Is that not how venture capital works? I thought that was the premise of the entire US economy.
For me it's that it seemed very knowable from the beginning. US being a bad ally isn't a new phenomenon. Why the fuck are you a leader if you're lagging in geopolitical insight compared to a fucking id*ot who just yesterday managed to beat tier 3 desert in Megabonk? What do you even do all day?
Dropping popcorn all over my exposed belly in my recliner while rolling my eyes Fucking idiots... what is this? Amateur hour?
I was thinking "damn, it's crazy that any of the things suggested about how a sustainable, just society would upset anyone. Even those in power should be able to see the merit of it"
But then I remembered my preferred outcome for troops, politicians, the police, myself, gamers, Europe, espousers of the protestant work ethic, and HR professionals.
They'll be like "behold! All your leaders are PEDOPHILES!" and we'd be like 
and they'd be like "damn bitch, you live like this?"
MoistCritical analyzing the situation
Basically, Jagex sent out a survey doing "research" into what players value. They proposed tiered subscriptions such as "lower price with ads," "mobile only," and "premium membership that offers enhanced customer support (one of the most common complaints about the company is their dogshit customer support[1])."
The players, understandably, recognize immediately that the survey like finding a locust in their wheat field. It's a sign that capitalism has come to strip the copper from the walls for short term profit. The private equity company that owns Jagex, CVC, is trying to get their return and chuck the husk.
They all start unsubscribing and the Reddit page is just flooded with screenshots of them unsubbing. They do an apology, it doesn't stop. Their CEO does another apology with slimy corporate jargon today.
Reddit, twitter, and youtube are exploding with it. We're going to need a 2025 OSOSRS in a few years. It was fun while it lasted.
[1] For example, some people only get attention if they get a bunch of upvotes on reddit
Suffer with me, comrade.
It has the conclusion of Wano in it.
Shout out to someone who knows how to shut the fuck up
I don't think Biden being a pragmatic choice is a settled matter. I haven't seen anything that implies he is a meaningful distinction on things I care about.
Israel? Nope
Student debt? Nope
Abortion? Nope
Unions? Nope
Climate change? Nope
The border? Nope
Homelessness? Nope
War on drugs? Nope
Inflation? Nope
Tax lobbying? Nope
Healthcare? Nope
LGBT protection? Maybe if you squint your eyes
Campaign finance? Nope
Difference between productivity and purchasing power? Nope
Copyright? Nope
Breaking up big business monopolies? Nope
Oh yeah...
And...
WAR????????????????? FUCKING NO
The worst most hawkish fascist military might that has ever existed and continues to constrict the entire planet? Nope
The only difference is whether fascists get radicalized or they get emboldened
Disco Elysium who??
https://nitter.net/aaronbronsteter/status/1712211098764501027
(can someone help me make a nitter link please?)
In order for McGregor to be eligible via USADA, he'd have to wait 6 months. On October 9th, the UFC representative was like "Iunno bout allat."
As someone with many years of combat sport experience with a little MMA alongside a working knowledge of MMA in the UFC and otherwise, it's quite the meme to have people not get USADA tested. Of all the problems with fight prep, I would have put dehydration for weight cutting at the highest problem over USADA testing. It's apparently annoying, but for a sport whose history includes people juiced to the gills, it seems like the superior alternative to allow people to fight without jeopardizing their health. When the UFC pays out so poorly, it's not really worth your health for a lot of would be fighters. It's also why you can't kick to the head on the ground. Sure, there are times that the combat sports shows its sportiness with unrealistic exchanges and sometimes it gets abused by people waiting to be stood back up, but if it means people are cracking each others orbital bones, it's a respectful addition for the fighters.
As a lefty, It seems like the enshittification continues. Can't afford to properly test fighters because McGregor needs to come back NOW. Now fighters are going to be stood back up by a ref so they can use their uber muscles to break another man's orbital bone with a giga punch.
