#dispute credit

[bixels]

Portal 2 is still the perfect game to me. I hyperfixated on it like crazy in middle school. Would sing Want You Gone out loud cuz I had ADHD and no social awareness. Would make fan animations and pixel art. Would explain the ending spoilers and fan theories to anyone who'd listen. Would keep up with DeviantArt posts of the cores as humans. Would find and play community-made maps (Gelocity is insanely fun).

I still can't believe this game came out 12 years ago and it looks like THIS.

Like Mirror's Edge, the timeless art style and economic yet atmospheric lighting means this game will never age. The decision not to include any visible humans (ideas of Doug Rattmann showing up or a human co-op partner were cut) is doing so much legroom too. And the idea to use geometric tileset-like level designs is so smart! I sincerely believe that, by design, no game with a "realistic art style" has looked better than Portal 2.

Do you guys remember when Nvidia released Portal with RTX at it looked like dogshit? Just the most airbrushed crap I've ever seen; completely erased the cold, dry, clinical feel of Aperture.

So many breathtakingly pit-in-your-stomach moments I still think about too. And it's such a unique feeling; I'd describe at as... architectural existentialism? Experiencing the sublime under the shadow of manmade structures (Look up Giovanni Battista Piranesi's art if you're curious)? That scene where you're running from GLaDOS with Wheatley on a catwalk over a bottomless pit and––out of rage and desperation––GLaDOS silently begins tearing her facility apart and Wheatley cries 'She's bringing the whole place down!' and ENORMOUS apartment building-sized blocks begin groaning towards you on suspended rails and cement pillars crumble and sparks fly and the metal catwalk strains and bends and snaps under your feet. And when you finally make it to the safety of a work lift, you look back and watch the facility close its jaws behind you as it screams.

Or the horror of knowing you're already miles underground, and then Wheatley smashes you down an elevator shaft and you realize it goes deeper. That there's a hell under hell, and it's much, much older.

Or how about the moment when you finally claw your way out of Old Aperture, reaching the peak of this underground mountain, only to look up and discover an endless stone ceiling built above you. There's a service door connected to some stairs ahead, but surrounding you is this array of giant, building-sized springs that hold the entire facility up. They stretch on into the fog. You keep climbing.

I love that the facility itself is treated like an android zooid too, a colony of nano-machines and service cores and sentient panel arms and security cameras and more. And now, after thousands of years of neglect, the facility is festering with decomposition and microbes; deer, raccoons, birds. There are ghosts too. You're never alone, even when it's quiet. I wonder what you'd hear if you put your ear up against a test chamber's walls and listened. (I say that all contemplatively, but that's literally an easter egg in the game. You hear a voice.)

Also, a reminder that GLaDOS and Chell are not related and their relationship is meant to be psychosexual. There was a cut bit where GLaDOS would role-play as Chell's jealous housewife and accuse her of seeing other cores in between chambers. And their shared struggle for freedom and control? GLaDOS realizing, after remembering her past life, that she's become the abuser and deciding that she has the power to stop? That even if she can't be free, she can let Chell go because she hates her. And she loves her. Most people interpret GLaDOS "deleting Caroline in her brain" as an ominous sign, that she's forgetting her human roots and becoming "fully robot." But to me, it's a sign of hope for GLaDOS. She's relieving herself of the baggage that has defined her very existence, she's letting Caroline finally rest, and she's allowing herself to grow beyond what Cave and Aperture and the scientists defined her to be. The fact that GLaDOS still lets you go after deleting Caroline proves this. She doesn't double-back or change her mind like Wheatley did, she sticks to her word because she knows who she is. No one and nothing can influence her because she's in control. GLaDOS proves she's capable of empathy and mercy and change, human or not.

That's my retrospective, I love this game to bits. I wish I could experience it for the first time again.

[illyria-and-her-pet]

So Romania claimed to have video evidence Cecile took 84 seconds & USAG claims to have video evidence Cecile took 47 or 55 seconds, but the entire time FIG has had official Omega time keeping that says Cecile took 64 seconds. CAS will surely uphold official electronic time entries over any subjective video evidence.

Now that we know FIG has had official omega time keeping for their inquiries this whole time, CAS made the right decision. It went from being a subjective field of play decision if it was based on video evidence or there was no time keeping the whole time to indisputable objective procedure error that is officially on record. If FIG was never keeping record, it could be human error like Sabrina OOB. But yeah omega is indisputable unlike video evidence, human timekeeping, stop watches, etc.

Well it turns out FIG has more technology & procedures in place than I thought... They have official omega time keeping for inquiries & you can actually inquire NDs like OOB or time deductions. Coaches need to submit their inquiries on time & for the right thing. But ultimately it's still FIG's fault & they need to make sure this doesn't happen again. WTC superior jury needs to automatically reject late inquiries & not credit dance elements their own help desks say should be downgraded. Line judges need better technology, view, or replay than tiny monitor screens. And most of all, gymnasts shouldn't be punished for FIG's mistakes. Donatella resign challenge. She deserves the consequences. Not Jordan, Sabrina, or Ana.

[murderballadeer]

apparently my dad's friend tried to start drama in an email chain a few years ago by asserting that conway twitty was a better country singer than george jones i love old man arguments

[bibleofficial]

god bless sleeping 12hrs nightly

[intruderzim]

indeed has unique brainrotting properties for anyone looking to liquify their organs!! 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰

[shitty-check-please-aus]

oh, this is fun, depop's buyer resolution only works within 30 days of your purchase. So because this shirt hasn't been sent to me that I bought on 9/24 and it's now 10/28, I'm just fucked I guess? Love how they don't say that on any of the purchasing pages! Super deceptive of them to say that all your purchases are protected but only tell you when you try to get a resolution that it's only within 30 days of purchase! I was trying to not be a dick about this shirt not shipping, and now I'm just out $33.14 I guess?

does anyone have any experience with this? is there a secret email address I can email?

[nekhcore]

i fucking LOVE being TRANSGENDER!!!

i LOVE being AMERICAN!!

the credit bureaus keep FUCKING UP my name change despite me providing them all documentation

suddenly i NO LONGER have a fucking FICO score!!

i spent an HOUR on the phone yesterday trying to get someone at experian to fix my split credit report

instead of fixing it they REVERTED the NAME on my ACCOUNT back to my DEADNAME!!

and i STILL cannot see my credit score!!!

[thateclecticbitch]

This bitchass resume builder just charged me 70 bucks for a year subscription to download and print my resume (it said 5 a month subscription). And this was after it said it was completepy free) only for it to eat my resume!?!?!??? Just... gone. Not available. And I KNOW I definitely saved it several times).

[yesistolethisurl]

is this guy fucking serious

[trekwiz]

I love when a developer says, "hey, our game is going to have story-based cooperative play" and then after they have your money, "just kidding. It's too complicated to offer a story so we're just going to make a completely different sandbox game instead."

[musicaldeductions]

I'm listening to my roommate try to dispute some charges on his credit card and I'm realizing that I'm not entirely sure this guy has ever worked in retail for a significant amount of time.

[rwpohl]

der zauberberg, hans w. geissendörfer 1982

[heniareth]

Fellas, is it worrying if one of my OCs is looking at the other with murderous intent?

[bitegore]

love to open my bank and see that there's under a dollar in my checking account bc i got charged $129 unexpectedly

[localdiscountgoth]

where are ya’ll pirating anime these days???

back in ye old days there were a fuck ton of sites and now i can hardly find any

[gwyoi]

Also if anyone is thinking of getting any medical procedures done um… the care credit card is not accepted at a lot of providers….