Not exactly Fable 1 but OK…
“More evidence that Tango Gameworks’ hit action game is headed to new platforms.”
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Riven
[riv-uhn]
noun
1. a gaming, lifting, shooting, intoxicated, ravenous, and happily-taken nerd.
2. often aims to misbehave.
3. and though she be but little, she is fierce.*
And rumor has it that she (and her husband) are also delightful dinner companions. You didn't hear it from me, though.
That’s a more interesting angle than the Black History Month the article leads with.
Great art can definitely come from grief (probably any strong emotion… but grief seems particularly good. What I always think of when it comes to that topic.
I write to escape. If I have nothing to escape from, I don’t write because I have nothing to say.
I contemplate writing to explore (a built universe, maybe characters…. maybe interesting topics).
That I have zero actual written work expresses how well that works out for me.
I write to escape too. Corporate life is balls.
It’s funny – my motivation to write (fiction) evaporated when I retired.
I’m busy working out my issues in therapy. Say goodbye to writing novels cuz that shit ain’t comin’ back.
The trailer on Steam looks promising – I love this genre. Downloading the demo.
… annnnnnd I’m out. This white boy ain’t got no rhythm.
At all.
Ever.
Damn. Was thinking it would be a remake of this (Oh noooo… !)
I’m not currently into video games but I did a lot of PC gaming in college. That was a good one. I also really liked that X Wing simulator.
My head has been going back to the old Wing Commander and Freespace days of late. I’ve got the Wing Commander games and Freespace 2 on GOG…
/starts downloads
Alternate headline: “Justin Trudeau’s Rebuke from Court over Abuse of Emergency Powers Shows Why executives and bureaucrats alike despise Checks and Balances .”
When the last one flew the nest I had to relearn how to cook in smaller amounts. Also, 3 days refrigerated and leftovers are out. I dont take chances.
“3 days refrigerated and leftovers are out. I dont take chances.”
Truer words…..
“Justin Trudeau’s Rebuke and Nothing Else Happened”
Tells the whole story.
Meh. We both meal prep for the week. 5-6 days for most of the stuff we prepare, and zero issues.
Same here.
And here.
Ditto.
+1
You weren’t raised by a child of the depression.
Mother and Grandmother would save EVERYTHING. Hoarded everything. Even if food was spoiled before preparing they would try to just remove the spoiled portion and eat the rest. Why buy ziplocks when you can reuse bread bags or anything and scotch tape to freeze it.
I had gut problems all of my childhood. Fuck that.
Three days tops and it’s out.
I see you’ve met my mother.
But! I’ve never had intestinal issues, except from eating out. I don’t know why people do it.
Alternate headline:
Justin Trudeau’s Rebuke from Court Years Later over Abuse of Emergency Powers Shows Why Courts Are Ineffective at Reigning In Authoritarian Rulers
Bravo! A much clearer and compelling headline. Don’t let politicians have the tools to take the first step.
I didn’t see anywhere in the Justin Trudeau article where it mentioned any consequences. What exactly does a “rebuke” do?
It’s a step above being censured!
It’s a step down from mean tweets, I think…
I rebuke you!
How did that feel?
I’ve had a rough week, but that by far was the worst part of it.
Sorry man. Consider yourself unrebuked and enjoy your weekend.
“Stop!
Or I’ll say stop again.”
Dangnabbit — intended link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNBG5lgh6Nw
It goes on his permanent record.
Double secret probation!
Trudeau’s lawyers are appealing the ruling, and no one has lost their job over this, so … yay freedom???
Checks and balances don’t work if enough people fundamentally disagree with said checks and are prepared to ignore them.
It’s like the scene toward the end of episode six where the protagonist in 1989 states socialism is dead … when, a third of a century later, perhaps half the world population still identifies as socialist.
Episode six of Kleo …
Yes. See below, I missed your comment. This ruling doesn’t mean jack shit.
Checks and Balances are a threat to Our Democracy.
That’s so 2000s. Now it is the virtual credit card and the multi-trillion balances that are. 😉
Let me know when he starts hanging out with Travis Pastrana
After a rough couple of years, Meta is flying: Revenue is growing again, profits are way up after some painful belt-tightening, and its stock is at a record high.
What could possibly go wrong?
