Honestly, I don’t think the action’s the problem, I enjoyed creating interlinked databases with tens of thousands of entries in Spreadsheets. I think it’s strictly to do with the complexity itself, I need more. I like the concept of every piece having a specific move set, I’d just need more of them. And add more complexity to them, but at that point may as well just play grand scale combat games, like 40k.

Edit: plus, to be honest, this lack of complexity doesn’t even let me properly enjoy a victory. Maybe it has some fetishistic tinges at this point, but a protracted victory is so much sweeter, make me feel like I pulled my brain through high intensity training for a couple of hours. Either that, or something which can start acting as a reflex, like backgammon.

Disclaimer: not calling myself smart or anything.

I always found chess boring, for some reason. Like, not because it is too complex, but because it isn’t complex enough, in a way. As an example, the first time I tried my hand at Medieval II: Total War, I fell in love with all things strategy.

I still can’t do chess, though… It’s like my mind goes to its happy place halfway through a match and I start making moves just to progress the game and be done with it. Gimme a 4X game, and I’d need reminders to pee every 12 hours.

You may be right. I was basing my initial hunch on the fact that he seems to be almost impressively vulnerable for a bona fide narcissist, “The Orange Man” would still highlight him as significant.

My past relationships make sense now, the Universe was Mr. Miyagi-ing me into a machine for punching Nazis!

I’m starting to be convinced this is one of the many intrinsic flaws to the way we’re governing ourselves. It’s an inevitable slippery slope, we’ll keep ending up having to deal with it periodically as long as we don’t change stuff in significant ways.

Edit: I think we need to approach them as our body would a splinter, or a zit. Just squeeze’em out. As I see it, Fascism is fundamentally inimical to life itself, could even compare it to a viral infection. Sure, some infection is inevitable even when squeezing out the splinter, but chances are good that it won’t develop beyond anything superficial if we provide an appropriate immune response and treatment afterwards.

I’ll still call him The Orange Man, would do it to his face. I get the feeling it’s one of those insults which he plays off like a cool guy because he can’t afford an honest reaction, but is eating him up deep inside. I can’t miss out on that possibility.

Merkel was a plant. I get the feeling most of Merkel’s phone is spam, ads, and poorly focused photos. Fitting sacrifice to keep the spies thinking they were winning.

Yep:)) Sorry, they’re pretty hit or miss, thought I’d give it a shot regardless:))

Future Of The Left, on the other hand, are more consistent, yes. I’ve honestly not properly digested their latest work, I’ve been mainlining the two albums I mentioned. Those two I wholeheartedly recommend!

Heads up, though, they play around a lot with song structures and themes, so their discography is pretty varied in terms of sound.

Exactly, we need to act with the future in mind, we gotta reinforce the barricades, as it were. At the very least, and at most for the time being. And we really gotta agree upon a system. Like, any humane and empathy-driven system, it doesn’t all have to be perfect in the first try. It has to be at least functional enough to buy ourselves more time for the detailing.

And we’ll also have to keep in mind to pull double-duty on handling the almost literal dumpster fire heading our way, although a saner climate may be aligned with a generally sane direction from the start.

That’s such a middling long game, though… My personal fear is that any potential long game just gives them the space to solidify their grip on the population, I think everyone needs to do/see something pretty much soon-ish to make them want to believe in the rational alternative.

We’re entering tumultuous times in terms of emotional load, everyone is nearing desperation at an alarming rate. That’s a dangerous playground to reach.

Edit: not that I have the faintest about what could be done, I’ve been wracking my brain with this question for a while.

Glad you like’em! They do, indeed, have a Bandcamp, however it’s missing several of their albums, like Curses and Travels With Myself And Another (my favourites). From what I’ve seen, they’re available on YT Music, Spotify, Deezer, and up for grabs in CD format, but I can’t find any other digital versions.

Btw, you may also enjoy Mclusky (To Hell With Good Intentions, for instance), it’s their precursor act and very crunchy!

Full-course meal emotionally.

Oh, wow, I can’t believe I forgot about that… Feels weird, like remembering the better times of past relationships, Jesus=))

At this point, something tells me you could find a compatibility layer for WinRAR support on some dingy forum which has heavy peepshow vibes. Never underestimate people’s fetishes.

Something has to give, though… I feel we’re stuck between two fronts moving in opposite directions, one being the continued degradation of our social world, and the other being the accumulated and now snowballing fatigue brought about by said degradation, and they’re just grinding us down while we’re trying to get a grip.

We’ve reached the point where hiding away in the backyard for a bit is too little to regain a significant enough portion of that energy debt, and to add to that, our backyards have now kinda’ been flooded with that bullshit which was still relatively manageable a decade ago. That applies even to those who are actively in denial, maybe even more than to those who at least look it in the eye, because mirror neurons are still a thing - this fatigue is a resonant frequency and we inevitably pick the stress up from everyone else around us, whether we want to or not. I’ve lived through a recession and I don’t remember people being this run down back then (no, we weren’t particularly rich, that belt was tightened up something fierce).

We’re cascading, everything’s cascading, and it’ll take all of us with it if we just let it happen. Something has to give.

Nope, you’re very much on target. The best one I can remember, Constantinescu, was good because he literally didn’t do anything, either bad or good. He even said at the end of his presidency that the system had defeated him.

Our government and political scene in general is now essentially a web of nepotism and private business interests, which runs on corruption. I swear, it’s like nobody does shit to you as long as you don’t steal from the big ones. Otherwise, nobody really gives a crap…

Or you get straight-up weirdos, instead! Vadim Tudor deserved to be seen globally, we could’ve sold him as The Local Nutjob!

By ““discreetly”” starting to kiss Trump’s ass a little while after he’d win. Yes. We know. Let’s stick with Europe, though, please? Like, seriously?

Bless you!

Joke aside, looks delish!

Maybe they’ll have faith in our highway system and speed right through the dead end! Nobody tell’em we only have bits, show them the 20km Milestone party pics!

No, thanks! You can keep him!

Let me put it this way: nobody skipped classes when the teachers knew how to actually explain and teach and didn’t just shovel decontextualised information down our gullets for us to rote and then regurgitate on paper. Yes, we’ve had plenty of Trumps…

Edit: as for your last addition, yep. The context was not the issue, the issue is that I forgot that not everyone went through the Romanian educational system.