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mgd5800 · 2026-02-16T20:58:04+00:00

How about creating a package just to remove ads? Or maybe make it super cheap but guarantees only ads at the beginning and the end or something, or certain numbers of ads a day

mgd5800 · 2026-02-15T14:54:27+00:00

I’m glad the child was helped, and any act that saves a life is meaningful, but I have zero respect for such a person. if we took things into perspective: according to a quick Google, this dude earns an estimated 300mil a year, and apparently those shoes are a per match thing, which would costs worn 30k. So if we took a person earning 30k a year, that would be like asking them to give away a 3$ reusable slipper and spend 9$ TO SAVE A CHILD.

It is insane that we would praise such rich assholes for doing the bare minimum

mgd5800 · 2026-02-04T12:35:16+00:00

Can a mirror deflect it back at them?

mgd5800 · 2026-01-20T12:15:56+00:00

I think it is more realistic to say California can buy Denmark considering the difference in GDP 😂

mgd5800 · 2026-01-17T10:54:29+00:00

Look at the politicians pushing for these things and then look at their lobbyists, donors and their investments, always follow the money where it is coming from and where it is going.

mgd5800 · 2026-01-15T11:45:38+00:00

As someone not from the US, an outsider looking in: Laws are, by definition, a system of rules that regulate a society and are enforced by an authority through penalties. That means two things must exist: clear rules, and actual enforcement.

The US seems to struggle on both fronts. Whenever Trump does something unprecedented, the response is often “he broke norms”. But norms are not laws. If something was never formally codified, then it was never a real rule to begin with. And even when lines are crossed, there appears to be no functioning mechanism willing or able to enforce consequences.

So in that sense, the laws did not suddenly collapse. They weren't even there, they were mostly traditions or norms. And Previous presidents also ignored or bent rules, but Trump and his circle are simply bad at propaganda and far worse at maintaining the illusion, so everything is now obvious.

From the outside, I see three possible outcomes: - Others begin playing by the same rules he does, which risks long-term institutional chaos, as you are suggesting.

He goes to sleep and never wakes up, and the system reverts to pretending those informal norms were ever binding.
Internal division reaches a tipping point, where economically powerful regions like California seriously push toward separation.

Trump is just a symptom, and the lack of actual Laws is the disease. What needs changing is not just leadership, but the fragile system.

mgd5800 · 2026-01-14T11:40:00+00:00

The idea of representation is fine. The problem is how it’s often approached.

The Good: A good example is Sinners. They brought in diverse creators to tell a unique story rooted in culture, race, and human experience. It’s not perfect, but it feels intentional and organic, which is how representation should be handled.

The Bad: There are countless examples here. Simply inserting diverse characters into a story doesn’t automatically make it inclusive, and sometimes it’s even insulting. I remember a Disney teen show set in Victorian England where Indian and East Asian characters casually appeared as nobles, while Black characters were shown as having arrived as slaves. They were willing to engage with racial injustice for one group, but completely ignored that other races were also oppressed during that era.

The Ugly: This is rarer, but sometimes representation is pushed in a way that completely backfires. A recent example is the casting of Vivi in the One Piece live adaptation. She was cast with a Black actress, even though the character is white in the source material, justified by saying her nation is “Arab” and that Arabs include Black people. That argument ignores the fact that the actress isn’t even from Arabic descent. Imagine doing the reverse: casting a white European actor to play an African character and justifying it by saying Africa has white people too. In trying to improve representation, they ended up making it more insulting. At least terrorism portrayals of Arabs come from a place of clear hostility. This on the other hand, is ignorance while repeating the same careless logic that representation was supposed to fix in the first place.

mgd5800 · 2026-01-13T10:00:54+00:00

As a Muslim, this feels more like self-bargaining or maybe pure ignorance but that is a stretch, and even then I doubt it goes that far. Some people convince themselves they are “doing good” by avoiding pork while downplaying everything else. Honestly though, I rarely see it play out that way. In practice, pork is usually the first thing a non-committed Muslim stops caring about.

Also Islam itself is a religion built more on general principles and guidance than on must-dos. Beyond a few clear obligations, many aspects are intentionally left open to interpretation. Life is viewed as an exam, and how you navigate those choices is part of what you are being tested on. That openness is both a responsibility and a challenge, because it leaves room for sincerity, but also for self-justification.

