Mustafa,JESUS.

Can you share that interns tweet?

1. Sam Maggs claims credit for naming Rivet

2. Intern at the time (now programmer) calls her on her bullshit and brings up how much of a toxic element she was (in a polite tone).

3. Maggs has to backpedal about being the one who named Rivet and pivots to "I'm angry because it was a team effort" when, in reality, she was clout chasing.

4. What Maggs hasn't done is address is she's been lying and trying to steal credit from the person who actually came up with the name for at least a 5 months.

November 2021. She was called out on March 2022. She's a shitheel who is purely out for herself. And remember, she left the project (possibly fired because she's toxic) 1.5 years before the game was finished, with other writers taking over for her.

Which means that anything she said about Rivet as a character is null and void. Her claims about both named Rivet and that Rivet is actually gay are both attempts at grabbing attention.

Why, you ask? Because the game she just finished working on, Tiny Tina's Wonderland, was just released and nobody is talking about it. She's desperately trying to farm clout and look progressive to get invited to some other project because that's how she operates.

She jumps from project to project, acts like a toxic bitch, leaves halfway through and then tries to act like she was a bigger influence on the game than she actually was. She's a leech.

Nobody should hire her, period.

Edit: She was stealing credit for at least 5 months, not 16. I have no idea why I put 16 down.

Megatron: He may have been your father, but he’s not your daddy.

Will bumblebee or hot rod see there parents on the decepticons side 🤔 🙃

Highly unlikely as none of them were remotely interested in the Decepticon agenda!

Bee’s father, egregiously, is something of a Functionist, so if it’s one thing Bee and Megs can agree on, it’s punting him into a flaming dumpster.

POV. John walker kills a terf.

i see that pic and the only thing i can think of is "MAMMA MIA, THATS NOT HOW YOU A PISTOL"

You’ve Mamma’d your last Mia buddy.

you talk about communism but what do you think of freemarket capitalism?

I don't like pure, unfettered capitalism any more than I do absolute socalism. I prefer capitalism or more capitalist systems than more socialist systems but that doesn't mean I'm for 100% free market capitalism.

I believe regulation is needed at times. "The market" reacts, it doesn't preemptively stop things. If a kind of candy has crack in it, addicting the consumer, the market hasn't stopped a portion of people from getting addicted, it only serves to stop it AFTER the fact and by then it is too late.

It also can have an issue with monopolies. If any one company manages to get a stranglehold on any one market, be it due to expensive start up, the collapse of their major competitor or merging with their competitor, then the lack of regulation can keep that company at the top.

New start ups would be faced with near impossible odds as there'd be no protection for their product, so PepsiCoke Inc could buy out somebody trying to compete with them. Or get their recipe and sell their own 100% same product at a loss until it drives the competition out of business, since it's expensive to produce soda on a large scale.

It has issues with location. If a company is dumping waste into a river that causes a town to get sick, there's zero explicit pressure to stop that if they sell their product outside that area. If some Illinois podunk town gets wrecked will the New Yorkers consuming that product care? Isn't that exactly the issue with China now, where people are happy to buy iPhones made from (essentially) slave labor?

And then there's the issue with cartels, which capitalism encourages because non-competition and price fixing at a bottleneck overly rewards the companies engaging in that practice. Sure, it means everyone gets a slice of the pie, but they all get to get more pie than if they fought one another for customers.

A lot of libertarians believe that capitalism, unfettered and free market, could solve a lot of issues. But they operate on a similar line of thinking as communists; they assume everyone will play fair, which by human nature there will be people who don't. There are people who are going to violate the NAP (as much of a meme as it is) and put their finger on the scale.

Both extremes of capitalism/communism are utopian ideals. As always, there's a balance to be had. And that's why I don't consider myself a capital L Libertarian, I just have some libertarian ideas.

I prefer a mix. I like my country's universal healthcare, I don't mind taxes but I wish they were lower and, overall, I want to see a scaling back of government control. But I still want there to be some government presence for things like industry regulation, various protections and laws, like copyright/patent laws.

Pokrovsk right now 💔 russian army is a few kilometers away and is getting closer every day.

Goals: Find a girlfriend  

Obstacles: Human Megatron being that Hot

A Young!Miner Megs as a treat! Because YouTube jumped to the Beauty and the Beast soundtrack while I was working on a larger piece and  was like LOOK THERE HE GOES THAT LAD IS SO PECULIAR, I WONDER IF HE’S EVEN WELL??? WITH A DREAMY FAR-OFF LOOK, AND HIS NOSE STUCK IN A BOOK—

did you guys see yesterday that a whistleblower came forward and said that facebook knows how to remove the conspiracy theories and nazis but chooses not to because of the ad revenue those kinds of things bring in (and actively turned off the bare minimum safeguards they had when biden won the election), and now today, immediately following this whistleblower’s report: facebook, instagram, whatsapp, and all the sites owned by facebook are mysteriously down and have been down for over two hours now

That does answer my answer greatly, thank you for the reply and explanation.

For your only child MikeyAU Do Lieutenant or Brute have some reservations on letting Raph become a host for the armor? Like they got attached to him after a few years together.

I’d probably say that Raph is kind of in the same boat as Casey (who was also taken into the Foot at a young age) in that Lieutenant and Brute sort of take on a mentor role and they definitely care for his well-being, but aren’t proper substitutes for parents. They treat Raph less like their child and more like an employee (to emphasize this, Raph wears a disguise and works at the Foot Shack lol). Raph is pretty much given free reign around New York as long as he doesn’t attract too much attention to himself.

Also, because they are a cult, they see Raph’s destiny to become the Shredder as genuinely amazing; they aren’t doing it with malicious intent (not that that excuses it, of course, because it’s still bad for Raph) , but because it’s the highest honor one can have in the Foot, and since he works so hard, and is naturally durable, it makes perfect sense for them to pick him.

Hope that answers it!