I dread calls at work more than anything in life.

Just send a fucking email.

Now I really want it officially announced on April 1. It would be a perfect moment.

Looten Plunder is President of the United States.

Our implosion isn’t so slow these days.

Kings off-topic, but after listening to the audio book I really want a World War Z miniseries in the style of a Ken Burns documentary.

Lots of things like grey hair, moving more slowly, injuries that I would have bounced away from before instead hurting for weeks or months.

But the one that hit hardest was a breakup I had a little while back. She was the love of my life and I fully intended to marry her, and when she ended it out of nowhere I was sad, but fine. She dumped me, and it sucked, but I also needed to finish a staff report for a Planning and Zoning Commission meeting that night. So I moved on.

The thing that upset me most was that I wasn’t that upset. There was a time in my life when I would have been a mess. But as I’ve aged, my emotions have become more regulated.

I miss being capable of that level of joy and pain.

I think the reason they don’t do that is because the costs of building an ad network that complies with regulatory requirements in every region is really expensive.

For existing ad networks, it’s worth it because of the volume of customers. For Valve, the customer count would be low unless they wanted to make a play at becoming an ad network outside of Steam as well, which is not something that makes sense for them as a business. So for Valve, micro microtransactions and other forms of paid DLC are a much better business model for free-to-play games.

I think it’s better than having ads too, but if Valve could have found a simple way to monetize the ads, I they would have gone that route. But this approach brings in more money, reduces cost of hosting games that don’t bring Valve income, and brings good will.

It’s not entirely altruistic.

Valve doesn’t get their 30% taste on ad revenue.

A drink that tastes like melted churro ice cream.

There’s a point in the third game that determines the fate of 2 different species that can play out very differently based upon actions you’ve made across the series. And the “best” version depends on your completing the loyalty quests of multiple characters in ME2 before a certain trigger point.

Mass Effect trilogy.

And without the fake frame bullshit they’re using to pad their numbers, its capabilities scale linearly with the 4090. The 5090 just has more cores, Ram, and power.

If the 4000-series had had cards with the memory and core count of the 5090, they’d be just as good as the 50-series.

Directly from the comment I’m addressing:

Georgia, though not anywhere close to Ukrainian nazi vermin, was preventing regions seeking autonomy that needed Russian assistance. Still, pig fuckers aspiring to NATO government…"

Read the latest comment from that guy down the thread when the mask falls completely off. It’s a real piece of work, calling Ukrainians vermin and Georgians pig-fuckers.

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Are you really pretending Russia didn’t invade Georgia?

It’s literally an alliance formed during the Cold War to prevent Russian expansion. Otherwise, Russia would have been invited to join NATO decades ago.

And to say ownership of the most-strategically located nation in the North Atlantic is unimportant to the North Atlantic Treaty is laughable. But you clearly know all of this. You’re trying to influence others to believe Russian propaganda.

Russia invaded Ukraine. Russia invaded Georgia. Russia invaded Afghanistan.

You know who they haven’t invaded they’d lusted after for decades? Turkey. But Turkey is a NATO member, so Russia can’t do shit without.

In fact, there’s a wall between Russia and the West of Europe formed by states that have not been invaded by Russia in the last 60 years, and that wall is comprised almost entirely of NATO members.

Russia has invaded 2 separate soverign states in Europe for the purpose of annexation into Russia within a 15-year span. The only thing stopping them from pulling more of that bullshit is NATO. Dismantling NATO - an alliance composed specifically to stop Russian annexation of neighbor states - is Putin’s number 1 international goal.

Trump is his number 1 tool in that mission right now.

It’s half that distance to the Faroe Islands, meaning NATO only has to control half that distance, which is well within the range of land-based anti-ship defenses.

Whereas free Russian movement along Greenland’s coast would be protected if it was under the control of a Putin-friendly US. They’d be even safer going through Bafin Bay to the West of Greenland. Od course that would only happen if Canada also left NATO.

And on a completely unrelated note, Trump is also trying to get Canada to become a US territory.

Those international waters are very narrow and have been a thorn in the side of Russia forever.

They invaded Ukraine to get access to the Mediterranean through the Black Sea and Turkey because they have no current way of getting Naval ships to European shores without circumventing the globe or sailing through the narrow stretches of the ocean that NATO is capable of blockading.

A blockage of military ships and not civilian ships is not out of the question.

And having pacific ports and no access to the North Atlantic would mean using the Panama Canal or going around Africa or South America to reach the Atlantic.