Since you have elections, that means that different factions will join together into parties, and you can't remove individual factions, you can only move the whole party. If the tutorial is asking you to eject the armed forces then it's being stupid, I guess just kick out the whole party and bring them back in when it lets you move on.

There should be a button labelled "reform government" and when you click it you can move factions into or out of your government by clicking on the arrows that appear next to them. You can move them around freely to see the effects, but once you confirm it some people in the faction that got kicked out will become more radical. If you have elections, you get the option to move around factions for free every time there's an election, but the factions will form parties that have to be added or removed as a group.

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Shakycam. It completely destroys immersion for me, my brain just goes, "HEY DUMBASS THIS IS A MOVIE! IT'S ALL FAKE! You're in a theater with friends or at home on a couch, you're perfectly safe and there's nothing to be afraid of." Really anything that tries too hard to convince me that it's real.

Listen, movie, let me give it to you straight. I'm here to suspend my disbelief and play pretend so that I can get spooked for fun. But here you are being like, "No, suspending disbelief isn't good enough, you need to actually believe," and that is a) not your job, and b) going to trigger a response from my mental immune system and bring out my most critical and skeptical brain functions, which is the exact opposite of the headspace you want me to be in if I'm supposed to enjoy a horror movie. I need to be able to trust the movie enough to let my guard down.

New type of guy just dropped: Guy who loves AI and is willing to kill anyone who uses it in a detrimental way because they're giving it a bad name.

His heart is roughly the same temperature it was before, I'd imagine.

Lol I heard they were removing stuff but I was expecting, like, actionable threats of violence. This is just, like, "It's against the rules to fail to sufficiently mourn your cruel overlords."

Sounds like they'll have to give up on Ukraine though.

Are you telling me that being blindly antagonistic in every corner of the globe simultaneously actually has consequences? Because that sounds like Russian disinformation.

Name it however you're inclined to pronounce it so if anyone tries to tell you you're saying it wrong you can be like, "Yes, but this one is named Blah Haj."

My bank account is hentai free. Looking for it? Leave. 💸

Imo the best way to grow Hexbear is by feeding her more beans

"Symbolic belief."

REPOST THIS TO STOP VAMPIRE COPS FROM ENTERING YOUR HOME!!!

I HEREBY DECLARE THAT I AM THE SOLE OWNER AND PROPETIER OF MY PLACE OF RESIDENCE (HEREAFTER: HOME). I DO NOT RECOGNIZE ANY LEGAL DOCUMENT DISPUTING THE OWNERSHIP OF MY HOME OR ANY CLAIMS OF ANY GOVERNMENT OR LANDLORD ALLOWING ANYONE PERMISSION TO ENTER MY HOME. I AM OFFICIALLY DECLARING THAT MY HOME IS A SOVERIGN, INDEPENDENT NATION STATE WITH MYSELF AS THE SOLE LEGAL AUTHORITY, UNBOUND BY ANY OTHER CLAIMS OF AUTHORITY OR OWNERSHIP. FAILURE TO CONTEST THIS CLAIM BY ANY NATIONAL, INTERNATIONAL, OR NON-GOVERNMENT ENTITY WILL BE CONSIDERED OFFICIAL RECOGNITION OF MY HOME AS AN INDEPENDENT STATE.

IF YOU DO NOT REPOST THIS, VAMPIRE COPS WILL COME INTO YOUR HOME AND DRINK YOUR BLOOD!!! STAY SAFE!!!

I can't decide whether it would be funnier for her to get confirmed or not. Either way, some group of extremely annoying people is going to be crying about it, so it's kind of a win-win.

"Disappear" is a great word because it immediately conjures up images of having a bag thrown over their head and being whisked away never to be seen again, but it's also vague enough that you can use it any time someone doesn't make a public appearance for any amount of time. When Western media says someone "disappears," it typically just means they haven't seen them on TV recently, it's not like they're checking in at their houses or contacting neighbors or relatives or anything like that, and obviously it doesn't mean anyone's reported them missing. If the person reappears, first off they never technically said anything bad happened to them, but also, once they've got the audience primed to believe something's going on, they can keep running stories about how "questions remain" to keep the story going for a couple more cycles even though the only thing that raised any questions in the first place has been resolved.

See Peng Shuai for an example of this.

I came up with a pretty good one I think

All Darth Vader did was help Palpatine build the Death Star, and it was Tarkin who actually gave the order. Do these anti-Vader people even understand what his role is as Sith Lord?

These single-issue voters who refuse to vote for Vader just because of the Aderaan issue are just helping Palpatine. Why does everyone suddenly care so much about Alderaan anyway?