I try extra hard in chess when the opponent has an Israeli flag 
"Never thought I'd post side by side with a lesbian trans Jew"
what, why?
"Just never crossed my mind"
evil cops imply the existence of good cops which makes the game unrealistic
It's recently come out that, on September 10th, Lauren Boebert was removed from the play Beetlejuice in Denver. This would be all fine and good, right? A politician is being an asshole. The sky is blue. Well, Hexbear, it is anything but fine. Anything but.
The plot thickens when it's revealed that, beyond the vaping and the being loud (which is it's own struggle session whether that's based), that part of her contribution to getting owned was that she was giving her partner an over the pants handjob. Now, this would have gone through the news cycle with a sensible chuckle for me, but, my fellow hexbearians, do I look like I'm having a sensible chuckle? NO! This is literally me right now.
See, what had happened was that this news circulated to the website that I like to post on. The title of the post was "boebert was giving a no-foolin for-reals handjob during the beetlejuice musical" This post got some of the most vile, vitriolic comments I've ever seen in all my posting.
>no-foolin for-reals handjob >over the pants rubbin Y'all that's not even a handy to a seventh grader. @regul@hexbear.net
unironically 
@WoofWoof91@hexbear.net
Let's get one thing straight here, hexbear. Over the pants is a handjob. This is my central thesis. Let's start with the most obvious positive case. If you have sex with a condom, do you call it over-the-condom sex? Of course not! Protected sex, maybe, but you wouldn't call it not sex. Would you call a blowjob with a condom not a blowjob? Of course not! If you did that'd be annoying and weird. Let's try not to be annoying and weird. skin-to-skin contact with the genitals isn't a requirement for something to be called a job. Repeat it once more for the people in the back getting a handjob rn: skin-to-skin contact with the genitals isn't a requirement for something to be called a job. If home runs are so unambiguous, why is third base so "ambiguous?" Because of a single fringe case. If it wasn't for the existence of this fringe case, then there's be no argument about how getting your genitals stimulated works.
Fairies, monsters, and others that go bump in the night, let me introduce you to the water jet/bubbling system of a hot tub. Wikipedia defines a hot tub as "a large tub full of water used for hydrotherapy, relaxation or pleasure." Let's explore that last word, pleasure. Whom 
hasn't used a hot tub as it was meant to be used. I think this is where the friction comes from, the jet stream in a hot tub. Dissenters will say (like sniveling cowards) "b-b-but WDYMP, the hot tub isn't sentient, it can't give you a job!" Let's get one thing straight, if you had your hands over the edge of a hot tub and your partner was pushing your crotch into a jet stream, that would be a type of job. The solution, my compromise for the haters and losers, is what I would like to call the jetjob. It would be a normal jetjob if they're pushing you via hands on the buttox into a water jet, and a reverse jetjob if they're using their feet. It would be a backwards jetjob if your back is facing the water jet. This also expands the capacity for a combo jobs because your crotch is facing your partner. This would be the exciting introduction of the triple job if they're using a hand, their mouth, and the water jet. I propose that, upon climax in such a fashion, one would exclaim "Tic tac toe, three in a row!"
With this, let's get one thing clear, over the pants is a type of handjob the same way that over the condom sex is a type of sex. If we can start using the term jetjob, then it will be easier to recognize when something is a job and when something is not. This would also be a step closer to communism. Thank you. I hope I haven't fractured our fragile community too deeply with this.
Just want to take a second and say thank God I had Warcraft 3 instead of Roblox growing up.
I guess I was thinking that every business is basically a gambit where you take on as much debt as possible to trebuchet yourself into profitability hoping that an established company buys your out. If you have money to pay people it's by virtue of the debt-buyout cycle. Then you get wealthy by virtue of 6/10 of your dogshit ideas succeeding while 1 of them goes parabolic. Before that it's basically hard gambling on one idea surviving the chaos of business ownership.