The nemesis system patents and Namco’s loading screen mini game patent are two examples of why game mechanics and features should never be granted an exclusive patent.

Of course Namco’s patents expired in 2015 at a time when seamless load screens had become the industry standard.

Who knows what the gaming landscape will look like when people are finally able to get their hands on the nemesis system again?

Which part of this is favorable for the Soviet Union?

Ukraine isn’t in a favourable position

Been hearing that take for 4 years now. At this point, you’re just trying to wish it into existence every time you say it.

Couldn’t agree more. That’s generally the philosophy I live by.

I’d hedge my bets too if I knew I had mere minutes to live. I stand to lose nothing and I gain comfort at the end, regardless of whether or not I am rewarded with some kind of afterlife.

“Good soldier. Now, here are your next set of orders: Stand right there on those gallows and put that noose around your neck.”

That’s what I hope they’ll say to anyone who tries to use the Nuremberg Defense when they get prosecuted for blowing up civilian boats in international waters.

I’ve said this before in other threads, but we know that Donald Trump verifiably tried to cheat to stay in power in 2020, and when it was apparent that his cheating wasn’t working, he incited a mob to storm congress and interrupt the peaceful transition of power.

Why do people think that someone like that, who in 2024 had even less to lose by cheating and was faced with the prospect of real prison time if he did not win, would not attempt to cheat again? Especially when he was never punished for it the first time?

It blew my mind that the Democrats just accepted Harris’ loss without a fight.

It was only after Trump took office again and I observed the behavior of establishment Democrats that I realized they didn’t actually care and are on the same team. I saw those who would decry Trump at the top of the highest mountain but refuse to lift a finger to actually oppose him when they had the power to do so. Now I know they are complicit, and that a Trump presidency doesn’t hurt them, it benefits them. The opposition is just for show.

So, the Democrats probably knew Trump cheated and just let him. He would provide the perfect cover for them to conduct whatever kind of shady business they wanted while Trump makes headlines every single day for 4 years.

In my headcanon, I’m shipping Waldo and Carmen Sandiego. Nobody can find them, and they travel the world on a global crime spree.

Between them and Squirrel-Tooth Alice, I hope something doesn’t awaken inside of me.

And by something, I mean a venereal disease, because it’s too late for me to not be a furry.

The construction worker and the doctor have more in common with each other than either of them do with the billionaire.

That mentality, that the two working class individuals are too different from one another to ever unify because of the fact that one makes more money than the other, is exactly the kind of mental attitude that the wealthy elite have cultivated for years to keep us at each other’s throats instead of theirs.

Ideally, everyone would be in a position to break into the lowest strata of the capital class by the time they reach retirement age and can no longer work. For most people, that translates into a, IRA or 401k built over decades of years working, assets like a house appreciating in value (so that you can borrow against that increased value), and perhaps a pension or some other form of investment that yields dividends.

Even then. I’d argue that if you retire knowing that if you live within your means, your funds will last you for 20 years, you’re not actually in the capital class. It doesn’t matter for most people, because few people expect to be able to live for that long past retirement and they can always adjust their spending habits to push the number out a bit farther if it looks like they will outlive their retirement savings. But that’s just it, it’s more like a savings and not endlessly accumulating more and more wealth. For the true capital class, their money passively grows and generates more wealth faster than they can spend it.

I don’t care much for metroidvanias but Dust: An Elysian Tail was fun for a playthrough or two.

You draw lines? I draw lines, too!

I presume you are referencing people who donate plasma as frequently as possible to earn extra money to survive?

Lower, middle, and upper class is such an antiquated way of dividing people into groups to keep them at odds with each other.

The fact of the matter is, there are truthfully only two classes. The working class, and the capital class. 95-99% of individuals fall into some strata of working class. If you earn a wage, a salary, or a commission in order to purchase basic necessities- you are working class. If your money makes you money simply by existing, and your assets passively appreciating in value mean that you do not have to work for a living in order to buy basic necessities, then you are in the capital class.

True, I did not think of that. Trump’s new favorite tactic seems to be doing (or saying that he will do) the thing that everybody wants, but then complaining that his hands are tied by the courts or the law, even though neither of those things prevent him from breaking the law when it suits him. “Oops, sorry, we so badly wanted to release the full unredacted Epstein files but the law says we can’t gosh golly darnit, what a bummer, you saw that I supported it, but it’s these activist judges that are preventing the truth from getting out!”

Bondi is 100% running cover for him if they do get released.

My own theory on the flip-flop back to his original stance:

1. The DOJ/FBI have finished sanitizing the entire document to clear Trump and Republican loyalists, so releasing it now will only help them.

2. The worst of the damning information (about Trump knowing about the girls and not stopping it) has already been made public so there’s no point in hiding it anymore. Republicans have already spun the narrative as “not that bad” and Trump survived, so why not win some brownie points and release the official document in it’s entirety?

I can’t see any other reason for why he suddenly wants them to go public again. Trump only ever does things that serve his own self interests, so him blocking it for so long was beneficial to him in some way, and now continuing to block it doesn’t benefit him.

Deeds, not words.

I’ll believe this shit when I see it, which will probably be never.

I’m too old to be fooled by these MAGA morons and their crocodile tears.

My guess is that he finally realized that his base won’t give up on him no matter what he does and republican legislators have completely lashed themselves to the ship of Trump so they have no choice but to go along with it or see their entire political career go up in flames during the next primary.

Why do you need fixers when you are invincible and you have a legion of rubes who will stop at nothing to excuse your bad behavior? We are at “Trump is a pedophile, but that’s okay” levels of cognitive dissociation amidst republican voters. I’m not sure the bar could go any lower that this without Trump directly committing an act of homicide. Even then, it probably wouldn’t budge an inch.

For Trump, bad press is good press, and good press is very very good press.

He has to get the to point where he thinks MAGA are too leftist before he ratchets over to the other extreme and suggests maybe a communist dictatorship ain’t so bad. So I’d say he’s at least 1 more brain injury and/or lead exposure away from that point.