Water is wet and this is just beating a dead horse. I’ve seen this same topic covered again and again and again.

Isn’t there anything more relevant to talk about? isn’t this supposed to be an election year?

I feel like some people may be mentally damaged or simply lack critical thinking skills. Business is business and this entity obviously already has no qualms doing business with dumpy.

You get a bond like this contingent on other assets existing plus a fee. He owns real estate. This arrangement lets you leverage the equity in that real estate for a fee while someone else’s cash on hand is used. Let’s be realistic too, there’s next to no way he’s going to pay the full damages because most sane people wouldn’t think any amount of defamation is worth $83m+

Let’s pretend worse case scenario happens for dumpy and the 83m judgment is sustained and he exhausts all appeals and has to pay all parties for all damages based on all current lawsuits against him… unless he declares bankruptcy and truly loses it all - a thing that seems to have no hope of ever happening given none of the suits are for more money than he controls in assets… it’s all but guaranteed a signed contract will be enforceable should dumpy choose to not pay.

Ultimately it’s a secured debt. We’ll never know what the terms were from chubb corp.

The RNC is already gearing up to pay for him. Rob the uneducated masses (remember, we’re talking republicans here!) and pay the wealthy orange dude for his past actions before he was president, let’s go!

I wish someone in the audience had the balls to ask, “when you say Republicans, are you talking about liberals or conservatives?”

Even if you got them to ask this, they’d immediately get defensive because liberal is a bad word to them simply because it means having something in common with the opposition party to them. The true meaning is lost once you get into a public political context today. Just more manipulation of language to suit keeping public opinion of their voters being on their side after consultants or analysts figure out what engages people the most.

Also after reading about this guy on wikipedia, he seems like a real piece of work. Not too surprising since you’re required to master doublespeak in all political and leadership roles to be successful today.

tax on unrealized gains based on the tax year those gains happen, same with losses.

Big win one year? awesome! pay taxes!

big loss next year? bummer! no taxes if you only lost money… but no carrying that shit over.

Imagine all that money which would have FLOODED the economy post-covid while people were poor as shit that would have wiped out the national debt which in no small part was from handouts to the ‘welfare kings’ with businesses that pocketed tons of free cash from dumpy’s bailouts in covid times. Full circle could have been nice.

Instead we just get f’d.

“because in those days we had people who fought for real social change, and they were called Republicans.”

This room full of women was quiet as he spoke, though a faint “That’s right” could be heard when Robinson later said Republicans ended Jim Crow laws.

There’s a non-outrage-inducing non-headline grabbing logic here that is him saying he wishes republicans were more liberal

It’s very different from saying “I don’t think women should be allowed to vote”

If the masses can’t distinguish between these two concepts (they certainly cannot) then it is what it is. Pillory the guy, I don’t give an F, I wouldn’t have voted a republican in to a leadership position anyway due to the party’s policies and issues that are systemic.

Haley beat Trump in DC and VT

Bastions of republican electoral votes to be sure.

Trump also repeatedly claimed that if he were president, there would be no war between Israel and Gaza. “It would have never happened if I was president,” he said of Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack against Israel, in which more than 1,100 Israeli and foreign nationals were killed. “They wouldn’t have done it to me, I guarantee you that. They did this because they have no respect for Biden and frankly they got soft,” he added.

uh huh

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Palestinian_rocket_attacks_on_Israel_in_2017 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Palestinian_rocket_attacks_on_Israel_in_2018

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_airborne_arson_attacks

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Palestinian_rocket_attacks_on_Israel_in_2019 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Palestinian_rocket_attacks_on_Israel_in_2020

They would never have done it if he was president. They only attacked because of biden.

Opencritic average 89. It incorporates some bleeding edge visual technologies but imo visuals a good game does not make.

If you look at screens without said visuals though the game looks pretty sad.

For the nominations though I don’t know which it would win. It won’t get GOTY or best story against bg3. Best Art Direction would be tough against a game like Hi-Fi Rush, as would Audio Design / Score+Music.

I thought it was a pretty good year for gaming but a lot of the games i’ve found to be amazing aren’t even on the list. Seems like big names and big publishers only.

The problem wouldn’t be the studio making it, it would be the monetization imposed on every facet of it. Any possible add-on would be dlc or part of a subscription. They wouldn’t even allow them to do significant free updates unless it was tied to a paid product or hefty subscription fee.

I don’t really want Larian getting looped into being a WotC shill. I hope they stay independent and keep on making the best games they can make. Single player or small party story games never get old.

DNDBeyond is just another bullshit live service with subscriptions in perpetuity.