@a_living_fossil @EnergyPeddler Cope isn't going to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. Only conceding defeat will do that.
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@EnergyPeddler When Iran surrenders, 5 million barrels/day of compliant oil are going to flood an already glutted market. No one wants to be caught on the wrong side of that. Long term, oil is going sub $50 most likely.
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Jesus are we really about to send WTI back into the 80s
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@Chadyrov11 Boy they're really showing the world why they don't have healthcare huh.
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I'm sorry but... WHY don't Americans have healthcare again?
Drop Site@DropSiteNews
💢 BREAKING | IRGC claims F-35 hit over central Iran; footage unverified Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said its air defenses struck a U.S. F-35 fighter jet at around 2:50 a.m. over central Iran, claiming the aircraft was “seriously damaged” and likely crashed, though its fate remains unclear. The IRGC said the incident follows the interception of more than 125 “American-Zionist” drones, pointing to what it described as improved air defense capabilities. The claim and footage remains unverified.
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@ExSyde @ripplebrain When will you nutjobs realise the videos being fake or authentic has nothing to do with claiming he's dead. The videos being proven fake is a matter of forensic video analysis. Satanyahu's whereabouts are a matter of speculation. Wake up!
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I've worn my share of sleeves and I'm pretty sure this is how they work sometimes
ĐⱤØ₲Ø🇺🇸@KAGdrogo
Another Ai giveaway. That’s not how sleeves work.
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@RachelBitecofer @Sopris970 "Africans" as if every African is the same shut the fuck up racist nazi dog.
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@Sopris970 Africans suffered mightily too but they didn’t see their global population cut in half in 5 years
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Yes. If you hate Jews, literally the most persecuted people on Earth- then get the fuck out.
Jim Kessler@ThirdWayKessler
"We’re all for a big tent. But the Democratic Party needs to draw a line in the sand. Hasan Piker and his fellow Jew-haters belong on the other side." Jon Cowan and @lilyycohenn write in @WSJopinion. tinyurl.com/bd47vj8v @ThirdWayTweet
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@benjaminluk oh absolutely. i have an entire folder of characters, stories, ideas, names, etc. most of them are terrible, but sometimes i'll look through it again and see if perhaps i can mine something from them. fun and cringy to see what adolescent me thought was cool.
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@ExSyde Still, write them all down. You can build a pool of ideas you can resurrect or draw upon later.
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The secret to being a competent writer is just being a terrible writer for about 20 years.
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@TomFromIT_45 @RazorwireRPG the issue is not that. this would be a quirky thing in a version of starfield that is actually competent. as it stands, though, it's just indicative of the poor worldbuilding decisions made
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@RazorwireRPG That is supposed to be goofy. Heaven forbid a game have a little levity or fun.
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No single image of Starfield better illustrates how toothless, gutless, lacking in grit and texture than this one does. I made the mistake of visiting Neon late in my playthrough, excited about the idea of visiting a sleazy Cyberpunk planet. What I found was a clown show. There is something hollow and sad about the entirety of Starfield's worldbuilding and lore, that I can't even bring myself to be mad about - I'm just disappointed. This doesn't feel like a universe comprised of competing factions and people, it feels like a bunch of empty mannequins shooting at each other over nothing. Everything feels so dumbed down and family friendly. All the edges filed off to make everything palatable and bland. It's sad.
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@barbourtwat @trygraptor The action segments are the least interesting parts of the Dune books.
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@trygraptor I mean they were correct? Messiah is a weaker book, and they said it would be harder to make it work.
Denis seemingly has managed to achieve that though, as the trailer seems a lot more action packed than the book.
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looking kinda silly now aren’t we
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The Hollywood Reporter@THR
#Dune3 faces a major challenge, as the next book in the series isn’t considered particularly strong. This isn’t to predict the film will definitely be weaker or radically different. But Denis Villeneuve and his co-writers arguably need to show a level of adaptive flexibility and creativity beyond what they have done so far in order to elevate it to a place where it feels like a 'Return of the King' rather than a 'Godfather Part III.' hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-n…
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what confuses me about this take is that dune part 1 tracks the story beats of the novel very closely. it captures the tone, scale, and core narrative as much as cinematic language permits. it's fine to not be a fan of it, but then how are you a fan of the rest of dune?
Bernard T. Joy@bernardtjoy
People tell me Villeneuve's Dune trilogy, once completed, will be one of the great trilogies in film history. But I just can't imagine a great trilogy spawning from such a poor first instalment.
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@RazorwireRPG Contrast this with Baldur's Gate 3 that came out just a few months prior to Starfield. It is unapologetic in how stomach-churning it can get. It makes the world and its characters feel like real human beings. And it blew Bethesda out of the water.
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@RazorwireRPG It's the definition of a game designed by a corporate board. Nothing can be offensive. Potentially transgressive things need to be rendered sanitized and inoffensive. The sleazy nightclub has the same vibe as a corporate office pizza party. It felt like playing Hogwarts Legacy.
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@waxdeity @RazorwireRPG Omega has an incredibly intense character to it. Mass Effect 2 has some fantastic worldbuilding in it and it is brought to life by the sincerity of the vision of its environment and concept artists. This one room is more interesting than anything in Starfield.
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@RazorwireRPG Even the incidental clubs that you could go to in Mass Effect were more interesting and it was just a scene prop so you could have a meeting with someone
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@onarollmygod @chrisdmowrey Your initial claim was ‘will take us to war.’ That’s a prediction. Your later message treats it as present tense. I’m simply noting the contradiction.
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Hard to overstate how right the left was about all of this
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@guychristensen_ Jaffa still exists. Nowadays it's a part of Tel Aviv. Of course Tel Aviv should exist. Israel is the 3500 year old indigenous homeland of the Jewish people.
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Tel-Aviv should have never existed.
It’s called Jaffa.
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@Lizzbird329 @maria_drutska "We're just ending it" what are you ending? The global economy? Because Iran looks like it's still standing.
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@maria_drutska We didn’t start this war, Iran started it 47 years ago when they started to chant death to the west, we’re just ending it
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Thank you for enlightening me, I would never have known that starting a war where 20% of the world's energy comes from would cause energy prices to go up and therefore increase russian revenue
If only I had your level of foresight and wisdom, I'd surely be a better person
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@WideAsleepNima the rest of the planet will have to confront that cowardice one way or the other soon enough
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That the rest of the planet has not already put an end to US and Israeli war crimes is fucking staggering.
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@DanMKervick we need someone that will make stalin look like a fucking liberal
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