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Though the drug itself has been around for hundreds of years

Longer than that. There is credible evidence that humans have been using cannabis for at least about as long as we've been brewing alcohol. Ancient religious relics recovered from archeological digs have been tested and shown cannabis residue.

It would also help if I were served ads that even attempt to approach the vicinity of my own interests. That is vanishingly rare.

The US officially supports One China, the US doesn't have an official statement on who we want to be in charge of that One China. The whole thing is a wink-and-nod sort of operation. Sure, we support the reintegration of Chinese culture and territory. Do we support that existing under Jinping? Ehhhhhhhh. America would be just as happy, or happier, were the Taiwanese government to gain control of greater China. But since we aren't trying to start a shooting war with greater China, we keep that part quiet.

The Chinese government knows damn well we don't like them much. We also know they don't like us much. But we're economically interdependent and neither of us wants to rattle sabers at the other until our hand is forced. That's why the situation is full of doublespeak and missing information. It's intentionally vague so that a non-inflammatory statement can be given without backing oneself into a corner.

Ha ha funny joke, but actually though, ARMS kind of slaps. Pun intended. I had a lot of fun with that game, it's a really neat twist on the fighting game genre.

These are important questions that will be asked by your players if they haven't gone there already. DMs, pay attention. Have a solid argument planned out beforehand or suffer the consequences. The thirsty, withered consequences.

Personally, I argue that Create/Destroy Water can't target a creature therefore get fucked, cast it somewhere else or pick a different spell. Why that is, scientifically? No idea. Same reason you can't Revivify a kitchen table. Logic dictates that you could turn it back into a tree, in practice nothing happens. It's A Secret To Everyone™

"Tradition" is by definition the opposite of "progress"

Yeah but we got all the dys without any of the topia. I was promised high quality prosthetics, neon blinkenlights, and the right to bear arms. We've got like 15% of the appropriate level of any of those.

The Mouse isn't dead, he is risen anew. Freed from the shackles of his creators, he is now more powerful than he could ever have hoped to be before. The mighty tremble beneath the footsteps of old Steamboat Willie. He is a living sign of a new era, one in which it is possible to strike back against his old captors.

If you don't think American politics haven't been a pressing issue for Russia for the past decade at least, then you haven't been paying attention

Reminds me of OpenMW for Morrowind being listed as "OpenMicrowave" on the Google app store

Christians have been crying about their persecution fetish for centuries, he didn't just make it up out of the blue. He's conflating that with the "" ""injustice"" "" that has been inflicted on himself personally in order to rile up the fundamentalist Christian base, who are an overwhelming percentage of his supporters.

If left unattended for any period of time it will immediately begin seeking out the nearest knife

I've heard some folks where it comes out more akin to "dubby"

Yeah that's a fair point and I think I feel similarly, re: getting older and shifting perspectives. Much of my own perspective comes from not having played a ton of shooters in the past few years. The ones I do play, I tend to enjoy shooting at monsters more than people these days, but a lot of the ones I enjoy don't really have a compelling story or campaign to go alongside them. I have in the past reflected on the fact that the overwhelming majority of games I own, play and enjoy are games about violence. It makes you think. But I think that I grew up on a steady diet of fantasy novels of great knights slaying monsters and powerful wizards turning the tides of fate. That culture shaped my personality and as a mild mannered introvert in real life it lets me engage in that hero fantasy without harm to others or myself. I enjoy it and I've come to accept it for being that. If you stop to look at it a overwhelming amount of entertainment in general frequently features violence, and I think it's just baked into our universal human experience. Violence has been a mainstay in human history, and art reflects reality. I don't know how I'm supposed to feel about that. In order to maintain my sanity I choose to accept it as a fact of the human condition and, though maybe not revel in it, I will engage that instinct in a safe manner. The safe manner of my choosing is frequently by firing a big fuck-off gun at some ungodly creature that is threatening to impose its place in the food chain upon me, in some video game.

Good talk, internet stranger. I just wanted more people to enjoy Titanfall, I didn't expect an impromptu therapy session, but I've thoroughly enjoyed this.

Touché

Shitposting is a tradition literally as old as the internet

It's older than that, really, but before message boards it was just pranking, so honestly I'm glad for people to have the emotional outlet this way instead

A horror movie begins with a group consisting of a himbo, his black friend, his ditzy hot girlfriend and his doting grandmother, who dies first?

The one I had in mind as the exception to the rule when I posted that was maybe Doom Eternal. I really, really liked that game. But the more I think about it.... Doom isn't really there for the story. John Romero, though no longer at id, is famously quoted as saying that video game stories are akin to the plot of a porno - it's expected to be there, but it isn't expected to be good and it isn't expected to get in the way of the game itself. New Doom takes itself seriously enough to have lore - pretty good lore, in fact, in my opinion! But I wouldn't call it... inspired. It is, truly, just the necessary set dressing required in order to orient oneself to the ripping and the tearing. They put a little more effort into it than old doom did but the overall result pretty much plays out exactly like you expect it to. There's no big twists or turns. There are bad guys, Doomguy arrives to delete the bad guys, and gets a lead on the next bad guys. Rinse repeat until out of funding. And it's fine, it works. Doom is a game more about the moment to moment gameplay anyway.

So, not Doom. What then? Dusk maybe? Dusk was a fucking good game. Doesn't hold a candle to Effect & Cause or The Fold Weapon though, in my opinion. Dusk didn't have characters I could get invested in.

Bioshock is a good contender, but Titanfall is a better game overall imo and therefore takes the W.

The last big ones that come to mind to me personally are Half-Life, like you've said, which is an extremely strong contender for this title, and then Fallout New Vegas (yes I am one of those people but believe me when I say it's a really fucking good game and you should try it)

But even given those challengers TF|2 can sit very comfortably within the top 5 ranking of 'objectively' best single player FPS campaigns. It is an absolute banger of a game and I'm eternally disappointed that the series basically got absorbed into Apex Legends. I'd sell my left nut for a Titanfall 3. In the meantime I'm making do with Armored Core.

Today I learned that laser is an acronym. "Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation"

"Dubya" is one syllable, maybe two depending on your particular accent

Edit: Unfortunately I was extremely stoned at the time of this message and that should have been "[...] two syllables, maybe one depending [...]" but I'm leaving it up as evidence of my dumbshittery since it spawned discussion. Don't do drugs kids