Well, maybe Mark Zuckerberg, its CEO, could get hurt, or worse, in a cage match?
That’s what Meta is suggesting in a new Securities and Exchange Commission filing out this week. In the company’s newest annual report, it told investors that Zuckerberg routinely did risky stuff for fun — and that it would be a real problem for the company if he got injured doing that.
Musk isn’t likely to get killed sparring. I hear Hawaii has some great hang gliding cliffs. He should try that.
After Threads and Metaverse, I thought they’d encourage him to do more of those things.
Working link, maybe
OH, come on. I hate the man but he can go fight if he wants to.
Oops.
MuskZuckerberg isn’t likely to get killed sparring.Unfortunately.
Also, 3 days refrigerated and leftovers are out. I dont take chances.
*thinks about leftover pork and rice in refrigerator, age unknown*
It was okay last night. It’ll be fine.
“According to expert guidelines on B. cereus prevention, foods are in the “danger zone” for contamination when they’re left alone for extended periods of time at temperatures ranging from 41 to 135 degrees Fahrenheit.”
So the chicken-bacon-ranch pizza leftovers that sat out all night and morning that I had for lunch are ok, right?
RIGHT?
To be sure, take
twothree shots of Wild Turkey 101.I dont have the high octane, but I did just prime the pump with a couple shots of Crown.
Decent whiskey followed by….Millwaukee’s Best Light.
How low is your thermostat set?
Well, it wasn’t all that good to begin with.
/not a fan of ranch
Meh. It was a HomeChef flatbread pizza from Kroger. It was marked down from $7.99 to $4.15.
I was already flirting with trouble when I brought it home.
Are you the Ice Box Man?
Trump says he wouldn’t reappoint Powell to Fed chair.
Never mind Powell. Yellin had better be gone before sunset on inauguration day.
Figures. The one guy who is standing up under what must be incredible pressure to prop up the Swamp, not to mention the WEF, and Trump wants him gone.
DC delenda est. And if Trump is there when SMOD hits, eh, so be it.
Funny I thought the same.
But Trump like Wall St likes cheap money.
Agreed. I’ve been pleasantly surprised by Powell.
Sld and all that end the Fed
So while Meta does take Zuckerberg’s well-being very seriously — in 2022, it spent $15 million on personal security for him and his family — it’s unlikely it thinks he’s going to get really, really hurt. But they’re letting us it could happen, just in case.
That sounds like grounds for a shareholder suit, to me. Let him pay for his own bodyguards. Better yet, buy him a 1911 and a box of ammo. His wife, too.
“> Speaking of banks
Oppenheimer banking analyst Chris Kotowski said this week’s big stock dive by New York Community Bancorp Inc. and the subsequent swoon of regional-bank stocks demonstrates the value of larger, diversified banks.
“The NYCB debacle proves out the big bank business model,” Kotowksi said in a research note on Friday that looked back at the domestic banking business and its evolution since the 1980s.
“The small, regional bank business model is unalterably broken,” Kotowski said. “The sooner the small banks get consolidated the better for us all. The big banks actually have a pretty darn good and resilient business model.”
Let’s force all those Farmers and Swineherds National Bank of Flyoverstans to get rolled up.
Go fuck yourself, pal. There’s no way I’m doing business with Wells Fargo or Bank of America. I’ll stick with my small regional bank.
The big banks actually have a pretty darn good and resilient business model.
See federal flood control projects. They keep small floods from producing localized damage on a regular basis. They’re great until a massive flood breaches the flood controls and causes widespread damage far greater than the sum of all the small floods they stopped.
Eh, in that case the flood would have happened regardless of flood control structures.
The massive flooding along the Mississippi in the summer of ’93 was made worse by the flood control structures which failed letting in flood waters and then impeded those flood waters from receding.
2009 laughs hysterically at the big national banks having a resilient business model.
Unless you mean “big enough to bribe the politicians for bail outs”, of course.
“The small, regional bank business model is unalterably broken,” Kotowski said. “The sooner the small banks get consolidated the better for us all. The big banks actually have a pretty darn good and resilient business model.”
My small regional bank is just fine, TYVM. They don’t nickel and dime me like the big banks do. Oh, and my small regional credit union is just fine, too.
They may not have some of the conveniences of the big banks, but they also don’t have as many of the downsides.
He is talking from a shareholder perspective.
