To your second point, meaningful progression is locked behind engineering, and a little behind powerplay. Yeah you can get a ship and A rank every module but it won’t hold a candle to a fully engineered build.

But yeah, there are some cool things you can do in the game but the core loop is shallow and grindy as hell. I spent most of my time unlocking engineers, making money, and farming materials to the point where I can get just about anything I want. I feel like cartman in the WoW episode saying “now we can finally play the game” after 1000 hours. Though I did finally join a squadron and that gave me a bunch of stuff to help with. One guy has a carrier and we farmed an assload of minerals and then picked up and turned in a whole bunch of 25m-50m credit mining missions all at once so that was kinda cool.

Oh they also added operations, which are basically multiplayer missions you can join a lobby for, and you don’t actually have to physically be anywhere specific. It’s a huge quality of life upgrade because previously you’d have to actually be in the same system or use telepresence which doesn’t let the telepresence crewmember to use their own ship.

I’m gonna say elite is generally a hard sell because of the steep learning curve. I love it and have over 1,300 hours, but only after a friend brought me back because I was so lost my first time playing it. I similarly quit trying the on-foot stuff on 3 separate occasions because it’s so difficult to figure it out, and failing a mission often results in a fine or bounty you have to then find an interstellar factor to pay off.

Then there’s the engineer grind. I won’t speak on that here.

It’s frustrating because the game is incredibly deep with faction mechanics, system states, market demands, etc. but all of that is basically inaccessible in any reasonable manner without 3rd party tools. Outside that your options are exploration, shipping, combat, mining, and that’s about it.

That said, if you want a somewhat realistic space sim, it’s probably the best you can find. Just make sure you have a guide and inara.cz bookmarked.

If you can put the disc in and play with no download I will shit myself in disbelief.

When the choice is someone who is legit insane or someone who only pretends to be progressive, you’re kinda fucked either way. See also: fetterman vs Oz.

Hellfires are laser guided.

The report also stated that the aircraft were damaged by the missile attack, but not completely destroyed. The affected aircraft are currently being repaired, and no casualties were reported in the incident.

Destroyed in title. Damaged in article. Top tier journalism.

Have you cleaned out your drain?

He often complained that young people needed more than one job to survive and had tried to start a union at his workplace to push for better wages.

Sounds like a radical lefty to me! Case closed boys.

You could read off a socialist manifesto and 90% of republicans would completely agree as long as you didn’t say any buzzwords. The mental disconnect is astounding.

Kanye forced her to take the lead but it paid off.

I was curious whether they were actually doing anything illegal. National guard can’t actually do anything stateside besides disaster relief, so when they’re activated for “unrest” they’re just there to look scary or whatever. They literally don’t do shit.

Another actually helpful lemming pointed out the deployment itself was illegal, but that wasn’t even clear until the ruling because Trump literally is their commander. Him deploying other states’ guards on title 10 orders is blatantly illegal, DC wasn’t as clear cut.

Which orders were illegal in this case?

“Well I don’t like fascism but ThE LiBrUlZ”

Most will still vote red. Maybe a large chunk just won’t vote and that’s the best we can expect.

The epstein email specifically asking if putin had the photo. I didn’t bring vladdy in for no reason.

Reminds me of the south park episode from 2016 or 17 when people were mad president garrison was fucking people to death and he was incredulous because that was his whole campaign.

Ah yes, putin is blackmailing Trump with a pic of him… Sucking up to someone?

I’m not touching it because I like my sanity, but also they’re shady as fuck. They offered an exorbitantly priced premium version of the game that promised all future upgrades for no additional cost, then decided that didn’t include the new pve mode. You could probably find a dissertation on other shitty things they’ve done but that’s a big one.

“Of course almost all models, especially agent models and Victoria secret models are mostly [trans women],” one wrote.

“All the hot women are secretly trans.”

My kingdom for their therapist’s notes.

barely legal

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Someone explain to this bitch what “barely” means.

They had so many opportunities to learn their lesson since 2016 and every time they have refused. I’m fully expecting them to learn nothing again.

hopefully the infighting will make it easier for progressives to rise to prominence

This is the real and probably only hope. If progressives thrash the establishment dems hard enough, they’ll at least pay lip service to them.

The fact that they have a golden opportunity right now convinces me of the fact that they will fumble the absolute fuck out of it. They already went to war against mamdani. Any progress will be in spite of the D party.