This timeline can seriously just fuck right off.

Gotta fix that navy supply issue somehow…

Your cat’s an airbender?

I’m not defending anybody.

I’m saying that if you’re an author (for example) that wants to self publish instead of trying to find a big publisher to accept your manuscript, what are you going to do? Email a copy to anyone who wants to buy it? No…of course not. Similarly, if you’re a dev who wants to release a game without going through a big publisher like Activision or Bethesda or whatever…what are you going to do? Other than Steam and Itch.io, there aren’t many places to do that.

Does it suck? Yes. But the reality is that if we want to get our work out into the public, regardless of monetary concerns, we have to roll around in one mud puddle or another. Our only choice (until that changes) is how deep of a puddle we choose to get in.

She can trap me in her shid anytime.

So in your mind, no one who is self-publishing a book should put it on Amazon. No one who is trying to sell their product on etsy should use PayPal. No one who is just trying to get rid of a few things around the house should use Facebook Marketplace… etc…

Welcome to reality. Sometimes the best of a bunch of bad options has to do. Should these companies all be put int he ground. Yes. But if we let perfect be the enemy of good, we never make any progress.

Sure. You have to rent a stall at farmer’s market if you want to sell your corn, too instead of selling it to a larger distributor. No body is saying otherwise.

The point is that having Steam as an option as an indie dev rather than having to connect to a larger publisher in order to get your work out there, is a good thing. The fact that some titles don’t make money isn’t part of it. It’s the fact that Steam at least allows these devs to cut out the middle man (the publisher). Maybe it’ll work and be a hit. Maybe it won’t. But at least they have the option to try.

I’d argue that that is entirely a good thing overall.

It means that Steam is very open to Indie devs (something we already know) that don’t make as much money but are passion projects for the creators.

If they’re making enough from the…let’s call them prestige titles…to be able to afford to give indie devs a place to host their passion projects and maybe get more eyes on it, than I see no problem with that.

No idie dev is going into it thinking they’re going to be next giant thing. They just want to share their work and maybe make a few bucks. And Steam gives them that, PLUS the chance that maybe they’ll be a Rimworld or a Hollow Knight; something that sparks a giant success for them.

We apologize for the inconvenience, but at your level of subscription, you only have access to stock photos from 2012 or earlier…

The VAST majority of the budget goes to the contractors and arms manufacturers. The actual money that gets used to take care of the troops is (at a guess based on current world events) vanishingly small.

use Diego Garcia, farther from the Gulf, as an emergency logistics node

I’m legitimately surprised that Trump hasn’t gotten around to ordering the British to rename that via a long nonsensical Truth Social rant.

I’m all for a good conspiracy theory, but I can practically guarantee you that no one is inspecting every singe nut looking for empty shells to bulk up the bag.

Other than a certain amount of each batch that is kept aside for quality control testing, the bags are filled by machines on a conveyor belt. I doubt a human even looks at them until they’re at the final stage and ready for the last quality control test.

It’s completely random how many empties there will be in a bag. OP was just unlucky this time.

We should rename it the Gnu Image Leveraging Framework.

I’ve never understood the purpose of PhotoGimp. I get why it exists. But it doesn’t do anything magical that GIMP isn’t already designed to let you do in the first place…which is move around, open, close and organize any window or dock into any place you want.

Anyone who has used GIMP for more than a few days has long since organized it to their own personal workflow; even some that look like photoshop.

The same goes for keyboard shortcuts. You can change literally everything about how GIMP looks anytime you want. So why lock yourself into some script that makes it look like a clone of some corporate crap, and worse…donate to the guy who designed said script as though he made something significant that no one else could achieve.

It’s very existence is a lie. Users aren’t locked into anything and he didn’t do some magic to change that. It’s literally how GIMP is designed to be customized.

Play with it. Have fun with it. That’s the entire point.

Personally I’ll never go Vegan simply out of spite because no matter what is being discussed there’s ALWAYS some asshole inserting veganism into the topic.

Veganism might be great for the environment, but as long as you(they) continue to act worse than especially obnoxious Jehovah’s Witnesses, veganism can go fuck itself.

If I devoured one cow every time some vegan asshole spoke up in a thread that was on a completely different topic, cows would be extinct.

Fun fact: The L and the R don’t actually mean “Large” and “regular”. they stand for “Lotta Blood” and “REALLY lotta blood”. So it’s reversed. Gotta be careful about that.

Countdown to the DOJ declaring his words a “legitimate islamic terrorist threat” in 3 – 2 – 1–

Sure. They could face a lot of repercussions for a lot of different bullshit.

But will they? No, of course not. Don’t be silly.

“I had to wait until he moved on you to zero him.”

Okay, hold up. I forgot that line. And I know that this is not the point of the post. But What the Actual Fuck, Reese. You’re telling me that Arnold Shwartzenegar moving like a robot is “hard to spot”.

You couldn’t make an educated guess and say, “hey…that big motherfucker dressed in all leather with no expression on his face seems to be always around when I’m keeping an eye on this Conner chick.”

TITL (Today I Tangentially Learned) - Kyle Reese was absolutely dog shit at his ONE JOB.

No one. It’s a giant “plausible deniability” cluster-fuck.

It’s ‘blaming the dog for farting’ writ large and in the service of billionaires.