Buying their gosdachas. Their socialism-bought luxury retreats.

That would seem like an awful idea that would be a dangerous security risk to the fighter.

So they probably did it anyway.

This literally absurd take is compounded in stupidity with the fact they acknowledge they’re being pieces of shit and opt not to change.

IIRC from interviews that the uniforms remained generally uncomfortable. They were very stiff, and led to the famous “Picard Maneuver.” Sirtis’ uniform was changed to get rid of the dated “Cosmic Cheerleader” outfit. IMO her character’s early uniform was more in line with ToS’s making women on the Enterprise more “hot chick” than officer.

I have listened to several of his interviews. That’s why I even bother to indicate I appreciate his take. Pardon me if I treat someone with skepticism riding heavily on a platform that is at minimum rehotorically religious stating they believe in separation of church and State.

That’s not it.

It’s how they’ll:

Charge more for the service whenever they feel like it.

You have to subscribe to each gaming service separately if you want access to their games. Just like Netflix or Prime Video, except there’s no way to sail the high seas for these games as they’ll all be cloud based.

Unbundle your access – you now get unlimited hours for one game or pay more for all games with top tier, pay for every DLC unless you pay for top tier, etc.

Pay for skins, upgrades, mods, your “own” server, the ability to record yourself playing for your social media, voice chat…

Pay for top tier lobbies so you load in faster.

Pay for the best maps.

And of course the service will enshittify. Dropped and slow connections, shittier game quality, glitches and exploits go unpatched, etc.

The ability to exploit and extort gamers is almost endless once they take away our PCs and consoles.

Ok, I see your point. It is a fine line. But I’m trying to make the distinction here that Talarico’s popularity is in a large part because of his vocal religious take. I firmly believe in separating church and State, and just because I agree with what one “church” is saying doesn’t mean we should invite the devil in the door yet again.

Wouldn’t that be something?

But that’s not what I said. I said keep your religion outta my government. I didn’t say you couldn’t have religion.

Talarico seems to have his shit together. That said, keep your religion the fuck outta government. It’s fine pointing out the religious hypocrisy and charlatans in politics, but opening the door to religion, even if the individual is agreeable, is a bad idea.

These rich fucks would complain if you were left nothing but dirt to eat and got an extra grub in a mouthful.

A feature, not a bug. If you never find it you spend more time trying to find it and therefore see more of what they want you to see.

Extra mistakes in blue states I’m sure.

There will be parents that give a shit about how their kids learn to learn, and there will be others that dgaf, or at least bot enough of one, to keep their kids from just mashing the easy button and using “cheats” like AI. Unfortunately plenty of the latter will get management positions.

He’s not going to bite the hands that come to his expensive speaking event dinners.

You’re asking a lot of an already uncaring system. 10% can do plenty of damage.

I’m sure there’s ways around that. Different cards, PO boxes, email addresses, names. Even if they had only 4 ways of buying that’s still almost 30 buys a week times however many scalpers there are.

old

Entrenched

Serving their corporate masters

Playing power games to keep their jobs

Losing so the republicans win

“Old” is a symptom of being good at the above, not the actual problem.

Strongly worded words and slightly raised voices that won’t even rustle the leaves in a potted plant.

Then scalpers would buy them and jack the price up.

This. If someone’s been here tor years and been a contributer I don’t think the 2-post limit should apply.