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... wait, by go the way of blizzard, do you mean "get bought by Microsoft"? 'Cause that's the way blizzard is in the process of going.

that's just the stuff the mail keeps convincing my grandmother to buy though

Shit, not available? Just like capitalist societies for folks on my end of the income spectrum

Everybody be praising Elden Ring, nobody be talking about how the online play is basically non-functional.

isn't that because that's the default state for souls games and nobody wants to admit it :V

... some game should make a homing upgrade for their weapons, where it's incredibly good -- it homes very strongly, makes it so projectiles no longer stop, bounce off walls, etc. Basically make it so no shot will ever go to waste, full on perfect efficiency.

But. Once you fire a shot, it will hit something, and if it can't find an enemy soon enough, that "something" will be you. Your bullets become very good at what they do, but, uh. Don't let them get bored :V

Theoretically it's a skin color. Practically it's whatever folks want it to mean at the moment; it's been a moving target since it was a meaningful term of use. Generally these days it's going to mean pale folks of european descent, without latin/jewish/roma/asian/etc. phenotype expression. Non-mexico north American and most of Europe demographic majorities, basically.

"Western" isn't a 100% overlap, but it's closest. European descent is largely necessary but not sufficient -- plenty of folks with European ancestry (often enough due to rape somewhere in the past, bleh) aren't considered white. Skin color only counts so much, lot of people largely pale skinned aren't considered white for one reason or another (stateside, see the "Hispanic white" demographic, who are generally white passing right until a xenophobe decides they aren't).

More or less, it's whatever the current majority of people that consider themselves white call white. If that sounds like an inconsistent or confusing heuristic, well. Yes. Yes, it is. Race is pretty close to entirely a social construct (genetics do not give a damn about what we call white or black or whatever people, they a shitton messier), without much care about things like consistency or sense, ha, so you can't really expect consistency or sense.

Uh. Rarely, and with a fair amount of difficulty? The general constitution of a brain doesn't lend itself to popping. More squishing or oozing.

Human ones, anyway, there's probably some critter out there with a brain equivalent that pops real easy, I'unno. Haven't spent much time looking into the reactions of brains to pop tier pressure.

Russian troops have landed in Odessa.

Seems to be conflicting reports on that one, actually.

One thing to remember is that reliable information is going to be pretty damn sparse for a while for the wider world. Too much crap being thrown around by cyberattacks and psyop work.