So... the SSN. Like no matter what, the system you're proposing is going eventually piggy backed on as a convenient system of proving someone is who they are, like the SSN was despite all the problems with it.

Okay, the idea that every single person that vote republican must be some some secret fascist is somewhat wrong, from my perspective it is at least. Don't get me wrong here, I know people that absolutely do vote like that because they are some of the worst human beings in existence. But there is something that so many of you just don't understand. For context, I live in pretty much middle of nowhere rural ohio.

The quickest way I can put this since I'm typing this up during break at work, is that a lot of you have no clue just how insufferable the mildest american liberal is if they got dropped in out here.

You better not lose a children's card game to it, or else you may be sent to the shadow realm.

Before global warming, their "solution" to the idea of a supposed overpopulation problem in their heads was ideally war, or just straight up starvation of the working class. But it was mainly war, because it established a pecking order among the rich, and did the job of killing poor people well enough.

Also overpopulation has been a "problem" to these fucks for a really long time.

"No lowballers, I know what I have."

I can only speak from a urban rural divide perspective, but it's largely because for a long time neither party really cares for anyone living outside of big cities. For the Democrats they always seem to consider this something to be prideful of, and always seem to have a disdain whenever they have to interact with people in rural areas. For the Republicans, they also have the same disdain, but they also try to keep it hidden, and go a step further and imply that they'll do everything they can to spite the other.

It really comes down to wanting to spite the other team for percieved or real slights they've done.

but don't you have any knick-knacks or memories or fun objects someone gave you?

Sure, because everyone is capable of being able to go out (or even have the time), or even be able form emotional bonds with people... Surely this criticism (and others like it in this very thread) isn't reminding me why I hate being around people, why I keep anything and everything to myself, why I willingly work night shift, why I always feel like I never belong anywhere I go.

Personally I think the reason why Valve kinda stopped bothering with TF2 the way they did is that the various 6s and highlander leagues would have enough of a backbone to tell Valve off if they tried to exert the amount of control on them as valve does with CS and Dota.

Eh, no that's not the issue. To release a game on a console, and every update you do to the game, it has to go through rigorous testing as required by Nintendo/Sony/MS. For PC this effectively just doesn't exist. Like testing on console requires you to do stuff like test the game when you have no DLC, all DLC, DLC 1 and 2 but not 3, DLC 2 but not 1 and 3, and so on. For PC the most anyone is required (and this is a stretch) to do is make sure it runs, and make sure it theoretically doesn't brick anything.

So because the testing requirements for publishing on PC is like practically nothing compared to releasing on a console, companies cheap out on it because they don't have to spend anywhere as much money as they do unlike releasing it on the PS5, Switch 2, or whatever the current Xbox is. And historically speaking a lot of devs go "Fuck it, let the PC crowd brute force it with all their horsepower" when putting stuff on PC.

The whole thing about the battleship becoming less prominent and the carrier taking over goes back to WWII, and more to the point, Pearl Harbor effectively forcing the US Navy to rely on carriers to be the flagships of their fleets in the pacific.

How did we live without them before 2016?

It was mostly Teamspeak, Ventrello, and Skype before discord took over. And the first reason Discord took over was that paying for a TS or Vent server was becoming a bit unviable, partly because the people who were paying for it was also paying for a server to host a forum, and a domain name for said forum, and all that together was pretty expensive, and partly because the shadows of the 08 recession was (and I'd argue still is) still being felt. Another reason was that Skype was shitting the bed so much that when Discord came around it did everything Skype was doing and more, and doing it significantly better than Skype.

Also the barrier to entry is significantly lower than your average traditional forum, and TS/Vent server that was most likely ran by like one guy, and if he went the whole community came crashing down.

Hell if you really want to get into it, Skype did everything every little instant messager did better, and more when it came about.

Build some miniatures, do green screen with em for scale, use CGI, tanks and planes and shit are easy to do with it.

That costs money, thus increases risk, and the suits don't like that. Having DoD assistance costs nothing, thus lowers risk, and less risk = more good to the suits bankrolling the film.

and if you're near the cardassian border just go pick a different one

You do have to admit they got done super dirty by the Federation, and it happened because of the Battle of Wolf-359 had demolished quite a bit of Starfleet, enough to get the Federation to negotiate for peace with the Cardassians.

I have the RBT-5, AU-1, T-V, both reward soviet P-63s (C-5 and A-10), the Me-262 'cas' variant (I think it's the A-2a. It's the one with half the 30s of the normal 262, but it can carry a 500kg instead), the T30, and a bunch of other stuff.

MACGUYVER. Leto plays the eponymous cia-funded physicist infiltrator. or the antagonist Murdoch. or both.

It can't be any worse than the reboot.

I will provide a counter argument, Mechwarrior Online, sorta, it's complicated.

From the one time I had to report for jury duty, it's because juries are supposed to consider only the facts presented by both the prosecution and the defense when making their decision.

Edit: Essentially like everything in the US, we like to think it's all a carefully managed system with checks and balances. In reality it's just a byzantine nightmare of rules, norms, and loopholes.

I think you need to watch it again because that's not what the ending was at all.

The episode has several tragedies going at the end, the most prominent and obvious was that Maritza killed in a random act (I know it was targeted, you know what I mean). The other tragedy, with future knowledge in a later episode, was that Maritza's plan wasn't going to work in the first place as it heavily relied on how the cardassian justice system works.