GraniteM @ GraniteM @lemmy.world

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If 800,000 government workers go on strike just for starters, with who knows how many more in other fields striking in solidarity, there won't be enough cops in the world to make them all to back to work.

You know what I miss? The Ultimate Alliance games from the PS2 era. Isometric view. Build a four-person team of Marvel characters. Some team combinations grant group buffs, like having all four members of the Fantastic Four will increase your XP gain. Equip your characters. Pick from an array of comic canon costumes, each with their own abilities. Some combinations of equipment or costumes will also grant bonuses like having everyone wear their Age of Apocalypse costume.

The whole thing is an action RPG where you play through some big comic book crisis. Lots of opportunity for villain and hero interaction. Cool cinematics.

It's a rock-solid platform, but I don't feel like I see it used nearly enough. I remember playing an Ultimate Alliance on 360 and it just wasn't as good; smaller roster, fewer costumes, less interesting in general, despite the better graphics.

I vaguely recall hearing something about one on the Switch and that Midnight Sons was a bit similar... but then again I don't recall hearing much else about those games except for their existence, so they can't have done very well.

I only just learned about it today, myself. I work that day, but I might be able to shift things around.

I really wish that these protests were more widely shared in advance. I want to be involved, but only getting a couple of days advance warning makes it really hard. I know that sometimes you have to act fast, but if you want your movement to succeed then you've got to try to consider the real lives of all of the people who want to help, but are also really limited in their time. Plan protests on weekends, and if you've got to protest on a weekday, then plan it way ahead of time and give everyone a chance to plan to be there. I'm sure it looks better to have one big protest with 10X people there than ten protests with 1X people attending.

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion...

...or whatever. Fuck it, it's probably some really obscure subsection way down in the legal code.

How does this hold up against a first amendment test?

I shall endeavor to be gracious in my victory.

This is the really real world!

83 people died. If a proportionate number had died in the United States, he'd have killed 129,348 people.

I honestly think it might be even stupider than that.

Heroes of Might and Magic III, PC

It's a ghost costume!

You ever find yourself acting out a fucked up allegorical image in real life as part of your day job?

What OS are you using? I was trying to use my Anbernic with wireless controllers, but the default OS keeps forgetting the mapping on the controllers every time I switch to a different game and it was impractical to have to keep remapping them over and over.

Mmmm! That is a tasty burger!

!Pulp Fiction!<

!Prompt: Cinematic low angle closeup of a middle-aged black man with Jerry curl hairstyle mustache and sideburns wearing a black suit white shirt and black tie standing in a crummy apartment eating biting a hamburger while looking down and to the right with an intense menacing confident look on his face Warm, Saturated Tones !<

Proverbs 26:18-19

Like a madman who throws firebrands, arrows, and death,

Is the man who deceives his neighbor, And says, “I was only joking!”

I also would like the answer to this question.

The Six Million Dollar Man first aired in March, 1973.

The online inflation calculator says that's equivalent to $43,732,794.46 in December, 2024 dollars.

Now the question becomes does $1 human = $7 dog, or is it $1 dog = $7 human?

There are people who, disturbed by "big government" today and its tendency to curb the advantages they might gain if their competitiveness were allowed free flow, demand "less govern- ment." Alas, there is no such thing as less government, merely changes in government. If the libertarians had their way, the distant bureaucracy would vanish and the local bully would be in charge. Personally, I prefer the distant bureaucracy, which may not find me, over the local bully, who certainly will. And all historical precedent shows a change to localism to be for the worse.

—Nice Guys Finish First, collected in The Sun Shines Bright, 1981

Oh my God, what if they cashed them all at once and emptied out America's checking account.

My theory, at least for purposes of The Terminator, is that after Judgment Day, there were some human holdouts in Austria who sent troops to help fight Skynet, so that's why an Austrian accent would be assigned to an infiltration unit.

I have nothing to say about Terminator 3. That was like three or four timeline modifications later. There's bound to be some reality degradation.