I genuinely didn’t get it, but the Disqus link helped.
Knut Døsen Lunde (the Disqus commenter) said:
Pack up all your cares and woes
Here I go singing low,
bye bye blackbird.
(Ray Henderson and Mort Dixon)
Bye Bye Blackbird is considered a popular “standard,” which makes a lot of sense for a The Far Side.
It’s the fucking people from Wyoming again.
Thank god they get as many senators as the other states, right?
Someone created a group (a nonprofit, a political action committee, or something similar) with basically no public presence except for a bland website and a few tweets. It has launched millions in pro-ICE ads, and, at least so far, no one behind the venture has been willing to talk about it.
Ideally, in a democracy, we’d know who is spending millions trying to change public opinion on the secret police. But, in the American system, that’s just not how it works.
What’s fascinating about this franchise is that I always thought it was just a vanity project! It happened to be profitable when it came out because it was kid-friendly.
James Cameron is the king of “why did so many people care about that at the time?”
The public’s obsession with Titanic in 1997 seems eyeroll-inducing now. I remember going to used media stores and copies of Titanic on VHS were everywhere.
Sadly, we do have evidence that there has been a coordinated campaign to purposefully and maliciously damage Build A Rocket Boy’s reputation and undermine confidence in MindsEye," a spokesperson for the studio told GamesIndustry. “We are working with our legal team and taking steps to address this.”
Maybe your game just sucks?
It’s so sad when people can’t admit they’ve failed.
I laughed out loud when I finally realized what band was saying this.
Humorously, the lead singer is named Jim (Adkins), but the band’s name comes from the backing vocalist/guitarist Tom’s brother, also named Jim.
The band’s name came from a crayon drawing made after an incident between [Tom] Linton’s younger brothers, Jim and Ed Linton, who fought frequently. Jim usually won, but Ed sought revenge by drawing a picture of Jim shoving the Earth into his mouth; Ed captioned the picture “Jimmy eat world”.
I love that there’s always a new crop of suckers.
We look for people who are like Olympian athletes, with characteristics of, you know, obsession, infinite ambition.
“It’s people who want to do incredible things and have a lot of fun while doing so,” he says.
They must be building something really important!
The website belongs to Rilla, a New York-based tech business which sells AI-based systems that allow employers to monitor sales representatives when they are out and about, interacting with clients.
🤣 so fucking embarrassing! Are you “disrupting” sales, douchebag? What year is this?
You know you’re on the wrong side when Creed quietly drops your festival.
Ludacris (who “wasn’t even supposed to be on there”), Shinedown, Morgan Wade, and Carter Faith all dropped out once they realized how big of a tool Kid Rock is.
Oh gross!
Do they also sell 50 caliber armor piercing bullets everywhere? They had those too
Tangentially related, the military has been “losing” ammunition and weapons for a shockingly long time, and in the 80s Fort Bragg (the largest military base) was remarkably easy to rob.
In 1986, investigators for the United States Congress and Department of Defense reported growing concern in the U.S. Armed Forces over missing weapons. Hundreds of millions of dollars in military arms, ammunition, and explosives had disappeared.
A congressional report on Fort Bragg cited a large amount of missing ordnance recovered around the post, including 148 pounds of plastic explosives, 142 pounds of TNT, 1,080 feet of detonating cord, 13 hand grenades, and 35 antipersonnel land mines. Some of the weapons and explosives turned up in private homes.
From Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America.
And that was just at Fort Bragg, in the 80s when post-Vietnam violent white supremacy was taking shape.
The Branch Davidians also had a 50 caliber in 1995. No one is sure how they acquired it.
I have to imagine desperate soldiers might take to selling it instead.
He told Business Insider. “They were pressured to see the movie. Your military superior, that’s not your shift manager at Taco Bell or Starbucks. They have complete and total control over you.”
No shit. Why do you think most people don’t join the cult? It’s been awful for literally generations.
created by the piss-swigging misanthropes behind Battle Brothers
I’m sorry, you’re saying the developers themselves guzzle urine? Seems a little harsh.
They’re so bereft of ideas again, they’re remaking the awful Uwe Boll movies based on video games.
This was literally the guy who started his entire political career in earnest by calling in to Fox News and talking about how Obama wasn’t “American” because he’s black. Trump found his political fame because he advocated the “birther” conspiracy.
It’s honestly crazy that anyone could be surprised. He’s been up front about his racism for fifteen years now.
It’s important to note that On This Day… 1776 is not fully crafted by AI. The script, for instance, was written by a team of writers overseen by Aronofsky’s longtime writing partners Ari Handel and Lucas Sussman
A team of writers for this crap? Legitimately?
Of all the things to brag about not being AI.
I find the wording of the article to be remarkable. “At the opposite end of the supply chain.”
Eric (not his real name) was no longer just a consumer of China’s spy-cam porn industry, but a victim.
A “consumer” who has admittedly been watching this type of “spy cam” footage for twenty years (since he was a teen, according to the article) and never once thought “wait, what if that was me?”
Then when he grows a conscience in his thirties he contacts the BBC.
This is of course the same game he’s been playing since 2016. His fans are just legitimately too blinded by their cult to realize it.
Literally every time. Now that he’s not running, he’ll just keep repeating it for every election because it works for his idiot base of Christian nationalists.
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/the-100-billion-megadeal-between-openai-and-nvidia-is-on-ice-aa3025e3
This is the original source the podcast cites if anyone wants the information faster.
I was somewhat interested before, but I have zero interest in supporting anything Ethan Klein has been involved in. Yuck.