As someone living in PR while this is going on, I’ll be the one to go “neener neener” just a bit because, conspiracy or not, news stations and people investigating the telescope have been using drones every day for the past month to both inspect and keep an eye on every inch of the area. So it’s probably more a case…

Thank you. It’s infuriating to see people brush this off as “no big deal, there’s another one in China and the one in Arecibo is ~old~” when there’s other factors at play, re: availability of data, the ecological impact of the collapse, and how the entire structure could’ve been saved/damage mitigated had the US and…

It absolutely warrants hostility, because I can tell you’re speaking from a place that is both uneducated and ignorant about how much this a result of the colonial past imposed on Puerto Rico by the United States. Moreover, as a Puerto Rican myself, I am incalculably tired of non-Puerto Ricans/Science Bros from the US…

The observatory was in use up until 2017, you tremendously uneducated twip. It was slated for demolition in 2020 because, surprise of all surprises, suffering three years of hurricanes—Maria in 2017 being the first major blow to its operations—and almost a year of earthquakes in 2019 tends to fucking destabilize and…

Clearly the cause was *gross negligence on part of the US and PR, damages caused by two back-to-back natural disasters, and a general sentiment of “fuck puerto rico, we don’t need to invest money into the island,” that every sitting president in my lifetime has basically supported because colonialism makes the US…

I’m from PR and currently live on the island. The damage is easily traceable back to the hurricanes and the earthquakes; but the real source of damage has yet to be figured out, and comes down to which governing body dropped the ball in terms of keeping abreast with inspecting how much damage the cables have suffered…

I live and am from PR, dude. It’s a combination of the hurricane, the earthquakes we had, and inspectors from the US and/or PR not doing their jobs.

The actual, real issue is whom is going to pay for it—Puerto Rico or the US. And figuring out whose fault it is, in the first place, that the dish was allowed to deteriorate to such a degree despite passing inspections multiple times.

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Nice answer: So they can run it twice on Kotaku and Gizmodo for different audiences.

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We’re not some backwater, ffs. Puerto Rico has always been a tourist destination in the Carribbean, it’s just the the US treats us as a tax haven and colony so no real progress can be made outside of private investments and politicking. We pay more in federal taxes than we receive in federal aide, and the last fifty…

Puerto Rico...is already...part of the United States? What are you even on about. There’s already been tons of private investing done by China and the US into properties around the island, which is why so much beachfront is owned by private individuals now.

Unless there is a level playing field there is zero point in have a multiplayer mechanic.

I don’t agree at all. Tons of games target specific types of players but that is besides the point.

But beating a boss in these games isn’t about having DDR/Bullet hell levels of reflexes. It’s more about analyzing the enemy’s movement patterns looking for the right moment to strike.

In the same vein of you saying: “Don’t like, don’t buy,”—

This is borderline a bunch of white dudes complaining that they’re not allowed to say the N word.

And, like all things that are subjective, consumers are allowed to criticize artistic decisions that don’t match up with expectations or when an artist—as has been the case for decades—doesn’t think past the bridge of their own nose in terms of things like representation, accessibility, or inclusiveness.

I’m glad you asked!