The son's name was Fred Finger, and he died unmarried in his 40's due to complications from AIDS.

The guy above was joking.

For all the problems the game has, the major thing they get right is the environment.

Almost every area looks more than great, some are industrial, luxurious, barren, creepy, outright hostile, or cozy, but they are usually always gorgeous.

The environments are what pushed me to keep giving the game a chance after the initial shock of not having a cohesive overworld.

I've flipped flopped my consensus about the game a couple times, but my conclusion is this...

Starfield is not going to be what you expected from Skyrim in space, at first. It will seem weird and claustrophobic and broken.

But if you give yourself a bit to acclimate to the world they've built, there is a surprisingly engaging game underneath.

I believe they've left most planets barren on purpose, so they can easily shove DLC wherever they want for the next 10 years.

"New facehugger planet, 20 hours of exciting quests and valuable loot! - $29.99"

That's 100% going to happen.

Personally I know several people who have been to prison, and many of them absolutely needed some institutionalized treatment.

Well, really they needed a strong community with support, mentors, and motivations to succeed, but in our broken society where community is all but dead, they needed prison.

Prison is a broken hellhole system, but with total reform, it could be a positive tool for society.

Maybe in a utopian society we could do away with prison, but there are a ton of changes we need to make before then.

Fortunately that doesn't work.

Even if Musk totally shut down Twitter, then opened an identical platform named X, the contracts Twitter held are still enforceable under the law.

There might be stipulations in the contracts where severance isn't payable if the company fails, but if I remember correctly, this severance is something mandated by state law, and not just a contractual perk.

So bottom line, Musk is liable unless his lawyers are able to worm their way into a settlement.

It really is a big move, since it likely cost them millions in early sales.

I probably would have bought it already if I couldn't find a crack, but now I can pirate and wait for a nice sale.

I'm sure I'm not the only one.

You can just click the checkbox for "Copy crack to install directory" to get the installer to do everything for you.

I'm not sure why that isn't the default.

Do you keep the game if you get the "Deluxe Upgrade" on GamePass? Or do you have to keep paying the subscription if you want to play?

Which GPU did you get?

I don't know why you'd want to rent the game if you've already got the cracked copy, but I would be surprised if the save files were any different between the two platforms.

They're just voting for the only party who pretends to care about them.

Democrats have spent almost no energy on making rural voters feel included.

If you saw everything you've ever known decay into the shambles of globalization, then some orange guy comes and starts yelling about how he's going to fight for your way of life, while the other guy is talking to the people who have been shaming you for decades, who do you think you'd vote for?

If we want a better future, we're going to have to get over all this hatred towards our neighbors. Waving your hands around a map and saying "fuck allll these (rural) people" isn't going to work anymore, because China/Russia know exactly how to exploit that hate.

Exactly what I was thinking.

That guy isn't making any big decisions behind the scenes. He's just being puppeteered until he dies.

Just tell your boss you want a union, or he'll have to replace his entire workforce, all 2 of you.

The Georgia GOP is going to get itself caught up in federal RICO charges at this rate.

I wonder how that would work.

I'm almost positive they've been developing an image recognition AI that will make slightly altering csam photos obsolete.

Here's hoping.

That's how it's supposed to work, but in many counties the bondsman doesn't actually front any cash to the court, and they don't get charged if the suspect runs. They operate as a sort of slush fund for the owners, the officials, and the cops.

So these companies are often just another way to siphon money from people accused of a crime.

Super shady stuff.

This guy was a sovereign citizen, so the worst of the worst kind of crazy.

Didn't see that mentioned elsewhere in the thread, and it's a big fucking detail to leave out.

If they used SMS those records are still around.

Or did they use something else?

Maybe 30 years ago.

But in the last 20 years there has been a lot of of funding towards prevention and researching a cure.

https://avac.org/project/resource-tracking/

An HIV vaccine has proven itself to be an extremely elusive target.

But with recent developments in biotechnology, it may not be much longer before we finally have get one.