Can someone check if the JumpStart games are woke? Specifically the typing one. Trying to make sure I wasn't groomed into being a commie.
LeapFrog games too please
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The civil engineer who designed radical highway should be fired
Chaos spear is even dumber
As someone who bet a decent bit on 2022 midterms predictit is an entirely irrational market with nowhere near the volume needed for looking at actual trends. I made more money selling news there than actually making good predictions.
Throwback Thursday to when the US thought it was about to be under orbital bombardment by some off-current chinese weather balloons and a middle school weather project
State run crypto farms? What are you a commie?
This race is the most "who fucking knows" since I've followed US elections.
Some things of I think are of note
- AZ and NV having abortion ballot measures should heavily lean dem (someone else here already mentioned this)
- NC's governor ticket will probably drag Republicans down. Mark Robinson was exposed as a serial gooner (pornshop debt) who is a black Nazi that wants slavery to return (this is not a joke). He strikes me as a worse Herschel Walker/Dr Oz type candidate and I think dems pickup NC because of it. The broader Republican party is trying to run away from him because he's seen as that toxic
- GA will have the most brazenly corrupt election this side of the century, and that's saying a lot since their incumbent governor probably stole his own first election already. Their election board will send Trump electors no matter what (unless there is somehow a massive electoral college win for Kamala which I don't see happening)
- MI goes for Trump on the Stein 3rd party vote and liberals transition from their current state (going mask off) to gleeful celebration of, like, domestic socdem repression
- PA I genuinely have no clue. No confidence whatsoever in a call either way
- Every other state I think is locked in (including WI for dems- this is possibly what I'll be most gut feeling wrong about)
Republicans take the Senate
I think a 269-269 tie is an incredibly possible situation and I think it would fall under funniest timeline theory (for those reading this results in a Trump presidency due to tiebreaker rules favoring him).
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Reloaded and Portal stories Mel will be inaccessible on switch because they're standalone releases with custom assets (both on steam for free if you happen to have access to a computer and Portal 2).
If the switch has workshop support you should be able to play community maps, but I don't know if that's a steam-specific feature (it sadly probably is)
Games like this have a really hard time delivering on their puzzle elements because of their very broad target audience. They can't make puzzles too challenging because it will negatively impact sales but they can do the opposite to little effect.
I think the portal series is about the maximum difficulty you can make a puzzle-focused game that is still attempting mainstream appeal.
This is why modding is more interesting to me than most base games. It sounds like EoW has the core necessary for modders to create a niche puzzle-action-platformer similar to how Portal 2 resulted in Portal: Reloaded (the best puzzle game I have ever played), Mel Stories, and the workshop at large.
Hopefully there will be enough interest in creating/fostering the EoW modding scene to create something that I imagine you and I would both prefer
I get a call from a relative about their firestick being stuck at the Amazon logo so I start looking into it. This person is relatively decent when it comes to not bricking their devices (they won't just shut the power off during an update for example) so I start operating off of the expectation that this is probably a reasonable problem.
The usual unplug it, wait a bit, plug it back in fails. Try using a different power brick to power the devices fails. Try using the USB power on the back of the TV instead of a powerbrick fails. Stuck on boot logo still- ok, time to start considering researching software-related solutions on my end. I initially go to "let's just factory reset this thing" because it seems like a reasonable step at this point and should solve the problems (or definitively tell me that the unit is broken).
In attempting to fulfill the quest of factory resetting I find out:
- Firesticks have no physical reset button the devices. The only possible input is a microusb power port (more on this in a bit)
- Because of this design choice, the factory reset process is dependent upon a button combination on the remote from within a functional device
- When stuck in the boot sequence, the remote isn't paired so the ability to send that button combination isn't possible
I had no idea prior to today how absurdly irritating the combination of poor hardware design choice (no physical reset button) and downstream terrible software design (needing the signal for reset requiring a failing device to not be failing) could ever be seen as a reasonable product spec.
I'm already irritated by this combination, but fuck it, let's continue on and see if, like with the Kindle products, there's some tomfuckery where if you know certain arcane sequences of settings, menus, and inputs you can get into a vendor mode/debug/etc type mode to operate further.
Turns out, the firestick can be sent a signal using alt +prntscrn + i from a keyboard during boot. Awesome, now if only the physical hardware had a place for a USB plug for this! I know the device has to be powered, so some adapter daisy-chain is going to have to be used in order to provide that as well as enable me to plug in a usb device.
This wonderful abomination is used by pirates (one of hellworld's few remaining heroes) to load USB media off of flash drives to play through apps on the device. They're ~7 imperial war bucks and useless beyond this narrow case, but hey at least it helps me help this working-class person who is probably gonna use it to watch someone on MSNBC say "The walls are finally closing in on Trump and maybe we shouldn't be so pessimistic about the capitalist hellscape that is destroying the planet in new and exciting ways via climate change but also no one should do anything because that would be violence which is bad."
Don't go down that line of thought right now- stay focused on the goal.
Device arrives, plugged into the microusb slot, keyboard plugged into the adapter that provides the functionality amazon probably intentionally didn't include to either make the average "sane" person say:
"This device is irreparably broken; I should buy a new one." or "This probably isn't worth going through the trouble of fixing; I should buy a new one."
Since I've already been driven to a spite-capitalism-in-all-ways-filled existence by living in this world, I fortunately don't have the capability to allow planned obsolescence device get the best of me and hold down alt, prntscrn, and spam i during the sequence... nothing.
Second attempt, alt + prntscrn + i, startup boot sequence is interrupted and I make it into profile selection. The device works again.
It infuriates me that this device exists in a way where this is the route that has to be taken to even get a chance to factory reset it. The idea that locking this standard (and often necessary procedure to prevent e-waste) device option behind remote control functionality that is beyond the point of failure (and fairly common per searches) was what someone decided to be a reasonable and shippable choice when that route is used as a last resort to fix broken functionality is beyond comprehension. It's a decision that can only be reasonably made in hellworld where disposable commodities are a society's pinnacle of innovation.
What irritates me the most is knowing that some shithead team of McKinsey ghouls were probably paid an absurd amount of money to create a slideshow with a chart (exclusively featured in the executive summary) with a little star at the forecasted profit-maximizing point showing that removing repair functionality will increase electronic waste, and profits, to maximally-desired levels.
Because who gives a fuck if we destroy the world, profit has a direct positive correlation with Misery Index, this strategy was/is economically sound and we're all the worse for it.
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Death to Amazon
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Death to the Fire Stick product line
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Death to McKinsey first and foremost and all the other management consulting firms after it
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Death to America
I cheered for Germany against the USA in the FIBA semifinals today and it was great. Final score 113-111 Germany.
Serbia-Germany finals incoming.
vs 
for the 3rd-place game and the second straight FIBA in a row where the US might miss a spot on the podium.
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Silver the Hedgehog is woke DEI garbage