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An apology to the Kirk family, lol. His "bereft" wife was on air after the assassination, scoring cult brownie points in an inflammatory speech trying to turn her late husband into a martyr, exactly the sort of thing a mourning widow would do directly after losing her husband and father of her children. Especially a mourning widow from a traditional family the way Charlie Kirk argued for. 99% of right-wing whining is projection. Or as we say here: "So wie der Schelm ist, so denkt er auch von anderen." - meaning, very loosely, it takes one to know one. Although Kash Patel still takes the take. I'll see you in Valhalla bro has to be the dumbest line of 2025 (coming from the director of the FBI), and it's a year where Trump said a lot and renamed the Gulf of Mexico and the Department of Defense.

I went to a 30th anniversary showing of ghost in the shell. It still holds up

When you get one of those emails telling you you received money and all you need to do is check the attached file, then you hover over the sender - out of curiosity - and the address is @ troy The file comes from Troy? So it is by definition a Trojan file? In a way I don't even begrudge them any money they swindle out of people.

As the question above says, I am hoping somebody knowledgeable can explain how the game rolls the Random Scripted Encounters it throws at you. Specifically, what are gamedata files involved, and what mechanism/variable inside the files determines the encounter. For example, if I wanted to add a scripted encounter while roaming Neketaka or Dunnage or when sailing, or if I wanted to adjust the weight/frequency of event occurrence, what files should I modify? Thank you in advance.

the bugs that travel underground being able to get in actually makes sense. palisades sit on the ground so its not like it creates a barrier that cant be dug through.even if you think logically only the posts would be underground. as for being "under your floor on the 2nd floor", yea thats a bit of an issue. does it show the trail of dirt, or can you see the grub from the floor below? also are you able to dig it up there and under pebblet foundation? for the ones under the foundation it makes sense for them to be there, but not if you can still dig them or see the trail.

Hello Grounded community! I have been playing Grounded since around 2021 and have loved every minute of it. So I was excited to hear about Grounded 2 being released, with all the new bugs and possibilities I knew I would be playing non stop for weeks and I still am. However I have one issue that I was hoping to have help with. I have been diagnosed with PNES, its a neurological condition, think of them like stress induced seizures. That is not really the problem though, the problem is that I also have katsaridaphobia, which is like arachnaphobia but for ****roaches. I am currently undergoing therapy for both of these conditions however i still get panic attacks and occasionally seizures when a giant ****roach runs across my screen. I cant muster up enough courage to kill them or even get near them. Because of this I was hoping it is possible to add a phobia mode for the ****roaches. The Nymphs don't bother me whatsoever and I actually think they're kind of cute, it is just adult ****roaches (and of course the queen lol) that bother me. I do not expect to be catered to, as I know there is so many phobias for insects, and its almost impossible with all the amazing bugs in the game to add a phobia mode for all of them. However I was just "shooting my shot" and wanted to see if it could be done. With great love -Jawn_Boat

Conservatives used to have the bigger impact with Disney, what with being a family oriented company, but they alienated that audience already. So now they can't afford to lose the cat ladies too. Boycotts depend on the industry and consumer base. The Bud Light one sent Bud light from #1 beer brand to #3 or #4, so that was pretty effective, but if it's something mostly progressives consume, a conservative boycott won't do much, and Vice Versa. The Hogwarts Legacy boycott resulted in it being the #1 selling game of the year for instance. Alienating men seems to have been the bigger disaster for a lot of stuff, rather than political sides, just look at the collapse of Marvel and Star Wars.

Well, if one's on the extremely far right-end of the political spectrum, everything and everyone else looks left. Besides, if one just excludes economic politics (in which the AfD is hilariously out-capitalist-ing the FDP) like the far-right populists generally do, backed by wealthy people as they all seem to be, the mainstream opinion of simply accepting other forms of family or concepts of living together outside of what politicians in Germany call the "core" (father, mother, children) family is something that can be seen as left insofar as the left leaning parties are the ones pushing for more sociall progressive policies. It's not like the CDU (or our equivalent, the ÖVP) were at the forefront of opening marriage for homosexual poeple. They hemmed and hawed until they were just forced to. Angela Merkel was chancellor at a time where society as a whole moved towards more understaning and acceptance of alternative ways of life. One act of accepting refugees might have caused a cascade reaction landing us in some dangerous waters in this day and age, but left-wing does that not one make. Certainly not the CDU, and even less their Bavarian appendix.

I would assume that it depends on the brand/business/product. For ABC/Disney, it's probably safe to say that they would have more left-wing people in their camp than right-wing, so yes, I would imagine they would've been much better off just quietly ignoring all of this. There are enough other significant voices out there saying so much worse about Charlie Kirk than the nothingness that Kimmel did (his comment didn't even really directly concern Charlie Kirk but rather the shooter), this shouldn't have even been on anyone's radar, especially given the kind of audience Kimmel has in the first place. Foolishness all around on the decision-makers at ABC/Disney, though I do understand that the threats between FCC and Sinclair/Nexar were probably persuasive in the moment. ABC/Disney will still have to sort that nasty business out.

Looks like Jimmy Kimmel is coming back Wednesday, which is was either the plan all along, or Disney desperately trying to hit the undo button after getting lambasted by everyone that isn't on Team Maga. My guess is the latter.

When he loses it tends to happen in the lower courts, then win when it is taken to the SCOTUS, the final authority. The difference is that the lower courts are populated by both liberal and conservative justices selected by various Presidents, whereas the SCOTUS is majority conservative with three of its members selected by DJT. What shouldn't be happening is so many of his decisions needing to be validated by the court system. It seems to be part of DJT's personality to try and skirt legal restrictions as much as possible. What will be particularly interesting is whether his tariff packages survives appeal at the SCOTUS. Technically it shouldn't, since the required emergency conditions just don't exist.

Missed this, Surviving Mars was pretty fun, although I got a nasty CTD issue with my concrete rovers eventually.

Not sure if this is the best place to report this.

Just to update this, the included ES Crate Fix worked like a charm.

Translation: The lawyers were sharpening their knives and Disney caved, because despite their resources, they wouldn't be able to win.

First both Houses are entirely toothless. Entirely. They will either endorse whatever comes out of this administration, or ah-hum their way to the apocalypse, with vague hand wringing about norms and civility. As for the courts, the system is slow, but the Supreme Court has already clearly shown who it stands with. Congress, lol.

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