He won’t. I think Bush knows on some level that he’s responsible for a lot of awful shit in the world and desperately wants to rehab his image, but not enough to actually take responsibility for it or do anything meaningful so he just paints his dumb pictures and says vaguely critical things about Trump once in a while. But at times when it might actually matter, like during the last election when him speaking out could have potentially swayed some Republican voters away from Trump, not a fucking peep.

As it turns out, Dick Fucking Cheney has a stronger moral compass than Bush does, which I hope sinks in for him one day.

Yup. Bush is the one who took the door off the hinges and sold it, Trump is just the inevitable crackhead who walked in and started setting fire to the couch.

I’m currently playing:

• Star Citizen (I know I know. I paid like $40 into the Kickstarter years ago and I dip in about once a year or so.)
• Last of Us 2 (again)
• Schedule I on Steam Deck is pretty fun.

I’m also currently gearing up to get horrendously addicted to Rimworld again since there’s apparently a new DLC on the way.

I still maintain that Kill The Moon isn’t necessarily a bad episode, it’s just not especially deep. It seems like the whole idea was for everyone to take an already bonkers premise and just run as far as they could with it, and IMO it feel like everyone’s having a blast with it. If you accept it as just that I think it’s fine.

Also I’m sort of glad the Disney deal is probably over, I think Doctor Who functions best when it’s a bit scrappy and under-funded. It’s a show that lends itself to big ideas and it can pretty much be anything, but I think when it’s given a huge budget it tends to get quite over-indulgent and messy.

I’d like there to just be a normal regeneration again TBH. The last time the Doctor just regenerated in a normal way (ie. no stunt casting or bi-generating) was Capaldi > Whittaker, which was Christmas 2017 so nearly a decade ago!

Actually by the time they get around to making more episodes and doing another regeneration it will probably be over a decade ago.

Yeah it’s pretty much the same whenever the Money People get involved in anything. It inevitably stops being about making something really cool, or even just making a living from making something, and becomes all about shipping the absolute minimum viable product and then strip-mining as much cash as you can out of it at all costs, and then dumping it when people stop buying it.

And the thing that gets me is that this makes nobody happy. The creators hate it because they’re making trash, consumers hate it because they’re being ripped off, and the Money People aren’t even happy because they never are. They always want more.

I like the M Plus Code Font personally.

I just meant the way that they’ve only rolled it out for a handful of ships since it was introduced (in 2021 I believe?) and that they seem to stagger it in waves for some reason. I’m not sure why it seems to be such an undertaking, but presumably they have their reasons.

But yeah I agree, I think maybe some combination of a base list of banned words, some kind of LLM/automation and in-game reporting, combined with human review to pick up on context is probably about as good as you can do. I think it’s a system that kind of has to evolve and improve as you go as well, so probably the sooner they start the process the less trouble it’ll be later on.

I’ve always found the way they’re approaching ship naming to be really weird, they seem to have been dithering about with it for years. Why don’t they just set up a banned words list and let it loose? Sure it won’t be 100% perfect but then they can learn as they go. They seem to be making it much more complicated than it needs to be TBH.

Yeah having stuff that can give you an advantage against other players locked behind a paywall is some bullshit, but at least it’s only temporary I guess. Still a shit move though.

Still, when they’re widely available I look forward to jamming a speed blade into my M50 lol.

I have the attachment and ammo loaded and it’s never worked for me. My current setup is to just keep the med gun & ammo on my ship in the pistol storage, use med pens for quick healing in the field and use the med gun when I get back for more serious things.

Last night I was swearing at the game so hard, I was doing a loot run and trying to get away while NPCs were shooting at me and I’m just trying to get the hatch on the back of my ship to open lol.

Got away with it this time though!

Definitely lots of stuff I’m looking forward to with this update, especially the mining fixes (e.g. being able to output refined ores directly into your station inventory instead of just ships) and the fixes to looting buttons.

Yeah people talk about them replacing employees, but if you had an employee that wrote reports using random made-up facts if they didn’t know something, presented them as completely true and insisted they were true even when found out and presented with direct evidence to the contrary, and occasionally would wildly hallucinate and spout gibberish for seemingly no reason at all, I don’t think they’d last that long.

Out of curiosity I looked it up and I guess when it was built, the Statue of Liberty cost ~$250,000, which is only about $7.8 million in today’s money. And it costs about $6 million a year to maintain.

Among these quality-of-life updates, refineries can now refine output directly into your local inventory, while ore bags now properly attach to cargo grids and freight elevators.

We’ve polished the looting interaction: the “F” prompt will now smoothly appear on the closest available item or corpse you’re looking at, without the need to wiggle around to find the right angle.

Accidental pickups that previously caused chaos, like dropping your fully-modded weapon into a pile of loot, should now be a thing of the past.

These are definitely the two things I’m most hyped for. Probably my #1 cause of death is getting blasted by someone in a contested zone 'cause I thought I was alone and was trying to find the loot button lol.

I’ve been wearing trash armour for like 3 days now lol

This season is making me increasingly nervous because the first 4 episodes have all been pretty good. It’s an established fact that at least one episode per RTD season has to make you cringe so hard your skeleton leaves your body, so we all know it’s coming. And if it’s not next week’s one or the Interstellar Song Contest one then it’s gonna be the finale. My money’s on the song contest though lol.

Yeah I used to be super addicted to Overwatch 1, but I bailed as soon as 2 came out. I can honestly say I’ve never played it since.

I liked it! For a season opener I think you want a big, fun, bombastic kind of thing that doesn’t get super heavy, so I think it worked very well in that regard. I also liked Belinda, especially her calling the Doctor out at the end.

It wasn’t a perfect episode by any means, but the previous watermark for a season opener is Space Babies, so for me this represents an almost infinite degree of improvement.