Hell yeah, I came in here specifically to post about those videos. Infinite chess gets extremely much more buck wild than you’d initially expect.

I was holding out hope that the modding scene would help support the game, because traditionally speaking Bethesda modders have done some incredibly amazing work on other titles. But no, alas, Starfield is such a fuckin’ trash fire that not even the modders are willing to put in the work to unfuck this heap of shit. Somebody might release a killer overhaul for it after they’ve had a couple more years to basically rewrite the entire engine, but frankly I don’t see anyone caring that much about this game to make it happen. I know of at least one guy who rather than getting involved in the mod scene, instead got on Steam and said fuck you, I’ll make my own fuckin’ Starfield, and started whipping up Spacebourne 2, and even this half-baked early access alpha jank has clear signs of being the seed of a better game than Starfield was. I’m sure that others have had similar ideas.

Sure they did. But the electoral college is usually expected to vote in line with the popular vote, which they didn’t. Faithless electors got Trump into office, not the actual electorate that they are allegedly supposed to represent.

So, no, the American people did not in fact vote Donald Trump to be president. The electoral college did, by outright ignoring the voting results and deciding they knew better than the constituents.

Technically speaking he wasn’t elected to the office the first time. Electoral college decided that, the vote had nothing to do with it.

It’s a plant that grows in the ground, it’ll get about as corporatized as tomatoes. Meaning people will try, but they can’t really stop you from growing legal plants in your garden.

Ah, fair enough, suppose I could have checked that myself. For some reason I thought I remembered the old version being delisted and replaced. Suppose I’m just going crazy.

People are down voting this, but you’re right. Politicians that lie is a problem, but not a new one, and not one that we don’t know how to handle. People believing the lies of the politicians is what mostly gets us into our hot water. Critical thinking is at a critical shortage these days.

I don’t think you even can play it anymore, can you?

That’s what the difficulty settings are for. No joke. Nearly any trash build can cruise through the easy difficulties with no more than a basic understanding of how turn based combat operates, and you’ll need to be a sweatlord with three spreadsheets open to reliably pose a threat to the hardest difficulty. Personally, I like to play in the middle but still overoptimize my party, so the early game is a challenge and then I just completely steamroll the final third of the game once we really get cooking with mythic levels.

If you already know DnD then you can play pathfinder with minimal confusion. An hour’s worth of reading a couple good build guides will give you a good idea where the differences lie and why certain choices are commonly made (Point-Blank/Precise Shot feats for instance). If you don’t already know DnD and you’re coming from something like Pillars of Eternity or Divinity Original Sin, you might have a little bit of a rough landing. But that’s what a wiki is for, or just straight up following a build guide if you’re timid.

Wrath of the Righteous is hands down a better game than Baldur’s Gate 3 in every observable metric except for graphics and I will gladly die on this hill.

It sounds by all accounts like he went over to Russia and just continued being the exact same man that he was back home. And the Russians of the time loved him.

I aspire to have principles that I stick to with the gusto that Cassius Clay exhibited. I didn’t even know about Clay’s Battalion but I believe it on sight because that sounds like exactly what he would do in that situation.

And that’s assuming the headline you’re reading even has any bearing on the actual article, or that the article itself is factual, both of which are increasingly more common worries now.

It’s almost like when someone completely guts a project in order to intentionally make it fail, the project is likely to fail.

For comparison, take a look at the Netherlands, who implemented the idea successfully.

Cassius Marcellus Clay was the son of one of the wealthiest slave owners in America and grew up to be the single most influential and most dangerous abolitionist in American history. He had so many duels with slavers, and won so many of them, that he became statistically the most dangerous duelist to ever exist in North America.

When his cousin, Kentucky senator Henry Clay ran for president, Cassius wanted to come campaign for him down South. Henry vetoed this out of concerns that Cassius would come down south and duel so many slave owners to the death that it could be considered election interference.

The Fat Electrician has an excellent video on the life and times of Clay, I highly recommend it. And if you’re wondering, yes, Muhammad Ali was named after this Cassius Clay.

No probably about it, he’s come right out and said so.

How about three casinos, two casino holding companies and a hotel?

I’m pretty sure if you handed me all those I would be actually incapable of fucking them over as hard as Trump did. Like, even if I actively tried. He is such poison to everything that the buildings that print money with no effort just stopped printing money under his command.

This, but no /s. He’s evaporated $35 billion from Twitter and is convincing conservatives to buy electric vehicles. I might like him about as much as I’d like a tick on my nutsack, but he is accomplishing things that align with my goals.

Mercy got that Glock delivered straight from the angry hands of God and it shows

By being there you’re already involved whether you want to be or not. You’re in it now and you’re expected to make a choice. Failure to choose is also one of the choices.

The lever operator can’t be at fault, or to blame, for the situation - but they are absolutely involved. That’s the point of the exercise. From the moment you notice the trolley tracks and the lever you are now entwined with the fates of the people that are here, and the trolley problem will force you to choose a bad solution that you won’t feel good about - because there are no good solutions. It’s the Kobayashi Maru of psychological exercises.

Neat, can’t wait to miss it.

Starfield has fundamental issues that no amount of modding or DLC is going to repair. I don’t think I’ve ever been less excited for a content update for a game I own.