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Cake day: July 19th, 2023

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  • Are you talking about Cyberpunk or the Fallout series? Because both of these games fit that description. Sorry to hear you didn’t like it, but you might just not like the setting in general. It’s probably just not the RPG style that you want in your games but it’s still fully serviceable game.

    I went into the story with absolutely no prior knowledge and I didn’t have any problem picking it up. World elements are explained to you as you explore which is self-driven rather than waypoint-based I suppose. I personally prefer to discover things through context rather than have everything spelled out for me like I’m the “every man” in an old 2000s TV show.

    Also why are you attacking people who enjoy this game by by labeling their enjoyment “fanboyism”? Asking someone who came from All. It’s not like this is the worst RPG ever made or that it’s the same as it was when it was released.



  • Personally, I would interpret this differently. This wasn’t a lie, this was gross incompetence. I choose to accept their bullshit at face value and let it play out on its own.

    These cops are so stupid and so incapable of completing their job that they either found a positive fentanyl test and were so incompetent as to not find the drugs, or so incompetent as to apply the drug test incorrectly. You can also assume a third option that these officers were on fentanyl and contaminated the test themselves with their own supply.

    All three of these options all result in better odds of them being removed from their job than them lying, which is legal for them to do for some reason. And just to be clear my comment isn’t about what actually happened, it’s about sharing the “correct” narrative the same way they do.

    I wish more people would talk about cops in terms of incompetence when they lie.





  • Well, we can dig deep enough for the context at least. For anyone interested in the facts:

    Sir, that’s NOT true & you know it! It’s got nothing to do with your skin colour. Starlink is welcome to operate in South Africa provided there’s compliance with local laws," [Clayson] Monyela [Senior official of foreign affairs] wrote. “This is a global international trade & investment principle.” And later on in the article, “[There are] local Black Economic Empowerment rules that foreign-owned telecommunications licensees sell 30% of the equity in their local subsidiaries to historically disadvantaged groups.”

    And just to be clear it’s local subsidiaries not the entire Starlink business. He’s just upset that he’s being required to follow local laws, and hasn’t been able to find anyone to bribe into rewriting them for him.


  • My employer uses Cigna and with them it’s $1,300. They keep asking what my pain level is and I keep telling them none. When I explain to them why I’m not getting the surgery yet they seemed absolutely baffled for some reason. They tried to get me to sign up for a medical credit card offering zero APR. I told them does zero APR mean also $0 a month, because that’s about how much I can afford. And again they acted like not moving mountains and stirring the oceans was a me thing. Absolutely fucking wild.












  • Hi friend! This looks like better context to me, so I’ll add it here:

    Anyone who knowingly pays someone else to request, collect, or deliver absentee ballots could face a Class B felony charge—the same felony class as first-degree manslaughter in Alabama—which carries a prison sentence of up to 20 years. Anyone who is paid to request, collect, complete, prefill, obtain or deliver a voter’s absentee ballot faces a class C felony—the same felony class as looting, third-degree robbery and stalking—punishable by up to ten years in prison

    It sounds like this bill prevents people from showing voters how to fill out a ballot as well as picking up sealed ballots to deliver. The sentences look to be more severe than most of Alabama’s election laws too. I’m looking forward to seeing how this is handled in court.