Congrats on 1 year!

As someone who never has much time to play games these days, honestly just seeing your posts has helped keep the passion alive. I love seeing all of these games I enjoy still being appreciated today. Thank you!

Has he decided to eliminate all trans fats?

Maybe it’s just a fun hobby, like why people ride horses when motor vehicles exist. Maybe he just wants to race on a level playing field.

They’re saying that is the reverse argument, not the state of things today. As in, the only solution to the above would be to force payment processors to do business with anyone and everyone.

Taco pizza

Die?

There are also lots of Mulan-type stories about afab people who pretend to be men for a period of time in order to do something they wouldn’t have been able to do as a woman, then go back to living as women.

A bit like the older practice of women writers using abbreviated names or pseudonyms when publishing books because books written by men sold better.

It’s crazy to me how unnecessarily gendered so many different industries still are, too. Professional cooking is still dominated by men but cooking at home is womanly. It makes no sense and it’s maddening.

No good swamp but my swamp.

Anduril…Palantir…are the fascists just co-opting The Lord of the Rings now?

If a title ends in a question, the answer is no.

Sucks for everyone still on Reddit.

Oh man, that was a DS Lite, it had the coolest form factor of the whole bunch…

I still have mine somewhere around here, it’s a cool piece of hardware.

Butter emails!

Plugging one more forest track for Final Fantasy 5 (Pixel Remaster):

Legend of the Deep Forest: https://youtu.be/9Od3BQQ-7Mo

Inside was better than Limbo for me, if that helps. Limbo was cool, but Inside had crazy atmospheric storytelling.

The worst part is that I am getting paid a salary I could have only dreamed about years ago, and yet I still can’t afford anything with how drastically everything went up in price.

Wages in general have gone up a little bit, but it’s crazy to me that I’m earning more than 5x as much as I used to 15 years ago and feel like my buying power has not noticeably improved at all. I’m still stuck living in crappy apartments because that is all I can afford.

Politically? Way worse.

I’d say yes and no. 30 years ago was not long after the likes of Reagan and Thatcher. Things are very much not okay today, but more people were okay with worse stuff back then. I’d argue some parts of politics have certainly gotten worse, but others have nevertheless gotten better.

I think the core issue is that the political systems of some countries are beginning to show their age, and people today are becoming more cognizant of their failings over time. I think it wouldn’t hurt to look at all of the data available to us now and go back to the drawing board on a lot of key components. But in saying that, it’s impressive to even have so many consistent political systems that have remained relatively stable for centuries when countries used to just have revolutions and regime changes to shake things up all the time.

I do agree we are quickly approaching a major economic downturn, though. I feel like the writing is on the wall that we are already there, but for some reason economists have their heads buried in the sand. I’m reminded of videos I’ve seen (ignore the edgy V for Vendetta splash screen before it) shortly after the 2008 recession where a small handful of economists anticipated a significant downturn only to be derided by the majority of “experts” who said everything was going great. Because I keep hearing things today like the economy has never been stronger, but no one around me seems to be feeling that. Scaled for inflation, I’m making more money than my parents did when they bought a house, but that feels like an impossibility for me today.

Depends on how far a species advances, I’d guess. It wouldn’t surprise me if advancements set us (and other potential life out there) on a trajectory where it’s possible to just get most nutrition needed via passive intravenous implants, maybe only with a requirement to drink water to maintain fluid balance. Or we just get to the full cyberpunk cyborg option and all you need is an occasional battery recharge or something.

With the resources available today, mankind has the ability to solve world hunger, but that still keeps the dependency we have on various global supply lines for food. Few nations are truly agriculturally independent. Lenin once said that society is no more than three missed meals away from chaos, and I believe the only permanent solution to that issue would be if a society no longer needs to eat.

Agreed, especially on the psyops front. It’s no secret that Russia has been manipulating global politics for a long time now, and France is another European country which has seen a rising Russia-friendly neofascist movement in Rassemblement National. They’ve just barely been kept out of power the past few election, but as their numbers keep growing, one must only wonder how much longer that can be the case.

Similar with Germany and AfD. Europe is being worn down from within and no one seems to be inclined to do anything about it.

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