América Latina & Caribe

How does the water from Half Life 2 still look so good? 20 years later and the water looks like it came from a game made today.

I miss playing my Star Wars droid character. They'd know what to do.

I'm such a notorious savescummer. I must be saving like every 2 minutes of gameplay if not more.

When I was a kid I was told multiple times by adults in my catholic adoptive family that there was a town that created an "I hate everything" club that God sent a tornado to and everyone who was in the club died

I think some of them actually believed that

I don't really want to talk about it, but this has been kind of the worst Christmas-New Years ever.

we were supposed to get <1" of snow today

we got a little over 2"

it's my dog's favorite weather (and mine), but I'm having a hard time being anything but worried and depressed about it.

going to take him outside with the

sno-baller

and try to be less doomer

ppl be like "rust cohle would be insufferable in real life u would not like being around him" but nah i disagree i think he'd be cool and nice, my man spends over half his waking hours around socipoathic chuds complicit in a ring of course he's edgy and standoffish. it's a nice subtle stroke of characterization that he's a lot sweeter around kind normal people (i.e. his friendship with maggie).

(huh. is my brain telling me i should rewatch true detective season 1 again? )

Made pot o but hear me out this time used no oil and only fresh spices (peppers, garlic, bayleaves) no imitation stock. It's all an effort to eat more natural also because for a week I've ran out of imitation stock and couldn't be asked to get more.

Honestly just reminds me of how my parents used to make beans growing up in a slow cooker full of water with just some chilies, onion, and garlic and I'm here for it.

God the E1 guys are incredible at naming Guys and Things

Chip Blockoff, CEO of DealMachine

Corb Zatch, CEO of Pick Six Financial

My cat is such an asshole.

Whenever I do something he likes I have to be on guard because he'll attack me when I try to leave the room. I just had him on my lap petting him for 15 minutes, and when I left the room he carefully watched me until I wasn't paying attention and really clawed my leg, making me drop my coffee.

He'll also bite you if he's really liking how you pet him and then change it up.

He was a feral kitten that didn't like being pet at all for the first year, I'm sure the behavior is something related to that, but it's still really frustrating. It's like he doesn't want me to be nice to him, even though he's generally a sweet cat now.

Crushposting:

My last crushpost got a little weird. They usually don’t get much attention, and what little there is I think is usually men. So I wrote a self-crit here that should be a good opportunity for women and enbies to bring up what you find problematic.

a large chunk of the eastern US is expecting a large snowstorm between Sunday and Tuesday with an accompanying deep freeze.

Ryan Hall Y'all video

NWS:

It very much remains the case that the upcoming short to med-range winter pattern from the weekend into early next week will be especially impactful for a broad swath of the central to eastern U.S.. An upper trough in the central U.S. Sunday will produce a consolidating surface low in the Southern Plains. Precipitation is expected to push across the eastern half of the U.S. with this low and good dynamical support aloft. Cold air in place will favor widespread heavy snow that will be heavy across areas from the Central Plains, Mid-Mississippi Valley, and Ohio Valley Sunday. Snow will push into the Mid-Atlantic Sunday night into Monday. Just to the south, there is a relatively broad transitional area that will see impactful mixed precipitation types, transitioning between multiple p-types and/or seeing snow and sleet/freezing rain. Potentially significant sleet and freezing rain are possible across the Ozarks east to the Tennessee Valley and south-central Appalachians/Mid- Atlantic. WPC is issuing Key Messages for this winter storm. Meanwhile farther south in the warm sector, expect lingering trailing frontal showers and thunderstorms to spread eastward into and across the Southeast into Monday.
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Colder than normal temperatures are likely across the central and eastern U.S. underneath rounds of upper troughing and with cold surface high pressure systems. Notable cold is possible in the northern tier, with even high temperatures barely reaching 0F and lows between -10F and -20F in some areas. This should not be record breaking, but the cold could still be hazardous as wind chill values may dip below -20F to -30F. Temperature anomalies of 10-20 degrees are also likely across parts of the northern/central Plains to Middle Mississippi and Ohio Valleys to Appalachians into much of next week, especially if areas are snow covered and hold temperatures down. Meanwhile, initial upper ridging in the western U.S. will allow for slightly above normal temperatures in the Intermountain West, and 10-20 degrees above normal anomalies in the south-central U.S. Sunday will cool to below normal behind a cold front by Monday. The upper pattern in the West is uncertain by midweek next week, causing temperatures to be in question, but there may be a trend toward warming for parts of the West.

