BlemboTheThird

Eddrit is a great frontend replacement, in the same vein as nitter. Take any reddit link and replace the front with eddrit.com

its definitely both

Idk how any of you disagree, what do you think "you'll never be a woman" means

Everywhere I go... I see his face...

But Twin Galaxies' own lawyer, David Tashroudian, faced misconduct claims of his own after he improperly contacted two witnesses in the case — prompting Superior Court Judge Wendy Chang, who's overseeing the case, to consider referring him to the State Bar for discipline.

I'm no lawyer, but this seems like small potatoes in comparison to Mitchell's actively fabricating evidence and lying under oath. Absolutely shameful that after years of litigation TG's case falls apart thanks to an idiot lawyer. Hope that lawyer gets paid nothing and Jobst's lawsuit goes better; Mitchell needs to see real consequences for the years of intimidation and lies.

Yeah I read the comment about it being a designer's funeral, this is clearly something they requested

I strongly disagree.

First of all, what did Alyx do to the industry? It was higher fidelity than most other VR games at the time, but that can hardly be called revolutionary the way HL1's environmental storytelling or HL2's physics systems were. Very few VR games have attempted to follow in its footsteps at all, because lookin' good is more about dev hours than it is creativity and game design. Other than convincing a few extra people to buy VR headsets, it didn't do anything at all to the direction of the VR market. Games before and since Alyx have used much more interesting, immersive movement controls and ammo management systems.

Second, the expectations for HL3 don't have to be All That. If it were a fun game at all, it'd sell like crazy and people would be happy. It's Valve's self-imposed roadblock of new games being "different" somehow that stops them from finishing anything. But even then, I'm not sure they've been accomplishing that. Beyond CS2 being little more than a glow-up and Artifact being... ill-received, I'll stick to HL and beat up on Alyx a bit more--it was just fine, But what little story it had shat on the 12 year cliffhanger in the least satisfying way possible, its weapon selection was just sad, and there are a hundred smaller things I could bring up from the sound design to the repetitive puzzles that stop actual gameplay every 2 minutes. Everything from the movement to the combat was dumbed down to the point where it might be accessible for a first time VR user, but at the cost of being extremely repetitive for anyone playing through a second time (though I will grant them props for including tools for community mappers to make much more interesting encounters).

Yet people hail it as some industry changing turning point. Don't get me wrong, for all its faults, I enjoyed playing it, but it's not this new Valve masterpiece that so many people make it out to be. It's just fine. And the way it's been lauded for the last 4 years proves that "fine" is good enough for Half Life.

in this specific context it means bullshit, like "no bullshit," but it can't be used literally any other way because "to cap" someone means killing them

Seconding nitter. You can take any twitter link and just replace the front with nitter.net

Valve servers sucked. Uncletopia has not. Game is fun, the last 3 or so major updates were all downgrades so fuck it I'm glad we didn't get downgraded this year, and I have every confidence it won't get downgraded again next year either (excluding the addition of yet more hats).

dont u ever talk shit about corn dogs again

I can't possibly disagree more. I don't think you understand how restrictive an actual prison is. The man got to live out his days eating good food, going where he wanted, and doing what he wanted. We should all be so lucky to be able to do that at the cost of merely getting some dirty looks here and there.

Given the war and the oil embargo and everything else that was going on at the time

I don't see how pardoning Nixon helped solve any of that or how they make the pardon any less of a travesty.

Ford gained nothing by the pardon

You know, other than the part where he only got to be president in the first place by making an agreement with Nixon that if he resigned, he'd get a pardon. He got to bail out his buddy and set an example for the rest of his Republican pals that breaking the law is fine, we'll cover for you from the very top levels of government! No matter what the general public might have thought of it, the people within the party saw it as a huge service to their political machine.

Nixon got to live out his days comfortable, happy, and carefree. "He did not even have a state funeral." Give me a break. By this logic, Trump doesn't really need to be prosecuted! He already lost one election, and if he loses the next, he won't have what's REALLY important to him, and isn't that punishment enough?

Of course not. Heinous crimes were committed against the integrity of our country's ability to have democratic elections, and actual, real, legal conquences MUST follow, or the next asshole will comfortably push things even harder. It's thanks in part to Nixon's pardon that the rest of the republicans today are so happy to join hands around their lies about the election being stolen and the Jan 6 rioters being on a tour. They'd never have gotten here so easily without the precedent they have of covering for each other no matter what, no matter how serious, and no matter how high the office.