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“Timhouthi Chalamet” was UNBANNED on Twitch
— yeet (@Awk20000) February 11, 2025
Apparently he streamed 21 days ago pic.twitter.com/C19Tb8qjRs
image of his two accounts, the second one he used to ban evade (which normally twitch
would
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even let you appeal after you ban evade lol)
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I know it's stupid to seriouspost about this kind of stuff on rDrama, but frick...
Oddly, November Rain isn't one of those songs, I think it actually makes me feel a bit better. But this is about as far as I can go with any music that refers to romantic themes right now... it just hurts too much. At least November Rain has some machismo to it. I feel like if I put on any Leonard Cohen or somesuch right now I'd just feel psychologically destroyed, the remains of my holding myself together ripped apart like shittily made ropes on a ship in a tempest.
Weird how a relationship that lasted for many months can just kind of evaporate in one night. Although I suppose if it does, maybe it's because it was already evaporating.
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Tulsi Gabbard now officially oversees and manages the entire US intelligence community. https://t.co/5ahm2XisNH
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) February 12, 2025
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Yea, like, I am not a fighter, but I’m also not stupid. “What if Donald Trump and the Republican Party decides they are kings” has one answer, and it is an obvious one
— Sean (@huckelcommasean.bsky.social) 2025-02-15T21:59:12.783Z
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So with new Dutch and Belgian laws, to release an online game you need to fill a lot of paperwork so smaller games even without loot boxes wouldn't put effort to release their games in that region.
So here giga r-slurred example: Lollipop Chainsaw remaster. Came out on 12 September and pre orders were available. In Dutch store nothing no preorders no release then on 25 September it drops out. On Belgium store it dropped out on 3rd October. Like why would we need EU standards and etc if countries can reject them and create their own standards. So what online did Lollipop Chainsaw have leaderboard. So Dutch localisation needed 2 weeks (game had preorder early access) to determine if the game was safe and Belgian minister even longer
Like I understand if Germany would do it devs would care or if France or for frick sake Canada but Belgium and Netherlands
With Lollipop Chainsaw it wasn't big deal since game was mostly offline so I just get germ version.
But some games require always online connections. In the past it wasn't an problem but new rule made that before a game comes out officially devs need to ban accounts from those countries from connecting to the services of the game and for PlayStation there is stricter rules that to release on Apple Store. Because omagat save the kids. Local kids are momo, fatima, erkan, adja and ivan (he is refugee from Ukraine)
You can create an account from other country but why would I create a new account ?
https://old.reddit.com/r/PS4/comments/t43j3t/sony_really_wants_me_to_stay_in_one_country_and/
So Sony wouldn't update their services and infrastructure and use infrastructure from 2001 despite the massive hacks it had and waste 300 millions on game it throw away in one week.
But games without even loot boxes being banned just because they didn't wanted to deal with paperwork is hilarious
Venezuela
https://old.reddit.com/r/cs2/comments/17gx1bx/belgium_doesnt_allow_loot_boxes_i_want_to_open_it/
Wow they starting to hint and block vpn to save ze children
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BREAKING: Republican Senator Jerry Moran just announced that he will oppose Donald Trump’s efforts to gut USAID. The aura of invincibility surrounding Donald Trump has just been burst.
— Democratic Wins Media (@DemocraticWins) February 8, 2025
A Republican. https://t.co/7fs7R9d1rM
— Alex Cole (@acnewsitics) February 8, 2025
Everything under Trump must be blamed on him, just like what MAGA did with Biden. I don't make the rules. pic.twitter.com/yW6p357Ynv
— Alex Cole (@acnewsitics) February 7, 2025
Donald Trump is going to HATE the new cover of TIME magazine pic.twitter.com/CZuPRUwozb
— Republicans against Trump (@RpsAgainstTrump) February 7, 2025
A federal judge—a Reagan appointee—blocked Trump’s “blatantly unconstitutional” executive order this week, stating that Trump sought to “navigate around or simply ignore” the rule of law “for political or personal gain.” And yet, it’s barely mentioned in the news, drowned out by… pic.twitter.com/qiKdRlwYUQ
— Republicans against Trump (@RpsAgainstTrump) February 7, 2025
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I can't believe USAID gave 10 million dollars to various girls to ghost, reject or break up with me
— Chairman (@LRH_Superfan) February 6, 2025
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I'd ping but aevann told me to stop doing that
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KFC is moving their HQ from Kentucky to Texas pic.twitter.com/8ZE1oqq1B9
— Dexerto (@Dexerto) February 19, 2025
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I've been thinking about selling my main car for something more practical since I rarely ever drive it much anymore; was reminded of the horror of Fisker in an incredulously cheap local ad and found some semi-recent redditor coping.
