I argued at length with an American who used to hang out in my friend group for a while. He couldn’t stand the idea that his taxes would pay for anything other than his own problems. He called it “giving free handouts”.
He’d repeatedly use arguments like “but if my taxes pay for healthcare, I’d be wasting my money on morbidly obese people who created their own problems”.
He also loved status and exclusivity.
Yeah, I don’t understand why those red boxes were added in the first place.
Low effort, badly kept, poor quality. Some combination of those three.
Thank you. Where to install the textures on my Steam Deck was exactly what I was looking for.
Everything about the creature is shadow, fire, and ash. So if his shadow extends like wings, then they’re wings, as shadow is literally part of a Balrog’s body.
This is the kind of shit that eventually leads to leaked classified documents on Warthunder forums.
This is honestly fascinating.
Can I get an unpaywalled link/article?
It got my timezone and location pretty spot on, though.
In my case it was incredibly accurate, except for one detail; the wire said I moved my finger over 600 times which… Seems hyperbolic.
The most recent, best tech purchase was the Nintendo Switch 2, and not for the reasons you think.
So, this is Denmark. A Switch 2 with Mario Kart World goes for 4000 DKK (€535, $630). With my budget there isn’t a chance in hell I could afford that. Even if I could, the Switch 2 simply isn’t worth it, especially considering I have a Steam Deck.
So what’s the story?
Well, last year a telecommunications company rebranded themselves into “Norlys” (“Northern Lights”) and started making some deals to attract costumers. One such deal was a 20% discount on a Switch 2 with Mario Kart World bundled, if you subscribed to their most expensive service. Yeah whatever, that’s still 3200 DKK (€428, $504) and then you’re stuck paying 300 DKK (€40, $47) every month for six months.
But…
I have a friend who works for Telenor, and he has a friend who works for Norlys, and my friend of a friend called my friend with a real hot insider tip; someone royaly fucked up somewhere, and anyone buying the Switch 2 and the six month subscription lock-in will get it for 99 DKK (€13, $16) and no subscription lock-in!
So yeah, me and my friends all got a Switch 2 and a game for a tiny fraction of the cost.
When I first started my business, it was all about AI. Everyone said I was daft to build a business with AI, but I built it all the same, just to show them. It crashed and went bankrupt. So I built a second one. That crashed and went bankrupt. So I built a third. That burned down, fell over, then crashed and went bankrupt. But the fourth one broke even. And that’s what you’re going to get, everyone, the most stable business in all the world.
Oh. For a second I thought the Death Star was shooting at us.
This is such a tired old cliché I’m sure it’ll do great at the Hollywood box office.
Wait till you get into game development. You’ll be doing a lot of parent/child relationship, and killing orphans.
And it has also been worshiped constantly. There has been no event in the past where all of Christianity suddenly disappeared.
Also, since the translation of the Bible from Latin to common languages back in the Middle Ages, Christianity has become a whole lot less mysterious. It’s not mysterious today, it’s mundane.
The way A New Hope portrays Jedi (by the way characters talk about it), it sounds like Jedi have been a dying breed for a very long time, perhaps centuries, and now there’s just Obiwan and Vader. Turns out it was only a generation ago, and the reason why people consider it mysterious and distant is because nobody in the Galaxy has been exposed to Jedi as we the viewers have.
And they already exist in the planet. It’s not like these materials are magicked into existence. They’re already here.
We refine it. We use it. Then we put the used material back into the ground, in a place that’s probably safer and more out of the way than it was before it got mined.
The guy is really well off. Works a desk job pushing finance papers for the American military. He believes his well paid job secures him from relying on anything at all.