The same reason why it’s rare to ever find interesting stuff at yard sales, thrift stores, and flea markets anymore. The internet and that nearly everyone having a phone has made people a lot more aware of what they have, and if not that the existence of flippers. People who make it their life mission to be as close to a leech on society as landlords are. What they do more often than not is find someone who doesn’t know what they have, buy it off them, then fix any minor issues, then flip it for a lot more than they paid and put into it.

It’s still good music, like I still regularly listen to songs that are older than I am (29 years old).

My problem with it is that it (and like other things, like the prime directive from star trek and ect.) just kinda reads like someone just found out that white people did a lot of evil. I’m at work atm, so I don’t have time to go into it with details right now.

At this point it feels like the execs wants to do all this anyways, but have decided to use Zaslav as the designated fall guy.

Cyber Sled, and F-Zero AX.

“A shower once every 11 days is rookie numbers. Besides, no need to shower when you only go to a workplace that has a smell you’ve been desensitized to.” - Me, who works in a factory anywhere from 5-7 days a week from week to week.

No, don’t ask me what my longest stretch without a shower is, you don’t want to know.

>4 food items

>$25

That’s only true if you buy the items individually which seems to be very common with how many people i overhear the order of in the drive thru.

But I know for a fact that you can get a cheesy gordita crunch, beefy 5 layer, cheesy fiesta potatoes, and a medium (+$0.10 to make it a large) drink for $7 (in the taco bell app, it’s the ‘build your own cravings box’). Welcome to what I like to dub the “pizza place monetization scheme”, where prices are inflated to shit and back unless you know or research the magic code and/or corporate advertises the magic code.

Being thankful the 2 and a half month (yes, the nearby stores here had that shit up the week after Christmas) stretch of National ‘make all single people feel awful about themselves’ Day is finally over for the year… until next year rolls around…

I know, it’s like when I tell people the real reason why that gundam overwatch game shut down was because Overwatch already exists, and to most people if you want to play overwatch you go play overwatch. Sorta the same thing with Hawken, I remember people saying it’ll be able to “compete” with Mechwarrior Online… and yet one game is died for entirely predictable reasons and the other is somehow still going, went into mantinence mode, then came back putting more maps weapons and other content in.

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 guess all us living in rural US can just go fuck ourselves, oh wait that’s just been the default stance of every single motherfucker in governance for a long time now.

Quit being an edgelord, and maybe try actually try touching grass for once.

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.

America is the country where if you don’t have way too much food on your store shelves then people will not shop at your grocery store.

Which is a real observable behavior you see in americans, in part because (for example) if there’s only a couple tomatoes left in a case that holds 30+ it’s become a sorta cultural natural reaction to think that there must be something wrong with them regardless of their actual condition. Which considering how often scam artists were and still are a thing here in the states and the general distrust of government institutions, it’s not surprising one bit why you see this behavior happen frequently here.

Edit: I’m not sure why exactly this behavior exists, but that’s what makes the most sense to me. And that i know my grandmother has this ingrained in her and she was born in the 50s, but that doesn’t quite make sense as she was influenced by the waste nothing attitude from her parents who grew up in the great depression.