Bigger banks do way more than smaller banks and they have too big to fail free insurance from fedgov. Unless you bank the tech bros at SVB…
Small banks have to employ the same fucking legion of compliance people and JDs that a bigger bank does thanks to all the rules that FedGov imposed on the big banks for their free insurance.
The economies of scale suck for mid size public banks. He is saying put a fork in them they can’t compete.
More centralized, top-down control of everything. What could go wrong?
The second link has a link to a new Prince of Persia game that I might be interested in except it’s not on Steam?!
Though to be fair my Steam client has been a dumpster fire for months so I’m not sure if it isn’t lying to me.
LOVE my Steamdeck OLED.
LOVE IT.
Is that the hand-held thingy? Wrong direction size change.
It is.
Oh, kickass! I have yet to even put a hand on one.
Ubisoft created their own launcher a while ago, and started “selling” things exclusively through it. The selling is in quotes because I recall a story about them removing games from accounts, and commenting that gamers should just rent/lease games, not buy them.
I’ve given up on giving them money.
Their games are notably less fun and their actions are notably more anti-gamer.
Ah you seem to be correct. I didn’t know that was a thing. I’ve seen other launchers but before they at least put it on Steam and then launch the launcher. Oh well + yeah, I don’t want it that badly.
Shake-up in the Ukraine.
Zelensky firing his top military commander, Gen. Valery Zaluzhny.
https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1753512992354799941
Right after the EU decided to send them Even More Money ™. Interesting timing there.
Well, let the EU do what they’re gonna do. And let Ukraine do what it’s going to do. Let’s hope with the House more based we can stop sending anymore to that sink hole (barring what PPP does in end runs around the law, of course…. )
Was known before the EU pledge of money.
You know who else fired his military commanders when they failed?
Lincoln?
Winner winner chicken dinner
“ Justin Trudeau’s Rebuke from Court over Abuse of Emergency Powers Shows Why Checks and Balances Are Essential to Freedom.”
Here’s my issue: Has anybody been let out of jail? Has any money been unfrozen? So far I just see a finger-wagging.
Tryin out a new lighting scheme
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87821224358?pwd=eW55MTRDbDNtQkh2aHd3M1Nmenlzdz09
How YOU doin’ ?
P.S. I’m-a need some intensive manly advice this evening.
Oh boy. I am drunk already, and may give excessively manly advice. Imma coming at 7:00.
Is that before, or after you join Zoom?
Fact-centric journalisming
The Messenger launched last May with big talk about reinventing the news. Finkelstein, who previously had turned The Hill into a shameless aggregation machine and fount of crackpot punditry, said the outlet would “champion balanced journalism in an era of bias, subjectivity, and misinformation.” He promised that a huge staff would storm the gates of the establishment, winning over people who had grown skeptical of outlets that strive to occupy the center, like The New York Times. And Finkelstein thought he could do it in a matter of months.
Yes, folks, that bastion of the rational center, the New York Times. What sort of delusional fool would think he could compete with them for skeptical news hounds?
outlets that strive to occupy the center
Is the “center” here the center politically, or is this that intersectional bullshit “centering”?
STEVE SMITH HAVE CENTER. BY CENTER MEAN…
Stay away from those crackpots over at The Hill. Stick with more centered publications like NYT, which opined that the COVID lab leak was a racist conspiracy theory.
Who the fuck is guarding that rocket?
Rocket capable of carrying nuclear warhead found in garage; neighbor calls Air Force Museum
Larry Blackmon
That rusted piece of junk isn’t capable of carrying anything.
Tetanus. perhaps
So it’s a bioweapon then.
Only if you cut yourself moving it.
A sea of Substacks and hyperlocal nonprofit news organizations cannot fill this hole, and indeed they have not. The only answer would seem to be government intervention—either in the form of regulating or breaking up social media networks and search engines, or directly funding news outlets. But there is little appetite for doing either thing, at least on the national level. On Wednesday, tech CEOs were hauled before Congress to address social media’s role in child exploitation. It’s hard to imagine a similar hearing focused on their role in the decimation of the media industry. Saving the media, given the public’s general antipathy for reporters, is not exactly a winning political issue.
We already have NPR and PBS. What do we need you for?
I don’t have a Rolls Royce. The only answer would seem to be government intervention.
