The Dual shock 3 batteries are also really easy to replace. Maybe pushing the boundaries of what you’d reasonably call “user replaceable” but certainly something that I think anyone capable of usin g the controller and a PS3 would be capable of.
The idea that Bubba is Bill Clinton is the part I have a hard time believing. And I think it might be a joke. But I also think it’s possible that Trump performed oral on someone or something named Bubba.
I’ve never heard that nickname for Bill Clinton before. Maybe I live under a rock or maybe it’s a private nickname that could be corroborated elsewhere in the Epstein files, but idk he’s never looked like a “Bubba” to me.
More critically, I have a hard time believing the 2016 election cycle plays out the way it did if this were the case.
But I do think it’s clear there’s SOMETHING that Trump doesn’t want the public to know about. And I don’t think he or his base care about him being with 16 year old girls. Or even his daughter. What could it be that Trump would be scared of his base knowing about?
So I think Bubba could be another dude. Or perhaps a gigantic novelty dildo. Or maybe even an animal.
Edit: For everyone getting caught up in the nickname, Mark Epstein has said that it wasn’t Bill Clinton. Plus, even if you don’t believe him it still doesn’t make sense that it’s Bill with how 2016 played out.
I have wondered this for a while. All the stuff with the child’s beauty pageants. The “grab them by the pussy” comment. The various quotes about liking young women, calling his own daughter hot, etc. Even without the Epstein files it’s pretty clear that his base is not bothered by him sexually assaulting you girls.
At the same time, he’s scared of something. Putin clearly has something over him, or at least did during his first term. The speculation back then was some sort of “piss tape” with a Russian prostitute, but… Would his base really be bothered by that? And if not, what exactly could Truml have done that his base WOULD care about?
The rumor I started seeing this morning makes more sense: that there is evidence of Trump giving a blowjob to Bill Clinton. I think any evidence of Trump doing any sort of submissive act with another man would cost him his base.
Bill Clinton would be especially egregious as a hated Democrat, and there IS a relationship and connection there i could see but it almost seems too ridiculous to be true. And like… He ran against Hillary Clinton. Surely if that happened and evidence existed, it would have gotten out before now, right? Or at the very least the Clintons could have used that aseverage to get Trump to drop his campaign. So I’m not sure I buy that rumor. But it could have been another guy. Or anyone with a dick.
Another thought I have is that there is a common trope in the BDSM scene where people tend towards sexual roles that oppose their “normal” daily roles. Powerful men like to dominate everywhere else, but like to be submissive in the bedroom. I wonder if it could even be something as innocuous as video of Trump going down on one of his wives that he is afraid of leaking.
As an American I can confirm it goes back way further than 1950.
In most US states that would not be illegal.
I think the main hangup is going to be: how easy and simple is this thing for the average person?
The Steam Deck is, any way you slice it, a better value than the Switch or Switch 2. The Steam Deck has sold roughly 6 million units in 3 years. The Nintendo Switch 2 has sold close to 11 million units in about 5 months.
I hope you’re right and that Valve really shakes up the whole industry, but I’m not going to start expecting that until I see it.
Pumpkin Jack. It’s a 3D platformer. I haven’t played it in a couple years, but I remember it being mostly linear. Not a ton of collectables, but some. 11 months out of the year it’s a pretty “meh” game, but it absolutely NAILS the Halloween aesthetic. Not “horror” or “scary” or “autumn” but very specifically Halloween.
MediEvil is similar, though much older. I have only played the original for PS1, though there is a modern remake on all platforms that looks pretty good. Not quite as explicitly Halloween-y, but still pretty close. Flawed in its own ways, but I would still say a better game overall than Pumpkin Jack. The levels were a bit less linear and it was a bit more like an adventure game than a platformer.
Luigi’s Mansion is a classic too.
A lot of other games have levels or worlds that are good for Halloween even if the whole game isn’t. Like Pumpkin Hill in Sonic Adventure 2, or Subcon Forest from A Hat In Time. Honestly one day I want to compile a list of all of these themes areas across my favorite games and the play all of these levels seasonally.
I hope that once my account turns 18 they will stop asking my for by DOB to look at mature content.
I love how the Connect app has user notes, so I can appreciate the irony that I already marked DragonTypeWyvern as “Sexist” before.
You have a much more optimistic memory of gaming review platforms than I do.
I remember getting several different magazines in the 90’s and they were always the same thing. Any “professional” journalist knows that their livelihood is based on selling games. Journalists have to strike a balance between their audience and publishers, which makes negative reviews incredibly rare.
It’s not just videogames. Music, movies, TV shows, books, comics, consumer products. Unkess you’re paying out the nose, reviews almost always have some sort of bias towards trying to sell things. I find the best opinions come from other sources: people I know personally, organic community discussions on the internet (though those are not immune to corporate influence), or when products are only mentioned in contexts where the author clearly will not benefit. For example, a journalist making a list of the top-10 games of all time putting Ocarina of Time on it is probably not incentives to do so… Unless Nintendo is trying to promote a re-release.
Who is drinking Starbuccks in 2025? Just last month Starbucks closed 400 stores and laid off 900 employees in North America.
This will inevitably become “Gen Alpha is killing coffee shops”. Fewer Barista jobs are available. The small, local coffee shop that is a nice quiet place to hang out or meet up with friends closes.
The problem is ghouls like her scraping value off the top of everything and hoarding that wealth like a dragon. Removing it from the system so their own personal number goes up.
“It was just a joke bro, why are you taking everything so seriously? I was only spreading misleading information about a state’s economy in a conversation about economic policies, no big deal right?”
Using nominal GDP just shows how bad-faith your argument is. There’s no such thing as a “retirement state”- every state has retired people in it.
You can make whatever excuse you want- that won’t change the fact that Florida is full of people who are not producing much GDP.
In 2024 Florida was 35th in GDP per capita, well below the US average.
Florida is still about 3x the GDP per capita of Argentina, so you’re correct that it would be a huge boon for them.
What a silly thing to say.
Is Mickey Mouse uncreative because it’s just a mouse? Is Yogi Bear uncreative because it’s just a bear?
Is Sherlock Holmes uncreative because it’s just a British guy? Especially if giving things magical abilities doesn’t count, then vampires, zombies, magicians, pretty much the entirety of fantasy is just “ripping off” humans. You think Tolkien was a good writer? You fool- the Ents are just trees, how boring! Gandald is just an old human, frodo is just a short dude!
So what does that leave that is original? Should all of our ficitiln need entirely new ideas? Do our writers need to invent new qwarks and new rules for how they interact, so that fictional universes can have different elements where we can imagine life forms without carbon that interact? Would it still be derivative to you if we keep the strong nuclear force the same in this fictional universe?
Gran Turismo 2. The different areas of the menu have different music and they’re all great.
We have 2 cats. One will bully the other off of the wet food, so we have to lock her in the basement to feed the two separately, and let her out after like 20 minutes.
My wife and j have referred to it as “freeing the beast”. As I walk over to the door to open it, hearing her meows from below, I like to give a dramatic monologue. “The time has come to break the seal, to unleash the insatiable hunger our predecessors sealed long ago”. The little things that give life a bit more spice.
Dimensia Donny seems like a nickname that could fit
Taxing the rich is not just “oh we as a society want money to do things, so let’s take that money from the people who have it”.
Taxing the rich is about removing the incentives that wealthy people have to seek out and hoard more wealth. Get them to stop trying to control everything and seek rents. Convince them to just be satisfied with being, in 2025, a USD hundred-millionaire. Force them to enjoy an early retirement.