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"At will employment means that the period of employment can be ended at any time for any non-discriminatory reason"
"That's right! And good luck proving that discriminatory reasoning in court peons!"
"That also means the employee can end employment at any time."
"HUH???"
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Damn that's crazy. If you really believe that why are you telling people to vote instead of telling them where to buy firearms and body armor and teaching urban guerilla military tactics?
If I genuinely believed that was about to happen it's what I would be doing tbh! 
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Get on nyaa si and start torrenting anime instead of streaming you damn whippersnappers [shakes cane]
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It also makes you re-download another 100 gbs every time the game updates 
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Oh god you're right lol
SD3 was such a flop I actually completely forgot all that even happened
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Isn't he supposed to be an infamous perfectionist with his work?
I guess he might be the 0.001% of AI users who can actually get something usable out of the tools because he's willing to hogtie and drag it through the streets until it does exactly what he wants but like
You have shitzillion dollar CGI industries at your beck and call who can actually make 3D assets the regular way lmao why would you bother browbeating the slop machine instead
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Moray eels and groupers have also been observed to hunt cooperatively with one another, with the groupers approaching the eels' dens to call them out to go hunting.
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Pineapple and kiwifruit: let's see how YOU like getting digested idiot
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The conspiracy brainworm in me wants to believe that this was part of some long term Burgerland plan to push widespread acceptance of culling of socially undesirable peoples, because facing the reality that the people in charge either never took this outcome into account or just didn't care that they were obliterating what's currently left of elder care institutions is almost unthinkable.
We are just straight up not prepared what this is going to do to the future 65+ demographics. It terrifies me every day
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Yeah I did that sidequest recently. Unfortunately it is yet another 'fetch 10 bear asses' fetch quest. These make up 55% of the side content (40% is 'go here, talk to this person').
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Playing Final Fantasy 16 following its PC release.
It's a fucking mess. For some ungodly reason the dash is mapped to pushing down the control stick. There is no option to change it from a hold to a toggle. That's not even getting into the entire rest of the game.
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Skins are fine just have them be locked behind achievements, leveling up and fun in game challenges if you're feeling daring.
That's how Monster Hunter does it, there's even stuff like rare color shifting rainbow dye you can unlock by beating endgame challenges
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Some people you can just see the countdown timer to the 'why I left the left' grift so visibly like it's a video game ui element floating over their heads
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Video game companies keep inventing paid mod systems to disrupt these hive mind structures with grift culture so mod communities don't get too powerful 😒
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Mullvad is good but I've been using AirVPN lately since that has port forwarding and lets me use Soulseek. Like Mullvad it's also pay as you go with no auto-renewal
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Here is an article that goes into a deep dive about it
You can search serum to scroll down to the section about FBS and other animal serums used
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The vast majority of it is dependent on fetal bovine serum which is taken from pregnant cows killed in slaughterhouses, and therefore is not vegan.
The small percentage that currently can be produced without FBS is vegan but imo seems significantly less energy and material efficient than just growing legumes or peas, if it can even be made to scale at all
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Seeing anime girls in military uniforms prompts such a visceral reaction in me, this must be what birds feel when they recognize a poisonous insect
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Actually the vast majority of those games suck because they don't let you play as a dragon. Because of woke
Spyro the Dragon stay winning tho :spyro-sunglasses: (which is not an emoji for some reason smdh)
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There was a somewhat recent drama where (you do not, under any circumstances, 'gotta hand it to em') Nexusmods actually did strike down a mod that removed the vanilla ability to gay marry NPCs, whereafter I believe that modder took their shidding and crying doodoo ass to Loverslab where even they were like 'man come on'
So it's a bit but there are people in the fanbase like that unironically still
 I'll be here all week
 You just can't. There's too many of them. And they keep making more of them! When will the suffering end?  They should stop making games for at least a year so I can catch up.
