Tech_Paradox

IT specialist and gaming fan. Into Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and other fiction. Likely to say something to piss you off if you stick around long enough. ITM

[Tech_Paradox @TechParadox]

The Bally's Aladdin's Castle nearest to me had this game as one of the secondary fighting games you could play while waiting on SF2 to open up. It had an interesting weapons system only used High/Mid/Low attack buttons.

[Pixel Cherry Ninja @PixelCNinja]

Martial Champion (1993) by Konami was Konami’s answer to Street Fighter II, featuring massive character sprites and brutal finishing attacks. It never took off, and disappeared into arcade history.

[Tech_Paradox @TechParadox]

@DT2ComicsChat Point of order: if we're talking classic Shang-Chi, he might be able to take an un-geared Batman. He was pretty much Bruce Lee turned up to 11. MCU version would fold like a cheap tent.

[Tech_Paradox @TechParadox]

And despite all of this, Chicago will still vote Blue every chance they get. The blindness of the masses to the corruption, graft, and disingenuousness that comes out of the puppet that is Springfield never ceases to baffle me.

[Yogi @Houseofyogi]

Chicago lost the Bears this week. A team that's been in the city since 1921.

They didn't lose them to a bigger market or a better deal. The Bears decided they'd rather be a tenant in Indiana than deal with Illinois for one more year.

Think about how badly you have to run a place for that to be the smart move.

They lost them for two reasons.

The people running Illinois would rather villainize a builder than keep one. And they're bad at their jobs.

In 2021 the Bears spent $197M on the old Arlington Park racetrack.

Before they could break ground, Cook County valued the empty lot at $192M (Bears said $60M). They were salivating at the chance to extort a building that didn't even exist yet.

That fight dragged on for years.

The Bears were ready to put $2B into the stadium. All they wanted was a promise the county wouldn't reassess them into oblivion, plus $855M for infrastructure everyone uses. Roads, transit, utilities. A $3B project, two thirds of it private money pouring into Illinois.

Springfield had since 2021 to get this done. They dragged it to the final night of session, passed it through the Senate at 3:39AM, and the House went home without voting.

So now it's all gone.

The funniest part? This started because Cook County tried to grab the tax early. They knew a built stadium would pay $53M a year. Now they get under $4M on a vacant lot. No jobs, no buildout, no new anything.

Congrats on fighting for scraps and losing the whole prize.

Pritzker: they're "an $8.5B valued business" that doesn't need propping up.

But be smart for a second. Almost every NFL city throws in public money for a stadium. Not charity. The return is real. Tourism, hotels, restaurants, jobs, game days, property tax on a huge development. The math works.

Indiana did the math. While Illinois sat on it for years, Indiana passed a bill in months, put up $1B, and took the team.

And the Bears took a worse deal to get there. In Illinois they were going to own their stadium. In Indiana they rent it from the state. A team that wanted to build its own home gave up ownership just to escape Chicago.

Nobody won but Indiana. The Bears lost their stadium. Illinois lost the team, the $2B, and $53M a year in taxes.

Pritzker after they left: "I wasn't willing to give up billions of dollars of taxpayer money to give it to a billionaire-owned family or team."

There it is. "Billionaire-owned."

That's how Democrats talk about any business right before they run it out of town. Call them a billionaire, act like you're saving working families, take a victory lap while the tax base drives across the state line.

Meanwhile they're running the whole state into the ground. And you already know how this ends. You're living in it.

Pensions are $143B in the hole, worst in the country and not close. You pay $6,285 a year in property taxes, double the $2,969 national average, for a city that's $1.15B in the red. The mayor called its finances "the point of no return."

When you run things this badly, you sell what's left.

They leased the parking meters for 75 years to Morgan Stanley and a sovereign wealth fund in Abu Dhabi. Took $1.15B and burned through it in two years. The investors already made it all back, with 58 years left to collect.

Sold the Skyway. Sold the downtown garages. Every asset that made money, gone for one check.

But a fixed property tax rate for a team that's been here 106 years? That's "propping up billionaires."

Companies are leaving. Boeing for Virginia. Caterpillar for Texas. Citadel for Miami. In 2023 alone Illinois lost 56,000 people and $6B in income to other states. The ones who left earned a third more than the ones who moved in.

Indiana didn't outbid anyone. AAA credit, 16 years straight. A $676M surplus. Fourth-lowest debt per person in the country. They just weren't a disaster.

Illinois could have collected $53M a year. It chose zero. Ignore all the bad management but make sure to stick it to those evil, pesky billionaires.

[Tech_Paradox @TechParadox]

And here comes all the screams of "MUH MAKOTO! MUH DUDLEY!" et cetera. I'm all for seeing some new blood in the roster. We don't need the umpteenth rehash of the rest of the big four bosses or your fave pick from SF3-5.

[Street Fighter 6 @StreetFighter]

Year 4 of #StreetFighter6 welcomes Tifa from the FINAL FANTASY VII Remake Series!

🗡️ Yasmine - August 3, 2026
💨 Arjun - Autumn 2026
☄️ Tifa - Early 2027
👊 Bosch - Spring 2027

Brand new characters, a guest character, and the second protagonist from World Tour are ready!

[Tech_Paradox @TechParadox]

@suttythegoy @reddit_lies As a buddy of mine used to joke, “she’s lucky if she gets two pumps and an apology”.

