I had to stop playing BioShock because of how the Little Sisters react to being “saved.” I can’t do it. I want to love this game and get through the story but when they start saying, no, no. No no no “ I just can’t.

Musk is an immigrant and he’s in the Trump-Epstein files.

Been in the situation. Wasn’t asked to join. To be fair, the guy was my brother. His girlfriend was an exhibitionist and insisted upon it. I wasn’t a willing viewer/listener but whatever. Doesn’t really bother me that much. What’s wild is she apparently insisted on doing the same thing with her brother. I mean with my brother, but with her brother watching/listening. Yeah, that chick was something else. I feel like I coulda got a piece if I wanted. Like she might have been cool with me joining in. But my brother wouldn’t have been and I’m not gonna do my bro like that.

I thought he only watched the racist one.

Ad wasn’t played in all markets. Local affiliates were able to cover it up with local ads.

A Link to the Past

#TechnicallyTheTruth

Haven’t seen it yet. Watching live. Probably got covered up by one of the local ads…

The game is surprisingly relevant in 2026. And the remake just came to Xbox. And had this line.

First website I visited was altavista.digital.com. It was a search engine that didn’t even have its own site. My first search was for Metallica, my favorite band at the time.

The company that makes the cameras (Axon, they also make tasers) has a whole web service for sharing the cam videos. So it’s already going to computers that can run facial recognition. I mean, that exists now. Of course more data means more protesters profiled.

That’s the idea. That or convince fence sitters to not vote.

iPhone has live updates via the Dynamic Island; I know there’s gotta be a similar thing on Android. My wife’s S22 simulates the Dynamic Island for some things, like music and navigation. It’s actually really cool. I use it for season games for my teams I follow. I watch the Super Bowl though. Or rather I give it a fraction of my attention. ADHD and all that.

Weird. I never played that. Though I didn’t play every Fallout 4 mod. I heard about a Creation Club one where you got Enclave power armour, but I don’t think that’s the same thing. I was mainly waiting for Sim Settlements to get updated. Now that it is, I no longer have a gaming PC. My Mac can run Fallout 4 quite well, but the biggest hiccup is that we have to disable gore. Something about the way dismemberment works, it gets the translation engine (WINE or whatever) all messed up. I haven’t tried running it without disabling dismemberment. That, a mouse fix, and a sound fix is about all it takes. I did the first part, got to Concord without any issues, but called it a day at that point.

I can’t really speculate on what I don’t know about, but I would guess wanting the Enclave in Fallout 4 is push-back from Bethesda making you play nice for so long. Nuka-World let you be a bastard, sort of, but it wasn’t well thought out. They looked at the data Microsoft gave them on Fallout 3 achievements and decided most people wanted to play good based on that, so they took out most of the evil options. They were genuinely surprised by the backlash by people who wanted to play the bad guy. Even I, a chaotic good type player, wanted the raider gangs more fleshed out, and with the player able to work for them. There’s a terminal in, I think it’s the Corvega plant, maybe there’s one in that town Garvey’s group were based out of, to the southeast, near the player (DLC) vault, it talks about the various raider factions and their leaders, but that idea was never fleshed out. It would have been cool if taking out leaders weakened the factions (much like how the Xbox 360 game Crackdown worked) but it was never that deep. Anyway, I guess people just wanted an evil option.

Or they would say that the person should take any job, even if it would pay them so low that they can’t pay rent, keep the lights on, and feed themselves — in other words, effectively slavery.

That’s a fallacy. The argument that we need the rich to provide jobs implies we need the rich to provide meaningful jobs that allow people to be self sufficient. If they’re actual job creators, the benefit is that they’re lifting others up. Maybe not as high as they are, but they are benefiting society. If they fail to do that, the argument that the rich create jobs carries no weight.

Sounds like they were wrong, and since the Trump-Epstein files have been released, they have new leads to investigate. Bring that their name stands for Federal Bureau of Investigation, after all.

Because there weren’t Enclave in New Vegas or 4? And they’re the worst villain so I guess we want more Enclave?

I don’t really care either way.

Of course I’m aware the first two games exist, but turn based strategy isn’t my bag. I played a little of both when they were new, but I couldn’t get into them. Not for a lack of trying though.

Always has been.

And in case you didn’t notice, so is social media. Facebook is training AI to flirt with children. Twitter is using GenAI to undress women and children. Reddit is banning people for saying paedophiles should face stricter sentences because apparently they’re a protected class now.

I’d agree to a point but I’d point out they’re doing a piss poor job of it. The ruling class is at its best in decades and we have unemployment? Fucking why? Compel them to answer that and then you can begin hammering out the finer points. So basically if the rich provide for the poor by slowing the poor to work and provide for their families, then why the fuck is employment and home ownership down so much?

You ask them that.

Fallout 3 tracks for a couple reasons. I was gonna object to it, because for me the canon ending is when you activate the water purifier and clean the Potomac river, giving free clean water to the Wasteland. However, the evil ending is to add the Enclave’s FEV (Forced Evolution Virus) to the purifier, which kills any mutant, ghoul, mutated creature, and a lot of humans who have invisible impurities. The Enclave is basically the ultra conservatives.

There is also a slaver faction you can join. You will need to enslave (or kill) their first target, a sniper called Arkansas, in order to get in, and there’s an achievement tied into doing so (collecting all the Bobbleheads, the slaver leader has the one that increases your bartering skill or charisma, I forget which, and you can freely take it and any of them without offending anyone). Getting past Arkansas in any way is also tied to a major side quest, so you’ll want to deal with him one way or another. (You can also just run through the area he’s sniping, but you also have to watch out for landmines.) Anyway, once you enslave all four of the people they want you to, the leader tells you he has a very particular client and he wants the youngest girl you can find. You find her in a town where turning 12 (or 13?) means you’re exiled, so it’s a town of children. The youngest girl is called Bumble, and she trusts you immediately. It’s implied that the client is a Trump/Epstein type but it’s never spelled out, and a few fans deny that’s what’s going on (e.g. “maybe they want her small hands to work on electronics”) but the whole thing feels extremely perverted.

The game also deals with themes of racism and bigotry, mostly to non-feral ghouls (people affected by radiation and mutated). There’s a quest where you find an apartment tower besieged by non-feral ghouls who just want a safe place to stay, but the people inside don’t want ghouls as neighbors, so they hire you to kill all the ghouls. If you do so, the wasteland’s talk radio DJ, Three Dog, will hound you about it for the rest of the game. The alternative is to disable security and let the ghouls take the place by force. This will also get you on Three Dog’s shit list (as it should). There’s a way to broker a peace by appealing to the merchants of the faction, and this seems like a good ending… until the ghouls just kill the residents anyway, and guess who Three Dog blames for it. Yep, you’re the asshole no matter what you do, unless you ignore the quest entirely. (You will need to go in for one of those bobbleheads, though. One of the merchants has one.) Fun fact, also related to this place. The first town you come to, Megaton, has an undetonated atomic bomb in the middle of town. An emissary of the leader of the human/merchant faction wants you to detonate the bomb. This gives you a penthouse in their tower. He also has a quest where he wants you to assassinate several non-feral ghouls, but to satisfy him, you have to shoot them in the head.

If you’re a conservative, there’s a lot to love about Fallout 3.

It’s still one of my favourite games, as a progressive.

Doesn’t load on Mlem for iOS.

AV1 is a weird format. I can play it on my Mac. I can play it on my iPhone in OutPlayer (like VLC but better, like you can have folders). But I don’t think any Apple products feature hardware decoding of it. It can be played though.