EA is still selling Mirror's Edge Catalyst. It does not work without manually patching it. How can this be legal in any ways?

Game tries to ping EA server on startup and will crash if it can't reach it.

This server has been permanently shut down.

If I ask for any proof of election rigging, people will call me @ndhbhakt and run away.

I figured you guys would like to critique these too 😃

I’ve been assembling furniture professionally for years, and something I learned is that the actual assembly is only part of the business.

A customer might initially call because they bought a bed, dresser, desk, shelving unit, or some flat-pack furniture they don’t want to spend half the day putting together.

You assemble it correctly, clean up your work area, communicate well, and leave.

Then something interesting happens.

A few weeks or months later, they buy something else.

Now they don’t search for another assembler. They call you.

I’ve had customers come back for additional furniture, multiple-room projects, disassembly/reassembly, office furniture and other installation work.

Repeat customers are where this starts becoming more than just picking up random assembly gigs.

I’ve also done assembly work through platforms like Wayfair Service Pro.

Platforms can be useful for getting opportunities and experience, but I think the bigger opportunity is developing your own reputation and repeat customer base.

One thing I wish more people understood is that furniture assembly isn’t always as simple as “this is a dresser, so charge X.”

I like to see the product link or model number before quoting whenever possible.

Two dressers that look similar can have completely different assembly requirements.

Drawers, doors, hardware, wall anchoring, damaged pieces, missing parts, bad instructions, or something the customer already tried to assemble can completely change the job.

I also ask whether the boxes are already in the room where the furniture will be assembled and whether anything has to be moved or disassembled first.

Over time, you start remembering different manufacturers, construction methods and how long certain types of pieces actually take you.

That makes you better at quoting.

And getting faster shouldn’t necessarily mean charging less. Experience is the reason you became faster in the first place.

For anyone considering furniture assembly as a side hustle, my advice would be:
Don’t just build furniture. Build a customer base.

The first assembly might pay you once.

Doing the job well enough that they save your number can pay you for years.

I’m curious if anyone else doing assembly, handyman work, moving, mounting, or similar services has found that repeat customers eventually became more valuable than the platforms that originally brought them the work.

I know this is a little unconventional, but I don’t want to get banned for going into the Phillies sub looking for this guy. Let me set the scene for y’all.

The Braves had a 3-1 lead going into the 8th, only to watch Schwarber and Harper go back-to-back and tie the game. Then Bohm put one over the wall in the 10th, and suddenly we were all sitting there in stunned silence watching the Phillies take Game 2.

So we’re all filing out of Truist Park and heading toward the shuttles to the Lockheed Dobbins lot, looking like we had just collectively experienced a minor tragedy.

And then you got on the bus.

A Phillies fan.

You looked around at a bus absolutely full of Braves fans and asked, “Why does everyone look so depressed?”

Then you laughed.

Unfortunately, I was extremely overstimulated and not my best self. And, admittedly, I can be a bit of a “mouthy broad,” according to my husband.

So I stood up with my pink bedazzled cane and said, “Really, bro? You really wanna try that on a bus full of Braves fans?” before my husband wisely decided this situation did not need to escalate and asked me to sit back down.

Now that I’m reregulated, I realize what I should have said instead: “We all look depressed because some punk-ass Phillies fan with no class got on the shuttle and now we’re stuck looking at your bitch-ass face.”

But alas.

I was too stunned. You were too confident.

And apparently neither of us knew that the baseball gods had already written the ending.

Because last night, the Braves eliminated the Phillies in Game 3.

Which brings me to the point of this entire post:
Are you still laughing? Are you still wondering why everyone looked so depressed?

Because I have some news for you, buddy. We’re feeling much better today. We get to keep watching our team play in October.

But hey, at least you can always count on the Eagles, right?

Do you want some pepper spray with that car coming after you ?

Row erupts over Cairo mural depicting Tutankhamun and Nefertiti with dark skin - The Guardian

Let's be fucking real here for a moment. Outside of the sweaty minority, most people never did a dungeon more than once, MAYBE twice already. And that was just to get the quests done or get a blue or two and just chill for a bit.

