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Soteriologian
16m ago
Modern economic theory is founded on the premise of the rational actor. My economic theory is founded on the premise of the retarded actor.
magic9mushroom
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22m ago
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Unpleasant and offputting to some extent = "picked no suitor, which is by definition not the correct suitor".
I think my limit on "significantly loses attractiveness due to weight" is about BMI 35 or so (100kg/220lb at 168cm/5'6''), which is significantly into the "obese" range.
walruz
38m ago
By their nature, private businesses shouldbe focused on the long term if you consider a purely theoretical universe populated by homo economicus.
Private companies in the real world, headed by real humans, only rarely tend to be concerned with the long term.
CertainlyWorse
No one is coming. It's just you.
39m ago
Any rumours of Xcom 3?
magic9mushroom
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39m ago
Sailor Moon is too old for that anyway. It finished in '97.
Have you watched Terminator: Sarah Connor Chronicles?
I was just revisiting it and God, it’s good. They focus a bit more on the motherly side of Sarah and the difficulties she has trying to bring up a son and keep him safe, whilst keeping her every bit as badass. John Connor grows in a very realistic and impressive way over the course of the series, and the new characters are very good too.
CertainlyWorse
No one is coming. It's just you.
42m ago
I'm back into Stoneshard, an early access turn based gritty RPG in the vein of Battle Brothers, created by Ukrainian devs disrupted by the war.
You're basically a medieval merc doing merc things for merc reasons. Detailed injury/morale system.
It has its flaws, but its great if you like the genre. You start out useless, but eventually carve your way into legend (and your enemy's guts).
Corvos
49m ago
also helped code AO3
That’s awesome, I never knew that! I knew she was a writer on video games but I didn’t realise she coded as well.
Corvos
50m ago
I like Temeraire but it annoys me how often the book goes, ‘Man isn’t Napoleonic England stuffy! Just as well dragon riders are rare and so we get to be as liberated as we please!’.
Corvos
55m ago
I wish they’d bring out more of the novels. I love the writing but the art doesn’t really do it for me.
Corvos
57m ago
Very true, but her work doesn’t seem religious at all (bar ‘Meyer is twisting your childrens’ minds in service of her evil cult’ articles). I mentioned Sanderson because he really, obviously cares about how man relates to god and manages to tell good stories about it.
Corvos
1hr ago
£60 starting out, he told me. "Per hour?" I asked. "No, each month".
This is £2000 per month in today’s money. Not massively high, but amazing to see what inflation has done over the years.
Almost all in 1975, I’m not sure why.
Corvos
1hr ago
Also great, though I haven’t read it for years. I’ll have to dig it up.
I liked the Cooper books especially because they’re steeped in English history and mythology, and they resonated with me very much growing up in the English countryside.
I don't think that matters much, it still marked a change in Dem rhetoric. Even Bernie himself had to adapt to be more appealing to the rainbow coalition.
Ioper
1hr ago
Now I'll never spend another cent not just because its bad right now (it is), not just because it hates me for demographic reasons (it does), but because it's associated in my mind with all the extremities and terrors of shitty social justice and all that did. I've seen too much fucked up stuff, lost friends, etc and Disney dropped their flag on that behavior.
They would have to do something really extreme, like declaring all the Disney content non-canon and hiring George Lucas to oversee a new sequel trilogy (while not directing). I'm honestly not sure even Andor should be part of the canon despite how good it is. Even Lego star wars is more tonally consistent with the overall property than Andor is.
I'm not saying Lucas is some kind of genius but there needs to be a clean break and delineation between Disney star wars and the property going forward, things are that broken. Alternatively the quality of the content needs to be close to Andor level but that is obviously unrealistic and if you could guarantee that you wouldn't need to buy IPs in the first place.
magic9mushroom
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1hr ago
So the case with the 15yo sex worker sting was not an activist judge, but simply a judge applying the law as it is.
There's actually an interesting question there: if something is not legislated, but a judge sets a precedent (particularly without apparent basis), is that "the law"?
Stefferi
Chief Suomiposter
1hr ago
Hillary's comment was aimed at Bernie, not Trump, though.
SSCReader
1hr ago
Except that wasn't the plan. The plan was escaping on cloaked ships while the First Order chased the larger ones. But because Poe sanctioned Rose and Finn's mission who brought back a slicer who betrayed that plan to the First Order, plan A was shot. Hyperspace ramming was the hail mary.
A_Wee_Hearts_Toll
2hr ago
How do you know of this cousin but not reversed? Why don't you reach out? I have many distant cousins who I've only gotten to know in the last few months, it's a rather nice experience!
sohois
2hr ago
A quick Google bought this up immediately:
The franchise has raked in an estimated $46.7 billion, with merchandise sales at an estimated $29.057 billion.
So not quite 90%, but still a majority of earnings.
Whether this means Disney has made profits or a return on their initial investment I don't know, although some of the other Google results suggested merch was still bringing in around 1b per year for them.
Ageism!
Or rather- I wanted to pull from relatively recent characters, while Ripley and Connor were much older (as in, pre-2000s) characters who might be filed under a 'well, writing was better back in the day.' Newer characters with still-younger audiences make a stronger point on current audience-reception dynamics.
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