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  • Orcs Must Die Unchained. Pretty good game overall, was trying to be a league of legends type of game with 3D TD, it didn’t get a player base going, so they swapped it over to a solo game, the maps were fun as hell and picking through 10+ characters was fun, it was really dynamic and the endless mode was very fun to push. They ended all support, it’s offline. Sucks. OMD 3 came out, it’s not even a quarter the game. Theirs 4 different player characters, they are all humans. All enemies are orcs or other bad guy type of mobs, unchained had human enemies and a few other variations, there’s no where near the number of maps and most maps play in a really predictable way. In Unchained there were maps you needed to build a kill box, sell it, move it, all to get one wave killed, at least on the first few waves, anyway. It almost scratches the itch, but not well. I’m honestly perplexed on why they didn’t just include the characters and maps from unchained.

    Anyway. It’s a very ‘‘there are dozens of us!’’ Game. So. I don’t expect much here.


  • The first hand account I personally heard was a man named Johnson, don’t recall his first name, but his son is named Eric and he was my high school history teacher, who also served as a green beret, the father was a medic, he was traveling with a British group of soldiers, he had to do triage at a camp, lost of details stuck out to me, the nazi staff threw grenades into the offices to destroy documentation, the train tracks had been blown out for days at least and there were carts full of human remains they were transporting to who knows where. When they were gathering all the survivors they found a man alive hung on a meat hook, and he said there were a single digit number of men who came up to them, did a nazi salute and explained they were in the camp mistakenly and wear always good obedient nazis. He focused a lot on a man carrying around his brother, he did triage and told the man his brother was only hanging on by a thread, his eyes were already dry was his main concern and he marked him as ‘‘aid last’’ basically, he likely wouldn’t survive under any circumstances. Then decades later he was commuting to work in SF where he lived, and stopped to by a paper got the train, and after he spoke a man he didn’t recognize stopped him and asked if he remembered the man carrying around his brother, and he did, the man was the brother who was carried, he somehow managed to survive and recognized his voice after all those years. They stayed in contact for the rest of their lives. And lastly a student asked him what the most shocking thing he witnesses, and he said the most shocking thing that he really still didn’t understand is that the people who survived the camps and walked out weren’t destroyed, even so soon after liberation they had the capacity for joy, love, and lived their lives. I’ve talked to two men who were American soldiers and witnesses the camps in that context, and believe me, just being there for a day or two was a burden they could hardly carry, it was a living nightmare. But people survived. Anyway, That’s all I remember about it, I haven’t been able to find anything on my own to point to, but that’s enough to at least connect the story to a person I know he talked about it publicly at some point.









  • I’m 40, and I’m really only attracted to people my age, maybe late 30s, but much younger than that and I’m really not into it. This has been pretty consistent my whole life, of course I had crushes in school, but after being a teen probably around 22+ I Really wasn’t interested in teens. But 30 I was not interested in 20s. If I had to find someone, which I’m really not anticipating, I wouldn’t bother dating someone younger than 35-38 through whatever 45-50 range.


  • Snowclone@lemmy.worldtoMemes@lemmy.mlJim "Scumbag" Farley
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    1 month ago

    Anyone curious there’s approximately 177k Ford employees, and 21m divides to a little over 117k a person.

    The union is asking for a 40% raise over 4-5 years. So 40% total spread across 4-5 years. Average wages are 100k (60k-130k). That’s 24k a person. All together is 4.3m rounding up.

    He’d go from 21m to 16.5 mill, if his wages are totally stagnant, and he doesn’t get any kind of yearly bonus, which I really doubt he isn’t, and then also considered most CEOs make the majority of their yearly net gain in stocks alone.