God please let us put a fucking leash on these assholes dominating our time. I don't want to be convinced non-stop that you're voting in my best interest, I want to see my best interests enacted. I want a representative democracy that allows me to trust that my representatives are going to represent my community as a whole, not some twisting tendril of black or white districts intended to game the system. And it's so fucking absurd that we have somehow convinced ourselves that our Constitution intended for corporations to be treated as people or for money to be treated as free speech. Millions and billions spent convincing us that millions and billions need to be spent. It's complete lunacy and we're all cool with it?
We're too insulated to care too much, because it mostly doesn't affect our day to day lives. And we have a pretty big election coming up in like 6 weeks, so it makes sense that most Americans online would talk about that.
Which is crazy, because we have a second amendment right for that very reason. smh
I have no problems with it, so I guess I'm some sort of savant? There is such thing as good and bad UI, but I think this is a case of 'what you're used to' causing problems with 'what is.'
Urban density leads to public transit, pass it on
My Instinct 2 is chefs kiss and I'm gonna wear it until it dissolves off my wrist
Oh, I thought you were asking why people were carrying wallets. My ID is in there, is my reason. I can't carry my credentials on my phone, so a slim wallet is my answer.
Hey, we vote on it this year. Here's hoping!
Surely this will change their minds.
/s, unfortunately
Yeah, it's dumb, but this isn't the thing to call him out on. The videos posted were just of his stupid ramblings that the audience clearly took as funny. Where's the slurred speech? Show me some clear indicators like the two-handed water drinking a while back.
How do you see this change impacting the overall experience? When you say that the single player mentality is ruining MMOs, what features or gameplay decisions are you picturing?
Yes, I'm sure he meant an economic bloodbath. 🙄
As a former teenage boy, sometimes it's really just soap and soap scum and dirt and whatever else caught in the hair rather than anything else.
Also, for anyone caught in a sticky situation, cold water to keep the proteins from denaturing and getting sticky in the first place, and if all else fails use shampoo to try to emulsify it to stick to the water instead of the floor, to make little sewer babies with your neighbors.
Car-centric infrastructure, baybee! Better have those credentials or you might get shot or imprisoned! Or both!
I'd say it's still important to post and talk about, not for the people who know and don't care, but for the people who don't know and do care.
I think it depends on how direct you're talking, but I think that in general, yes, colonialism (and by extension, capitalism) is directly responsible for our ugly past and bitter present.
To say that exploitation is the main goal of colonialism is probably going a bit too far, but it is absolutely a major factor in the rise of colonialism. Not only was that level of expansion necessary to protect interests from other nations, but also it allowed for more resource exploitation in the form of spices or metals or jewels or whatever exotic thing could make them additional money back home in the center of capitalism, Europe.
From there it is a very short journey to investing in a captain who has a ship that can make the journey down to Africa to trade weapons for the "exploited resources" there. He can then use the prevailing tradewinds to travel to America to offload his human cargo and to pick up the exploited resources obtained by the other exploited resources and finally sail the exotic potatoes and tomatoes and sugar and alcohol back to Europe in exchange for a massive shitload of money. Rinse and repeat until the bubble bursts or war breaks out.
It was all a racket to make people money, but what Americans were left with was an "investment" in the form of enslaved peoples and a continent's worth of resources to exploit.
So yeah, I'd say we inherited all of Europe's sensibilities and stewed in them--unaffected by all of the upheaval abroad--for the next 250 years, content to somehow think we had it all figured out.
Seconded, I first heard about this game from his channel.