it's like they read Crichton and thought "ooooh these are all fantastic ideas....lets ignore the Compys eating the little girl alive and do the rest."
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so essentially Colossal is InGen.
what's happening is our current system right now is in the process of failing. it's dying, it didn't work and it can no longer sustain itself. Someone once said something along the lines of "When the current system fails, the next one will consist of whatever ideas are left"
So what ideas are left? the ideas of the far right, just like far right ideas are ALWAYS left when a system is about to die. So all these governments, all these wealthy individuals, all these people that have the most to gain are are going start backing the new up coming system. We're seeing it in real time.
But this has happened time and time again. We're a collectively dumb species and love watching repeats. it's always the same song and dance "well lets go this way, sure it didn't work out last time but I don't believe it'll happen to us THIS time".
So it's not so much "what the fuck is this timeline" but rather "well it's our generations turn for bullshit". And it always skips a generation. So the boomers didn't experience it, but their parents did, and now it's our turn. Hopefully our children or our Kids children will be smarter than boomers but...we as humans sure do love watching reruns.
soon? it always has been. Does no one remember the whole CDO shit? buying insurance on bullshit loans or packaged loans/debts of quite literally shit? no one knew what the fuck was in those things, literally no one. The rating agencies would rate these things and have no fucking clue what the hell they were. They handed loans out like halloween candy to Americans just to get more shit into these things.
the US Market has been fraudulent for decades.
Tin foil hat time but I said last year on Mastodon that the reason EA was killing games like Apex and Battlefield for Linux was that soon Microsoft was going to announce their own handheld and EA has close ties with MS due to EA Play on Gamepass for example. Sure enough less than a year later Microsoft announces their Xbox Handheld with Asus and guess which games will work on that.
Basically it'll be "you want to play Madden and Battlefield on a handheld? well don't buy the SteamDeck, get this Xbox Handheld instead!"
you can still play BF3 and 4 with some work arounds. Liam (guy's site that this article is from) posted the other week on his site how to get 3 and 4 working. nothing major at all just a couple extra steps to get it going which is no biggie if you're on linux, you're used to the extra steps.
it's funny cause just the other week I found out you can still play 3 and 4 on Linux so I was like "oh perfect! I do miss me some battlefield" I load up steam and see BF1, BFV, BF2042 but I could have sworn I also owned 3 and 4 and I do.....on Origin.
expect a lot more of the "ostrich syndrome" from this admin. Can't tell your glorious leader the bad news otherwise you'll lose your job OR eventually, soon, they'll just send you either to florida or the nearest tallest window they can find.
really? that's interesting because yeah when I lived in Tucson they were huge.
Thank you, appreciate the answer.
yes when I installed Arch a week later a pair of stockings showed up in the mail oddly enough.
ok I'm going to TRY to explain his thinking but I'm likely going to come off as racist trying to explain it.
What he's saying is there are those who earned their wealth via hard work and all that other bullshit and others that just got it handed to them or give off the impression that they're insanely wealthy when "they're not".
this is what he likely means when he says "n-word rich". Because this morons impression of wealth in the Black community is via watching music videos and watching reality TV. He's watched way too many youtube vids about such and such Black music artist or athlete who wears all this "bling" has all these cars and a huge mansion with nothing in it but meanwhile said person is broke. that's what he means by "n-word rich".
he could have just said "The problem is the majority of billionaires aren't actually billionaires. They just think they are."