Some supposedly do, and then have been found hallucinating non-existent ones.
wizardbeard
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I think you want to direct that at the people who voted for Trump, not the people pointing out why others voted for Trump.
Unfortunately you can't expect the entire voting public to be aware and knowledgable about all this shit, and the candidates still need to appeal to those voters to win. Which plays a decent role in why Kamala lost.
You might be interested in Marc Laidlaw's (the story author for Half-Life) Epistle 3, the rough outline of the story plan for Half-Life 3 that he turned into a letter from Gordon and released after he left Valve. He has since said that he regrets releasing it, as game stories are wildly impacted by the design and development of the game itself, so the end result would likely be far different. Especially with Alyx retconning some things. That said, it's still an interesting look at what was planned at least at one point. Fans are working on a fangame based on the concept.
Likewise, there's the book Half-Life: Raising the Bar, which documents a TON of stuff about the creation of Half-Life and Half-Life 2, with a bunch of info on concept art and cut ideas. The original plan for the game would have been even darker than what we got and didn't feature Gordon at all! Unfortunately you'll probably just need to download a pirate scan of it, as I don't believe they've printed new copies in over a decade.
Together with everything the fans have figured out about the early leaked version of Half-Life 2 that matches up with the cut plot in Raising the Bar, you can build your own rich "fan canon" until Valve releases anything more.
I do think it was a missed opportunity to not have Laidlaw write some books set in the universe when they didn't need him working on game plot though.
In downtown some establishments (especially if they're near warm air vents) will play the sounds of crying babies or screaming women.
That's just fucking evil. Better than using some barely audible tone that hooks into the primal parts of our brains to make us uncomfortable and anxious (those supposedly exist), but even what you've said is just literally psychological warfare tactics.
Seriously, the CIA (or the equivalent) during the Korean War used to fly over vietkong areas blasting that sort of shit to disrupt sleep and demoralize them.
No way that wasn't absolutely intentional.
Small caveat:
The first switch emulator that was taken down (I think yuzu), was justified by Nintendo as copyright infringement because people (including moderators) were sharing copyrighted material openly on their public discord. BIOS files, links to games, and early leaks.
The more recent one (Ryujinx I think) was the one that did things right, so Nintendo didn't have that copyright leg to stand on. So instead (according to the maintainer of the Mac fork) they sent goons to the house of the head dev in Brazil... to "talk" him into taking it down.
Guess the Snowflake (third party data storage and processing company/service) breaches earlier this year taught us nothing.
Maybe if you're going to have a username that implies you're an artist, you should learn to actually make art instead of just using the automatic plagiarism machine.
Damn, people really don't? I've always been a sucker for ever increasingly ridiculously large GUN.
Got a problem? Just yeet a fucking dog sized hunk of metal at it at as close to the speed of sound as we can get it. You don't have a problem anymore.
Yup. That's kind of the rub. It's not a pay gap on paper anywhere in the sense of pay scales, it's a bunch of societal biases that lead to overwhelmingly common "emergent" systemic behavior that skews women towards the lower end of the pay bands they coexist with men in while also often denying them promotions into higher positions and pay bands that are more frequently given to equal or lesser skilled men.
Very few of the individual cogs in the system are intentionally aiming for this outcome, but it's the combination of a shit ton of biases built up over generations about women and how they are expected to behave that all smashes together into the shitty end result of pay discrepancy along gender lines.
Good luck, and thanks for sharing your experience like that. I've always been a proponent of sharing, because you never know if some detail might help someone else. Yours helps me and your attitude is inspiring.
Not fishing for a response, but for context I've been having minor issues with dry heaving and vomiting for about a month. Mine seems to be related to sinus pressure, far as I can tell. Already have appointments, but was getting nervous of what they might find, or that they might not find anything.
While identity politics are important, I have always believed that their explosion into mainstream after Occupy Wall Street died was part of an intentional plan of the powers that be to kill the momentum of the potential class war.
That, along with some of the stories coming out of the camps as things crumbled, match up pretty directly with stuff out of leaked and un-classified three letter agency guides on disrupting grass roots movements.
Hard to have any kind of momentum against the 1% when you're busy arguing about microagressions along identity lines. Or ignoring the point of intersectionality entirely to lump poverty level trailerpark white males in with old money white male ceos.
Wealth is a far more influential force on life outcomes than any identity aspects. Identity more heavily impacts the 99%, so focusing on it takes eyes off the tippy top elite.
Just like all the recent focus on landlords including hate for small local people renting out one family property rather than focusing on the fucking investment companies buying up entire towns worth of housing.
Keep your eyes on the fucking prize folks, instead of squabbling over the tablescraps.