slumlordthanatos

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I feel like there is a difference between voting for someone and voting against someone.

I don't like how noted war criminal amd possible lizard person Dick Cheney endorsed Harris, but Cheney has never said, "I like what Harris is going to do"; instead, he tried to frame it as a vote against Trump because...well, it's Trump.

And of course, right-wingers don't have any capability for self-reflection, because the proper response to fucking Dick Cheney calling you evil is to look in the mirror and ask yourself some hard questions.

[–] slumlordthanatos@lemmy.world 108 points 2 days ago (4 children)

I want to be the one to point out that retired generals making political statements is heavily frowned upon, so for them to take a step beyond that and ENDORSE A CANDIDATE is practically unheard of except in fringe cases like Michael Flynn.

Upper brass is a pretty exclusive club, and retirees don't generally make political statements to avoid stepping on the toes of the currently serving generals/admirals. If multiple generals/admirals felt the need to take this step, they would've done it with the knowledge and consent of current leadership.

[–] slumlordthanatos@lemmy.world 13 points 4 days ago

Only stupid people try the medicine drug. You are stupid.

[–] slumlordthanatos@lemmy.world 25 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Both things can be true.

[–] slumlordthanatos@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The plot badly needs some pruning shears taken to it; to say that it moves at a snails pace is an insult to snails. Like, why did we need an entire faux high school arc? There's plot-relevant stuff there, but they can cut most of that and the game would be better. Filler arcs in a story that's...what, ten games now? That's why this series is still obscure, despite there being a lot to like here.

If you need something to scratch that JRPG itch, you can do a lot worse, and there's a reason this series shows up on "hidden gems" list. But...damn. There's so much content and story, and a fair chunk is little better than filler.

Mark Meer is great, and definitely worth playing thru to experience. Not quite at the same level as Jennifer Hale's performance, but it was still absolutely brilliant.

Still, I hear this every time I hear Shepard talk to Dr. Chakwas.

[–] slumlordthanatos@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago

A bunch of inbred royal fucks beefing over turf.

Which aptly describes basically every war in European history, honestly.

Given how he was threatening Merchan, the jury, and the witnesses (not to mention multiple violations of his gag order), I'd say prison time is unlikely, but not off the table. I'd be pissed if I were Merchan and somebody came into my courtroom and behaved in that manner.

[–] slumlordthanatos@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Bloodborne: Complete Edition for PC, with new and rearranged weapons (I hate how the only strength+bloodtinge weapon is near the end of the DLC area), armor sets, and restored cut content. I'd especially love for them to go thru the chalice dungeons and eliminate most of the reskinned and duplicate fights.

Bloodborne is good enough to stand alone; I'm not sure where they could go with a sequel.

[–] slumlordthanatos@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

Journeys (the shoe chain) and Hollister Co. both use Linux distros on their point of sale machines. Hollister's machines are pretty locked down and can basically only run the RPoS software, but a lot of Journeys' software is browser-based, so they have to be a bit more capable.

Pretty sure they're both custom distros, though.

[–] slumlordthanatos@lemmy.world 29 points 2 weeks ago

A man who died a slow and excruciating death of lung cancer after spending most of his career denying that smoking caused cancer.

Good riddance.

[–] slumlordthanatos@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

An entire fandom has been pronouncing "Evangelion" wrong for the past quarter-century.

It's supposed to be pronounced with a hard G, like hair gel.

 
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