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To TC's point about viewership:
https://twitter.com/Shawn_Spradling/status/1636765992541130757?
https://twitter.com/BNightengale/status/1636784412728721408

The people who aren't into the WBC are missing out. It's a really cool event with global appeal and the best thing baseball has going for it at the moment.

I like Def Leppard, but Hysteria is where things go a little soft for my tastes.

lol

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It's not exactly the same, but the multiple protagonists structure of Yakuza 0 does scratch a similar itch, yeah.

__aCEr__ posted...

Not a game but have you seen Memento?

Yes; another good example

I really like when pieces of media screw around with structure. Breaking Bad offered a lot of examples of this: episodes that started with a scene out of context from the aftermath of the events you're about to watch, the airplane crash hinted to throughout season 2. Catch-22, as another example, is one of my favorite books because of its nonlinear structure. It can be a really powerful storytelling device because it naturally invites curiosity about how what you're seeing came about, or how events tie together.

But I can't say I've seen many examples of this in video games. Increasingly we see non-linear gameplay: the appeal of many open-world games is the freedom to pick what order you go about things. BotW famously allows you to go straight to the final boss, if you're so bold.

I think part of the issue is the expectation of becoming more powerful as the game progresses. Nobody wants to feel less powerful at the end of the game than they did at the start. The most you might get is a game that starts in the heat of action, with a full slate of abilities, before those are taken away, but things generally proceed in chronological order from that point.

I don't have a good solution here, but it's something I'd like to see games explore more. Are there any good examples you guys can come up with?

Right? It's fun

Car go vroom

I find this kinda zen, actually
https://www.youtube.com/live/z9wfNtkNKD4

Assassins Creed Odyssey > Origins > Valhalla

Like too many comic book characters have gotten movies, mostly

It's possibly the only good nationalism

So are you a machine that produces idiots, or a machine that is an idiot?

https://twitter.com/ryangrim/status/1636765183770234880

averagejoel posted...

well I mean the details can have subtext whether or not the author intended for that subtext to be there

Right. Knowing an author's intent is mind-reading. Book reading is a matter of interpreting the text using the clause available.

MaxEffingBemis posted...

Also youd think this would piss off the Cuban and PR communities

Well, both of those groups are effectively excluded from immigration law. Cubans have long been given an easier process, wet foot/dry foot, etc. as a means of "standing up to the Castro regime" or something. And Puerto Ricans are US citizens.

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/business-and-practice/wave-of-federal-judges-ditch-bench-for-lucrative-big-law-jobs

George Hazel and Gregg Costa had yet to turn 40 when former President Barack Obama nominated the lawyers to become federal judges.

The appointmentsHazel to a federal court in Maryland and Costa in Texaswere part of an emerging trend, as the Obama administration looked to tap younger judges for lifetime roles that could secure their seats for a generation. Roughly a decade later, Hazel and Costa opted for another path: they recently left their roles for lucrative partnerships at elite law firm Gibson Dunn & Crutcher.

Hazel, now a 47-year-old father of two, said he was ready for another act as a lawyer, not to mention the pay boost that comes with it. Gibson Dunn reported more than $4.4 million in profits per equity partner last year.

When you get on the bench at 51, depending on your career path maybe youve had the time to bank away some money, said Hazel, who joined Gibson Dunn this month. But the shift toward appointing younger judges, continued in the Trump and Biden administration, is definitely going to make it more likely that people might consider something else, he added.

Hazel and Costa, now 50, are among five Obama appointees who since August have resigned or announced their intent to leave the bench. All five judges joined their courts at 45 or younger, highlighting a potential downside to the youth movement.

The Biden White House didnt immediately respond to a request for comment.
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Federal district judges will make just under $233,000 this year, while appeals judges will make more than $246,000, according to the US Courts website.

At major law firms like Gibson Dunn and Latham & Watkins, first-year associatestypically fresh out of law schoolnow command as much as $235,000 in salaries and bonuses. Equity partner profits have in recent years surpassed $4 million on average at those and other firms.

We talking about jizz here?

Man don't introduce another fucking Youtuber to this

ClockworkHare posted...

people who are neither white nor black could also end up inadvertently taxed for this too

There's not a segregated pool of white people's tax money, or black people's tax money. This is an absurd understanding of how government spending works.

VampireCoyote posted...

Ill never understand the rabid hate for NFTs

What is their purpose?

What if you awaken the spirit of an ancient Egyptian God?

Kpop

Desperados III was my favorite game of 2020. Admittedly, stealth tactics is a fairly niche thing, but that game was both very good and packed with content.

I really can't think of anything I've bought from Amazon in the last year or so

https://twitter.com/charliespiering/status/1636369956882268161

https://twitter.com/katewillett/status/1636046724560044044

Vampire_Chicken posted...

Today's 'far right' is simply voicing opinions, attitudes, and beliefs that you might have heard from the mouths of quite a few Republicans prior to, say, the mid-1960s.

