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- Comment on Do you think conservative feel the same need to burn it all down as everyone else felt when trump won again? 2 hours ago:
Conservatives have always been regressive, period. Their entire philosophy emerged from the “excesses” of the French Revolution. The forward “movement” (if you want to call it that) was from the “divine right of kings” to the “divine right of lords (chosen by the market)”.
To quote the infinitely quotable (Wilhout, from the top rope…with a fucking blog comment):
Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.
I understand the desire to take the positive aspects of a word, apply them to your political stance, and pretend that you’re part of a movement. But it isn’t true. It reminds me of when lefties (in often an USA centric thread) describe themselves as “left libertarians” all this crap does is confuse people and make you sound like a pedant.
If you think this is what conservative means, you’re basically just politically homeless…and have been since you started calling yourself that.
- Comment on how do school shooters know how to use guns? 6 hours ago:
They just aren’t that hard to use.
As Thelma says, “can’t be that hard, idiots use them all of the time”.
- Comment on Randy Pitchford Snaps Back at Borderlands 4 Criticism: 'Code Your Own Engine' 7 hours ago:
No
- Comment on Hmm this "unisex" bathroom seems biased... 7 hours ago:
Soft close toilet seats should be mandatory.
Then putting the lid down is a matter of a single light push.
- Comment on 'Borderlands 4 is a premium game made for premium gamers' is Randy Pitchford's tone deaf retort to the performance backlash: 'If you're trying to drive a monster truck with a leaf blower's motor, you're going to be disappointed' 7 hours ago:
Sucker game made for sucker gamers.
Are you inclined to blame yourself for the obvious failings of a gaming corporation? Smash that buy button now!
- Comment on Let's See The Practice Vids 1 day ago:
When you’re so desperate not to help a stranger that you develop superpowers instead.
- Comment on Why do conservatives define being fascist solely as "being violent?" 3 days ago:
They didn’t become conservatives to understand things…
- Comment on THIS JUST IN: FBI suspects Kirk was likely targeted, more info to come 4 days ago:
What a relief that they they secured those nearby trees.
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong Sparks Debate About Difficulty and Boss Runbacks 1 week ago:
I think this whole genre is wack, TBH.
Agreed. I’m not sure why I would waste my time with shit like this when it’s just objectively not fun for me to play.
Different strokes for different folks, so if you like it more power to you, but I’d rather play games that are fun to play for me.
I only have a certain amount of time to play video games, and if I can’t make any progress at all in an hour or two, why would I bother continuing when an hour or two is usually all I have in a day to play your game?
I’ve decided not to bother picking up silksong because I found HK tedious, frustrating, and unrewarding.
- Comment on ngl im kinda here just waitin for it 🤣 1 week ago:
My truck left me and my wife broke down
- Comment on Trump posted this in Truth. 1 week ago:
It’s fucking Cheungus making these things. Dude’s like the incel m’lady in chief.
- Comment on Trump posted this in Truth. 1 week ago:
It’s not that difficult now after multiple decades of decay for media organizations caused by “this quarter is all that matters” business idiot administration.
- Comment on The USA prided itself on a nation of immigrant, heck even the Statue of Liberty says it. When did immigrants (US citizens from the old world) become anti immigrant and why? 1 week ago:
The concept of the white “race” was created by the acceptance of new nationalities into the fold in America and then dividing “us vs them” in a new way.
It’s much the same way that we now have “Judeo-Christianity” so that we can draw the line between white people religion and everyone else.
- Comment on It's been downhill since 2020 1 week ago:
😷 ⬆️
- Comment on It's been downhill since 2020 1 week ago:
Same but with 2012.
Maybe the Mayan apocalypse people were right.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
And you’re in one lane of like five going in the same direction.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Do you also believe that only you can prevent forest fires? Or that we can recycle our way out of climate change?
Get real. Uncoordinated individual actions cannot solve systemic problems.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
You’re right of course, the reason traffic exists is because you, DancingBear, cannot be on every roadway in America at the same time.
Seriously dude, have you ever been in traffic? I’m not talking about a small slowdown on a one, two lane, or even four lane road. I’m talking about sitting on the 5 or the 101 in any of the multiple times it becomes a parking lot daily.
Manually maintaining a large gap in front of you is not solving that shit, and it’s frankly ridiculous to suggest that it will.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
You aren’t solving traffic as an individual driver anyway. Sorry to burst everyone’s atomized bubble here but that’s complete nonsense.
