skulblaka @ skulblaka @sh.itjust.works

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Absurdism - How to Party At the End of Meaning

I very much love exurb1a but I think I particularly love this one most of all.

Oh sure, but they'll continually claim until they're blue in the face that everything they do is about money. So they should be continually exposed as the financially irresponsible idiots that they are.

For the people where egregious human rights violations and terrorism aren't deal breakers, wasting money is. Frankly I don't respect their opinion, however, they also vote, therefore their opinion does matter.

Which is a shame, because classic Luthor had extremely valid concerns about ceding ultimate power to someone you can't take it back away from. He used to be one of the most sensible "villains" I knew of.

No man can hide from the ravages of Time. It (and by extension, they) can reach you no matter where you try to hide away, corners or no.

I love those in particular just because of how absolutely inescapable they are. If the Hounds are hunting you then you're going to be found. Period, done, end of story. You can't exist in a place that has geometry without throwing open a door for them.

I'm sure at least one mad wizard has sealed himself inside a perfect spherical prison with no corners only to find that the Cornerhounds don't much care what corners they come from, and your knees and elbows work just fine if better solutions aren't available.

I buy things in early access for just such a reason. If it looks like something I'll like, I'll buy it early to support development. If it's great then great. If it falls through then I'm out a bad investment of like, $10.

I've got probably a hundred indie games in my library that I've supported in exactly such a fashion, from raw pre-alpha to 1.0 release to post-release content update or dlc. They aren't all winners. But many of them were worth the cost of investment and then some.

Less AAA trash fires and better access to actual passion projects because they aren't being drowned in a sea of mediocrity?

This is an absolute win on all sides

More than the doctors? No, absolutely not.

More than the bean counters who want to replace these doctors with unsupervised robots? I'm a lot more confident on that one.

I think LAN is still dead but offline single player works fine.

From what I've been able to gather, it's basically a sandbox. Imagine if F:NV had no main quest but allowed you to create your own faction. You're just unleashed onto the wasteland to do whatever and let everyone else respond to it.

That is to say, much of the fun comes from building drug running bandit empires.

I like Lex Luthor as a villain a lot more than I like Superman as a hero for exactly this reason. He's a villain, sure, but his villainy is all centered around this one highly logical and concerning idea of never giving Superman total power because they'd then never be able to take it away from him.

Dr Doom I straight up don't even consider a villain tbh. He's antihero at worst (though he'd be pissed to hear me say so). His subjects love him. A bit megalomaniacal, maybe, but he genuinely wants to rule the world to do what's best for everyone.

If Fantastic wants to fight you because he thinks it's the right thing to do, and Doom wants to fight you because he thinks you're destroying his property, I know which one I'm putting my bet on because I know which one is going to show up to that fight more pissed off. His reasons are weird but Doom does still frequently show up to fight the bad guys, if for no other reason than "this is my fucking planet and I won't have you breaking the place". I love that.

I don't see Alaska facing these problems.

I'd argue DnD is no different and we only see it less because half the DnD player base is busy home brewing Pathfinder content into 5e

Kids do.

Their problems are smaller than us adults', but they feel those problems with the same intensity we do. Being ostracized from your social group is a big problem even for adults. It's worse for kids.

And kids, being kids, will bandwagon the hell out of anything. If somebody clowns on your shoes every day, give it a week and half the school will be doing it. Give it a year and you're "that guy with the shoes".

Is your brand of shoes important in the long term? No, not at all. Your social status in high school also, largely, doesn't matter in the long term. But "the long term" is difficult to keep your eye on when you're looking at 4-8 years of pointless bullying in your future.

All this to say - yeah I think this is pretty dumb, but it's important to the people who are living it. And something that's important to a child should also be important to their parents, in my opinion. I was the kid with the ratty shoes and the hand-me-downs. That stuff can really do some permanent damage to a kid's psyche.

Does this mean that every middle schooler needs to have a fresh set of Jordan's and a fitted suit every year? No, of course not. But if I can spend an extra $50 once every two years to make my son happy then why wouldn't I?

Same, and I know this is true and not just me being crazy because I've heard it rather than felt it when my phone is sitting on my desk.

Oh so she's going to just straight up kill Texas completely. Interesting.

I've never met this man in my life and I am 100% confident it was the latter.

You ever tried to pull over an entire freeway full of cars at once?

All it takes is for one determined furry to pull up their programming socks and hack into Truth Social and start posting under Trump's name and we'll see that dry up real quick, unless he wants to make all his official announcements surrounded by uwu's and lewd pictures of Pokémon.

Dollars to donuts it's going to be stupid easy to do as well, because Trump is incapable of hiring competent employees or of paying whoever he does hire.