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I read somewhere they were working on dos3 and put it on hold when bg3 came up. If they go back and work on the dos series I’ll be there for it!

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Yep, better disclaimers are inevitable. When they call it a ‘feature’ it isn’t getting fixed

gotta make the water hard too, doesn’t work without hard water

Florida is going to be so pissed at TST for getting all this PR and fund raising while adding to their impressive list of accomplishments listed below:

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City officials said they will continue to monitor the situation.

Great, that’s helpful. /s

Yay more ragebait from Washington Post editorial/opinion pieces!

I know we’re talking about this steaming pile of shit over here but look there are other piles of steaming shit over there too!

I really need to watch the sequels, if they’re anything like the original it’ll be worth it to me.

That’s an assumption. 1 these aren’t all houses, some of these are small rooms. Looking the place up I’ve actually been there, some folks end up there for PT or hospice and I can tell you the place aint swank. 2 They could afford the 1.3K monthly fee they expected, sheeeet that’s about what I was paying for a one bedroom in the city in not a particularly great area and I didnt have the assisted living aspect that River Glen provides which I assume is the biggest cost. it’s not a surprise that they couldn’t handle it going up to $6K a month. can you handle your rent going up 300%? Also you gotta keep in mind these are olds. They probably bought their house back forever ago and with housing prices here, and from what it sounds like damn near everywhere, the value of their houses have just been going up like crazy. That doesn’t necessarily mean they have money, they probably sold their house or whatever and that’s how they managed to get that hefty down payment.

In the end in both scenarios they sunk what they had into a thing that was supposed to last them to the end, the didn’t have much left after that and now the terms of the agreement have changed and they can only pray the terms of the agreement don’t change further. I get not wanting to side with perceived rich people and prices vary by region. you can feel different about that if you want but they aint all that different of situations

Same area, st Charles and Elgin are one town apart. It’s been a while since I checked but I think $100k-200k would be the average house price in the area. I’m a little closer to the city than those burbs and tiny foreclosures that aren’t even up to code can be 200k.

So yeah that might be rich compared to some areas but for this area it’s not but all surprising.

This news are actually quite similar. You’ll find in both people investing heavily, most of their retirement savings, to establish themselves and then the management company or property owner jacking up the rent to the point where people can no longer live there and have to abandon their investment/retirement fund. Not too complicated of a comparison really.

Sam Zell was doing the same shit in the '00s (and still is) and even in the same area https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2007-05-27-0705260052-story.html this one ended up with my grandmother losing her retirement plans she financing.

There’s always scams and they often target those most vulnerable who can’t fight back. You’d think there should be some protections or safety nets but gods of capitalism require blood sacrifices

Was is ever not completely under capitalism? As far as I’ve seen they were always fully going with hype over substance posturing

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partially sarcastic, Tasha Yar as a character had big potential and was intended to be cooler but they started off on the wrong foot, never corrected, and never developed her.

The wikipedia rabbit hole for Tasha Yar and her actor Denise Crosby is an interesting one. Some of the creators thought she was the most interesting character in the “show bible” so maybe it was the episode writers that missed the message and gave her such empty stories and flubbed what could have been a cool character. Either way it would have been interesting to see a woman in the role of chief of security and another big leap in the progressiveness of star trek.

TOS had post cold war russians, and showed that black people are part of the future. Aside from briefly having a woman in charge of security I can’t think of any progressive traits on TNG other than negotiating and 1st contact (are Picard’s bag and) better that fighting. Don’t get me wrong through I still hold a special place for TNG, just finished a rewatch not too long ago, but on second-ish watch, with the rose tinted glasses off, it is disappointing they had an opportunity to make a statement about a brighter, freer, more equitable future but ended up going with rape gangs and forced marriage (oh and fucking Data) instead.

So yeah the character ended up weak but was originally intended to be a bad ass. missed opportunity for something cooler and bigger.

Wait wait wait, are you trying to say that a character whose first big episode s1e4 saw them, as the head of security, get kidnapped for a forced marriage and had a character background of [checks notes] planet of rape gangs wasn’t enough of a character?

Early TNG wasn’t great, not surprising Denise Crosby asked to be released from her contract early. Fully agree they did her dirty with that death story but glad they still brought her back a few times

Pure enshittification, squeezing both sides. I had no idea on this part but that would explain a lot, fuckin wild

Here’s how that worked: when you ran a query like “children’s clothing,” Google secretly appended the brand name of a kids’ clothing manufacturer to the query. This, in turn, triggered a ton of ads – because rival brands will have bought ads against their competitors’ name (like Pepsi buying ads that are shown over queries for Coke).

Here we see surpluses being taken away from both end-users and business customers – that is, searchers and advertisers. For searchers, it doesn’t matter how much you refine your query, you’re still going to get crummy search results because there’s an unkillable, hidden search term stuck to your query, like a piece of shit that Google keeps sticking to the sole of your shoe.

But for advertisers, this is also a scam. They’re paying to be matched to users who search on a brand name, and you didn’t search on that brand name. It’s especially bad for the company whose name has been appended to your search, because Google has a protection racket where the company that matches your search has to pay extra in order to show up overtop of rivals who are worse matches. Both the matching company and those rivals have given Google a credit-card that Google gets to bill every time a user searches on the company’s name, and Google is just running fraudulent charges through those cards.

“They trust me — dumb fucks,” says Zuckerberg

Always good to keep in mind

Wouldn’t the api hit the cloud, isn’t it just a different interface?

Had to find this post again to say thanks! I hadn’t heard of this one before but I’m now caught up and current. Great world building! At points it felt a little like shifting from one Shyamalan event to the next but it’s starting tie the various threads together and feels like a big payoff / culmination in the works. I haven’t consumed the most or much cyberpunk media but I do like the lack of sugar coating compared to the little else of the genre I have seen.