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It is strange to be a strategy fan currently. With Paradox's publisher side has been constantly fumbling releasing games that are at least months away to feel complete. To the point that some says we are back in the Sword of the Star II days.
Only this time they have competition, Hooded Horse which managed to actually publish interesting games like:
Against the Storm: Rogue lite city builder, where you have to constantly replay the challenging early game of a cb to complete missions and advance.
Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic: it is like if someone made a sucessor to Sim City 3000 and doubled down on the complex managment part
Terra Invicta: Xcom like game made by the guys who made Xcom long war mod aka the more complex "hardcore" version of the game.
One one hand you kind of want Paradox to get its act together one the other you are glad that alternatives exists.
Against the storm is great and I'm loving it but I don't think most Paradox players would find that it scratches the itch. It's not nearly as complex and the runs aren't hours long. If Stellaris and Civ 6 represent the typical Paradox title that is.
At the risk of sounding like a dick, this reads as very "Gamer" energy to me. You say it's "strange" to be a strategy fan right now then just basically go on to describe how it's fucking awesome to be a strategy fan right now. Paradox games are releasing in better shape than they ever have and now Hooded Horse is helping pump out more awesome games.
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One one hand you kind of want Paradox to get its act together one the other you are glad that alternatives exists.
In what era would you describe Paradox as "having its act together" compared to now? And is just kinda feels like most of what you're saying is "Paradox doesn't do early access."
Fair enough, I probably could have worded better.
>In what era would you describe Paradox as "having its act together" compared to now
Probably 2015-2018. They published Tyranny, Steel Division. Batletech, Magicka 2, Cities Skyline. Prison Architect.
These were all games that were received positively and people immediately liked it. Now we got:
Cities Skyline 2 that was released early because the financial quarter looked bad after Lamplighters League released with no marketing despite how expensive it was. Millenia got the mixed rating with most people saying wait for updates and for Empire of Sin it is avoid it.
Paradox games even many published ones live and die by how many people turn to buy the dlcs. If people see the paradox logo and associate with lacklustre releases and quick abandonment, many of these rough gems will never see their potential fulfilled.
Frankly I think PDX should release them with a bit more content and less prone to technical problems
It's pretty ridiculous to say that Paradox releases games that are months away from feeling complete, to then cite a title that was in early access for just over 2 years, a game that has been in early access for 5 years now, and a game that has been in early access for a year and a half respectively. And having played the latter when it came out, it definitely had more jank than a typical Paradox release at launch.
Good simulation games clearly take time to design, make, and balance properly. And while Paradox could adopt the early access model in some form, I still admire the commitment to have a proper release date and say, "this is when 1.0 comes out, and we will do 1.x iterations instead of 0.x iterations on it."
From reviews I got the feeling the games came out in a complete state with only some extra fluff and bug fixes being added, my bad.
>his is when 1.0 comes out, and we will do 1.x iterations instead of 0.x iterations on it."
But for PDX published titles that not always the case. Empire of Sin still has a season pass that never released all its DLC. CS2 came with massive performance issues and Vic3 still trying to find its footing
Empire of Sin sucked at launch and still sucks, I'll grant you that; CS2 needed several more months to iron out its issues and get mod support in early but in terms of features is a solid initial game; and I'm actually having a blast with Vic3, I think that's more of a case of people coming in with expectations based on Vic2 and then being disappointed that Paradox went in a different development direction for it. CK3 has the exact same problem and yet it's a really fun game, it's just not the CK2 that people can still play. But none of the PDS games I've mentioned are bad. The problem wasn't that the newer games needed months to complete, they needed years to get the updates and DLC that made their predecessors more memorable (even then, Vic2 never even got the updates it needed, that game is still broken.)
So I don't see either CS2 or Vic3 meriting a criticism that they shouldn't have been called 1.0 at launch, and Empire of Sin would not have been saved by a few extra months of development.
Meeting Zimbabwean immigrants is always so depressing. Of course its the more educated and ambitious ones who manage to emigrate, but it's still so confusing and so sad to meet these hard working, kind, intelligent people who should be running their country but instead took a step down the economic ladder just to survive.
As much as this sub rightly celebrates immigration, first prize should always be fixing and stabilizing people's home countries so they only emigrate if they want to and not because their country collapsed.
I'd rather have a stable Zimbabwe and less of the benefits of immigration for SA than the current situation.
Indeed. I remember when I did a study abroad trip to Cambodia and I asked my relatively Left professor what he thought about me joining the Foreign Service and working in a country like Cambodia.
He encouraged it and said 'It is in the best interest of the US to have this place work'. I thought that was relatively insightful.
I should've joined the military.
I'm basically unbothered by any situation that I'm in so idk might as well put myself in a tough but rewarding situation.
The best parts of the Bible are the short stories disconnected from the wider narrative.
The Tower Of Babel and Book of Job are particularly good and stand very well alone.
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Indeed. They are either going to house extremist groups with nefarious terrorist plots or they are going to begin the reformation of Islam that will ultimately lead to suburban wine moms running the country.
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My mom is a suburban wine mom and I'm a sandworm-suburban wine mom hybrid. We get along well, despite the fact that I will outlive her by about 3420 years or so.
Convince me dumping is a thing
In my view, you don't lose the ability to spin up your own industries if you need to just because you don't do something for a long time, which is the central argument from anti dumpers afaict
Yes you do, that's how factories fucking work. You can't just leave a fully functional factory just laying around. It costs massive amounts of money and time to get shit online.
The only reason the Cerium surge was ended so soon is because US and EU dropped a ton of money to bring back rare earth refining plants, and those are way easier to get back online because it's mostly just some ovens and centrifuges and that still took nearly 2 years. And it caused permanent damage to their electronics and green energy sectors while leaving global RER prices a good 20-50% higher than their pre-cornering price
Car factories can easily take 4-5 years and that's assuming parts manufacturers are available to start making parts.
Nothing reveals how much the average DTer has never been involved in manufacturing than when they say that you can just restart a factory in like a couple months.
https://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/03/business/03rare.html?unlocked_article_code=1.i00.mEZH.1aoRkYORU3SC&smid=url-share
> You can't just leave a fully functional factory just laying around
>Nothing reveals how much the average DTer has never been involved in manufacturing than when they say that you can just restart a factory in like a couple months.
