Alyx Hinata 🇹🇩🚫💀 @alyx@gameliberty.club

Monday...

What are the chances we get Minecraft 2 before GTA 6?

I'm not the biggest fan of New Vegas, but this is actually a fascinating mod build for the game. If I ever do a new run of it, I might actually consider it. It looks nice and, ironically, fresh.

Demaking Fallout New Vegas with Mods
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQdrabCciQM

I'm slowly recovering from a massive headache. Or maybe migraine? I never properly looked up what the difference is. In any case, this one felt like the toothache equivalent of a head pain. I'm used to headaches, unfortunately, but fuck this one was so bad.

Had a look at the Borderlands 4 announcement... like a week later after it happened I guess. I'm late on news, whatever.
In any case... no.
That's my answer to BL4. No.

Oblivion 2: Cyrodiilian Boogaloo

You wouldn't steal an Amulet of Kings

Cursed idea: Sargon of Akkad (Carl Benjamin) Vtuber.

Todd Howard is not real. He can't make it just work.

Gordon Freeman is not real. He can't trigger the resonance cascade.

Wait... you're telling me it took only 33 people to make a AAA level, extremely popular and visually stunning game?
What happened to the "games are so difficult to make these days, and it takes such massive teams of devs, of course we need to increase the price"?...

I always said that was bullshit, but it is nice to see it being proven to this extent.

Karen is not real. She can't talk to your manager.

I've been thinking about this phrase today. Either you know what this is about, or you don't. If you don't know, you're better off not reading any further. It's vtuber shit. You have been warned.

I want to start with an analogy of sorts.

Let's imagine you work for Starbucks, and you're fairly content with the job. Not a great job, but not terrible either, and you make good money. (I know, it's hard to imagine, but just stick with me).
Now let's imagine Starbucks institutes an uniform policy, that you absolutely hate like nothing else in the world. So you do the reasonable thing, and decide to quit.

If someone were to ask you what happened, you'd probably answer "I left because I didn't like the uniforms", or "I left because I didn't like the new policy".
But you could also phrase it as "I left because of a disagreement with management". Still basically true, but it has a different ring to it, doesn't it?

In the first example it feels more like you're fully assuming the blame and responsibility for the departure. In the second though... it feels a bit different. It brings a different nebulous person, "management", into the mix, potentially to share the blame. Suddenly, it feels like management did something wrong to spark a disagreement, doesn't it? It's not solely on you for having an unreasonable hate of uniforms. Management did a bad thing, and you're calling it out for it.

Now going back to the "if you know, you know" bit. I did a double check. Ame didn't use the phrase. She didn't give any reason for her departure in fact.
Fauna, Mumei and Gura used "disagreement with management", either with exact words or similar enough, while Mumei also added "health reasons".
Mumei probably had the strongest reason that was publicly known and that fans would have understood and sympathized with. Her health situation was well known. She wouldn't have needed to add anything else to her reasoning, she could have blamed it on the cough, and kept everything else private. But she added "disagreement with management".

The more I think about it, the more I think this was a phrase that management coached them to say, as a way to take some of the fans' negative attention, and the anxiety that could produce, away from the talents, and onto the company that can better handle it.

Remember what happened with Selen and Niji? When Niji tried putting the blame on Selen, it created a controversy so big, normies ended up talking about it, and some fans ended up convinced Niji is keeping other talents hostage.
Lessons learned:
1) don't blame the employee
2) fans are gonna blame the company anyway. Don't fight it, create the image that you are receptive of criticism from employees.

You can't convince me that Cover couldn't have forced talents through NDAs to stay silent about their reasons for departure, and not mention "disagreement with management". Cover allowed it and likely encouraged leaving talents to say the phrase precisely so that fans get implanted with the idea that employees are indeed allowed to say such things and criticize the company.

Whether this is true or not that Cover listens to criticism, I don't know and it's not the point I'm making. My point is just that "disagreement with management" is a PR statement that is unlikely to reflect much of what the talents actually felt. And even the little bit in which it is accurate, it is designed to control, to redirect, the disappointment and anger of the fans away from tangible people, and more to a faceless entity.

Thanks for coming to my TED talk. You're a fool for having read this much.

You know that phenomenon where you're in your home, doing some house work, and you decide to go to a different room to search for something, only for you to forget what you were searching for when you get there?

Yeah, I've been starting to get this with browser tabs. I'm reading something, or thinking about something, and open a new tab to research. But somehow, as soon as I open the tab, I forget what I wanted to do.

Honestly, I feel like I have a lot to say about the situation, but I'd probably end up pissing someone if I typed out everything that is going through my mind about it. It doesn't feel like the right time for it, but until the right time comes around, I'll probably forget the rant.

I feel like I'm the only person who's unphased by the shark leaving.

The owl on the other hand...

My Little Pony
My Big Pony
^probably Vaush or something

It's hilarious to see how foreigners deeply misunderstand the political situation in Romania, and how transparent they are in trying to use Romania's shit for a propaganda video against EU. And a bad propaganda video at that.

Some Indian sounding bloke is trying to convince the world that a single Court of Appeal ruling against a decision of the Constitution Court has any merit.
To put it in a context Americans can understand, it's the equivalent to how your courts tried to control how Trump conducts immigration policy. Basically the Appeal Court has no power over the Constitution Court. In fact, no court and neither any other state institution have any power over decisions made by the Constitution Court, just like nobody has power over what the US Supreme Court decides.

And in fact, by the time this stupid video came out, the decision of the Appeal Court was already overturned, and the judge responsible for it is being investigated by his peers (a council of other judges that we have as an official institution) to make sure his decision wasn't influenced by corruption or political bias, or something like that.

There's a lot wrong with what happened at the end of last year, and this year, in Romania, but doing bad propaganda, and trying to use our country for your right-wing grift against EU, isn't helpful.
It serves only to discredit the people here who are upset with the cancelling of an election without a valid motivation, and evidence to back up the reason.

There's still the potential of a foreign cyber attack, or some kind of EMP disturbing the network, but the government will NEVER admit to it if it is the real cause. Best evidence for an attack would be if authorities keep saying they don't know the cause a few months after this.

They're not gonna admit that green energy left the energy grid unstable and caused this either. But if this is the cause of the blackout, you can expect the government to silently take measures to reinforce the grid, measures that are designed specifically to address this weakness. And there will likely be non-governmental providers and investigators that will be able to prove it over time.

So basically, I think people will need to be patient for the truth on this one, but also be careful not to forget about it, and allow their government to escape scrutiny.