Por que no los dos?

It’s been a while, and he sincerely mourned her near daily for years.

There was never even a hint of impropriety at any point, and I know they were both really concerned about the family perception.

It’s still weird but they seem pretty happy together and frankly there isn’t enough happiness in the world to begin with.

Until we drop First Past the Post voting for Ranked Choice, we will never be free of the regressive portions of the democratic party.

TO BE CLEAR: This isn’t a ‘both sides’ argument. Only one party tried to overthrow a legal election by force.

That said, voting blue is only necessary because we realistically have no other choice under our current voting structure.

This isn’t reddit. You don’t have to do that.

Burn it all the fuck down.

A government that doesn’t take care of its people is a government begging to be ousted.

The only platform regressives embrace is built on the pillars of bigotry, hypocrisy, and self-centeredness.

They will say anything to turn the situation to their advantage, and there is no truth in them.

WoTC might not sell its DND IP but Hasbro could easily sell the entirety of WoTC to Tencent if they wanted to.

My father is in a relationship with my deceased mother’s sister.

I don’t know how to feel about this.

Firstly: Ew

Secondly: He’s really old and has never been able to take care of himself, so I’m glad that someone is there with him and my aunt really is a kind and sweet person who also is single and both are really too old to date, so maybe it’s a good thing.

Thirdly: Ew Ewewewew EW ew

The profit motive rots everything it touches

Tencent owns Larian

Tencent already has Larian and they did a great job with BG3 so what’s your issue?

As long as they don’t try to turn it into a microtransaction hell like only being able to play the classes you bought in their store, it’s going to be no different except Tencent has a ton of money for funding.

There’s a school of thought that youtube style content isn’t good from a business perspective, that all of those downloads cost more than they can make.

Mainly it’s because American bandwidth is way too expensive due to years of infrastructure and greed.

I’d love to go back to the days where you download the videos and audio you want in the background and watch it later.

It would save the platforms so much money and make competition viable.

But people are WAAAAAY too immediate gratification oriented, they want their endless stream of 30 second fluff clips in full HD.

A rare example of people profiting during the dotcom collapse, I tip my hat to you!

I think you are mistaking infiltration for ‘getting spread out too far’.

Nearly all of what you describe can be most easily attributed to planted agitators.

Also on a side note:

A friend of mine’s dad legit did win a million dollars in one of those popups. It was really early in the advertising days and I guess they were trying something.

Anyway he paid off all his kids’ houses and bought a nice fishing truck.

I doubt it will ever happen again but I was personal witness for it happening at least once.

That said, even after watching that I have never, and will never willingly click any popup.

I would argue that the fact we are nerds means we will more often than not be right, but be unable to say it in an ego soothing way to the gorillas in suits that actually hold the budget decisions.

audio ads sampled at max volume that multiplied every time you tried to close them…

They are the reason people started making products like ublock, and why for most of the 90s I browsed the web with javascript off unless I trusted the site or needed the service for the moment.

Now nothing renders if you do and you need 3 extensions just to not constantly be mobbed by ads

Just because we’re old don’t mean we’re wrong.

I remember the first ever popup I got and how it made me fear for the future of the web.

My friends roflcopter’d and said ‘it’s only a popup’

Now look the fuck where we are now…

People who only ever know the internet through smartphones will NEVER understand our pain.

They accept the modern ultra-cluttered short attention span theater moneygrab marketplace as ‘the norm’ and it fucking makes me ill.

I think a better metaphor is fermentation.

It happens naturally whenever the ingredients are brought together but in order to get a quality product you need ridiculous amounts of knowledge, process, and technology.

And even a tiny bit of the wrong bacteria can ruin an entire batch, but people will still drink it and go blind.

Fuck yes those memories…

I used to purposefully disable the error correction on my modem so the connection sound didn’t have that stupid hissy wobbly beepy part at the end. Yeah it meant that sometimes I’d fjhkswa thjasd ar eee e but it was worth it for that pure music.

Maybe we’re blessed for knowing it like none that came after, or cursed for knowing it will never be that good again…