slumlordthanatos

Too late. Their parents got to them first.

Musk bought it because he's a dumbass.

Because he thinks he's clever and wants everybody to think he's clever (also because he was mad that Twitter kept banning his buddies for being fascists), he hatched a plan to send Twitter a formal offer to buy it for way more than it was worth. Musk thought that Twitter was owned by a bunch of left-wing ideologues and were using the site as their own personal microphone (sound familiar?), so when they inevitably turn down his offer, he could go "Aha! Gotcha, you fuckin' Marxists!" and everyone would clap and call him smart.

But Twitter was not owned by a bunch of left-wingers. It was owned by businessmen. Musk's buddies were getting banned because it's not good business to have an advert for Disneyland next to a racist/anti-Semetic tweet, not because of ideology. And when those businessmen saw that Musk was offering to buy Twitter for several times what it was worth, they jumped on the offer, then sued Musk when he tried to back out.

Hilariously, Musk agreed to buy Twitter as soon as the discovery process started. I'd bet money that his phone was a black hole of cringe/illegal activity and he wanted to keep it from going public.

Musk didn't want to buy Twitter, and he doesn't want to destroy Twitter; it's just a side effect of using it to stroke his ego.

Personally, I think it was the other way around.

Overwatch had something going for it; it had the potential to be something truly special and everyone knew it. It's why so many people played it.

But Blizzard decided to go all-in on esports, and in the process, ruined the game by neglecting what was great about it and trying to change it into something that it wasn't.

It was Team Fortress 2, but Blizzard tried to turn it into Counter-Strike.

I'm pretty sure it was none other than fuckin' Newt Gingrich who coined the term.

Bless you for coming out in public.

I mean, the likes of Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos could end world hunger with a snap of their bony fingers, and they're not doing it, despite the fact that they would still be wealthy beyond comprehension if they did.

We're asking them to do the bare minimum and utilize their wealth in a responsible manner, and they're not even doing that much.

Case in point: this was briefly on the latest r/place before it was removed.

Remember folks: China is communist in the same way that North Korea is democratic and the Nazis were socialist.

It's just a smokescreen.

We're not against the idea of working hard and becoming rich for it. We're against the idea of becoming rich by exploiting the literal lives of those you step on. And that seems to be almost the exclusive way to become rich in this country. It's sickening.

I've said it before, and I'll say it again:

I don't care if you make money. I don't care if you make a lot of money. I care when you pull out all the stops in order to make ALL OF THE MONEY, FOREVER, without any regard for what you destroy, or who you hurt or even kill in order to get it.

Brian Thompson built his fortune off the pain, suffering, and deaths of others, and the world is a slightly better place without him.

It's not bad, I just don't play it because I hate directional attacking and I can't turn it off.

I knew STALKER was a cult classic. I also knew it was the definition of eurojank, so I was already holding off on the sequel until it gets several patches and/or a few community fixes.

Still, I have several people on my friends list who have been playing the absolute shit out of this game. The devs clearly remembered how to capture the magic of the Zone.

Like, I'm in that position too, except I have a touch of the 'tism to go along with it. Not so much that I can't function, but enough to the point that socializing is exhausting. I get nothing but bots when I try online dating, and going out mostly just results in people asking me why I'm always just standing in a corner by myself.

Really, I just need a wingman, but I don't know anybody who would be willing or able to do it; my brother and both of my closest friends live an hour-and-a-half away and my BIL has very young kids.

I'm at a point where I'm not sure if it's ever gonna happen.