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  • I play it when I’m really depressed.

    I would say that I enjoy the game and feel that the developers have invested a lot of effort into building a panacea of a game that is sort of low stress and maybe a little repetitive, but it gives me something to do, and I can set goals for myself that are… well, absolutely batshit.My current goal(s) are to get my settlements to S tier (pretty close on this one), swap all my frigates over to supply ships (If you repeatedly assign the same ship to the same sorts of missions, it will level up just that stat, so you can have a supply ship that has a high combat stat, etc), and build resource bases so that I can automatically collect every kind of automatically collectible resource in the game. I’ve also visited about 20 universes, and think it might be fun to put a resource collection base in each universe (that I have the patience to visit) and then just go hang out at the anomaly so folks can use the teleporter to fling themselves to universes unknown.

  • The what?

    Edit: What the fuck?

  • In this case, it’s just me having a ‘Spider-Man meme’ moment with your comment and being excessively cavalier/silly in my response.Medical diagnosis’ should not come from anonymous people on the internet. I could be a dog, for crying out loud.

  • You have Hyperactive-type ADHD and Anxiety. (Possibly)

    So mote it be. (Maybe)

    Awkwardly gestures prophetically.

  • I agree with you, and your point is valid, but the larger context is that it probably doesn’t matter.

    The U.S. has been fucked since… well, probably when it didn’t prosecute Nixon, but definitely since 2011.

    Apologies for the WP link - I’m sure better people than I could have provided an archive link. It doesn’t present a paywall to me (or even an Adblock warning, which is interesting…)

    Several nations have tried to restore democracy after populist strongmen. It was never the same.

    Short of pushing all the way through and becoming something else entirely, I don’t see how the current system can be fixed. And I don’t have much faith that ‘something else entirely’ would wind up being better for the people of the U.S., given that its media and all of the leading political figures are in the pocket of the oligarchy, some of whom have already prepared to rewrite the U.S. constitution (the Koch’s) and are salivating at the opportunity to implement a government that is even less useful to the populous (read: even more friendly to their interests).

    My point with sharing this is basically… well.. despair. I guess my horrible, mediocre comment can be summed up as “The U.S. is fucked, so it might as well keep choosing the lesser of two evils. Sorry. 😕”

  • Within the last day or so -

    Burning the flag, renaming DOD to Dept. of War, trying again to deport Kilmar Abrego, signaling they’re going to ban the COVID-19 vaccine, and attempting to sue California to prevent their redistricting while allowing Texas’ to proceed.

    Is this more of the gish-gallop that Bannon described that they’re pulling to overwhelm the news cycle so that a few of the bullshit things they’re pulling don’t get overturned, or are they specifically looking to push out some stories, like Trump’s obvious failing health, Epstein-related stories (inclusive of the latest on Gislaine), or possibly the redistricting one above.

    Ugh. They’re up to more bullshit than usual, but the signal to noise ratio makes it hard to discern what.

  • You’re right, but I googled the wrong thing and googled John 4:16, which is “Jesus said ‘Go call your husband […]’” (It says more, but search cut it off there.)

    I had a solid guffaw because these boxes are for 2-way radios. Then I realized that I googled the wrong thing and lost interest in continued research.

  • Wait. You’re telling me the pocket cartel even has a stranglehold on diaper bags?!

  • Tagline: Love is a battlefield!

  • It’s not funny, though.

    It’s just stupid. Top to bottom, left to right. There’s no angle that is funny or enlightened.

    The twist is lame. The original premise isn’t funny. Certainly not ‘funnier’ than the propaganda the premise is trying to deliver.

    The whole fucking thing is just a Schrödinger’s asshole setup with a different sort of joke than we’re used to with those setups.If you buy into the agitprop, it reinforces purity testing and infighting, while undermining solidarity between people who could find common ground.And if you don’t, then it’s just a joke, bro.

  • I mean this earnestly, what part is funny?

  • What makes it explicitly humorous?

  • Rule 0: No agitprop. Not a meme, just shittiness.

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  • The promise of money — even diminishing returns — is too great. There's a new scraper spending big on resources every day while websites are under assault.

    In the paraphrased words of the finance industry: AI can stay stupid longer than most websites can stay solvent.

  • Mine’s part stink bug.

  • Well…

    Stewart dropped a line that made Hasan pause: maybe Democrats just need “the right reality host” to take over the party.Hasan’s reflexive response — please, no more reality hosts — came with one notable exception: “Unless Jon, you’re thinking of throwing your hat in the ring… we can talk about that.”Stewart laughed. He didn’t deny it. He didn’t wave it off. He just leaned back, smiled, and chuckled.

    As another commenter brought up, when the idea has been suggested in the past, Jon has unequivocally and instantly shut it down.

    Big “Hmmmmm” vibes here.

  • Be careful with those mushrooms!

    They’ve got a knife!