You thought Twitter went sour after Elon got involved? Wait till he has Grok churning out the next five Batman movies.

What kills me, more than anything, is that Ellison's daughter also ran a movie studio. And we got

• The Master
• Zero Dark Thirty
• Her
• American Hustle
• Phantom Thread
• Sorry to Bother You
• The Ballad of Buster Scrugs
• The Testament of Ann Lee

Like, some real bangers in this batch. Creativity, artistry, amazing performances, some real vinettes into history that don't get the attention they deserve.

So of course her studio flopped.

If you can get two million more, that'll win you the election

This gets funnier every time it's posted

TIL. I had no idea. And now I'm going to have to read up on this.

I was making a reference to the Roman Triumvirate which was famously unsuccessful at keeping one individual from consolidating supreme executive power.

I would love that

I have hope that Finland will do something about it.

The current government is fully JD Vance tier corporate drones. National Coalition Party parallels Bolsonaro's PL with its regard for environmental issues. They are only interested in getting their fellow empty-suit fuckwits bigger salaries, at the expense of everyone else in Finland. The only thing they campaign on is "Immigrant Invasion!" and "Communists are ruining the Country!"

By that very same argument Ireland itself was “along for the ride” because there were pro union Irish people as well.

A bitter pill to swallow for some, certainly

I'm hearing good things about a Triumvirate executive branch

"ADHD is when work leaves you feeling exhausted".

:-/

The Parliament is already decided. I think three different Bolsonaros are currently in the Congress.

Certainly doesn't hurt

It is, from a certain point of view

Finally, I can pay money to use Lemmy

Watches rioters in Milan demolish a Best Buy

Just in time.

Obama has absolutely no interest in this shit show. That's half the joke of the current state of the Presidency. You need to either be a grifter, a soulless climber, or a senile coot to pursue the job at this point.

Scotland was a source of fundraising and other types of aid. Former MI5 agent Willie Carlin said: "There were safe houses in Glasgow and Stirling. The ferry [between Scotland and Northern Ireland] was pivotal in getting arms into the north—and anything like checkpoints, or armed police and Army in Scotland would have b******d that all up."

An Irish government memo written by David Donoghue stated: "The commonest contribution of Scots UDA and UVF is to send gelignite. Explosives for the north were mostly shipped in small boats which set out at night from the Scottish coast and made contact at sea with vessels from Ulster ports." Donoghue noted the links between Orange Lodges in Scotland and loyalist paramilitary groups in Northern Ireland and that membership of the Orange Order in Scotland at the time was 80,000, and was concentrated in Glasgow, Lanarkshire and Inverness.

The Northern Ireland Affairs Select Committee noted in its report that "in 1992 it was estimated that Scottish support for the UDA and UVF might amount to £100,000 a year."

But there’s nothing wrong with building on a good, existing constructed world, too.

I don't disagree. But folks are pretending like Mass Effect is some kind of exceptionally novel or revolutionary IP. It's really not. This is some really basic tier SciFi. You could scratch the serial numbers off the side and make "Enlarged Consequences" with no real threat of liability.

I’m just not buying that Mass Effect is a “dead end.” It’s a great setting, there’s tons to explore, and they’ve already broken away from the main trap of being stuck with Sheperd. Halo is a bit different not because they wrote themselves into a corner (which ME aid also guilty of), but that they utterly refused to leave it, amongst other things.

I mean, I don't disagree entirely. I just think the core ideas of Mass Effect have percolated through the genre of open world space adventure game. And now we've got a plethora of alternatives that strike the same central cords. You don't need the Mass Effect IP to make a successor to the game any more than you needed the Halo IP to make Destiny.

If I'm going to be sad about anything, it's really the Dragon Age IP, which I think was cooking with something a bit more novel than "Evil Aliens Exterminate Humanity While Humans and Demi-Humans Bicker Over Politics".

Now "Evil Dragons Exterminate Humanity While Humans and Demi-Humans Bicker Over Politics"! There's a keeper

Finally. A straight answer. Thank you.

I mean, the real punchline in this is how Democrats will refuse to be outraged even as Israel is running attack ads to undermine their chances at a future Senate majority.