Initially, yes. And then when it went wrong? They doubled down on it because they WANTED people to be desperate.

A famine in 1845 that was caused by...

"As someone who lived 5 years in ireland and saw the history its absolutely fucking horrible. If you think about it its kinda ironic. Uk occupies a country, controls everything there and commits a genocide. Israel is occupying a country, controls everything there and commits a genocide. By the way as a neurotypical who has autistic family members and friends, in this case what happened is that the irish potato famine got normalized over time but the genocide in gaza is a current event. Also the israel one is political. Third thing is most neurotypicals are pussies, if you spend time with neurodivergent people you realize that a lot of things they say are funny as fuck, even if its a bit raw sometimes."

That was by Altoothbrush in this topic, if you didn't see it.

I'm not Irish, nor do have an issue with Israelis. This whole issue just reeks of "casual dismissiveness" and I'm autistic myself so this hurts deep.

Because if they kill Palworld, that proves they are willing to cross that line and deserve to be destroyed, and they very clearly WANT to destroy Palworld.

If Nintendo actually wins this, I will - as someone who grew up with Pokémon - destroy them as a company. I will slander them into submission if I have to, fuck them if I can't even have a circus to go with my bread.

For some reason my first thought upon seeing this was "Reading Rainbow" and I'm not sure why because I was born in the early 90s.

As someone not familiar with all this, I think what's telling is that she says "sorry" yet plays the victim outright immediately afterwards. If you say "I'm sorry for what I did and I just hope he's sorry for what he did" then that says to me "I realize I screwed up, stop forgetting he screwed up too" then fine. But "I'm sorry" and then segueing into "he hurt me" without an acknowledgement of what you did? Clearly trying to deflect as much blame as possible. The worst part is she's probably doing it that way because the family lawyer advised her on what slander is. Fucking rich bitch flaunting her whiteness, and I say this as someone who looks as white as they come.

That said, a big help is that it doesn't seem like the black dude was spending his time since the incident with business as usual from what the event suggests. That's nothing on it's own, but it lends further credibility that the Karen has no ground to stand on.

My mom is this, cats love her and she doesn't mind too much even though she's allergic to them, but it does mean she can't pet them because cat hair gives her watery eyes, stuffed up nose and sneezes/coughing.

If not for that and that some cats pee on everything, I'd love to adopt a cat. They're basically a furry parent if they like you, that's why they sometimes try to bring you gifts (they think you're a kitten because you can't hunt).

I like to make sure other people's pets are comfy or happy when I visit someone or see someone walking their dog by taking notice and being nice, dogs and cats especially are usually happy to be noticed!

Tbh, this is me, and I totally get it; I have undersized sinuses so my sense of smell is sometimes less than it should be, and I prefer to not shower because I always feel like I'm freezing when I get out until I dry off. That said, I'm not trying to be disgusting, and actually appreciate if someone politely reminds me to shower because I'm too absentminded to remember to at least shower once a week and before going somewhere with a lot of people. I absolutely will get myself cleaned up if you ask nicely, I don't appreciate cigarette smoke myself partly because it stinks (I don't smoke and neither do any of my family, but unfortunately it's pretty common here for complete strangers to do so in front of doorways to stores) so I can understand if something about me smells gross and you need me to wash.

Interestingly, there's evidence that showering every day is actually too much and it should be twice/thrice a week (essentially every two days) instead. If I could meet that standard on my own, I would, and I'm thankful to be able to explain myself here even if no relevant person will ever see it.

Thanks to OP for this green text. Sometimes people do need it bluntly, I became a better person overall in 2015 because someone who did care about me pointed out some things I'd done that were hurting the people around me in subtle ways.

Okay, is it just me or is the total global revenue for physical media music less than $2 USD a year? I must be reading it wrong.

This. Didn't even use my Pixel 8 (then brand-new) until Grapheme OS was available for it (my Pixel 7 Pro got damaged beyond repair in an incident, not happy but though I expect privacy I don't expect a phone to survive ~20G of force) because fuck Google.

There's an interesting little game called Insignificant I've been keeping an eye on for a while that does a similar thing if not as graphically-rich. There's also Smalland and Moss.

The "core game" is, oddly enough, obsolete. The main "mod" you'll want is a Patch Pack, specifically JGR's Patch Pack: https://github.com/JGRennison/OpenTTD-patches/releases

Don't worry too much about "OpenTTD-patches", this isn't just one patch like the ones where you'd have to compile patches into a nightly version yourself and all that crap. JGRPP is pre-compiled and is basically THE new standard version for anyone who knows it exists, as it's regularly being updated with new features and not just bug fixes yet you can turn off nearly any feature that gets added.

JGR's a pretty cool guy as long as your reasonable with him, unlike certain other members of the community-

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-as I was saying, other than that you'll want to look for a list of currently-maintained AI scripts ("NoAI", which just means that the original TTD AI was gutted and replaced by interchangable AIs), as well as maybe pick a game script (GS), and make sure to pick up the following as "modded content" (NewGRFs, or GRFs for short)...

• At least one road infrastructure set which makes use of NRT (NotRoadTypes, so named because every time someone tried to implement roadtypes before then, it was quickly abandoned, almost as if the concept was cursed) for both roadtypes AND tramtypes. Despite a disagreement with Ufiby, I recommend his U&RaTT Mini, which is available from the in-game content store and is very well-made, along with Quast65's Metro Trams and Quast65's Roads, which are also awesome. Keep in mind that you only have 62 roadtypes and that includes both roads and trams with trolleybus roads and unelectrified light rail being separate from regular roads and electrified light rail. If you combine GRFs you can very quickly run out of roadtype slots.
• At least one railtype set, that is, rail graphics that make use of the railtypes feature. This is more complicated, but only because there's a lot of choices and you can combine sets in larger numbers but they'll often override each other. I recommend Ufiby's U&ReRMM.
• You can use it in conjunction with MTS (Maglev Track Set, also on the in-game content downloader) + MMS (Modern Maglev Set) and FRIMS (Future Reality-Inspired Maglev Set
• As well as the Early Rail Set + the Recycled Tracktype Set (available on the in-game content downloader).
• Not to mention the VacTrain Fork and the VacTrain Set (these ones are on the in-game content downloader, too).