The hell it would. Fascism will drive with an empty bus, so to speak.

Obligatory Cody Johnson on the Babylon Bee: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KSXKzPOcYDU

Of course Babylon Bee chooses to take aim at people calling each other Nazis.

This bill explicitly excludes batteries and storage of power. This just makes it so solar companies have to match their production with fossil fuel purchases.

It is to stop or slow expansion of renewables, as companies will essentially have to additionally and directly invest in fossil fuels to expand their industry.

My 1980s era construction is valued at over 400k. Neighbors been selling recently for 450k-480k. It’s wild that they’ve doubled in cost since covid, after doubling in cost after the bank failures before them.

I am always so glad to see Matt and Ian still at it. Mac Hall were the days.

“May your bacon always be boiled.” is certainly a worthwhile curse.

Appearance, story, setting, and style are all mostly secondary to the mechanics and design of the game.

Strip away the appearance of metroidvanias and you have a platforming maze with gated areas unlocked through progression.

The overall maze of the game should ideally be enough to get lost in. Whether the world is going to be procedurally generated or predesigned, or some combination should be figured out early on. Even if progression is linear the access to and pathway through the maze should likely not be a straight line. It is very common to see or view inaccessible late game areas in the early game, for example.

The gates of the game traditionally come in the form of new movement options. The reliables are usually: (double) jumping, running, slide/rolling, climbing, swimming/sinking, flying/gliding and so on. Choosing how and where the player may access these is important. This is to say: player movement is the game.

Another common ‘key’ to gates is something that allows the player to defeat an enemy or boss they could not previously defeat, or otherwise access a new area. A notable example being metroid’s ice beam. Freezing enemies gives the player new platforming options: and new movement in the game.

Good new metroidvanias are aware of what has been done before and try to innovate on those tropes.

Anxiety, easily.

They already stripped and/or barred Russians from becoming citizens a few years back, so this kind of follows that trajectory.

The argument from Lithuania as I understand it that purging Russians reduces the ‘protecting Russians abroad’ narrative from Putin. Though it does mean one less place where Russians who oppose Putin can go while also displacing potentially thousands of Russians into Putin’s other narrative that western/NATO powers are out to get them.

Hope this maneuver pays off, I guess.

Essentially the author is taking aim at the plausibility of humans using psychadelics throughout history and time on the veracity of the historic and fossil records.

Which is fine. Because most of the ideas are derived from interpretations of scant bits of evidence to begin with. The whole narrative is much closer to a group of friends theorizing what the first ape to consume psilocybin may have felt than scientists and historians enshrining a proven theory. But I think the author gets a little stuck by not really accepting most all of these theories are predicated as fanciful and speculative.

Stoner culture isn’t the same as the medical marijuana resesrch. But the former is quite marketable in its own right. Same thing here.

Which version of Skyrim will Skyblivion require?

Do they come with the required manpower though?

Crew of 4 for the tank. Crew of… thousands? To move and use 541 trebuchets?

The American Libertarian sects tend to loosely regard themselves as anarchist, which is frustrating as all hell.

Anarcho-capitalism is opportunistic enough to co-opt anything.

I am willing to bet this is the same crowd that got real mad Nexus started removing adult content mods involving underage characters.

Damnit Flo, I expected better from you.

I was gonna day $5k is just a handout to insurance companies for just the birth of the baby.

Which is, well, the end of Republicans giving a shit about babies and children.

Are ‘moms watering down milk’, or is it just the concept of formula is beyond these folks?

The proper response to being offered something to read, indeed.

That same apartment I lived in jumped to something like $750 immediately in response to the crash. It now rents for $1300 last I checked. Same little end unit next to the dumpsters.