hoping the snow is fluffy and fine instead of wet and heavy. it is already pretty cold for most of us and isn't expected to get above freezing before then, so it seems possible, and the sleet and ice line at the southern edge of the storm is predicted to be relatively narrow, but still very worried about all the people and pets sheltering outside a heated building.

mega anxiety today. having some beers, nuts, and jamming to the mountain goats to chill out. can I get a hell yeah

Here's a secret to understanding ancient aliens shit - it's all white cope.

Eric Von Daniken writing Gold of The Gods to explain how South American peoples got outside help to build the pyramids while his ancestors lived in their own shit - cope

Muh aliens built the pyramids - cope

Iran used alien tech to shoot down American drones for reverse engineering - cope

Aliens built Stonehenge - cope by the English, who as we all know are incapable of building anything without outside intervention.

New fear unlocked thank you youtube algo

spoiler

How to know if you're the friend no one likes vids in rec

Our Changing Climate seems cool

Emoji ideas that I do not have the skills to create:

• :Survivorship Bias: <- image of the plane with the red dots on it.
• :BraveMujahideen: <- The text saying "this film is dedicated to the brave mujahideen fighters of Afghanistan", probably easier if its just the text and not the background.

3rd work out this week , been averaging 3 a week since before Christmas. We’re so back gamers

Cassidy Yates is a super under appreciated ds9 character.

How do you tell americans are inured to gun violence?

Their scared of 'jabs' but not 'shots'

Mega mega mega THREAD

Could anyone give me some examples of the democrats moving rightwards economically since the 90's please?

it would be really appreciated thanks guys

New baffling mispronunciation, "miscontinent" for miscontent

We love our Admiral Biederman and his bizarre linguistic gaffes don't we folks

crazy how this job went from "mostly tolerable but meh" to "holy shit i fucking hate it here get me out!!!!!" after i gave notice

Can't stop my inner critic from tearing me down but it can't stop me from repeating everything thing it say back to it in a nerd voice and it's not even in a cute nerd voice

Been watching an acquaintance go form Bernie-bro to Fascist in the past 10 years. I'm not very close to him, but I've known him for some time. I think he can't let go of his White chauvinism, I've gotten into fights about him over this. In the end he'd rather align with MAGA Communists, and now he thinks Steve Bannon's populism means "left and right are no longer useful ways of thinking about the world".

remember ? lol. lmao.

Did a thing

Squid game season 2 doesn't need to exist but it is pretty well done. The last episode in particular is entirely a grounded action set piece where the tension comes from logistics, ammo conservation and dealing with a lack of information. It's the best grounded action I've seen in a while, so honestly it gets a recommend on that alone

you're gonna find it hard to stop a cat from crossing a border if it feels like it.

crushposting struggle session

My platform: cap credit card interest, increase credit card cash back, pay for it by hiking fees credit card companies charge small business tyrants, make cash-only businesses illegal.

what's so funny about posting without capital letters. hehe look i'm so whimsical! im high please don't read this post

Ok let's compromise with the right and just fart on all the landlord's instead of executing them

"Scratch a liberal, and a fascist bleeds. Make a fascist bleed, and a liberal scratches you." - SexUnderSocialism

I've had a dream i was cutting bread and kept discovering mold

Feel like medieval mystic type would have a field day with this (harvest, hidden rot, blah blah), while i just check my bread from all sides now

Part of me genuinely wants to be an insanely repellant, offputting human being. Not just for my political enemies on the right, either.

End of the day I’ll always see the hitler particles before the human they’re embedded in, and that makes most people kind of unnerve me.

really don't understand why Musk supporters thinks its a W that his truck is a coffin. car crashes come from outside not inside

small countries need to start DIGGING DOWN. this is the easiest way to add to the national surface area, harness the resources of the earth, and acquire unlimited wealth. DWARVEN countries like andorra will finally stop being fucking jokes

oh no morrowind content that's too new to have uesp entries is fucking hard to find shit

but there is a donkey! and i will purchase it

While getting backed off from blackjack today, the casino security guy told me that it's really obvious that I count cards lmao. Guess I need to focus on practicing my camouflage.