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- Comment on This was actually posted by the Owasso Police Department 16 hours ago:
Yeah. The high school I worked in had 107hoovas, which is a group of Crips. Pretty sure we had Bloods too, but the hoovas were the one defacing my desks. Also worked with some South Side Locos.
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- Comment on RPGs that are optionally pacifist? 1 day ago:
Ideally, games where you kill nobody at all. Even avoiding killing creatures for a “true pacifist” run.
There’s quite a few games where you have alternatives when it comes to main bosses - in the original Fallout
you can talk the Master into suicide by proving that the supermutants are infertile, in Planescape Torment there are multiple ways ofconvincing your mortality to merge back with you, New Vegas lets you talk downLegate Lanius, at least on the NCR route, Jade Empire will give you a bad endingwhere you surrender to the Glorious Strategist in exchanged for being fêted as a hero, even Fallout 3 will let youtalk Colonel Autumn into surrender for like no reason at all.I’d really like that to expand into video games having killing “mooks”/generic enemies be more of an action with consequences. Undertale does a good job of that -
if you kill any monsters, even if you spare all bosses, the ending still mentions that there are some hard feelings towards you.Spec Ops has no “pacifist option” but also makes you realize thatyou were slaughtering American soldiers and innocent civilians because you were going insane.The default problem solving strategy in most games seems to be violence, and that breaks my immersion. The last time I was in a physical confrontation with anyone was fighting my sister in high school - I’ve certainly never killed anyone.
- Comment on RPGs that are optionally pacifist? 1 day ago:
Yeah - I think those questions are actually part of why New Vegas is such a well written game. It does give you the option to get out of most situations without violence - but it doesn’t automatically equate pacifism with “good.” It doesn’t really equate anything with “good.”
- Comment on RPGs that are optionally pacifist? 1 day ago:
In Morrowind, you have to kill a ghost to please the Urshilaku, Dagoth Gares for the Sixth House Base, Dagoth Vemyn for Sunder, and Dagoth Ur/the heart. I guess you could probably cheese reflect spells, but that doesn’t feel quite “true pacifist” to me - just like dragging Eridor everywhere in Oblivion doesn’t quite feel like “pacifism.” You’d also have to do a lot of leveling/side quests to get the Hortator/Nerevarine skip to avoid the inevitable slaughter of Venim, Gothren, the bad Erabenimsim, etc (it’s annoying, Gothren stalled out my “no inventory” run and working on the skip took 5ever)
You could trade the ghost and Gares for Vivec if you wanted, and then not have to do the leveling/side quests.
- Comment on RPGs that are optionally pacifist? 1 day ago:
I’ve played nethack for 20 years and have never gotten further than the Castle :(
- Comment on RPGs that are optionally pacifist? 1 day ago:
combat system is not very good.
Fuck the final fortress with the shades….
I’m pretty sure you have to kill a zombie in the first level to escape. And I don’t think you can avoid fighting (and killing) Ravel and the Deva. The Deva I think you can spare, as long as you don’t bring a certain party member with you…
- Comment on RPGs that are optionally pacifist? 1 day ago:
With Mr. House, it feels like a quick golf club to the head is much more merciful than keeping him trapped in his mind for possibly hundreds of years.
With the Khans, IIRC I ended up needing to help them expand their chem empire. Selectively excising a few very evil people seems like it would have been a better choice. Which is really the larger moral question of a NV pacifist run - it’s a game about war, people are going to die, and playing as a pacifist seems more about not wanting to get your hands dirty rather than about practical morality.
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- Comment on 2 days ago:
I really don’t get why there’s never any effort when doing l this kind of “stock art” math/science.
So many fake chemicals, so many equations that are completely meaningless… all of those t-shirts that say “what part of [UNINTELLIGIBLE SCRIBBLING] do you not understand?”
Is it really that much effort to crack open a linear algebra textbook or look at an actual equation sheet? I always feel sniped by that shit, I tried to read it and figure out what it is but it’s always just a mix of completely random stuff, with half of it truncated to the point of meaninglessness.
- Comment on They even got their own island 3 days ago:
No idea. He gave 5k to one before he kicked me out. What was our house is for sale now though.
- Comment on They even got their own island 4 days ago:
My husband kicked me out once he realized flashing his money at 19 year olds worked. The teenagers didn’t ask him to stop playing FIFA and walk his dogs.