If you manually maintain a large gap in front of you, everyone behind you becomes complete weirdos.
We could “solve traffic” by not requiring single occupant car drives to accomplish everything in our daily lives.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
I have adaptive cruise with a settable car length and increasing the gap length just makes the cars behind you act more deranged.
I’ve found the only setting that doesn’t make everyone around me fly off the handle is the lowest (one car gap) setting.
I also drive in the diamond lane on long trips and typically have my upper speed limit set well above what the person in front of me is driving.
- Comment on From Snoop Dogg to Lap Dogg 3 weeks ago:
From 187 on a cop to blue lives matter.
- Comment on what are the grievances with the "male loneliness epidemic"? 3 weeks ago:
Everyone was kind of dumb, they only talked about other people they knew, and told drunken stories about being drunk before- it was boring.
Yeah, somehow that’s a thing, “…and we got so wasted!”. Being somewhat of a lush myself, I am sitting there drinking heavily listening to these stories and want to blurt out, “I’m getting wasted right now just to deal with having to listen to this.”
I’ve found that nonsexual friendships between the sexes aren’t usually possible in practice. It’s not because it’s necessarily the case that all friendships are based upon sex, but instead because someone somewhere (most often outside the relationship) will eventually believe that, and it will lead to drama that degrades or ends the underlying friendship.
- Comment on what are the grievances with the "male loneliness epidemic"? 3 weeks ago:
It’s really been strange to me that my whole life people have insisted that it isn’t possible for men and women to be friends and that every relationship there has to be either sexual or sexually motivated.
I’m a bit of an odd ball in that I am straight, male, cisgendered and have basically always felt better hanging around girls since I was a child. However, I never felt like I could just have girls and women friends though because inevitably it would be implied from some direction that I actually just wanted them sexually.
I’ve also met very few guys that weren’t into talking about sex and women as soon as there were no women around, and I’m just plain uninterested in talking about sex with other guys.
So, instead now I’m married and I basically talk to no one.
- Comment on Be Fast. Be Spontaneous. Don't Suck. Get Paid. 3 weeks ago:
Read this in Nathan Fielder’s voice.
- Comment on President Trump shows President Zelenskyy and President Macron his 4 More Years hats 3 weeks ago:
Reaching new depths of absolute loserdom daily.
- Comment on Now I finally get it 4 weeks ago:
Fucking thing’s got plot holes big enough for a sperm whale to swim through comfortably and yet it’s regarded as 100% literal truth by most lunatics governing us and most of the mouth breathers that voted for them.
- Comment on True art is polarizing 4 weeks ago:
feeling something at the extream makes it pretty fucking good Art.
Uh, no. A good movie should make you feel something at least close to an intended emotion set, or at least get you thinking about its content.
I’m gonna venture a guess that nobody intended for the reaction to the movie to be someone having trouble thinking about how to write a 0.5 star review for it and then quit and tell other people not to waste their time.
The people watching yet another rehash of war of the worlds are not going to be (for the most part) art snobs. When the audience that would bother watching this watch it and say it sucks, I fucking believe them.
I haven’t wasted my time because I heed warnings rather than touching hot stoves.
- Comment on If you were born after 1990, you've never had this experience 5 weeks ago:
They’ll also never understand the pleasure of finding a dusty machine like this on a hot day after biking a long distance, putting in a quarter and being shocked when it works(!) and the sodas are ice cold.
- Comment on Charging to tour rental properties... 5 weeks ago:
That would require people to have three to four close friends that could tolerate their presence. That’s an exceedingly rare thing in the US as we’re mostly all intolerable cunts.
- Comment on The curse of ‘Disco Elysium’, the greatest RPG ever made 5 weeks ago:
Claire Obscur has rpg elements, like level ups, skills and equipment.
Pretty much those elements are my definition. I feel like what you’re describing with nonlinear storylines with lots of choices isn’t all necessary for a game to be an RPG either. But I’m not a purist about any of it. Genres in general are approximate markers, and you can argue all you want about what belongs in what category.
If asked to describe the genre of Clair Obscur I’d say JRPG because purists have bickered enough to make me add the qualifier. But I’ve seen it described as RPG in lots of places, and given my thirty years plus of playing games it’s very similar to other games I’ve seen described as RPGs.
But I’m no d&d player, and I don’t really like the Renaissance faire that much.