It's quite fascinating how I really liked Space and making platforms and spacecrafts, loved Vulcanus and Fulgora and then just hit a wall with Gleba

Factorio Space age currently on Gleba and some Risk of Rain 2 to calm down from that shitty planet.

If it did then it should recommend me like the newest fifa game and football manager

I guess

Maybe I should be happy Steam doesn't have a super detailed profile so things like this can happen and it recommends me shooters when I mostly play strategy games and rougelikes.

It's metals in general imo

The Ballad of Donnie Deals continues

So I had some free time and I thought, you know maybe I subject myself to the most capitalist media out there. That's right I watched BLOOMBERG TV™

There was an interview between some BLOOMBERG TV™ newsperson and Howard Lutnick, Donnies top economics guy, and boy was it funny I posted a few days ago how I think wallstreet is actually pissed at Donnie Deals, during the interview it started pretty normal but as things went along things deteriorated with Lutnick just babbling on and the interviewer grew more and more frustrated which lead to her starting to call it the Trump regime when Lutnick talked about all the HUGE NEW INVESTMENS she said 'Ok, sure, when that happens in 5, 10 years time that's great but what about now?' and a bunch of other things even doing a 'Hey Lutnick there was this report that everyone hates you and thinks you stink in politico'. Which made him go 'FAKE NEWS ME AND DONNIE TALK A LOT EVERY DAY AND HE NEVER SAID I STINK'. Once the interview was done the whole panel had a capitalist laugh at him for a few minutes then they started talking about some other things but I kinda tuned out.

Which basically leads me to this, yesterdays economic data came out that was better than expected which you'd think would cause markets to go up quite a bit since it's down 10% but it just barely managed to go up and even was red for a time. Today again good numbers released hasn't moved the needle much maybe it will over the day.

I really think that Wall street and a lot of non tech businesses are getting more and more pissed at Donnie Deals and that's reflected in the stonks going down even though all the news and data currently is quite positive which really would mean at the very least a slower decline than what is happening right now.

They call me Donnie Deals because of my great deals folks.

Another day another red stonks, the market actually went up from -1.2% to +0.2% percent from the whole Ukraine cease fire thing then Donnie holds a press conference where he says 'They are all very mean to america we are going to tariff them so hard folks' and it's down to -0.8% percent again. There's supposed to be a meeting between the top non-tech capitalists and Trump today so who knows if the CEO of Ford or whatever is going to do something funny but for now it seems Tariff man will continue his rampage.

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No Bottom today?

No this isn't the federal bank currently doing it but rather feels like a slow ramp up from both 'old-school' capital aka wall street and possibly the federal bank.

The reason why is because tech money is really behind Trump and the most outspoken supporters saw their stuff drop far more than the indexes. Obviously Tesla dropped a ton with 40% over a month but Palantir with Peter Thiel dropped 30%, Meta and Amazon down 16% this is all when the Indexes are down 7%. Meanwhile finance stuff is like 5% up and consumer stocks are up 10% in the same timeframe. Currently it is tech stocks that are getting sold off while money either is kept or put into your Warren Buffet safe bets. Like Buffet has a think a ton of money in Coca-Cola and that closed barely positively and is currently up so

I think it's not unreasonable to see the neoliberals in government and on wall street start to put more and more pressure on trump by causing the stock market to go down more and more and in the worst case do a capital strike the longer Trump does stupid tariff and coy shit.

Maybe but Fed could just go 'lol you want to crash it a bit let's crash it a lot so everyone hates you for ruining the economy.' Like Trump and co aren't the only actors capable of things that fuck with the economy plus market crashes hurts Trump more than them.

So with the whole stock market continuing to crash I'll post this

The Atlanta Fed's GDPNow model estimate for annualized growth in the current quarter was a stunning -2.8% on Monday, down from +2.3% last week. A month ago the model showed that growth in the January-March period was tracking close to +4.0%.

This kind of reminds when Helmut Schmidt wanted to do some ever so moderate spending in west germany and basically the federal bank crashed the economy for a bit to show him that they control spending and economic policy. I could totally see wall street as well as various federal banks crash the economy for a bit because Trump won't stop talking about tariffs. If that happens it'll be interesting how Trump will react.