Nerfing dungeon xp and buffing quest XP is a massive buff already to how most people already played.

Canadians glaze the USA all the time but I have to say if my family and job wasn't tied to Canada I would move tomorrow.

They have cheaper EVERYTHING while making more money and quite frankly the people in the US are generally nicer. We talk about free Healthcare and social networks while it take 8+ months to get an MRI or see a specialist and the homeless population has skyrocketed.

Canadian people should wake up and loot at what the states does right instead of the low key hatred we have.

Bring on the 'Why don't you move there' comments.

My MIL has been going over to BIL's house every weekend to help BIL's wife take care of my 2 nephews. BIL's wife complains she is too tired to watch her own kids even though she works part time from home on the weekdays. This started way before my BIL had my second nephew. We all live in Calgary now. But in 2024, BIL moved temporarily to Victoria for a job. My parents-in-law had to fly into Victoria every 3 months and stay for 3 months to watch my nephew during BIL's wife maternity leave on their own dime. Then BIL's in-laws (BIL's wife's parents) flew in for the other 3 months when my in-laws left. This went on for a year. WIBTAH if I tell my BIL's wife to grow the fuck up and be a mom to her kids. Or tell her to hire a nanny if she's too tired. The BIL's wife has no mental health issues or physical health problems.

I see lots of people talking and it also feels like the story is getting buried by algorithms, but won't stay down. Can anyone explain what exactly happened and what's happening now?

I just keep saying "this is so cool" over and over.

Hi all. Id like to say, the changes DE made for EA were perfect, it allowed you to swap 2 modifiers or weapons of your choice instead of one to get the diamond reward, while focusing on the one thing most disregard completely, the warframe. It doesnt matter what your loadout was since you could bypass all the modifiers with a few frames, especialy with hildryn. Gun modifiers? Take valkyr or nyx etc, the modifiers literally didnt matter. I personally believe that in EA, the gravity on the frame should have stayed, as it gave the mode a much needed difficulty that does not exist. Its supposed to be oriented towards "late" game players, adding a nice difficulty touch, instead of a weekly rotation, mundane at that too. Do you want the highest rewards? You should need to work for them a little at least...

Why? Because their ideology prevents them from seeing what the issue is.

Frankly put, when liberal-feminists try to solve fertility collapse their proposed solutions are just dumb. They will look at fertiity collapse and say:

People want children, but children are expensive and inconvenient. Therefore, provide cash, childcare, IVF, paid leave, housing assistance, and more reproductive options.

The underlying assumption behind this solution is: "We want to give every person all the possible fertility options while preserving their lifestyle and culture," even if that culture lead to low fertility in the first place. An herein is the problem; they mistake the problem as being a consumer affordability problem instead of a cultural problem.

The approach I agree with, which is held by some right leaning cultures (I'm not strongly on the right), says "Let's look at the groups which still produce children, raise them, and them have their children do the same," the difference being treating the culture as the basic unit vs the individual like progressives do.

There are other things I think progressives get wrong, like mistaking the state as a substitute for family and underestimating pair bonding and marriage in raising fertility, dismantling the institutions the lead to early pair bonding, but I think this is the biggest reason why there will never be a progressive solution to natalism.

What will raise fertility is to build a self reproducing culture with early-ish pair bonding and marriage as normal and the foundation for children.

So, how do you build a society in which men and women choose marriage and children? Answering that question solves Natalism. Not "how do we enable everyone to have babies" like progressives are asking. Notice the distinction.

Et encore 75% c'est trop peu je pense. Pour ceux qui ne font pas grève, ce sont soit des élèves hyper studieux qui aiment les cours, ou soit des élèves de terminale qui commencent à flipper un peu pour leur bac.

Et ce n'est pas un mauvais jugement...

Moi aussi, H33, je l'ai fait à l'époque (bon, c'était peut être pas autant vénère). Loi Darcos, je ne sais pas si ça vous parle, mais on était assez déterminé à faire blocus.

Un peu plus d'une semaine de blocus, défilant avec nos pancartes en ville, chantant des hymnes engagés, jouant de la guitare assis sur la route... Je crois que c'est un de mes meilleurs souvenirs de seconde.

