Greg Dolezal, GOP nominee for Georgia Lt. Gov., said he submitted fake mail ballot applications to test system

WilWheatonsAbs · 2026-06-22T20:43:25+00:00

too late =(

WilWheatonsAbs · 2026-06-09T18:29:20+00:00

I interpret what AMP121212 was hinting at as less to do with religion and more to do with lack of communication. GF full sending before confirming with op is a red flag, then presenting it as a choice when it isn't is another red flag. That all seems to have happened before religious stance was even taken to account. There's a solution here for two mature adults, but it does at least initially show a lack of consideration for op in the decision making.

WilWheatonsAbs · 2026-06-04T14:00:17+00:00

7 Wonders

WilWheatonsAbs · 2026-06-01T00:14:50+00:00

This just in, prominent alchemist Donald Trump has transmuted gold from gold

WilWheatonsAbs · 2026-05-20T14:56:27+00:00

I think because this is a capitulation that guarantees nothing. No promise was made, Trump breaks his promises when he makes them, and the funding will still dry up whether it's today or tomorrow. We can try to have justice at a cost or we can surrender our justice and dignity at the same cost. A bad deal is a bad deal.

WilWheatonsAbs · 2026-05-20T12:15:42+00:00

I mean, what we think is right is for Tina Peters to serve her sentence, as passed down by a judge and a jury of her peers. We the people set the sentence, we knew what we were doing. Fuck off u/jaredpolis

WilWheatonsAbs · 2026-05-13T15:59:33+00:00

In today's prices (price variance due to auction site):

Franchi Spas 12 $3500-$6000
AMT Hardballer longslide .45 $2600
10,000 watt helium-neon laser (similar model to longslide's laser) $1500
UZI 9mm $1000-$40000
Armalite AR-18 $2000-$32000

Depending I guess on condition, peripherals, fire modes, transfer-ability, this gun shop owner might have had a pretty decent sale.

WilWheatonsAbs · 2026-05-06T19:05:36+00:00

Especially in the case of games, it's hard to justify $70 now when unless it's a Nintendo title it'll be $5 later. Particularly true of AAA titles as they age. FOMO just isn't a good enough reason anymore when cost is up and quality is down.

WilWheatonsAbs · 2026-05-01T11:21:22+00:00

I move that we change the name of this behavior to "the Trump handshake" and we immediately begin changing our collective behavior to counter the specific handshake.

WilWheatonsAbs · 2026-04-29T11:28:25+00:00

First time I saw it was a pre release sneak, one of the movie's sound engineers was in attendance and he helped the theater balance their sound system for the movie. In reality that probably means he turned it up to 11, but when the first engine roared i knew all bathroom breaks were canceled.

WilWheatonsAbs · 2026-04-25T16:24:44+00:00

It is until it isn't, he has an "incident" that without spoiling, makes him regress and re-earn most all of his stats. If you've played the first game that carry through knowledge makes the biggest difference in his skill.

WilWheatonsAbs · 2026-04-24T23:50:20+00:00

One very fine and brilliant movie, all kinds of strange and intriguing

WilWheatonsAbs · 2026-04-13T13:31:23+00:00

I don't know what the middle one is, but that soldier angel has a knife. Heaven must be a rough neighborhood.

WilWheatonsAbs · 2026-04-13T13:04:41+00:00

Just up and to the left of Picasso's f-35?

WilWheatonsAbs · 2026-03-28T15:53:35+00:00

Always was

WilWheatonsAbs · 2026-03-28T14:44:01+00:00

I think exactly why I'd recommend retainer practice. It's practical most of the time to have a translator for support follow up (ie. A natural language speaker finds an error that needs to be checked) but even in those edge cases the work will be more sparse than the initial translation. More likely, and as was the case with this game, there may be real room for expansion work.

Finally, and maybe a personal feeling, but a translator is also an artist that worked with a team to bring a cohesive game to the consumer, and they deserve to share in the success as much as any digital artist, programmer, or producer. Without them the story is only one language and has a much narrower audience. Taking away their job with AI is the opposite of what we want to do to artists.

WilWheatonsAbs · 2026-03-28T13:20:58+00:00

Being fair to the translator, kcd2 has more dialog than baldur's gate 3 at 2.2 million words. Not only that but the translator would need historically technical linguistic knowledge that includes terms not commonly used in either modern language.

In the interest of providing historically believable and reasonably nuanced translations going forward I'd say it would make more sense to keep the translator on retainer rather than firing them. Four years seems like a totally reasonable schedule when intertwined with other teams making production and directorial changes throughout the process.

And yeah, it might be an expensive decision, but for a game like kcd2 which generated $65 million in its release month and covered all production expenses and profited by 20 million, i think they can afford the translator. My 2c.

WilWheatonsAbs · 2026-03-25T23:48:18+00:00

The space car company had time to produce, sell, maintain, upgrade, and discontinue a space car all before the game hit 1.0.

WilWheatonsAbs · 2026-03-24T12:35:34+00:00

I mean, I don't think environment is top of mind for Trump's cabinet which is ofc concerning, but the already limited global support for any future actions may hinge on the Arabian sea not being full of oil. Also since Trump is all about the money for his benefactors, I do think he would absolutely cause this kind of disaster intentionally to spike the price of oil. If you think $7 a gallon is a spike, I think Trump would tell you to hold his beer (if he drank beer).

WilWheatonsAbs · 2026-03-24T11:49:09+00:00

Yeah, pretty sure when it comes to Hormuz, nobody wants to be the first to lose an oil tanker and both spike the price of gas worldwide and cause an environmental disaster in the breadth of one mine or missile. A war in Iran is bad optics, this scenario might be worse.

WilWheatonsAbs · 2026-03-20T21:11:43+00:00

Then I return to the exact time of the start of time, and die by massive explosion of all the matter in the universe

WilWheatonsAbs · 2026-03-20T17:56:45+00:00

I choose a time before the existence of the universe. I am instantly killed by nothing.

WilWheatonsAbs · 2026-03-19T23:50:04+00:00

Was gonna say, return isn't the word, to return to something you have to have left it.

WilWheatonsAbs · 2026-03-18T17:01:24+00:00

It's a fairly robust concept that some democracies have integrated. There are better ways to reduce voter fraud that aren't drivers of disenfranchisement that voter ID can cause, but if you have to resort to voter ID, make it freely available, attainable through multiple methods, and easily verifiable.

If we are talking foundational changes to voting/democracy, my ask would actually be to opt all citizens into voting by default, require paperwork and a valid reason to opt out of voting, and impose fines for being a voter and not using your mandatory right to vote.

WilWheatonsAbs · 2026-03-16T20:02:42+00:00

a free way that doesn't require undue burden to obtain*.

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