Yep, lets go check on the DXY again...
Yep, going down, again.
https://www.marketwatch.com/investing/index/dxy
Down from about 110.2 at about the inauguration, to about 98.3 right now.
Or, Trump has devalued the USD against the other currencies it actually trades against, by about 10.3% in just over 6 months.
Don't get me wrong, Vance is evil...
But this is yet another thing that shows that he actually is among the most intelligent of this clown car of an administration.
He's smart enough to know that whining about a crude joke at his expense is very petty and projects patheticness.
See, he's better at keeping his mask on, his face from sliding off, than Noem is.
Noem's mask is slipping, face melting away just actually in realtime, barely even a metaphor at this point, she is so stupid she doesn't even realize her response was predicted, and is now thus meta-self referential.
Idiot bullies are very easy to trigger when they can't just immediately inflict pain on you as a response, goddamnit this is all so fucking stupid.
It was always projection, they have always been incompetent, corrupt, hateful cowards.
Fascists, but I repeat myself.
Well guess who's gonna be in the next episode now, evil perma-drunk racist grandpa who either can't figure out how dentures work or has CTE?
12 seriously injured, 1 dead, after lightshow mishap at Hatsune Miku concert causes epileptic seizures and blindness amongst concert-goers
Also godfucking damnit, DX Invisible War kind of predicted both parasocial online relstionships / AI girlfriends and AI celebrities with how NG Resonance is portrayed.
People go to her terminals, pay money, and ... they use her like a confessional booth, ask her for relationship advice, express their love for her, etc.
('She' is also directly and immediately submitting all interactions to relevant companies and governments for marketing and law enforcement purposes)
No, the aliens obviously taught them how to make the sleds, lol.
Well uh, TF|2, with old school... emulated, just pick a server and join it from a browser... doesn't have any matchmaking.
It can be played as or with a squad, and you'll probably do better, but it doesn't have to be done.
Also,... you may wanna just check out Squad, the game.
Basically, started as Project Reality for BF2, evolved into its whole own game, is much, much more focused on realism and teamwork, has a generally friendly community, literally is just a refinement or maybe a 'realism oriented' take on Battlefield's gameplay.
Also has an old school server browser.
I think it tracks your global stats, but... I don't think they really do anything? Beyond bragging rights?
Also, not sure if it works or can be made to work on a Steam Deck / Linux... also also, they're focusing right now on migrating from UE4 to UE5, and from what I hear, the UE5 version is probably gonna need some more time in the oven for bug fixes, but the old UE4 version is solid.
See this man? Yeah, he picked the GEP Gun.
I made this one a while back:
Minor nitpick:
It's just onus, no h. English is inconsistent.
Herb, lol.
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But anyway... so, this has yet to go to court.
If Valve just... does their own intepretation, unbans some games, Visa and MC can just say welp you violated the partner rules, no more payments for you.
Now, Valve has to do a prolonged legal battle to prove wrongful termination of contract ... while also having their money printing machine offline.
And also, all that would do is possibly award them compensatory damages.
A court cannot compel a business transaction (an ongoing partnership) or partnership anywhere near as much as it can compel people, corporations have more rights than people.
If it could, well then we have turned the economy on its head, now judges run businesses, not CEOs.
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Maybe there is some kind of wrongful termination / non renewal of contract clause, but:
1 - I doubt it
2 - Well you'd be having lawyers argue the validity of that anyway.
Valve and MC + Visa both currently do not want to take this to an actual lawsuit because it would be extremely costly in financial / reputational terms for each of them.
Visa and MC and Valve would all massively lose financially if their agreements fell apart, Visa and MC and Valve as well could also suffer massive reputational damage depending on how exactly the public narrative forms around the lawsuit... and lawyers are quite expensive.
Nobody actually wants to pull the trigger, because its akin to a MAD scenario with nukes.
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That is why we are getting this weird tap unfolding basically PR war, where both sides are angling snd making essentislly veiled threats... but not actually seeming to do much beyond posturing.
This kind of shit happens all the time between corporations, its usually just that it stays internal to the involved companies, you read about it two decades later in an autobiography named 'My life as a corporate big shot' or whatever.
No, you found the guy with the postholer, who just quit, have fun working harder instead of smarter.
And it is the legal system that determines whether or not a contract has or has not been breached.
Just like it is also the legal system that determines whether or not a company is a harfmul monopoly.
Your opinion is one I agree with, but that isn't how things work, there has to be an official arbiter that agrees with or disagrees with that, and those arbiters are called courts, which are full of lawyers making arguments, and the best lawyers tend to cost the most money.
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Also... what, is Valve going to sue Visa and MC for... Visa and MC choosing not to do business with them?
There is no legal mechanism that forces Visa and MC to do business with Valve, that punishes Visa and MC should they choose not to.
This is like suing a person at a farmer's market for not buying an apple.
Or, that is roughly what Visa and MC's lawyers would argue.
I am still baffled that anyone thinks that Kernel AC is any kind of effective at stopping hacks, people have been literally making a living off of defeating it, and selling those hacks / methods for almost a decade now...
But nope, still got hordes of idiot gamers who think they work, think they're necessary, think they can't be spoofed.