This is pretty much reaffirming my position that the only mercy and compassion that evangelicals should ever get is the wall.

In actuality it was always about maintaining a legal and socially acceptable avenue for continuing this country’s legacy of racism and slavery.

Sorta, in actuality it was created with the intent to get around the 1st amendment protections and silence the civil rights and anti war dissenters of the time, the relevant quote about this is below. After the Vietnam War ended and the Civil Rights Act got passed it turned into what you describe it is today.

"You want to know what this was really all about? The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.”

Sounds more like everyone used [realname][number] as their password because IT decided that changing your password every couple months is the most “secure”. Even though it’s not and causes [realname][number] passwords in the first place.

So, how were each of your Corvettes best Corvette?

Meanwhile in manufacturing: “First time working 6 (or 7) days a week?”

edit: I sympathize with anyone having to work a 6th day in a week under normal circumstances, but tbh my ability to sympathize goes out the window when I’m staring down a 6 day week this week, and had a 7 day week last week.

Honest question, let’s say you’re a 29M who has never dated before or anything remotely close to it, and rather suddenly you have a 18F going around asking other people about you and generally sending the vibe that they want to date you, what should you do?

I’m asking because that actually happened to me, and I decided to just go along with it because partly why not and my dating life wasn’t going to get any better doing with me nothing anyways.

Which is funny since if that scenario happens in the US (which is very rare as it would likely be ‘sorted out’ long beforehand), the construction company/developer will more often than not just run to city when they get fed up and next thing you know the holdout is being served papers for eminent domain.

Yes, but the best way to predict when a landlord increases the rent is usually tied to property value (which in turn influences property taxes). And the best way to tell if property value is going to go up is by paying attention to the kinds of stores opening up (or developments being built) in your neighborhood.

SF5 happened about 10 years in-universe before 6, and 3 happened in between 5 and 6.

Also Bison has “died” like at least a handful of times now.

Cuban Missile Crisis 2.0, let’s fucking go!

I mean yeah, we’re all going to die horribly from that, but we can at laugh at it.

In order from left to right. Wolverine, Archer, Warhammer, Griffin, Rifleman, Crusader.

It’s pretty easy to guess if you know the Japan BT art didn’t do any chassis past original printing of TRO 3025.

I’ve known that I should be going to therapy for years now, except I really just don’t have the time to. To explain, I work night shift at a factory from 11pm to 7am, and I have to drive about 25mi one way to get there so I leave the house about 10pm to get there and get back home around 7:40. And I try to go to sleep about an hour after I get home, and how much sleep I get isn’t exactly consistent, some days I get up at 4pm, some days it’s 5pm, and most of the time it’s normally 6pm by the time I actually get out of bed. Most places around here open anywhere from 8-9am and close from 5-6, so i’m already kinda SoL on scheduling alone.

And this isn’t getting into the last time I tried to seek therapy, it wasn’t really going well at all, and one time the therapist I was supposed to see had called in that day and the office didn’t tell me until I got there, and told me that they’d call me to reschedule. It shouldn’t take much to figure out what part didn’t happen, but the therapist I was seeing was kinda on the path of thinking my whole problem was just that I just needed to get laid. Which comes back to op about what i said of the quality of therapists i’ve heard that we’ve got out here…

Oh yeah, that mental health office that did all that is the only one within 5 miles of me.

Yes and no, it’s a bit complicated on the financial side of things.

Short of it is that I still live with my parents (we’ve come to an understanding that there was a lot of fucking up that happened, and they’ve also left religion too) and my 3 siblings. 5 of us are working, and I make the most out of everyone, and also the most stable income. The financial problems are that city (a rural city mind you) has decided that they’re all of a sudden going to start enforcing building code after years of not giving a rats ass, since there was a seemingly astroturfed movement to start gentrifying the city in a way.

So we’re staring down a $30,000 cost to have repairs done on a house that we know for a fact has a lot more wrong with it than what city has cited as being out of code.

Boggles my mind so many libs can’t see it.

Simple, they see Trump as a fluke.

It’s hideously bad here, thinking about it now the entire game seems to be built for the people who complain about plane games being about ‘circling around and around shooting at dots on the screen’ while missing that’s kinda the point and also being incredibly reductive and showing they didn’t actually play the game. Kinda like when someone complains that a mech game doesn’t control like a normal shooter, I want to grab them by the shoulders and scream at them that’s the point and that if it controlled like a normal shooter it would just be a hideously bad shooter.

And I just remembered the worst part of the game, the fact that there’s 2 turret sections in this piece of shit disaster of a train wreck, not counting the AC-130 mission. Netting the minigun turret just as much attention as the two helicopter missions, 3 if we want to count the AC-130 as a turret section.

Namco made Ace Combat: Assault Horizon with QTEs

The game committed a lot of sins, and the QTEs were the least of it. It included much worse than that, including…

• an AC-130 mission
• several times during several missions that you have to be locked onto a rail to progress the mission
• the entire DFM/ASM mechanic (this kills the game more than the QTEs)
• The bomber mission…
• The final ace duel just being a really long on rails section.

And that’s just off the top of my head.

I would say it’s one of two or both of the following. Firstly being that movies (and to a degree TV shows) have a hefty bit of prestige heaped on them by society, the same way that old paintings and sculptures have prestige. And that video games are still treated like children’s toys by society’s ‘arbiters’ of what is and isn’t high art. A way to put it would be to compare something like the oscars (or even the emmys) to the whatever the equivalent for games have, just watching and comparing is night and day. One puts up and really cares about the aesthetic of legitimately caring about it’s art form, while the other is still largely an advertisement vehicle.

The second reason is unions, essentially because if a studio decides to remaster an old movie, they may as well go out of their way to get the guy who directed it and ect. on board because they likely have to pay them anyways when it hits store shelves (for example like $1 per dvd sold, and movie ticket sold so on and so on. Though not that exact amount but you get the picture).

Mechwarrior 5: Mercenaries has a kind of weirdly restrained straight-faced satire going on

This is kinda a new thing for Battletech in general, especially for a game taking place around the time spanning the 3rd and 4th Succession War. Which is a bit strange as BT lore is normally not written like that. Like in the actual handbooks (that were written in the 80s and 90s) straight up portrayed Davion and Steiner as right and just in starting the 4th Succession War.

Let’s not even get into the whole premise of the universe is literally just ‘Oops, the Roman Empire fell because Space Hitler got power, and now everybody started fighting for control of that chair and thusly lost a lot of tech along the way’.

They don’t rinse their canned beans!

That’s completely fine depending on what you’re doing. Essentially if you’re dumping a can of beans right into something that’s going to dilute the liquid (like say a pot of chili), it’s completely fine and hardly noticeable.

Same energy as John Bolton going on live television and telling everyone the reason why the US is sanctioning Venezuela is that “it’s about the oil”

At work atm, so I don’t have time to go find a video of it. But I distinctly remember it happened.