More like 1988, not 98. It might be when the version you are playing came out, but Populous was from the late 80s.

They don’t marry them, they just diddle them underage on exotic island compounds.

I’m running out of excitement for this game. I wish game developers would quit blowing their loads in debuting games far too early and then over promising on delivery.

Cons just care about the kid until they are born. Not one second longer than that.

Fable is forever the game to me where the most complicated love triangles take place. I had a whole town in Fable II both trying to marry me and murder me, all at once. I’m honestly not even sure what happened in that game or what I was supposed to do, I was too busy managing the crazy hexagonal relationship dramas I had found myself entagled in.

Quality issues alone are a major disincentive to outsourcing.

The Penguins are already in a pretty damaged state. Their core is retirement age. He’ll do a number for sure.

No player over 4 or 5 mil would be a good start

How many remakes of this game do we need?

Sweet baby Jesus can nobody make anything original anymore?

It sounds like you are in a good place, and are satisfied. For what it’s worth, IMO, just stay happy. If that means staying where you are, you don’t gotta impress nobody but yourself. So don’t worry about all the other noise. Always keep one eye on the prize, like in today’s professional world, you always have to be prepared for the rug to be pulled up from under you with a layoff or if the company hires a new boss for you and they are a zeeb, but once you got that concern appropriately hedged, always put professional well being above everything else.

I left my last job to make double what the previous one paid, and my job is a nightmare job. Each successive job pays me more, makes me more miserable, the people are always worse and more money just means more problems. Money ain’t everything, and I mean it. Make enough to survive, live your happy idea of a perfect lifestyle, save for rainy days and retirement, and the rest is just noise.

Did I just read a comment on there that someone has 70% of their equity in Tesla stock!?

JFC… Society is doomed.

What is the point of LinkedIn anyways, can anyone actually describe it to me? All these years later and I’m still confused. The only thing I’ve found it useful for, is basically a digital rolodex for when I want to get ahold of someone. I can’t read the news feed or whatever it’s called, it’s insufferable.

My pops had this almost exact same bike too, I’m in my early 40s. He was also retired when he got it. Kinda brought a tear to my eye just seeing it honestly. Thanks for sharing.

My mom’s got a cousin that no one would miss if he suddenly slipped off a boat dock, he bamboozled it off my grandma along with a bunch of other stuff after my Pops died, and sold it.

It would be a massive loss for sure. One that will be felt for a long time. It’s the only way I can get around our thoroughly enshittified press up here in Canada. I mean I’d gladly pay, if it was worth paying for, which it’s not.

I like that it has a modern length stem.

I think any social media causes brain damage. You and I are getting some brain damage just even pondering some of this stuff.

I don’t bear the guy any ill will either, but as a fan of the brand, it’s time to move on. We’ve seen this time and time again in automotive history (well not to this extent I suppose, but we’ve still seen some shit over the past 100 years). These guys go egomaniac, and they are always quite eccentric and maybe a bit insane (a key qualification of being an auto baron), but eventually they all seem to go supernova, and then it’s time to go. That’s where we are with this one, I’m afraid.

It’s actually the mods that did it for me. If you don’t have this really weird super specific but vague world view, and you can’t follow 143 different rules (some not specified), then they start censoring you and temp banning your comments and contributions. The mods on my community sub actually permabanned me when I questioned them on it, instead of discussing it. After that I was like this is infuriating, and I don’t really want to participate here. Problem is, they mod anything related to said topic, like city, province, country, most political parties, quite a few special interest topics, etc. Its super weird behaviour.

It’s going to be a tantrum either way. Even if he gets it, he’s going to have a tantrum and run away with it, leaving everyone else holding the bag. The US is staring down another Trump administration, with Trump threatening to cancel electric cars (not sure how that’s possible, but I’m sure they can fuck things up pretty good too). It’s nothing but storm clouds for Tesla if they give this to him, it’s going to start a slow decline to a bunch of crap.

Personally, I’m hoping he has a tantrum and leaves. He’s a big part of what Tesla is, no doubt. He deserves a fairly sizeable compensation package, again no problem there. But there’s a god damn limit, and his behaviour as of the last couple years shows there’s something pretty wrong going on in his head and it’s going to drown the whole company if they don’t eliminate the noise. That goes for his crooked little board too. The best scenario is a no, he leaves, the board leaves and the company can begin rebuilding through it’s next stage, with a pretty good product line + get the charging station growth back in the picture.

Something like this will happen to me exactly once, and I’ll be gone, never to return.

I also wouldn’t touch one share of this company. What a mess. Not sure I’d buy another vehicle at this point either. My Tesla has been flawless and I love it, but the company and their behaviour towards their employees and their customers is becoming a pretty big problem for me.

Glad to see they learned their lesson from rushing products out /s