now that's a novel concept; finding a compromise between our base instincts and our higher selves. (for the record, I'm not being sarcastic.)
It makes sense on another level, because this country was founded on compromise. The Articles of Confederation were an unqualified failure, so the Continental Congress got to work, hammering out a new agreement, arguing and no doubt nearly coming to blows, but working out a compromise everybody could agree upon, even if reluctantly.
Hell, even the Declaration of Independence was signed when it became clear that the Crown was uninterested in hearing the Colonists out and instead demanded they be crushed under booted heel.
four years later and it's still so good...
hard to believe, but she was actually pretty good looking at one point. . I mean, we're talking butterface, but yeah.
(and pretty based as well)
even in western stuff, I'd say there's nuance. If there's a story, for instance, that uses the trope of the "misunderstood demons" to push DEI bullshit, yeah, i'd say steer clear. (99% percent of the time, that's what's going on today)
But if it's just somebody trying to tell an interesting story, then it might be okay.
Generally speaking, it depends on the thrust of the story in question; is this person trying to push an agenda, or are they trying to tell an interesting (if controversial) story?
kinda doubt it's real, but eh, I could go fifty/fifty on it, honestly...
...If he actually had the balls to say this, I'd respect him just a little bit...
all of Europe wants me to vote for harris
I already voted for trump, you don't have to convince me anymore.
Classic Internet Tough Guy, except without the internet.
“These are the kinds of guys you’d like to smack in the -ss,” Biden said.
...In one statement, Joe biden went from sniffing little girls to groping men...
I'd say this election can't get any weirder, but I don't want to challenge Almighty Kek...no telling what he'll pull out of his ass...
I think our thoughts run parallel, although I think we look at it only slightly different I'd love to hear your thoughts on my own screed on this topic.
a broke clock is right twice a day
In this, Cardi B is correct, although probably not in the way she thinks she is...
"Compassionate" programs like section 8 housing and foodstamps deprive humans of the most powerful motivator for self-improvement; survival. Some people are strong enough that they'll get off these programs as quickly as possible, and some will say "eh, this is good enough for me," and stay on those programs for the rest of their lives, rather than attempt to do better for themselves. Mankind's nature need to conserve resources during times of plenty will in this environment actually work against him/her, and over time, a culture of dependence develops in these communities, as those who accept them as the best they can get, or "good enough" filter into these communities, and they stagnate. You have the rare social mutation, of course, as the community that depends on such programs to survive will slowly get worse and worse, causing those who are closer to the other end of the spectrum begin to find their circumstances intolerable and attempt to find a way, any way to improve their station in life (including crime). Others within the community can and often do attack such individuals both verbally and socially (an example of this within urban black communities is accusing those that study and work hard as "acting white" or "trying to be white")
Cardi B is fortunate in that her parents encouraged her to do better, to seek a better life, and that they themselves set an example she could observe, however many in these communities are not so fortunate.
just got back into oxygen not included, hadn't played it in forever.
gonna try to build a full Rodriguez on top of a thermo-nullifier, try to get some oxygen going.
They dislike sexualized characters, because they're told they're supposed to.
They like playing as sexualized characters, because gaming is, and always has has been, escapism. The fantasy doesn't have to be realistic to be enjoyable. I'll never be a six-foot-one He-Man built like a brick shithouse, and I've made peace with that, but it doesn't mean I don't enjoy the fantasy.
Social pressure versus human nature.
Gaming journalism was always quid pro quo, but at least they understood who paid the bills...
Fun fact: linguistically speaking, all fascists are faggots.
Language is fun sometimes.
Grabbed a copy of andromeda when it went on clearance for ps4. didn't have a good internet connection at the time, so i didn't get the "day one" update, and by this point, I'd forgotten about the rendering issues...
Fiance and I seesawed between being creeped out and laughing our asses off at the souless, deadeyed models.
Never finished the game, because it was just so terrible to look at, and the gameplay just wasn't interesting enough to keep me playing.
it's a temper tantrum. The writer thinks he's being oh-so-clever with his idiotic LOTR metaphor, coming up with brilliant satirical wit, but at the end of the day, he's mocking undecided votors, rather than actually trying to appeal to them...
been meaning to look into that, tried to start playing it a few times, never got far.
...if I ever learn Japanese, I need to play the mother series...those were some trippy as hell games from what I hear...We only got the second one over here (aka earthbound), so yeah...
hope I didn't come off as antagonistic, i didn't hate ff7, I just wasn't particularly impressed by it, either.
...I really gotta go back and play ffiv the after years one of these days, though... the og was hard, but it was fun, and the story was epic...
to be fair, pigeons are very intelligent creatures, who were domesticated then abandoned by humans.
Game journalists on the other hand never served a useful purpose...
4,000 views(I'm being generous)...151 upvotes...
151/3995 = ~4 upvotes for every hundred people who saw it...
talk about getting ratioed...
I'll never not find that ign 'reviewer' failing to succeed at the tutorial for cuphead funny...
...don't support jackasses who do the "ugly american" thing... vote with your feet, they'll get the message.
the world wars really fucked a lotta people up. there was this attitude that through technological advancement, humanity would transcend our frailties, and well...nothing is ever that simple, but a lot of people couldn't accept that, so they swung in the other direction, basically deciding humanity was too sick to survive in its current form (see dadaism in art as an example). we're not on the third or forth generation of people bent on either transforming humanity or wiping it out entirely.