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I thought official mods are usually called expansions, and newfangled ones DLCs. Even though some did use the same interface like later Elder Scrolls and Fallout series stuff.

They are, and that second bit is exactly what I was talking about -- some games explicitly use their modding framework to push their dlc/expansion material. Terraria has an official modding framework, now, it's just that the main branch steadily releasing new final patches has kept pushing it back from full release for well over a year now, since before there was actually an outright partnership between the tmodloader folks and the main game.

Neat and tidy way to stop that process would be to just... integrate these small-ish updates into the modding framework. Releases the content, helps with making the main branch more steady so the modders can finally catch up, plays up the partnership with third party content creators, actually lets the final patch finally be final, win/win/win/win.

... so after journey's end, just yesterday they've announced a new final(?) (final (final?)) update, coming next year. Involves a dead cells crossever, somehow or another. This has become something of a bad joke, at this point

had a tums for the first time in like 15 years or something

they've made these things taste like freaking skittles

oversized, maybe kinda' chocolaty, skittles

Musk fired a lot more than the board which created the social network, he booted somewhere over literally half the workforce involved... and so clumsily there's been fairly reliable reporting twitter has been trying to hire back people they just fired. Moderation and compliance may not disappear forever, but it would be silly to expect it's going to be even equal to what was there previously, nevermind better. There was already features on twitter that involved money, the proposed subscription service isn't really adding anything new on that front, and it's doing it in a situation where the moderation, admin, and legal teams just got outright gutted.

... it probably will invite state and federal level lawsuits, though. If you haven't noticed Musk doesn't seem to care all that much about that sort of thing

We've got reactions on both extremes, too: the easily-abused restrictive laws proposed (or coming into effect) in some states, and some ridiculously open proposals in some states, allowing abortion including very late term "for any reason."

The reason for that is because if you put restrictions on it, basically any at all, you're going to have massive attempts to abuse that to attack women -- it's similar to why life of the mother exceptions in an otherwise blanket ban function as a de-facto total ban, due to anti-women fuckers persistently filing suit even in cases that were blatantly deadly for the pregnant woman. The chilling effect that has on the procedure even when it is life saving is very real and at times outright deadly, as doctors push things right to the wire in order to attempt to avoid liability and criminal charges, with all the increase in complications that implies. The problem with abortion bans like that is that they're only even a smidgen of approaching reasonable if everyone involved in the non-medical side of things is operating in good faith, and anti-abortion fuckers have made it incredibly, wildly, clear that they are not operating in good faith even in the least little bit.

The reality of it is that late-term abortions for reasons that aren't massive medical danger of one sort or another are functionally nonexistent. They just don't happen, women do not carry a child to late term and then abort on a lark. Legislating like they're a substantial issue that needs addressing, especially nearly to the degree abortion access in general is a concern, is operating on a fundamentally disingenuous basis. An abuse like that would be a terrible thing, but it basically doesn't fucking happen.

Folks get way to goddamn close to each other in cars, just in general. I just assume they have forgotten the face of their physics teachers and try to not let them kill me

... though the slow, then sped up thing sounds a fair amount like a foot fumble, where they tried to break and then the foot slipped. It's far more common than it should be, especially among older/impaired drivers.

It does if you want it to.