Yes it's not an insect of order hemiptera or homoptera but I'm trying to use the colloquial "bug" for the animal enjoyment libs

Okay Felix but once on Hasan's stream you said that you don't like chickens because they're like bugs to you and I was deeply disappointed, that is low-vibration animal enjoyment

For a while dota 2 had a pve roguelike game mode that was legitimately pretty fun, though valve keeps doing this thing where they make the fun temporary mode ballbustingly hard which I think kinda kills it for the majority of players

I don't foresee a single player game mode tbh but I think finding ways to tell a personal story across your many matches of a multiplayer pvp game is unexplored territory that valve could break new ground in. Maybe a hub similar to games like Hades, with NPCs who have comments about wins and losses or particular feats you pulled off.

You give a man a fish, you feed him for a day--you give a man a rat, and you satisfy his rat desire

Very tall Bart isnt just the best leftist ytp channel, it's the best overall

My brain keeps a permanent spot for "Dennis Prager: Hated by many, loved by few"

Man why do libertarians have to have a modicum of relevance and senatorial presence in America, they could just be like the political equivalent of village idiots who delight us with their harmless stupidity

Right, it's why introducing her early is so effective. Like most people, Harry wakes into a world order established by people like her, and if you literally only take her and the world at face value, she just seems like a proper lady, when she is actually a key player in the horror of it all

This is bringing out something that occurred to me the second time I played the game and met Joyce. She really is the liberal of the game.

When you meet Joyce early on, she is, at that stage of the game, one of the most directly helpful NPCs. She talks to you respectfully instead of (rightfully) calling you a pig, she makes jokes with you, she's even willing to discuss reality with you, and some of her most likeable lines come out during that little philosophy talk. She's got an education, and she clearly likes a deep conversation. She even shows that she has a little perspective on her position in the world, and she has some sympathy for the failed revolution and for the conditions that necessitated it. Wow what an intelligent and reasonable mature woman she is!

Try and ask her for money, though?

NOPE

Anti-intellectualism comes alongside alienation from others. It has to. Being an intellectual is essentially saying "I trust the findings of academics and will adopt their consensus." Nobody can learn about the whole span of the world, it's too much information. But when you are convinced that collaboration is weakness and compromise is failure, you have to keep the world in your head, and the only way to do that is to maintain a really simplified internal diorama from which your "truth" is derived.

Man I fucking feel for you guys in this thread. My parents are just well-meaning libs who immediately cave when I apply pressure. Like when JK Rowling was first getting onto her bullshit and I whipped out an "actually my friend is trans and you knew her pre-transition" it basically blew the transphobia out of them like a shotgun blast. I'd rent my parents out to you guys if I could so you could have a couple old academic libs to very lightly dunk on with the understanding that they are still trying to figure out a confusing world even in old age.

Edit: I should add that I empathize because growing up in the South, most of my friends had the parents you describe and I was pretty familiar with how unstable it made them feel at home.

How about we do two things

Like how about we work less and we immediately and totally nationalize energy and agriculture haha just a thought haha (fireflies are going extinct haha)