Imagine you’re driving a car, with two kids in the back seat. One keeps opening and closing the window, even though you repeatedly tell him to stop. The other is jumping into the front seat and jerking the steering wheel to the left, and you keep swerving into oncoming traffic. Do you think it makes sense to focus on…

I really don’t believe that the current level of crazy is what would get Jr. to intervene, given all of preceding history. What seems far more likely is that this is some lame power play: their loudmouth idiot meal-ticket is on the way out, and they all know they can’t sustain his level of aggressively-stupid…

You’ve hit on something that could start me off on a far-too-long diatribe more than almost anything else, but as someone studying programming and AI, I completely agree, yet still see people even in the industry have this magical thought process about consciousness. We don’t understand our own consciousness enough to…

Yet most of your arguments are about socialism’s or communism’s failures. You’re trying to turn the discussion away from the problems in capitalism, to make people see the way things could be worse, but that doesn’t do anything to help the current problems, which are very real. People’s complaints about capitalism are…

Well they’ve been rather non-subtle with how weak he is recently, which makes me think they’re ramping up to him getting powers. Or maybe he will continue to mostly be Butcher’s “canary in the coal mine”, there to keep Butcher, well, not honest, but at least from going off the deep end. That being said, his actions in…

It’s witch test logic: try to drown a woman, if she drowns she wasn’t a witch. Some people really are that stupid.

Yes, thank you, I had the same thought. They CAN force the rules by turning off mics while it’s the other person’s turn; the fact that they don’t means they are fine with that cross-talk nonsense, which is just enabling Trump’s dirty tricks.

The first part of your story is eerily similar to mine - at first I didn’t care about crafting, but when I repeatedly didn’t have enough money for the coolest gear, I decided to level crafting, assuming that it was the way to may money. But after running into the same issue regarding materials for a single crafter, I…

While I dislike the oversimplified “capitalism sucks” statements like those in the article, the knee-jerk reactions of “socialism sucks” to any criticism of capitalism is much worse. It’s tiresome, unintelligent, and manipulative.

Hahaha, that 1R.

Hm, I’d argue that a person living in a house shouldn’t have to take any decorating suggestions whatsoever, never mind obligations, from someone who probably spends about 1/100th as much time in that house. The obligator may well be oblivious, in which case get rid of that vase. If they get upset, that means they…

There are loud Trump supporters for sure, but it’s an over-generalization to say that ALL Trump supporters are loud about it. While the loud ones have become ever-more emboldened in their loudness, that may just reinforce the quietness of some of the quiet ones. Make no mistake, there are definitely quiet ones out…

Yeah, I agree, there’s not really much stuff to carry over. I’d imagine if you compared everyone’s end-game save files, the only material differences would be materia loadouts, which you are constantly changing anyway.

Lots of people touching on the racial aspects of this, but I think it’s more something else that pervades pretty much all of society right now and is having a pronounced effect: having a strong, effusively-argued opinion on something you did essentially no due diligence on being informed about.

You’re attacking someone who is supporting the BLM movement and putting forward an ugly narrative that seems to be borne more out of the grosser side of your own job than anything else. What is the matter with you?

By that logic, she never has to do anything at all. She can just sit naked in a ditch, burping into the nothingness where a life should be, and Jesus and God will drop everything she needs directly into her face.

That’s possible, but why do that; who in the world wants to watch more than a minute of that act? It’s a single, ugly note, repeated over and over. It might be a momentary novelty to see someone be a monumentally bad loser, but I can’t imagine many people want to watch a lot of that. Just go watch Smug instead: he’s…

Ha yeah, there’s clearly a huge conspiracy from reality to make him look bad. Couldn’t possibly be that he just sucks.

LTG just makes no sense to me, like as a human being. Massive ego tied to fighting games, yet constantly, CONSTANTLY loses matches which usually result in him freaking out and insulting the winner. He’s objectively terrible at the thing that he derives his ego from, yet is still an egomaniac. How does a brain form…

Money is influence. On its own, physical or otherwise, it does nothing. But if you want someone to give you something or do something and it is possible for them to do so, there is probably a money threshold beyond which they will. It’s about getting people to do things they wouldn’t otherwise. It’s not the only form…