And the PR firm just had to lay off 10% of its workforce because of their cutting Papa loose for being a racist shitbag.

There is a lot to fucking unpack here...

When it’s down to 4 megacorps battling for dominance, Yum! Brands will be my dystopian overlord of choice.

“Look, Wolf, Ketamine isn’t cheap. We’re sharing the good stuff from our stash with these little guys, and you’re totally harshing our vibe.”

A lot of us History majors have seen the parallels to the Robber Barons for decades now. We know how it ends, too. Death from starvation and preventable disease, then the collapse of the economy. Then comes the flip to Socialism(ish) to prevent the poors from putting the rich up against the wall. Fight a war to get…

I feel safer already.

He also had a bad habit of grabbing a handful of mashed potatoes with his bare hand and then dipping it in the gravy bin and eating it.

Half expected just the guy’s eyeballs to make their way back to the breakroom after he got beat down.

No, that’s what I mean. Not that they’ve done something wrong, just that being absent for a day or two will trigger the entitlement gene in viewers and then they will unsub/ unsubscribe to “teach him a lesson”, the lesson being that they are to dance on command, no excuses.

Entitlement. They’re teaching the streamer a lesson. That’s why I was wondering about Shroud’s motivation. If the entitled little bastards are mad at Bluehole instead of Shroud, maybe he can skate for a few weeks and not lose too much.

Yep, my thought was that he wanted a vacation, but didn’t want his subs to bail en masse.

Plastic surgery didn’t take, Kermit my man.

Jeeeesus, I’m really glad you’re okay! HDDs are pretty sturdy, so I hope you can recover what you need. Man, what a goddamn nightmare.

I lived in Japan as a small child over 40 years ago, for less than a year, and I still do the “head nod bow, hold for a half second” thing.

Shit, I’m sorry. That’s my worst nightmare.

I’m on console, so I haven’t had a chance to play RR yet. Ironically, that’s the game I was actually thinking of when I was talking about Paladins. I’m kinda excited to give it a try, when it eventually comes to consoles.

That analogy was true the day Trump was elected, and I had no illusions it was otherwise at the time.

Hiding from my sous-vide, actually. It’s hoity-toity ways do not mesh with the garbage I make it cook for me on the regular.

I always object to these garbage meal recipes. I also always make them as soon as possible, eyes properly averted as I lovingly scarf them down.

I just did the 5 Power Button Clicks on my 6 and it worked fine, first time. And I usually also exist in that parallel universe where tech tricks don’t work for me.