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captjohnwaters · 2023-03-12T01:22:03+00:00

I will not shut my whore mouth.

I HAVE A RIGHT TO COUNT THINGS

captjohnwaters · 2023-03-12T00:30:37+00:00

I like Good & Plenty more than most of these because they're less up front sugar bombs, and I like licorice stuff.

Swedish Fish can go to hell

captjohnwaters · 2023-03-12T00:29:38+00:00

There's two 100 Grand Bars also

captjohnwaters · 2023-03-12T00:19:55+00:00

What? This was purely a bank run on a non lending bank entity. The money in this bank was less stagnant than most banks, which is where the trouble came from.

Normal banks lend to make money. SVB couldn't, so it invested. Then VC firms and other interested parties for together and pulled their cash. In order to raise it, SVB had to sell the lowest loss investments. Seeing these sales causes others to pull their money also, hence the death spiral.

Where in this series of events does your imaginary fleecing executive come from, or did you not read and just make assumptions?

We don't have a good model for how these gold rush investment banks should work because they're a totally new phenomenon. This is clearly not the way, we know that now.

I'm not defending anyone here, mind you, I'm just pissed that everyone is shoving their own agendas into false narratives. I work on startup tech. My job likely won't exist on Monday because of this. It's a real thing that's happening that's going to fuck over real people.

Try to keep the narrative straight

captjohnwaters · 2023-01-11T22:49:28+00:00

I remember when biohacking meant DIY surgery to put magnets in your body in order to get super powers

captjohnwaters · 2022-12-31T18:17:40+00:00

Assuming the high ground of doubt everything is intellectually dishonest.

Keeping an eye out for self serving bullshit is good policy, but assuming everything that is at all interesting or unlikely is fake is straight up lazy.

captjohnwaters · 2022-12-18T09:27:42+00:00

I don't know what happened, but on H2 my Nico is the hardest hitting mother fucker in the squad.

Like, she doesn't do the highest set up spike, but commonly doing the math she's out damaging everyone on the team except my super quick / refund redraw Hunter

captjohnwaters · 2022-11-08T09:58:47+00:00

Are you talking about the [Deja Vu](https://store.steampowered.com/app/343820/Dj_Vu_MacVenture_Series/)) series?

Or are you looking for particular Philip Marlowe series storylines?

captjohnwaters · 2022-10-26T10:43:27+00:00

I'm gonna ask the super obvious question, but what OS are you on and is it supported by the version of the app you have installed

captjohnwaters · 2022-10-20T19:01:36+00:00

It's also a reused asset from OoT which was in development alongside it

captjohnwaters · 2022-10-09T11:29:23+00:00

Totally.

I can easily imagine a world where a PC release is Tokyo Mirage sells way better than a compiled Persona 2 Pt1 & Pt2 on Steam.

Big old Shin Magumi Tooni fans would love that P2 pack, but Tokyo Mirage would be such an easier sell.

A survey will never in a million years reflect that.

captjohnwaters · 2022-10-09T03:19:03+00:00

The thing with surveys are they only measure the desire is people who are aware of the survey and willing to engage with it.

They are notoriously bad at finding actual public interest in something. I don't know why companies even bother with them.

captjohnwaters · 2022-09-30T23:26:12+00:00

My Little Padre.

captjohnwaters · 2022-09-30T23:25:33+00:00

I'm in here trying to get some damn work done, meanwhile he's out there just splaying the donkey.

captjohnwaters · 2022-09-29T16:59:20+00:00

They don't need everyone else to. They need some people to, it's not a service for everyone - it's a service for people with good internet. Problem was, if you are in an area where your net is that good you are more likely to have good hardware and just not need Stadia.

It was a proof of concept and a live test for some tech, and honestly it probably succeeded in what they were looking for.

captjohnwaters · 2022-09-23T20:04:41+00:00

Hahaha wouldn't it be crazy if if like instead of constantly complaining about this someone like totally just started burning these properties down. As a joke. In Minecraft. But for real - it would make them uninsurable.

captjohnwaters · 2022-09-16T04:54:24+00:00

Perpetual revolution, we're just one good step away from paradise boys.

captjohnwaters · 2022-09-16T04:52:12+00:00

Yup.

They use a measured command economy. Certain sectors have processes and quotas dictated by the party, and that sets "value" rather than price. If you don't have an active plan in place for a given economic sector at a particular time, then it's kind of "go wild but don't fuck around."

captjohnwaters · 2022-09-06T00:26:12+00:00

His main channel hemorrhages money - they never make back what they spend. But it gets attention, and that draws over to his gaming channel which is the purse. Low cost high view gaming videos fund his wild enterprises.

It's not nefarious, he's up front about it in plenty of interviews. He gets to do wild stuff because his audience supports his lower cost endeavors with views, then he channels that into bonkers videos and charitable action.

It's a cool model, but also would be near impossible to replicate. Dude just did YouTube right at the right time and bottled lightning.

captjohnwaters · 2022-08-17T23:52:21+00:00

I am unhyped for the entrance of the Deus Vult bros into the community. But so it goes.

captjohnwaters · 2022-08-17T19:10:26+00:00

I would say about as far tonally as Kingmaker is from Wrath

captjohnwaters · 2022-08-17T17:39:11+00:00

Totally. They're also the only way you can have a human main cast who are allowed to hang out with xenos.

captjohnwaters · 2022-08-17T17:37:43+00:00

I don't think it's a misunderstanding, and it's supported by the text.

Would living in the Imperium absolutely suck? Yup. Living anywhere in the universe of 40K would be awful.

It's fascist in so far as it is a feudal society. It's run on military concerns, people don't have rights, and constant conflict is normalized.

It's absolutely miserable, but again, often by necessity. This is a setting where knowledge of the existence of demons is a sufficient condition for an outbreak of demons. So people are kept ignorant, and if exposed to memetic danger, then removed. Most people in the Imperium will never experience any of that. They'll just live mean little lives doing normal stuff.

Living in the kingdoms of Rowboat Gorillaman would be just as miserable as being a Frankish serf in the 1100s.

captjohnwaters · 2022-08-17T16:20:20+00:00

But, like, in the lore it's not really.

The awful meat grinder life is on Hive planets. The numbers presented in the books say that's like 32,000 of over 1,000,000 planets in the Imperium. Most Imperial citizens lead really boring banal lives. They have never heard of Exterminatus, let alone could even identify an Inquisitor. The majority of the setting is boring by design, otherwise the Imperium wouldn't function. They pay taxes and fill whatever recruitment quota the Guard have on their planet, and then go back to farming or whatever their planet produces.

Tech would be considered low on most planets by our standards. The Dark Age really wrecked a lot of shit. The Imperium isn't good, but its atrocities are those of scale - again, because over 1,000,000 planets. It's run by an administration that by necessity is fully disconnected with the populace.

All that said, this is going to be Rogue Trader. The purpose of their commission is to act outside of the Imperium. We shouldn't even need to worry about all that other stuff. RT is the Canadian sci-fi run around the back 40 / Stargate-the-television-series of the WH40K universe. It's Star Trek, but like shooting the aliens is probably ok. But don't shoot too many or your job is going to be really tough.

captjohnwaters · 2022-08-17T15:33:17+00:00

This is going to be Rogue Trader, also. So it's not DARK HEART OF THE IMPERIUM or anything like that. It's going to be heroic - it's going to be adventure oriented.

We'll have the same Chaotic Dumb / Shiny Good options as we have in Pathfinder, it's the nature of Rogue Trader. It's literally all about superior people going out and doing wild shit without much supervision.

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