Death Spiral Financing is one of those things that should be shouted from the rooftops by anyone who wants to spread anti capitalism. It so cleanly displays the evil inherent to the system.

He should have first recreated the carboniferous era so that the O2 levels in the atmosphere were as high as they used to be. What happened to sparing no expense?

It would though.

Annual operating income this year $1.5 billion.

Here!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_03N1BrOIY

Not sure if the main pic is working

Are you sure?

It is all artificial, isn’t it?

I knew someone would catch that mojo. Pity it was too late to eat a hotdog with no bun on Friday.

Arguably my comment is funnier if you know anything about great apes

Nice one. Change comes from within.

Also, the Trek timeline from here on out is a lot of stuff that Q thought proved we were worthless shitbags so… Hopefully that can be avoided.

Goddamn they live better than us in every way

I’ve got to get this one for my wife, it’s been too long since we saw a hefty action film with heart. She’s been pining for Kung Fu Hustle, and this sounds like it might be just the tonic.

My local Asian market sells powdered sriracha sauce. If you get this in your kitchen, everything you cook will be sweet, sour, spicy, and red for about a week before it’s gone. It’s fucking good.

They’re very different games in some respects, but Silksong for me so far is very much a direct continuation and elaboration of the creative aims of the original. Same ideas, taken further. It’s early for me, but it feels a little like it was taken in more of a Sekiro direction with the combat precision and more deliberate choice of weapons loadouts.

I can’t spoil shit, haven’t even beat the first major boss yet.

The fun of this game for me is a lot like back before GPS and ride share apps, how you might be lost at night and walking home, broke after a satisfying night out. You don’t know where you are exactly, but you feel a creeping recognition as you make your way through unfamiliar areas. Then you get a moment of pure elation as your mental map puzzles it all out. Your world feels bigger, you feel safe again, and you’re ready to return home with a true sense of satisfaction.

Then there’s the way this game trains you to fight like the main character. You can’t make too many mistakes because HP is limited and healing is often a high stakes moment, so you quickly learn a way to use the moveset - and when it clicks, it looks good.

You learn how to fight like Hornet, and the way she fights speaks to her story. Being the royal progeny of a spider and something eldritch, her style of combat is graceful yet intense, smooth as silk and totally merciless.

The surface elements (the storybook aesthetic, the gobbledygook bug-talk from amusingly forlorn characters) keep it all from becoming too grounded. If Team Cherry ever tried to make their work seem grounded in realism, I never noticed it. They use real things (like the “needle” you use as a weapon) as only small reminders that this is a story about bugs. These bugs are fully capable of metallurgy and heavy engineering, so anything that refers to the human world only exists to keep the sense of scale in focus.

To add to what you’re saying, the game changes on you so much. From the start it’s no Hollow Knight, but as you gain new abilities and ways to arrange those abilities, the game changes almost as fast as you can get good at it. I can’t wait to get into the second act.

😚 that fucking face

Same. Mine has ADHD… Really the most clear-cut case of hyperactivity you’ve ever seen. Even with my wife at home and my mom in town most of July-August, it was more stressful than term time.

All that junk code, what could go?

I don’t know how well they’d adapt to the salinity, but I like hadrosaurs. They might have been powerful swimmers.