This is not a high effort bit, this 'youtuber' has already made a name for himself outsourcing his videos to other people writing scripts and running it through an AI model of his voice. He's almost certainly doing it as a proof of concept tech demo to sell the AI pipeline and consulting to other media agencies but yeesh lol. lmao.
Anti-piracy Nintendo paypigs have failed to consider how effective the wear and tear aspect of data rot is at eroding media preservation
look at its fuckin peets. you just know it would go flap flap flap if it waddled across a linoleum floor
  HE CAN'T KEEP GETTING AWAY WITH IT In my defense I picked up a cheap used VR headset and playing Skyrim in VR and holding all the sparkly spells in your hands is genuinely a pretty novel and magical experience
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What the fuck is the 'authentic experience' of a chicken nugget that seitan is incapable of replicating, anyways? Also the burger patties I ate in school as a cringe baby carnist were 60% TVP soy to begin with, so if anything I'm being even more honest with my frozen slabs now
Like me  Please I just want to jam out a little to Undertale tracks what the hell is this
"Pro Tiananmen Square posts get removed off of Chinese social media? No shit. Imagine if the January 6th protestors had strung up and set a bunch of the National Guard on fire and you posted saying they didn't go far enough, most places on the web would remove your posts, except maybe Elon Musk's twitter." Pros: Any libs wanting to engage would have to either read more about the events leading up to and during the Tiananmen Square protests or admit that January 6th was a nothing event Cons: none
no but seriously though
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cw for blood, animated animal violence in video So I like watching people's indie animations of CGI critters (as one does) and I'm not especially picky about the species, so that ended up with youtube nudging me towards the extensive Paleo youtube community. I'm not a dinosaur connoisseur by any means but I like learning about extinct species and animal reconstruction, so I enjoy watching those kinds of videos as well. So Kaiju youtube is close cousins with Paleo youtube (a lot of the same people who like seeing big scaly animals slap the shit out of each other also enjoy watching even bigger scaly animals slapping the shit out of each other, go figure) so occasionally I'll get something from that circle recommended to me too. I find it to be really charming. Obviously there's a lot of fan wanking about power levels and who would beat whom in a fight, whether the Legendary Godzilla movies are any good, etc. But there's also a lot of passionate young animators learning the ropes and getting inspired by other animators in the community. This video creator developed their own original Kaiju (El Gran Maja) which has gone on to inspire a lot of artists to make their own fanworks based on it including, of course, battles with Godzilla. The enshittification of the internet continues, but I still enjoy passing through communities like this and seeing people creating things and excitedly discussing it with one another.
I will take a moment to defend myself: I paid for Spotify because I was a power user (listening to music 4-12 hours every day while working) and also because I had the family plan so a few other family members could piggyback off of my sub. But even saying that, I have spent way too much money on Spotify and the thought of spending any more money on it gave me the heebie jeebies., so this year I set out to put a stop to it. I got some suggestions here for how to rip my Spotify playlists, but I eventually went with [Spytify](https://jwallet.github.io/spy-spotify/overview.html) as opposed to anything that hooked into the Spotify API, just to make sure I wouldn't do anything that would get my normie family members' accounts banned. It has some issues such as incorrectly determining song duration and cutting some songs off, and the fact that you need to rip the songs by playing them in real time, but it worked "good enough" for my purposes. I also went out and downloaded the high quality lossless music files for bands I listen to a lot, and honestly it's making me start to turn my nose up at mp3s a little lol. I also was able to set up [yt-dlp](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp) in order to download all my shitty song mashups and SiIvaGunner rips that aren't hosted anywhere else. Just about the only thing I'll probably miss from Spotify is getting introduced to random indie bands via Discover Weekly, but hey I'll always have the web browser for that. So that's my success story I guess. It's never too late or too early to quit subscription services comrades!