[Tech_Paradox @TechParadox]

@rowlands_laws Maybe for the buffalo. They get to play “gore and trample the idjit”.

[Tech_Paradox @TechParadox]

@erastus_amaechi @reddit_lies Well, in reality, we can only track one hit for each body she claimed. In theory it could have been two, three, or even 12 times per person. In this case, we get the low end boundary number, and can extrapolate from there.

[Tech_Paradox @TechParadox]

@Jringo1508 @WriterRevenant @SandyofCthulhu Eh, no elephants. I’d go with Gamera over Great A’tuin, but either way Pterry probably would have gotten a chuckle out of it.

[Tech_Paradox @TechParadox]

@meh91732905 @reddit_lies Yeah, that’s the average according to Google, with the range being between 100 and 400-ish. I’m thinking some bros need to up their stamina game.

[Tech_Paradox @TechParadox]

@RutVanEsselstyn @reddit_lies Yeah, you could probably double or triple that number, easily. Plus she’s probably lowballing her body count by not counting all of the guys she went down on but didn’t go all the way with in her number - because oral doesn’t count in their world.

[Tech_Paradox @TechParadox]

@MichaelFKane For hardbacks in general I say go with a dust jacket, but I’m old-school like that. Laminate covers, regardless of how decorative, always remind me of school textbooks or game rulebooks.

[Tech_Paradox @TechParadox]

@mjarbo I haven’t seen tracing on that level since the last time I picked up a book that had Greg Land on the art. I mean, it’s one thing to throw in an homage to something, but that’s straight up “break out the light box” level of draw-over.

[Tech_Paradox @TechParadox]

@gorrillavision @Fat_Electrician Oh yeah. You could totally cut that down even further by using store-brand stuff and making a pitcher of lemonade/tea/Kool-Aid instead of the soft drink. Nobody ever taught these people how to shop and meal-plan, much less cook.

[Tech_Paradox @TechParadox]

@HFArdenquill @DonutOperator That just means that we can definitively say someone is taking it up the tailpipe.

[Tech_Paradox @TechParadox]

@YourNerdWonder @MrX_UNI Throw another vote on the pile for “How to Draw Comics the Marvel Way”. It’s a quintessential guide to the Marvel style from the ‘60s and ‘70s. Also, Will Eisner’s books on comics, graphic storytelling, and anatomy are a great general resource.

[Tech_Paradox @TechParadox]

@OswaldRErnst @MowieWauii @HMBohemond Yeah, if that dude cooks for a living and runs a kitchen, I’m Gordon Ramsay. I typed up a huge response to his “I cook for a living”, breaking down how he’s full of crap, but X doesn’t seem to be showing it in replies to his post. It’s visible in the Replies section on my profile

[Tech_Paradox @TechParadox]

Damn, John Blanche died? That sucks. I may not have been playing Warhammer back in the day, but I loved the heavy metal look and feel of his artwork.

[Sharky @spaceshark23]

Pour one out for John Blanche today. Dude came up with one of the most iconic modern art aesthetics I've ever seen.

[Tech_Paradox @TechParadox]

Oh no, you opened this can of worms, we’re going to talk it out. I worked food service jobs in the past and know my way around things, so your attempt at an appeal to authority to shut down discussion holds little water.

Comparing apples to apples, with the prices given, the food product on the right can produce four servings of one quarter-pound cheeseburger (with ketchup, lettuce, tomato, and onion) and eight ounces of fries. Given that there is one burger and fries combo pictured on the left, we’re going to count it as one serving needed. That leaves three leftover servings from one cooking session, if you opt to cook all of the fries. The soft drinks not being pictured is negligible, and why I noted to tack on $2 per serving in my original post because you’d have to pick up four 20oz bottles. This also leaves us with four extra buns, a bottle of ketchup, 12 slices of cheese from the 16-pack, a head of lettuce, onion, and half a tomato. Give or take the fries, if they didn’t cook all of them. You’d think someone who “runs a kitchen” would recognize those overages and count them as available stock for future prep.

As far as “any way to make a real.burger” goes, pull the other one. It has bells on. Next you’re going to be telling me they need to count the cost of their rent for their apartment in the price of a burger because that’s where they’re doing the cooking. Anyone cooking at home is expected to go to the expense of collecting the proper utensils and cooking vessels to do so. I can go down to my local big box retailer, hit up the home goods section, and walk out with a cheap frying pan, set of utensils, and cookie sheet for under $30, and those will last for years. If they don’t have a range top or an oven, a hot plate (under $20) is viable for frying the burgers, as is a cheap air fryer (under $30) for the fries. I made do with a similar setup in an efficiency apartment years ago and was more than able to cook on my own.

Oh, and before you even try to get into the personal cost of labor and time spent cooking, don’t. Prep time from ground zero on those ingredients would be 30 minutes, tops. Cleanup, tack on another 30 minutes, and that’s if you’re slow at washing the dishes. Anyone can pull that off as a multitask while they’re streaming a video for home entertainment.

[Tech_Paradox @TechParadox]

@HMBohemond I did the math on the “fixed” version. Total price per burger and fries serving is $3.27 (and that’s being generous with the fries), tack on another $2 if you want to add a bottle soft drink. Millennials and Zoomers need to learn how to properly cook and handle leftovers.