Stellardrone

https://x.com/NewsWire_US/status/1897036021390541298

lol, lmao even if it's true

lol so they've dragged Linke through the mud this and the last week because they couldn't do this because they and only they were holding this up and they just say 'oh we can just do this'

also fun fact Rheinmetall is up 1100% from the start of the war in ukraine on the stock market.

Drow of the Underdark has quite a few pages around 40 and a 4e book that is kinda bad but also has stuff is Menzoberranzan: City of Intrigue

There's also the forgottenrealms: underdark

Are they still? Like I'm looking at some of my stuff like for example in all my 3e stuff (Which is 20 years ago) I can find 2 pictures of a woman holding a whip one being a cleric the other a house matron and one with a woman an a man chained to her being forced to fight. That is pretty much it and this is a book from the 2000s. Most depict them as spellcasters or with sword and shield or rapier and crossbow. Now this might be a bit unfair because 3rd edition in this one book a good 30% is dedicated to drow society from economy, to governance to culture. Not that 3e doesn't have its fair share of things but I'll just quote something on the houses who make up one half of their society:

Why do houses hold so much power? The drow have no formal or organized government, so it’s not the dictate of law that allows them to govern industries, districts, and even entire communities. Rather, the political and social power of a house is largely self-perpetuating. The family at the heart of a house consisted of powerful drow to begin with. Some were priestesses, with all the authority that title implies. Others were military leaders, with numerous troops at their beck and call. Still others were powerful merchants, whose slaves and servants had final say over what products entered or left a community, or who controlled a valuable trade route. As always, this authority belonged to those powerful enough to take it and keep it, and these drow were powerful indeed.

If we are talking 1e and 2e then yeah for sure, and if it became a huge thing again with 5e players who can be quite horny then yeah that sucks but like as it's depicted at least in the things I have right in front of me it's not all "And the drow women whip and whip and whip." Don't get me wrong there's a whole Dominance and Submission section but it's 1 page which is funny enough shorter than the art section (But longer than the drow music section.)

I'm pretty sure it's the eldest daughter which because Lolth means you got younger daughters trying to assassinate the older ones so primogeniture with a ton of intrigue.

Time for some new german I dunno quasi news. It fits because greece got fucked over by germany ok.

So elections are over and not a week later quite a few newspapers and online german leftists have begun shitting on 'Die Linke' why you may ask?

Because they don't want to send weapons to ukraine and want germany to engage in actual efforts for peace.

This means that now a lot of online leftists feel the need to say that they can't support Die Linke because of that position. Keep in mind Linke were the only ones that didn't want to fuck over immigrants, poor people or queer folks unlike greens and spd. Putting this into an american perspective remember when american online leftists were saying "Yes Genocide bad but Queer rights are important." leave it to german engineering to come up with.

"Yes less Queer rights, Immigrant Rights and social security is bad but killing people is important."

And some more german news because we can't get enough of it.

EU has put out numbers for asylum seekers for 2024 and it seems that was a reduction of asylumseekers in the EU+ region. From 1.1 million in 2023 to 1.0 million in 2024, this reduction mostly comes from one source germany. In 2023 there were a total of 329k asylum seekers and now in 2024 that number is 237k so almost 30% less the great legacy of Olaf Scholz wannabe deporter-in-chief. I'm sure under Merz they'll do even more racism I hope it was worth it SPD and Greens you worthless pieces of fascist filth.

My guess would be a cross you make next to a party during the election... or maybe it's supposed to be a target? That said I find it baffling that no one during production pointed out how similar the logo is in it's color scheme with the swastika, and yeah celtic cross is another one that has clear associations for fascists even in Germany.

I believe in German electioneering

I think there's still a few but they are going to go full hog, don't want to brutalize social security recipients you are out, want to tax the rich you are out, immigrants? You better believe your position has to be the same as the nazis.

Imo SPD will use the poor election result to purge anything even approaching social democraticness in their own ranks and go more right as that seems to have been the play of every party so far.