My license expired five months ago and I KNOW that I've been using it as an ID since then for various appointments but it was only today when I went to Costco that someone finally said to me 'hey your ID is expired' since they couldn't give me my prescription without a valid one. what the hell man
You get a choice of like 18 different playable trainer skins and 80+ different starters Then you learn that you can have all 6 of your party pokemon following you around on the overworld Then you got the fact that you encounter pokemon via pokemon walking around in the grass, including visibly distinct shinies. Oh and it has the full 1000+whatever pokedex so every different route has 20 pokemon walking around so as someone trying a Nuzlocke I'm just standing there struggling to decide which one to take [Oh and also since it's a romhack so I'm playing it on my 3DS](https://www.reddit.com/r/3dsqrcodes/comments/17jvbev/pokemon_quetzal_v07_gba_hack_by_tenmarh/) GBA era romhackers are something else
I have really mixed feelings about this film because it's a robot emancipation film that feels like it was written by a leftist but at the same time it has some really serious issues as a film that holds it back from being an outright good movie The Good - This is like, one of the only modern+mainstream man vs machine narratives I can think of that is explicitly sympathetic to oppressed humans hand in hand with the sympathy towards robots. In this film, the robots are in solidarity with the humans they are living together with (robots protect human civilians and vice versa, humans attend robot funerals, they're seen cohabitating together, etc) and they fight together against the NATO coded invasion forces. - In fact, there's even a scene at the beginning that, although brief, shows that working class western citizens are very sympathetic to the robots, and have to be conditioned and propagandized into dehumanizing them. - It's a very pretty film. The sets and sci fi designs look really good and the robots have some cool designs among them, humanoid and less humanoid. ....Wait it only had an $80 million budget? God damn - In addition to the more overt anti-imperialist themes of the film I feel like there's a lot of room for a Marxist interpretation of the film, that the robots could represent leftist groups in Southeast Asia, with the fear of use of nuclear weapons being one of the main propaganda pieces used by the West against them, the West's fear of the robots disrupting capitalist markets, the fact that the main goal of the film is to destroy a physical representation of Western military power and how that representation allows the West to invade and bomb countries with impunity, and so on. The Bad - The first half is a fucking mess, both pacing and writing-wise. There's a lot of narrative choices that are inconsistent with the second half of the film to the point that it's a detriment to the story. In a film with a focus on robot sapience and compassion, we get a Star Wars-esq scene where a grenade thrown by a robot soldier is rolled back into a crowd of robots, and the following shot of their maimed bodies flailing around is instead played for laughs. The discrepancy in the two halves is VERY noticeable, it feels like some sort of editing fuckery happened. - It somehow manages to fumble 3/4 emotional beats that happen in the film. This is arguably the big issue here. Like it is genuinely impressive how consistently it missed the mark when attempting to pull off scenes that should have had emotional impacts. Like, my guys, you are writing a narrative about a grizzled reluctant father and an odd troubled daughter figure. This shit should be color by the numbers by now. I don't even think its the main actor's fault here because the scenes that do work, work fine. Like, the turning point when the lead starts seeing the robot child as a person? Skimmed over, no impact. Choosing to side against the West? Skimmed over, no impact. A sort of reunion with his dead wife? They bungled that scene *so badly.* - The worldbuilding can kind of get wishy-washy. I feel like the story suffers for not having a human voice on the side of the New Asia coalition. It didn't even necessarily have to be a big role either, just a named human character to be all 'hey I'm from Bhutan and robots are people too and we want to build a new future together'. There is technically a character who fills that role but it's the fridged dead wife character so her voice only exists in retrospect and in the lead's memories in relation to himself. Without that presence existing in the story, what the (human) people of the New Asia coalition feel about anything goes kind of unspoken when it should have been a bigger aspect of the story. Anyways it's not a good good film but it's a fun enough watch [and you can watch it here lol](https://goku.sx/watch-movie/watch-the-creator-100849/1379920)
Haven't even played a non-3DS game in weeks, I just enjoy stealing 