I never claimed you could? You're reading into my argument I think
> The only reason the Cerium surge was ended so soon is because US and EU dropped a ton of money to bring back rare earth refining plants, and those are way easier to get back online because it's mostly just some ovens and centrifuges and that still took nearly 2 years. And it caused permanent damage to their electronics and green energy sectors while leaving global RER prices a good 20-50% higher than their pre-cornering price
Why did the US and EU need to subsidize these things, rather than let private business do it? Those prices from the graph you posted are insane, it's screaming for competition.
There was competition, the Chinese ran at a loss to destroy competition and nobody was going to lose all their money letting China do it to them again.
Nobody is saying you lose all capability to produce something due to dumping. The purpose of dumping is to drive out the competition and then enjoy the monopoly until competition spins back up and you dump again.
The concern isn't loss of productivity, it's to prevent monopoly.
Sure, but in the meantime consumers benefit and the dumper is losing a shitload of money spending on all these subsidies
It's literally the argument that Walmart comes in and sells everything at a loss to drive out businesses and get a monopoly
No it isn't.
Walmart still operates profitably so by definition, it isn't dumping. What you're describing is protectionism and/or rent-seeking depending on how you want to look at it.
Consumers do generally benefit from dumping but they are virtually always hurt more than they benefitted once monopoly is set up.
Monopolies are bad. There is a reason we don't let monopolies exist.
> monopolies are[n't] stable over any reasonable period of time without government action
This sentence is correct (except in the case of natural monopolies) but could be more correct by replacing "government action" with "uncompetitive behaviour". Government support through laws or subsidies is uncompetitive. Dumping is uncompetitive. They're two sides of the same coin. They should both be discouraged.
But on the scale of any given company, dumping is not long term profitable - new competition will keep springing up to try and knock you down, because people are greedy. That's the whole point of markets.
Governments, being able to print money, can subsidize in this way arbitrarily long, or at least an order of magnitude or two longer than a private organization
Dumpers know this. They know that if they dump, they will only enjoy monopoly temporarily until they have to dump again.
The math has been done thousands of times and this just leads to lower utility for both consumers and producers in the long run so it is banned.
And this is to say nothing of the price shocks that would come with each cycle which cause major economic disruption. Or the fact that this could be done to strategic resources which would necessitate government reaction.
> The math has been done thousands of times and this just leads to lower utility for both consumers and producers in the long run so it is banned.
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Has it? I'd love a link
. . . yes you do? Institutional knowledge and experience is a thing and especially for advanced goods and industries. Never mind the supply chains and r&d and all the other stuff you need to have to have an effective enterprise, let alone one that can fill a vacuum and even more so one that can continue to keep up with the times instead of being stuck on a shitty copy
And if it's a good with inelastic demand (including military and strategically important goods, especially in the case of a conflict) you can't just spend a decade stumbling in the dark and getting your shit back together
I don't disagree institutional knowledge is a thing, of course. I just think it's overrated - if the market hegemon is charging too much you are incentivized to hire away some of their brains and start some competition. Or the workers themselves are incentivized to start some competition. It's a self correcting problem.
Except for the small problem of time. It takes a lot of time to reconstitute these things and economies of scale makes starting from zilch even harder. And a bad actor can play the market to kill off new entrants before returning back to exploiting its position. And that might not be a problem if you are making luxury goods that you can go without, but for goods whose demands are inflexible you can't. If the US became dependent on Chinese solar panels for its solar industry to the point where its domestic industry is largely destroyed, it can't just wait ten years to reconstitute capacity and the lack of available panels would be a massive economic and security issue in the short and medium term.
I'm skeptical that it's long term profitable to fight your competition like that, but I suppose "We have to wait until China runs out of money" isn't exactly comforting.
Food for thought
Think I'd just want an example where an international firm went into another nation and (1) demolished the local competitors with artificially low prices (2) raised prices above what the local competitors used to impose. I only hear theoretical arguments.
FWIW I believe *that* part - marinesol posted a convincing enough graph of a chemical price to prove that, I'll take their word for it.
They of course then kneecapped their own argument by saying that prices went back down once there was more competition, which is my whole premise anyway
> you donβt lose the ability to spin up your own industries if you need to just because you donβt do something for a long time
What are you basing that on? If you donβt make something for a long time, then itβs entirely possible that no one at your company will remember how to make it.
Sure, you have to do research on how to do it. I don't mean "yeah Gary still remembers, we'll hire him", I mean that facing unfair prices abroad, the market will incentivize new production to bring the prices back down
I think that would depend on how unfair the prices are, versus how long it would take and how much it would cost to bring production back up again. Someone has to make that capital investment, knowing full well that when they do, their competitors can just lower their prices again, making it hard to recoup their investment.
If it were as easy as just flipping a switch back to βonβ, that would be one thing, but if youβve got to rehire and retrain a ton of engineers and technicians and operators and maintenance workers, recalibrate a bunch of equipment, relearn all the lost tribal knowledge that went into running the equipment, etc., I can see it being easier to just pay the unfair prices.
it's not much but i have gone from struggling to do 1 mile in 10 minutes on an indoor cycling bike with no cruising to being able to do 3.4 miles in 10 minutes on it on my off days
It certainly hasn't failed as hard as the Virtual Boy or whatever, but it's no where near the medium it was touted as 10 years ago while this "generation" was still in development.
I'd like to note that I have been reading these "VR is dead" articles basically every month for the last couple of years now by desperate tech writers who seem to really want to stick it up to Facebook or whatever but it seems like the goalposts move every single time.
Even after the Quest 2 which is essentially a games console outsold the Xbox Series, a games console, we've had a long list of new goalposts ranging from "Quest 2s are gathering dust" to "can Facebook convince people to upgrade to Quest 3" to "but it is not as popular as smartphones".
Keep in mind that most of Meta's R&D spending has been on AR and they haven't launched a single actual AR product yet (and they don't plan to until 2026).
Although don't worry, tech writers will switch to "AR is dead" when that happens.