The Nazis took a lot of inspiration from that pre-60s American South.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2023/03/15/axios-reporter-ben-montgomery-fired/?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=wp_main&utm_source=twitter

An Axios reporter in Tampasaid he was fired this week after he responded to a Florida Department of Education email about an event featuring Gov. Ron DeSantis (R), calling the news release propaganda.

Ben Montgomery said he received a call on Monday evening from Jamie Stockwell, executive editor of Axios Local, who asked Montgomery to confirm he sent the email before saying the reporters reputation in the Tampa Bay area had been irreparably tarnished.

The news release sent Monday afternoon said DeSantis, a potential 2024 GOP presidential candidate, had hosted a roundtable exposing the diversity equity and inclusion scam in higher education. It also called for prohibiting state funds from being used to support DEI efforts.

We will expose the scams they are trying to push onto students across the country, DeSantis said in the statement.

Montgomery, a Pulitzer Prize finalist, replied to the email three minutes after getting it. This is propaganda, not a press release, he wrote to the Department of Education press office.

About an hour after that, the Education Departments communication officer, Alex Lanfranconi, shared Montgomerys reply on Twitter, where it has since been viewed more than 1 million times.

Montgomery said the news release had no substance, adding that he read the whole thing and it was just a series of quotes about how bad DEI was.

Axios editor in chief Sara Kehaulani Goo confirmed Montgomery is no longer employed by Axios, but declined to comment further.

The state legislatures GOP majority has also proposed a raft of laws that would reshape K-12 and higher education in the state and ban gender studies, limit transgender pronouns and erode tenure.

This is not the first time that the communications team of DeSantis, who has campaigned on a war on woke, or his administration has published exchanges with reporters or criticized the news media.

Last April, DeSantis spokesperson Christina Pushaw declined an interview request with The Washington Post and suggested to her Twitter followers that The Post was trying to blackmail her by writing a profile about her. She ultimately offered limited cooperation with the reporter.

Lanfranconi has posted photos of emails and articles from reporters in recent weeks, questioning their work, and wrote that the New Yorker was joining the list of those endorsing porn in elementary schools over the magazines cover art.

The Florida Department of Education spokesperson and the governors communications office did not respond to requests for comments.

Montgomery, who has worked as a journalist in the Tampa Bay area since 2005, said he has seen similar incidents happen to reporters in Florida.

Its incredibly important that their organizations stand up on their behalf and realize that this is nothing but a political tactic to gain right-wing votes and disrupt the lives of hard-working journalists, he said.

Named a Pulitzer finalist for his reporting that uncovered abuse at a Florida reform school for boys, Montgomery was hired by Axios in late 2020 and sent his first newsletter in January 2021 as part of the outlets growing presence in local journalism. He said the staff was often assured in his early days at the company that were not going to let the trolls run the newsroom, and that he was therefore unafraid to send the email to the press office.

Axios allowed reporters in 2020 to join racial justice demonstrations after the police killing of George Floyd, but restricted its journalists from protesting for or against abortion rights two years later.

The reaction in the newsroom has been a mix of sadness for losing a colleague and fear that something similar could happen to them, according to a person familiar with internal meetings who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal exchanges.

TurtleInFreedom posted...

Martin Luther King Jr is a good example of that- he didn't use alliances to overcome obstacles with political superiority, he used Christianity and the shared understanding of the spirit behind the US constituion.

Christianity did not mean shit without the political power.

cjsdowg posted...

I don't know what his point is

He's not a complicated guy. Yes you do. It's wrong and stupid, but it's not a mystery as to what motivates him.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/6/7/0/AAWHm8AAESFu.jpg

It's precisely because of their (relative) talents that their benefactors have backed their careers in right wing media.

This topic has me remembering this article:
https://www.vox.com/23178764/florida-us19-deadliest-pedestrian-fatality-crisis

The crosswalks are so far apart its easy to see why some people decide to make a run for it. After Main Street, we dont see another crosswalk until Grand Boulevard in Port Richey 1.7 miles away. That means someone looking to get across the street between the two might need to walk an extra mile or more to find a safe crossing. The speed limit is 45 mph through New Port Richey, but Marlowe says its not uncommon to see people doing over 60 mph, making the road essentially a freeway with residential and commercial development on either side. US-19 was designed for speed, and they meaning drivers use it that way, he says. The tendency seems to be to just go as fast as you can. At night, the sheer size and width of the road make visibility a challenge (even with LED streetlights, which are meant to improve visibility), making it even more deadly for pedestrians who try to cross.

Homeless_Waifu posted...

Unless you live in Chicago

What could you possibly mean by this?

You should take their claims with massive grains of salt
https://twitter.com/austin_walker/status/1635715206557859872

Cool stuff.

Anyways, on the subject of people being weird in the library, gonna post this classic internet video
https://youtu.be/8BGVTkNsGlA

Are you going back to college?

Nikki Haley desperately clawing for attention is the real punchline here

https://twitter.com/austin_walker/status/1635715206557859872

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/2/7/4/AAWHm8AAERv6.jpg

TaylorHeinicke posted...

just watched south park huh

Do I look 12?

They're living in 3023