Fisker was initially founded in 2007 as a sort of luxury electric vehicle. I'd only seen one of them on the highway in the city, but it was horribly ugly. The company had issues with production in 2011 and had to file bankruptcy for the first time on its government loans in 2013 after multiple issues with quality and production, including battery explosions.
It ended up being purchased by a Chinese company in 2014, which red to many improvements and much more high quarity parts, directry reading to its second bankruptcy firing rast year.
Anyways, the /r/fisker sub is somehow still active and full of cope, arguments, and complaints about bugs causing their cars to stop working and/or crash.
https://old.reddit.com/r/Fisker/comments/1804qwm/its_not_the_end/
https://old.reddit.com/r/Fisker/comments/1cmcmut/we_need_to_keep_this_brand_alive/
https://old.reddit.com/r/Fisker/comments/1brmv5m/reports_of_fiskers_demise_are_greatly_exaggerated/
https://old.reddit.com/r/Fisker/comments/1c5iwe8/cybertruck_deliveries_halted_due_to_car_being_a/
Some choice comments from right before they filed their second bankruptcy:
I am all in. Still holding 31000 shares and never planning on selling. I am here to stay.
Good luck bud. Hope you get something out of this. Really mean that :)
This subreddit is one of the few where it's very positive and not toxic.
Unfortunately not much a regular person can do besides word of mouth and showing the car off. Company needs a much more powerful assist right now
The company needs to get off its own peepee, fire the entire exec team, hire a competent one and start over. Unless that is done there is no amount of outside assistance that will help anyone outside the family.
The company is dead.
Dead company walking! Zero chance of salvaging this corrupt company.
Data to back that up?
Tesla was in FAR WORSE positions than this over their history.
Tesla had more funding though and also was ran better from a business perspective.
Tesla was in a spot where they had two weeks of cash on hand (ie no funding). They were completely out of money. At the last gong they got a 20M injection to keep them floating.
Meanwhile Fisker is here sitting on 400M and no fixed costs, and everyone acts as if they're already dead.
I own 10k shares at .13 and may buy 90k this week. I can see them getting financial support just like LUCID eventually if they can convince others to support. They actually have a demand for their product and it's growing. You may not like the company and how they have managed up until this point, but when you got something that sells it's hard to go away. There was a coffee company once that went to pinks and ran to double digits. It's high risk to own this stock but for under 5k, it's worth a risk. People don't want to get rid of their cars and stock and I can't blame them for doing so. I see a revival here for sure. EV will be pushed tremendously these next 5 years
I'm thinking the same. If they turn things around, it could be a huge payday. Im wondering how many class A shares are in existence at this point?
Some panic for when the rumors of bankruptcy were first announced:
https://old.reddit.com/r/Fisker/comments/1be4hjz/lets_calm_down_and_breathe/
https://old.reddit.com/r/Fisker/comments/1cb5x54/fisker_may_seek_bankruptcy_protection_in_30_days/
https://old.reddit.com/r/Fisker/comments/1bqq5d5/an_open_letter_to_fisker/
Can we still sell our shares at the opening of the market today?
Yes, for $0.
