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grognard

Intel Pentium III 450 / Nvidia Riva TNT2 Ultra / Corsair 128MB PC133 / ABIT BH6

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S&W 686-6 6” 6-shooter.

SKS

And what if the person likes to feel sad, if they don’t want any help? Should we force them?

Yes, absolutely! https://youtube.com/watch?v=zQGN0UwuJxw&t=412

Job market is bad right now especially for devs. Line something up now before you jump ship.

Can you please find that post? It might be a key culture war corpus artifact.

On the other hand, some of us grew up with shitty OEMs (eMachine…) and needed to learn to solder to keep the thing running.

This is what you get for updating your system. I never patch my gear.

I overheard someone whispering in the men’s room stall next to mine that of the various posited factors that explain the sentiment vs CPI gap, the strongest was the cost of borrowing for the consumer, especially as it relates to housing. Maybe interest rate is the missing piece.

Wow, and here I thought that Yakuza 0 plotline was contrived.

I figure music and movies have large consortiums like RIAA and MPAA which can develop and focus take-down campaigns on behalf of vast swaths of rights holders, whereas there is no equivalent for video games.

If you are interested, here is the following from James Lindsey @conceptualjames on X:

Gamergate 2 is underway.

Former game executive and develop at Blizzard Mark Kern @Grummz: "The way games are funded you don't use your own money. Even EA, it's games are hugely expensive to make they're they're upwards of you know 250 sometimes 600 million dollars it's for certain live games it's incredibly how expensive they are and to do that uh your CFO is your best friend.

"You're counting on your CFO to get you tax breaks to get you in to put studios in regions which are financially favorable and you will borrow the cheap money you will get a cheap money to do it. Even EA does this. I worked with EA; we were putting together a deal where they were taking bailout money from the banks in the last financial crisis that we had, and they were applying that cheap money towards games same thing with Covid money. They're applying that cheap money towards games, and what has been the cheapest money while interest rates were still low, you know a couple of years ago it was ESG financing, and so they're going to take this money."

"Because the returns on investment have been so poor on Wall Street for ESG funds, that source of Revenue is drying it up. This Woke machine cannot continue in the way that it is now for AAA gaming, and I think unfortunately, it's so entrenched that you're not going to see—you're not going to see much of an ability to course correct because the studios are—they're just gonna shut down."

Part 2:

Mark Kern explains how ESG money comes with strings attached inside corporations and is used to make companies partner with DEI consulting companies like Sweet Baby Inc:

"Everyone needs to realize is that it's not that these Studios are funding the games out of their own pocket; that would be very expensive for them. Cash is king. They will preferably go out and get money from other sources if it's cheap enough to help spread the risk of these massive titles, and so you have a lot of quid pro quo happening, and I can tell you that developers have been approaching me and giving me some inside baseball on what's been happening, and there are deals funding deals out there for studios—and I can't get too specific; I don't want to out sources—that have certain strings attached like a company will suddenly sign with a developer and now that developer needs to hire a DEI director and needs to go out and hire consultancy firms to gender balance."

"Their staff quite specifically go out and hire companies like SBI to consult on their writing and do sensitivity reading and changes for that, and what does, all this does, it boosts their ESG score. It allows them access that funding so ESG is not going away entirely."

"It's [ESG] become an evil brand. People are waking up to this... You have you have a rebranding going on right now. They're not calling it ESG, but it's still out there."

https://x.com/conceptualjames/status/1767208090150060079

strong signal that most of the Americans that can afford them believe their surrounding society deserves low-trust interactions

How does this at all possibly follow? The cart is before the horse here. People have bought into these communities because the surrounding communities are already so low-trust enough to force them into protective enclaves.

How did Fallout change from 1 to 2? I played both and found it to be a straightforward continuation of all the good stuff the first brought.

Planescape likely has the highest volume of text among those infinity engine options. But if you were to compile every bit of it into a pdf book, which some have, and read through it as a novel without the game giving it an interactive body, you’d find it is pretty lame and cringe standing on its own. I don’t know of any good writing in games off the top of my head, save for a recent run though Disco Elysium.

And more to the point, the very fact that devs and/or publishers see enough value in SBI that SBI can survive as a company shows that the ideology has taken a pretty firm root in the industry.

Grapevine says it is due to ESG investment monies, by involving SBI they get access to more funding from institutions that demand woke capitulation.

The officially licensed ones (I think there are NES, SNES, and PS1 at this point?) are neat from a collectors standpoint, but these all are just low power embedded SoCs with emulators. I don’t have a turn-key recommendation - there are just too many afaik. Just buy one with a good YouTube review, or ask on 4chan.org/g/ chinkshit general.

I’d recommend you pirate the small-by-todays-standard romsets and emulate on any PC you have. An Intel n100 would do it and that’s $125 for enough power to be an AV1-decoding HTPC alongside, includes windows license.

There is a reason honor-killing exists.

I have a 4090 I’ll offer like /u/f3zinker.

Buy Bitcoin. And land.

least relative to cultures like that in the Philippines.

Solution: Marry a Filipina, apparently.

Pax Pamir, Here I Stand, Candyland, Twilight Struggle

I’m forgetting the timeframe - was TheMotte.org operational when Scott was doxxed/had to disavow it?

As other people said, it can be used in support of anarcho-tyranny.

Isn’t the meta-rule for a more global truth more geared for this? The example you give to stay the light of truth is just more friend-enemy distinction.

There was a un-PC substory about a trans something in Yakuza 3, I hear. The remaster removed or edited it. I’d like to mod it back in or address any other bowdlerizations.

Why acknowledge their power? Flex yours instead by ban evading.

Japan has surprisingly zealous copyright enforcement with strict laws. One of its cultural failures. The Pokémon company is investigating Palworld but I believe moreso due to mods that introduce actual Pokémon(tm) which were hosted then purged from NexusMods.

Mordhau and Yakuza 0 and Nebuchadnezzar. Mordhau is frustrating/intense. Yakuza is fun. Nebuchadnezzar is meditative.

Anyone know if there are mods to restore cut trans substory from Yakuza 3? I want to play through without CW modifications.