“Within six weeks we came to the painful realization that the market was saturated and not a sandbox we wanted to play in,” says Hickle, “so we pivoted, and our investors were shockingly cool with us tackling consumer hardware.”

please introduce me to these investors i have many lucrative business ideas they may be interested in

it's like cargo cult feminism. they lack any understanding of or desire for genuine liberation, but they feel the need to engage with a hollow, ritualized mimicry of third wave feminism as the only remaining rationale for their preferred candidate. she is a woman, and therefore will be the first woman president, and therefore a vote for harris is necessarily a vote for the advancement of the cause of gender liberation, please ignore the ongoing genocide.

and because there's no theory underlying any of this, all they can do is grasp at the aesthetics of a cultural touchstone from last year. barbie aesthetics are apparently inherently feminist now because of the barbie movie, i guess. there's probably a relevant baudrillard quote about signs and simulacra.

it's patronizing, infantilizing, and completely dismissive of the material concerns of women around the world.

She said "that's a Democrat"...

thems fightin words

compare to english "shit a brick"

yeah i like the game well enough but not having to deal with rematches is a pretty strong argument in favor

is there an advantage to the rating system to cutting or not cutting ties? would it make it easier to match evenly skilled players if ties were allowed?

yeah one of the simpsons halloween episodes homer accidentally builds a time machine when he's trying to fix the toaster, but he doesn't have precise control since it's controlled by a screwdriver jammed into the toaster electronics.

or maybe

cassette tapes and their consequences...

there's only one true way to experience it

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i've been pretty busy lately, was that a struggle session or just fly paper?

regardless it'll be a delight to have him around, i'm sure

forcing the truck to stop

so the diagram is not to scale and there's some time here to react. why not just pick up the baby? run up, grab the kid, and lunge back towards the sidewalk. sure, the truck and car are going to collide atop your legs, but you'll save the kid and be able to sue ford, tesla, and both drivers. given a split second to decide, i think that's clearly the way to go.

the inhabitants of 2-4 would have a few things to say about that, and honestly a fair number of the inhabitants of 1 do, too

let's be real, if these 7 countries are willing and able to form an alliance, then australia fucking knows what it did

https://hexbear.net/post/3683723

excuse me, fam, but actually they're called snuggle sessions in order to rhyme more closely with maoist "struggle sessions"

nah you're fine jump right into it. you can interact a little with the world while in fortress mode, now. open a map and see rumors, send out squads to raid other sites, that kind of thing.