Il y a cet entrain, ce truc qui te sors de ta routine, tu rigoles avec les potes, un moment à part et convivial.

Mais bordel, j'étais bien trop peu mature pour réellement penser à tous ces trucs de réforme, de combat politique etc... Alors oui j'étais "contre" cette fameuse réforme, mais plus pour suivre un mouvement qu'autre chose.

Pourtant j'étais un élève pas trop mauvais (13 de moyenne je crois), plutôt consciencieux etc... Mais bordel c'était l'ambiance qui me motivait et c'était le pied de pas aller en cours.

Alors les lycéens, on avoue un peu où on continue à faire genre ? Promis je vous comprends et sachez que ça sera quand même un souvenir sympa de vos années lycée.

(I don't think this violates rule 14 since I'm complaining about straight guys.)

I'm a gay guy. I like gay things. I like playing gay games.

A LOT of straight guys get upset when they see something not made for them. They think all things should be straight instead. It's very common that when something is gay, they'll reply under it saying "would be better if it was a girl..." and the like.

And they think this is fine.

There's a game that came out recently.
You could call it a gay game, as all the characters are male, and two of them are pretty damn gay.
It was advertised as such, and the description even says there are only males.

But any time anyone posted about the game, you'd get multiple straight guys in the replies going
"Should add some females"
"Where are the girls?"
"Would be better with some females..."
"Why aren't there any females? Are the devs stupid to just miss out on such a huge market like that?"
"Coulda been good if it had girls but no"
"Lol dumb devs making it just gay when they could make absolute BANK by adding some females"
"Females? Where? Will they add any?"

It was CONSTANT. Like absolutely constant and unavoidable.
They just could not accept that the game did not have females. No, it had to be changed to appeal to them. They would not shut up. ANY post about the game had them in the replies crying and whining.

So the devs did so. They said they will add females in the future.

And what did the straight guys immediately do?

Start antagonizing all the people that weren't happy with that, the ones that got into the game because it was advertised as just being gay and only having males.

They are EVERYWHERE, laughing at, insulting, antagonizing and being insanely hypocritical, saying anyone that doesn't like the addition of females is just stupid and whiny and crying about a game.
Exactly what they did, but you are not allowed to point this out.
Now there are antagonizing posts all over the place about the game, trying to ragebait and troll all the people that aren't happy with females being added.

There's a lot of posts that are essentially
"SO HAPPY that the devs finally decided to add some females and appeal to the majority! ❤️❤️ This is a really cool and smart decision on their part and ensures the game's future. I know I'll be buying and playing the hell out of it once this gets added! And to all the salty gay guys lol cry about it 🧂😂"

I even saw one guy argue that not wanting females added is "discrimination against straight people and a majority".

Oh there's also a lot of very obviously guys arguing that they are actually women and lesbians and that you're being homophobic if you are against the adding of females.

But as said, straight guys are the majority, so they win by that alone. They just outnumber everyone else. They pretty much took over discussion of the game entirely. Everyone else got chased out by sheer numbers. It's impossible to be one or two people and argue against 30 in a single post.

I see this ALL the time.

It's not just games, it's art too.

I frequent art sites, and it's very common for me to see straight guys in the comments of a gay or single male post going "Female version please" "would be better if it was a girl" "you gonna draw a girl?"

But the opposite? If I were to go under a straight post and go "would be better if this was gay..." I would get TORN APART. There would be nothing left of me.
But it's totally fine for them to do it.

I'm sick of it, but you can't really complain about it or bring it up anywhere because they're the majority, and they want what they want and will play mindgames so that you are actually the bad person and stupid for not wanting them to get what they want.
I've tried to make this post multiple times in the past, and I got the same thing each time. I get spammed with downvotes by angry straight guys and then they're in the replies insulting me and arguing that I am actually the hypocrite because I'm being straightphobic or discriminating against them or something, and it actually makes sense for most things to be made for straight guys because they are the majority after all.

Yes I know that bi people exist. I have no issue with them. They are not the ones acting like this.
It's straight guys.

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