I wanted to play Anno 2205 since it was released back in 2015 but not if it meant downloading and registering in Ubisoft's bullshit launcher DRM. Here we are almost 10 years later and they still haven't budged on that requirement. I'll be looking forward to reading the news of Ubisoft either getting rid of UPlay or going out of business. Either way, that requirement will eventually go away too.

That's maddening. I'd deliberately hit the nicest looking car to get a nice lawsuit out of it. It should be on the car owners to check for bikes if they're opening their doors over a bike lane.

A night out with dinner would be way better if the in-laws put away their phones instead of getting up and taking pictures of everyone eating around the table like it's some fucking holiday catalog for Costco. The good mood's gone and nobody wants to see those pics later anyway.

Really curious how much higher than 30 per 100k is in Las Vegas. I saw a suicide once in The Excalibur. Poor guy shot himself in the lobby. When I came back 30 minutes later everything looked like nothing happened at all.

You're right about it never being the right time to buy a card. The next gen of cards look good but the prices are starting to get even more ridiculous. It doesn't hurt to go with an older card if it means you save some cash on the purchase and power usage. Most games look fine outside of Ultra settings anyway.

Count on it. I recall seeing videos of protestors around Trump's last year in office getting yanked into unmarked vans. I think it was around the same time he was using customs and border protection to do peacekeeping operations.

To me secret police are plain clothes officers who drive ordinary looking cars until the hidden lights come on. They're literally keeping it a secret from the public that they're enforcing the law.

RIP RiF.

Raid builds hurt financially up front but can save you from a lot of heartache later, even with larger disks.

I figured the rudder would also be used to keep the boat straight.

If they can't drink in a desert hellhole then they shouldn't drive there either. Also fuck Ben Sulayem for giving out fines for swearing. Fucking bigoted prude.

I listened to album once in high school then thought nothing of it and went about my life. A few years later while reading Ready Player One I got excited when it was revealed to be a hint for the protagonist to analyze. I ended up listening to it a couple of times after that and began seeking other artists and albums that do prog rock and metal. That album expanded my horizons so to speak.

Thought I saw Saddam as the divider. Your memes are ruining my imagination, Lemmy.

James K. Polk. He went into a bloody war for conquest with Mexico to conclude Manifest Destiny.

I think you're reading too deep into this. They're skilled workers who specialize in some very difficult jobs and had the good sense to unionize to prevent getting fucked too hard by owners and the management class. That said, I don't think most of them realize they're contradicting themselves at the gubernatorial level by electing people who "talk like them" or "tell it like it is" versus someone who at least did the political calculus of siding with them to a small degree on strikes.

I'm saying these tradesmen don't stop to think that they're voting against their best interest every time they suffer a major setback from a union busting Republican. Am I saying Biden was better? No, but at least he didn't dissolve the air traffic control union through the barrel of a rifle.

They were originally from either the Middle East or Asia and were brought in during the Columbian exchange. I won't deny there might be other New World variants that I'm unaware of though.

Hate to be that guy but chorizo, al pastor, limes, cabbage, and onions arrived with the Spanish.

I didn't bother to pay attention because he wasn't at the levers of power the whole time. It was bliss.

They're slowly making their way through that sector. Coca-Cola just released a fully AI generated Christmas commercial and it shows. Trucks look like a strange assortment of sizes and designs with their wheels not quite working the way they should in real life among other things deeply located in the uncanny valley.