This is pretty much reaffirming my position that the only mercy and compassion that evangelicals should ever get is the wall.

In actuality it was always about maintaining a legal and socially acceptable avenue for continuing this country's legacy of racism and slavery.

Sorta, in actuality it was created with the intent to get around the 1st amendment protections and silence the civil rights and anti war dissenters of the time, the relevant quote about this is below. After the Vietnam War ended and the Civil Rights Act got passed it turned into what you describe it is today.

"You want to know what this was really all about? The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.”

Sounds more like everyone used [realname][number] as their password because IT decided that changing your password every couple months is the most "secure". Even though it's not and causes [realname][number] passwords in the first place.

Meanwhile in manufacturing: "First time working 6 (or 7) days a week?"

edit: I sympathize with anyone having to work a 6th day in a week under normal circumstances, but tbh my ability to sympathize goes out the window when I'm staring down a 6 day week this week, and had a 7 day week last week.

Which is funny since if that scenario happens in the US (which is very rare as it would likely be 'sorted out' long beforehand), the construction company/developer will more often than not just run to city when they get fed up and next thing you know the holdout is being served papers for eminent domain.

Yes, but the best way to predict when a landlord increases the rent is usually tied to property value (which in turn influences property taxes). And the best way to tell if property value is going to go up is by paying attention to the kinds of stores opening up (or developments being built) in your neighborhood.

Cuban Missile Crisis 2.0, let's fucking go!

I mean yeah, we're all going to die horribly from that, but we can at laugh at it.

Namco made Ace Combat: Assault Horizon with QTEs

The game committed a lot of sins, and the QTEs were the least of it. It included much worse than that, including...

• an AC-130 mission
• several times during several missions that you have to be locked onto a rail to progress the mission
• the entire DFM/ASM mechanic (this kills the game more than the QTEs)
• The bomber mission...
• The final ace duel just being a really long on rails section.

And that's just off the top of my head.

Mechwarrior 5: Mercenaries has a kind of weirdly restrained straight-faced satire going on

This is kinda a new thing for Battletech in general, especially for a game taking place around the time spanning the 3rd and 4th Succession War. Which is a bit strange as BT lore is normally not written like that. Like in the actual handbooks (that were written in the 80s and 90s) straight up portrayed Davion and Steiner as right and just in starting the 4th Succession War.

Let's not even get into the whole premise of the universe is literally just 'Oops, the Roman Empire fell because Space Hitler got power, and now everybody started fighting for control of that chair and thusly lost a lot of tech along the way'.

With mech games, the people who want the aesthetics of a mech game without the main alleged downside sadly outnumber the people who want the mech games of old.

As someone who likes mech games, the amount of times that I hear all about how they have "bad controls", while I'm sitting there pointing out that's the point is just too much. Mechs/mecha are inherently complicated machines, it should feel like it, and so called "bad controls" is imho the best (and only good) way to convey that.

For an example of this go watch the number of people go off about having to learn how to move efficiently in any Armored Core game before Nexus, or the people who can't wrap their heads around a simple concept of 'tank controls' in mechwarrior.

So because of a little game called John Halo and Joe Chief: Building Inspectors, nearly every dev that makes a mech game now feels the need to put in a standardized control scheme to attract the players who want the aesthetics of a mech game but don't want the things that make a mech game a mech game.

I> How the fuck do you even use optics to disguise this!?

"Palestine isn't a recognized nation, thus the Geneva Conventions don't apply to them."

That's my guess, as funny enough there is a semi similar event in battletech lore where Liao used similar reasoning ("they didn't sign the Ares Connections, so thus it doesn't apply to them") when they went and nuked the Taurians at some point.

Now, how much would anyone buy that shit is left up in the air.