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I thought they blamed the latest vibe-coded windows patches for that and are recommending a rollback?

I’m sure there’s plenty of important points not being considered here as we each have a goal in mind and tend to ignore what doesn’t push it along.

For example, you speak of proper regulations as if they already are the rule instead of the exception.

Our imagination can run wild as much as it wants, while reality remains fixed beyond these written words. And it isn’t optimistic in whichever direction it looks to follow.

Can things still be changed? Yes, but it’s highly unlikely. The fight happens beyond these tiny walls where better people than you and I make worse mistakes than we can imagine. Because theirs are grounded in reality and affect more than simple thoughts.

Depends on the tits. Not all tits are created equal. Inequality among tits is at an all time high. It’s not tit for tit, but tit for tat. Great Tits for all!

Btw, i noticed you focused on the tits and not what the environment in which they are displayed represents for those displaying theirs. I admit it’s my personal opinion, but I’d say most of the women working in strip clubs don’t really do so entirely voluntarily or out of love for the profession. Would it be an exaggeration to say strip clubs are figurative slaughterhouses of young women in terms of exploitation? Perhaps. We might be thinking of different kinds of strip clubs after all…

That’s nice, but here’s what you miss: neither you nor the government are supposed to be all that can be when it comes to child development.

On one side there’s government excess, but on the other there’s also parenting excess. As one person, any one parent is not qualified to give their hypothetical child the best education they would deserve or objectively decide the levels of information they would need, appropriate to their age. They simply lack the qualifications.

Your comment would be hailed by anti-vaxxers. “I know better! The government can’t force me to vaccinate my children!” Also by domestic abusers. “My daddy beat me with their belt until my bum was bleeding and i turned out just fine! I’ll be damned if the government can tell me how to raise my kid!”

Now you might say “I wouldn’t do something like that”, but what makes you more trustworthy than the government? Being their parent? There’s that one case being talked in the media which can be used as an example that parents aren’t that trustworthy with the safety of their children.

See, people who really care about kids understand that some government interference is required. That people whose profession is to ensure the wellbeing of children are required. That neither side gets to decide alone what is best for the children.

Your opinion on what is or isn’t damaging to your child isn’t enough. You aren’t trained for that. You haven’t studied for that. And the one who suffers if you’re wrong is the child who will have to live with your mistakes for the rest of their life.

Government overreach isn’t the solution. Government uninvolvement isn’t one either. A job of parents is to gather together and be a communal voice which takes the government to task and demands what is best for children.

But we don’t have that, do we? Because, as a sad fact, a lot of parents are simply inadequate. Else this kind of BS law wouldn’t even be a problem under their watch.

Honestly believe what exactly? I’m not understanding your reply to my comment.

So you’re telling me you have no issue with allowing your kid to go alone to a strip club, letting them see scantily clad women of dubious age dancing for the pleasure of leering men (mostly), the liberal consumption of alcohol and possibly periphenalia of the illegal and damaging sort and the occasional violence committed by and against the customers, while also leaving them in the company of uninhibited individuals not quite sound of mind?

“Sure buddy, you can go to the strip club! Just remember, only look, no touch or the bouncer gonna throw you out! And if you get into a fight with the other customers, hit them over the head with a bottle or nick ‘em in the groin! Have fun!”

Back in the day there were strip clubs strewn about without much oversight. Us kids wanted to actively access them because we were curious and wanted to see the naked ladies. Do you believe we should have been granted full, unadulterated access to such establishments?

Very realistic. Actual cities also hide away their homelessness problem.

I liked it well enough. It’s a mix of open maps and linear corridors. It still uses morality points for good/bad ending. It’s like Dishonored in that. The intermission scenes are not cinematics, so they can’t all be really skipped. It’s all together kinda telling you to chill.

I only played on normal, so there weren’t many issues with difficulty, more so if you stealth your way through it, and you can see there’s an intended way of participating in the story even though the player has some freedom.

Have to mention, I played the enhanced version because I didn’t really under the difference from regular one. And on the first run, it takes a very long time to compile shaders, so if the extra graphics don’t matter, the non-enhanced version is reportedly the same.