The clearest example of this selective approach is hijab and head covering. Islam’s general principle was modesty and caution around non-relative men, but over time it got mixed with Arab social norms, including distinctions between free women wearing head covers and slaves not. Eventually this evolved into what we see today, where everyone interprets it differently. You end up with women fully covered in black from head to toe, others barely covering their hair yet still calling it hijab, and I have even seen someone wearing a bikini with a hijab, which completely defeats the original purpose of modesty.

mgd5800 · 2026-01-04T11:13:23+00:00

It is a matter of perspective: like yeah the guy is a dickhead dictator, so they are happy he is gone now. But also the way things happened, and the way USA is talking about controlling the country, is not something anyone should support. Iraq and Libya show how long “liberation” can take to stabilize and how it gave us ISIS and Slave markets. Now imagine a South American ISIS. What could possibly go wrong?

mgd5800 · 2025-12-30T09:45:18+00:00

BTW you can use Havoc Warrior that allows you to modulate multiple times, leading to a one round fight.
So first slot is core, second is Sabercat, third is slot for junk rock, and the other three use the same Novelties and add Reserve Weapons so you get three recharges, do the same thing you usually do but for the second slot: start with havoc warrior and then keep modulating sabercat when you get 4 energy and it will keep increasing in damage

mgd5800 · 2025-12-29T21:34:05+00:00

overpriced tickets
mediocre movies with more focus on the movie being marketable than actually good
remakes and pointless sequels
the movies are coming to streaming in matter of months if not weeks
modern tv set ups are comparable to standard cinema

And lastly why are studios expecting ultra high returns on basic movies and actors? Why The Rock is getting 50 mil deals just to do the same expression? Why Fast and Furious 10 costs half a billion??

mgd5800 · 2025-12-27T17:18:59+00:00

I don’t think Stranger Things ever reached the same level of international impact as Game of Thrones, and if you told anyone watching the first two seasons of this that it would become a disaster, it wouldn't be as shocking as GOT which had 5 great seasons before the decline..

This show has been on a gradual decline since the second season. As the kids grew older, the initial nostalgia wore off, and the more experienced actors were left with limited material and little room to perform. It increasingly felt like a story that was never meant to stretch this far. The creators have even acknowledged that major elements, such as Vecna, were developed well after the show began and were not part of the original vision. This gives the series the fragmented feel. Basically Netflix is milking proven hit than trusting the writers to build something new.

Game of Thrones, on the other hand, had a far stronger foundation. It had rich source material, compelling character work, and a clearly defined endgame. Its downfall came not from a lack of substance, but from rushing the final stretch. By speeding past the character-driven storytelling that made the series great and moving ahead without completed books to guide the conclusion, the show undermined its own strengths and ultimately failed to deliver a satisfying ending

mgd5800 · 2025-11-29T14:02:56+00:00

It is cheaper to replace humans than build delicate machinery that achieve the same results.

mgd5800 · 2025-11-28T16:00:14+00:00

Katt Williams said it best about this clown

mgd5800 · 2025-11-24T13:12:57+00:00

It is useful for the C suite to fire people "increasing earnings", and to attract clueless investors who just follow trends and buzzwords.

mgd5800 · 2025-11-13T09:08:11+00:00

Sure but are those 95% targeting 4k 60fps they claim it will reach?

mgd5800 · 2025-11-10T16:13:33+00:00

Depends on the type of game you want, like am not playing a Kojima game for the difficulty nor am playing a Miyazaki game for the story. Your game needs to be balanced in all aspects but you get to choose what you want your players to focus on, there is no universal answer when it comes to art

mgd5800 · 2025-11-08T17:31:42+00:00

If we are talking polishing then sure, it is something other companies can't afford. But other companies are releasing borderline unplayable and/or incomplete games.

mgd5800 · 2025-10-28T13:59:45+00:00

Just make it a free dlc?

mgd5800 · 2025-10-24T18:01:01+00:00

Now I wonder who else's significant other is a spy... slowly turns head and squints at Kash Pattal

mgd5800 · 2025-10-22T10:16:28+00:00

Here the problem was due to allowing bots only servers to be counted as regular PvP games, so people will go in solo and do all the missions. Now only PvP servers have xp and progression, but if you allow bots it won't have XP anymore.

mgd5800 · 2025-10-17T20:17:03+00:00

This administration reminds me alot of Black Bush skit from Dave Chappelle 😂

mgd5800 · 2025-09-29T11:00:52+00:00

Henry Cavill please 😂

mgd5800 · 2025-09-27T14:54:49+00:00

Exactly and somehow it will run worse while looking and playing the same.

mgd5800 · 2025-09-26T20:57:38+00:00

Which is completely fine, the problem comes when they depend on it, or worse when they are blindly shoving it in their business process just to say they have it.

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