Well, if you take away video games we’ll have to find entertainment somewhere

I do not dispute that. I am stating that this power grab is Christian Nationalism. If you read my comment, about half-way through I said Christians are a problem, but not the problem right now.

I also would argue that MLK Jr. did much more good than any evil.

I don’t want to come off as pedantic, but what we’re dealing with in the US is a very strange and successful breed of “Christian Nationalism.”

Essentially, it’s a belief that ultra-conservative Christianity is the only legitimate religion and that the USA is a Christian nation.

It probably comes as no surprise that these people heavily influenced the Confederacy, is strongly white-supremecist, anti-vice, etc, and has been an anathema in this country since before the states actually formed.

Christians themselves are… A problem, but not the problem. It’s these Christian nationalists. They’re loud. They want you to think all Christians believe what they do too. They also tend to drown out opposing Christian speakers by being louder than them too.

It’s one of the reasons why MLK Jr was hated so much by Hoover, by the south, etc. He was a Christian pastor, and stood against everything they did.

It’s important that we don’t group Christians in with Christian Nationalists. It’s very difficult but necessary.

Anthony Comstock.

J. Edgar Hoover.

Joseph McCarthy.

Roy Cohn.

Donald Trump.

Willful traitors all. Have it writ upon thy meager graves, “destroyed the union just so people wouldn’t masturbate.”

There’s more, I know. But those fellas are all linked.

I got on their invite thing but I had the vision of this sort of thing happening to it. Felt better getting it from the store anyway.

I got one Nintendo switch 2 before the price bump. I better get the other I was going to get before that gets bumped too I guess

Japan???

Tentacles are fine but never a penis Japan?

Damn yo

Hmmm. Something still isn’t clicking in my head.

Look, I don’t care if it’s fake or not, but beating trains is uncalled for violence.

I’m going to be really dumb

Why does a payment processor need to exist?

Wait are we talking the major live service iron Man game that completely flopped?

They kept it going?

I’m not going to condemn or argue about what bugs exist or what is genuinely unfair and what not.

But the desert takes the weak.

I still think they should have put lasgun and shield interactions in.

Yes

But I don’t know if it’s fun or I’m addicted

Yes they do. That’s why scalping is so common here. People will scalp anything. Right down to chicken sandwiches during the first weeks of the pandemic. It’s stupid.

Really? I couldn’t get one pre-ordered at any store in town when it started online. Mind you I live where there are <250k people in the county. I figure I’ll give it a couple of months since Nintendo clearly produced way more this time around compared to the Switch and compared to like the PS5.

Yeah, no. It was just as bad this time as always.

I’m not waking up at 5am to be the first one into whatever store to get one either.

Well where are the freaking switch 2s???

The SD card reader on my switch broke a couple years ago so now it takes 7-8x longer to load anything, and instead of paying Nintendo to “fix” it again I’m just waiting to get a switch 2.

But I can’t do that because of scalpers

Four days?

They were gone day one where I live. Where the fuck did people find them 4 days after release?

That is relieving to hear. I couldn’t function having a gun that could see through walls but I couldn’t do fuck all about it.

I finished it once!

But then there was an update that broke my character and I can no longer shoot the Overwatch through walls

It runs better on proton on Ubuntu, at least for my 7900xtx.

The game is horribly optimized. It eats VRAM like my brother’s ex wife ate cake.

Oh man, let me know when the rewards are named so I can give a speech.

First, I’d like to thank ADHD

TIL. Good. Cause I liked my spaceship dragon

Wait i can’t fly on Pals now?

Does that mean that Ark can’t fly on dinosaurs?

It is possible, but financial types will tell you that you will lose your job. Which is funny, because most products and services require labor to make any money from them, so it sounds to me that if deflation occurs and profit is still required, you have the option to layoff a bunch of people or get creative.

Maybe it’s just me, but I’d be a lot happier if I had a bunch of employees that know how the business works and know where things can be improved and do it. Maybe like getting rid of managers who only know how to change the headcount of their bit of the org.

TIL Apex had writing behind it

And sold

Right?

Hmmm.

That’s… Actually something I haven’t thought about. That’s a good point

Open world fatigue?

Ugh.

Like the whole point of having fun with Helldivers is the absolute bullshit you wade through and how all you can do is laugh sometimes.

Squishing bugs and blowing up scary looking robots should be relaxing and funny.

Me too.

I was actually impressed by how easy it was. He still complains about it, but there are no meltdowns and no “I’m the only kid.”

Basically “you take their work, you get all the money and maybe give them a little. But the ones getting very little are the kids. The ones you enjoy playing the games of . That’s the same as stealing.”

Death Stranding 2: Metal Gear Evangelion

I’m not complaining though

I had it for PS4, and it plays much more similar to Wilds than Rise, so I wanted to get back into the swing of things before Wilds.

Plus a steam sale

I was just able to get into Helldivers II on my PS5, so it’s either coming back, or it’s going to real shit

Well, that’s a higher % then I expected, but now I wonder what criteria they were really using.

2000 to 3000?

I wonder how many pictures that actually covers. 0.1%? 0.5%? 0.77%?

I’m so glad he pointed out the compiler optimizing the If statements. A lot of coworkers seem to forget that the compiler is doing a lot of that work for us now, and some of the code becomes unreadable as they try to make it “more efficient.”

Bro, stop, you can’t beat a machine at machine stuff