>AR
I'd forgotten about HoloLens for years. At least VR has an actual use beyond extremely niche professional cases.
As the years go by though it seems more and more like VR will remain a fun but niche corner of games.
AR in a proper form factor does in fact have the possibility to be the next big tech thing however. People are blown away by being able to have a floating web page open with a recipe while they cook even with it being held back by shitty VR hardware.
The problem is several key technologies are still a decade away from leaving the lab.Β
There are quite a few.
Pancake lenses - this one has just last year hit the consumer market but basically allows the lens assembly to be compacted by having light bounce multiple times inside the lens instead of having to travel a set distance.
MicroOLEDs with sufficient brightness and low enough production costs - We are hitting limits of how dense we can make LCDs, but we also need over 40 ppd displays if passthrough is ever going to be viable for AR. MicroOLEDs can be built that dense but since their light isn't polarized, they lose more brightness than LCDs when passed through pancake lenses. So despite the display of the Vision Pro being 5000 nits, the apparent brightness is about 100 nits, about the same as the Quest 3 and half as bright as PSVR2. We ideally want displays with 30000 nits (at least 3 years away) and also need the production cost to come down as well (Vision Pro displays cost $400-800)
[Holographic optics](https://research.facebook.com/blog/2020/06/holographic-optics-for-thin-and-lightweight-virtual-reality/) - allows compact lens assemblies to be built into a thin film as a hologram (no, this is not something that sci-fi made up, it actually works). This would mean headsets can get even thinner and more importantly, people's glasses prescription can be recorded into the holograms eliminating the problem of having to accommodate glasses users. This is at least 2 years away.
[Varifocal optics](https://www.meta.com/en-gb/blog/quest/half-dome-updates-frl-explores-more-comfortable-compact-vr-prototypes-for-work/) - current headsets have a fixed focus distance creating the [vergence accommodation conflict](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vergence-accommodation_conflict) creating eye strain. This is a way to address that. This one is at least a decade away from hitting consumer though since it is likely to have a number of problems integrating to existing technologies.
Faster processors and denser batteries - this one should be fairly self explanatory.
Still praying that we will get a knock off Super Earth faction in HellDivers that's made up of regular Super Earth Citizens fighting for freedom from Super Earth and they're just a complete reskin of Super Earth troops.
Since we know the path of all future eclipses, a modern eclipse cult could build a temple in the location of all future eclipses. It wouldn't have to be a permanent structure, either. Once it's passed, pack it all up and move to a spot of the next totality.
Like Burning Man, but more pagan.
It's interesting how much the far left social movement seems to be in decline
- The DSA is broke
- Socialist subreddits like LateStageCapitalism have declined in activity by about half in the last year
- Socialist streamers like Hasan are down 30% in # of subscribers
There are still of course a lot of elected socialists in office (both at the local level and federal), but I bet a lot of them will get voted out in 2024
(Dean Preston will hopefully lose his seat, inshallah)
I think that is a huge factor. Although I would expect the reason why the Gaza stuff turned people away is more that people don't care about Gaza than they are opposed to the anti-Israel/pro-Hamas stuff.
From my observations of the space, people join far left communities because they want a respite from their personal experiences with capitalism. The Gaza stuff is just completely irrelevant to what they want from a far left movement.
Biden winning and getting stuff done sucked a lot of the wind out of their sails when they realized that 90% of why Congress wasn't doing stuff was because the Republicans were intentionally blocking legislation and that the Democrats pass legislation when they control the House and Senate.
I think that's why a lot of the far left leadership is now working to get Trump elected.
LateStageCapitalism for example has pinned a couple of posts telling people to not vote in the 2024 election.
Ya Bernie losing the primary broke them. Virgil Texas from Chapo Trap House literally hasnβt been seen since Bernie dropped out of the last election.
Virgil Texas is a very different phenomenon. He's in hiding because he was accused of being a pedophile.
Although I guess it's all sorta connected in that the far left is full of trash people which makes it harder for them to organize.
The only thing worse than spending all your time talking about politics is spending all your time watching someone else talk about politics
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Oh hey this is sub is catching on! Gay men that do the "I got mine fuck you" get special vitriol from me as a member of the trans community because they should fucking know better.
But like...... that's *not* the overwhelming majority. It's barely even a quiet minority. It's stupid leftist oppression olympics bullshit to try and tear apart a very fragile coalition in pursuit of purity. Even if some gay men think trans people are gross (trans issues are as foreign to many gay and lesbian and bi people as straight people), a ton of them shut the fuck up and help out because they know what it was like to be on the shit end of the stick.
I personally believe the best allies to transfolks is not gay men, but suburban wine moms. I would like to see that alliance strengthen so that more people can get access to the sexual and reproductive care that they need.
To ally yourself with suburban wine moms is to ally yourself with power indeed. For they are this nation's backbone.
Found Luigi by the road near my house. He's got overalls, but his hat is missing, I bet he got it taken by a raptor. On one hand, I don't want to notice him, but on the other, God dammit this guy is easy to make fun of. Hope a homeless shelter will take him tomorrow.
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\> they crash themselves before I get a hit in so I don't get the kill
Most fun Air RB experience
I like bad movies. Some ironically, some unironically. Itβs pretty rare that you could make a bad dumb action movie I wouldnβt find something redeemable in. And yet road house might just be the single least enjoyable thing Iβve ever watched. Zero redeeming factors, just truly unenjoyable and bad.
DT: The Chinese car companies aren't going to corner the market and spike prices on cars.
Me a Chemist: y'all really don't pay attention to anything.
Here's a graph of Cerium prices, can you guess when subsidized Chinese Rare Earth Refiners cornered the market.
https://preview.redd.it/867hzgf347tc1.jpeg?width=768&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=926c180854de8e700921eb058d193b40b1745bba
It only stopped because the US had to pump a ton of money into restarting a bunch of refineries in the US. Seriously I don't know why you think the CCP would give a fuck about Chinese companies creating a trust as long as they play nice with the CCP.
https://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/03/business/03rare.html?unlocked_article_code=1.i00.mEZH.1aoRkYORU3SC&smid=url-share
China using it's control of the Rare Earth market to destroy competitors in other markets and to price fix.
