Hyacathusarullistad

joined 1 year ago

Oh man, this was me trying to defeat Detleff in the final boss fight of Witcher 3's Blood & Wine DLC.

I have no idea what I'm going to do when I get to that fight in my Death March playthrough...

The gag in this screenshot is also a call-back to S1E05, where Peralta is interrogating a perp and trying to "annoy him into confessing" by playing a guitar poorly and screaming.

I'm about 98% certain that RDM directed a handful of Enterprise episodes. Looks to me like threw on his old Voyager costume one day so the two shows' helmsmen could take a photo together.

"I call them how I see them."

"I'm just brutally honest."

"I'm just telling it like it is."

These phrases are used exclusively by rude, obnoxious, condescending assholes trying to justify being shitty to other people for no reason.

[–] Hyacathusarullistad@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's very likely to become my most recent "doesn't need all my attention" game, as I always need one of those on deck (if you'll pardon the expression).

[–] Hyacathusarullistad@kbin.social 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Alright, I was probably going to play it anyway even with dips down to the low 20s. But if we're not even at the full release yet and the modding scene is already squeezing more out of that bottom 1%, I'm just biting the bullet and buying the damned game.

For anyone in the same boat, Fanatical is selling the pre-release versions of the game for 17% off, packaged with a random "highly rated" Steam game. My freebie was Reventure, which is regularly $8.99 CAD.

The only support this pussbag deserves is a set of pallbearers.

What we need to do is de-incentivize the commodification of housing entirely. Really make it unprofitable to deal in homes while passing the risk for your "investment" on to the people you're exploiting.

I'm talking about an outright ban on all corporations, foreign and domestic, from owning single family homes — corporations need offices, not homes, and shell corporations and LLCs don't even need those. Give a one year grace period, then tax all rental income collected from single-family homes at 100%. Maybe fine them each year too until they shape up.

I'm talking about regulating rental prices on short-term rentals, and capping the annual income allowed from short-term rental units to a value indexed against minimum wage (or preferably the area's living wage, determined not by any level of government itself but by valid third party organizations).

I'm talking an annual federal tax on properties not occupied full time by the owner or their immediate blood relative. Parent, sibling, or child. Something insane, maybe 400-800% of the home's property tax. Multiply it exponentially for each hoarded home. Throw in an exception for a second home if it's far enough from the first (people who own cottages aren't the problem, and shouldn't be penalised). But only for the second home — nobody needs two or three or four "vacation homes".

That's how we force land-rich boomers out of the housing "market" and get homes into the hands of people who need them, who should have a right to stable housing, who are currently being blocked from the market by vampiric land leeches.

Boo — and I cannot stress this enough — fucking hoo.

[–] Hyacathusarullistad@kbin.social 24 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Blue lives don't exist.

 

Second attempt to post this, because the first one somehow got the wrong link attached.

I just picked up $270 worth of classic, isometric RPGs for chump change thanks to Humble Bundle. Believe it or not I'm 33 years old and have never actually played any of these before.

So I'm wondering where I should start. It doesn't look like there's much story between the games of different titles, but they do seem to share a universe? Should I just fire up the oldest one and play them in release order, or would one of the later games be a more accessible entry point for someone new to the genre?

I appreciate any input on my dilemma!

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