There was an article about I believe a Nigerian researcher who had a record number of retractions due to misinformation on his articles. His name was Hitler Louis and his partner’s name was Honest Benjamin lmao

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Don’t forget the absolutely unrestrained greed

That just means we get jd for the rest of the term and he’s clearly just as much of an idiot as Trump, just a bit less demented

American Conservatives have unparalleled cognitive dissonance skills. Truly unmatched anywhere else in the world.

Yeah you definitely misinterpreted his comment

Use them for other things?

You beat me to it

Yeah he looks like he has shell-shock in that picture

Downtown Philly in the middle of traffic lanes

Mostly uber eats/Doordash etc drivers but really anybody

Absolutely rampant

Driving in Philly is already enough of an ordeal without people doing this.

I do agree with you that Vance is a buffoon, but underestimating people like him is exactly how we got Trump in the first place. People just assumed he was doing it as a goof and had no real chance of winning and then he won. Twice.

It’s entirely possible that when Trump dies or if he leaves office (it is really depressing that I have to say if there) the GOP will just pick Vance to take his place. We know the Republican base will gobble up whatever garbage is shoved down their throats so it’s really not that hard to believe.

I was very interested in The Finals when it was announced but something about it after it released kinda turned me off. Arc Raiders I definitely want to try though.

I mean honestly aaa at this point to me kinda has an ironic meaning. It just refers to big budget shit titles that have tons of marketing behind them. I would never refer to an actually good game as aaa because the vast majority of aaa studios make bad, buggy, unfinished, and overpriced.

Wasn’t that specifically ubisoft? I might be mistaken though.

And shoves ai both down your throat and up your ass

Under-sell over-sell

I’ve basically just stopped buying AAA games at this point. They are invariably worse quality than indie and AA titles and filled with microtransactions and other predatory bullshit, and the icing on the shit-filled cake is that by buying them you are legitimizing this kind of behavior.

There are just so many good games to play across so many genres that there is no reason whatsoever to buy them, and buying indie games you can feel good about supporting a small dev.

It is especially upsetting to see this news because I remember playing a crapton of Bad Company 2 with my friends in school. All of us got BF3 on launch and played it to death. 4 came out and I know people really liked it but to me it wad just an overly streamlined 3, 1 was cool but a bit too arcadey for me, 5 had no soul and 2042 was clearly just a joke. I hate seeing franchises I loved die through corpo bullshit but there’s plenty of other, better, tastier fish in the sea.

It’s kind of like (and this is obviously a departure from the card game genre) Heroes of Might and Magic 3 is considered the ultimate game of the franchise despite their being several proceding iterations after it. I’m even a huge fan of the 2nd one despite it being significantly more minimal. Something about the 2d sprites and was very charming.

I will definitely give those a try. I know that Slay the Spire has been lionized as one of the best card games I just have always hesitated to try it for some reason. But now that 2 is out I’ll definitely be picking it up. Monster Train I am not super familiar with but I will check it out.

Yeah the vibes with Inscryption were just…like it was a card game but I felt legitimately unnerved. The music and the sound effects made me viscerally uncomfortable, and then the way Leshy watched you when you walked around the cabin was creepy as shit.

It kind of opened my eyes to card games in general and (not that I didn’t already know this from games like Disco Elysium, Subnautica, Soma, Outer Wilds, etc.) The fact that smaller budget titles often time were significantly more worthwhile than AAA stuff.