Witnesses, maybe, but typically they’re the ones doing the murdering (although usually paid to by said rich people).

That’s not how this works, the waiter brings out a mystery platter and you get the five burgers at random. You can pay extra for more burgers, and technically there’s a mercy rule if you order enough burgers but at that point you’ll be downing hundreds of common burgers and likely die of cardiac arrest.

Edit: oh, my waiter informed me I can pay for a burger storage upgrade so I won’t die.

One of the biggest reasons Discord took off for my group over mumble was the ease in inviting strangers on an MMO and they didn’t even need the app. Getting strangers into voice comms is kind of non-negotiable for difficult raiding when you need a sub.

That said, my group is used to streaming for each other and quite a few have nitro for sound board, profile stuff, etc, so it’d be a hard sell unless a more feature rich option comes along. I have the power to persuade them to join me on another platform, but only once and I’m not about to waste that chance until I know their needs are met. Steam got close, but it failed us when we used it for the brief days that Discord was down.

I’ll just be a teen account until there’s a suitable alternative, or do the stupid fake image of a guy trick the Brits taught me, lol.

In most murder mysteries happening at resorts, it’s usually the guests who are murdered and never the help.

The KDE wiggle wiggle is a feature that was enough to convert a friend of mine. Game compatibility? Nah. Win privacy issues? Nah. Giant fucking cursor? Wiggle wiggle, baby.

Well, we found out what adequately distracts the public from the Epstein files: overthrowing governments and executing citizens.

Try not to let selective memory mess ya up; a majority of your kindness is likely forgotten (saying thank you, watching someone’s bag while they are away five minutes, etc) until you get the one time it backfires. Rare events, especially negative ones, have high salience.

Cruel impulsives, on the other hand, you tend to remember when you were driven to a rage or when you shouted at someone you love. Impulses you should regret but do happen to normative people.

Unless you’re a terrible person, anyway, then these are reversed. Common cruelty and rare kindness aren’t default human behavior because it’s counter to tribal survival and evolution would just kill you off. That behavior usually the result of something like a toxic culture or upbringing, and very occasionally psychosis.

I managed, but I’m a glutton for punishment. In the first one you can kind of go guideless as long as you know a few fundamentals: determination is most important as it gives more skill points and easily pays for itself - by endgame you easily have everything capped. Certain combinations of skills also become game breakers, like being able to duplicate items or pumping up exp gains, etc, but the game isn’t that hard and if you want to do everything you have to run multiple times anyway. That holds especially true in SO2, apparently.

On that note, SO games use divergent path storylines but rather than being a “choose a faction” or something, it’s dependent on party members. In SO1, it’s basically three ways things pan out for certain arcs depending on who you recruited, with some members required for others. Luckily there was a flowchart, so blind-ish runs can sorta use that without blatant spoilers. It gets kind of interesting because certain mutually exclusive characters are related in unpredictable ways, so multiple playthroughs kinda reveal more depth… at least as far as a game originally made for SNES can be.

Luckily the game isn’t that long so it wasn’t much of a chore to do multiple playthroughs, especially with fast forward functions of ppsspp emulator. Doing it on original hardware might have been more of a chore, though.

The skills system really calls out for a guide, it’s really easy to misallocate points early game. Or at least that’s my understanding; I did SO1 on PSP recently but uses the same system more or less and you can make life a lot easier with proper planning.

The recent remaster supposedly has better documentation, although I’m not sure I like it better.

I’m starting up… Pokemon White Version 2 completely out of the blue because RetroAchevements is beta testing their multiset feature and I’m a sucker for the Professor Oak Challenge grind. (It’s pure madness, truly a waste of time grind beyond human comprehension, but it’s also an excuse to binge watch stuff and keep my overactive brain in check).

As always I recommend RetroAchevements in general, though. Truly an endless supply of old stuff to do!

I’ve been holding out for a Full Body experience but might just have to emulate it at this point. Although missing out on cutscenes is a real shame-- when it first came out, my wife and I played the game and watched the scenes together and uh… was an interesting and tense situation. Lol

NPR yesterday mentioned quite clearly in an interview with John Bolton that economic sanctions are the biggest factor in Iran, and very much on purpose. It is a US strategy, even pre-Trump.

He acknowledged the cultural upheaval that’s been going on years ago, too, and also that negotiations with their regime is a “waste of oxygen.” But sanctions were definitely central.

Though I suppose NPR isn’t really sensationalized… you wouldn’t interview John Bolton if you wanted sensational news.

Yeah… That’s a violation of FERPA and is reportable offense that’ll get ya fired or sued. Lol

Pretty tempting to keep hitting it until I pull a Thanos, but I’m not sure what to do with all my cat clones.

Interesting, although the Japanese one was originally justified in that they weren’t allowed to have a military after WW2 and the US wasn’t quite as threatening so the bases were a pretty good deterrent to invasion.

Even more interesting is they’re looking to build up their military, even prior to Trump 2.0 (and there’s been an effort for a while). It’s weirdly good timing, although I’m married to an Okinawan and can say a majority of them haven’t wanted bases for decades because of the rape and abuse soldiers cause.

Look, they’re not exactly Bush levels of smart… Sigh

Now I want a shirt with that pattern to really screw with people. Then again, where I live (the US) that’s probably not a good idea.

That’s what I figured and I appreciate the confirmation. Since I work in education it’s probably a “better safe than sorry” approach since the laws on student privacy are actually enforced, unlike in corporate. (Obviously it’s security theater, though, as web apps and Windows integration make emails and files easy to steal anyway).

Half right, but it’s a UPS dropbox- they have a deal with Amazon. Occasionally it’s delivered by drone!

See, that’s why you always jailbreak your sex robot. That, and who knows what corporate wants to do with all that semen it’s collecting.