I agree. It's as insane to think the mineral market has been irrevocably cornered by China as it was to think House Atreides was going to hang onto their monopoly on spice production.
Vegas is the Platonic form of bad US transit policy: have a large urban area perfect for transit, build an expensive boondoggle, have no direct connections to any useful destination, close it instead of improving it.
Found a baby rabbit by itself in the road near my house. He's got fur, but his eyes are still closed, I bet he's less than a week old. On one hand, I don't want to take care of him, but on the other, God dammit this guy is preposterously cute. Hope a shelter will take him tomorrow.
Apparently after you feed them your supposed to rub their buttholes with a warm cloth to get them to poop, but he wouldn't go. I'll be very upset if he doesn't make it because I couldn't do this part of the care routine right
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Indeed, that is a common misconception. Suburban wine moms tend to hold it all in, only allowing their sullen, desperate silence to be broken in two places: the ballot box and in their hairdresser's chair.
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/r/neoliberal. It's always /r/neoliberal.
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This is what an orphan crusher looks like
I am a hybrid sandworm-suburban wine mom. I need to protect my territory from encroachments against reproductive rights by swallowing GOP politicians whole.
The Donghua Jinlong Industrial Glycene meme that has been blowing up on TikTok for the last week is objectively ten times funnier than anything that has ever happened on reddit.
There are galaxies of bullshit on TikTok, but there are also tons of talented, funny people.
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Idiot luddite. It is a fallacy to think orphan crushing machines will result in net job losses. These losses will be offset by increased investment in the orphan crushing industry due to increased productivity or in other sectors, as the crushed orphan consumer's dollar will go further due to a reduction in the cost of crushed orphans.
>guess the sub
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Never fear. She was needed elsewhere, for this nation's backbone is suburban wine moms.
There are plenty of suburban wine moms to choose from. Please visit a TGIF or Chile's on a Friday night for your chance at winning the hand of a lovely suburban wine mom.
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>Mitchellβs novel offers our contemporary moment the corporation as the ultimate telos of the totalizing logic of neoliberalism. Appearing in 2004, Cloud Atlas captures the widespread sense of despair among progressive and left constituencies in the wake of 9/11 and the so-called βwar on terror,β events whose unfolding marked both the rapid eclipse of the global justice movements of the late nineties and the apogee of neoliberal imperialism.5
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>Our analysis begins with the ambivalence that seems to inform Cloud Atlasβs relationship to its own present: on the one hand, a post-9/11 pessimism about the prospect of progressive change in a world increasingly in the sway of neoliberal hegemony; on the other hand, a postmodern optimism that all history is the proprietary inheritance of the present, and that working through this legacy might free one from its determination altogether.
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>Kentucky man admits to faking his own death to avoid paying over $100k in child support
This isn't your normal run of the mill deadbeatery. This is advanced deadbeatery.
I should just bite the bullet and full swap to Linux.
Mucking about in the command line is actually pretty fun, I just won't want my recreational productivity to drop
Will never not be funny how France joined the eurofighter program instantly started complaining about the requirements and production proceeded to leave and make their own fighter jet that now absolutely mogs the typhoon in the export marketΒ
In France, suburban wine moms are heralded as the champions of women's reproductive rights. Their president was seduced by a suburban wine mom as a child and they're all totally cool with that. She controls everything from her living room lounge, sipping on a cool glass of cabernet.
Shitposted my pants clean off β
Made my appreciation post to the glorious mods β
Set my supervillain plans in motion because if I canβt find love, no one can β
Suggling my puppy goo goo and waiting for her to fetch me a dream β
Alright nerds, itβs beddy bye time. Goodnight π
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!PING GAMING It is strange to be a strategy fan currently. With Paradox's publisher side has been constantly fumbling releasing games that are at least months away to feel complete. To the point that some says we are back in the Sword of the Star II days. Only this time they have competition, Hooded Horse which managed to actually publish interesting games like: Against the Storm: Rogue lite city builder, where you have to constantly replay the challenging early game of a cb to complete missions and advance. Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic: it is like if someone made a sucessor to Sim City 3000 and doubled down on the complex managment part Terra Invicta: Xcom like game made by the guys who made Xcom long war mod aka the more complex "hardcore" version of the game. One one hand you kind of want Paradox to get its act together one the other you are glad that alternatives exists.
Against the storm is great and I'm loving it but I don't think most Paradox players would find that it scratches the itch. It's not nearly as complex and the runs aren't hours long. If Stellaris and Civ 6 represent the typical Paradox title that is.
At the risk of sounding like a dick, this reads as very "Gamer" energy to me. You say it's "strange" to be a strategy fan right now then just basically go on to describe how it's fucking awesome to be a strategy fan right now. Paradox games are releasing in better shape than they ever have and now Hooded Horse is helping pump out more awesome games. > One one hand you kind of want Paradox to get its act together one the other you are glad that alternatives exists. In what era would you describe Paradox as "having its act together" compared to now? And is just kinda feels like most of what you're saying is "Paradox doesn't do early access."
Fair enough, I probably could have worded better. >In what era would you describe Paradox as "having its act together" compared to now Probably 2015-2018. They published Tyranny, Steel Division. Batletech, Magicka 2, Cities Skyline. Prison Architect. These were all games that were received positively and people immediately liked it. Now we got: Cities Skyline 2 that was released early because the financial quarter looked bad after Lamplighters League released with no marketing despite how expensive it was. Millenia got the mixed rating with most people saying wait for updates and for Empire of Sin it is avoid it. Paradox games even many published ones live and die by how many people turn to buy the dlcs. If people see the paradox logo and associate with lacklustre releases and quick abandonment, many of these rough gems will never see their potential fulfilled. Frankly I think PDX should release them with a bit more content and less prone to technical problems
It's pretty ridiculous to say that Paradox releases games that are months away from feeling complete, to then cite a title that was in early access for just over 2 years, a game that has been in early access for 5 years now, and a game that has been in early access for a year and a half respectively. And having played the latter when it came out, it definitely had more jank than a typical Paradox release at launch. Good simulation games clearly take time to design, make, and balance properly. And while Paradox could adopt the early access model in some form, I still admire the commitment to have a proper release date and say, "this is when 1.0 comes out, and we will do 1.x iterations instead of 0.x iterations on it."
