Lol I always thought the same thing! This may be the hardest I’ve ever ate the onion in my life.

I’d say they do them justice to some degree no? I quite enjoyed the first movie, it changed some stuff from the book for sure but I feel like it captured the same feel for the most part and does the story justice. Admittedly, the lost world was a bit of a mess as they combined some stuff from different books and changed the ending for the worse I’d say but Ive seen much worse adaptations in the theatre.

I appreciate the sentiment but the (very shitty) reality is single player games don’t come any where near the profitability of these multiplayer games in the current climate. Like no where even remotely close in terms of effort to profit. You can straight up clone call of duty every year, or add a few maps to fortnite, or add a new operator to siege, and monetize every tiny fraction of the game thru micro transactions and people will keep on playing and keep on paying.

Single player games operate pretty much the opposite. You buy it once. Play thru it. Beat it. And generally never touch it again unless maybe some dlc comes out and you might add a few more hours to it and then never think about it again.

I say this as a giant fan of single narrative games, it’s just a much smarter business move to pump out shitty online multiplayer games.

Fortnite was released in 2017, last year it netted almost $6 billion.

Call of duty has been dog water for like a decade. Its been the best selling game every single year since 2009 unless Rockstar releases a game (and Hogwarts legacy randomly dominating one year).

World of Warcraft came out in 2004. Last year they announced they had over 7 million active subscribers… Over two decades later.

Apex legends came out in 2019, last year it made over $3 billion.

The list goes on and on and on. You just can’t compete with weirdos obsessed with showing off a wizard hat on their character in an online game or busting open a loot box to get a new weapon skin or something.

Plus it’s not even real. It snowed just last winter.

Already did in good old Texas. Passed in June.

They now have: mandatory 10 commandments in every classroom. Mandatory “in God we trust” sign if anyone donated one to the class. Mandatory “Bible infused” text books. And they just passed a bill in May allowing public schools to have a period for prayer and reading the Bible during the school day.

The public schools are starting to be more religious than the Catholic School I went to as a kid.

The area that camp mystic is on is literally called “flash flood alley” because of the possibility of this happening. The area has thin soil that doesn’t really soak up much water and bedrock that keeps it on the surface. Combine that with a bunch of creeks that all converge to a river in the area and you get what happened this weekend.

I’ve been wondering the same thing for some time now. There was a time I thought he was just a dude that maybe didn’t know a little about a lot and was just trying his honest best to figure stuff out but it’s getting pretty hard for me to have that same view over the years. There’s just too many examples where he’ll say things that have been clearly and repeatedly demonstrated to him to be false on air during his own show and he’ll just keep repeating the same bull crap over and over. His guest lineup is kinda telling too lol.

Bad times for science intelligence with Trump

Lol I thought the first thing. Tien is my boy but he ain’t got it like that unfortunately.

Dang so it sounds like new Zealand has had a bit of a time with housing for a while then huh? I’ve heard a lot about it recently but just assumed it was a relatively new probably (post 2000-ish)

Fyi $650 in 1976 is about $3600-3700 adjusted for inflation.

Yeah but, like, how would we even do that? Magic carpets? Flying horses? It’s just an unsolvable problem unless you had some sort of magical system of mythical vessels that took large groups of people where they needed to go reliably that was easy to use but that’s bordering on communism and is incredibly woke. Its just not possible!

Idk I feel like it can totally be both. I’d say I’m pretty introverted but definitely don’t have social anxiety. I can handle talking to people fine enough, I just really dislike it and would rather not unless they’re friends or family. That being said, I’d 1000% prefer to not see strangers in my own home if I can avoid it by just chilling in my room or something.

I choose to believe these are just very very small people

I work for a company that imports all sorts of components for pretty much all of our products and the flip flopping has basically completely grinded everything to a halt because no one can figure out what the hell is going on at any given time. It has been a complete shit show lol

I was just talking about this with a friend. I think bmw drivers driving like douches is maybe the most accurate stereotype I know. It is shocking how often I see a car driving like an asshole and it ends up being a bmw.

Most stereotypes are hilariously inaccurate but that one seems pretty legit lol

You’re right to some extent but make no mistake about it, he would not be able to do just about any of this without the complicity of a whole bunch of people over there in DC (and other states to a lesser extent). This is a concerted team effort.

Quickly becoming his go to play. It’s how he pushed through tariffs and how he was able to auto deport all those people. There’s probably more that I’m unaware of but the amount of national emergencies the man has declared so far is kinda crazy

Sounds like these dummy CEOs don’t realize that losing money costs you nothing maybe they need to go read Art of the Deal and find out how a real man runs (and subsequently destroys) businesses!

It’s not a loophole. And it’s not quite the tariff hack it’s made out to be here. There’s no tariffs sure. But tariffs will undoubtedly increase the price of the item when it is bought the first time which means it will then cost more in the secondary market. Still, buying things second hand is fantastic and is highly, highly underutilized in the current climate.