Dunno. Finished Metro Exodus in the weekend and now I’m thinking on where to go next.

They added OpenMW and Tamriel Rebuilt on GOG, so I might give Morrowind another go. But I’m not into lengthy endeavors anymore…

What? Fat Lucia!? Woke GTA!!! … Bazillion preorders cancelled.

Yup. Magic mythril, invincible adamantium, amazing vibranium etc. we love our magic metals

You’re just here looking to argue. Have fun with that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacrifice_in_ancient_Roman_religion

If we did this shit in the modern age when we are much more connected and aware of each other, we did it millennia ago when we were isolated and warmongering. And people are the same everywhere, no matter how much we like to argue about cultural differences.

Nah, there was a big thing with sacrifices for Kali or Mara I think back in the 90s or early 2k. Lots a deaths.. People can get freaky when it comes to fanatical beliefs.

Edit: For those looking to join random death cults, please remember that when it comes to sacrifices, if the head of the cult isn’t the first to go, it’s a scam. And if the head of the cult isn’t enough, continue downward through the hierarchy. The most devout make for the greatest sacrifice.

I think it’s more about gaining access to your telemetry data. All that unsold info is starting hurt profits.

One of the americas taking oil from everywhere else.

When I tried playing the game, I was surprised to find it had 3 anticheat installers in its folders. There was Easy, which ran first. They let you play a few games with it, then Denuvo popped up and you weren’t allowed to play anymore without installing that as well. And finally there was something which wasn’t really named per say, but it was just laying there, all suspicious -like. It must have been this one.

Well, fuck that.

Most of current technology was evolved through the pillaging and looting of resources from weaker countries.

Our comforts, our phones, our PCs are the result of cruel and substandard practices against people who were deemed subhuman and unworthy of having rights and the spilling of blood on a global scale.

We are a civilization of death and suffering and will likely bring about our own extinction through our mindlessness and cowardice.

So as you can see, you are wrong.

Still hanging on with The Riftbreaker. Was suckered into a fight by what i believed to be the final boss. It was just the first boss fight and they ran away. After that, i went around map to map to unlock all the resources I was missing and now I’m on the last one, Palladium. No idea how close i am to the end game, but I haven’t gotten bored with it yet.

I’ve been looking for some multiplayer shooty squad-based action, but the popular ones are too pricey for my wallet or are joined at the hip with unpleasant and unwelcome elements. Dunno, I’m just maybe looking for that special something which doesn’t exist… Doesn’t help that I’ve lost my touch and can’t aim as well as i used to.

Also, I have Metro Exodus on standby, but it doesn’t really draw me in yet. Hopefully that changes because I finished the previous two in the series when they came out and i liked them back then.

Find India, many trade contracts to India. Find the boonies, no trade contracts at all.

So I’ve been making some Rogue Legacy runs while also playing poker (not gambling with real money) for fun in the background. It weirdly works because while the other players think their moves, I clear a room or two and then switch to make a dumb decision like going all in with a pair of 2s.

I’ve also been playing The Riftbreaker one map at a time. Barely unlocked titanium recently and next I’ll have to see what I can research and build with it.

Also, Soulframe in small doses. It’s like Warframe, but with way less content.

A monster fart

Soulframe became available to the public and i joined the rabble going in. It’s fun, but slow and grindy. Also very confusing. As an alpha state game it’s also full of bugs and incomplete content. .I do recommend it though.

Sounds reasonable. But it might have been an “eat the rich situation” as well. Just sayin’..

I’m actually starting to think it was ye ol’ corruption and decadence which did them in. The rich hoarded wealth, gave up or banned knowledge and then conveniently found a boogeyman to blame for the unavoidable collapse.

It’s been happening too many times to discount it as a possibility.

One-sided declaration because he became a consummate buddhist. His enemies disagreed.

They’re doing it again a third time because they sick of having to deal with all the countries east of them.

Agreed. The underperforming system in this case is clearly upper management. They should get rid of it.