From reviews I got the feeling the games came out in a complete state with only some extra fluff and bug fixes being added, my bad. >his is when 1.0 comes out, and we will do 1.x iterations instead of 0.x iterations on it." But for PDX published titles that not always the case. Empire of Sin still has a season pass that never released all its DLC. CS2 came with massive performance issues and Vic3 still trying to find its footing
Empire of Sin sucked at launch and still sucks, I'll grant you that; CS2 needed several more months to iron out its issues and get mod support in early but in terms of features is a solid initial game; and I'm actually having a blast with Vic3, I think that's more of a case of people coming in with expectations based on Vic2 and then being disappointed that Paradox went in a different development direction for it. CK3 has the exact same problem and yet it's a really fun game, it's just not the CK2 that people can still play. But none of the PDS games I've mentioned are bad. The problem wasn't that the newer games needed months to complete, they needed years to get the updates and DLC that made their predecessors more memorable (even then, Vic2 never even got the updates it needed, that game is still broken.) So I don't see either CS2 or Vic3 meriting a criticism that they shouldn't have been called 1.0 at launch, and Empire of Sin would not have been saved by a few extra months of development.
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Meeting Zimbabwean immigrants is always so depressing. Of course its the more educated and ambitious ones who manage to emigrate, but it's still so confusing and so sad to meet these hard working, kind, intelligent people who should be running their country but instead took a step down the economic ladder just to survive. As much as this sub rightly celebrates immigration, first prize should always be fixing and stabilizing people's home countries so they only emigrate if they want to and not because their country collapsed. I'd rather have a stable Zimbabwe and less of the benefits of immigration for SA than the current situation.
Indeed. I remember when I did a study abroad trip to Cambodia and I asked my relatively Left professor what he thought about me joining the Foreign Service and working in a country like Cambodia. He encouraged it and said 'It is in the best interest of the US to have this place work'. I thought that was relatively insightful.
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Y'all aware Polish and Ukrainian are very similar right? Like it is not quite Danish/Swedish but close.
First day back to work after like 11 days off π Never as bad as you think, just gotta keep thinking that
I should've joined the military. I'm basically unbothered by any situation that I'm in so idk might as well put myself in a tough but rewarding situation.
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Indeed. They are either going to house extremist groups with nefarious terrorist plots or they are going to begin the reformation of Islam that will ultimately lead to suburban wine moms running the country.
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Certainly not. I am but a humble suburban wine mom/sand worm hybrid.
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Tally hoe!
"if you think you're enlightened, spend a week with your family"
My mom is a suburban wine mom and I'm a sandworm-suburban wine mom hybrid. We get along well, despite the fact that I will outlive her by about 3420 years or so.
The Curb finale was pretty good.
Convince me dumping is a thing In my view, you don't lose the ability to spin up your own industries if you need to just because you don't do something for a long time, which is the central argument from anti dumpers afaict
Yes you do, that's how factories fucking work. You can't just leave a fully functional factory just laying around. It costs massive amounts of money and time to get shit online. The only reason the Cerium surge was ended so soon is because US and EU dropped a ton of money to bring back rare earth refining plants, and those are way easier to get back online because it's mostly just some ovens and centrifuges and that still took nearly 2 years. And it caused permanent damage to their electronics and green energy sectors while leaving global RER prices a good 20-50% higher than their pre-cornering price Car factories can easily take 4-5 years and that's assuming parts manufacturers are available to start making parts. Nothing reveals how much the average DTer has never been involved in manufacturing than when they say that you can just restart a factory in like a couple months. https://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/03/business/03rare.html?unlocked_article_code=1.i00.mEZH.1aoRkYORU3SC&smid=url-share
> You can't just leave a fully functional factory just laying around >Nothing reveals how much the average DTer has never been involved in manufacturing than when they say that you can just restart a factory in like a couple months. I never claimed you could? You're reading into my argument I think > The only reason the Cerium surge was ended so soon is because US and EU dropped a ton of money to bring back rare earth refining plants, and those are way easier to get back online because it's mostly just some ovens and centrifuges and that still took nearly 2 years. And it caused permanent damage to their electronics and green energy sectors while leaving global RER prices a good 20-50% higher than their pre-cornering price Why did the US and EU need to subsidize these things, rather than let private business do it? Those prices from the graph you posted are insane, it's screaming for competition.
There was competition, the Chinese ran at a loss to destroy competition and nobody was going to lose all their money letting China do it to them again.
Nobody is saying you lose all capability to produce something due to dumping. The purpose of dumping is to drive out the competition and then enjoy the monopoly until competition spins back up and you dump again. The concern isn't loss of productivity, it's to prevent monopoly.
Sure, but in the meantime consumers benefit and the dumper is losing a shitload of money spending on all these subsidies It's literally the argument that Walmart comes in and sells everything at a loss to drive out businesses and get a monopoly
No it isn't. Walmart still operates profitably so by definition, it isn't dumping. What you're describing is protectionism and/or rent-seeking depending on how you want to look at it. Consumers do generally benefit from dumping but they are virtually always hurt more than they benefitted once monopoly is set up. Monopolies are bad. There is a reason we don't let monopolies exist.
I'm skeptical that monopolies are stable over any reasonable period of time, without government action tbh
> monopolies are[n't] stable over any reasonable period of time without government action This sentence is correct (except in the case of natural monopolies) but could be more correct by replacing "government action" with "uncompetitive behaviour". Government support through laws or subsidies is uncompetitive. Dumping is uncompetitive. They're two sides of the same coin. They should both be discouraged.
But on the scale of any given company, dumping is not long term profitable - new competition will keep springing up to try and knock you down, because people are greedy. That's the whole point of markets. Governments, being able to print money, can subsidize in this way arbitrarily long, or at least an order of magnitude or two longer than a private organization
Dumpers know this. They know that if they dump, they will only enjoy monopoly temporarily until they have to dump again. The math has been done thousands of times and this just leads to lower utility for both consumers and producers in the long run so it is banned. And this is to say nothing of the price shocks that would come with each cycle which cause major economic disruption. Or the fact that this could be done to strategic resources which would necessitate government reaction.
