Maybe they’re just putting someone on with a fake accent to keep him busy and he really believes it.

Go on now, git! Didn’t nobody ask you 'bout no logic!

Imagine what a gaming company with a $1billion budget for the game itself (and execs who stay the fuck out of the way instead of repeatedly changing direction…cough…EA…cough) and a marketing budget for whatever they actually spent on the game. We could have had Cyberpunk 4154 with a bit left over.

My feeling, which is all I can base this on, is that they want the folks who aren’t following the process because they don’t have to pay them as much. If someone is following the process they have to pay minimum wage. If someone hops the fence they get paid less, under the table, no benefits, and with the threat of ICE if they aren’t working themselves to death.

All of the formerly food delivery apps are like that. I hate it. And if you don’t get your stuff often enough or if the restaurant gets your order wrong too often they’ll tell you that you’re not allowed to get your money back anymore. And if you do a chargeback they won’t let you order until you pay them.

And that’s fine with me because I stopped using them a few years ago except once in a very great while. But I feel sorry for the people who rely on food delivery because they’re disabled or have time constraints due to working half a dozen jobs to make ends meet. I’ve got a buddy who can’t use Uber eats anymore because of this. He’s taking care of two kids and holding down a job that has him working far more than he should and he has no executive function and very little time left over.

Same! But I do love the idea.

I’ve got a whole wishlist of things I would like to see there (filters, sort options, ics) but what I don’t want to do is make the maintainer of this feel like I’m shitting on their very cool site.

But many years before it’s set. Checkmate!

Actually, that is a fun fact. I have no idea if I’ll ever use it but I feel happier knowing it.

Look, I’m not racist but I have to say, I fucking love peanut butter.

It’s loosely based on the lies of grifters Ed and Lorraine Warren. I have a strong aversion to anything dealing with them.

To be fair, I watched The Conjuring before I knew about their connection and didn’t like it. It wasn’t my style and I can’t imagine the other films in that universe are either. And I don’t judge others for not caring that they were involved, especially since they’re both dead now.

My buddy searched for a specific horror movie for years that he only saw a piece of when he was a kid. I watched a bunch as a teen, then we were in the Navy together he hosted bad movie day where a bunch of us would get together and watch 3 or 4 depending on the length of the movies. Worst movie that week won. 90% or more were horror.

Those were good times. He introduced me to Troma, The Granny, a bunch of movies with evil toys, weird shit you can’t tell people you watched without them looking at you like you might be a murderer, Killer Klown and tomatoes, and nearly every off brand slasher the 80s had to offer. I’ve kept watching ever since.

And I have no idea if he found out what the movie was. He hadn’t by the time we stopped doing movie day.

I stand by the fact that it’s a bad movie and that I love it. And the majority of the sequels. And the Demonic Toys crossover movie.

If you don’t believe it’s a bad movie then all I have to say is that I support your right to feel that way.

Finally, a subject I know about! I have watched a lot of really bad movies over the years. Many of them included that particular trope.

Demonic Toys. Puppet Master (sort of). M3gan. Annabelle (I guess, I didn’t see this one on moral grounds). Dolls. One of the Krampus movies. If you’re willing to stretch your meaning of the word toy there’s also The Hug. The Goosebumps TV show had a puppet. Loads of others.

“They’re believers, Mr. Howard. Pentecostalist dispensationalists—they are saved, but they are surrounded by the unsaved, and they think their master is returning imminently, and anyone who isn’t saved by the time of his arrival is doomed. So they intend to save everyone whether or not they want to be saved…”

–Charles Stross, The Apocalypse Codex

I trailed off that quote because it’s a spoiler.

It’s an Eiffel Tower without the high five.

Not necessarily. Could be a stolen car. Balance of probabilities says you’re right and they know exactly who they’re looking for. Maybe they’re bad actors, maybe they’re trying not to have another Reddit “Mission Accomplished” moment, or maybe they’re incompetent.

But they saw him, they have a car, and presumably they caught him on body cam so they can compare his image to the image on the driver’s license the car is registered to. Maybe they’re taking those steps, but I doubt it. But it’s funny that they had descriptions of who they believe to be Luigi up pretty quickly but this remains a mystery man and they’re urging people not to go to the No Kings protest. A cynical person would say it’s a cop that did the shootings under orders to get rid of the one seat majority and quell the protest all in one blow.

Good thing I’m just a drunk and have never had thoughts like that.

ETA: they’ve released an identity. Cynics (definitely not harmless drunks like me) may have jumped the gun. But I’m sure that if they were here they would not apologize for what totally doesn’t look like a two birds with one stone issue.

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Cost of doing business, baby.

I feel like it is glowing orange something has gone terribly wrong.

ETA: I looked up some reasons it might glow orange. There are legitimate reasons. I thought it meant it was glowing while charging which is what the article makes it sound like. Maybe it got too hot and started glowing? Possible and probably unsafe or something wrong in the design. But I wouldn’t think that would be as bright as it seems like the article means.

However, if it’s releasing plasma and sodium vapor it could give a bright orange glow. So it’s possible that it charged up, fired, released plasma plus something that turned bright orange (there are a couple of other things, but I’m sticking with sodium in this example), then shot a lightning like ray when the plasma found a path to ground. Similar to how a Tesla coil in a plasma ball works but with something that turns orange (sodium vapor) instead of purple (xenon and neon or whatever).

But I could be misunderstanding.

He’ll help after exhausting all other options.