So does this mean the stock is worthless? Is there any hope at all? Serious answers only please
In bankruptcy shareholders are far down the waterfall provision of bankruptcy law in who gets paid. All the senior creditors (employees, bond holders, bank loans, vendors, lawsuits etc.) have to get paid out in full before shareholders see a penny. Not to mention the cost of the lawyers and bankruptcy itself are expensive and get top priority in being paid.
If Fisker liquidates their assets and has anything left over after paying the senior creditors in full then shareholders could receive something. But I doubt even the bondholders will get that much recovery.
Fisker declared bankruptcy because they have no money, a ton of debt and have little chance of generating money. Who is going to buy a car from a bankrupt company and does Fisker even have the money to make a car and sell at a profit? If Fisker had really valuable assets they would have sold them to cover their debts. It doesn't look like there's much chance of shareholders seeing much money, if any.
yes the bondholders are way, way underwater. what does fisker have left - a couple thousand pretty worthless cars thar wouldnt sell at a 50 pct discount, maybe some tooling and some worthless ip. might be worth 200 mil being really optimistic. debts are many multiples of that number. unless someone sees their ip as super valuable [super unlikely, theyve obv been for sale for months now with no takers] the equity is worth less than zero
Some type of recent hope still yet remains.
https://old.reddit.com/r/Fisker/comments/1g8sy34/i_hope_someone_goes_to_jail/
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Duet
A unscheduled spaceship asks for docking permission at DS9 and, in what seems to me a massively wasteful use of resources, Kira (second in command of the station remember) deals with the request. This is how she hears that the ship has an emergency case of Space AIDS (not really, obviously, but I just got done in the last post claiming that a 1970s British multi-instrumentalist and songwriter was murdering people in space so you'll forgive my lack of exact details). Only survivors of one of Cardassia's most awful mines during the occupation (which we will hitherto call Michigan Mine cos apparently the air quality was so bad it gave everyone AIDS). Kira skips down to the infirmary to greet a brave survivor of the occupation to be greeted by this cheeky chappie:
He's obviously one of the guards from the camp and, as Kira tearfully explains to Sisko, those guys did a few too many of the old Nanjing Massacre recreation activities during their time in Michigan. This one is called Maritza and is played by Harris Yulin, an incredibly prolific character actor- if you don't recognise the name you'd recognise his face from one of his many, many movie roles. I've always remembered him best for his role as the corrupt pig in Scarface who was cocky enough to think Tony Montana wouldn't shoot him:
Although Maritza claims to have a different sickness, Bashir confirms it's definitely Michigan AIDS and Kira goes all Simon Weistental in her quest to see him hang. Sisko's reluctance to bend the law in order to hold the man on circumstantial evidence threatens to cause a diplomatic incident with both the Bajorans and the Cardassians and he's forced to give Kira 26 hours (one Bajor day, remember) to wring a confession out of the guy.
Sisko gets a call from his predecessor Gul Dukat...
Remember him? Yeah this is only the second time he's appeared in the series, believe it or not. Season 2 will see him appear far more prominently but, until now, he really hasn't played a large role.
Now, the rest of the episode is basically a series of one-on-one interrogations where Kira tries to prove that Maritza was actually the commander of the camp and was therefore responsible for everything that happened there and Martiza both denies it openly but also implies she's right and mocks her for not being able to prove it. These scenes are largely played straight without much in the way of special effects, location changes or other cast getting in the way- hence 'Duet'.
It's very strong stuff and gives Nana Visitor a lot of chances to prove her acting chops (which are considerable- everyone's just going to have to accept that I am going to simp hard for Visitor from now on because she's hot and talented AND I LIKE HER HAIR OK? I have been traumatised in recent years by the genocide of tomboys and I like to return to the 90s when boyish girls were loved and cherished and not hoodwinked into cutting their tits off*).
