It’s not just the Republican playbook. “Deflect, deny, and hope they die” is a long-running tactic of horrible people who gleefully suck the life out of society for personal gain, and those MFers come from all walks of elitists, entitled society...along with all the witless, ignorant sycophants to prop them up under…

The head of Warner Bros. Discovery admits lots of hard questions had to be answered this year.

So then you’d have to call the following games ‘indie’ too, since, by your definition, they’d fall into that group: Half-life 2 and etc, Team Fortress 2, Counter Strike 2, Half-life: Alyx, Portal 1 & 2, DotA 2, and so forth. Valve is independently owned and operated, not beholden to a board of directors. It’s famous (o…

“Other cast members include Moisés Arias, Sarita Choudhury, Michael Emerson, Leslie Uggams, Frances Turner, Dave Register, Zach Cherry, Johnny Pemberton, Rodrigo Luzzi, Annabel O’Hagan, and Xelia Mendes-Jones.”

“If AI is used in post-production, like dubbing or additional effects, consent isn’t required.”

The entire executive structure and the business/corporate landscape is a shining example of how universally true it is that, “When the profit motive becomes unmoored from the purpose motive, bad things happen.”
(taken from “Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us” by Daniel H. Pink)

When regular employees fuck up this colossally, they don’t get ‘severance’ packages. They get promptly shown the door and told to never come back. Security will collect your things and mail them to you, and you’ll be billed for the delivery.

More or less. They took society’s equivalent of a private helicopter to the top of the mountain and preen about their climbing prowess. For the rest of humanity, you’re lucky if you’re born close enough to even *SEE* the mountain, let alone the summit. And good f***ing luck finding a way up. All the assholes who came…

Sadly, that’s a gross oversimplification of the situation. Specifically, it’s ignoring all the horrible things the Israeli government does to the Palestinian people to instigate violence, that they know will instigate violence, violence that serves the leadership of Israel by keeping them in power.

In this instance, it shouldn’t be that surprising. Corrupt politicians want to make it harder to expose their corruption, which blanket spying permissions jeopardize (can’t expose or leak crimes that weren’t monitored and recorded, after all). And legitimate political leaders want to make it harder for government…

Considering it’s nothing more than sticking their nose in the middle of a blood feud, no, it really isn’t. Both side’s hands are soaked with it, spilled rivers of it. There is no ‘good guy’ or ‘right side’ to this fight. There is no ‘aggrieved’ party or aggressor. Palestine and Israel are both lead by awful people who…

If ‘the right to bear arms’ is immutable and unassailable, why don’t we allow inmates to carry firearms? Life is dangerous in prison, and they need to defend themselves, too! And what about parolees? Since the 2nd amendment and the constitution as a whole clearly has no exceptions for people who have demonstrated a…

I said Star Trek. If had meant those series, I would have said so.

That’s the whole point of the push for top-to-bottom automation — so the wealthy can completely eliminate any dependence they have on the rest of humanity, once and for all. Sure, it won’t be ‘as good’ as what actual people can do, but it’ll be good enough that they won’t care anymore, because it’ll be infinite,…

Every episode of Star Trek is a ‘ship in a bottle.’ They’re completely unconnected and isolated. You could arrange them in any order, and it wouldn’t matter one bit. Because nothing actually happens. Nothing ever changes. Nothing they do matters, just like nothing they did before mattered. TNG followed most of that…

The ‘ship in a bottle’ design paradigm, popularized by Star Trek(s), has been used to death by MMOs. It’s old, tired, and boring. No amount of lore or superficial storytelling can change that.

Upgraded to version 10.0 — now with more baiting and higher-priced switching!

As the saying goes, “It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” The corollary to it being when someone’s paycheck does depend on understanding something, they tend to figure it out pretty darn quick.

How can anyone be surprised by this? The end goal of capitalism is to take money from customers who have no choice but to pay you while giving them nothing in return. Literally every business that ever existed is driving towards that goal. Because the objective, the only objective, is profit growth. And what’s more…

Yes, lightbulbs are fire hazards when designed improperly. And they are also health hazards when improperly disposed of — more than a few types have special disposal requirements, like fluorescent bulbs.