And that’s in a country where the very worst I’ve personally witnessed police do was surround and unjustly arrest people.

For what it’s worth, I’d look at it from the perspective of the protests being necessary to make sure that they aren’t able to get away with worse and worse stuff over time. Gotta let them know that even small acts of injustice will be met with resistance.

My country has been in the mentality of “Well at least they aren’t doing X” for so long that the police can basically get away with anything now. And the police are now at the point where they are doing “X” with increasing frequency, but the public’s ability to do anything about it is greatly hindered as a result.

Exactly my thoughts. I’m sure some people enjoy the thrill of it all, but I’d guess most people protest not because they want to, but because they feel they must.

No, I only attend out of necessity. I don’t enjoy crowds or confrontation.

If anything, the interpretation of “official acts” by the Supreme Court explicitly shields him. He cannot be held legally responsible for any decision carried out as president, which is terrifying.

Part of the confusion is that there was a different Prey game being worked on a couple years earlier that actually was connected to Prey 2006, but that project was canceled and the studio working on it closed.

Given the quick turnaround between Prey 2 being canceled and Prey 2017 launching, I have to assume that Bethesda just took a separate project that Arkane was working on and slapped the “Prey” name on it to try to save face and show that the IP was still alive and well after the sequel was canceled.

Firefox on my personal devices, Chrome for work.

Sure, but it’s not like it’d weigh more than a desktop + 6 monitors, which would also each need their own constant supply of power.

Well, if you also want to bring 6 monitors with it. I think the point of this is to be highly portable and easy to store.

The flag of the Chinook Nation is one I recall seeing and thinking it was very unique, memorable, and aesthetically pleasing.

I also like the trident on the flag of Barbados.

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There is something about the aesthetics of Greenland’s flag I just really like. It’s simple but pleasing on the eyes. Maybe the way that the circle is offset, rather than centered.

I remember during the initial console reveal, basically the only thing they had to say was that the sticks are larger and smoother (in motion, not the caps themselves).

I don’t know if they mentioned much else later, but they were very tacit about their durability/longevity. I don’t have much hope that things will be better, at any rate. I still bought a Switch 2, because I know it will still bring me joy to play, but as much as I enjoyed the comfort of playing with a Joycon in each hand, I’ve learned from the original Switch to avoid using the Joycons where possible and opt for a separate controller when playing docked (I’m just using the Pro Controllers I have left over from my original Switch).

Seems like the sort of thing that might be used to set up like a mobile command station or something. If a disaster occurs and some agency/organization needs to stand up operations at a new location immediately, things like that

Definitely highly situational, but I’m sure some organizations out there are willing to pay a pretty penny for convenience during those types of situations.

Yep, this is generations of slowly gutting public education at work.

The privileged kids get to go to fancy private schools, many of which are ironically now funded by the public (who don’t get to send their kids there). Everyone else goes to underfunded public schools, which have tragically underpaid teachers who run the risk of losing their jobs if they don’t give every student a passing grade. Teachers in struggling school districts are just shoving their students’ deficiencies onto the next grade up, which continues to snowball until you end up with a majority of high school seniors graduating with a 7th grade reading level at best.

In saying that, it’s not all doom and gloom, but it highlights a key disparity that affects some parts of the US more than others. Some US states actually have very good public school systems, up there with high performing countries in Europe and Asia. But when considering how bad the average is in the US, it means that there are a lot of states that are substantially worse than that, where things are just incredibly dire.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, the lowest performing states are mostly in the southern US.

I think what makes US-brand nationalism a special kind is the intense superiority complex, the feeling that they’re the greatest country on earth and everyone else doesn’t matter.

You’re spot on, to the extent that there is a concept describing exactly this: American Exceptionalism.

More gooners on PC than PlayStation I guess

Brigading, supposedly, but really they were just the most prominent alt-right sub on the site and banning them was more of a PR move than anything else. Meanwhile, the users (and bots/astroturfers) who participated in that sub just went elsewhere and kept doing the same heinous shit they were doing before, tacitly supported by the admins as the general politics of the site continued to skew further right.

Could just go with Thrall for a Warcraft character. He wasn’t on the box for WoW 1.0, but he is basically the face of Warcraft as a franchise.

I feel like a WoW console release is destined to happen eventually, though, now that Microsoft owns them. We’ll have to see.

The kid who blew up a fertility clinic (and himself) in Palm Springs was a moderator of [email protected], for what that’s worth. Not a war, and the only fatality ended up being himself, but definitely an act of violence with an intent to kill that was connected to a specific community on this platform.

I thought the first Guardians of the Galaxy was great, if only because (at the time) it was an unconventional casting choice and made a statement that this Marvel movie was going to be tonally different from the rest.

Following Guardians of the Galaxy, every Marvel movie started to become like Guardians of the Galaxy, and Chris Pratt started to get typecast as “action hero” rather than “hopeless goofball,” which was his original purpose for being in Guardians of the Galaxy in the first place.

Reddit wasn’t big enough back then either, it was only since Spez took over after Ellen Pao that you started to see more corporatization/astroturfing of the platform.

A website full of young 20-something gamers and tech bros just tends to skew a certain way politically.