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Wait until you see our for profit prison system.

The internet tells me they ramge from 4.99-7.54 federally, and 1.29-12.99 privately. That doesn't seem too low. I'd say it should be minimal. 1-2%, enough to cover costs. 90% of the loans are federal, so should the government really profit on young people getting an education?

I've seen a bunch of people complaining online about the student debt forgiveness. The central theme seems to be concerns that taxpayers are footing the bill. 😑 It sounds like a drop in the bucket to me. Netx will they cry about how the banks will lose out on the massive interest profits?

I know I've said this before, but Funcom has earned a blank check from me for Conan Exiles, so I'm pretty excited for Dune. There is already a ton of stuff in the Conan game that would directly cross over and work in a Dune setting. Sandstorms? Crafting? Climbing? They've got a winning strategy already, so I have some confidence. I'm really curious if fans of the novels will dig the lore of the game. I'm a big Robert Howard fan, so all the little touches in Conan speak to me, but I never got past the first Frank Herbert book. Maybe the game will get me into them.

With Wall-E, I assume we don't see the robots purge 99.9% of the human race as the 0.1% flees into space.

I was actually surprised when I typed in : - ) that it popped up with the new ugly winker. But I was on my phone and in a hurry, and scrolling way down through the emojis is a hassle. See, that one typed in fine with : p Whoa, I just noticed this one 🏒

As much as Bart derides my taste in movies, I wonder how he feels about the fact that my end of the year movie for my students is Galaxy Quest? The kids groan about the choice for about 10 minutes, and then they are onboard for the best scifi flick ever made. 😉

Sweet! I don't imagine I will buy a gas car again. The Ford Mach-E is probably my favorite out now, but there are a ton of other good choices.

18-miles a day is a pretty stiff hike. We used to average 12 or so when I backpacked as a kid. Although it is probably only about 6-8 hours of walking, so that is doable.

Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow came out in 2004, so it was exactly 18 years ago that CGI became terrible.

I've got it on now. It's a movie, alright. I'd say silly fun, for the most part. Prey is better.

These folks go into a movie about fighter jets and expect more than a bunch of jets flying fast. I don't know what to tell you. 😉

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/hand-of-fate-devs-new-tactics-game-is-xcom-with-superheroes This peaks my interest a lot more than the Marvel Xcom clone. I mean I'm happy to see as many solid turn based tactical combat games as I can get, but a Freedom Force type game where you get to make superheroes and develop them sounds way better.

Everybody should try biscuits and gravy at least once. It will sit in your stomache for the rest of your life, so you only need to one time. 😉

I'm a pretty optimistic guy, but even I know better than to expect JA3 to be good. I think a big problem is people focus on Ivan, Fidel, and all the other characters as being important to making a JA game. They aren't. It is important to have a colorful cast of characters. It's important to be able to develop them over the campaign. That's it. The strategic map looked ok at the end. The camera seemed off in the combat shots. The inventory and equipment modification scenes seemed incomplete. I'm not going to hold my breath. At the end of the day I'm getting a better tactical combat experience from Xenonauts 2, Battle Brothers and Wartales. These nu-Xcom style games offer a fun cinematic combat experience, and maybe JA3 will fit that mold. But I'm not holding my breathe.

That's a cool cup, but it seems a bit impractical.

I guess my childhood of going to Chuck E Cheese and being entertained by frightening animatronix has made me less concerned about the uncanny valley. But really, I enjoyed the storytelling aspect of the animals in Prey. The snake and the mouse, the wolf and the rabbit, the mountain lion and the...tree? The bear and the protagonist. The shifting from Predator to Prey was what I enjoyed. Also, I just watched Predator 2, which was ridiculous, so lets not get too nitpicky about bowstrings and resin or whatever. 🤣

I'm not sure what you are getting at here. You didn't like the scene, I get that. I still don't want a real Grizzly Bear being forced to do stunts for a 30-second action sequence.

Looks like I'm starting the school year off with my freedom of speech unit.

I'm all for animated and CGI wildlife versus training wild animals to do this kind of stuff. The bear was totally close enough to make the scene work versus having a real grizzly bear doing stunts. I was reading an autobiography by Clint Howard and I have a hard time understanding how we were just ok with this little kid acting alongside a massive wild animal for the sake of TV.

Yeah, but it only counts as one, despite the name. 😉

My daughter did that to her room. I do like to tease her when the wifi goes down and she can't control her lights though. 😉

It raises money for conservative candidates.

Those are absolutely timeless though. My 15-year old daughter knew both of them.