Lurker123 [he/him]

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Excited to see the woke or not game decider weigh in on this.

Hahaha that’s amazing

Yo wtf, did the bot start going off about seth efrika out of nowhere?

I just hate how contrived her sad ending is.

Spoilers for BG3 ahead:

The game goes out of its way to introduce a blacksmith who can temporarily fix karlach’s engine and then he’s like “sorry this won’t be a permanent fix. I would need a demon forge and better infernal iron to get a permanent fix.” And then, if you play the game such that he’s alive in act 3, lo and behold, he’s set up in a legit shop with a demon forge, and you get improved infernal iron from killing the mech guards.

But nope, no repair for you, sorry.

And speaking of the mech guards, the first one you encounter goes out of its way to tell you “hey karlach, you’ve got a defective engine. Come the foundry and we’ll give you a new one that should fix you right up.” And then you’re given the option to ally with the guy who runs the factory, or free the factory’s engineers and save their families - but either way, again despite being explicitly told the factory can fix her, nope, no option to do so.

It’s just so bad narratively. You want an ending where you can’t save her. Fine. But don’t go out of your way to introduce various ways she can be saved just to not even address them.

Critical support for comrade trump’s war on cars

The Oscar short about this was my favorite this year

Yes we’ve had first Suez crisis, but what about second Suez?

3500%? No, no - that’s not enough. 3521%? Now we’re talking.

Fake, you couldnt even know a third grade class was even there if you were driving a lifted f-350.

Holy shit so good

I think you hit the nail on the head with the last point. They’ll blame somebody else for bad stuff that happens, and people will just eat it up.

Wherever you start, make sure to watch the sub. Lots of people swear by the dub, because that’s what they grew up watching, but it doesn’t capture the raw emotion or the original vision on the way the sub does imo.

Hmm, out of curiosity, where did you come to this belief that congress can pass laws which are impossible to overturn or require hurdles to jump through to overtur? Did you read an article on it? Is the idea to couple an abortion bill with another bill trying to strip Supreme Court review authority?

It is this inversion of the sentiment “Anything but class” into its polar opposite “Nothing but class”. How is it that people come to this conclusion, wherein the only thing they believe we should be struggling against is the Marxian class divide? To me, it would seem, by focusing strictly on class, you homogenize a large swath of society and, as such, dilute, erase, or otherwise ignore the struggles of the diverse demographic makeup of the proletariat. How is it that you can convince people deep in the margins of the proletariat that your movement can uplift them, if you can’t even articulate, as a result of having done zero analysis of these group’s various struggles, the ways in which society will be improved that resonate with their struggle?

On this part in particular, you’ve lost me. It seems like, precisely due to the universalist nature of the class struggle, that it is the most comprehensible to the many as to how it would benefit a person and society, irrespective of any other particular concerns/struggles of such a person.

For example, suppose our broad class based solution is the nationalization of various industries (e.g., healthcare, housing, and telecommunications). If a person is struggling with rent, living in a slum, struggling to save to buy a place, or just unhappy with paying rent, it seems to me that such a person will see how this movement will improve their life and society even without an articulation of a struggle particular to that person. So too if the person has had any interaction with the American healthcare system or paid a phone bill (with respect to the other examples).

Imagine being one of Kim Jung Un’s advisors and having to explain this comment to him.

One issue from a legal/prosecutorial point of view (even assuming there is a willingness for the government to prosecute) is that the rules of evidence require authentication of documents. In the case of a whistleblower, they are themselves a witness and can authenticate (that is, attest to the genuine nature of) any supporting documents they bring in. If a whistleblower is killed, even if the government has the documents the whistleblower intended to authenticate, it becomes a lot trickier to use.

Indeed. Not sure what that has to do with this post though, which is clearly pointing to the witcheress ending (her profession) as evidence for her becoming a Witcher (a mutant).

This meme is likely disingenuous. At the very least it is confused.

At the end of the Witcher 3, Ciri becomes a Witcher (the profession, a person who hunts monsters). The complaint is that she is a Witcher (a mutant, a person who has been mutated by monster dna), which doesn’t make much sense because she already has better-than-witcher magic powers, and is already able to drink Witcher potions (which she mentions at the end of Witcher 3, while not a mutant).

Is this perfect cell on namek? What is the context?