Hah, bank is in the name, but SoftBank is a major tech company in Japan.

Sorry, I think I misinterpreted your comment. Are you using something like the “royal we”? I initially read it as referring to Lemmy as a collective, figuring you were talking about something that happened here.

I’m out of the loop, did I miss some drama?

Never played a Counter Strike game, actually!

Other than a bad campaign, unapologetic AI slop, kernel-level anticheat, a $70 price tag, and being yet another uninspired formulaic installation of a franchise that peaked during the Bush administration, what’s not to like?

Any chance “Bubba” could be Roy Cohn?

Very close with Trump, gay, had previously blackmailed J Edgar Hoover with compromising photos…it ticks a few boxes is all.

It’s a set of emails, read it bottom to top and it might make more sense.

Can I still replicate this experience if I just tape a Steam Deck to my forehead?

Would be hype as hell if everyone who bought one finds it pre-installed. Would never happen but would blow the minds of internet denizens for at least a couple years.

Just to address the potential for US defaultism, “our country” in this case should be read as the United Kingdom, where Rockstar is headquartered and the union busting in this instance took place.

Those don’t have the Nestle logo, so are likely the American ones made by Hershey.

Not much better, but to my knowledge Hershey didn’t kill millions of children in Africa.

Rosen and Kaine have not announced retirement, so they are interesting. Rosen just won a very close race in Nevada, so she either tried to appease conservative voters there or thinks she is gone anyway. No idea what Kaine is thinking.

Never discount the possibility of blackmail, too.

Homer, in the Odyssey.

Is that Hector Salamanca?

Identity politics also plays into it. Pass the blame on to another demographic and promise to do something about it.

Couple minor nitpicks, just for the sake of knowledge sharing:

ち is usually pronounced “chi” instead of like “tee,” though is often written as “ti” in Kunrei romanization to be consistent with the other characters in its set. Hepburn romanization usually writes it as “chi” however, and is the more widespread (e.g. Sapporo Ichiban beer instead of “Itiban”; the protagonist of Spirited Away is named Chihiro instead of Tihiro, etc.)

It’s also called “katakana,” not “katanaga”. “Kana” is the term for syllabary (the consonant-vowel pair we see) and K is often voiced to G for compound terms. Hiragana means “even syllabary” because it could be written smoothly in a cursive-like format. Katakana is “fragmented syllabary” because its shapes derive more directly from pieces broken off from Chinese characters.

Katakana actually developed before hiragana, with hiragana being considered less refined (it was a “woman’s” script). But hiragana’s ease of writing helped it catch on as the default script over time, with katakana being reserved for words with emphasis. It’s commonly used for loanwords (but not universally so) because it’s similar to how “proper” English italicizes foreign terms that have not been totally subsumed into the vocabulary.

What style of froglight farm did you make? Ours uses a layer of snow between a slime spawner and a grid of glass panels that only the small slimes can fit through, but it takes a while for the slimes to actually fall down to where the frogs are. I’ve heard there are better options available but I want to make sure the frogs aren’t able to jump up into the snow and hurt themselves.

I’m just laughing at the number of posts I’ve seen online from console players who are already 30+ hours in. Get some sleep, people! A rested pioneer is a productive pioneer.

There are some accounts that explicitly label themselves as bots, though. So on those, you’re basically guaranteed to never receive any response or engagement from OP.

I don’t know, I kinda like most of the newer icons. They’re not perfect, but then neither were the old ones.