Finances.

I don’t want to be rich. I don’t care about money all that much.

My definition of success has always been that if I can let a payday come and go without having to look at my bank accounts and shifting money around to make sure everything is taken care of, that’s all I want. I want to make enough that I don’t have to check my bank account before every bill comes out. I can be assured that the money that is needed will be there.

Had that for a while. No longer do. And it really really sucks.

Lighten up.

Rimworld.

What we need to understand about O’Leary is that:

a) He likely has an incredibly tiny penis.

and b) He is absolutely desperate to be seen in the same circle as the likes of Musk, Zuck, Gates, Bezos, etc…

The reality is that his wealth pales incomparison to those guys, at roughly 150 million. To them, he’s as much a pauper as you and i are. He’s a nobody. And that fucking grinds at him that he’s not a part of the cool kids club. It gnaws at his insides that, in reality, the people above him AND the people below him would literally not give a shit if he fucked off back to Canada and died in obscurity.

For all of their evil, the group that O’Leary desperately wants to be seen as equal to will at least leave some sort of Legacy. They’ll at least be remembered in the history books, even if just a footnote about their shitty shenanigans.

O’Leary will be forgotten as soon as he’s in the ground. Probably sooner.

That’s why he’s suddenly forcing himself into every fucking news program, and awards shows, and trying to strike deals for massive data centers that no one wants. Because he’s a sad and pathetic old man afraid of being forgotten.

also, did I mention he has an incredibly tiny penis?

Which one? I don’t recall running into anything critical.

I would desperately love a remaster but upgrading the squad mates AI operate similar the Mass Effect squad mates.

XCom 2 - War of the Chosen (with the Long War mod) is easily in my top 3 games of all time. Its a must-play.

X-Com: The Bureau Declassified

Its fatal flaw was simply that the A.I. squadmates would far to often make suicidal decisions unless you micro-managed then, which made winning far more about luck than skill.

But the setting, the writing, the story were all super interesting to me. And the graphics hold a special charm for me (I still say the facial animations were better than LA Noire)

Iran admitted to being confused when they realized that it was just a scrap of paper with “Do you like me?” yes/no written on it.

Conservatives will believe anything as long as it’s followed by the hastags #MAGA #PATRIOT #WOKE and #TDS in any order.

In a decade of truly insane rants, this was probably his most insane.

“I am thinking about bringing the Number One Attraction anywhere in the World, the man who gets much larger audiences than Elvis in his prime, and he does so without a guitar, the man who loves our Country more than anyone else, and the man who some say is the Greatest President in History (THE GOAT!), DONALD J. TRUMP, to take the place of these highly paid, Third Rate ‘Artists’.”

What in the absolute fuck is there left to say at this point?

That “intelligent” and “smart” mean the same thing.

Suddenly one of his cronies leans in close and whispers,

“Mr. Thiel, that might be a little too on the nose. Just sayin’”

There’s no doubt in my mind that if Trump wasn’t rich, he’d be in a Trailer Park.

He’s cosplaying what he thinks rich people are like, but deep down inside he’s just as white trash as any other southern redneck. Tacky gold plating, bossing people around, UFC, Firetrucks, trying to intimidate people he thinks are less than him, etc…

You will never convince me otherwise that, if he hadn’t been born into wealth, he’d basically be Ken McElroy, complete with the same end…

Why are there so many people in this thread simping for the United States?

That’s a young man’s game. I did it back in my day. In fact it was introduction to Paradox Games with Crusader Kings 2. Eventually you get tired of all the futzing around making shit work properly and just decide to wait for a good sale.

Nope. Not money bags. I purposefully chose a used computer that was good enough to be better than my old desktop, but still running DDR4 so I could have a chance at finding some inexpensive RAM. Powerful enough for what I need it for, but not the newest or shiniest.

On my list but maaaan, triple A games are so bloody expensive now!

I’m so bad at Chess that even the Dr. Wolf Chess tutor app eventually gave up, patted me on the head, and used very small words to recommend I download a checkers app instead…

Any company that goes public and takes on Shareholders is immediately evil.

Once shareholders are involved, nothing else matters.

• Giving your employees a raise will make the shareprice rise slightly less than it would have? Fuck you…no raises.
• Providing Healthcare means a lower profit margin which will hurt the share price? Fuck you…die in a ditch.
• Paying a living wage means having to take something from the CEO’s bonus that year? Fuck you…that’s what food banks are for.

The moment shareholders enter the picture, by LAW, they become the only entity that matters. Corporations are legally required to increase shareholder profitability by any means necessary.

Welcome to Capitalism.