Turn on your monitor

Soulseek was the best

Investment group buys a significant portion of stock (large enough to sway shareholder voting), then they demand changes in the company with the threat of ousting the current executives/board via their voting power. Their goal is to make the stock valuation go up, then sell off the stock for profit.

The Chinese ghost fishing fleet too, imo

True enough, but the ghost fleets of oil tankers and ocean fishing vessels are a real problem as well. I would say that I find it unlikely that this administration would go out of their way to do the paperwork for possibly legal targets when they’ve been so ruthlessly attacking non-legit targets, but the stakes are also higher with the monetary value of the oil.

According to the NY Times the tanker in question is flying under a flag where it is not registered, and is linked to smuggling Iranian oil.

I wish more people understood this perspective

Congrats on your impending ban from .ml

Dungeon Tracer is a pretty decent remake of one of my favorites from back in the day, Dungeon Raid

Neat, but swim bladders don’t hold urine. They’re more akin to a ballast tank on a submarine.

I do miss them, but at least Something Awful is still around

That site logo certainly… is.

See also: DREAD weapon system

And then aleph numbers get thrown into the conversation

And when it does start happening they declare martial law.

Gabecube

While that’s fair, there does exist pain for which you can’t really imagine much worse at that moment. For me those have been kidney stones and a broken femur.

I think the crux of the issue is that positive change is slow, but negative change can sweep through and more than remove those gains at what seems to be a moment’s notice.

The term for this is “abandonware”