Realm of the Destining

Mass causality event:

Just imagine if they did this with something good!

I understand the impulse to blame the NYC mayoral disaster on sliwa, but it's pretty wild to watch "reasonable democrats" demand the only republican in the race drop out so their disgraced former governor can beat the actual communist their own party elected in the primary

OP: "I can't defend frivolous vacations during the schoolyear, as they hurt a child's education. This doesn't apply to things like deaths or important sentimental family vacations." Replies: "Wow, so parents should be put against the wall for any vacation ever?"

It’s 2025 and I actually have parents trying to defend pulling their child out of school for a vacation. I get a death. I get granny is turning 100 and lives out of state. But to get a cheaper vacation- nope. Can’t ever support that.

I don’t believe Jordan Peterson LITERALLY exists, but he’s an important psychological archetype of the transitional phase between weed smoking degenerate and trad Christian

They should make a Mandalore centric show about Mandalorian culture being awful. 12 episodes on how the ubermensch machismo Ur-fascist war-worshipping ethnostate guys shouldn’t get a free pass bc of cool armor

We tried that and everyone called Mitt Romney a nazi.

On the one hand, this is disgusting. On the other, "I present evidence to support one conspiracy claim that then undermines the entire conspiracy" is really funny.

Forget the immorality of this, and it is immoral. The idea that we can’t condemn a Russian war crime because it will make the Russians mad at the negotiating table is solid evidence that we are being played by the Russians at the negotiating table. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

If you read nothing else in this thread, just focus on this. It's a major scandal. According to a former Rep, the FL Republican legislative leadership got together right after the election and announced they would be "going after" the popular Republican governor.

Pls follow along for a thread. It increasingly seems like there’s a plot in Florida by some in the legislature and others outside of it to undermine the popular Republican governor, even if it harms the state. It's clear this has little to do with policy differences.

What's retarded about claiming she's wrong is that the convention of saying "POV: X" asserts the viewer's POV automatically. She doesn't have to write "Explaining Hegel *to you*" because by saying "POV: *I'm* doing X", she makes herself an object for the POV in question.

Most of the Protestants' replies to this are basically the Christian equivalent of saying "I am smarter than Aristotle because I can look up something on my smartphone."

I talked to my old college econ professor this morning and asked their opinion of Mario Kart World costing $20 USD more than Mario Kart 8 Deluxe when it launched on Switch. His response: "Well, there are multiple factors that go into pricing Nintendo will likely never talk too detailed about publicly, because it's just how finances work at a business. So, the Japanese Yen has depreciated against the US dollar. This is bad news for any Japanese company who's primary territory is the United States, because any money made here will not covert well into Yen. Thus, that alone means they factually make less money on anything sold in the US, than they do with something sold in Japan - or other more favorable countries. So now, that is a reality that didn't exist in 2017. Now you have to consider the United States economy on top. $59.99 was what Mario Kart 8 Deluxe cost in 2017. Inflation alone, no other factors, makes that $78 today. You see that $79.99 price point and it looks expensive, but inflation alone it's merely keeping pace. Despite this, due to how bad the Yen does in exchange for USD, Nintendo is factually making LESS money profit wise per copy sold of Mario Kart World even at that $80 price point, than they were at the $60 price point in 2017. So while this looks bad for consumers, Nintendo is actually taking a hit even at that price. This is also likely why prices are so high in other countries too. The Yen isn't really performing well against anything at this time. So if you ask me if Nintendo is overcharging for Mario Kart World, the answer is absolutely not. It's actually a slight undercharge. The game industry has been volatile for years and while some of it is overspending, the other aspect is that companies are making way less actual profits per game sold because money just isn't worth the same. Everything has become more expensive. It is a tough pill to swallow, but video game consoles are a luxory item. Luxory items are often hit harder than essential items. The fact Nintendo - and eventually PlayStation and Xbox - haven't passed all of this entirely onto the consumer has mostly been a great thing for the consumer, even if it's been bad for the video game makers. So overall? Shocked it wasn't higher. But Nintendo can't ignore these factors or it would cause extreme damage to the companies profit margins, which could, even if selling well, lead to layoffs and closures of studios. They may sell less copies of games this generation, and it may happen anyways. But they are banking on people really wanting to keep Nintendo in their lives. Time will tell if it works out. There is no right or wrong approach here. Every company is trying to navigate the world's economy right now."

Omori is a good example of why you can't just lump everything together. While it might be long to the broader genre described in the upper left, the gameplay is so unique. The emotion system actually makes turn-based combat fun.

Number 6 is just "I don't understand if-then statements."

They should bring back Slayers & make a million billion dollars.

People are saying only games too large will do this. But I propose a better solution: