@Senator_Armstrong@Owl cold weather was invented by a cabal of jealous men intent on forcing wives and daughters to dress modestly hot weather was the result of a conspiracy of young men to force unattached women to show more skin extreme weather (and spiders, and economic scarcity) are masculine plots to make women think that men might be good to have around
@minespatch@ColdOnesLite@Jim probably some spreadsheet going around dev studios that says that there are benefits from a game having dateable characters 1. increases female interest in the game 2. allows you to get higher ESG scores through representation 3. in a way that doesn't diminish the appeal to men (until you go as far as BG3 where it's an actual challenge to avoid gay sex)
No gamedev has a bunch of companion sex in the twinkle in his eye. Corporate just says: add this shit from this spreadsheet.
@teknomunk@DW2 suppose I told you about extremely detailed plans to profit from my entire family except for me being hit by a train. No, I love my family, I'm not going to do that. But here's my 5000-page plan for that circumstance. I'm also going to a "what if my family gets hit by a train?" simulation that I'm paying a bunch of researchers to exhaustively dig into. I sure hope this never happens, I'm just being prepared. This is my biggest plan, though, and the simulation is next week. By the way, part of my plan is to give the train conductor, in such an incident, a billion dollars. I SURE HOPE NO TRAIN HITS MY FAMILY THAT WOULD BE AWFUL (BUT PLEASE CONSIDER HOW USEFUL IT WOULD TO YOU, PERSONALLY)
unrelated English history: >By 1169, Henry had decided to crown his son Young Henry as King of England. This required the acquiescence of the Archbishop of Canterbury, who traditionally had the right to conduct the ceremony. Furthermore, the whole Becket matter was an increasing international embarrassment to Henry. He began to take a more conciliatory tone with Becket but, when this failed, had Young Henry crowned anyway by the Archbishop of York. The Pope authorised Becket to lay an interdict on England forcing Henry back to negotiations. They finally came to terms in July 1170, and Becket returned to England in early December. Just when the dispute seemed resolved, Becket excommunicated another three supporters of Henry, infuriating him. According to Edward Grim, an eyewitness to Becket's murder, Henry infamously announced "What miserable drones and traitors have I nourished and promoted in my household, who let their lord be treated with such shameful contempt by a low-born clerk!"[323] >In response, four knights made their way secretly to Canterbury, apparently with the intent of confronting and if necessary arresting Becket for breaking his agreement with Henry.[324] The Archbishop refused to be arrested inside the sanctuary of a church, so the knights hacked him to death on 29 December 1170.[325]
@Wyatt@mac_ack did you experience any of the last three months or does uawar.exe go to sleep when there's no positive news to receive? Everything in the country's about to turn into mud. They've run out of time.
@Wyatt@mac_ack You were this happy THREE MONTHS AGO. The Spring offensive, which didn't start until Summer, has now run completely out of Summer. The people are trying to break through now are the people whose role was to exploit the breakthrough that never happened. How many months from now do you think November is?
Did you really just go to sleep until some made-for-TV victories could awaken you? This war is more over than it has ever been. It's even more hopeless now than when Ukraine surrenders, as then people can start forming hopeful little terrorist cells. >mighty unbreakable putin fat cock mobik lines Contempt for an enemy that fights well is the same as contempt for your own side. The Ukrainian army didn't even see these lines for three months, they struggled to get past the screening forces.
@Wyatt@RowdyRamzan@Shlomo a Ukrainian partisan, or shill, or Ukrainian-leaning shitposter, would acknowledge an obvious failure when he sees one, without talking about how Jeb could still win. What such a person should really be doing right now is raging, because 1. Ukraine's NATO advisors had them play OPFOR in AirLand Battle, a doctrine NATO devised to stop a Soviet assault 2. Ukraine knew what they needed from the very beginning, and asked for it repeatedly--to be treated like Kosovo or Kuwait and given a broad NoFly zone. NATO's on such an obvious war front with Russia as it is, they're sliding into conflict with Russia already as it is, but they're going to prance around with this figleaf of not being involved while the number of Ukraine families with war dead climbs from 60% to 100%. They've sent depleted uranium into Ukraine to have it pollute a country whose main export is agriculture, they have this FUCKING OBVIOUS NUCLEAR FALSE FLAG that's going to ruin the country even more, oh but heaven forbid a NATO jet shoots down a Russian plane instead of a NATO uniformed soldier operating a NATO donated AD system. 3. Ukraine only didn't settle for peace a year ago because they were given a super weapon that would win the war. Instead this was all a cynical test run of doctrine that NATO hoped to use in the future. Huh, turns out it's not war-winning after all. Who knew? Too bad!
But you have to pretend this isn't an obvious failure of an offensive, but only a successful offense would be incongruous with Ukraine being desperate enough to detonate a dirty bomb on their own country.
Q: so you engaged in sodomy with Obama? A: yes. I had sex with Obama. Q: let's call it sodomy and not pretend it's something wholesome. If a man drinks bleach you say that he had 'dinner'. A: uh Q: and I don't believe you. Why are you lying about sodomy with Obama? A: I haven't even told you anything yet! Q: my problem with your story is, that you are alive. Q: Joan Rivers isn't alive. Q: that dude from "God Damn America" church isn't alive. Q: if you've engaged in sodomy with Obama, why are you still alive?
@coolboymew the first three are from Sargon praising English food over Mexican food, and getting all the usual replies. "You probably think pepper is spicy." / "I'm sorry you don't." english-vs-mexican-food.png
>My brother in Christ, this is literally called American "cheese".
>This is true, we haven't even begun to discuss what has happened to American food before it hits their stove. Spices are probably the culinary equivalent to painkillers in America!
>I don't mean to be blunt, but it's because I don't respect you, your moral system, or your accusations of impropriety. I am not a progressive; I think your worldview is illogical and facilitates evil, and I don't think you're capable of understanding why I think that.
@TheWanax@justnormalkorean@Shadowman311 we just can't risk a rogue storm turning polling places into muddy ebola-infested deathtraps in the middle of nowhere. IF IT SAVES ONE LIFE we have to mandate that Democratic operatives cast all votes on behalf of the public, and that every adult is automatically registered to vote, and that auditing must be impossible (lest auditors get rained on and then catch ebola)
@justnormalkorean@Shadowman311 Fyre festival had "woops haha a storm ruined everything" as a cover story for massive amounts of mismanagement. This is weather *actually* ruining a festival, so it's different
also no outbreak of rare deadly diseases at Fyre Festival
@augustus >hmm this candidate is strangely popular just from saying that we're a bunch of bloodthirsty ruinous retards >should we warmonger a little less? Focus a little more on trade? >no. No, the problem is that it's possible to have actual conversations online, and that the party primaries aren't locked down enough
@maija@dushman@meso@paula >$2083/month for tiny apartment man, if only there were anywhere cheaper to live anywhere at all but I guess you need a passport and a visa to leave Monterey, CA I guess there are minefields and barbed wire and a no-fly zone surrounding the city
If you wait by the river long enough, the bodies of your enemies will float by.Deo VindiceKeep your safety in mind and don't make loud statements for which you might go to the places not-so-far-from-here, because there you will help no one.