It’s been a long time since the six-day-war. Most states in the middle east are more technologically capable than they were in 67. I’m thinking it’s time for that coalition to form up again and gang bang Bibi and his buddies. We’d see some different results.
Air Fryer. You can find basic models for under 100.
There’s a lower budget game by Spiders called Technomancer that came out in 2016. It came up in my XBox game pass, so I played it before I read any reviews on it, and I honestly enjoyed the hell out of it.
I didn’t find the combat stilted. It felt quite fun to work between three different fighting styles. The storyline was interesting and (to me anyway) original. And the Universe was pretty fun to play around in.
Just finishing about a new playthrough of Andromeda and I think it’s larger problem is that the good content doesn’t open up until a third of the way through the game. For the first third, you have very little to do except follow the Kett and the Angara storyline, and those are the absolute worst parts of the game.
It doesn’t actually get good until it opens up and you’re dealing with Outlaws, Collective, internal politics of the Nexus, the Krogan rebellion, etc… and your (admittedly pretty lame) companion quests. But at least it’s something more than just two new species that aren’t nearly as fleshed out or complete as what already existed.
By the time the game opens up and you can do more than just the main quest, you’re already friggin bored.
The Rock. I’ll be taking no further questions.
I’ve never bought into a single one of his performances. He always seems like he’s ‘acting’, and never really embodies the characters or reacts ‘in the moment’. It’s all a poor imitation of what he has seen other actors do.
Yes! exactly. You just summed up my thinking better than I could.
Leonardo DiCaprio.
Always hated him. Always called him a bad actor whose idea of acting amounts to throwing on a fake accent and literally nothing else to build his characters; no mannerisms, no method, no changing his body or his face. He’s just Leonardo DiCaprio with an accent every…single…time.
Before The Revenant, when everyone was complaining about him being “snubbed” by the oscars, I always thought “no…he is legitimately fucking terrible…especially when he was younger” (ie. Romeo and Juliet, Titanic, Gangs of New York years). And I thought I was taking crazy pills since everyone else seemed to adore him because of Titanic.
The world doesn’t run on “probably”. Nothing ever gets accomplished by assuming “it’ll probably happen anyway.”
Would it have defeated it if they hadn’t performed their protest and maybe made a few other legislators rethink how unpopular of a bill it was? If they hadn’t protested, would legislative complacency just allowed the bill to pass unremarked on.
The purpose of a protest is to draw attention to something so that other that have the power to do something about it might do something about it.
I’m not saying the bill failed specifically because of the protest, but to think the bill was guaranteed to have failed anyway even without it is naive thinking.
I agree. That’s why it’s called “having the courage of one’s convictions”. The people who are protesting are willing to accept the consequences of their actions in order to shake up the system.
But when the system makes up and applies consequences retroactively, it starts a very slippery dilemma where a person can’t protest for fear of “hypothetical” repercussions.
You can’t have the courage of your convictions if you don’t know what the consequences of those convictions are going to be. And you can’t know what the consequences of your actions will be if they’re just made up ex post facto and applied punitively in order to stifle debate rather than following an already established protocol.
disrupts the parliamentary process
That’s the entire point of a PROTEST though…
I’m sure he only means it as “this is the shitty way the world actually works”. Not that he personally believes it himself.
They’re not acceptable. In fact I can’t think of a single one except burnt that is still actively kicking around.
Who told you it was acceptable, if you don’t mind me asking. And if it was your english teacher, please ask them how they managed to get here from all the way back in Shakespeare’s time.
Past 30, age is less about biology and more sociology.
I’m a 49 year old male. But I’m divorced, no kids. Still living a bachelor life quite happily while most guys close to my age are married with the kids and coaching soccer on weekends in a minivan. As a result, my friend group almost exclusively skews younger because those are the people who are in the same stage of life as I am (regardless of biological age).
The same works for relationships. Past a certain point it doesn’t matter how old you are, as long as your sociological age is compatible. (Ie. Your way of life)
Edited to Add: The rule we always learned in highschool when we were stupid kids with nothing better to do is “half your age plus 7”
51 divided by 2 = 25.5 + 7 = 32.5.
So by highschool rules, you’re just a little bit outside the lines, but close enough that if you’re both attractive most people will ignore it.
This is basically going to make the population choose between smoking and having kids.
Hell I’d start smoking again.
I have an orange sweater that I got for a christmas present all the way back in 2001 that, despite nearly daily use a my “lounging around at home sweater”, is still in almost perfect shape except for the colours fading a bit in the places that see a lot of robbing (elbows, etc…)
Why do we need a new one?
Calling them “fakers” seems to get them all huffy already. And if you really want to piss off an AI “prompt writer”, point out to them that they aren’t actual artists.
Cromite. A de-googled, hardened fork of Chromium. Not perfect by any means. But it gets the job done admirably.
No worries. I freely admit that my entire opinion on the subject of self-publishing is elitist and condescending as all hell. So I can put on my big-boy pants and take a bit of my own medicine back. No worries.
But no, I didn’t take your response as condescending. You’re right that a person can sort and filter. But a filter should almost be an option, not a necessity. I’ll happily sort by genre, or page count, or yes…even ratings, to find something interesting to me.
But I shouldn’t have to have a button that says “sort out any crap that hasn’t even gone through a cursory elementary school grammar course”. There’s a line in the sand of what should and shouldn’t be acceptable in any business environment that nominally wants people to spend money with them, and “making my customers weed out unprofessional garbage” should (IMO) be that line. Amazon, Kobo, or wherever, should at the bare minimum be telling people front and centre, “this is the minimum level of quality you can expect…feel free to sort however you like, but we at least guarantee that every book will meet a certain level of literacy.”
Very much so. I wish there was more in that world. The lore was really interesting to me. It’s not often you get a story set on Mars that actually has something unique about it.