I can hear it.

Geordi’s Epic Maneuver.

The cash cow of monthly subscriptions to games really kinda poisoned game development. Too much a prize for corporate to leave the games alone.

Everything since WoW has had some income generator grafted in to compete.

If all of that food was prepared by noon it might not have been so suitable to eat in the back half when appetites might’ve kicked in. But please note I was a health inspector once and I fully recognize that my thought processes aren’t common.

RIP Taiwanese electronic device export economy.

What’s the Vespene Gas situation?

have been forced out of their jobs and are now trying something new

I mean that is all there is to say, really.

Revolutions are long-term work. They are not nor ever have been overnight affairs throughout history.

Now there’s an adage attributed to everyone’s favoritr 20th century revolutionary actor: “There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.”

These are to be taken into account together. Don’t mistake those weeks as separate or independent from the decades.

Yeah that’s true. I was lucky enough to have gotten a mortgage right before covid so I haven’t personal experience on rent hikes as a result, I recognize.

My 2007 apartment was $475. It is now $1,485.

Rents were fairlyish stable until the housing market crash.

That apartment was $790 in 2010. The rent hike was a long time ago, and since then it has just more or less been following inflation/gouging patterns seen elsewhere.

Turns out China is a massive market and economy.

cries in Asheron’s Call

The fact they used Navi to do the targeting really demonstrates how the devs felt they needed to explain the new mechanic and not just use it ‘because game.’

Saoirse. Sounds like ‘Sursha’.

Same, though I was skeptical it was going to go anywhere. I am certainly surprised to hear news of it now that the original studio was dissolved.

Biden and Kamala were the establishment candidates no one wanted.

At least until Clyburn’s endorsement of Biden. That and his warning against Sanders is what made the party consolidate behind Biden. Even Buttigeig the front running establishment centrist dropped out.

2020 was fresh covid and active Trump presidency. It was a very different vibe. But more than anything 2016 broke progressive’s shot at executive power for 12 years at least.

The leader of Northern Ireland’s Social Democratic and Labour party, Colum Eastwood, last week said he was making his oath “under protest” and that his true allegiance was to the “people of Derry and the people of Ireland”.

His colleague Claire Hanna prefaced it in Irish and English when she was sworn in, saying: “In friendship and in hope of a reconciled new Ireland, my allegiance is to the people of Belfast South and Mid Down & I say these words in order to serve them.”

The Irish know what’s up.

Shit Clyburn’s daughters got on Biden’s transition team and are appointed to positions alongside governors. Clyburn even helped the GOP gerrymander SC to eliminate a competitive seat to keep his sole seat safer which helped Mick Mulvaney get into politics.

The rot of the old generation has been damaging for quite some time.

I never could get into Everquest because I played Asheron’s Call. Back then it seemed you either chose EQ, UO, or AC and stuck with it.

But EQ was the biggest and therefore every MMO onward essentially used EQ as a foundation.

That phrase reminds me of a book worth a read: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21935933-keep-rootin-for-putin