“IS THIS GAME WOKE?”, or my favorite pre-release thread: “WHEN SALE?” All of them, all the time. The Steam forums are trash.

I can’t even go to the forums any more. It’s nothing but trolls and bait. If I have an issue with a game, I’m better off going to reddit, and that’s fuckin saying something.

Well, I already own it, so…

Doesn’t seem like anyone is being hurt in this situation, so, really, the only thing to do is stay out of it. Getting involved and trying to change things will only make things harder for everyone.

Wow, you’re just trying to stir up shit, huh?

Let me quote myself so you can see just how terrible your reading comprehension is.

We need to work together on a global scale to hold countries accountable for what their citizens do on the internet.

Did I mention barring anyone from the internet? Nope. Sure didn’t. What I said was that countries need to be held accountable for what their citizens do on a global scale when it comes to the internet just like they are in any other situation. I’m not saying only other counties. I’m not saying only African countries. So, please, take your bullshit and go feed it to someone else, because I don’t have the patience for it.

When we created the internet we achieved global unity, but we just… stopped. There is no NATO for cybercrimes. We can’t punish across borders, and we can’t rely on countries where cybercrime is a not insignificant portion of their economy to do the right thing. At this point the best we can do is bar the doors and keep children and other vulnerable people off the internet, but that is hardly a proper solution. We need to work together on a global scale to hold countries accountable for what their citizens do on the internet. If we don’t, we might as well just pull the plug on it, because this shit has only been getting worse.

They’re just bodies for the machine

There are more behind us. We are near the back end of a galactic super highway that aliens use to break the speed of light like a galactic rail gun.

Try out Ashenspire, their album Hostile Architecture was my album of the year in 2022. They aren’t death metal per se, but they are heavy as shit. Best description is prog metal jazz infusion with spoken word poetry.

Hell yeah! Commentary! Looks like I’m replaying it for the 100th time.

They didn’t call in an outside vet to investigate. The fucking zoo keepers are vets. The zoo keepers are telling you what happened. You can believe them or not, but it’s not accountability.

Tell me, what was the purpose of your comment? What are you trying to say?

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Mother. Fuckin. Rollerblades.

I’m not saying that it’s a conspiracy against fireworks, but possibly a problem with the habitat, food, or something else that would cause big issues for the zoo if discovered. The fireworks were convenient. I have zero evidence for this other than the fact that a lot of zoos are complete cesspools, and so I typically don’t trust “suddenly died” followed three days later by another “suddenly died” regardless of how many fireworks were launched off.

Also, there is this line:

Roxie had access to her den but the frightening noises seem to have been too much for her.

Seems like the zoo just left a weak animal to suffer instead of taking precautions to assure that the panda was placed in a safe location. It makes me doubt that anyone was even there, and that the zookeepers returned the following day to a dead red panda and tried to cover it up.

I’m dubious. Mom dies suddenly, then baby dies suddenly after choking on it’s own vomit. Yeah, no, let’s blame the fireworks. Surely, nothing else could be the cause of Red Panda deaths at this zoo.

I’ve had such mixed results with that. On one hand it works but it’s rarely a smooth experience. Too many 2d elements blended into 3d and suddenly I’m standing half way through a menu with no way to select anything and a cutscene is running 6 miles away clipped through 17 levels of assets.

Well it’s Unreal, so expect shader compilations and micro stutters, as well as a host of graphic options that may or may not make a visual difference, but will randomly tank your fps for no reason.

To what end? It won’t change a Trump voter’s mind. It won’t keep a Democrat voting blue. We need to drop the territorial pissing and get back to actual fucking politics. Maybe we could win something if we fucking did anything. But no, that’s a good idea, we’ll just keep fighting pointless battles with the MAGA crowd, I’m sure that will pay off in dividends.

If I remember correctly, this was a plot point in Kim Stanley Robinson’s The Ministry for the Future. There are cheaper offsets that are there for the taking, but every company must meet a certain quota, so if you buy the cheap ones, great, but if you hold out and are left with expensive ones that you can’t afford, you are fined, and the money is put into the offsets anyway.

I could be totally misremembering it. Honestly, I didn’t enjoy the book that much.