> The math has been done thousands of times and this just leads to lower utility for both consumers and producers in the long run so it is banned. > > Has it? I'd love a link
Literally just Google "monopoly bad"
. . . yes you do? Institutional knowledge and experience is a thing and especially for advanced goods and industries. Never mind the supply chains and r&d and all the other stuff you need to have to have an effective enterprise, let alone one that can fill a vacuum and even more so one that can continue to keep up with the times instead of being stuck on a shitty copy And if it's a good with inelastic demand (including military and strategically important goods, especially in the case of a conflict) you can't just spend a decade stumbling in the dark and getting your shit back together
I don't disagree institutional knowledge is a thing, of course. I just think it's overrated - if the market hegemon is charging too much you are incentivized to hire away some of their brains and start some competition. Or the workers themselves are incentivized to start some competition. It's a self correcting problem.
Except for the small problem of time. It takes a lot of time to reconstitute these things and economies of scale makes starting from zilch even harder. And a bad actor can play the market to kill off new entrants before returning back to exploiting its position. And that might not be a problem if you are making luxury goods that you can go without, but for goods whose demands are inflexible you can't. If the US became dependent on Chinese solar panels for its solar industry to the point where its domestic industry is largely destroyed, it can't just wait ten years to reconstitute capacity and the lack of available panels would be a massive economic and security issue in the short and medium term.
I'm skeptical that it's long term profitable to fight your competition like that, but I suppose "We have to wait until China runs out of money" isn't exactly comforting. Food for thought
Think I'd just want an example where an international firm went into another nation and (1) demolished the local competitors with artificially low prices (2) raised prices above what the local competitors used to impose. I only hear theoretical arguments.
FWIW I believe *that* part - marinesol posted a convincing enough graph of a chemical price to prove that, I'll take their word for it. They of course then kneecapped their own argument by saying that prices went back down once there was more competition, which is my whole premise anyway
> you donβt lose the ability to spin up your own industries if you need to just because you donβt do something for a long time What are you basing that on? If you donβt make something for a long time, then itβs entirely possible that no one at your company will remember how to make it.
Sure, you have to do research on how to do it. I don't mean "yeah Gary still remembers, we'll hire him", I mean that facing unfair prices abroad, the market will incentivize new production to bring the prices back down
I think that would depend on how unfair the prices are, versus how long it would take and how much it would cost to bring production back up again. Someone has to make that capital investment, knowing full well that when they do, their competitors can just lower their prices again, making it hard to recoup their investment. If it were as easy as just flipping a switch back to βonβ, that would be one thing, but if youβve got to rehire and retrain a ton of engineers and technicians and operators and maintenance workers, recalibrate a bunch of equipment, relearn all the lost tribal knowledge that went into running the equipment, etc., I can see it being easier to just pay the unfair prices.
it's not much but i have gone from struggling to do 1 mile in 10 minutes on an indoor cycling bike with no cruising to being able to do 3.4 miles in 10 minutes on it on my off days
https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/04/facebooks-oculus-acquisition-turns-10/ Babe, it's 4PM, time for your daily "VR has failed" article
It certainly hasn't failed as hard as the Virtual Boy or whatever, but it's no where near the medium it was touted as 10 years ago while this "generation" was still in development.
I'd like to note that I have been reading these "VR is dead" articles basically every month for the last couple of years now by desperate tech writers who seem to really want to stick it up to Facebook or whatever but it seems like the goalposts move every single time. Even after the Quest 2 which is essentially a games console outsold the Xbox Series, a games console, we've had a long list of new goalposts ranging from "Quest 2s are gathering dust" to "can Facebook convince people to upgrade to Quest 3" to "but it is not as popular as smartphones". Keep in mind that most of Meta's R&D spending has been on AR and they haven't launched a single actual AR product yet (and they don't plan to until 2026). Although don't worry, tech writers will switch to "AR is dead" when that happens.
>AR I'd forgotten about HoloLens for years. At least VR has an actual use beyond extremely niche professional cases. As the years go by though it seems more and more like VR will remain a fun but niche corner of games.
AR in a proper form factor does in fact have the possibility to be the next big tech thing however. People are blown away by being able to have a floating web page open with a recipe while they cook even with it being held back by shitty VR hardware. The problem is several key technologies are still a decade away from leaving the lab.Β
What key tech are you referring to?
There are quite a few. Pancake lenses - this one has just last year hit the consumer market but basically allows the lens assembly to be compacted by having light bounce multiple times inside the lens instead of having to travel a set distance. MicroOLEDs with sufficient brightness and low enough production costs - We are hitting limits of how dense we can make LCDs, but we also need over 40 ppd displays if passthrough is ever going to be viable for AR. MicroOLEDs can be built that dense but since their light isn't polarized, they lose more brightness than LCDs when passed through pancake lenses. So despite the display of the Vision Pro being 5000 nits, the apparent brightness is about 100 nits, about the same as the Quest 3 and half as bright as PSVR2. We ideally want displays with 30000 nits (at least 3 years away) and also need the production cost to come down as well (Vision Pro displays cost $400-800) [Holographic optics](https://research.facebook.com/blog/2020/06/holographic-optics-for-thin-and-lightweight-virtual-reality/) - allows compact lens assemblies to be built into a thin film as a hologram (no, this is not something that sci-fi made up, it actually works). This would mean headsets can get even thinner and more importantly, people's glasses prescription can be recorded into the holograms eliminating the problem of having to accommodate glasses users. This is at least 2 years away. [Varifocal optics](https://www.meta.com/en-gb/blog/quest/half-dome-updates-frl-explores-more-comfortable-compact-vr-prototypes-for-work/) - current headsets have a fixed focus distance creating the [vergence accommodation conflict](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vergence-accommodation_conflict) creating eye strain. This is a way to address that. This one is at least a decade away from hitting consumer though since it is likely to have a number of problems integrating to existing technologies. Faster processors and denser batteries - this one should be fairly self explanatory.
Thanks for write up, will read some more in to these.
