Paradox games has a huge CHUD audience, so I’d be very surprised if they actually told them “no”. They’re the reason that the Nazis in their WW2 game Hearts of Iron are absurdly overpowered compared to real life, because the Fash kept whining that the Soviets would always beat them.

There was some update, I want to say maybe…6-7 years ago? Where Stellaris was my absolute favourite game of all time. Unfortunately they update it so much and change it so much that it is unrecognisable, almost a completely different game, and I don’t have several hundred dollars to spend on all the mandatory DLC I don’t have.

…Damn. I needed to work today, but I guess I’ll just be playing Stellaris all day now.

I wonder how the artists for these rags decide skin tone in their pictures, I feel like they must have some kind of quota that they use to ensure maximum token diversity.

Pinned posts about Venezualan inflation with AI art

Look, AI just isn’t that good at that stuff, if you want the real quality inflation art, you have to talk to a real artist.

Ironic that Humankind ended up being the “civ killer” not because it actually was better than Civ, but because Civ 7 copied it without thought and made their game very unfun to play.

“We get rid of third locations that people can spend time at for free, which will force them to come to our business!”

“What?! Why are all these poors coming to our business, don’t they have anywhere else to be? How dare they only spend enough for us to get a small amount of profit off of them! Get out of here!”

Don’t worry, it wasn’t the Hantavirus, it was just one of the other hundreds of contagious diseases this flight attendant is exposed to on the daily.

Flight attendants really get fucked over hard. It really is an awful job.

Almost there, just a month to go!

You can practice kissing on a mirror by gluing m&ms to it.

I don’t know anything about pickling except that brine is salty, so I’ll assume you’re correct.

Gotta get that sigma grindset. Hopefully they can start getting paid by China and the DPRK soon too.

You mean the grifting white supremacist assumed that he would be above the law and could do whatever he wanted in another country, and then had to face the consequences of his own actions?

I do hate how much of a pattern this sort of thing is. They do this every fucking time, and every fucking time people fall for it.

Oh, I thought it would be China, but like, an evil authoritarian depiction of them. This is somehow even dumber than that.

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Does paste come out of your mouth? Mouths are for putting things in, not for squeezing things out.

I feel like you’d need something isotonic, with a lot of salt, like gatorade or something, adding salt to energy drink sounds awful, but brineing pickles in isotonic sports drink also sounds awful. But it’d probably at least taste like something meant to be food.

Iran-aligned militias in Iraq have turned the country into a major proxy battleground between Washington and Tehran.

Ah yes, because the only reason that Iraqis would oppose US army bases on their soil is because they are paid off by Iran, couldn’t be that they want to get rid of the occupiers who killed millions of their people, no, clearly because insidious Iran is tricking those poor naive Iraqis.

I know you’re probably joking, but it is actually a real thing, and can really fuck with a person’s head when they’re in an abusive situation with someone. It isn’t the “Oh, they said something I don’t like, that’s gaslighting!” that the internet armchair therapist speak has turned it into. It’s more of a slow and methodical thing, getting someone to actively doubt their own perceptions and trust their abuser’s claims over their own personal experience.

Yeah, getting people to internalise systemic issues and discourage them from examining whether things are actually good for them or not.

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