Clearly, the most reasonable explanation is ghosts. The only sensible thing to do is repeat the experiment after ingesting a spirit resonance enhancing substance, like peyote.

no updates How many old games actually made it to the store still needing updates? I have heard of at least one, maybe two, games which had real game-breaking bugs and could have used an update to fix them.

Used a Starlink connection for a few months. Starlink is incredible… compared to the alternatives people a million miles from anything have. It can certainly be used for gaming, with <100 ping. It’s not terribly impressive by urban standards, though.

Beep. Socials might be grey zone but the name of the comic is not advertising. Searching the name is basically the best way to search for similar comics if you enjoy the one you are looking at.

I will not argue with you. Internet arguments are pointless. Be well.

I am not an articulate genius.

You are the one making claims of knowledge.

I will not argue with you.

Have a nice day.

Hunh… Moustache but no beard? That look always suggest to me that they’re more into boys than men.

You have your deeply cherished beliefs so I won’t bother rehashing hundreds of years of existentialism. The only outcomes are the improbable horror of shattering of your worldview via internet comment or the much more likely waste of our time and energies. Have a nice day.

One of the most troubling things in life is the fact we are all ‘victims of circumstance,’ though perhaps ‘subject to conditions’ is a better phrase because ‘victims’ entails moral quality to which some would object. You didn’t choose to believe in personal agency. It was taught to you. You didn’t choose to be receptive when you were taught. You were in a place, mentally and physically, to absorb or not absorb the concepts based on what happened in your life before. The only escape from this is magical thinking, where some ineffable ‘you’ makes decisions from outside of physical reality yet always seem to comport with it.

You are WhyIHateTheInternet.

Trump started this whole spat in the first place to skyrocket oil prices and give an excuse to buy Russian oil and prop up Putin’s failing war machine.

Trump at this point is like a giant fat fucking toddler

Which is it? Evil mastermind or mentally handicapped?

It’s an IP. It doesn’t matter what would be most artful. The Hollywood system would turn it into an openly racist musical with the entire soundtrack being variations on ‘Happy Birthday to You’ if it meant they’d make an extra $5.

As for what would be best? I’d rather they had kept the movies in the cheesy/campy space they used to have and then created a separate space to be ‘gritty/real’ in. The modern ‘Bond’ films don’t match the old ones.

Mlom

Real talk? Missing the third group that groups the other two under the same heading for political expediency. The bottom group is essentially never sincerely grouped with the top.

Black Metal Ist Frau

The trick is, it’s not just that they are shit labeled as food. It’s that most Americans have never seen the steak they pretend to be, so they look at anyone else as crazy when they are told what they’re eating isn’t filet mignon and no one else wants it. They have no frame of reference to even understand what food is in that metaphor.

Are you trying to say earth life is a cheap knock off of alien life?

Why ask strangers on the internet with no context why your friends like something? Wouldn’t your friends be both far more able to explain, because it’s their thing and we don’t know them, and far more interested in explaining, because it’s their thing and people love talking about their passions?

It feels like so much of the games industry is a weird circle jerk. Big game companies feel this weird pressure to make giant games that have 3TB of textures because they’re building everything to be cut into a trailer that looks as flashy as a big blockbuster film, requiring hardware no one can afford. Meanwhile, they add 13 layers of organizational overhead, so no one can do anything on their own because the writing team have to have a meeting with the texture art team and the modelling team and the voice acting and SFX team just so they can even ask the question of ‘How much time will it take to add this NPC in this area and will it justify that much extra artist time/pay by selling another X units?’ much less actually make a good estimate as to the answer. Then you have players, a bunch of whom somehow still get suckered in by those trailers but then spend the next year complaining how much the AAA game sucks but unable to play anything else because of network effect lock in, only to do it all again the next time they see another flashy trailer. Nobody learns the lesson. Everything just repeats until it breaks down as is replaced with the next generation of misery.

Uh, those sound like things that are intensely flavorful, so maybe not the best example to show you still have functioning taste.