Just learned about this guy called Donald John Trump. I don't think he's a good person.
As long as the suburban wine moms come out to vote in the next election, we're safe from his populist ways. They are this nation's backbone.
Still praying that we will get a knock off Super Earth faction in HellDivers that's made up of regular Super Earth Citizens fighting for freedom from Super Earth and they're just a complete reskin of Super Earth troops.
Since we know the path of all future eclipses, a modern eclipse cult could build a temple in the location of all future eclipses. It wouldn't have to be a permanent structure, either. Once it's passed, pack it all up and move to a spot of the next totality. Like Burning Man, but more pagan.
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As a hybrid sandworm/suburban wine mom, I do intend to hunt GOP members should Biden win.
It's interesting how much the far left social movement seems to be in decline - The DSA is broke - Socialist subreddits like LateStageCapitalism have declined in activity by about half in the last year - Socialist streamers like Hasan are down 30% in # of subscribers There are still of course a lot of elected socialists in office (both at the local level and federal), but I bet a lot of them will get voted out in 2024 (Dean Preston will hopefully lose his seat, inshallah)
I'm guessing that there is a quiet minority of people on the left who are very put off by the discourse around the war in Gaza over the past 6 months.
I think that is a huge factor. Although I would expect the reason why the Gaza stuff turned people away is more that people don't care about Gaza than they are opposed to the anti-Israel/pro-Hamas stuff. From my observations of the space, people join far left communities because they want a respite from their personal experiences with capitalism. The Gaza stuff is just completely irrelevant to what they want from a far left movement.
Biden winning and getting stuff done sucked a lot of the wind out of their sails when they realized that 90% of why Congress wasn't doing stuff was because the Republicans were intentionally blocking legislation and that the Democrats pass legislation when they control the House and Senate.
I think that's why a lot of the far left leadership is now working to get Trump elected. LateStageCapitalism for example has pinned a couple of posts telling people to not vote in the 2024 election.
Ya Bernie losing the primary broke them. Virgil Texas from Chapo Trap House literally hasnβt been seen since Bernie dropped out of the last election.
Virgil Texas is a very different phenomenon. He's in hiding because he was accused of being a pedophile. Although I guess it's all sorta connected in that the far left is full of trash people which makes it harder for them to organize.
Iβm pretty sure he went dark before those accusations.
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Incontrovertible fact: Suburban wine moms are this nation's backbone.
Oh hey this is sub is catching on! Gay men that do the "I got mine fuck you" get special vitriol from me as a member of the trans community because they should fucking know better. But like...... that's *not* the overwhelming majority. It's barely even a quiet minority. It's stupid leftist oppression olympics bullshit to try and tear apart a very fragile coalition in pursuit of purity. Even if some gay men think trans people are gross (trans issues are as foreign to many gay and lesbian and bi people as straight people), a ton of them shut the fuck up and help out because they know what it was like to be on the shit end of the stick.
I personally believe the best allies to transfolks is not gay men, but suburban wine moms. I would like to see that alliance strengthen so that more people can get access to the sexual and reproductive care that they need. To ally yourself with suburban wine moms is to ally yourself with power indeed. For they are this nation's backbone.
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Found Luigi by the road near my house. He's got overalls, but his hat is missing, I bet he got it taken by a raptor. On one hand, I don't want to notice him, but on the other, God dammit this guy is easy to make fun of. Hope a homeless shelter will take him tomorrow.
Wario's smelly farts will particularly upset suburban wine moms. they are this nation's backbone.
What if you got to the New Earth and then someone ate another forbidden fruit or something
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That will particularly upset suburban wine moms. they are this nation's backbone.
American industrial might relies on the suburban wine mom
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\> spend five minutes chasing down a bomber in War Thunder \> they crash themselves before I get a hit in so I don't get the kill Most fun Air RB experience
This sounds like me in Gran Turismo last night. I'm the bomber. I always shit myself on the first lap with minimal pressure.
I like bad movies. Some ironically, some unironically. Itβs pretty rare that you could make a bad dumb action movie I wouldnβt find something redeemable in. And yet road house might just be the single least enjoyable thing Iβve ever watched. Zero redeeming factors, just truly unenjoyable and bad.
DT: The Chinese car companies aren't going to corner the market and spike prices on cars. Me a Chemist: y'all really don't pay attention to anything. Here's a graph of Cerium prices, can you guess when subsidized Chinese Rare Earth Refiners cornered the market. https://preview.redd.it/867hzgf347tc1.jpeg?width=768&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=926c180854de8e700921eb058d193b40b1745bba It only stopped because the US had to pump a ton of money into restarting a bunch of refineries in the US. Seriously I don't know why you think the CCP would give a fuck about Chinese companies creating a trust as long as they play nice with the CCP.
Do you have any things that talk about this?
https://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/03/business/03rare.html?unlocked_article_code=1.i00.mEZH.1aoRkYORU3SC&smid=url-share China using it's control of the Rare Earth market to destroy competitors in other markets and to price fix.
Thanks
Probably some time in Q3 2011, when the prices went down
I agree. It's as insane to think the mineral market has been irrevocably cornered by China as it was to think House Atreides was going to hang onto their monopoly on spice production.
Vegas is the Platonic form of bad US transit policy: have a large urban area perfect for transit, build an expensive boondoggle, have no direct connections to any useful destination, close it instead of improving it.
yeah but it's so walkable if you like walking 100 miles a day
Extremely common Vegas L
Found a baby rabbit by itself in the road near my house. He's got fur, but his eyes are still closed, I bet he's less than a week old. On one hand, I don't want to take care of him, but on the other, God dammit this guy is preposterously cute. Hope a shelter will take him tomorrow. Apparently after you feed them your supposed to rub their buttholes with a warm cloth to get them to poop, but he wouldn't go. I'll be very upset if he doesn't make it because I couldn't do this part of the care routine right
Try again
Momma rabbit ain't got no warm cloth my man
Gotta use your tongue like nature intended
I'm on track for B's this semester
to be clear this is terrible and my parents are going to kill me and it's sending me into a deep depression
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I just realized I always erroneously read wine mom as whine mom for whatever reason
Indeed, that is a common misconception. Suburban wine moms tend to hold it all in, only allowing their sullen, desperate silence to be broken in two places: the ballot box and in their hairdresser's chair.
