How much time can we credibly risk that military complex will be sustainable, if such scenario unfolds?
Food for the troops, fuel for machines, parts, ammunition cost money. It's one thing to be North Korea but the US have a too sophisticated military complex.
And I risk at some point civil unrest would begin.
Again, this is horrible from me to say this, but if that was to happen, the US would turn into another Venezuela. Not Russia, Venezuela. But with too many corporations trying to make business as usual. And when politians mess with money, they get annoying. And less valuable.
Horrible from me to state the next but, hopefully, that country crashes so fast and hard, the people will stage the French Revolution, Second Edition, Revised, Updated and Improved.
That alone would speed in not only a substantial shift for the country but for entirety of humanity, forcing extremely fast cultural and political change.
That murder-hobo part. I never really understood the expression.
Yes, I would willingly deviate from the main story line the moment I could but I wouldn't go on a murder rampage, killing everything and anything in site.
On Silent Storm I would go on a random encounter spree, killing enemies as supppsed, but I never targeted NPCs. And in Fallout I'd roam the map for random encounters as well but, again, hostiles were fair game, NPCs weren't.
And to my understanding, the murder-hobo thing was coined because some players would destroy and kill anything in their path.
As stupid as this may sound, at least to the superstitious part, I give credit.
I've worked directly and currently work indirectly with technicians that work on very expensive and very... I'll call it difficult machinery.
I'm also going to add another layer to the post.
Technicians will rage, throw tools around, curse at and the machines out of frustration because nothing makes sense on how the machines were designed, built, wired or installed for the next person taking care of it to work on it but they will, somehow, make it work. And in an reliable and reproducible way. And teach everyone withing earshot how they've done, so when the machine goes rogue again, everyone will know why.
But when engineers go around the machines... Screw it. Those machines will be non-working for an unreasonable amount of time. The repair will take an extremely long and convoluted process to take effect, following very long and complex procedures that nobody but them will ever be able to understand and rarely are documented, and documented are barely understandable, after which the machine will only work if its startup up is made following very specific and borderline exotheric procedures, from which any deviation will render the machine non-functional. And if questioned, the answers are borderline dogmatic and cryptic.
So, I definetely give some credit to the post. Not on the blood and animal sacrifice parts but the rest sounds just too familiar to discard.
I would do this on Fallout and Silent Storm. And I resumed the main quest, my character was so overpowered and overgeared the main game became "almost" too easy. To compensate, I would wreck havoc, chaos and mayem at every chance I got.
Conservationist.
Highly influential culture? It's a fantasy work, not the cure to cancer. But I'll agree on one thing: corporations are not people; they should be paying to the original creator(s) an efty cut of their profits, from their derivative works.
So you create whatever work. You have exclusive rights to it, let's say for the sake of the argument, 10 years. During that time you never get any return from your work. But after you can no longer claim your rights, someone, perhaps even a company, stumbles on it - or perhaps they just carefully and patiently waited for it - takes it and capitalizes off it, with you watching and sucking your thumb.
No.
If you, an individual, creates something, you have the right to hold your intelectual property. What should be repelled is how easy it is to exploit artists, of any medium.
She was our princess. Can't recall the spanish but she was known for being less than attractive.
Prep Time: 10 minutes
Bake Time: 1 hour 10 minutes
Ingredients
4 egg whites
3/4 Cup [400g] heavy cream
4 1/2 Cups [1000g] Quark (plain)
4 egg yolks
3/4 Cup [150g] sugar
1/4 Cup [50g] vanilla sugar
1/2 Cup [70g] corn starch
4 TBSP lemon juice
Instructions
Preheat oven to 350F/175C.
Beat heavy cream to stiff peaks using a hand or stand mixer with the whisk attachment. Set aside.
Separate eggs and set egg yolks aside.
Beat egg whites to stiff peaks using a hand or stand mixer with the whisk attachment. Set aside.
Add Quark, sugar, vanilla sugar, egg yolks, lemon juice, and corn starch to a medium sized mixing bowl. Sitr to combine using a whisk.
Carefully fold the heavy cream and then the egg whites into the batter.
Pour batter into a prepared springform pan.
Bake cheesecake for 60-70 minutes. If it starts turning too brown, cover with foil.
Turn off oven, open the door a little, and let the cheesecake sit for another 10-15 minutes.
Take cheesecake out of oven and let cool.
Cover and store cheesecake in the fridge for up to a week.
Serve with a side of whipped cream or fresh berries.
I'm torn between being shitty food porn or crimes against humanity food.
Cast your vote.
P.s.
Next, I think I'm going to try the None Pizza With Side Beef
The statue wasn't well received when it was unveilled.
Great display of virtue signaling, if I ever seen one. And nothing lasts forever; if it breaks, have another commissioned, you prudish lot of sycophants.