I like how they also promptly stopped cutting off candidates by muting mics. Several times both talked over.

I thought that the introduction going over the rules reminded me of some kind of sports coverage, like ESPN8 covering Dodgeball, and that it reminded more of how close that would be to Idiocracy.

I then joked that I half expected a woman in a red, white, and blue bikini holding up the round number between each question.

I exclusively do this while on the phone. I don't typically do it otherwise.

That's true and still quite possibly why this photo is black and white, though regardless, that's a trend I don't care for.

I realize I'm probably in a gray area, no pun intended, but I just think it's used as a tactic to make certain past events feel longer ago in an attempt to make it seem like a different time with problems that no longer affect us.

I guess I was just briefly triggered and realize it doesn't really apply here.

I really dislike this trend of making not so old photos black and white in an effort to make them seem older. It seems disingenuous and misleads people into thinking it was longer ago than it actually was.

I've been enjoying it. The difficulty does seem a bit increased with some enemies but I'm also on NG+1.

Playing on PS5 has been fine but there was some noticeable frame dropping during the Divine Beast Dancing Lion fight.

I'm still only partially through it, but that's my experience so far.

That's fair. It fits with their MO of taking advantage of those with disabilities or in already dire situations

I think what we're getting at is there is a very fine line right now between a far right conspiracy theorist that's in too deep (think QAnon) and full blown psychosis. The minor difference being one is caused by indoctrination while the other is actual mental illness.

And while this case may be due to mental illness, I was simply saying that we shouldn't allow the other cases the easy out excuse of a mental illness as they need to be held accountable. Obviously this man will be held accountable but a mental illness lessens that by some degree.

True, but still only a few steps up from "someone just needs to put a bullet in Biden" which is a not too uncommon of a phrase in red districts.

You could say "I'm thirsty" and though not explicitly asking a question, someone might still offer you a beverage as a solution, for which you would probably be thankful.

As easy as it would be to dismiss a lot of people like this as having mental illnesses, he just sounds like you're typical conspiracy believing, far right, Trump supporter. The mental illness may have come into play when he actually decided to act on it, but make no mistake, many, many others are believing and repeating the same rhetoric and just not demented enough to act (yet), and they don't deserve the easy out of "mental illness."

Because (Christian) "Faith" is a unique, arguably delusional, cyclical belief system based on feelings. It's similar to the anti-vaccine mentality of "that's just your opinion" when it's not. The biggest difference being that there is no proving or disproving the existence of God.

And Faith is built on this self-referential system of "you gotta have Faith in God because God is real and God is good and strong Faith will help you continue believing in God when you are otherwise challenged, and weak Faith is a sign that you are straying from God and you should strengthen your Faith by believing in God harder because God is real and God is good..."

I used to be more religious and also thought "believe in whatever you want to believe in as long as you don't be a dick about it," but that's really been changing a lot lately.

Christianity has fallen so far and so many self-diagnosed Christians are just the worst type of people that I just couldn't relate to them anymore and felt the need to distance myself.

There have probably been (speculation because I don't feel like looking up details right now) more deaths in the name of Christianity and the Christian God than any other religion and that continues to this day.

I contribute modern day deaths from pregnancy complications deprived of needed health care, general lack of other health care for low income families, LGBTQIA2A+ suicides or other deaths, and more to "traditional Christian values".

Christian Nationalists can go fuck themselves and rot in their own hell they hate so much.

"Erotic pirate thriller"

Yeah, I was thinking more like a tangled knot of DNA. Which would be a good username.

They said dumb ideas.

So malware wasn't enough, Windows wants to be a ransomware too?

Edit: I can already see it now. "Locked out of your files? For a small fee or our premium subscription, you can restore encrypted files that we lost."

My go to is Adele.

Most churches will even give you a physical copy for free. At least around here, old Bibles are often donated for just that purpose.

Old people and bots have to be a large portion.