The base game is fine. Once. Its just fine. Once.
When you beat the game and go thru The Unity to a whole ass different dimension and not one single detail is different in any way. That’s what kills the drive to go onward. Because the game was fine. Once.
The whole story is predicated on a multiverse that effectively doesn’t exist. Except on 1 sidequest for Barrett.
I was born flatfooted. I’d make my feet and legs normal.
Me: “I’ve tried everything I am physically capable of trying short of anorexia. Ive tried to walk. Ive tried lifting weights. I’ve even starved myself. 200 calories every other day for 3 months. Nothing works. I think I may have a legitimate medical issue”
Doctor: “Drink water and walk. Thatll be $250.”
Me: 
I’m gonna emulate even harder now.
Legalize it. There are no cons.
Well there is technically one. And it’s the only reason it’s illegal anywhere. And that is that Big Pharma can’t monopolize it for profit.
Edit - keep downvoting. You know I’m right. Pharma lobbyists bribing corrupt politicians. It’s the exact same reason the IRS can’t just tell us how much we owe or are owed. Base, rank corruption.
Do no pass go. Do not collect 200 dollars. Proceed directly to the nearest shoot him into the sun.
When people say Communism had never been tried it’s because communism is the end goal. It’s the place we want to get to. A stateless, moneyless, classless society where everyone is truly equal. That’s the ideal.
And Socialism is how we get there. Socialism is a scientific method of governance. It’s not the insanity of “free-markets” nor is it the dictate of an autocrat. You need hospitals. You put the force of govt behind building hospitals and staffing them. You have a giant landmass so you need mass transit. You don’t twiddle your thumbs waiting for the market winds to blow just right. You invest in building it. Because you need it. Because it’s good for your people.
Everyone is stealing your data and selling it. Feeding it into AI. Building profiles on you to better send you ads.
Yes. Literally every company. There’s no regulation so to them it’s free money.
Soon as Chump took office the moderation flipped. It was open and handled well. Now if you call a corrupt politician an asshole you get a violation.
Talk about Palestine get a violation. Critical of the Chump regime get a violation.
Chow somehow inserted himself fully up Chumps ass on like Jan 22. TT hasn’t been the same since.
Even while (begrudgingly) admitting that China has surpassed the US everywhere that matters they just can’t help but squeeze in just enough sinophobia to make the whole thing reek of desperate nationalism.
This isn’t that deep. The US only looks as far ahead as the next fiscal quarter while China plans decades ahead. We were always going to lose this. The competence of our leadership never mattered. China has and will continue to leave the US behind. That is and will continue to happen. Trump just accelerated the timetable.
There is no grand plan. Just an old con man who rode a wave of engineered cultural grievance to power in a Hail Mary attempt to avoid going to prison. Now he’s ripping the copper out of the walls before the ship sinks and he flees to a non-extradition treaty nation.
P.S. : I as a southerner will never forgive my fellow southerners for getting hoodwinked by that carpetbagger.
Well. That isn’t surprising. But it is disappointing.
No I can’t. I signed an NDA.
I don’t believe that for 1 millisecond.
Spez won’t be able to stop himself from enshitifying reddit in any way he can to appease those VC pump&dump scammers he’s spent the last decade ruining reddit for.
I honestly don’t know. But it happens occasionally. Not sweating it yet. But a slow creep of redditfication is showing a bit.
No that wasn’t me. Stupid Automod bullshit in here.
I used the word “ibtch”. Flip the 2 first letters.
removed please. We’ve just watched a failed game show host president destroy a century of US Economic Hegemony because the stupid son of a removed doesn’t know how tariffs work and half the country is cheering him on.
You cannot win this one. Don’t waste your time.
Once again I’m happy to inform you that yes, it’s Ronald Reagan’s fault. Damn his evil soul.
In pants shitting fear of “Creating an Educated Proletariat” Reagan took our system of basically free college and turned it into this mess we have now.
(P.S.: If you piss on Ronald Reagan’s grave in California and are caught by police its a misdemeanor charge carrying a $1000 fine. I don’t know about you but I can budget for this particular bucket list item)
Because we’re stupid. Like on an institutional, industrialized level of just dumb motherfuckers. Intentionally so as a policy choice by our government.
It could literally be the cure to all foodborne illness and half this country would be howling like rabid baboons about how it’s unnatural and it morphs the DNA of the irradiated item so that it it gives you super aids and makes you transgender.
Don’t waste your time worrying about us. We’re breathtakingly fucking stupid and arrogantly proud of it. Just let us die. Little of value will be lost.
You want a fan fucking tastic game that you can put 250 hours in and never regret a minute of it?
The Yakuza franchise. Start wirh Yakuza 0. Play them all. You will laugh. You will cry. You will get so irrationally angry at pixels you’ll want to actually murder them. You’ll fall in love. And cry some more. Your heart will break many times. And nothing will ever be the same.
Ever had a game or movie or book leave you in stunned silence? You spend the next week thinking about it? That’s the Yakuza franchise. It’s silly and stupid and hilarious and it’ll tear your damn heart out when you least expect it.