...Why though? Why go through all the trouble when ultimately all you're doing is painting over it? You'd get the same results from just making it into a 2x2 grid. Put some Xs and Os in there or something.

This seems like a 14 year old's idea of how to fight a largely non-existent problem in the least efficient manner possible.

I thought it was already determined that you don't have to Bake The Cake? It was even the same state that tried to pull this shit last time.

Compelling people to work for you against their will is not even close to the definition of slavery. It's informally part of the definition, but that's like saying the definition of an apple is "red food". It's an oversimplification.

The closest thing this case would have been to is coercion - the threat of force in order to get the other party to enter into a contract. It's still very much illegal, but let's not act like Redditors and destroy the English language just to prove a point.

Almost all women and gay men. Imagine that.

RPGs on PC were trash garbage until Might and Magic 3. JRPGs specifically basically didn't exist. Back then, only the very most successful games bridged the console/PC gap, and usually they suffered horribly for it.

But on the upside you got some killer FPS games well before they were even remotely playable on consoles.

I checked out some Ronde gameplay footage, and all I can say is...what in the fuck. It makes me feel like I'm having a dissociative episode.

Yeah, I've been playing turn based games for thirty years, and some of my favorite games of all time are crappy, ancient RPGs that are barely more complex than Cookie Clicker. But I also know what you mean about needing to be in a specific "RPG mood". I'll sometimes go four years without touching one, then all of a sudden I'll play ten of them in a year. But when I was a kid, I couldn't get enough of them.

I don't mind hard as long as the difficulty doesn't come from sudden, massive spikes in level requirements. There's a difference between "grinding will make this boss easier" and "unless you grind, the trash mobs across this random bridge will instantly destroy you". The former is fine, the latter is not.

So what exactly is the difference between Persona and SMT? From what I can tell Persona is a lot more story-focused, but is that it? Is it like a FF vs. DQ kind of situation where they're basically the same but with some key differences?

I've played the older ones before, but if you didn't like the hallways of P4 you probably won't like these either. They're a 1st person perspective so everything feels like a hallway trek.

I've kind of got a love-hate thing going on there. I don't mind first person labyrinth treks because that's the name of the game. It's like when you eat a bowl of Cheerios, you're not really expecting a flavor explosion. Sometimes you just want something bland and wholesome. Persona 4, however, tries to be cool and up to date, but then has the shittiest dungeon design I've ever seen. So it kind of feels like, if I wanted to play Shining in the Darkness, I'd play Shining in the Darkness.

The only thing that bothers me when it comes to very old games with first person labyrinth-style dungeon crawling is a lack of any sort of map. It's why I could never get into Phantasy Star. If I have to get out a piece of paper and draw the map, I'm not interested. And yes, I could just look up a map on GameFAQs or something, but I feel like that takes away the fun of exploring. Automaps are a must. Or something akin to Etrian Odyssey, which I also enjoy. I just don't want to bust out the three ring binder when I want to play a game.

This is a fair point. I personally don't really believe that the pre-op suicide rate is actually that high, because I think 99% of trannies are just clout chasing trenders and don't actually have anything wrong with them aside from a pathological need for attention. I think the post-op rate is probably pretty high when the gravity of what they did to themselves sinks in, but it's such a politicized issue we won't likely know the truth for another twenty years.

Pikmin 1 is pretty good, but it's definitely very primitive compared to the other two. I like it more than 2 though. 2 has that stupid, stupid flower system where you have to grind caves in order to get enough purple/white Pikmin. It ruined the whole game for me. Thankfully they did away with that for 3, which is easily the best game of the trilogy. It remains to be seen how 4 is.

PoE is my second-most played game on Steam, and I'd wager first-most played of all non-MMO games, and I've only put like 20 bucks into it, and that's only because I felt like the devs deserved it. I could have easily gone the entire time without spending a dime.

As far as Diablo-alikes go, PoE is the best, as far as I'm concerned. And I started off with the original Diablo.

I remember when presidential gaffes were "covfefe", "strategery", and "57 states". Everyone says something retarded given enough time on mic, but Biden has been on a whole other level.

50 years ago there were functionally no trannies at all, and the few that did exist were just sex pests, not genuinely mentally ill. The sudden influx in suicide among trannies came after the GAE grooming campaign. Note that the study found an incidence of only .06% in transgenderism in Denmark, which is 1/16th the purported rate in America. The grooming hasn't even begun there yet.

But despite all this, it still found that trannies are 7x more likely to attempt suicide.

This study is meaningless.

