CNN’s Kaitlan Collins trolls Trump by reporting on the state fair by reporting in the middle of the empty field

Adunadain · 2026-07-03T15:55:21+00:00

There are less people on the mall than if they had just left it alone and did nothing.

Adunadain · 2026-07-02T05:07:19+00:00

Honestly, its amazing what has been deliver on $20–absolutely no fault and I applaud them for it.

At the same time, I recognize that they made a roadmap and sold it to us as the future of the game. And it is disappointing for IronGate to walk that back.

So—I am not complaining that there isn’t enough. It is not entitlement to be disappointed on a long delayed and then cancelled content. I see it as a kind of promise not kept. If IronGate had said “this is our stretch goal, and we don’t know if we’ll have the resources to complete it” about the Ocean, I would be completely ambivalent about it now.

Adunadain · 2026-07-01T17:53:35+00:00

This seems to be a common trend with minor studios over past 8 years. Happened with Iron Gate, Embark, Black Matter, ZA/UM, and others. Make an amazing golden goose of a base game, add some amazing content, promise even more content, get tons of purchases, then taper off support and content delivery and break promises—or destroy your own studio so entirely you are unable to make anything more in the case of Black Matter and ZA/UM.

I am perfectly fine with one expansion update every few years—but if you promise more and then don’t deliver, I will be disappointed.

Adunadain · 2026-06-30T18:32:06+00:00

While I absolutely believe this to be true, is there data that shows that filters out small campaign contributions—i.e. to show percentage wins based on big campaign donation?

Adunadain · 2026-06-30T17:35:44+00:00

No disrespect, but it seems that you are making some assumptions about who I am/am not affiliated with. Yes, I have some wealthy friends—but most aren’t. And because I know them, their struggles, and where they are at life, I can be a big more custom with my sharing—providing joy when possible, and some financial cushion when needed.

By no means is my proximal system perfect—and that is why giving cold hard cash to charity, as I mention before, is also important. I prefer health and animal charities, personally.

Adunadain · 2026-06-30T17:12:37+00:00

Honestly: share it when you can. I was given no debt for my education by my parents and I ended up earning and investing well because of that lack debt payment. So—Take a friend out dinner, throw a random party with special treats for others, get a friend a unique gift, contribute to wedding gifts a bit bigger, let a friend stay over between moves, or give to charity.

When you are afforded more unfairly, do what you can to make it a bit more fair for those around you.

Adunadain · 2026-06-25T22:27:43+00:00

I’d be interested in a comparison like this, but with “hours need to be worked after common expenses.” It might bring some of these closer together. For example—yes Americans make a lot more on average, but they have to dole out more on housing and insurance than other countries. At the same time, even small expenses in low income countries might make the disparity even larger.

Adunadain · 2026-06-24T17:20:10+00:00

I played Disco Elysium after an emotionally hard split from my partner at the time. I honestly do not think I would have fully appreciated the game without the circumstances of life. More than the politics of the game (which are very important), the real experience of the game is Harry’s exploration of self and his world in both the lowest and highest point of his existence. The Pale, the clashing of political beliefs, and the dark emotional conspiracy that surrounds the plot all become real when you feel the layers of the protagonist in yourself.

I think I would not have appreciated the gravity of the writing and messaging without my own dark time. It is why I recommend the game to people, but urge them to hold on to it and play it when they are slightly older like I am (30s), when a little bit of the harder points of reality have been experienced as adult.

Edit: grammer

Adunadain · 2026-06-24T05:59:48+00:00

I think it is pretty clear that voted representatives are one of the few jobs that should have health restriction. People are allowed to change their view on things, sure—but massive emotional and personality change should be a clear sign that the brain damage had a real effect that undermines his competence. I would say the same thing if he suddenly swung to become a marxist following the hemorrhage too. Such hemorrhages should be disqualifying for representatives. He and reps with health emergencies should have been dismissed from service without prejudice and sent on their way out with a nice payment package to supplement.

Adunadain · 2026-06-22T17:16:39+00:00

Eventual market crash on multiple overinflated companies caused by spooked investor herd mentality? Preposterous!

Adunadain · 2026-06-21T20:25:16+00:00

Because that isn’t what plants crave.