This episode reminds me of TNG's 'The Measure of a Man' in as much as it's a strong script presented plainly with very strong performances without needing a bunch of expensive vidual effects or the fricking camera rolling around on a fricking skateboard like modern Trek. The ending is a bit contrived (Maritza turns out to be the camp clerk who was too scared to stop the atrocities and wants to set himself up as a great villain to provide the Bajorans with a sense of justice and to publicize the massacre across the quadrant to stop the Carsassian revisionist history from burying it- Kira goes from hating him to feeling pity for him) but the road there is well worth travelling and it does a lot to explore the Bajoran and Cardassian attitude to the occupation and their relationship with each other. Having established that he's actually innocent- and a Bajoran sympathiser to boot- Kira escorts Maritza to his ship but, along the way he is attacked and killed by a Bajoran- not because he was a war criminal but simply because he was a Cardassian.
Ahhhhhhh
No seriously- it's good. Just falls apart a bit at the end.
*This was a sperg out and I'm sorry. I'm going to remember that obssessing about trains helped elect Dumpf and his gaggle of neo-lib Jeet-entusiasts.
In the Hands of the Prophets
So last episode re-introduced Gul Dukat. Lets meet another one of the DS9 rogues' gallery for the finalé of Season 1...
Vedek Winn is a religious fundamentalist and one of two Vedeks (like bishops) in line to become the next Kai (like the pope). Literally the first thing she does upon arriving on the station is shut Keiko the frick up and shut down her stupid school.
So far she's a very sympathetic villain. Winn's issue with the school is that it's teaching the kids, specifically the Bajoran kids, that the Celestial Temple is just an artificial wormhole and the Prophets are merely aliens.
Now this is some real Star Trek shit. The general disdain for religion and the repeated debunking of supposed "Gods" has been a cornerstone of this show from it's earliest days.
DS9 would tackle things differently- the Prophets are, essentially, just very advanced aliens... one theory posits them as what the Bajorans will eventually become although this idea has some issues and also it's a rip-off of the ultimate fate of humanity in Babylon 5...
...but since when has DS9 ripping-off Babylon 5 ever been something new?
Anyway, as I was saying- although the Prophets are just aliens to the Federation, DS9's writers never undermine the religious beliefs of the Bajorans: they are gods to them and they literally do all the god shit that gods are supposed to do. Similarly, just because Winn is an extremist that doesn't mean her religion is entirely bad or wrong.
To compound Keiko's problems, Miles is finding himself quite enamoured of his Bajoran assistant. She has actually been in a couple of episodes before this one but here she's given a lot more to say and do- she's smart, competent and she keeps sticking her tits in his face all the time.
Anyway, after all the shit Winn's been stirring, someone bombs the ( by luck, empty) school...
Remember how I said Winn was one of the Vedeks in the running to be the next Kai? The other one is Vedek Bariel.
You may recognise Robert Anglim as the younger priest guy (who wasn't Richard Chamberlain) from The Thorn Birds. Maybe you don't- he was later in the series after Rachel Ward and Brian Brown weren't in it. Bariel is the moderate candidate and Sisko tries topersuade him to come to the station to try and offset the violence.
He eventually agrees and arranges a photo-op with Winn- "let us stand together against this violence" he says- when Tits McWrinklenose tries to shoot him but is intercepted by Sisko doing a slow motion dive. He even gives us a slow motion "NOOOOOOOOO!" when he does it which is pretty funny. I actually don't want to undermine this scene- it's a heck of a climax.
Ahhhhhhh
Note the Bajoran special-needs clapping as Bariel does his rock-star priest act.
OK straight off- Louise Fletcher as Winn is fricking amazing. The passive aggressive shit she pulled as Nurse Ratched in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Works even better here where she ties it to smiley insincere religious doubletalk. I know the Oscars is bullshit, and I guess some of the schizo dramatards think the Academy a cabal of old libertarian Jews handing out awards for whatever shit they think will most destabilise the midwest, but Fletcher's Oscar deserves to be celebrated and is a badge of her talent. Let's just have a bit of that now...
Yeah, that's Brad Dourif- voice of Chucky and another Star Trek alumni.
Bajoran extremist shenanigans will kick off season 2 and Winn will be back in action, this time allying herself with multiple Tony Award winner Frank Langella (The Tony's are the stage Oscars but even more gay).
DS9 will return... maybe even in the new SciFi hole, who knows?