I'm in favor of universal health care as long as it comes with a requirement of 100 IQ or higher to qualify.

Cameras generally don't point inside prison cells. The ones in the prison he was at didn't. They wouldn't have seen anything at all if he had killed himself - which, according to the official release, is exactly what they found. Only one of the cameras was actually down when he died. The other had data on it that was recovered. You don't have to believe the official release, and I don't either without corroborating evidence, but in order for a hitman to infiltrate a prison of all places, there'd have to be a lot more going on than one camera being down. So either way, the cameras were a non-issue.

The guards simply lied about checking on him. Is it really difficult to believe that two black prison guards charged with watching a white millionaire decided not to bother? They couldn't have given two shits about his well being. He's the oppressor after all.

And even if he did kill himself "voluntarily" because he's being blackmailed ... that's not voluntary!

Technically, I never said he killed himself voluntarily. Just that he killed himself.

Eh, I think he did kill himself. He was probably told that either he offs himself or his loved ones (assuming he was capable of love) start mysteriously disappearing. Not to mention what they'd bribe his fellow prisoners to do to him. Suicide was the best course of action for him. If he had testified he'd probably have ended up getting tortured every day until he finally died.

It's because, contrary to what slavish Ukraine Flag In Profile NPCs believe, most of us don't really support either side. I'm very much not pro Ukraine, but I'm apathetic towards Russia. I don't care enough about the war to even attempt to wade through the disinfo campaigns in order to figure out what's going on.

As such, I take most of what I hear through an objective lens. The western regime and its useful idiots are 100% subjective all the time, so they discard any information that doesn't fit their views. They also have a tendency to wildly hallucinate any time anyone says anything even mildly critical of Ukraine.

It's hard to tell if the replies about globalists trying to force us to eat the rocks are genuine or not. Could be false flags, could be bad jokes, who knows. That's the thing about dry humor on the internet. It almost never works.

Not only is she a woman, she's black. She'll get a year in prison (minus time served) (minus time for good behavior) (minus time to heal racial trauma), take her court mandated meds for about two weeks before stopping them because they make her feel "weird", and do it again.

This sounds like schizophrenic behavior to me, or at the very least severe paranoid delusions. Even if she truly believed she was being kidnapped, she's still a danger to society.

When you hit the "start" button on your washing machine, it starts washing clothes, even if there are no clothes inside. It doesn't know if it's empty or not, nor does it care. Nor can it care. It's a simple machine organized programmed to behave in a specific way given a certain input. If it deviates from this programming too often, it gets discarded and replaced with a more reliable model.

I believe the analogy is clear.

they immediately think of 90's era stereotypes of republicans sitting around a table smoking cigars thinking about how they can ruin the environment and oppress the gays and women.

This is an extremely important part of the equation.

Let me ask everyone a rhetorical question. Have you ever met a leftist who wasn't up to their eyeballs in propaganda, virtually 24 hours a day? Whether it's the "news", Hollywood woke garbage, social media psy ops, etc? I say "rhetorical" because I already know the answer: no. All leftists live in a hyperreality. All of them, without exception. Most of them live in a badly written movie where the left is The Good Guys, but many of the older ones live in a perpetual documentary about the rise of the Nazi party.

Hyperreality is absolutely crucial to the survival of leftism, which is why they're putting almost all of their effort into propaganda. The actual ruling leftist parties themselves barely do anything at all. They rarely pass laws of substance unless they're propaganda-oriented. It's easier to construct a false reality, force people to live in it, then let nature take its course.

I know a decent number of self-described racists and even a couple natsocs - online and anonymously, but still - and none of them are even close to as hateful and malicious as your average wokie. Their view is basically "send them back to Africa where they belong". Beyond that, they don't care what happens to black people. They just don't want to live near them or pay taxes to support them.

Wokies, on the other hand, explicitly demand that white culture and white identity be destroyed and white people be reduced to, at best, burakumin who do the jobs that are beneath their glorious melanated masters.

If you ever hear someone screaming for the extermination of all non whites, you can bet your life it's either a false flag or some hallucinating junkie who has no idea what he's saying. Or it's a 14 year old edgelord, but edgelords usually go after trannies these days because they're such easy targets.

I agree. Does being descended from a murderer or rapist matter? No? Then why does being descended from a slave owner? Is owning slaves worse than murder? Any reasonable person would argue it is not.

Being "descended from slave owners" is meaningless, except to give a borderline magical reputation where it, unlike any other crime, somehow curses your bloodline for all eternity.