Power’s still out, 2 days now. Originally it was expected back by tomorrow but it got pushed to Tuesday now, probably redirecting people to NC where shit is so much worse.

I really didn’t expect this hurricane to be Katrina for Asheville. It’s like 7+ hours from the ocean what the fuck.

Exactly, which is why I say, every time I see them translated I’m taken aback. I am very aware that there’s a very different context. It still throws me off when I see it because I (rightly) do not normally think of Hezbollah and the white supremacist preacher as the same and so seeing them use the same language feels super fucking weird.

I guess this is a better way to say it: Because of my background, those words to me have a white, Christian supremacist implication to them. When I hear people talk like that (in English) it is a very reasonable assumption to make that they’re a psycho that should be avoided at all costs. And that is not the case here, which is why it’s strange.

I shouldn’t have said “religious nuts” I suppose, that was my bad. Idk, could we maybe translate to synonyms that aren’t exactly how the Christian far-right talks?

Except it’s the same “flowery language” my fire and brimstone preacher gave at my grandma’s funeral where he said in the eulogy that my immediate family would burn in hell for not believing.

Excuse me for having a bit of religious trauma that comes out sometimes

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Thanks, I hate this.

The only way

Well it’s not the way I was thinking of. Although I guess cutting off military aid would be included in my method of “Bombing every structure in Tel Aviv taller than a bush”

Sorry I meant “it doesn’t matter” as in “I do not care about the origin, the actions we need to take are the same regardless”

I vaguely believe it came from Ft Detrick but also it doesn’t matter. Regardless of the source it should’ve been dealt with differently and now it’s here and we have to deal with it.

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Any way to get it with no insurance without paying out the ass?

Yeah World of Warcraft’s been doing that since 2004?

God patents for game mechanics are so fucking stupid and should be thrown out entirely

I’m sorry but uh, for what? The concept of collectible battle monsters?

Nintendo about to start suing plumbing companies for stealing the concept of Mario

I preordered Spider-Man 2 like 6 hours before release so I could pre-download it and play at midnight. Thats the only time I’ve preordered a digital game, and reviews were already out. Why you would preorder a digital game before preloading opens I really can’t fathom.

I’ll be honest, Pokemon is the one that gets me in that way. I will always buy buy a pokemon game, even if the reviews are bad. And I’ll play it all the way through even if I’m complaining the entire time.

I’m putting the blame on it being the thing from my childhood though, less than the gamerness. I’ll buy the pokemon game every time because even while I’m complaining about it my inner 8 year old is just going “Yay Pokémon!” the whole time, the same thing he’s said to every pokemon game for 20+ years

Even then though I still don’t consistently preorder Pokémon games. I’m against pre-orders on principle and I only do it for games I do have very high expectations for. I preordered Elden Ring and Spider-Man 2, I don’t think I’ve preordered anything else in like 5 years. Spider-Man I preordered 6 hours before release, so that I could play it at midnight. Elden Ring was dumb, I should’ve waited, good game though so I got lucky.

Which is why Nintendo’s lawyers deserve

Hell, most lawyers in general, but especially IP lawyers.

Like, this would mean that if I took a rom for Super Mario Bros and hit ctrl-c ctrl-v 10,000 times you could say I have 10,000 video games. Thats insanity.

Around 12,000 consoles with 47 million games

No. That is incorrect. Each console had a few thousand games, and you did bullshit math to make that sound worse. Each copy of a rom does not count as an individual video game, that’s an insane way to measure things.