While I can’t say this is $44B worth of entertainment, I’m absolutely having a blast watching a narcissistic billionaire do his best “Sideshow Bob walking onto every rake” impression while taking something like the blue checkmarks, the solution to a verification problem, and turning it into the problem it was designed…

The cool thing is that if I need to verify anything about Nintendo I just reach out to my uncle.

Musk is either so stupid he didn’t see this coming, or so malicious he doesn’t care and is trying to blow up Twitter for some reason. Probably the latter, really.

You just know this is how he runs all of his companies, we just don't see it all happening in public like this. 

You can’t run a sane agenda if your policies are B.S.

... seems to have fallen short of what they desired.

It’s *almost* like letting your party get hijacked by a huge idiot with a ton of baggage and then completely rolling over for him came with future consequences. What a concept.

“run a sane agenda”

Only 14%.  So if sufficient other shareholders banded together, they could oust him.

Neutral: I love it! I love it! I love it!

Ding dong!  A real legend in the UK - he was a less caddish version of Terry-Thomas.

Do it! Do it now! Erect the Great Paywall!

It’s probably worth noting what the area in the photo looks like when it’s not in monsoon/insane flood season:

Honestly, while Musk himself is most likely not a shitty individual (I’d like someone to actually state something legitimately bad that he’s done, as I can’t think of anything beyond the general industrialist things), he’s also an overvalued and hype-mongering idiot. He’s consistently got people to invest in his…

While still disappointing, I don’t find it very surprising that a developer from a country in which 98% of the population share the same ethnicity and culture struggles to grasp the depht and importance of representation issues.

A. It was the first multi-publisher launcher, and having ONE central hub for your games is fine. Launching a launcher FROM YOUR LAUNCHER is the problem. That and publishers trying to force you to abandon your launcher in favor of their thing.

It was first, or at least very early, and widely adopted for broad PC platform. Similarly Steam wouldn’t get a pass if it only launched Valve games, I would assume.

“Its strange how this article boasts about right wing assholes and Tim Pool claiming Powell died of the vaccine while also not linking or posting to anything showing that”

Sometimes people just die.

About a decade ago an acquaintance of mine in Austin bought a decent Ferrari 308 - which ran for about a week before catastrophic engine failure. Replacement engines were blindingly expensive and as he’s handy with engineering and fab work he yoinked the bad engine and installed a Honda H22 engine + transaxle from a…