People who only ever know the internet through smartphones will NEVER understand our pain.
They accept the modern ultra-cluttered short attention span theater moneygrab marketplace as 'the norm' and it fucking makes me ill.
I have been playing the ever loving fuck out of it any chance I get.
It is like a mix between Dark Souls, Pokemon, Death Stranding and Return to Moria. I love all of those things.
Is there jank? Sure, but not enough to harm my gameplay.
I've felt legit nervous facing some of the bigger higher level Pals, and the exploration is very well designed and always engaging.
As a progressive Christian who hates everything MTG stands for, this is kind of disheartening to hear...
Maybe the fact that conservative governments erode the rights of women?
I think that's probably the biggest driver the last 10 years.
A FUCKTONNE of women I know became a hell of a lot less conservative when Roe Vs Wade was overturned.
Good fucking point. Next time I'm out I'm getting a prepaid burner to stick in the bag.
Thanks for the advice.
This is one facet how authoritarian behavior is unsustainable.
You can only punish victims for so long before those victims pick up a rock and bash their abusers heads in.
Unfortunately it can sometimes take centuries to get to that point.
It's not 'insanely paranoid' when it is correct.
Even the really big boys have shit security and almost no one invests in it.
I was called 'insanely paranoid' for not wanting any IoT things in my house even though I am an IT guy.
I told them 'I don't want IoT things in my house BECAUSE I'm an IT guy and know what I'm talking about.'
They ignored me of course, even companies that paid for my opinion and services.
And some paid the price, but funny enough that didn't stop them from insecure practices, it just made them choose another brand of insecure IoT devices to replace the old.
Rage and clickbait.
This is essentially a civil case turned into something bigger because the person who got hit with a rock was a cop.
Had it just been another protester, there would be no call to undermine the 1st amendment.
And if SCOTUS goes that route, they will lose a lot of support from their politicians.
I mean of course since current SCOTUS is mentally deranged and highly partisan, they may of course still do it.
And I have a protest bag already packed and waiting if they do.
Remember the important supplies: Bottled water, masks and rags, first aid kit, baking soda to dilute to treat pepper spray
Leave your phone and IDs at home
This isn't hyperbole, you have SEEN what SCOTUS is doing and it is time to rattle their rafters with a unified voice.
For those that want the Full chain:
The past: Acacia ants protected acacia trees by biting elephants that threatened the tree, living in a symbiosis where the tree feeds them for their guardianship. Lions use acacia trees as perches to hunt and cover to hide in.
Now: Bull headed ants have done significant damage to native ant populations, leaving the trees unprotected. Elephants strip the bark and damage the trees, now they are no longer suitable for perches or hiding. Bull headed ants being invasive do not form the same relationship with acacia trees as acacia ants do.
The result is harder hunting and shrinking hunting grounds for lions, an already stressed species.
This is a common problem with dictators: One man's arbitrary gut feelings on 'how society should function' being so ridiculously wrong and dangerous that it never achieves the goals set for it.
Like when China started a campaign to get kids to kill sparrows for 'being lazy and living off the farmer's work', when in reality they were keeping the bug population down and their virtual eradication caused several seasons of crops to be lost to insect voracity.
The high minded ideal of a corrupt and out of touch leader who did not understand ecosystems killed hundreds of thousands of his own people due to misplaced ideals and lack of knowledge.
This happens here too. How many more people would have survived Covid if a certain orange twice-impeached seditionist shitstain didn't convince half the country that wearing a mask was unpatriotic.
Just because we're old don't mean we're wrong.
I remember the first ever popup I got and how it made me fear for the future of the web.
My friends roflcopter'd and said 'it's only a popup'
Now look the fuck where we are now...