If the game wasn't for me why are you mad I didn't buy it?
Do you think it's liberal as in liberty but not liberal as in progressive (ie crypto-communist)?
Or do you think it's liberal in neither sense?
He doesn't have a whole lot of future either way
Biden isn't even a boomer, he's older than that (born in 1942)
Chuck steaks have good flavor
I'm typically spending $10-11 / pound for grass-fed ribeye (Aldi) and grass-fed picanha (local butcher)
Interesting short story
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/globalism-economic-slavery
I am in beef country and seem to have better prices than most people
I can't really get steaks for under $7/lb (although I can reliably get ground beef or patties)
My main source of beef comes in around $10-11 per pound
I eat beef all the time though, not willing to wait for a clearance item
it symbolizes Providence / God
but yeah, many "Founding Fathers" were freemasons (eg George Washington)
Anthem captures the essential spirit of Rand in a more focused and concise way than her later, longer novels
Or for long form argument:
Philosophy
Lao Tzu - Tao te Ching
Aristotle - Nichomachean Ethics
Leonard Peikoff - Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand
Richard Dawkins - The Selfish Gene (but IMO ignore his appeals to post-theist Christian ethics)
Liberty Politics
Etienne de la Boetie - Politics of Obedience
Mises - Liberalism, in the Classical Tradition
Rothbard - Anatomy of the State
Gene Sharp - The Politics of Nonviolent Action
Economics
Rothbard - What has Government done to our Money?
Bagehot - Lombard Street (as an enemy strategy)
One of:
Bylund - How to Think about the Economy (easy)
Hazlitt - Economics in One Lesson (intermediate)
Mises - Human Action (advanced)
Religion
(reflecting my own pantheistic/pagan, nonchristian views)
Nietzche - Antichrist
Alain de Benoist - On Being a Pagan
Spinoza - Tractatus Theologico-Politicus
Language
Marshall Rosenberg - Nonviolent Communication
Lakoff & Johnson - Metaphors we Live By (as an enemy strategy)
Fiction
Heinlein - The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
"They've redefined democracy from the consensus of individuals to the consensus of institutions"
Not just never proven, but many attempts to prove it seem to furnish contrary evidence. For example, volunteers spent time with "Spanish Flu" patients (supposedly one of the most contagious diseases of all time) and did not take sick.
Why would Peter Schiff be in disbelief?
If you know anything about gold mining this should be unsurprising. Gold is not economically recoverable at average crustal abundance. You have to find deposits where some geologic process has concentrated the gold.
The whole thing is retarded
Russian hydrocarbons are haraam so the Arabs sell EU halal hydrocarbons from the Peninsula and burn the haraam hydrocarbons themselves
Basically just a shell game so we can pretend the Russians aren't selling their hydrocarbons
According to this it had a "extensive marketing campaign" pushing it to the front of TikTok.
https://gamerant.com/concord-first-party-budget-playstation-graphics-effects-marketing/
So I guess ad spend probably isn't the issue. Maybe the retarded name (Concord) is part of the problem, but it seems gamer aversion to woke slop is the core issue.
I watched this Concord trailer and I think I see some of the issues
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=7jqQJhjf_3o
One is that hero shooters have traditionally been sold based on the characters (see Team Fortress 2 Meet the Mercs as well as the initial Overwatch ads). This allows the players to develop an emotional connection that pulls them deeper into the game. It introduces the game-world from a specific perspective, rather than just dropping lots of content on the player and hoping they piece it all together.
This trailer looks like they're selling it based on the mechanics. While they do introduce various characters I didn't feel like I got to know any of them or see why I should care about them. Instead, we get "here's this character, and here's a couple cool things they do in-game". I think prior character shooters have done a better job of connecting the character visuals to their in-game role. A good example (from a totally different genre) is Plants vs Zombies, where the plants are rooted in the ground because they're plants (and also because that's how Tower Defense games work). The zombies are a horde of slow-moving adversaries because they're zombies (and also that's how Tower Defense games work). In Concord, the big tanky guy is a tank (kind of) but it seems to end there. The other characters (to me) don't really communicate what they're about.
The girl-boss voiceover is also off-putting. There's a bit of tone confusion - are we mercenaries out to survive by any means in an unforgiving galaxy, or are we on some sort of crusade for good?
If OnlyStans manages to turn into a celebrity engagement engine rather than a porn site I will be stunned
I suspect that was part of the original vision before they realized that semi-personalized porn was a gold mine
once again faggotry saves the day