Put a small block Chevy in it and you have a reliable luxury vehicle!
Why isn’t the media trusted? Case in point: Last night the newsreader on NBC Phila. referenced “the Don’t Say Gay Bill in Florida.”
No “alleged” or “what critics call”, nope straight out giving the viewer the lie that Florida’s bill to age-restrict sexual education in elementary schools meant it was now illegal to say “gay” in the state.
And implied (actually, stated) that was the official name of the bill that the dastardly Republicans passed.
That station is the worst in this market. CBS is skewed too (obviously), but noticeably less so.
I flipped over to a local news channel for shits and giggles yesterday and within seconds they were spinning some fable about how “millions of children go to sleep or school or wherever hungry!” I started screaming at the television again and knew it was time to change the channel.
How many of them are on the wrestling team?
So, we’re ramping for more military action in the Middle East- awesome!
Nice (short) piece on this: https://www.cato.org/multimedia/cato-daily-podcast/context-fresh-calls-war-iran
They need to parody the old Mastercard commercials with this…
B1 bombers – 4 million
130 guided missles/bombs – 100 million
Cheap ass drones killing troops – priceless
The same government that keeps telling the people we have F15s
The economies of scale suck for mid size public banks. He is saying put a fork in them they can’t compete.
He was talking about diversification, too. Big banks have plenty of commercial real estate loan time bombs ticking away, too.
What sort of garbage datasheet doesn’t tell me which physical pin maps to which logical pin?
One from china.
Yep.
I found the two ground pins and confirmed which of the other pins control which segment, leaving me with four pins which control which digit gets updated.
If that’s the case, then he needs to look for the rogicar pin.
I have it on good authority that’s lacist.
I’ve worked it out thanks to youtube and a multimeter, but man, is it a stupid pinout.
i blew up a G4 socket bulb the other day. Thought it was 12V power, it was 120V. Accidents happen.
As it was, I repeated the accident because I liked the “KABLAM!”
I only have two of these displays, so I’d rather not burn either out.
I’ve shorted things out before, mostly radios when I was in the service.
The other techs would hear the pop or sizzle and say “I saw the blue”.
hypothetical question
If the government spent decades suppressing information that would show their incompetence and cruelty, would it be good for someone in the know to expose it?
I feel more like Daniel Ellsberg every day.
There’s so much of such information they HAVEN’T suppressed, so what’s a little more?
Things are so horrible now, I fear it would be exposed and then it would be lost in the noise. Then the person who exposed it would suffer terrible consequences.
This hypothetical person should be prepared for the consequences, which I would assume involve arrest and imprisonment for a period of years.
We cant really answer that. Ask Jack Ruby.
How many dead friends do the Clinton:s have?
I wouldn’t say they have friends.
That depends on how much money you have. Or can acquire for their “foundation”.
Probably most of them, they’re really fucking old*.
*no offense 4sq.
Obligatory music link
Hey! That’s uncalled for, whippersnapper!
Too many variables. depending on who, what, and when the information could lead to anything from, massive outrage to complete dismissal. The whistle blower could become a target for retaliation from any number of state boogeymen, or find himself a minor celebrity on the Joe Rogan-esque talk show circuit but otherwise largely ignored. One in a million chance he/she/it becomes a legend. Only way to find out is to go for it. Try to work an obscure word into your reporting, like ‘whinge’, into your reporting and clue us in so we’ll know it’s you when the story breaks, if it does.
Fried rice is good. Deep South also does old rice with butter and sugar.
would it be good for someone in the know to expose it?
Only if he wanted to wind up back in the loony bin.
Yay, we’re going to be in another big war within a month. Fucking crazy retarded bullshit.
But think how presidential Joe Biden will look and what it will do for his poll numbers!
Well we all know you don’t change a horse midstream, even when it’s a broken down old swayback shitbag.
Everyone says that 1984 was a warning not a how to manual. Smedley Butler’s War is a Racket suffers the same fate. MIC gonna MIC. That’s why I giggle at everyone saying Trump is going to drain the swamp. Eisenhower, a dude that won a no shit world war, warned us. Something about nothing being new under the sun.
Regarding Trudeau: ‘February 2022,’
Yeah, that’s the biggest problem with the courts they’re way, way too slow. In what way will this be a remedy for the people injured?