i had to real-life block my aunt and uncle. it was always something about how dumb liberals are and “you’ll understand when you’re older”. nah fuck you, i don’t need this shit in my life.

I know the answer to all this. we just need more fetuses with guns.

then there are companies like yelp who disable their mobile site and make their desktop site as shitty as possible on mobile to force you to the app.

“defining” doesn’t lead to bias. you are left-leaning regardless of what you decide to call yourself. The important thing is recognizing and acknowledging your predisposition, which it seems you have.

“pro family” and “family values” might be the most vomit inducing dogwhistle in politics.

no no, republicans don’t want the govt to make revenue. tax cuts, ridiculously complicated tax code, gutting the IRS… all to let rich people keep as much money as possible.

they also don’t use brisket exactly, it’s a slightly different cut, called belly or plate. something like that. not very easy to get a hold of.

yeah I was talking about the people who also display LGBTQ behavior, not just your run of the mill republican.

I’m not a psychologist but there has to be some deep-seated self-loathing from repressing their true sexuality/identity for decades. Or maybe they subconsciously feel “if I can’t be who I want to be, you can’t either.”

I’m skeptical they actually smoke the meat for 3 days. my understanding is anything past 3-5 hours of smoke is not doing anything for flavor, and you’re better off just steaming or baking at that point. IIRC they do finish with steam even after whatever smoke process they have, which further leads me to believe they aren’t smoking for 3 days.

the color mostly comes from the pink curing salt. Same with corned beef.

pastrami is cured and cooked for hours and hours to tenderize. the curing process turns the meat bright red even after it cooks.

the bread really ties the sandwich together.

even without the loading screens it would still be terrible. get a quest, go to your ship, take off, travel to other system, land, exit your ship, walk to destination, reverse all that to turn the quest in, rinse and repeat. it’s just a tedious experience.

the best part of Bethesda games is just being able to wander around aimlessly in a pretty environment, likely stumbling upon little easter eggs or side quests along the way. none of that exists in Starfield.

Cyberpunk was buggy, unoptimized, and kind of unfinished, but the fundamental game design was sound.

Starfield on the other hand is broken at its core. The Bethesda RPG experience just does not translate to the open worlds space map they built the game on. So they can’t take the cyberpunk approach because they’d have to build an entirely different game from scratch.

that sounds smarter than just being scared.

yeah I’m sure that is their long term goal now.

then why doesn’t he do the interview?

(never mind when I said I want abortion banned nationally)

need that exponent formatting on lemmy