Hexboare [they/them]

Kristallnought

You can’t jump properly unless you have a framerate of 125

Ancient Americas and Premodernist to add the list

and we’ll do it again

It’s not an IV injection but similar to insulin

It was the largest Kyiv cargo airport from memory, and Russia held it until the April peace negotiations withdrawal.

If we should have given him weapons when he was lying, it’s even more important now he’s telling the truth

just need a variant of this

“china before communism” from the group that was founded 50 years after the CPC won the civil war

They’re South African Chinese and would have been subject to various apartheid policies (forced removal, segregation etc.)

Precipitation is modelled to go up a lot almost everywhere, but with significantly higher variability (i.e.: drought to floods)

2034 pov: pushing your broken Cybertruck Xtreme edition through the American south

Don’t worry brother we’re taking care of those pesky bugs

(Just kidding, there will be more mosquitos as the planet gets hotter and wetter)

Microsoft reported ~$90 billion in profits in FY 2024, or enough to pay those workers $120,000 for the next three centuries

billionaire vampires

If I was Chris Roberts I would be bleeding the company dry at possible turn

Run all the employee salaries through your payroll processing firm, lend yourself money to buy the building to rent back to CIG, lease the IP (I think he did actually sell it), etc.

Not only is it a scam at this point, but it’s a deeply inefficient one - you don’t need to hire 500 staff to produce what looks like a couple million in content to keep the grift going

I think it’s rumoured him and his relatives take about 10 percent of revenue, which is actually pretty small for a conman from Hollywood

Revenue is very high but I don’t think Roberts has the intelligence to skim the amount of profits you’d expect from a commercially successful game

Is it actually that financially successful? The problem with this “model of development” is that you can’t make a huge profit because you’re compelled to keep the gravy train going until it implodes

mamma-mia where-a to-a the pizza-ria

Probably older than that, the oldest pieces of flatbread are almost 15,000 years old, and it’s not a big leap to put stuff on top of it