This is the material analysis we need to be doing. During COVID I saw farmers shredding crops instead of selling them because we lacked the transportation capacity to get food to market. “How the fuck is that even possible?” you ask? We rely too much on individual truckers when we should be using rail… And that’s kind of an analogy for the whole market.

No system in place to ensure there is enough energy, water, food, steel, concrete, lumber, etc. to go around, just this vague hope that “the market will respond to price information as it always does”.

Well now that price information is telling people to invest in space mirrors to send sunlight to their AI-powered saffron gardens, employing cheap foreign workers rather than local labour so that they can sell the spice to wealthy people. So yeah I think that mechanic is busted now and needs a rethink.

Assaulting children is one of the greatest taboos across all of time. It’s why the elites use it like a ritual to indicate you’re in the in-group; there is virtually nothing else they could not get away with.

I grew up in a conservative home and I saw the left bubble from the outside. If it weren’t for that I’m sure I would have moved left earlier because honestly socialism is much more in line with my beliefs than the hyperindividualism, greed, consumption, and learned psychopathy of neoliberalism.

Some people willing to engage with me would have been nice. I try to be that person now.

Let MAGAs read and engage with reasonable content as long as possible so long as they aren’t dickheads. You never know when someone will say something that makes them rethink their position.

You’re right, and I’ve learned to ignore most advice I read from enthusiasts. I bought a cast iron pan 20 years ago for $15 and I still use it to cook almost everything, including eggs.

I did splurge and buy a nice dutch oven to make baking bread easier, but it’s not necessary.

Multiple times now I’ve been mocked relentlessly for PC building advice or opinions on software development I had that became commonplace within 3 years, like when I said noSQL databases were overrated as hell but they had their uses. Made enemies on both sides lol… And now that’s the common opinion.

Because they don’t talk to you, so you can’t be “vibe coding on the edge of reality” or whatever stupid shit it was that one of the AI CEOs said.

conservatives fucked that up

That was a Conservative + Liberal special, both of them selling off our assets all over the place.

That game was so much more fun than reviewers made it out to be.

I don’t understand why people keep saying Elden Ring is so different from Dark Souls, because it’s really not different at all. I say this as someone who enjoys these games: if your issue with Dark Souls was the base gameplay loop and not the map, Elden Ring will not fix that.

I never made it out of the first zone. I was honestly shocked by how little I cared for it considering I made it through Jade Empire, but Origins just felt like Knights of the Old Republic and that game bored me too.

I mean most of the people shilling it probably were teens at the time they played it. It’s like Neon Genesis Evangelion: teenage drama that’s “deep”, but when you watch it as an adult it just doesn’t hit.

These people don’t seem to learn the lesson the game teaches you right from the start by having the asylum demon stomp your ass until you figure out you should try a different path.

One of the most emotional gaming experiences I ever had was Iji, a freeware game I happened upon while looking for something else. I did not expect that.

Prepare yourself for two playthroughs :)

Take a look at Ballionaire and Cloverpit if you enjoy Balatro.

Maybe you’d prefer Monster Hunter or Elden Ring combat.

Deus Ex and the Metal Gear Solid series both have some shockingly prescient plot points. In 2025 playing these is a trip.

lmao you better not be poking someone’s ass when you do that, might lose a finger

For the record bidets are pretty great though, but I went ahead and got a heated one because I am not a masochist.

Way to admit you either don’t have a job (workplaces use garbage tp) or you don’t clean your ass, which is disgusting but on brand.

This has “washing your ass is gay” vibes. Let me ask a question in language you will understand: how is spraying your ass with water more gay than rubbing and occasionally (accidentally) fingering your asshole every time you shit?

If you are afraid of the cold

I’m glad you mentioned this is for Americans because here in Canada calling the winter water “cold” is like saying the sun is “hot”. I can handle the cold water on my skin but shooting it directly at my butthole is not happening.