I’m already at the point I don’t really need to buy anymore games, and my library isn’t even that old or impressive. Add emulation and it’s even harder to justify purchases.

If it was 40k, as the sarlac consumed more souls it would gain the ability to manipulate people into feeding it more with increased power. It would also be capable of growing to the point it could consume planets.

One of the most common is that people were stupid in the past. Humans have been roughly the same intelligence across history. There was lack of technology and knowledge, but ancient people were far more intelligent than many give them credit for.

Feudalism was essentially slavery without the formal ownership.

There’s probably some truth to this. Men’s and women’s hockey are functionally separate sports.

The left likes to pretend that all of the criticism of Obama was racism.

Government departments don’t get to roll over money, that’s partially the problem.

The US would bomb the factories before the Chinese military could get close to them.

I’d say it’s most likely some form of smuggling that got caught up in the increased tension.

This is actually a bad thing that leads to wasteful spending. Use it or lose it budgeting creates perverse incentives to continuously spend.

Even then the legal requirement is about working in the companies interest, not strictly get more profit. It’s become shorthand to just say profit, because it’s a simple thing to point at.

The drone footage has really helped with that, and I saw at least one run from a GoPro perspective that also helped with perspective.

The vast majority of states have some level of control on the increase in property taxes. Generally through a cap on appreciation, cap on tax increase, or both.

War thunder is the most successful psi op ever to get actual specs of military equipment.

Your neighbors would be lucky to have a house if it actually went off.

There’s a lot of reasonableness and average person would expect in law, but needing a supersonic bullet to hit it is well out of reasonable territory.

Would this count as a trap? You could probably argue needing someone to fire a supersonic round into it makes it not a trap.

The UK would be the second largest economy in the EU. There isn’t a way they join without favorable terms.

I see said the blind man, as he picked up the hammer and saw.

I absolutely hated my first experience with modern dual stick controls. It felt so wrong compared to GoldenEye.