- Comment on What would happen if I just drove straight south to Mexico? 4 days ago:
They can background check and see that my SSN has been used with a female name.
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- Comment on What would happen if I just drove straight south to Mexico? 5 days ago:
I really don’t want remote work. I want to be in a shitty high school fighting the Good Fight. (Like not in a self aggrandizing Freedom Riders or Dangerous Minds way, but in a “yeah I was arrested in high school too, let’s talk about it” way.
- Comment on What would happen if I just drove straight south to Mexico? 5 days ago:
consider moving to a smaller town than Mexico City
Can you give me hints?
I am fucked on executive functioning. My brain is on fire all of the time. I have been tortured. I can’t organize my thoughts while I live in this state. I am constantly surrounded by triggers and pain. I struggled to even figure out how to move into an apartment. Moving countries is terrifying and intimidating.
- Comment on What would happen if I just drove straight south to Mexico? 5 days ago:
A couple of years ago, I literally had a job hire me, put me through a week of paid training, and then when my background check came through, they immediately fired me and tried to not pay me - claiming that they had never fired me in the first place.
The only thing that would show up on that background check is the fact that I am trans.
I had another job, in college, doing shit work. Day labor. One day, the boss took a look at my drivers license and asked me about the F. No more work after that, had to fucking sell my body.
Yeah, no one says “we are not hiring you because you are trans.” But it happens. And when it happens enough, it becomes absolutely bloody obvious that it is going on. Just like when I watched my boss at a fucking fast food restaurant toss a black guys application in the trash, because “the last one of those didn’t work out” - do you think he said to that guy “yeah I don’t hire black guys lol.”
They don’t even have to lie about it anymore, the Supreme Court ruled that we aren’t protected anyway.
The worst part about experiencing systemic discrimination is that no one believes it happens unless you get a piece of paper saying “yeah we don’t hire removeds lol”
- Comment on What would happen if I just drove straight south to Mexico? 5 days ago:
The state superintendent found out that a principal at a local school was a drag queen on the weekends (a well kept secret, no one in the community even knew.)
He demanded that the principal be fired, and showed up to that school EVERY DAY for weeks until the man was fired.
When you hear hoof prints, it’s reasonable to think horses.
- Comment on What would happen if I just drove straight south to Mexico? 5 days ago:
You want to have actual qualifications for the job so you can compete.
I’m qualified to teach secondary and post secondary science and math. I’ve made accounts on some websites to try to find a school that will help me with a work visa, but it seems a lot of places are more willing to hire people who are already there.
I know it’s not “lawless.” I’m just looking to escape the impossible credit card that my ex saddled me with (pro tip! max out your husbands credit cards before kicking him out and he won’t be able to afford a lawyer to do anything about it) and the coming student loan debt.
I have like $200 in my bank account, the limited work I get is seasonal and we just hit the off season and I’ll probably be negative after rent next month. Plus 20k of credit card, 60k of student loan. My car is maybe worth 10k, but the title is two years out of date.
I’ve been desperately fucked for two and a half years, and I’m just trying to figure out where I could show up with maybe $1000, find someplace not in the US that will let me teach algebra or chemistry and make enough to not die.
- Comment on What would happen if I just drove straight south to Mexico? 5 days ago:
As long as they don’t have access to my birth certificate, there’s no evidence that I am transgender.
- Comment on What would happen if I just drove straight south to Mexico? 5 days ago:
No one ever says “we aren’t hiring you because you are trans.” But vague allusions to background checks are the usual.
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- Comment on North Korea and South Korea isn't working. Let's try West Korea and East Korea instead. 1 week ago:
The Raëlians seem fun. Supposedly they have big orgy where you wear colored bracelets indicated what genders you’d like to have sex with. I’m sure there’s some dark and evil shit, like all religions, but that sounds hella fun as long as everyone is of age.
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- Comment on One day😔🤞 1 week ago:
“Cruising” is a term historically reserved for less heterosexual affairs…
- Comment on Personal Responsibility 1 week ago:
Yeah this is fake af lol.
I’ve had shit principals; this would be immediate local news + time for unemployment.
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- Comment on The Lord of the Ringsy-Wingsy 2 weeks ago:
Everyone knows the real conspiracy is Tinky-Winky making your kids gay.
