Can we just skip to the eating billionaires part? There are clearly some lessons that need to be made so they may be learned.

What an excellent little film.

I’m worried about the possibility of more violent ends, but in reality I think you’re dead on the money. After the orange turd kicks the bucket we are going to waffle back over to “normal” where we are only getting fucked over quietly, rather than right in our face.

I imagine him as a very useful tool at the moment.

…because he’s a tool, you see.

Fucking love Gary’s Economics

I loved the hero evolution maps where you would spawn in as a ghost with a fucking zoo of different heroes available to choose from. Then you would spawn in the world and have a heroic adventure not unlike a very early attempt at WOW. That game got so much mileage off custom maps.

Man, Arkane is not sitting in the position they were before. I’m glad they’re doing this, but I worry that this is only going to get more of their studios shut down.

In Texas this makes the scientists the tiny brain’s mother.

Why does anyone tolerate Russia’s bullshit? Sanction them to the stone age.

It is the news media’s responsibility to report the news, not provide solutions.

Hilarious that E. Coli got it first.

You may consider what it is you’re looking to get out of an MMORPG before you just jump in. Speaking as someone who played MMOs for about a decade (mostly WOW, but several others as well), you would be surprised how insidiously that type of game can alter your habits. Also, MMORPGs could be absolutely mind numbing at the height of their popularity, modern MMOs are so heavily streamlined that I would argue many aren’t even all that fun to play anymore.

I’m not saying MMOs are bad, or that you won’t enjoy them, but maybe just think about what the fun you’re seeking looks like.

“It’s too hard to contemplate ideas that challenge my world-view. Guess I’ll just carry on being a piece of shit!”

Well yes, but this isn’t Wizards.

Momentum is building. There has to be a critical mass for a movement like we are talking about to be effective.

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I get your point but you’re also kinda arguing in bad faith. I don’t think anyone will dispute the noise to quality ratios, but you’re misrepresenting the point of the original post while simultaneously proving it. The barrier to information is almost non-existent in the modern age, making the pursuit of those fancies plausible.

If I want to know the history of the band Smash mouth I can look that up in literal seconds. Or if I want to know how to bake a souffle. Or if I want to find schematics for an exhaust fan.

Travel back to the 90s. Pick any subject. Step 1 to learning more about that subject involves travel and the juice is suddenly no longer worth the squeeze.

I love books as much as the next guy, but let’s not pretend that they are even remotely comparable to the Internet in regards to information access. My family had an Encyclopedia Britannica, they were great for summary on certain subjects but they were far from exhaustive.

Traditionally you hire people, not objects.

It’s uncanny that they managed to gut the national weather service the same year that we have had the strangest summer weather i can remember. There have been days this July that have been downright pleasant. I was too cold in the pool a couple days ago. Weird in Texas.

This is exactly the point that I gave up at like 15 years ago. Just let it go.