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How has nobody mentioned Girls Just Wanna Have Fun yet? That bubbly energy is a great pick-me-up whenever you need it most.

I actually just bought a saddlebag for my bike which was cheaper because it has a (rather inconspicuous) company logo on it.

Me, too. The thumbnail in conjunction with my tired eyes didn’t help. 😅

Return of the Obra Dinn. City Game Studio. Until the Last Plane and Full Metal Sergeant (by the same dev).

Judge: “We’ll deal with it after the election” - wink, wink.

Ah yes, that probably showed my age right there. The Duke was the nickname of John Wayne, who died of cancer in 1979.

I learned a few years ago that the Duke is, in fact, not frozen waiting to be resuscitated. Of course I only learned this after arguing with my prof in film class about it. Classic urban legend. Now I’m worried about any other hoaxes I might have absorbed in the pre-Internet years. At least I know that the Glomar Explorer was not looking for manganese nodules.

Ah yes, it’s the YouTube comments on anything considered remotely political.

It’s good to see that this problem can affect the right as much as the left for a change. Let them pick each other apart.

That’s right, a true naval gaze is always out to sea. 😁

That’s pretty much what Lincoln tried to do with his inaugural speech after several states had seceded already. He tried to talk them down and promised that the North would not interfere with their life heavy-handedly but that insurrection was too serious for him to ignore. And then they stormed Fort Sumter and forced his hand. He didn’t even commit to the cause of abolishing slavery until the third year of the war.

About what, genocide? You might be onto something there, Sergey.

You know you’re living in the craziest timeline when the party of Lincoln is more evil than the actual Church of Satan.

And so people say we gotta tighten our belts and work just a little harder. Like in the good old days. We don’t want any handouts, do we? Do it for our country.

I literally saw someone quote JFKs “ask not what your country can do for you” yesterday, opposing a raise of social security payouts here in Germany. A raise that was necessitated by the galloping inflation which is hitting poor families the hardest. Coupled with an unwillingness of corporate management to adequately pay their workers, i.e. pay the very people who are making stock indices rise to record heights.

People are stupid. Mark my words, we will have a fascist government again soon. Because it’s all the brown people’s fault, so they say. And the queers and the trannies and the intellectuals, so they must all be purged.

Never again, we used to say here. Well, we’re almost there.

Unlike them, he is at least working on giving his money away. And he has said in the past that the government should tax people like him more. There is a difference, even though I agree he shouldn’t be a billionaire, either.

I was actually just thinking they should do this as an interim solution and then make optimized LODs to replace the automatic ones with. In fact, perhaps that would have been the thing to do instead of making advance apologies. Slightly suboptimal image quality at release would probably have been more tolerable than heinously bad performance.