When you say “the government barely works” this kind of shit is why. You can’t have less taxes, less federal workers, and a better more capable government. This is why the GOP isn’t good for the economy in the long run. They do what most shitty ceo’s do. Cut costs, cut jobs, demand more work for less money, and ruin the long term prospects of the govt at large. Doesn’t matter to them though, they can point at marginally lower costs for that fiscal quarter and idiots clap for them.

I’ve been using it in beta a couple weeks now, it only saves like an hour with how I have it set up. It works pretty well, you can change the quality and stuff on exporting a clip, and it makes it easier to share dumb shit that just happened in my game to my friends I’m talking with. I like it :)

“Culture war” and “woke” is just code for “won’t let me be an unmitigated shithead and that hurts my fee fees”

I put the foil in larger squares to fit under the silver metal tubes used as offsets for the heated bed. I’m not sure if foil under the pei will work, my worry would be making the bed uneven vs just adjusting the position. I just remember getting under the silver tube things was a massive pain in the ass so I do hope the pei sheet idea works tho lol

Is this the one that doesn’t have adjustable bed springs? I had a bed that wouldn’t level on the neptune pro with no adjustable springs and software couldn’t compensate outside of small prints.

I had to take the bed apart partially and use little shims (in my case tinfoil) to even the bed to the point where mesh leveling could handle the remaining flaws.

Legalize drug awareness street signs!

I would say put some Kamala Walz signs in his yard to fuck with him, but he seems like the kind of guy to shoot you for using the end of his driveway to make a 3 point turn so…

Glass also doesn’t turn a shade of burnt orange after you put leftover spaghetti in it so that’s nice :)

Execution shouldn’t be an option. At least with life in prison you can release a person if you fucked up, with significant financial compensation for their time in prison. You can’t un-execute a person. The state isn’t competent enough to be given such power. Nobody is.

“tried” I’m guessing they noticed :p

Sometimes, you’re chosen to be an unwitting agent of karma.

Other times, you volunteer.

Send me your steam friend code, as far as I can tell I can invite any steam friend, with no limits on numbers. Dunno how long the playtest is running, but they usually do half the day live, and half with matchmaking shut down for patching stuff.

Yarr harr fiddle dee dee!

Yeah that’s a fair point. I was mistaken thinking it was an actual eula they bypassed because valve didn’t make it so you couldn’t just close it, but it’s not in any way legally enforceable. I thought at least it was one of those grey “technically correct but obviously an unintended loophole” kind of things, but they literally just said “pls don’t tell”. I’m mostly thinking that risking the connections you might have to valve aren’t worth a scoop on a game still in what seems to be alpha or closed beta, but if I were valve I really don’t think they can be that mad, everything the verge did was basically fair game if they were fine with a game ban.

I guess when I think of public interest I think of stuff like reddit selling user data without consent, or games using manipulative tactics. It’s hard to feel like it makes sense to be aggressive with something as benign as “game we don’t know much about yet, smells of dota/moba” But then again I’m not a game journalist, and I stand corrected.

Yeah, gaylord_fartmaster let me know. I thought the message was one of those “scroll down and click agree on this eula” things but its just a pop up box, so it’s def not enforceable.

Oh ok, I must’ve misread the article, thanks for clarifying :)

A bit of the eula says not to share info about the game, but you can literally back out without accepting the eula, and still play. So I don’t know if I’d call it intentional, but there’s definitely no legal reason they can’t post whatever they want. They just got banned for it and might have damaged their relationship with valve somewhat. Depends on how much valve cares tho.

Edit: it wasnt even a eula apparently, just a “pls dont tell people ok?” Pop up. Thanks to the folks clarifying <3

This isn’t some grand conspiracy it’s a closed beta for a video game. It’s pretty normal to have an NDA or embargo agreement to get access. It sounds like valve just goofed the implementation. So yeah it’s totally legal for them to post it, valve just might avoid giving them early copies in the future.

So apparently they had a bit asking players to not share info about the game, but you could technically back out of it without agreeing so legally they can post whatever they want. It feels like a case of “this is legal to do but maybe kinda shitty and valve might be upset”. Basically the agreement was informal and not enforceable and the verge just said fuck it. They did get banned afterwards, but I think that and not working with them in the future is all valve can do.

Edit: didn’t even require agreement, so honestly it’s kinda fair game. I was a bit hostile calling it shitty, I felt like it was a loophole or something but it’s more Valve just saying “hey pls don’t” and the verge replying “no thanks”, and eating the game ban since that’s all valve can really do.

It’s not like I make or save a lot of money from it, but as a hobby it’s been amazingly fun. Getting into basic 3D modeling has been really cool too, nothing quite hits like making something entirely unique and designed for a specific purpose, then watching your printer just crank it out in a day or two and your imagined thing is all the sudden real.

I’m sure other hobbies can do that too, but for me it was a really awesome feeling :)