The “Most Transparent President in History” everyone.

This is the first time they’ve done it in the face of an impending blue wave, though. I was actually considering just a few days ago that, given the polls, republicans removing trump might be their only chance (besides a full-on military coup) at retaining any shred of power through midterms. What’s left of the republican party will fall flat on its face without trump (as cults typically do), but they also can’t afford to keep him around because he’s so supremely unpopular.

They’ve really backed themselves into a corner. Now the question is: how overtly fascist are they willing to go? Is the impeachment just a hedge to try and survive midterms? Guess we’ll see…

I would be happy with one guideline: taxpayers should see and feel the impact of their tax dollars.

It feels like that’s currently not a priority at all. The govt can just hand the money to some middleman who pockets 90% for a job worth 10%, and no one checks on it. DOGE was the pinnacle of this practice; honestly felt like Elon and Trump said “hey, you know what would be funny?”

Posted on April fools. Is the joke that it’s such old news?

Is the monocle a reference to a particular character? Oh, like the guy on the box art? Hah, I’m not even sure what that character is supposed to be.

Iconic Red Alert 2 stuff would probably be:

• A Kirov bombing some iconic american building like the statue of liberty or white house
• Tesla Coil frying infantry to dust
• GI’s deployed in their sandbags
• Yuri’s psychic paraphernalia (ex. his headwear with the tubes running behind him, or his phone with a little antenna on it that he uses to mind control people he calls)
• Tanya with her dual pistols

The money you gather in RA2 is mostly gold ore, with some gems. I expect some yellow sprinkles with a patch of primary-colored sprinkles would be good for this.

There are two aesthetics: C&C versus C&C Red Alert.

• C&C uses Tiberium, factions are GDI vs Nod, iconic Nod structure is the Obelisk, iconic character is Kane.

• C&C Red Alert uses gold+gems, factions are Allies vs Soviets, iconic Soviet defensive structure is the Tesla Tower, iconic character is Tanya.

I’d say mixing aesthetics would look odd to a fan, so probably best to pick one. If you don’t know which is preferred, C&C (non-red alert) is probably the safer choice.

No. Per the article,

requiring all adult entertainment industry and mainstream platforms…

Honestly don’t know if that’s worse than the protestant message that “god is omnipotent, all knowing, created good and evil, created you in his image, loves you and wants you to go to heaven, buuuuuut sorry, he can’t unless you “freely” choose to accept him into your heart. Yep, the heart he made, the mind he gave you, yeah, those are going to send you to hell. Nothing he can do about it, it’s on you. Totally not a weird, abusive, logically inconsistent relationship we have with him.”

Then stack on top of that “the woman should serve the man in the same way the church serves the Lord”. Just problematic all the way down.

If it was as simple as, “the man hates the woman just as god hates us” then the next step is easy. Fuck that guy, I’m out.

Was this image taken from the F-15?

I wouldnt want to pay for a musician I dont listen to.

I disagree, and here is why.

The difference is between entertainment value and artistic value. There are a lot of art (music, film, writing, games, etc) that I think are important to exist for the betterment of humanity, but are too emotionally heavy to enjoy recreationally, or too niche for most people to engage with it; and yet, I believe are important that they exist. I want to support quality art that falls into those categories, even if I never consume them, because if I don’t, then one day when someone does come up with an idea that would be relevant to my niche, they are less likely to make it.

I don’t want a game’s ability to maximize engagement to be what determines how valuable it is, which is equivalent to saying, I don’t want the games I put my money toward to only be the games that I engage with. If you agree with the first half, then you must agree with the second half.

I was more hoping for a way to passively support indie devs that the market may otherwise not be giving enough attention to. I agree, I’d rather own a license (or better yet, physical copy) of a game and play it when I want, but I still view that relationship as part of the problem. I’d rather quality artwork not need to worry so much about playing the attention-lottery in order to survive.

the firm is working to sign up games from other developers, who’ll earn from a revenue share based on player engagement.

This is the dealbreaker for me. If there is a masterpiece game on there that takes 10h to complete, and a slop game that people sink 100s of hours into, I want the rev share to reward the 10h masterpiece more. I do not want an indie subscription service that incentivizes player engagement, full stop.

What’s hilarious is, he didn’t even leave room for himself to play the “but the president doesn’t really have control over the price of gas (unless it’s Biden)” card, because every single person in the world knows damn well why gas prices are up.

Yep, my steam rewinds have been 100% Linux for a couple of years now.

I think the only exception in that time was AW2 because it’s an EGL exclusive (and ray tracing/mesh shading support in proton were still a bit lacking in performance).

Yeah, people keep correcting me by reiterating exactly what I’m saying lol

Heh your “precise” statement is literally what I said:

Open source does literally mean [source code can be viewed]…[it’s not the case that] source code being viewable means it’s open source

Cheers.

Open source does literally mean that. But it doesn’t mean that everything you build using open source is itself open source by proxy.

Edit: ah, I see now, you meant to say “written by someone who thinks source code being viewable means it’s open source”.

Are you giving random strangers legal permission to pentest you? That’s bold.