Zero22xx

Damn. Looks like you guys are headed for a system that treats rich people and poor people differently. Where you can get away with countless felony charges just for being of a particular status in society. Where they'll push for the death penalty for someone that shoots a CEO but sleep when schools get shot up. I feel bad for you guys that all of this is only going to start happening to you on January 20, 2025.

Didn't Trump suggest nuking Palestine? No matter what these people say, it all just sounds like they were looking for any excuse to support Baby Huey while feeling better about themselves for doing so. If it wasn't Palestine, it would've been something else.

I promise that we're not all bigots that think our shit doesn't stink, just most of us. But I just want to add that it's unfortunately not just white people. Look up the 'Marikana massacre' that likely happened under the direction of our current president, considering that he was one of the shareholders pressuring the police to take action.

This place is fucked, top to bottom. The real freedom fighters like Mandela are all dead and gone and we're left with businessmen and openly corrupt freeloaders. People that say things like "I didn't join the struggle to be poor" while being more than happy to sit back and watch as the country they supposedly fought for collapses under the weight of poverty.

In one of the articles doing the rounds for this 'ceasefire' last night, the title was all about this "ceasefire agreement being reached", then in the post under the article the person wrote "the office of Netanyahu has not yet finalized things on their end". So clearly people have different definitions of "an agreement being reached", like Windows Update and the concept of "100% complete".

And willingly. I might be unfairly judging because I'm a non-American that has been watching this unfold from the outside. But this has been no master plan. There's been no deception or trickery. These people have repeatedly and loudly told us all what they're about. But Donald Trump could say "Hannibal Lector is a fine man" after half an hour of shuffling around onstage to golden oldies and his supporters were like "my hero! 😍"

Long before they were trying to 'protect the kids' from trans people, they were trying to 'protect the kids' from metal and punk and rap and calling everything satanic. But all along, we all knew that they were raging hypocrites that campaign for things like child marriage while claiming to actually give a shit about children.

The way I see it, not a single person over say 25 has the excuse of not knowing or not remembering. They don't get to use the "we were tricked" line later on. In fact, no one with the ability to read does. Southern Republican states have a global reputation for being full of kiddie fiddling preachers and politicians, for being run like 3rd world countries and for being incestuous motherfuckers. This is known. And this is why I'm going to press X to doubt wherever anyone tries to tell me that they thought the price of eggs would improve.

I embarked on a mission to play as many of the Sonic games as my aging laptop will handle last year some time. So far, the only Classic era games I either haven't started or 100%ed are the odd ones out, like Sonic Eraser, the SegaSonic games and Tails' Skypatrol. Not sure I'm even gonna bother with Sonic Eraser because it's actually just a shitty little match 3 game that obviously used Sonic for marketing.

As far as the Modern era goes, I haven't got too far in yet because I've been pretty hooked on Sonic Adventure. Going to be doing my 3rd run of Sonic Adventure soon, this time with the Japanese voice tracks and the retranslated subtitles mod. I got to the Biolizard in SA2, took a break and haven't returned to it yet. Honestly a little disappointed with SA2 because I was hoping for more of what we got in SA1 but better, like a hub world to run around in that actually has more to do than just go from point A to point B, like side missions and shit. And I've started Sonic Heroes, which is honestly pretty fun so far.

And the game that I fired up as recently as today was Sonic Advance, where I've completed Sonic's basic run but haven't collected all the Chaos Emeralds yet. And I've just started an Amy Rose run.

I go through obsessions. My previous mission was to watch every DC Comics adaptation, which has now faded into the background and provides me with something to watch when I can't find anything else. Just because there's so damn much of it. And I can see my Sonic the Hedgehog run going the same way because I can already feel that I'm starting to burn myself out with it.

The next non-Sonic game that I'll probably get into soon is an indie game called Unsighted that's been on my to play list for a while now. RPGs are usually my jam but it's been nice having a break from the lists and endless pinned wiki tabs that usually go along with them.

Thespians

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Always. When the previous conspiracy theory / rapture date / return of JFK / illuminati plot doesn't turn out to be true, there's no talking about it or self reflection, it's just right onto the next conspiracy theory / rapture date / return of JFK / illuminati plot.

The thing that I don't like about '3D' movies is that they're clearly flat 2D images like a bunch of cardboard cutouts with a bit of trickery to get certain things to stand out more than others, and I can't see it as anything else. I can lose myself in the movie for moments at a time but am constantly pulled out of it and back into the real world every time something fucky happens with my perception or I try to look at a detail in the background that just stays blurry.

That's awful and I'm sorry. But seemingly the way bullies are handled and I just don't get it. I never faced anything nearly that bad. My major bully for a while was also my 'friend' that would tell me things like everyone else thinks I'm a nerd and loser and that he's the only one that likes me, and would completely and randomly out of the blue put me in a headlock or wrestle me to the ground when I wasn't expecting it. That stopped after I kicked him in the balls during one of those headlocks. And there's one other guy I can remember that would do shit like pull me hair if he was sitting behind me. But most of my bullies were teachers to be honest. My class / grade 1 teacher went so hard (literally SCREAMING in your ear if you dropped your pencil or didn't write neatly enough) that I ended up with a stutter for a little bit.

But I think I lucked out geographically in the '90s. In South Africa those were very hopeful times, at least when I was a little kid that hadn't seen through the lie yet. Mandela was in power, we prided ourselves on being progressive and having "the best constitution in the world" and I bought in fully to the 'rainbow nation'. We never really had bully problems in any schools I went to and there weren't cliques like in American movies. Just the normies and not normies. Those on the inside and those on the outside. Plus we also wear school uniforms and boys have to have boy haircuts and girls have to have girl haircuts etc. So it was impossible to present as anything even remotely different to your AGAB, even if you wanted to.

Most, if not all Ghibli women and girls are awesome IMO. And Nausicaa just might be the most badass. Maybe next to Mononoke.

Tooth issues are the absolute worst and I'd only wish tooth pain on the worst of my enemies. Just one of the areas I've wrecked my life personally. Even now I still haven't developed the clockwork habit of looking after them and have to stay consciously on top of it. I've been working hard on it but I'm still paying for my past in that regard. And just on the subject, what I get for that movie ticket price is fillings and extractions and that's it. For anything else, like root canals, you have to go private. Although $6000 is just sadistic (so is $500 for an extraction actually) and I'm sorry that you have to deal with that. I would definitely be considering Mexico in your position.

nobody seems to notice and everyone just walks around like nothings wrong

I don't use this expression a lot but so much this. It's like everyone has just accepted that things are shit and so they're going to wallow in shit and that's fine. This reminds me of another story that's probably going to be at least another paragraph, so if you check out of reading now, I don't mind.

When I was in boarding school, at one point the staff punished the entire hostel for something that someone had done but not owned up to. I don't know what was in the water that day but people were pissed to the point that a protest broke out. Marching around and going where we weren't supposed to be, singing protest songs. I was in my element. I still remember our over religious, hypocritical asshole hostel master peering out from behind his curtain with a scared look on his face, it was lovely. Then the bell rang for homework time and the protest immediately stopped then and there and everyone went inside to do their homework. I can't remember if the punishment was lifted but I doubt it.

And I think that moment left a lasting impression on me as far as my opinion of people in general goes.