Uvalde.
They have no issue pissing around and wasting time when their lives are actually in danger.
I have a feeling that the only way to deal with the matter will be to simply get rid of SWAT teams.
Regular banks also don't give loans for raw land, either.
Fair warning to everyone looking into this; if you're thinking about buying up land and building a house yourself, you'll have to jump through hoops to find a local bank specifically designed for that.
And this is a clear demonstration why I think people paying for Youtube Premium(or whatever the fuck it's called) are absolute water-brained retards.
I'm not giving my money to a company for a service I can get for free, that can take away said 'advantage' of no-ads the moment they decide they need to up their revenue stream.
I've never paid for a streaming service, and I doubt I ever will. I'll either buy solid hardcopy or just sail the seven seas for my fix.
So, you actually have to dress like you're there to work out, as opposed to being an attention whore.
Wow. Social shaming works. Who would have thought!
The lore is the best part!
Modded Morrowind is the best way to play Morrowind. It's an odd beast of a game in terms of mechanics that basically begs you up, down, and sideways to break the game horribly in the most creative fashion possible.
As much as I love Skyrim, you don't really get that in Elder Scrolls 5.
As much as I love Skyrim, give me unlimited money and dictatorial control and I'd be making a Morrowind movie/series, instead.
Mostly so I could watch people twist themselves up in excuses over how the dark-skinned elven race is a bunch of religious zealots with accepted political tradition of assassination whom practice slavery despite it being outlawed by the wider empire as a whole, and who's entire plot basically revolves around the roman empire-expy using religious prophecy to bring all these crazy fuckers to heel.
Oh, and, possibly save the world, as well. That's important.
Yeah, I know. They wouldn't care. I'd still have alot of fun with it, though.
The part I love about the Elder Scrolls series is that it's unreliable as all fuck, and the wise writer leans into that heavily.
Supposedly, the Bretons are all descended from a human-free-use Elven society(no, I'm not kidding) that constantly bred with their human slaves to the point where the two hybridized, so it's... technically possible?
Unless it's all lies, of course. In the Elder Scrolls, we have atleast 3 different sources for where the general races of man could have come from. Fun fact, the Redguard aren't included in any of those tales and are instead invaders from another continent entirely...
Only to discover that Canada has these little things called 'immigration laws' and 'immigration requirements' if you're not a precious wittle helpless PoC.
And they will enforce them, unlike the US.
Yeah, I could do with listening to some wailing and gnashing of teeth...
I absolutely adore how vegetarians are so desperate to try and formulate fake meat products despite being, y'know, fucking vegetarians.
If there was anything good about your diet, you wouldn't be trying to pass it off as something else.
You're thinking of 'Too Human' from way back in 2008.
I've come around to the honest belief they do this because they want to be treated like animals.
Remember that the FtM tranny that shot up the school in Nashville did so predominately because of white hatred, despite being white.
Self hatred is a powerful motivator, and propaganda works. Maybe if we stopped seeing anti-white hatred spewed all over the place and simultaneously applauded as a good thing, we'd likely have alot less issues as a society.
Whoof. That's a good question.
...I don't even know if there's a phrase or label to explain it, but the books that tend to really stand out to me - the one's I'm going back to time and time again in the realm of Science Fiction can best be described 'Exotic Hard Science Fiction'.
The one's that put in the effort to do the research and study to make things really exotic and out there yet completely based off of actual science. Stuff like 'Revelation Space' or 'Accelerando' or 'Blindsight'. Stuff with teeth, with actual goddamn cite notes and references.
Yeah, I know. I'm a little bit weird. For added bonus points, my personal opinion of the authors for the last two can basically be summed up as 'Pieces of shit who need to be punched in the throat', but hey, nothing's perfect.
Exactly. The phrase 'anti-semitism' has basically devolved into 'you criticized anyone that is jewish'.
'Noticing' is verboten.
I really wish I could see a way out of this that didn't devolve into horrific violence, but...
This woman is a fucking idiot.
Trying to play the gender card in Dune, of all series? Fucking Dune!? The one series who's entire crux is about the conflict between man and women, how honest love and admiration can change the entire universe, and how an organization ruled by women can make the most powerful man in the known universe into a pathetic cuck who lives with the knowledge that his lone child is going to be whored out because a group of women say so!?
