Cascadia and the Republic of California

Dibs on the band name.

Teens are kids, they’ve just got half a brain and adult hormones mixed in. They still need guidance and supervision.

This is the conclusion of all those “humans are the virus” type posts, all the “I didn’t ask to be born” angst. These people think existence is suffering therefore it is morally wrong to have children. They’re unwell.

Ok but there’s zero movement in a lot of hobby communities here, and I’m not talking about niche interests. There cannot be quality when the quantity is none.

Don’t mind the downvotes, you’re streets ahead.

Pretty much for as long as online games have gotten updates. DOTA kinda codified it with the Battle Pass system but WoW battlegrounds/arena had seasons way before that. They’ll wait and do content/balance updates in chunks and that effects the meta in waves defined as “seasons”.

It’s everywhere now. It can be weaponized FOMO or a clean way to provide regular novelty without being tied down to legacy content.

Well that’s just wildly misunderstanding political definitions, can’t help you much there bud. (You probably think of all communism as Stalinist Authoritarian Tankie Communism with a paranoid autocrat but there’s a whole spectrum in the anarchy/libertarian direction that really puts the “community” in “communism”)

I hate that “social media” is such a broad umbrella term. It totally lacks useful context. “Social networking site” is great, straightforward and descriptive. But “social media” encompasses every way we communicate with each other except for “traditional media” which got grandfathered through. BBS predates the internet!

All that to say: YouTube is, for many, a public-access TV station and I’m too young to be this mad about it.

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Contradictory? Not at all. Radical just means opposed to the status quo, “leftist” is pretty broad but is generally used to mean “left of the DNC” by politically engaged people and “left of Ronald Reagan” by MAGA. Marxism is a specific foundational political philosophy that identifies and idealizes a communist society.

Just because the monkeys on typewriters don’t know the definitions doesn’t mean the words don’t go together.

They haven’t thought that far ahead.

I don’t delight in suffering, I just want him gone asap.

Ok, well, I am. It’s not “pointless story” it’s entertainment and I’m struggling to come up with a game that has zero plot or setting or characterization. Rocket League maybe.

It’s set in the Titanfall universe, there’s lots of lore scattered around. People work hard to integrate a narrative into the level and character designs, to imply plot in incidental dialogue or cinematics, or just literally write text entries that the majority of gamers will never read because only shooting and rare skins trigger their dopamine.

Leave Draw exactly as it is, thanks. Maybe increase magic damage scaling but the Junction system is neat and the whole thing ties into the plot.

You leave 8 alone! It’s not turn based (in a strict sense) and Draw/Junction is the foundation of the entire game, mechanical and narrative. The scaling is a little weird because there’s two main experience bars and only one of them makes enemies tougher and it’s not explained, but so be it. All I want is the Japan exclusive Chocobo World and updated graphics without changing the visual style and maybe a soundtrack that doesn’t sound so MIDI.

They don’t actually know why it happened. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Vowel_Shift

It can also just be a fun hobby. Old-fashioned soap making is a very approachable historical craft. (Modern soap making is also very approachable if you’re comfortable handling lye)

Old English is significantly harder than Middle English, yeah.

I’m really hoping to stay where I am. I’d rather try to integrate with the Coast Salish people than 14th century Christians.