ZombiFrancis

I have a screenshot from a time in an MMORPG where a member died before they could do a global event quest they'd always wanted to do. There was a player-driven server-wide memorial event where her character was run through the quest by friends so that her name could be honored by a global broadcast message.

The game and the servers are now gone, but that screenshot of everyone holding torches for her character on that day still means a lot to me 20 years on.

So yeah, I think a steam account can fit that billing as a memorial.

Warhammer 40k lore is on the level of racism and genetic determinism that resonates with nazibrain.

Every faction is a caricature and parody of some ideological concept where every member is obligated to live and die exactly as they're supposed to.

The normalization and defenses of it, the crying maga soyjack, has been coming from the the major media networks from what I have seen.

MAGA is stroking it.

Just like how ABC paid/donated $15 million for reporting an unpleasant fact about the preaident-elect.

It helped my spouse deal with medical trauma by finding content creators expressing similar experiences. It worked better than any of the support groups which often felt more hopeless and isolating.

At this point though my spouse just hates instagram reels and how chaotic and pointless this is shaking out to be.

The necktie needs a line of horizontal stitching along the chest as it puts a lot of vertical focus on the duck. The bowtie balances out the vertical stitching with its horizontal orientation.

Also/alternatively a vertical seam up the neckline might help with the neck being noisy with the stitch and tie.

They just needed to make the hatches Holes.

Diablo is like stacking blocks. Stacking blocks is fun. Diablo 1 gave you some mixed blocks to play with and you could make some fun towers. Sometimes you'd get the Butcher, sometimes Skeleton King, and so on. Some of the uniques items you'd find really defined a playthrough.

Diablo 2 gave you more blocks and more stackable shapes. You got skill trees, more clasdes, more item parameters, and just plain stuff to wedge on a more intricate tower.

Diablo 3 and 4 appear to have attempted to bedazzle the existing shapes and allow players to buy stickers. There was little, if any, innovation beyond revenue.

Like, Blizzaed saw Grinding Gear Games acquire money through cosmetics and thought that was what people were over there for. (And they mostly just implemented Final Fantasy 10 sphere grid... and solved the 'gold/currency' problem.) But I have to admit I was so lacking in interest I never bought 3 and 4--only watched someone play a bit is all.

I personally know/knew one of the main guys promoting Ivermectin in the news and on rogan. It was 100% a grift and he knew it. The point wasn't the medicine but subverting public health efforts. That is why it is derided as horse dewormer.

Castro's reign was pretty marked with attempted coups, assassinations, and outright invasion. You know, the standard cold war experience.

The whole 'make life as hard as possible so the people have no choice but overthrow their government' strategy hasn't really been effective. Ever.

She has been legitimized at this point, unfortunately. She has committee assignments and the backing of the Speaker so there's now a high likelihood she has the leverage to get bills passed. Also the incoming GOP trifecta means she will be far far more close to the political center of Congress than ever before.

My spouse has been relistening to the books on tape recently and so I have been hearing it by proxy.

The narrators really put in the work to make some flimsy writing seem engaging. Like in one of the later books there's this significant scene where some evil magic makes an evil visage of Hermione. In the subsequent chronological scene the real Hermione is super angry at Ron and not once does the writing reference or make a connection with any of the imagery between the two.