Oh, perfect. Thank you.

Honestly, I think this is just one where you try it for yourself. The compose file is about 4 lines long, I had the whole thing up and running in about 30 seconds (OK, 45; I forgot a port was already in use and had to redeploy).

So far my one big complaint would be that the self-hosted version replicates the entire website, including all of the “Why choose Bento PDF” and “Try now” and so on. It’d be nice to just have the tools right there when I load it up. Other than that, well, it looks cool, I’ll know more once I actually try out the available options.

“There are only two genders! It’s basic biology!!!”

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We Do Not Preorder

Seriously, don’t reward this kind of anti-consumer bullshit.

The only acceptable justification I can see is if it’s an indie dev who has really, truly earned the trust of their players and proven that they will work tirelessly to deliver the product people want. And even then I’d be very, very unlikely to. I’m crazy excited for both of Owlcats upcoming games and I still haven’t pre-ordered them, for example.

Pre-orders encourage bad, buggy, incomplete or deceptively marketed releases by juicing day one numbers without any need for the dev / publisher to actually release a worthy product.

“A Wealth Tax Floated in California Has Billionaires Pretending They’re Thinking of Leaving.”

There. Fixed the headline.

Direct any questions to The Myth of Millionaire Tax Flight by Cristobal Young, an actual comprehensive scientific study on the issue. You can guess from the title what the data showed.

The AI investor pitch is one of existential risk. “This industry will eventually erase every other. Every investment you have will be made worthless by this one technology.”

The way the average investor sees it, when you have a pitch like that, it becomes irrational not to invest. If you’re even 10% sure they’re right, you have to hedge.

For anyone not aware, this happens regularly, and has happened regularly for a long time. Recent events have made it seem more newsworthy, so mainstream press is reporting it like its a big fucking deal, but this kind of airspace testing has been standard Russian practice for a long time. Not saying it’s a good thing, but it doesn’t represent any kind of sudden escalation.

“Hitler loved my joke about gassing the Jews” isn’t exactly proving your point, Dave.

It desparately needs a proper novelization. And I normally hate novelizations.

The fact that we’ll never get the rest of Raised By Wolves is a fucking tragedy. Easily one of the most weird and inventive new IPs we’ve gotten in years. I have no idea if they were going to stick the landing - big danger that it could have ended up as another Lost - but god did I want to see them try.

MAGA won’t collapse as a unified front. No collapse is ever unified, that’s why it’s a collapse. The fact that you’re seeing some of them bending over backwards to defend Epstein doesn’t prove that the damage isn’t happening. That split is the damage. There’s a tonne of infighting happening in the MAGA world right now. Ben Shapiro and Nick Fuentes are basically at war. Tucker Carlson has managed to turn the Heritage Foundation into the red wedding. Lauren Boebert and MTG - major MAGA figureheads - both openly defied Trump over the Epstein files, and MTG is retiring from Congress before the mid terms. If you’re only looking at one or two faces you’re not seeing the full picture.

If you genuinely think The Martian is a bad movie, I have nothing to say to you. You’re clearly not operating on any metric of good film-making that’s even tangentially related to the reality most people live in. But I do hope you’re enjoying yourself out there wherever you are.

Ah, good to know that the criteria for being good at anything is “Literally never making a single questionable call ever in your entire life long career.” That’s a totally reasonable and normal standard to apply to anything.

Ridley is actually a shockingly consistent director. The big career slump he got known for was during a period where almost all his focus was on his brother’s mental health. No surprise that he wasn’t putting out his best work. But he came back to full form spectacularly with The Martian, and he’s always had a real knack for scifi. I think it’s OK to be optimistic about this one.

See, the thing is, I’m not talking about their stupidity.

That’s why the Epstein stuff is sticking in a way nothing else is; because it doesn’t ask them to be smart. In fact, it plays right into their stupidity. That’s the difference.

Everything else has bounced off them because it was easier to excuse it. Excusing the tariffs is easier than learning how trade really works. Excusing tax cuts is easier than understanding how the economy really works. Excusing his foreign policy blunders is easier than trying to understand the value of soft power. Ignorance is simpler. Ignorance is easier.

But the Epstein stuff? That sticks because they don’t have the ability to be ignorant about it. This is something they know. Secret cabals of pedophile elites kidnapping children to sexually abuse them on a private island? My brother in Christ, they write fanfiction about that shit. They are the self proclaimed experts on that stuff. With everything else they can just say “Well I don’t understand this, but I’m 100% confident that Trump does, because obviously the billionaire is a genius.” But then they watch as Democrats are out there screaming for the release of the Epstein files while Republicans are dragging their heels and it does a number on them. Because they know how this is supposed to work; Democrats are all evil child rapists and Trump is the saviour sent to stop them. So why is Trump running cover for the pedophile cabal?

In short, I’m not claiming that MAGA are suddenly getting smart. I’m claiming that the Epstein cover up is exactly the right kind of stupid.

I have watched the first one, and at the end of the day it is an extremely competently made movie. That’s something that can’t be ignored. The plot is cliche as hell, and it’s basically doing all the worst parts of the Dances with Wolves white saviour bullshit, but at the end of the day James Cameron is an absolutely phenomenal director, especially when it comes to action, and that does a lot of work for it.

It’s the kind of movie where the things that bother you tend to bother you later, because you do get caught up in the spectacle of it all. Cameron does spectacle very well, and there’s an art to that.

I think it generated tremendous buzz, and then disappeared without a trace. Like, it’s genuinely shocking how quickly people forgot about it given how big the hype for it was.

The Avatar movies are a bizarre phenomenon. Absolutely nobody ever talks about them. They have almost zero cultural presence, and yet they are incredibly successful, despite the staggering cost of making them.

Everything has it’s limit.

In n particular, MAGA care about the Epstein files. This is a major crack in their coalition. They spent years throwing around conspiracy theories about pedophile cults secretly running the world. They are obsessed with the Epstein files, and the more Trump tries to obfuscate their contents, the more they have to start wondering what his skin in the game is. We’re already seeing it happen with people like MTG publicly turning on him.

It’s still a cult. They don’t want to suspect dear leader of anything. But the more he works to conceal stuff, the more they’re trapped between two things they hold at absolute truths. One of them has to give eventually.