@Witch_Hunter_Siegfired @KingOfWhiteAmerica Babylon represents the collective evil that is in opposition to The Most High God.
There are normal editions of games on steam for 100 bucks now.
It isn't like any games have even been that good for the last few years. No wonder the industry is collapsing.
It isn't like any games have even been that good for the last few years. No wonder the industry is collapsing.
They aren't relevant because they ruled they aren't relevant in the situation we're talking about. They could have ruled they are relevant, just like how they created the whole concept of ruling laws constitutional in Marbury v. Madison, but they didn't.
They ruled they aren't relevant in part for the reasons I mentioned, that it's a pandoras box.
They ruled they aren't relevant in part for the reasons I mentioned, that it's a pandoras box.
Unfortunately, most of political partisans don't know anything on their own, all they actually know is what they've been told to be mad about this week.
The courts, particularly at the federal level, are structurally an undemocratic system. You have people who have been appointed as judges, and in the case of the supreme Court they can stay there as long as they like. It is designed this way because you don't want the law interpreted based solely on which decision is going to win you the most votes in the next election, you want the law interpreted based on what is right. Now that doesn't always happen, you have partisanship in the courts, but the key here is that fundamentally the judiciary is undemocratic by design. As a result of that, except in extreme cases, that undemocratic system tries to keep its fingers out of the democratic systems for of governance such as elections for president and the Congress.
The Democrats still complain to this day about the supreme Court stepping in over the 2000 election, and all of us can only imagine what the last 4 years would have been like if they had stepped in to overturn the 2020 election in the same way that they are calling upon the supreme Court to overturn the 2024 election.
Let's imagine if these roles were completely reversed, and the Florida State Court found that Kamala Harris had mislabeled the line on an accounting document making her a felon and so the supreme Court stepped in and decided not to allow her to be president (and let's assume she won the election for this hypothetical) -- it would of course go down in history as the greatest Injustice in American history, and rightfully so!
The thing is, what a lot of partisans don't realize is the supreme Court has to think this way because every judgment that they make can and will be used against them. That's one of the reasons why you can have a split court with so many unanimous decisions in the past year, because at the end of the day what is right for everyone more or less stays the same.
The courts, particularly at the federal level, are structurally an undemocratic system. You have people who have been appointed as judges, and in the case of the supreme Court they can stay there as long as they like. It is designed this way because you don't want the law interpreted based solely on which decision is going to win you the most votes in the next election, you want the law interpreted based on what is right. Now that doesn't always happen, you have partisanship in the courts, but the key here is that fundamentally the judiciary is undemocratic by design. As a result of that, except in extreme cases, that undemocratic system tries to keep its fingers out of the democratic systems for of governance such as elections for president and the Congress.
The Democrats still complain to this day about the supreme Court stepping in over the 2000 election, and all of us can only imagine what the last 4 years would have been like if they had stepped in to overturn the 2020 election in the same way that they are calling upon the supreme Court to overturn the 2024 election.
Let's imagine if these roles were completely reversed, and the Florida State Court found that Kamala Harris had mislabeled the line on an accounting document making her a felon and so the supreme Court stepped in and decided not to allow her to be president (and let's assume she won the election for this hypothetical) -- it would of course go down in history as the greatest Injustice in American history, and rightfully so!
The thing is, what a lot of partisans don't realize is the supreme Court has to think this way because every judgment that they make can and will be used against them. That's one of the reasons why you can have a split court with so many unanimous decisions in the past year, because at the end of the day what is right for everyone more or less stays the same.
In the medieval post-apocalyptic future, literally everyone important wears thigh high boots. It's the law.
Recently I went back and replayed the quest for a king demo I made as a teenager.
Looking back, I spent so much time making the engine honestly one of the most impressive quickbasic RPG engines but even to an extent when the more impressive RPG engines on MS-DOS, but really I had more than enough game engine to put together a game with about 10 hours gameplay that probably would have been pretty popular out there in the wild. Instead I was always looking at the games like final fantasy that you could play for hundreds of hours, and the game engine that was perfectly acceptable for a 10-hour game was completely inadequate for a 200-hour game.
But defining your scope is one of the core things in project management, and at the time I had absolutely no concept of project management so the game was always doomed to failure.
Looking back, I spent so much time making the engine honestly one of the most impressive quickbasic RPG engines but even to an extent when the more impressive RPG engines on MS-DOS, but really I had more than enough game engine to put together a game with about 10 hours gameplay that probably would have been pretty popular out there in the wild. Instead I was always looking at the games like final fantasy that you could play for hundreds of hours, and the game engine that was perfectly acceptable for a 10-hour game was completely inadequate for a 200-hour game.
