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[–] fun_times@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Jesus christ! That's around the median monthly income in my country. And I come from a rich country.

My rent is around a fifth of that. Please tell me the $3000-4000 range is at least for a family apartment.

[–] fun_times@lemmy.world 72 points 1 day ago (12 children)

There's a name for catholics who believe that the pope isn't always right.

They are called protestants.

Catholicism only has one firm rule: The pope is always right, without exception. There's nothing wrong with criticizing the pope. Just don't call yourself a catholic if you do.

[–] fun_times@lemmy.world 17 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Unfortunately, that's not just a porn thing.

[–] fun_times@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago

Eric Cartman - Pleasure Destroyer.

Fransisco Franco - Fun-killer.

Victor von Doom - Hulk Injector (you do you, Doctor).

[–] fun_times@lemmy.world 9 points 6 days ago (1 children)

"The best part of Fallout is it basically never runs out of content"

That's the worst part. All of those randomly generated filler quests that send you back to a location you've cleared twice before to kill the same named raider npc are at the very core of what is wrong with Fallout 4.

I wish Fallout would return to primarily being a roleplaying game, with actual dialog choices, including the ability to say "No, I don't give a shit about Shaun. In fact, I'm glad he was kidnapped, so that I don't have to be bogged down by a backstory that I never agreed to."

Oh, and it would be nice if the main character wasn't automatically the leader of every faction in the game.

[–] fun_times@lemmy.world 17 points 6 days ago (3 children)

I know that this sounds crazy, considering how world leaders usually behave nowadays, but it is possible that he was just kind of tired of being in charge and thinks that Magyar (who does share the vast majority of Orban's values) is a decent enough replacement who won't start any corruption court cases against him.

[–] fun_times@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

In a quota that uses integers and puts 100 as the average, a lot of people will be exactly average. Therefore it is incorrect to say that 50% is below average. It's probably somewhere between 48% and 49%.

[–] fun_times@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The US is normally the country that bombs the middle east but in Aleppo it was almost exclusively Russia and the Assad regime that did the bombings. Saudi Arabia (and to a lesser extent Turkey) were the ones who sponsored ISIS. The US for once actually sponsored the relatively good guys in the conflict by backing the AANES ("Rojava").

This is not to say that the US had any moral reasons to choose the AANES. It was strictly geopolitics but even a broken clock is right twice a day.

[–] fun_times@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

The secret is the erosion of the welfare state, high unemployment levels, butchered unions, dropped funding for non-profit hobby/sports organizations and money laundering of tax money into "profits" through a messed-up voucher system for schools and hospitals.

Not to mention the extremely corrupt law of public contracting that always results in the lowest-bidding - and thus shittiest/sloppiest - business getting to do all infrastructure work (and inevitably messing it up and then charging extra for fixing their own mistakes). Ironically, that law was intended to combat alleged corruption. We had very low levels of corruption before that law was made.

TL;DR: thorough neoliberal destruction of Swedish society.

[–] fun_times@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago (2 children)

InkScape.

I don't fully know why but vector graphics just work for me in a way that pixel graphics don't. I love fiddling with vectors.

[–] fun_times@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This is similar to the old Italian mercenary system. Get paid by one side to siege a city, then get paid by the other side to end the siege.

[–] fun_times@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

Same here. The idea of having her defend superheroes/villains for things like accidentally opening a portal to hell or creating a small-scale time paradox is a super fun concept. Regular lawyer shows have been done to death but a superpower lawyer show brings endless new possibilities and dilemmas.

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