I don’t know what it says about me that I was already aware of this video.

Seriously, though: Why is “Do not eat” already in quotes on the packaging?

If he had 3 brain cells to rub together, he’d take this offramp and say “The tariffs were beautiful, and working perfectly, but the China-loving RINOs and Democrats killed them before we brought manufacturing back to our shores and eliminated income taxes.”

We still have hydroelectric turbines that can reverse themselves to pump water to a higher elevation reservoir to store surplus energy. We call them pump-gens at my job. The problem is that, as nearby areas develop, that water gets reserved for other things, so they can’t pump it back up because it’s needed further downstream for irrigation or communities or whatever.

I can’t think of a more helpful thing he could have said.

I am a fan of apple apples.

I said he should be fired, and nothing else. You are putting words in my mouth and clearly arguing in bad faith. Feel free to take the last word if it makes you feel better, there’s no point in continuing to talk to you.

Don’t mix criticisms of how someone does their job with encouraging death threats. He is the head writer. If the writing has gotten worse, it’s his responsibility.

It was a joke, Emil, I’m sorry I hurt your feelings.

Skyrim is the same way. I really hope they adopt combat similar to Mordhau or Chivalry for ES6, but that seems about as likely as them firing Emil Pagliarulo to bring the writing standard back up.

Also, the characters still look vaguely horrifying, just in a more crisp but less charming way than they used to.

I haven’t played the remaster, but the old Oblivion leveling system was exceedingly hard to do efficiently unless you planned in advance. It very much needed a rework, although skyrim dumbed it down way too much, in my opinion.

Basically, among all the skills, like destruction magic, blade, sneak, you pick 7 (I think it’s 7) major skills. Those get a boost at the beginning. When you raise your various major skills 10 times, you level up. When you level up, you get to raise three attributes, like strength, speed, or intelligence. You get bonuses to how much you can raise an attribute per level, with 1 being the minimum and 5 being the max. The bonuses are determined by what skills you raised during the last level. For example, the sneak skill is tied to the agility attribute, so raising your sneak skill gets you a bigger agility bonus on leveling up. So, to optimize it, you’d have to raise your major skills exactly 10 times (so none of them go to waste) and fill out the bonuses by raising minor skills, which don’t count towards a level up, to get the ideal spread of +5 to 3 attributes per level.

The main problem with it in Oblivion was that the enemies grow stronger as you level up, and since a lot of people didn’t understand the leveling system, they’d wind up with horribly underpowered characters in the late game. Some people deliberately remained at level 1 to keep the enemies easy.

It’s not him trolling us, it’s his dementia trolling us. Or maybe his plain old stupidity. Honestly it’s hard to tell at this point.

Employee salaries make up like 5% of the federal budget

I’m actually glad China has been so tough on us. I’m pretty tired of world leaders letting that moron claim victory and save face so we can more smoothly go back to normal. The more he’s humiliated, the less likely anyone will try to campaign on this kind of stupidity in the future.

Hate to rain on anyone’s parade but any email not ending in .gov probably goes straight to spam.

Jokes on him, most weebs would rather get isekai’d than go to heaven.

Is this the least qualified cabinet in the history of the US? Maybe they should have gone with more DEI hires.

Pretty much this is what I’m worried about. Hopefully the government record keeping laws are robust enough that they can eke out a real answer about responsibility by threatening additional charges over failure to document those.

I’m not sure you can easily turn contempt of court into a criminal conspiracy charge.

swiftly identify the officials who violated his orders

I think this is likely to be the hangup. Everything with this administration is so chaotic and ad-hoc that it might be hard to pin it on a single person or group. If they don’t have beyond-reasonable-doubt certainty that the person they’re holding in contempt is responsible, it’ll probably just get overturned, weakening the bigger Trump v Courts battle.