ryathal

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[–] ryathal@sh.itjust.works 1 points 51 minutes ago

Indie games are overrated, it's still mostly crap. I don't blame people for waiting for absurd popularity to bring actually good titles to the surface. It's still the same general problem, I have a the time for maybe 5 games per year, and that has to compete with my existing backlog, favorites and new titles. I'm not risking that time on Indie or AAA titles without some good evidence it's worth it.

[–] ryathal@sh.itjust.works 4 points 8 hours ago

While true, the military has been reorganized under this president. Removing anyone that wasn't a white man and renaming anything that wasn't a white man, that was the first steps of removing potential dissent. It doesn't need to be a huge number of sycophants, but a few of them could make things very bad for us.

[–] ryathal@sh.itjust.works 10 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

It's generally illegal to conceal carry in a bar, especially if drinking.

[–] ryathal@sh.itjust.works 21 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (2 children)

Yep there's a few ways this could go and none are really great. Either the military bends the knee and any who opposed are forced out. Or there's a full on military coup. Or best case it's purely about ego that trump needs to yell at a room full of generals.

[–] ryathal@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

It is to a very high standard. There's been 14k games released this year alone which would be a .01% miss rate for malware games. If you compare against all games to account for updates that add malware after submission it's basically 0 at .000001%

[–] ryathal@sh.itjust.works 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Malware creation and detection are billion dollar industries playing an eternal cat and mouse game with each other. These programs don't just instantly try to steal every file the second they run.

[–] ryathal@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Steam does scan for malware, which is why this is news. It's notable that a game got through that was malware. You haven't heard about other stores because it's not worth the effort in targeting them. I wouldn't be surprised to learn that most stores use the same vendor for malware scanning.

[–] ryathal@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 days ago

There's baggage with Nazi that doesn't really apply and it hurts the argument. The Holocaust is the big one, there's nothing remotely on the same level happening, lots of regimes have rounded up a particular minority, but systemic extermination is extremely rare. Maga also seems more isolationist than expansionist.

There are strong parallels that can be drawn, but at there's also contradictions. It doesn't help that Nazi has routinely been used as a placeholder for super evil and go to for exaggeration. By using Nazi you allow your criticism to be dismissed as hyperbole. Until Trump invades Poland with Russia, it's probably best to use a different term.

[–] ryathal@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Yes you can be a good president without being a good person. I wouldn't call Clinton a good person, but he was a good president. LBJ would also be a good candidate for bad person l, but good president.

This one really depends on what you did and why. FDR generally gets a pass on Japanese concentration camps, Lincoln also subverted the constitution in some ways. Eisenhower using nationalized troops to integrate southern schools was an abuse of power, but the result was deemed worth it.

There were a small handful of good Nazis, but that's not really the issue at hand. Calling modern politicians Nazis is intellectually lazy and counterproductive to achieving anything.

[–] ryathal@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 days ago

I think the Lions O line likes Montgomery more than Gibbs, he has gotten huge holes this game.

[–] ryathal@sh.itjust.works 5 points 6 days ago

Passing a driving test in the US is usually one of the first accomplishments of becoming an adult, which makes it notable, but not necessarily big.

[–] ryathal@sh.itjust.works 81 points 6 days ago (54 children)

This seems way too hostile to valve for what this really was.

 

Now is a great time for if I were there hypotheticals, so here's mine.

Once it was decided to run Harris and push Biden out, they should have gone all the way and used the 25th amendment to let Harris become president. This would have effectively separated her from Biden while still allowing her to take credit for the good stuff. She could have instructed the DOJ to start investigating price gouging now, and campaigned on needing to win to keep it up.

The 100ish days wouldn't have been enough for wholesale replacement, but it could have created a concrete message of this is where I want to go. A campaign focused on already delivering is a positive message people could get behind as well.

 

With Tyrek Hill being detained less than 4 months after the arrest of Scottie Scheffler, have the police actually angered enough people with money and power that there could be actual consequences?

 

Worst FA signing two years running with Chiarot and Compher.

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