Fucking DUNE!?
Jesus fucking christ. Yeah, you couldn't win jack fuck all in that argument with your brother because you're clearly too retarded to actually comprehend what the fuck it is you're reading. Fuck's sake.
Fucking what.
Games workshop is not a smart company.
They've done thier screwups before and will likely do so again. Is it going to lead to them going full woke, all woke? Dunno. I've seen way too many people burbling mindlessly about how the Imperium is horrible bad and in no way the 'good guy', but, eh.
We'll see.
Midwits desperately scrabbling to explain away that the skill they thought put them in the oh-so-special-class-strata can be replicated utilizing a program.
And yet, I'm sure they were quite effusive when it came to the idea of automation wiping out blue-collar jobs.
Get fucked and learn to code, bitch.
Can't say much to tranny delusions.
Heinlein was always very much a writer's writer - he wrote whatever the fuck he wanted and didn't really care how others would take it, and didn't really limit himself.
Even if he did go a little, uh, weird in his old age after his wife died.
Whoa, cool it with the anti-semitism!
/s
It's this PoV, more than anything, that made me stop and think.
Millions dead. An entire world war, fought to stop the people that were mechanically, industrially genociding you. Given your own country, with cultural and religious significance to you and countless others, yet you were given precedence.
And this - this - is how you act afterwards? Not with paeans of glory to your saviors, not with thanks and giving to the people who sacrificed so much for you, not even with a fucking nod of respect...
Well. Alright, then. So noted. I'll be sure to keep that attitude in mind when making decisions in the future.
Peter F Hamilton is pretty damn good overall.
If you get intimated by the sheer size of said 'trilogy' (it's so big they had to split it into 6 books), then pick up 'Fallen Dragon'. It's basically 'Corporate Starship Troopers with Biosuits and Nanotech' with alot of good twists and storytelling.
Not sure about his more recent stuff, though, as I haven't stayed current with them.
TLDR, no.
People trying to paint sci-fi as 'inherently progressive' are basically taking all the 60s and 70s reactionaries as 'all' of science fiction, while ignoring people who came before and afterwards.
A popular example they love to cite is 'Star Trek' for a multitude of reasons, but they always do it from a superficial twitter/tumbler understanding of the series, as I doubt any of them have actually sat down and, y'know, watched the original series.
One scene as an example that always sticks in my head was the one that introduced Khan in 'Space Seed', where the various characters are looking at the history of the eugenics wars, and Scotty remarked about how Khan was 'one of the good ones', where another character then turned around basically pointed out 'But he was still a fascist, genetic supremacist'. None of it done emotionally, all done in fair debate. Can you imagine any modern sci-fi show pulling off something like this? Giving an extreme side it's own fair soap box? Hell, Khan himself was smooth, charismatic, urbane, sophisticated - yet still clearly arrogant and confident in his own superiority.
People playing the 'sci-fi inherently progressive' are basically holding up a distorted fun-house mirror to science fiction as a whole and going 'See? SEE!?' to try and convince you that the mirror is the real thing.
And when you do the research and point out examples they'll just dismiss it as 'someone's triggered', because they lack the autism most fans of sci-fi tend to posess. It's just another cudgel fake fans/NPCs use in their arsenal to demoralize and break down their opponent.
Debating them is pointless. Just quote Heinlein and Asimov at them till they either freak out or shut up.
"I want attention from whites, so I'm going to make them jealous and angry so they give me their attention so I'm happy."
If I was a betting man, that's where I'd put my money on how their thinking goes.
Reminds me of some dogs, really. Don't give them attention, so they start shit and accept the bad because it's still some form of attention.
...I hate how reality keeps making my brain go to places I don't want it to go.
There is no such thing as 'magic soil'. It's just bullshit argument made - again - by extreme jewish leftists(Hello, Caplan!) who live in gated communities and have never been around immigrants, ever.
One example that sticks in my head is when I was talking to a friend of mine. His family is italian(there's alot around where I am), and there is a part of his family,* to this fucking day*, almost a fucking century after they immigrated that they do not interact with and know better than to try.
Why?
Cause they're involved in organized crime.
A fucking century.
Magic soil doesn't exist. Import a country, you get that country, and I don't want to live in another country.