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Reading the book on Blizzard, it's not exactly Masters of Doom in terms of in depth it goes, but I guess covering the 30+ years of the company that way would be too much to ask for. Nothing all that earth shattering, Kotick is a stereotypical suit, although the anecdote of him wanting monthly releases of ______ Hero games and the executives thinking game development was like shampoo manufacturing were funny.

Got Rogue Trader, helps to be familiar with the PnP game from 2010 or so. My preload was a waste of time, have to download a 37 GB "patch".

Yeah but did you leave after the Episode 1 trailer?

The conspiracy theories or just idiocy about the Helene response shows how the Internet was a mistake. Well of course Musk helps out, apparently Starlink is critical aid. Guess he played Deus Ex recently. At least MTG is crazy as usual

I paid to see xXx.

Ah I forgot all about that!

You need to watch Mortal Kombat Annihilation next

Well it's what they have for deterrence, threatening a headache for the US is a decent option. If they had nuclear weapons, Israel would probably think twice about hitting them. Probably would be interested in just managing their allies in Gaza, Lebanon and not assassinating Iranians. Takes two to dance, and there's a very long chain here.

https://www.axios.com/2024/10/02/iran-israel-missile-attacks-response Going to hit oil facilities. Wonder how Iran will respond to that. Would that really be bad for us? Pakistan has them, and that country is a basketcase.

You mean defend Israel's very existence. Seems that applies to literally anything.

Hilarious bias in the poster aside, remarkable footage.

Cancer is a bitch

RIP Kris Kristofferson. That guy had a full life : Rhodes Scholar, Captain in the Army, musician and actor.

Israel having their mad dog act backfire like that would make me laugh, to be fair.

Wonder if they'll go after Iran next. Iranians better get nukes ASAP.

Bruce will cheer on any annexation. Nasrallah is confirmed to be dead. Hezbollah seems impotent, maybe Israel will try to enact regime change in Lebanon?

You need to listen to more Israeli marketing. Have also had some amusing Hasbara types argue if Hamas and Hezbollah are not defeated, they'll somehow destroy Israel Maybe they'll carve a piece of Lebanon out after, heh, as per rules based order

IDF hit Hezbollah in Beirut. Doesn't really seem Hamas and Hezbollah are this existential threat to Israel.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/23/tech/elon-musk-brazil-court-compliance/index.html "In the US Congress, Florida Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar, a Republican, mentioned Musk and de Moraes by name last week when she introduced legislation that would punish foreign officials who violate the First Amendment rights of Americans by denying them entry into the United States. " I guess Americans should be ok to violate other countries' hate speech laws?

Well, was trying to be charitable to him. You'd think this scare tactic stuff would end, I get they want to draw NATO in as that is an "I win" button, though.

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/zelenskyy-russia-chinese-satellites-photograph-nuclear-plants-ahead/story?id=113943075 Skeptical of this, but we're back to fears of poisoning Europe with radiation as a concern. Interested to see what Zelensky's victory plan is, probably will be aspirational stuff.

Got a JIRA ticket from a guy to help him with his PL/SQL course. Pretty much made me switch off for the day

Isn't the natural state for Americans ?

Sign I play too many games when I dreamed my mom was killed, but I had chances to stop it. Somehow that led to it being a CoD clone as I found myself with a P90 (some how with a collapsible stock) at one point.