mysticpickle

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[–] mysticpickle@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 hours ago

The only game I've ever pre-ordered was FF3/6 but that was because you needed a physical cartridge in limited supply to play it back then.

Preordering a game you can download digitally is the height of stupidity unless you specifically want to give an interest free loan to a creator you really want to support

[–] mysticpickle@lemmy.ca 7 points 8 hours ago

Please don't buy it and let the thieves at ZA/UM profit off the game they stole from the original creators. Pirate it instead as the creators have encouraged.

https://wiki.dbzer0.com/piracy/megathread/

[–] mysticpickle@lemmy.ca 5 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

Most of them voted for a government that doesn't care so...

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[–] mysticpickle@lemmy.ca 37 points 11 hours ago (9 children)

Affected states:

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It's almost like divine punishment or something

[–] mysticpickle@lemmy.ca 44 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Shouldn't be spending money on this game anyways. The original creatives behind the game got screwed by some suit that currently runs ZA/UM. The creators have actively encouraged people to pirate the game as to deny the thieves running the company any ill-gotten profits.

https://youtu.be/k7Xu4GvpN9U

 

https://www.twz.com/sea/what-we-know-about-the-trump-class-battleship

Trump says the goal now is to build at least two of these vessels, the first of which will be named USS Defiant

Feels bad mane.

[–] mysticpickle@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Gravitational forces from the much heavier pulsar are pulling the Jupiter-mass planet into a bizarre lemon shape.

A Jupiter-mass planet is considered pretty damn big with an incredibly strong gravitational field. Planets that are about 13 times bigger than Jupiter are considered brown dwarves which are just a few steps away from being full on stars.

[–] mysticpickle@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 days ago (3 children)

The planet orbits a star that's completely bizarre — the mass of the Sun, but the size of a city,” said the University of Chicago’s Michael Zhang, the principal investigator on this study. “This is a new type of planet atmosphere that nobody has ever seen before. Instead of finding the normal molecules we expect to see on an exoplanet — like water, methane, and carbon dioxide — we saw molecular carbon, specifically C3 and C2.”

Molecular carbon is very unusual because at these temperatures, if there are any other types of atoms in the atmosphere, carbon will bind to them. (Temperatures on the planet range from 1,200 degrees Fahrenheit at the coldest points of the night side to 3,700 degrees Fahrenheit at the hottest points of the day side.) Molecular carbon is only dominant if there's almost no oxygen or nitrogen. Out of the approximately 150 planets that astronomers have studied inside and outside the solar system, no others have any detectable molecular carbon.

Pretty much any element can enter a gaseous state under the right conditions. It hot AF in there and the carbon has nothing to react with since the only other predominant element is Helium which is about as unreactive as you're gonna get.

[–] mysticpickle@lemmy.ca 4 points 5 days ago

I mean they got to give the other games a chance at winning something this year 😁

[–] mysticpickle@lemmy.ca 28 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] mysticpickle@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

This well and good but doesn't change the fact that Newsom is a slimeball political opportunist. I'd prefer to not give him the attention.

[–] mysticpickle@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

This kinda shit is what's gonna happen if they ever take over Taiwan 😬

[–] mysticpickle@lemmy.ca 45 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Just a reminder of what China wants to turn Taiwan into.

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Expedition 33 coronation as expected.

Thing that surprised me the most was Wuthering Waves for Players Choice Award over Expedition 33, Dispatch, Silksong, Death Stranding, Ghost of Yotei, and KCD2. Literal complete stable of awesome games across genres lost out to a gatcha game. Are there just more gooner gamers than I thought? 🤔

Mega-hyped for Total War: Warhammer 40k

Flute guy killed it as usual!

What are your thoughts on the awards and show overall?

 

I'd post this this in a vegan community but I got bant for saying cats shouldn't be given a vegan diet 😬

 

Trump launched into a pair of vicious and increasingly racist rants against Somalia and Somali Americans this week, first at a Cabinet meeting on Tuesday and then during an Oval Office photo op on Wednesday. He called Somali migrants “garbage” and said they should “go back to where they came,”

WHITNEY WILD: How did it make you feel when you heard the president say that?

MOHAMED AHMED: I got five children. My children are not garbage!

WHITNEY WILD: What would you say to the president if he were standing here right now?

MOHAMED AHMED: Mr President, we campaigned for you. We have hope in you. We see hope in you. Please differentiate between good, bad and evil.

 
 

A rural medical clinic in Nebraska — located in a district that President Donald Trump won by more than 50 points in the 2024 election — is being forced to close its doors, with its CEO citing federal cuts to Medicaid as the main reason behind the shutdown.

The closure comes just days after Republicans pushed through the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, a sweeping tax cuts and spending package that includes deep reductions to Medicaid. The bill passed in the House by a 218-214 vote, with every Democrat and two Republicans opposing it. Trump is expected to sign it into law on July 4.

The legislation aims to fulfill Trump’s signature campaign promises — including making permanent the tax cuts that overwhelmingly benefit wealthy Americans and ramping up funding for immigration enforcement. To offset those costs, the bill imposes large spending cuts on Medicaid and food assistance programs, which critics argue will devastate working-class, low-income, and elderly Americans — particularly those in rural red states.

Community Hospital, based in McCook, Nebraska, announced this week that it will shut down its rural clinic in Curtis, a town of about 900 residents.

“Unfortunately, the current financial environment, driven by anticipated federal budget cuts to Medicaid, has made it impossible for us to continue operating all of our services, many of which have faced significant financial challenges for years,” said Community Hospital CEO Troy Bruntz in a statement on Wednesday.

 

One is Michael Lyras, a 44-year-old American, who lives in Volusia County, near Orlando, in central Florida. Lyras studied addiction counseling in college but is currently disabled and receiving food stamps. He voted for Trump “all three times” but says he is upset with the way things are going: “I regret my last vote enormously,” he says.

“It was necessary to make changes, but not in this way, sacrificing our civil rights and liberties that are enshrined in our Constitution,” Lyras adds. “He [Trump] is turning this into a police state and he’s acting like an authoritarian. I didn’t vote for any of this”

 

Vivek Ramaswamy, the former presidential candidate running as a Republican for governor of Ohio, posted a Halloween photo of himself and his two sons on Friday. The post received a wave of xenophobic and racist replies, including one user who wrote, “I see this year Vivek went as an H1B immigrant here to steal your jobs. Very scary. Like the brown version of the Grinch.”

 
 
 

Cho said at the meeting that South Koreans were “hurt and shocked” by the arrest of fellow citizens “who came to the U.S. to transfer technology and knowhow to contribute to the Trump administration’s efforts to revive the U.S. manufacturing industry”.

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