There’s a bit like this in Daredevil. They’ve been tracing some shadowy acts back to Wilson Fisk, a horrible rich man nobody’s heard of. A top journalist is preparing an article on his actions based on circumstantial evidence.

Fisk, reading the situation and retaliating, opens a press conference introducing himself and voluntarily makes his name known to get on people’s good side.

I do not blame people who voted for third parties or write ins. At worst, they make a compelling point to campaigns - that there are many voters that are active, but want another option.

Commentator: “Here’s my 100-hour video essay on what King’s Duty 8, an award-winning game, could have handled differently, with another 40 pages of annotations.”
Game Developer at 4:50 PM: “Ok whatever, we didn’t fix the cutscene bug but at least it doesn’t crash. Time to go home and not think about video games all weekend.”

Playing Another Crab’s Treasure - a Soulslike with a humorous tone. I had the game on Xbox, but abandoned that and replaying on Steam. I think having a calmer, more analytical mood to the difficulty is helping me make progress faster.

There’s a region where you need to stick to the path lest you awaken a gigantic and threatening enemy bearing an instant-kill attack. I just returned to that area and killed it.

I found both jokes funny! It got me twice!

Politics has never gone well when it’s been a game of determining who exactly is pointing their gun at the puppy by being obstinate over one thing. It’s basically being a single issue voter.

The fall to MAGA is tragic, but it’s: “THE VOTERS would rather prefer the nation fall to authoritarians”.

I will also point out: Ballot measures for ranked choice voting, independent of candidates, failed in some states. So it’s clearly not as popular as you think it is.

My ears do not self clean. You’re right about the oiling, in fact there’s a pharmaceutical product that does the same loosening. But, once that’s done, water irrigation generally does almost nothing, and most people don’t have a spare $8 trillion to keep visiting their clinic for those procedures.

Instead, there are specialized ear cleaning tools (definitely not Q-tips) designed to scoop wax rather than push it in; keep to up/down/side motions rather than inward and you can collect a fair chunk of it out. It has done far more for me than simply squirting water.

PS: Even squirting water is not uniformly safe. I have gotten an infection before by trying to use too much pressure with the hand bulbs.

I blame the voters, not the campaigns.

I am tired of all blame going to the marketing, and forfeiting any concept of agency in each individual voter’s decisions.

The depressing thing is, I’m aware of how unrealistic it is to yell every voter into making better decisions for their, and others’, lives.

I just bought a new graphics card.

Place the teacup next to the PC exhaust, and let er rip.

Any of them with flat roofs to ride on top of.

https://youtu.be/Rv0A99b-Sqs?si=PLakLKe6pAPAxSXn

I’ve gotta remember what those ghosts are.

I’ve slowly acclimated to Soulslikes since Tunic, and a common theme is that they make you think you need to be pressing more buttons, when they’re often teaching specialized bits of patience. In Tunic’s case, a lot of people expend their stamina too quickly.

Still don’t like FromSoft’s games

Jeez. I played and enjoyed that game as a kid, but I had no idea why it was such a bastardized tonal shift from the other games.

Trump was basically the equivalent of the guy in your street that says when he’s president, everyone gets a million dollars and a pony.

Such laptops are at the low end. But, if you have a really good Internet connection, you could expand your options a lot with GeForce Now. Basically a paid service to use cloud servers to render your game; surrendering an often-unnoticeable delay in response time. They have a free tier worth trying.

If you only own one house, it sucks to have luck like that. But, it’s like the dips in stock prices - overall, the value of the whole market goes up over time. Those treating homes as investments tend to buy in the demand areas, where a few lofty renovations don’t dent their bottom line.

I’ve learned my lesson. I bought a graphics card and a monitor a few weeks ago. They were the kinds of desirable purchases that were never going to get discounted on Black Friday.

No it isn’t.

I am woke, and that is a good thing, and anyone complaining about that is an idiot.

Picking a game that was already bad for 700 reasons doesn’t make the idiotic “woke = bad” label okay. The writing in a live service game was never going to be great.

I’ve always had one issue with these stats, that it only counts Steam players and not other platforms/launchers. On some occasions like with Game Pass, you’d expect many people to use those instead.

He was likely using controversy on broad topics. For Dark Souls it would be difficulty and lack of an easy mode.