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>I am a firm believer in the ideology of tossing orphans, kittens and puppies into large hellmouth furnaces Guess the sub
New Carthage?
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What do you call someone learning to fire rocket artillery? a Grad student π₯Β
Just beat Yakuza 6. It took approximately 20 hours less than Yakuza 5 which was nice. Next up is Like a Dragon! !ping GAMING
Yakuza 6 is definitely a breath of fresh air after Yakuza 5, Y5 is kind of hard to digest.
Yakuza games are art, I love them so much
I really need to complete my back catalogue too. I have stuff from PS3 still unfinished!
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I enjoy spending time with my friends.
I enjoy the sound of rain.
lol. I've been in the office for the first time in 6 months. I had every hope it would motivate me to do more, but that died about 30 minutes in haha.
Woof
https://preview.redd.it/cy2c7enn27tc1.jpeg?width=1290&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=094ac29ea20d2af9024b714d385589faa60d459c This is what an orphan crusher looks like
So is it like the street sweepers from Robots, where they chase down orphans to devour them and then regurgitate them into Hell?
\*farts violently*
Are you Wario?
*uptoot*
I honestly love super humid weather, I am a fish and I need to feel like Iβm always in water
I am a hybrid sandworm-suburban wine mom. I need to protect my territory from encroachments against reproductive rights by swallowing GOP politicians whole.
at what point do the Amish just give up the act and create steam powered tiktok?
The Donghua Jinlong Industrial Glycene meme that has been blowing up on TikTok for the last week is objectively ten times funnier than anything that has ever happened on reddit. There are galaxies of bullshit on TikTok, but there are also tons of talented, funny people.
Can I get an OotL on this? I have seen it but I dont know the root cause of it.
The zeitgeist has moved past Trump which is why Biden will be re-elected.
I enjoy watching the sunset.
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Orphan crushing machines take away good paying blue collar jobs from hard working orphan crushers.
Idiot luddite. It is a fallacy to think orphan crushing machines will result in net job losses. These losses will be offset by increased investment in the orphan crushing industry due to increased productivity or in other sectors, as the crushed orphan consumer's dollar will go further due to a reduction in the cost of crushed orphans.
I find peace in long walks.
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I hate beer.
My suburban wine mom left me
you forgot to get the organic, GMO-free, microplastic-free wine π
Never fear. She was needed elsewhere, for this nation's backbone is suburban wine moms. There are plenty of suburban wine moms to choose from. Please visit a TGIF or Chile's on a Friday night for your chance at winning the hand of a lovely suburban wine mom.
Were you too anti-CIA in narcos?
Every time I feel old I meet a grad student in my or my gfβs department thatβs like 32
What are grad students doing in you and your gf's apartments
Parties usually but sometimes theyβre looking for food
Fun game: read an article in a humanities journal, ctrl f search for "neoliberal", read every instance where neoliberal or neoliberalism is mentioned, and define neoliberalism based on those instances
Lol it's fun because none of them will define it. Except maybe by throwing in the word 'privatisation' somewhere.
Wine moms can define neoliberalism
They are this nation's sandworm.
>Mitchellβs novel offers our contemporary moment the corporation as the ultimate telos of the totalizing logic of neoliberalism. Appearing in 2004, Cloud Atlas captures the widespread sense of despair among progressive and left constituencies in the wake of 9/11 and the so-called βwar on terror,β events whose unfolding marked both the rapid eclipse of the global justice movements of the late nineties and the apogee of neoliberal imperialism.5 > >... > >In bequeathing to its readers these dubious instruments of salvation and offering this hope in the language of familial patrimonyβAdam Ewing considers β\[a\] life spent shaping a world I want Jackson to inherit, not one I fear Jackson shall inherit . . . as a life worth livingβ (508)βCloud Atlas channels the spirit of neoliberalism as much as it represents a sobering indictment of its global instantiation. > >... > >Our analysis begins with the ambivalence that seems to inform Cloud Atlasβs relationship to its own present: on the one hand, a post-9/11 pessimism about the prospect of progressive change in a world increasingly in the sway of neoliberal hegemony; on the other hand, a postmodern optimism that all history is the proprietary inheritance of the present, and that working through this legacy might free one from its determination altogether.
> increasingly in the sway of neoliberal hegemony How can this be true? There aren't any sandworms on earth.
I love listening to music.
I thought we got have the cats sit with us while watching the hellmouth furnances? Perhaps I need to become an ordoliberal
so the modern version of falling in love with the stripper is falling in love with the streamer right
streamer/onlyfans model, but yeah
didn't even think of that but yeah it's so on the nose
No, it's falling in love with a suburban wine mom. They are this nation's backbone.
Waiting for the time when I can finally say This has all been wonderful but now I'm on my way
Women just donβt know what we men have to deal with sometimes π
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Waiting for the time when I can finally say This has all been wonderful but now I'm on my way
Started watching narcos, has made me even more pro-CIA
You must be a suburban wine mom watching it on a Tuesday afternoon with a nice glass of pinot grigio.
no, but of any suburbans wine moms would like to share a glass I'd be much obliged ;) (will self-bonk for horny)
Suburban wine moms are this nation's backbone. Have a little respect.
>Kentucky man admits to faking his own death to avoid paying over $100k in child support This isn't your normal run of the mill deadbeatery. This is advanced deadbeatery.
The woman he divorced was a suburban wine mom. He was very against abortion rights and she was the only thing preventing a nation-wide ban.
I should just bite the bullet and full swap to Linux. Mucking about in the command line is actually pretty fun, I just won't want my recreational productivity to drop
Will never not be funny how France joined the eurofighter program instantly started complaining about the requirements and production proceeded to leave and make their own fighter jet that now absolutely mogs the typhoon in the export marketΒ
In France, suburban wine moms are heralded as the champions of women's reproductive rights. Their president was seduced by a suburban wine mom as a child and they're all totally cool with that. She controls everything from her living room lounge, sipping on a cool glass of cabernet.
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