But defining your scope is one of the core things in project management, and at the time I had absolutely no concept of project management so the game was always doomed to failure.
If that's shitty taste then I'll own my shitty taste because it's my favorite game too. I still routinely play through it every once in a while.
I'm surprised any conservatives or even centrist liberals are still on reddit.
Not a happy place for people who don't follow every opinion reddits hivemind finds acceptable.
Not a happy place for people who don't follow every opinion reddits hivemind finds acceptable.
I was thinking about it last night, that Asia sort of proves that just working harder doesn't actually solve the problem.
The Chinese and South Koreans study so hard their eyeballs get screwed up (which is why they all wear glasses, myopia is rampant in their cities), and yet both countries are on the verge of demographic collapse (South Korea in particular).
That doesn't mean you shouldn't work hard, it doesn't mean that you shouldn't defer gratification, but what it does mean is it takes more than hard work and sacrifice to succeed.
I had a dream about this in college. It was a time I was working way too hard -- I'd get up super early and take the first bus to school, finish my homework, go to class all day (essentially a full 8 hour day of classes), then stay until the last bus of the evening studying. In that dream, the drill Sargent from Full Metal Jacket screamed at me: "In every war you had a winner and a loser. Do you think that the only reason the other side lost is they weren't working hard enough?" -- That was 20 years ago now, it's stuck with me because it's true -- Hard work is important, but it's also important that we're doing the right things.
One of my favorite lines in a book of all time is from Sun Tzu. It's been translated various ways, but effectively the statement is: "To fight the battle then look for victory will ensure you lose. You must first win the victory, then fight the battle." -- So from that perspective, there's a lot of important things we're ignoring to fight battles when we should be finding victory instead.
The Chinese and South Koreans study so hard their eyeballs get screwed up (which is why they all wear glasses, myopia is rampant in their cities), and yet both countries are on the verge of demographic collapse (South Korea in particular).
That doesn't mean you shouldn't work hard, it doesn't mean that you shouldn't defer gratification, but what it does mean is it takes more than hard work and sacrifice to succeed.
I had a dream about this in college. It was a time I was working way too hard -- I'd get up super early and take the first bus to school, finish my homework, go to class all day (essentially a full 8 hour day of classes), then stay until the last bus of the evening studying. In that dream, the drill Sargent from Full Metal Jacket screamed at me: "In every war you had a winner and a loser. Do you think that the only reason the other side lost is they weren't working hard enough?" -- That was 20 years ago now, it's stuck with me because it's true -- Hard work is important, but it's also important that we're doing the right things.
One of my favorite lines in a book of all time is from Sun Tzu. It's been translated various ways, but effectively the statement is: "To fight the battle then look for victory will ensure you lose. You must first win the victory, then fight the battle." -- So from that perspective, there's a lot of important things we're ignoring to fight battles when we should be finding victory instead.
I had my three year old read these posts back to me out loud, and he said: "egads father, it seems to me quite likely that these people are putting words in the mouths of their children to give a strange sort of pseudo-authority to their own rather inappropriate anxieties towards merely losing an election. I would coin a phrase 'argumentum ex pueritia', or argument from childhood, to describe this self-evident fallacy. Most children at this age generally have between 200 and 1000 words in their vocabulary, and are learning basic concepts such as sentences containing up to 5 words, let alone drawing comparisons between atrocities or the Holocaust which are taught in high school and modern day politics. Rather than being evidence of some immutable truth, if a 3 year old said such things it might be evidence that the parent was coaching the child in ways that are wholly unethical."
Naturally I slapped him and told him to finish his pocky.
Naturally I slapped him and told him to finish his pocky.
The worst part I hate to say it, is that this isn't a new thing that belongs to labor. The two largest parties in the country were both complicit.
It's one of the reasons that there's been this flight to Reform, because people want a political party that's going to actually do the things that they claim are important.
It's one of the reasons that there's been this flight to Reform, because people want a political party that's going to actually do the things that they claim are important.
I travel a lot for work, but I want my son to know I'm always thinking of him, so I hand write a letter for his mom to read, and I seal it with wax so they have the visceral feeling of snapping the wax.
That old practice, whether it's for letters or for wine, is pretty neat.
That old practice, whether it's for letters or for wine, is pretty neat.
The only thing I know about smelts is that when they get into a lake, apparently it makes the fish that you try to catch from that lake not very good.
If the big one hits California after everything else that's happened that's some serious Soddom and Gomorrah vibes.
If I were trying to get a great deal, I'd definitely do my best to bully a weak and ineffective leader to get him well and truly on his back foot (or even to get someone else in that seat)