Don't take this the wrong way, but this made me bust out laughing...

When you hold stock, don't you need to sell it/liquidate it in order to make money?

Boy, if that isn't just a perfect example of the perversion of our economic system. "You can't make ACTUAL money with it, you can only make money by participating the meta gambling game."

No, stock entitles you to dividends, which is just a fancy way of saying "a share of the profits". Like, a company brings in A amount of money (gross income) in a year, spends B of that on payroll and whatnot (expenses), maybe puts away C of that into a savings or spending account, and everything that's left, D, gets given to the owners. If you have stock in the company, that's you.

Of course, dividends are generally very small (like, think savings interest) compared to what you can make trading and speculating, so it's never good enough for the rich.

It's also rather common for companies to pay no dividends, because they just put all the leftover money into C. Which isn't even necessarily bad, it's generally built on the idea that keeping the money in the company will give the company more room for growth, I.E. raising the stock price, with the assumption that that will be worth more than the dividends may have been. But for so many companies, that just never ends. Sooner or later, the growth won't be sustainable, and many companies just collapse under their own weight, leaving the stock worthless.

Now I can't stop picturing a college student running around jumping everywhere, just cause he can.

Shit, this is a cool idea. I might have to steal this.

All any file is is just numbers. Opening a file in a program is just interpreting those numbers. To over-simplify, in a plain text file, for example, the number 32 means "space character", and the number 10 means "move down to a new line". In an audio file, the numbers are going to have meaning related to volume and frequency of sound, at points in time.

Kudos to you if you can guess where in the map this is just looking at the image.

Coal Valley Lake?

Transphobes have been trying to turn it into one for a while, so they can play victim about it.

"And then I forgot it in another dream."

Let's say it's a cipher, but with a twist.

For one, Ōkami was supposed to have a bigger story, but the team ran out of time and ended midway through what Kamiya wanted to do.

WHAT?! The game's campaign is already obnoxiously long.

I've not played the game myself (can't, no PS), but I've absorbed a fair bit of the lore through the rest of the fanbase.

It was my understanding that the doll was given to him by the Moon Presence. Like, in a disturbing "Oh, you loved this person and want them back? Here, this is the same thing, right?" sort of way.

Just remember. If you end up having to sue him to get this resolved, that's not you destroying the family, that's him.

If they get friends, I get friends.

Fuck every last person who gatekeeps the way someone uses intentional game mechanics.

"Add toilet flushing to the game" has been an inside joke in the community for a while. Before that, it was "Add golf to the game." So, yeah, it's a cheeky way to announce 1.0. Does come off as weird to those not in on the joke.

I gotta say, lately it feels like there might be hope for Texas. Lots of lower-level government stuff happening that's NOT batshit insane. Hopefully the movement can keep building and maybe overtake the state someday.

It sure sounds like you would like it. I will say that for me, everything about the game is fantastic, except for the combat, which is kinda terrible. Especially the boss fights. Feels to me like they're trying to mimic a souls-like style, but really really overshot on difficulty.

Basically, I say go for it, but don't hesitate to drop the difficulty settings, if you're like me.

Also, get yourself a physical notepad. Yeah, I kind of agree that if note-taking and such is intended as part of the game, there should be a venue to support that in-game, but there isn't really.

Also, also, don't feel bad about having to look up some stuff for the really late/post-game puzzles. One thing they toom WELL from Dark Souls is the idea of puzzles that are really made to be solved by the collective wisdom of the community, not just you.

Also, also, also, don't disregard the language puzzle, completely. I did, and when I looked it up later, I wish I hadn't I wish I'd at least have given it a shot, for myself.

Good luck!

That's the insidious part. People advocating for Biden to go on a crime spree are assuming that the Supreme Court is aiming to be consistent, and apply this ruling fairly to both parties. They've INTENTIONALLY left it unspecified what counts as an "official" act, so that any question that comes up just goes right back to them, and they can rule however they see fit. Also, people are assuming the Court won't just directly contradict their own rulings, the moment it's convenient. This entire thing just shows that the Court can and will give itself final say on any questions of law or policy, I.E. anything anyone in the government does. This doesn't make the President a king, it makes the Court the king.

Jack's just trying to communicate in a Canadian's native language.

Absolutely. Like you say, it just doesn't happen in large streams, and the threshold is probably a lot larger than you think, since on average maybe 10% of viewers actually participate in chat. The dynamic starts shifting at around 1,000 simultaneous viewers, in my experience, between chat being readable and interactable, and being just spam. That's still plenty big enough to qualify for partner, and even make a living off of streaming alone.

The only negative aspect of FemShep is that she can't romance Tali.

friendly reminder that the game developer himself said this game 'needed no female players'" and claimed "some things are made only for men"

I anticipate this game dying in a hot fire.

Article for reference. Unfortunately all the original source (twitter posts and whatnot) seem to have been deleted.