All this you feel? It reeks of the stuff leading up to WW1. Just waiting on the Zimmerman telegram now.
We’re going to backslide to the prewar days where violence was the only way to amass power, before the days of the UN, USAID, NATO, and the rest.
And that isolationist shit is consistent with America pre WW1 and the interwar period before WW2.
I also said half life. Doom was a leap forward, but Half life actually set a technological and story telling bar, on a budget, in 1998. Many videogames drew inspiration from its innovations, storytelling or themes.
Iirc, there was supposed to be a fight scene, but Ford was suffering from terrible diarrhea on set, so they came up with this to keep it short, lol.
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This one will keep you up at night, it was SO fucking interesting. It’s basically a story about a crime fighter who goes in and solves really complex crimes…but all the crimes are weird diseases, like strange brain swelling diseases that are gonna kill a ton of people in the US, and the detective has to figure it out before a bunch of people die.
We have the technology to solve insane cases, but we are completely hamstrung by mentally deficient politicians like our current idiot and his party. And how we still prevailed despite their obstructions.
Chicken of the cave!
This is why we had programs like USAID. To keep people from starving and eating infected animals harboring endemic viruses we know nothing about.
Even in the US, it’s highly inadvisable to eat animals/bush meat infected with CWD even if it technically can’t infect humans …yet.
There was a less than flattering YouTube video comparing the two. Valve put a ton of engineering behind the game that was apparently quite difficult to emulate. The results appeared half-baked when compared side by side.
I would love a l4d3 though!
The new right, freedom convoys, AFD, and other far right movements are our common enemy.
DART successfully moved an astroid that was probably way bigger!
I would sleep like a baby if it had these odds, lol.
As long as it falls on the right city, it would do the entire world a massive, once in 500 years favor.
I should set one up. Is it a huge pain in the ass?
Black Mesa, if you are playing through the half life franchise. Also, probably one of the best remakes ever. I can’t think of a remake better than the original, and I played HL and Black Mesa back to back to be sure.
I feel like Nvidia is really hitting a wall, and has mostly just been upping the power limits and using software tweaks and higher core counts to eke out more performance since the 10 series. I could be wrong, but each GPU release seems more incremental than the last.
It’s happened before! But it cost so much. Humans can really get warped by extremism until they finally get sick of it after many have died.
I like the one that sells your data about your sexual orientation, lol. It’s just so beyond the pale these days.
If the US is unable or unwilling to be a world leader, the EU must step up. China runs concentration camps and has a totalitarian government, not a good fit for the world, especially for anyone “different” from the regime.
Bumble used to be different back in the day. I tried it when it was going down the tubes.
I think part of the problem is that the matching is fairly superficial, so while you know a little about the person, most of the details amount to their face, 1-3 hobbies, and their ass.
The women I matched with that I went out with were awkward and felt forced. In the end, I ended up falling in love with a close guy friend that I had known for years.
If bumble wants success, they should allow for much deeper Q&A, longer response times, a tweaked algorithm that matches people based off hobbies and passions, and an AD section that allows people to privately put in stuff that they like after dark. Info that isn’t shared with their matches, but helps make people match better with people like them.
As for straight dating though, idk. I feel like people should probably be avoiding apps and meeting organically through stuff like biking groups, climbing groups, skiing events, big dance venues, etc. it fosters much more organic connections.
I don’t participate in bar culture that much, but the difference between the gay bars I’ve gone to and the straighter college-y bars feels immense. The former is much more social with a pinch of kink, the latter is where people are getting absolutely blitzed without much dialogue over loud music. It’s an extremely small sample size, but I can’t help but wonder if it’s part of a larger trend when it comes to meeting people and how portions of society meet and date. Perhaps there are bars where single straight men and women meet over 1-2 drinks and talk, but I haven’t seen any so far.
Overall, I think the Internet and cars (decreasing population density and increasing the space between third places) has had a dramatically negative impact on love and friendships in places like the US.
I hope Ukraine keeps its mineral rights, and we all fund their war. We should be thanking them for kicking Russia in the cunt, not taking away their resources while they fight a war for the EU and NA.