Formerly /u/Signtist@lemm.ee
You can't in one conversation, but if everyone they knew joined in, it would. Ultimately, it's about whether or not they're getting it from all angles. If there's a group they can fall back on that allows them to hold their current beliefs, they'll do that, but the smaller that group is, the more likely they are to change their opinion. People don't often hold opinions that go against the opinions of literally everyone they know.
Sure, it's unlikely that any of these conversations would actually realize that slim chance of making a difference, since just about everyone has someone that lets them voice even their most heinous opinions unchallenged, but I choose not to be a part of that group for anyone, regardless of how much time and effort it costs me. It's not something you do for them, it's something you do for you.
I used to work at FedEx, and while most people did try to get all the packages in safely and "this way up," they just want us to pack so many boxes into each truck that it becomes impossible by the end of the shift no matter how good you are at Tetris, and you end up just having to put things wherever they fit, even if they're crushing another box. But also, yeah, there was one guy who took great pleasure in punting boxes into his truck, so pack that shit up good.
Doesn't always work, though. I remember I broke a pen as a kid while trying to take it apart. I knew my mom liked that pen, so I took apart another pen to try to fix the original. I broke that pen too and ended up just taping them back together and hoping she wouldn't notice.
Steambot Chronicles for the PS2. It's my favorite game by a wide margin. I almost never replay games, but I've played that one all the way through over a dozen times. It's just chock-full of so many choices of what to do and how to do it, and the graphics and music come together to make the perfect atmosphere.
Pretty sure that was the joke - a guy randomly trying to kill people did more to punish members of a pedophile ring by complete happenstance than the governmental body whose job it's meant to be to do so.
He only did it because Congress was already starting to move forward with the creation of the Department of Environmental Protection, which he wouldn't have had as much control over as an agency.
Yeah, if you're like me and like the fun dialogue the most, I'd just focus on DQ8 and see if you like it enough to finish it. If you do, I'd suggest giving 11 another go after that, since that's definitely the most similar title in the franchise. If you do want to try getting into the custom characters games down the line, 7 reimagined would probably be a decent starting point, since they have some customization while still having distinct characters with personality and voice acting.
It's somewhat divisive. Some people liked it a lot, but I thought it was a bit of a downgrade following DQ8. Since it's a 3D game on the original DS, it's a little bit low on the graphics side, and there's no voice acting or anything. You also get to create and customize your party members' looks and class, which is something it shares with other games in the franchise like DQ3; some people really like that, but I think it takes away from the interesting party banter like what you get in 8, since the customized characters don't have dialogue and end up feeling samey. The story is still on par with any other dragon quest game, though, so if you can look past all that, it's still pretty fun.
Loved Rayman 1 as a kid, but this doesn't really seem like it's bringing anything to the table that previous re-releases haven't already brought again and again. Par for the course for Ubisoft, I guess. Oh well.
Good choice to start - DQ8 is my favorite of the mainline titles! 11 is a close second, though. I've been playing 7 reimagined, and an really enjoying it as well. I tried playing 7 back on the 3DS and couldn't finish it - it's really long - but now I've blown past where I stopped back then and am still invested, so it's shaping up to be a good choice, too!
The worst part is that you know she doesn't understand what happened, and thinks her grandson "sent" her the preview.
You mean our for-profit prisons owned by wealthy CEOs that would absolutely love the opportunity to brown nose by putting the rich pedophiles in low-security prisons for a couple months and then letting them out on "good behavior?" If we tear down the system we can build correctional facilities that actually serve their purpose, but for now they're nothing more than a tool for the very people we're organizing against. We need to dispose of them - it's their own fault we don't have a viable alternative anyway.
No! Argue with the porn! Haha, yeah, definitely block that kind of crap.
You might be right, but life has made it this far in spite of some serious hardships; I believe we'll get through this one as well, though not without our fair share of scars.
Only in times of peace are generations judged by things like intelligence and popular passtimes. We're running headfirst into global conflict, and the children forced to grow up in such conditions will grow hardy whether they want to or not. It's not a fate I would wish on anyone - I wish their lives could be summed up by what musicians were popular rather than what battles were fought - but I do believe they will rise to the challenge; they will need to if they want to survive.
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As someone working in construction who just re-bid a project that was initially supposed to finish being built last year, I can say it's also applicable.
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True, but it also represents access to the complete compilation of lies, half-truths, and general brainless slop of humanity. It's like mushroom hunting; it's not enough to find mushrooms - you also need the skill to notice the small details that differentiate which is edible and which is deadly. The time traveler is probably halfway to thinking birds aren't real by the end of the comic - after all, the magic box of truths says so.
Yeah, even in instances where one side is clearly right, it's still important to be challenged often enough to know exactly why it's right. As soon as you're comfortable enough with "knowing" something is right without being able to explain why, you risk believing things that "feel" correct but might not be. You don't have to actually argue with trolls, but you should still see and process their arguments enough to formulate a counterargument in your head that would stand up to a hypothetical person arguing in good faith.
You do? I certainly don't. I think people will vote Democrat even as the gap between them and the Republicans closes more and more, to the point where they only know which is which by the color of their logo. That's the issue with voting not for a person, and not for a set of ideals, but for the simple concept of "anything but the worst possible outcome," especially in a world where the worst possible outcome keeps getting worse and worse.
I picture a world 30 years from now where we're celebrating a win for a Democrat candidate who's exactly like Donald Trump, because his Republican opponent is somehow even worse, all while the corporations that fund both parties celebrate 300% yearly growth. We need to vote blue, not because Democrats will do anything, but because things at least won't get worse as we continue to organize the revolution. To wait and see what they do is to waste time that would be better served organizing.
We shouldn't be singing the praises of Democrats, because they are just as integral of a part of the system as their opponents, and it will all need to be torn down before things can be rebuilt. The biggest hurdle is going to be getting people like you to let go of your everlasting hope that somehow there's still a slight chance that all Democrats will suddenly become different people and decide not to do the very thing they got into politics to do - to get their very own bag of blood money.
Yeah, annatto is a traditional cheese dye, but outside of the US cheddar doesn't often have much annatto if any, so it's not usually died orange. Here's a video of someone making a marbled cheddar cheese where one part has annatto and the other doesn't, so you can easily see the difference in the final product.