I like her, and we also share some common ground. I am only interest in having sex with her. (I’m also not interested in any friendship).

Sort these sentences out for yourself.

You’ve made a throwaway account to make a thread about it and discuss.

So just as a counterpoint: Have you considered you do have interest in friendship and that’s intimidating?

Fictional characters! Am I getting through to you at all?

My 1980s era construction is valued at over 400k. Neighbors been selling recently for 450k-480k. It’s wild that they’ve doubled in cost since covid, after doubling in cost after the bank failures before them.

I am always so glad to see Matt and Ian still at it. Mac Hall were the days.

I still have a tick where I rate the shelterability of nooks and crannies in public spaces. Dry stairwell here, unlocked gate there, and so on.

It’s an odd feeling, being a homeowner these many years later.

I remember petting what I thought was my cat’s paw in the early morning hours once. Nope. She just left a mouse head on my pillow.

the rate (i.e percent) priests abuse.

damn does that church know how to run a cover up

You might say there is a discrepancy between actual rate and reported rate.

That’d be vanguardism. But that’s a component of Leninism, which is itself subset of Marxism.

A part of a part of Marxism probably shouldn’t be a working definition of the whole.

What makes a man, Mr. Lebowski? Is it being prepared to do the right thing, whatever the cost? Isn’t that what makes a man?’

I read this thread title in Alex Jones.

If history is any precedent I think ICE agents will pivot to claiming anti-communism as a defense and be just fine.

There’s always a logical point where making more money becomes less efficient than making other people poorer.

Appearance, story, setting, and style are all mostly secondary to the mechanics and design of the game.

Strip away the appearance of metroidvanias and you have a platforming maze with gated areas unlocked through progression.

The overall maze of the game should ideally be enough to get lost in. Whether the world is going to be procedurally generated or predesigned, or some combination should be figured out early on. Even if progression is linear the access to and pathway through the maze should likely not be a straight line. It is very common to see or view inaccessible late game areas in the early game, for example.

The gates of the game traditionally come in the form of new movement options. The reliables are usually: (double) jumping, running, slide/rolling, climbing, swimming/sinking, flying/gliding and so on. Choosing how and where the player may access these is important. This is to say: player movement is the game.

Another common ‘key’ to gates is something that allows the player to defeat an enemy or boss they could not previously defeat, or otherwise access a new area. A notable example being metroid’s ice beam. Freezing enemies gives the player new platforming options: and new movement in the game.

Good new metroidvanias are aware of what has been done before and try to innovate on those tropes.

There’s a bit of another layer to it. The n-word is used as a credible death threat in America. It is a word that has been used to dehumanize and declare a person can be killed and lynched without consequence --because that is the legacy of our country and that word. People calling people n-words historically have been able get away with actual murders–and they know it.

It’s the same way a Nazi saluting is someone demonstrating they don’t value human life and support genocide. But it is still outlawed in Germany and Austria because the action carries with it much deeper implications there.

Damn Citizens United and SpeechNow decisons were just happening too back then. “Patriot Act 2” was already being implemented. Big oof.

Historically when the Whig Party fell a part over slavery they were replaced by the Republican party. Many Whigs became Republican. Lincoln was Whig.

The current GOP’s power basely relies on the Democratic Party being so incapable. A party with focused goals that aren’t just derived or borrowed from the GOP will likely break this inertia, as is so needed.

Ah to have spite donation money.

Anxiety, easily.

They already stripped and/or barred Russians from becoming citizens a few years back, so this kind of follows that trajectory.

The argument from Lithuania as I understand it that purging Russians reduces the ‘protecting Russians abroad’ narrative from Putin. Though it does mean one less place where Russians who oppose Putin can go while also displacing potentially thousands of Russians into Putin’s other narrative that western/NATO powers are out to get them.

Hope this maneuver pays off, I guess.

The American economy since WW2 has relied on funding and supplying armed conflict.

No other entity has supplied more justification for that end.