I try to be pretty understanding, I know a lot of Lemmy users aren’t speaking English as their first language and honest mistakes are going to happen.

That idiot was an American. Or a very well crafted caricature of some Americans.

Hey my grandpa served in WW2 too! You and I have that in common. And what I mean by that is the deeds or misdeeds of our forebares contribute nothing meaningful to our individual value as people. That is entirely up for you and I to do. It’s cool that you’re proud of him, but you’re also descended from a lot of other people that did both cool and horrifying shit. It doesn’t matter that they did it, you didn’t. For good or bad, you are judged by your deeds alone.

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Jesus that’s just straight up porn

I once talked to a former military police officer and current cop about the only time he’d discharged a weapon outside of a training scenario ever.

He was walking through a department store looking for some individual, the details of who and why weren’t important to him and so weren’t shared. Anyway, somebody bumped in to a mannequin next to him and he discharged his entire clip in to it before he realized it wasn’t a person.

I’ve never been happier not to have an official diagnosis. My wife and I are considering our options.

Ireland? New Zealand? We both have semi in demand skills. I’m a tradesman and she’s a social worker. Realistically we’re stuck here but looking at what we might be able to do

I’m pretty sure someone arranged the shells this way, the same way someone puts a sticker on a lightpole that says “eat the rich.” The kind of thing that exists somewhere in between instruction and wishing.

Comey saw it, thought it was neat, and posted it not knowing what it was.

Which is idiotic of an FBI director. But nothing more.

I kinda figured the H1B visas would be spared, since Elmo is a will known abuser of that program, along with most of silicone valley.

V has as much money as you have at the end of the game, they’ve got properties and cars, whatever cash… But your connections are just whatever fixers are still alive when you get back. But now that you’re kinda useless to them now they won’t be very eager to help you.

Yeah but, let’s be honest, did anybody believe Pam Bondi was even capable of leading ducks to water, let alone an entire government agency?

I played it twice when it came out, and several times since then, once or twice with every major update. Don’t judge me I love cyberpunk settings.

It’s a completely different game now. A much better experience. It’s still quite possible to make the game ridiculously easy for yourself. Hackers will have an easier time than a street samurai, and if you put the time in to do all of the side quests you’ll quickly level to the point of unstoppable brute force merc anyway. But, the core experience is good, the expansion adds a lot, and is worth playing through even if you don’t do the rest of the game.

I say this as someone who, in spite of how good I wanted the game to be, could recognize that the released product, and even the game several updates in, was deeply flawed. I didn’t have the issue with bugs many people were having, but still it felt unfinished and unrefined. As of 2.1 I can confidently say it’s a good game, even if you’re not a freak for a criminal underserved cyberpunk setting.

Holy shit that ending hits hard.

How do you think Moses crossed it asshole? By waiving his arms around?? No. He built a land bridge of old car batteries that collapsed as soon as they crossed. Trapping the Egyptian army in an acidic brine that melted their faces off.

Jesus it’s like you’ve never seen Indiana Jones

Cats make me wish I wasn’t allergic to cats.

That system would just be automated cameras, no agent necessary.

Go to your local big box store and find one of the aisles that’s got pallets loaded up on the upper shelves.

Those pallets are 48" square and the shelves are generally 36" tall though sometimes they’re taller.

A pallet of 100 dollar bills, stacked neatly and put in one of the 36" shelves would be about 125 million dollars.

You’d need 8 of them to get to a billion.

Fun fact, because of the sheer quantity of fucking people over Gates is guilty of in his time at Microsoft, we can assume that at least a handful of the people he screwed died prematurely as a direct result of Gates’ actions. Something about every 1% increase in unemployment sees an accompanying increase of 37,000 deaths by various means.

Bill Gates killed people, is what I’m getting at.

the ACLU Mobile Justice app does this

Holy shit they shut it down a month after dorito stain took office what the fuck

What? Intelligent people get fooled all the time. The NXIVM cult was made up mostly of reasonably intelligent women. Shit that motherfucker selected for intelligent women.

You’re not immune. Even if you were, you’re incredibly dependent on people of average to lower intelligence on a daily basis. Our planet runs on the average intelligence.

I WISH. hahaha I’m in danger