person already has a positive opinion of them; but would that be such a bad thing?
Is it a perfect system? Hell no. Leaving leadership up to the whims of chance is a dangerous move to make. But is it a better system than the one we have now? I say yes. I truly believe we would be better off with a random person as president than any known politician or talking head.
Misinformation is fucking everywhere these days. And when you try to point out the truth, people get angry if it doesn’t match up with their feelings.
I see two lies.
First, obviously the bill is not about stopping CSAM.
The second, in no way is this a massive headache to anyone. You guys know email filters are a thing right?
Government officials: right clicks email and sets up a filter to automatically move them to a separate folder, or just delete them
Until we start seeing some socialists in positions of power, passing socialist policies, I’m going to respectfully disagree.
They’re right that capitalism is out; but look around. Socialism isn’t in. Fascism is.
Right? Isn’t this just a re-release?
Fun fact: try finding Satan anywhere in the old testament. You won’t.
What about the Book of Job? That was all about a bet between God and Satan to make Job suffer. Like, I’m sure he was still an edited deity from another religion. But he’s straight up referred to as Satan, right there in the Old Testament, which seems to be the exact thing you’re claiming can’t be found.
Haha, no. Those are hentai genres dude. Ecchi still counts.
Give him a piece of gum?
Well it’s mostly because the good news is meaningless, and once you recognize it as such, it becomes almost an insult.
Imagine a massive fire that’s wiping out your city. Imagine all the reports coming out about the death and destruction. And then comes along some article saying something like “local group studies fire and concludes it feels really bad about it’s actions and is worried it might be put out soon”. That’s it. That’s the good news. And people holding it up and going “See? It’s not all bad!” are deluding themselves.
Look at the “good news” articles in the US these days. All are meaningless posturing that offer no real resistance towards the horrors that are happening. Take the Disney banning Kimmel thing. So many articles about how people are up in arms and are canceling their subscriptions and how Disney is really worried… And then you look and their source is like 5 random people’s tweets and pure speculation that Disney feels bad.
Sorry, I’m not going to latch my hope onto drivel that isn’t even reflective of reality. False positivity isn’t real positivity.
If anyone hits a wall at about the midpoint of the game, I found a really good place to grind. Right after you get Monocco, there is an area you can go to called Frozen Hearts. If you immediately go and start to explore, you’ll soon realize this is a late game area that you are massively under leveled for.
HOWEVER, the first enemy you see is a Danseuses, and if you start the battle you’ll fight 3 of them. It will take a little bit, but they only have like 3 different attack patterns, after a few tries you should be able to learn them and parry/dodge them consistently. Once you have that down, you’ll be able to beat them without getting hit and they give a MASSIVE amount of exp. Then just head over to the nearby flag, heal up, and do it again. I stayed there for about hour fighting them repeatedly and bumped everyone up by like 10 levels.
The tricky part is memorizing their attack patterns consistently, I died a lot until I got it down. But the flag is really close by, so you can just keep throwing yourself at them until you do. Don’t bother trying to fight any of the other battles in this area, all the other ones have enemies that will outheal any damage you can do.
Man, I am trying; really, really, trying to force my brain to see them that way and it just refuses to. Those are way too wide to be a nose and the “mouths” are way too low and weirdly off center. I can only see frowny faces.
I never see it discussed, but in Pokemon 4Ever; Ash and Pikachu swim in the Lake of Life, which is essentially a fountain of youth. Misty dips her legs in, and Team Rocket falls in at one point. Brock was also there, but we never see him go in.
While this isn’t established as an official explanation, I choose to believe that’s why none of them ever age.
I’m looking forward to buying this like I’ve bought all my Civilization games;
Several years after release, at 70% off, with most major bugs fixed and expansions released.