This, but actually and unironically.

Souls games were instrumental to my mental health by helping me reframe failure as “we’ll get 'em next time”.

I get knocked down but I get up again. You’re never gonna keep me down.

Chad mod action

I’m one of the biggest Rowling haters you’ll ever meet but I agree with this comment in its entirety

You can see him realizing it real time in his facial expression, it’s great

I’ve got a corsair rainbow barfer and I also had to install its control program manually. Mileage probably varies by manufacturer, most likely.

Nah, it isn’t.

When the options are a) possible suicide by ICE or b) freely allowing your wife and/or daughter to be whisked away to Little St James never to be seen alive again, I’m taking option A 11 out of 10 times. No one is taking my family away to some blacksite unless they do it over my literal corpse. You’ll have to kill me first. End of story.

If you don’t agree, go ahead and get a divorce and move out right now because you don’t deserve that family.

Violence is inherent to our entire evolutionary tree, nature kills to eat. I think it’s fair to say that violence is a part of human nature. It’s a part of the nature of every predatory animal on Earth, and some plants, and I think you could probably successfully argue that even herbivores are inflicting violence on plants because they’re destroying and consuming an organism.

Has anybody ever established how or why the wall chicken got inside the walls in the first place?

Look man, not all of us have access to the damn Akashic Record. Some of us only had shittily translated versions of the Lesser Key when we were kids. Grimoires don’t grow on trees, you know.

This is me also. I don’t know where I picked it up from.

My most recent job has a couple of Spanish guys that call the actual boss man “jefe” and he (the whitest guy ever) responds well to it. I think that’s fun. I don’t know if I can get away with it, though, also being one of the whitest guys ever.

This case was likely relented on specifically because it is a nonimportant issue that doesn’t hit anyone relevant in the pocketbook.

When you protest about real issues is when the violence happens.

But if you want atrocity, mass oppression/suppression you need the state.

Any sufficiently large gang, left well enough alone for long enough, will become the de facto state.

Your own local anarchist conclave may all be friendly and would never do such a thing to their neighbors. But if the next one down the road decides they need your land and resources, and if they outnumber and outgun you, then you’re just done for. No one will come to help defend you. No one will arrive to mete out vengeance afterward.

The state holding an implied monopoly of violence is what enables said state to enact their atrocities, but is also what prevents smaller groups from falling into the same trap.

We don’t have territory wars within the US states because if you start shooting at your neighbors, the police arrive. They are a higher authority that can compel punishment for your crimes. Say what you will about the cops (trust me, I’ve got a lot to say, and most of it ain’t nice), but the threat of the police compels civil behavior from people who would be otherwise disinclined to it.

Another key part of that, is that the police force is effectively inexhaustible. There may be, factually, a limited number of cops that exist in America, but in practice, if you just start blasting at them, you’ll never see the end of it. You’ll be hunted by police and feds and SWAT teams until you achieve death.

In smaller, more localized communities, none of this remains true. You may have local peacekeepers, folks in your community that serve the same function that police would in a different environment, but they aren’t going to be numerous enough or authoritative enough to combat an outside threat. When a bike gang rolls up with a dozen shotguns, and you have, say, five peacekeepers in your commune, the bike gang is getting whatever they want, one way or another.

And here we have the primary argument that prevents me from supporting anarchism as a realistic political standpoint. We can all chant “Abolish the state!” all we want, but when the state is gone and someone takes advantage of their absence, we return to the “might makes right” era of human history, which has, historically speaking, brought about many of the very worst times to be a living human being.

I think we’ve hit a point of diminishing returns for graphics, I expect physics to be the next big leap. In game physics have come a long way but there’s still noticeable jank a lot of the time, stuff that gives away that you’re inside a video game.

Once that gets improved, we’re then on a good path to having VR make a proper return to public consciousness as well. One of the biggest problems with VR right now besides barrier of entry is just how janky the environmental interactions are.

Heat transfers as a function of time, not instantly. So Picard actually could get away with this as long as he doesn’t leave his fingers in there for too long.

I cannot imagine the amount of cocaine that went into the creation of this document. This is art.

0.5: Alright, look here, you little shit

Mage first, Warrior second. I don’t usually play rogues.

Many settings can let you pull off some sort of magical warrior, but some very special settings can also let you pull off the Muscle Wizard and it’s my very favorite archetype when it’s viable.

The Very Little Mermaid

Wouldn’t matter if they’re never in there anyway

One of my old coworkers at a previous job, I forget the exact context, but when he was asked to do something:

“Hey [Name], can you get this done?”

“Can the Pope’s dick fit through a donut?”

“… I don’t know?”

“Exactly 😎 👉 👉”

We’re reaching heretofore unheard of levels of abstraction sir, perhaps we should abort.