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These grants have strings attached, including but not limited to: national security requirements, clawback provisions, profit sharing clauses, etc.
Intel can't use this money to go build a bunch of factories in China, which would kind of defeat the point of the CHIPS act.
This is just restructuring the deal over that money that the US desperately wants to give companies like Intel, but only insofar as it unwinds it's dependence on Taiwan and China.
TitaniumButterfly
20hr ago
He called the local game commission who told him that it didn't exist and that shooting it would be against the law.
I've received similar admonitions from government on other matters.
Hieronymus
20hr ago
Aspects of Encanto are great, but central plot elements are treated in a very unsatisfying way.
The magic of the setting appears in several different guises: Roman Catholic folk miracles, brujería, Disney princess magic; but it doesn't behave consistently with any of them, doing instead whatever the writers thought was dramatically appropriate at the moment. The movie collapses the object and meta levels of its major symbol in an unprincipled way that feels like a cop out. And even once it's established that the symbolism of magic = family love is all that matters, the backstory revelations undermine it: Was it grandpa's death that brought about family love?
Great animation, good songs, exasperating writing.
AnonymousActuary
20hr ago
Encanto was...2/3rds of an interesting story with some great music that suffered from the same problem as a lot of recent Disney - no actual antagonist.
TitaniumButterfly
20hr ago
That's the second strong recommendation I've had for Blue Prince. The first told me to go in as blind as possible so I know almost nothing else about it except that it should indulge my predilection for keeping a hard copy journal as I play.
Guess I will!
DoctorMonarch
♬We're so happy that we live in 1800's Alabama 'cause it's sunny and there is no crime!♬
20hr ago
In case anyone was wondering, here's the Tidus laugh scene in Japanese https://youtube.com/watch?v=ik4JI4D7rZQ
philosoraptor
21hr ago
Principal photography on The Last Jedi was done in July 2016. Fisher was done all her scenes and finished an entire book tour in the remainder of the year, before dying from an out-of-the-blue heart attack around Christmas. She did not die "mid-filming".
deluxev2
21hr ago
The only major webfictions I've read are hpmor, worm, Homestuck and origins of the species. Hpmor is good but you have to like/tolerate the main character. I enjoyed the first third of worm a lot but it kinda takes too long to wrap up the main mysteries (the resolution is satisfying though, once you get there). Homestuck is not really the same vibe.
RandomRanger
Just build nuclear plants!
21hr ago
It's especially remarkable because she was telling them all to trust the plan.
But she had no plan. We are informed in episode 9 that the 'Holdo Maneuver' of FTL ramming was 1 in a million, it can't be reliably repeated. So she was really just trying to flee, only to get spectacularly lucky.
ABigGuy4U
21hr ago
I have never found a source for this, but I am absolutely convinced that Admiral Holdo was just a way to recycle Princess Leia’s plot and lines after Carrie Fisher died mid-filming.
TitaniumButterfly
21hr ago
Yeah, idk when the realization hit exactly, but the day was odd when it occurred to me that we would no longer be allowing Disney anything in our home. At least nothing made after the year 2000, with the occasional ad hoc exception.
SubstantialFrivolity
I'm not even supposed to be here today
21hr ago
Ah, yeah that is true.
self_made_human
śāśvataṃ jīva athavā yudhyamāno mṛtyuṃ āpnuhi
21hr ago
The bit with the Chinese-inspired expansion, the one with the pandas? From the perspective of someone who will never play WoW, I felt that one was either a good joke or simply taking the piss.
self_made_human
śāśvataṃ jīva athavā yudhyamāno mṛtyuṃ āpnuhi
21hr ago
Hmm.. I have played several, though the names elude me. I didn't particularly like Risk of Rain (2?), I did like Hades, but once again, a few hours of fun, then I got distracted and never picked it up again.
I need to start including links to clips from Asura's Wrath when explaining Xianxia to people.
Case in point:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Gyfy2mtMeYo
Yes, when you have a human-sized character fighting against the fist of a god the size of a large moon, you're in proper Cultivation territory.
(I have never played the game. It's just so entertaining to watch that I've seen several hours of footage)
Dean
Flairless
21hr ago
Well, uh... awkward. And a bit embarrassing. But glad it resonated, and thank you for answering.
Cheers!
The writers are a husband-wife pair (I think they said the wife is mostly responsible for the story, the husband mostly responsible for the art), the title literally has "Girl" in the name, and the main character is a woman.
That said, it does have the old-style male adventure feel. Sometimes as parody, sometimes seriously.
I think we can say it has broad-spectrum appeal. I went to their Facebook page and looked at the names of the people who liked the latest comic page, it seemed about 50/50 male-female split.
I guess it all depends on what a "girl" story is. If girl story is only defined as a story that men avoid then of course we won't find any "examples of "girl" stories that aren't cringe pandering softcore-relationship-porn wish fulfillment only (lame) women find appealing"
Next morning edit:
I almost didn't suggest Girl Genius out of fear that it was one of the cringe pandering stories. It has a love triangle where the main character is pursued by a heir-to-the-empire and a boy with a past that haunts him. And the boys are terrible simps, totally head over heels for the main character. And also surprisingly chaste/respectful, averting their eyes and blushing if they see Agatha in her (Victorian-style) underwear.
It has a lost society of Amazon women warriors. It's kind of a Princess Diaries plot, "ordinary women finds out she's secretly a lost princess and must learn how to fit in with her new society" type thing.
I would argue that it's very much a female story, even if the females reading it are the ones making up the "39% of physical science degrees awarded in the US."
philosoraptor
21hr ago
receive an equity stake in Intel in exchange for cash grants
How does this differ from just buying shares?
self_made_human
śāśvataṃ jīva athavā yudhyamāno mṛtyuṃ āpnuhi
21hr ago
I've been keeping tabs on that one. Ex-Combat Extended modders from Rimworld, one of the mods I simply can't play without. It turns the combat in the game from two retards with bent muskets shooting each other in a greased room after sunset into something with a semblance of realism. Unfortunately, the game had had a very rocky development. The previous publisher went bankrupt, the new one was only able to provide partial funding. They were forced to release into EA in a very barebones state, and it's simply not a very good day circa today. I remain cautiously hopeful, the idea has great potential.
Jiro
21hr ago
I would not count Girl Genius as a girl story. It isn't aimed at a female audience, at least I don't think it is.
self_made_human
śāśvataṃ jīva athavā yudhyamāno mṛtyuṃ āpnuhi
21hr ago
You can't shoot then move, even if you use only half your movement range. Once again, in the absence of specific perks.
hydroacetylene
22hr ago
The default for secular western women is an obese woman too unpleasant to hook the men she does manage to attract, but that's ok because she has no way of knowing if she can trust him anyways.
OracleOutlook
Fiat justitia ruat caelum
22hr ago
Girl Genius perhaps. Though there is a romantic subplot, the main female character explicitly chooses the well-being of her people/land over and above romance.
OracleOutlook
Fiat justitia ruat caelum
22hr ago
Christopher Ruccio is doing a pretty interesting job.
Not sure, I don't browse space battles much, people were just talking about pokemom fics and most evil crops up as one of the must-reads.
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