People who are having a great time at work are the reason I like WFH

I couldn't have done it if I stayed in the states. No judgment on anyone who lives in a structurally car dependent area and doesn't have a good alternative

I may be an outlier, but it feels great to be car free in a walkable city.

It would be at least comprehensible that China is risking world war over this island if it made some kind of strategic sense as a conquest, but reunification appears very much just plain ideological. I hate that.

Art used to be considered not very worthy unless it had a moral message. The modern art movement helped us break free of those limitations. The new way society has found to limit the arts is the notion that art should be made for profit, and valued mostly in terms of price.

Sequels and reboots are an aspect of this, I'm beginning to feel. The code of old games should absolutely be maintained so that access to them is preserved, but what's the real value of a remake, if the point is not to contribute to the conversations the original was influencing?

Creatives who aren't driven by a hunger for new ideas and fresh concepts don't usually leave us works that deserve to be revisited and maintained, but even works of homage should bring something new to the table.

Take Skywind; they're remaking Morrowind, but they're adding their own content, expanding on what was there, and flattering the source material to the extent that the original looks somewhat shabby in comparison.

If there is something worthwhile to be done with Fallout at this point, people can do it whether Todd Howard likes it or not. Tim Cain is totally on point here, and I wrote too much bye

Good news, during wartime and periods of intense crisis, some people experience a temporary paradoxical increase in mental health. So, I've got that going for me.

That would involve having a media environment that isn't controlled by billionaires who are highly involved in manufacturing consent for regressive policies.

There's no way to replace Joe without his consent. Do you have any real ideas how that can be accomplished?

It's pretty simple - sex is basically your reproduction capabilities (in biology even this is far from trivial "A or B") while gender is more like how you see yourself, how you present to the world, and usually comes with certain assumptions and roles from the society you're in. That's why people say it's a social construct; it's literally constructed, socially. Being cis or trans just means whether your reproductive traits match your socially constructed traits.

They definitely don't understand, but more importantly it doesn't matter either way - having a group they can persecute is just how they reinforce in-group ties. They lack a coherent ideology, and simply bond over cruelty. Any hatred that can safely be stoked will suffice for such people. Every time we accept an out-group into normal society, platform and protect them, they find new prey. Whenever we give up ground and let peoples rights get taken away, the 'far right' go back to hating them too. Cruelty is the point, and it's what turns them on. That's what makes them 'far right', is that it's obvious compared to normal conservatives.

We're basically hooped unless Joe decides to throw in the towel. Just about anyone not psychotic half his age could very easily beat trump. How do we get there?

It's long past time to flush these turds

Just get your weird shit from their patreons. Or like, kemono.su if you're horny and broke.

It feels awful to know this might actually happen again. I can only hope that America actually puts down the rebellion for good this time. We left the schism intact with a failed reconstruction, and look where that got us.

Probably just a kinky green grocer. What's good for the goose is good for the gander

Intention was to encapsulate the psychological aspect within the phrase "how you see yourself". It's hard to get every detail into a simple explanation.

That makes the most sense. NK doesn't stand to gain much, but they haven't got much to lose

Agreed that the position should be subject to drug testing. You have to be sober as a cat to pilot a commercial plane, but a speed junkie can have nukes? Insane.

The HR sector are a blight on humanity. They're the HOA of corporate departments.

No items. Final destination.

I write again having done my own research. It turns out he's had a wifesaving neck surgery known as a twateotomy

You think maybe it's like his bioluminescent anglerfish lure, but for deranged sickos?

Do you think I would sit here and try to make fetch happen if there was any chance you could stop me? Fetch happened 25 minutes ago.

I tried to read this right to left and paid the price.

The game is not "difficult" per se, it's just that the underlying systems of how to make it easier aren't made explicit. You're meant to engage with it and learn how to create the advantages you need. It's supposed to be a process of learning and growth that feels rewarding and earned. Or read a guide.

It's honestly one of the easiest From games, once you engage with the particulars. Let me be clear: This isn't an elaborate "git gud". That began as an ironically bad opinion that inevitably became a genuine opinion held by fools.

Engage with the systems and dynamics presented to you, and you begin to see that the difficulty setting in ER (and other Souls games) exists on a conceptual level.

The exception that proves the rule here is Sekiro, which was an amazingly interesting experiment in putting you into a character's shoes through game mechanics - the only way to beat the game is to adopt the bold and precise combat style of the main character. The difficulty of that game comes from hesitation, fear, and carelessness - and it is painfully unforgiving.

Where my shitfolk at? Poo Nation rise up ✊

My claim to fame: played through that running section on an iPod touch in 2010.

Only took about an hour. I had more free time, back then.

Fuck the junta

It's fetched, but not very far

I can make a hamburger and fries in like ten minutes active cooking time for £3, and it'll have proper beef and be perfect.

What is even happening at Burger King?

I think you're probably closest. There aren't "filters" so much as we live in a universe that can only support life on a highly contingent basis, entirely by accident, at random intervals. It's filters all the way down, really. None of us are getting out alive, might as well enjoy it while it lasts.

CNN surely 🤓

Cheap energy being framed as some kind of problem is a great demonstration of why we need a free press that isn't solely owned by billionaires

Defed every corporation. McDonald's starts an instance? Fuck off and fix your ice cream machine. Gabe Newell starts a Steam instance? No Gabe, go make half life 3. Make all these suits federate each other and see if anyone wants to talk on their shit.

"Trump's as bad as people are afraid he is, but I could never compromise my values so much that I'd vote for a centre right neoliberal."

Anyone who feels this way is an actual nazi

Platforms should, like how we had to shut down our shit posting community for CSAM.

ISPs are a privatized infrastructure and should really be run as utilities. Like trains or water should be.

The world has been treated as a for-profit endeavor and this has many regrettable consequences.

Yeah it's like all her ugliness moved to the inside

Talking to real friends more interesting than arguing with strangers? Shareholders flummoxed! News at 11.

Deeply unwelcome. I hate that this is even a thought that he has had.

The dismaying reality is that it is driven by the wealthy. I got rid of my car, I shop local, and everything in the home is low emissions. No reduction in my personal life can ever offset the way they live.