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Boy, got awful quiet all of a sudden, huh? 🤣😂 Bro is over there desperately trying to convince himself that nah, he could totally live on Venus as long as he only measures the surface temperature as an average over 40 billion years, give or take

If only you would've been here 10 - 20 years ago to impart upon us savages this great wisdom, oh master... We were but too simple then to think such BOLD, OBVIOUSLY COMPLETELY NOVEL thoughts on our own! Alack, what woe! 🙄

Not to burst your bubble there, junior, but class (read: socioeconomic) warfare didn't just magically appear within the past couple of decades... Or centuries...

Do me a favor: Google the phrase "let them eat cake" or "proletariat" or "bourgeoisie" or... actually it might just be quicker for you to look up "world history prior to 2000" and at least skim a bit or something

No shit, right? Cuz, I mean, it's clearly making a difference and all, just look at the graph! 🙃

I feel like I'm taking fucking crazy pills anymore, i swear

I fucking WISH Trump was anywhere near as coherent as an LLM

The real tragedy of 2024 is that Matthew Perry and Elon Musk's fates were clearly switched somehow.

... I am not a clever man.

This may be an unpopular opinion, but I am soooo fucking sick to death of everything needing to be 'open world' (for some reason) that I could puke. Sure, some games may benefit from - or hell, even be downright enriched in some manner by - their use, but outside of a few, notable exceptions (Elden Ring and RDR1/2, in particular, spring to mind, for example) when I see a studio touting their "new and improved, expansive, X times bigger, blahblahblah" open world, all I can think is two things:

1. There will almost certainly be no more than five types (and likely significantly less, tbh) of copy/paste activity I'll be expected to engage in shotgunned haphazardly across the map. The studios that go 'above and beyond' MIGHT attempt to switch things up a bit by slightly altering building or adversary layouts in places, but that's usually a 'best case scenario' kinda thing, and you'll probably be fortunate to end up with some sort of palette swap. How compelling, eh?

2. I'm going to be subjected to either a veritable fuckton of bland, faceless NPC's with an equally bland line or two of 'dialogue' that is ultimately meaningless or a flimsy pretext to go over there somewhere for... reasons... or a handful or so of them that are inexplicably absolutely VITAL to (or otherwise the impetus behind) everything that is plot - which they have a flimsy pretext for, natch.

Look, I played WoW back in the day already. If I really desperately wanted to waste dozens of hours of my time delivering imaginary packages to forgettable people, or being sent in search of someone who is the only one who can help stop BBEG/the apocalypse/whatever - and will totally help, but need a favor first... Ugh - then I'd go back to the good ol' WoW treadmill. I left that shit behind because I was sick of it all just feeling like checkmarks someone had to tick off somewhere to appease the C-Suite douchenozzles that don't understand why we can't add in a battlepass. (Those are SOOO hot right now!)

Maybe this is just an oversimplification on my part, but I think of it like this: Say that my INSERT RELEVANT FAMILY MEMBER HERE spends weeks/months/decades of their life ~~violently oppressing a population~~ just beating the absolute shit out of someone(s) in order to gain - or maintain - some sort of benefit. I'm fully aware of this activity, yet still have no problems availing myself of these clearly ill-gotten gains year after year. Have I committed any crimes? Yeah, maybe I was, say, married to a dictator who did, but... How responsible am I?

To put it another way: If you saw someone attempting to attack/stab/etc someone else across the street from you, do you feel that you have a moral imperative to call 911 even if you do not personally know either party (having no political power or responsibility, say)?

"All that is required for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing..."

But I also don’t want my right wing friends to just die.

No, I hear ya... I, too, think they should suffer first... 🤣