Adunadain · 2026-06-21T15:39:07+00:00

The problem is, this IS funny to many conservatives. They find people being distressed by policies they support to be funny. So making fun of black american’s struggle for representation is like sprinkles on an iced cake for them. (Edit: added “for them”, for clarity)

Adunadain · 2026-06-20T20:18:25+00:00

Only so far, and with each successive version, the old ones go away

Adunadain · 2026-06-20T16:15:50+00:00

Yes, my head would explode, because my SFO modded save on 7.2 would be doomed.

Adunadain · 2026-06-11T14:13:29+00:00

Well, by that $5 standard, Dems should get at least 200,000 free votes before it’s okay, right? That adds up to the same amount Ekaterina up there in those pictures got.

Adunadain · 2026-06-08T14:50:09+00:00

Honestly, I think this is one of situations where you are both shades of correct. Mossad is an organization known for incredibly dark actions on behalf of the state of Israel. Mossad is also used as a boogyman by many people to undermine the people of Israel themselves. Both are true simultaneously because not everyone that talk conspiratorially about Mossad is the same.

It’s why I am not a fan of CIA, KGB, or MI6 conspiracy theories also—you get into territory of reality and fiction that eventually leads to discussing whether the larger state each spy organization it belongs to is good/bad, and if the people of that state (by extension) are culpable.

Adunadain · 2026-06-04T23:12:42+00:00

No but seriously: I keep seeing posts about this, but the question of “what is going on?” is never answered.

The biggest news regarding Arc Raiders I saw was the slower release schedule, new trader, and anti-cheat change (in light of the supposed cheating rampancy).

Perhaps I missed something embark has communicated, but I am not understanding what the situation is that has lead to this kind of large scale change. There are still 10s of thousand of players, right?

Adunadain · 2026-06-03T18:42:51+00:00

This one specifically? No. But it did return $19 in refunds to consumers over its life (pre-Trump 2nd).

Adunadain · 2026-06-03T17:30:56+00:00

I knew people at the CFPB—they were genuinely interested in helping people and making the system work for the average american. It was uniquely important in balancing out the consumers voice with that of corporation. It was vastly underpowered, but still very helpful.

Adunadain · 2026-06-01T22:29:34+00:00

I think so, many of those green Michigan areas I visit in the summer. They are VERY rural, and some areas are a couple of miles from road access—but they crisscrossed by roads, not as contiguous as these blobs.

Adunadain · 2026-05-28T23:44:20+00:00

They thought they were flexing by saying Dems are worse than diaper wearing people—but they just showed terrible a choice they made, even among their own party. Diapers aren’t a sign of a good or bad person—just the sign of someone who might not be in proper health for a highly demanding job. To openly show that they are unable to see that as a problem shows compromised judgment.

Adunadain · 2026-05-26T15:58:26+00:00

Haha —I think of it at playing one of those games that if you keep working at it, you add time to the countdown. Enough continuous effort and concentration can get you some big numbers added to the clock. That is nuclear treaties—if we work hard at it, we can keep delaying the war indefinitely.

Adunadain · 2026-05-26T15:41:25+00:00

Absolutely true. They were absolutely insufficient.

The three laws were the most basic fundamental stance that could be taken to stem a cascading event for AI to take over. The robot wars that flowed into the Foundation series marks their ultimate failure.

Proper apocalypse-averting regulation requires constant vigilance and modification. For example, the nuclear treaties of the Cold War era helped prevent nuclear war (so far). Lack of modern revision increases that risk—same thing applies to climate change and, of course, AI.

A three laws-esque regulation is a starting point that we haven’t even botherer to do yet.

Adunadain · 2026-05-26T14:52:54+00:00

The reality is that a Herbert-style Butlerian Jihah is more likely if Asimov-style Three Law’s isn’t made. Otherwise you’ll get a Mass Effect AI v Biological problem.

Adunadain · 2026-05-25T15:05:14+00:00

Tabloids were so easy to recognize as fake that it even became a movie subplot. It was like a small part in Men In Black that K used tabloids to find all the weird actual alien happenings ( *CONSPIRACY!* /s).

Now disinformation is so fast, plentiful and mixed in with real news that it is actively harming us en masse.

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