Whoever disagrees on anything with Trump or is too weak to defend themselves when he needs a scapegoat for his failures.
that’s all held by the executive
From now on, that'll all be handled by the most rabid capitol rioters. If they demonstrate their loyalty by murdering undesirable political figures, the president will throw around pardons like it's his main competence.
and only Congress can unfuck us with impeachment
Yeah, how's that been working out so far?
You want to be treated with respect? What snowflakey whining is this? Need a safe space, liberal crybaby? Fuck your feelings! Real conservatives grab others by the genitals when- and wherever they feel like it (when you're rich, they let you do it). A cage is good enough when you rip apart families seeking asylum! Get outta here with your communist tree-hugging fascist rules and regulations on how I am to behave.
Sorry, I was possessed by the spirit of the right wing's leader slash all of his propaganda mouthpieces there for a minute. What I parroted there wasn't very respectful. Nobody should ever say that to anybody else.
So in other words, Trump can do whatever he wants as long as his cronies vote that it's okay.
The question wasn't "what came first - the chicken or the chicken egg?" The first chicken hatched from AN egg. Question answered.
Ooooh no. A government position would imply at least a shred of accountability. They'd lobby for privatisation. Failing that, they'd bribe the officials in charge to run the whole system into the ground so that they can argue a private entrepreneur could run it more efficiently, and then they'd do it with as little oversight as they can buy from their legislators.
The problem here is that it would reward the government for either a) punishing criminals but also b) framing innocents with the goal of taking their money. We're seeing how well that works with the private prison industrial complex. In essence, it just creates an industry of creating criminals where there were none.
Punishing criminals severely is great. Making it a business will end up with the worst kind of people optimising the revenue from it.
This further proves that the Big Bottom conspiracy is covering up the facts they don't want you to know!
The thing is that, depending on your tastes, there's a good chance at least some of the new content will appeal to people, but I do absolutely understand getting that bad aftertaste every time you remember that it all leads canonically into those three movies and .... nyeeeerrrrgghhh.
By the way, it seems that even a good portion of the producers seem to at least partially share that feeling, which makes it doubly sad that disney is making almost everyone shoehorn in some hint of retroactively created foreshadowing with the goal of explaining that no, palps returning that way isn't the ass-pull it obviously was at all, nuh-uh!
I wouldn't necessarily say that they are not woke. If it maximises their returns, they will definitely do anything they think will get them the woke crowd's money (see also the shoehorned lesbian kiss in ep9). They will also do their best to get the money of the anti-woke crowd (see also: removing the black man from posters; keeping the lesbian kiss contained to five easily cuttable seconds for certain releases).
It's more correct to not think of them as woke nor not woke, they are just whoring themselves out to whomever they believe they can get to bring them the largest amounts of money (see the company's history of political donations).
You don’t see rushed straight relationships in Hollywood.
You may want to sit down now, because if you like, I can gather a list of all movies whose script contains the line
"and then the hero gets the girl despite there being no perceivable chemistry or other factors they have in common except him being the main character and her being The GirlTM in the movie. They kiss. The End."
The less said about the sequel trilogy, the better, but do yourself a favour and don't miss out on watching Andor just because of the movies. That show is just really good and also incidentally Star Wars.
At least you won't have that particular problem again until you read about somebody who sneezed someone else's intestines out of his body.
I don't dare to. The entirety of life in the universe seems to be cross with me.
104 Gig Patch?
That's like Theseus bringing in his ship for maintenance and when he returns to get it, the ship mechanic saying "so I have good news and bad news..."..
[Spoilers] Ahsoka - nature vs. nurture
Say what you will about the pacing and stuff, but this show FINALLY gave me a complete force muggle who had no mystical legendary bloodline of famous force space wizards behind her, no cloned mega-space-emperor midichlorian legacy shenanigans that made her the super-special chosen one and she STILL got to use the force through sheer grit and training and determination! Sabine Wren is what the broom kid could have been.
No, you don't have to be the spawn of the force-elite with a meticulous pedigree and breeding to get all forcey, you can do it all on your own! Go get that coffee mug, you can do it!
Is zero divisible by zero?
Seems like it should and the result should be one. Does mathematics agree with me on that?
Disable Autosave to prevent Save Corruption
I just played a session and noticed that saving didn't work properly anymore - I would enter a save name and hit save, but afterwards, the save would not appear in the list. When I tried to reload the last appearing save in the list, the game told me it detected save corruption and could not load it. After the initial wailing and gnashing of teeth, I noticed that the last save in the list, the corrupted one was right after some milestone. I reloaded the last working save, played up to the part where that corrupted save would have been and noticed that it was right after some cutscene where the game would have been autosaving WHILE I initiated the quicksave. It seems that you can royally screw yourself if you cause overlapping save procedures, so for the foreseeable future, I will make sure that the only one initiating saves is me, no more autosaves here.
tl;dr: If you save while an autosave is being made, your save will risk being corrupted. Generally don't overlap saves in progress.
Infinite HP (kinda spoilerish?)
While there is no at-will cantrip that directly heals, the unlockable illithid power Transfuse Health lets one heal another character at the cost of half one's current hp. Now you'll be thinking, "that's not infinite", and you'd be mostly right - except warlocks can create 7 temp hp at will with the eldritch invocation Fiendish Vigor. The neat thing about transfuse health is that it does not transfer the healing character's hp to the healed one - no, it subtracts the amount of half the character's current hp and then heals the other character for that, BUT, it starts subtracting from temporary hp! This means that as long as you have 15 hp and 7 points of fiendish vigourous temp hp up, the seven hp that make up half your current actual hp will be subtracted from your temp hp and not touch your real hp, leaving you with 15 perfectly fine and untouched hp. Reapply fiendish vigour and repeat as often as necessary.
It may not be the fastest way of healing, but it is repeatable ad infinitum on other group members and only leaves the healer at 15 hp + 7 temp hp.
Save corruption?
When will the patches be stable enough that one would -with a reasonable degree of certainty- no longer expect save corruption anymore in the process? Because I will not, can not, do the first couple hours yet again at this point. I may roll another character when things have settled down and any further twiddling will be mostly cosmetic, but right now, no. BG3 is on hold for me now.