250,000 expected to show up to watch some men compete at who can stick their balls in Troon's holes the best.

I reject the whole notion that I'm "supposed" to be for or against anything. Media and political parties are not the bosses of how I think or what I support.

Chukna deleted all their posts months ago and hasn't been back. Who knows. Imp is perpetually banned because every time he returns, he just can't ignore the jooz crowd, so he will say something borderline dumb and they like to militarize the reporting system.

99% chance they are actually doing their best to be nice with all of this. Or even further so, they are flirting because they are interested in you, which you expect (and demand). A man you are interested in flirts, and you like it. A man you aren't interested in flirts, it's rape. So the short answer is what's it's been with women for likely the whole of time, "I demand men read my mind, or else."

I took philosophy first, dropped it while I could still get my money back because the female professor was crazy. I can't remember why I picked music after, probably scheduling. I worked when I was in college. Scheduling trumped everything including my own boredom, it was all about checking off credits on a list.

A DMZ with machine guns would keep them out. Cross the line, become vulture food.

Why didn't all they all just switch to electric cars?

I could have stopped at a Taylor Swift class. Any college that offers credit for education on Taylor Swift makes me question the value of their degrees. I've heard on a podcast about a Beatles course too, I think at USC. Also useless. The closest I did in college was I suppose what you'd call "music appreciation" but we went into the history of music going back to the beginning and the structure of classical music, etc. None of which could you find in a Taylor Swift song.

The only ones in modern games that I recall bothering me is the ones where you have to spam the same key over and over as fast as you can to "struggle" or whatever. Especially those where I almost have to sit up and focus on key spamming because if I get one or two fewer keypresses per second I get to start over.

It's never been a fun gameplay mechanic though. If you really want to see how bad they can be go play Shenmue 2. Then, I will await news of your suicide.

To the title of the post, I look at what goes on around me, and I just can't imagine that the Amish are really worse off than this disaster of secular culture the rest of us live in.

Maybe I need to replay it just for the anniversary. I love that game. It's such a good game, and I don't care if it got a ton of hate. Still have the original CD/DVD (some sort of disc) of it from way back.

Edit: oh and I got sidetracked from what I meant to say, on GOG you actually get the original, the expansion, and BFG edition in one purchase. One of the few games I've broken my rules on and bought more than once.

Septerra Core looks interesting and I've never heard of it. Threw it on my wishlist.

I think in many/most cases it's useless. All of the criminals that are in there that just gang up in prison and come out and go right back to their bullshit. What a waste of money and resources. I'd propose trying out some corporal punishment or something of that nature for lesser offences and expanded use of the death penalty for greater ones and continuously repeat offenders.

I just put The Dig on my Switch last weekend, Scumm games were some of my favorite in the day, yet I never played The Dig. They are great to play on the go too. I rarely ever game handheld, but trying to sit amongst distractions and hold up a screen while using tiny controls to play an action game is just brutal.

Is it? Oh well I was hoping to check out some ruins.

I remember I got Mercenaries as a giveaway game on my Xbox years ago. It's a fun screw around game for sure when open worlds were still kinda boring but didn't shackle you with realism.

On the thread of older games of open world chaos, Red Faction: Guerrilla is really fun too. I never tried the remake so if they woked it up or something then I wouldn't know.

I'm going to edit in a couple of my other old-time favorites that are less obvious than pretty much any FPS of the 90s:

Ys I and II are a lot of fun. They are very simple and there's loads of sequels if you still like them. It's possibly the longest running action RPG series in existence.

Shenmue I, and somewhat 2 but I think 1 is the best. It's clunky and janky but it's not the most action filled game anyway. Funny and serious game at the same time.

I almost went down there a few weeks ago. Maybe next year, I'd still like to trek down to Tulum for a couple days. The cenotes around there are really cool too. I may try a big resort next time, the last 5 years killed my adventurous spirit a bit, especially in sketchy countries. I'd still have to get away from it a bit though.

I don't remember any armed guards back then, but it's been a handful of years since I went to Mexico. Last time I remember armed guards was cops with MP5s in Denmark.

Yeah, I don't know anything about Gotchu at all, I looked it up and got an anime site in Japanese.

I think my point is, these things keep coming up and I guess I'm just supposed to know about it and be angry or something? Because the way I see it if that's the case 10 years from now we will continue to see the same thing and I will have spent 3652 days with little bits of anger for nothing. I do what I can where I can even though it's probably of little consequence. I can't really do much here, as I never purchased anime porn or whatever anyway.

Yet that will forever be a problem as long as it is allowed to be one. I'm by no means all in on crypto, I barely have any of it. Just at some point you have to stand up and try something else otherwise it's really a waste of effort to even notice.

I assume it's all porn or something that was removed, spin it off, go open getchuwankon.com and find other ways to collect money.

A company that had one of the most firm footholds on multiple video game markets that got sick chasing those who weren't really interested then had the killing blow delivered by diversity. All they had to do is understand why their games were ever successful to begin with, and keep doing that, and they make money for decades.

I'm very anti-prison, but these are the types of crimes that prison would be useful on. Put her in there a year to teach her a lesson.

I don't know what any of this crap that's going away is, but why do they always cave? Offer crypto options or something they can't control so they know their tactics don't really work.

Don't like none of those water bugs either.

Wow, I never would have expected that in the corporatist government.

I've heard of some being included in severance agreements, so essentially you're being let go and in order to get severance you can't work in the field you likely have the most experience for a year. It's evil.

Yeah I spent a lot of time over there 3-ish years ago. I haven't been on there in ages. Too many of them went crazy after 2021 and weren't thinking straight.