I agree.
Modern standards, even for the poor, are luxurious by any historical standard. We are awash in luxuries that Pharaohs would have waged brutal war to obtain. Even the least of us is fat and entertained in a manner the Roman mob would have sanctioned infinite abuse to maintain.
When the soap drops and there's not a drop of lube in sight, reality will hit us so hard and fast that we will pine for the days these first world problems dominated our discourse.
You won't know how good you have it 'til it's gone.
Vox Day echoes a warning that real bad times are likely in the works. He warns not to make poor choices economically, because if/when things go south in a big way, the bear markets will eat you alive.
I generally appreciate his perspective, and hope that forwarding this warning along helps someone.
(I know this is largely preaching to the choir, but hey, warnings still need saying.)
Theology.
Usually from an ideologically converged seminary which is part of a University which is part of The Cathedral. So it's Leftist non-denominational Super-Protestantism. A Universalist Unitarian belief structure so divorced from the roots that it may as well not be Christian, or even Abrahamic.
It might as well be a degree in Heresy.
This makes me think of NPC scripting as 'spells' or a kind of 'word magick' that is supposed to create the desired effect. It's an aping of language by intellects not sufficient to generate their own arguments. And calling it out gets you branded a bigot, because any discrimination at all is bigotry to the left. All standards are oppression, etc. etc. It's very tiresome.
And heaven forfend you should go after the anointed ones who are writing said codes!
The "Citi bike Karen" case? From about May 18th, 2023?
The sister of the 'youth' in question posted his receipts for the rental, which (ironically) confirmed the woman's story. The 'youths' had returned their bikes (making them no longer 'theirs') in order to avoid racking up rental fees as they loitered. The woman tried to rent the bike, they forced it back in the dock, re-rented it briefly, then returned it again when the confrontation ended. In short: they were squatting the returned bikes, intending to reclaim them after they finished hanging out (without paying for a formal claim on them.) They bullied the pregnant nurse off 'their' bike to enforce their claim, and used social media to make her a pariah.
The usual actors continued to harass the woman, including a journalist interviewing her neighbors when she couldn't get the woman herself to answer her door.
The result is her suing media outlets. That youtube channel (Actual Justice Warrior) has lots of coverage of the particulars of the case from a right-wing perspective as the news cycles went by.
Possession is real. It's ideological possession, in modern parlance, but the powers and principalities represented are still very much Satanic. Because Leftism is the gospel of envy, the old metaphors and understandings still hold.
"Hell is empty and the all the devils are here." The Tempest Act 1, Scene 2, Shakespeare
A brief web-search of DHS rightwing extremism March 2009 yielded a CBS article from April 2009, which contained a link to a pdf of the report mentioned.
None of this is current events, but I can't say that citizen opposition to the state being labeled as domestic terrorism is terribly surprising.
Yeah. the archcast has done two videos on it:
One.
Two.
He points out that Sega's own reddit posts said costs are relatively flat, while CA (as a Sega subsidiary) is claiming costs are up. CA has expanded other teams (increasing their own costs), while WH III has had lackluster updates (reskins and smaller DLCs) compared to say... Medieval II Kingdoms.
I have to agree: CA has been caught with its hand in the DLC cookie jar and if they're allowed they will make these prices their new normal.