as an almost maximally privileged person (cis straight etc), i want my whining fellows to shut the fuck up. Just stop. Stop taking up all the god damn space. Just be quiet. It’s okay not to be included in every scene all the time.
Your point about not assuming people are straight by default is valid. But I mostly just want some cis-het folks to stop embarrassing me by being fucking insufferable.
A dark souls kind of slow paced combat game, but built for co-op. Except I don’t have any friends who are on the same skill level and schedule.
More broadly, I really want more games that you can play co-op in where the players are vastly different skill levels, but it’s still fun. I don’t know how to solve this.
I can imagine like a game where one person is playing dark souls and the other is playing candy crush, and they interact somehow. Like making matches in one give estus in the other, and killing bosses gives stuff.
Basically I want to play games with my frienda that don’t play the same games, somehow.
People are stupid and value in group solidarity more than anything else.
The only way forward is to make them feel like a member of a better group, or violence.
I blame the people who voted for trump, personally. I’d be happy to watch the leopards eat their faces, but unfortunately we’re all stuck with them.
I don’t buy a game solely because it’s the zeitgeist or whatever. A friend of mine routinely buys games that are “the new shiny” and then doesn’t finish them, or loses interest quickly. I usually wait for a sale, some patches, and/or the dlc to be bundled into a goty edition.
Some exceptions:
I bought elden ring near launch because I’m a big enjoyer of the genre, and my friend confirmed it was good. No regrets.
I bought bg3 shortly before it’s full access. I’d liked the other games larian did, and a friend told me it was good. No regrets.
Both of those were pretty light on DLC. No season pass or “goty” editions were likely.
I’m going to wait for the dragon age game to go on sale. I don’t really trust Bioware, and I don’t know if they plan to do a bunch of dlc that will get bundled up later.
I’ve been waiting for Lies of P to get cheap. The demo was just ok when I played it, but a friend tells me it’s phenomenal.
Right now I’m playing a MUD (aardwolf). It really distills some online RPG into the essence of “go kill some stuff to level up, get new skills, and kill bigger stuff”. It’s strangely satisfying.
Republican women can’t help but notice that their partisan identity conflicts with their self-image as strong and competent women. “I started to learn what misogyny was, and I started to learn what patriarchy was,”
Better late than never.
Kid is lucky the racists didn’t murder him and say that he did something to deserve it.
I hope those racist almost-murderers are ruined.
It is completely insane and regressive. Poor people who need the money to live should be spared the tax, and rich people who aren’t going to miss it should pay.
Trump has repeatedly accused his Democratic opponent of lying about working at McDonald’s, in large part because the job wasn’t listed on her later resume for a legal job.
This man doesn’t know how resumes or jobs work.
I think you have to also account for the kids’ ages. An infant is different than a toddler, teen, or adult child.
Lots of people never reach more advanced stages of moral reasoning. They don’t do bad things to avoid being punished, or maybe because they have a simple understanding of “it’s against the rules”
The current justice and prison system is abhorrent, but something needs to happen if someone tries to murder someone else. Most people are alright but there are a lot of anti social people out there, too. And a lot of people who would be alright if they were in more stable circumstances
Nationalize spacex.
Our supreme court is already showing us that laws and precedent don’t mean anything anymore. Might as well use the chaos for some good.
This guy could eat a baby live on TV and too many folks would be like “Any talk of using force is inappropriate. We have to engage him in the marketplace of ideas. You can’t just physically stop him from doing things. You can’t just take his property. Inappropriate!”
I really hope he meets an embarrassing end, and soon.
Do you think swing voters might in fact be fucking morons? I’m so tired of the fate the world resting in the hands of low information people who seemingly command the memory and political acumen of the proverbial goldfish.
The rich suck. They already have a lot of money. They could pay taxes, and still have a lot of money. And then maybe they’d have a functioning government they’d benefit from, too.
Ms. Jager has simply always thought of herself as a Republican, and she’s not prepared to stop thinking of herself that way
They value group identity and membership more than they should. Honestly as far as I’m concerned that’s a form of stupid and moral failing. I bet a lot of them are also the kind who would say “if your friends all jumped off a bridge, would you jump too?”
I really don’t believe you went with the archaic spelling over the standard one on purpose. If you did, why?
https://www.grammarly.com/commonly-confused-words/indict-vs-indite
All those people who refused to take COVID seriously have a lot of blood on their hands.
A lot of conservatives are authoritarians that value group cohesion above most everything else. Going against the group feels bad in a deep way, I think, so all sorts of justifications will be made to stay with the group.
Honestly, as far as I’m concerned that’s a form of stupid. Kind of funny given the boomer cliche of “If your friends jumped off a bridge, would you jump off too?”. It turns out yes, a lot of people would.
Yeah I don’t think anything will change until disruptive protests happen. Like, republicans resigning from office because they’re afraid.
Unfortunately, the far-right has almost all the money and guns, and a lot of bootlickers. And no one wants to throw their life away by shooting some red hats senators or billionaires.