Lurker > Gaawa_chan

Global inflation spike after a global pandemic. Corporations are increasing prices to pad their profit margins all over the world.

The only reasons to take your fearmongering about resources seriously are the wastefulness of our economy and the obscene inaction on climate change. This is entirely the fault of wealthy people making fucking terrible, short-term, self-centered decisions and now wanting to slam the doors in a continued effort to avoid fixing the messes they've made. No, immigrants and refugees should not have to pay the price for their assholery; we should take dramatic action to make our country more sustainable.

The USA has plenty of resources and immigrants and refugees are a fundamental, honorable part of USA history, economy, and culture.

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It's literally irrelevant. Under any other circumstance, we do not use the State to force people to preserve others at their own bodily expense. You are not forced to give blood (far less dangerous, saves more people, doesn't permanently maim your body) or organs (corpses don't even use them and we still don't mandate this) and you are allowed to defend yourself when someone is hurting your body.

GGuirao13 posted...

I consider myself pro-life unless the birth would result in the mother's death. Children born as a product of rape or incest should still have a chance to live, even if it means adoption.

Pragnancy permanently alters the body. I don't care how someone got pregnant; no one should be forced by the government to carry a fetus to term. The fact that you know it's a body-maiming, life-threatening process but you seem to think the State should force people to endure it is unfathomable to me.

No, as someone who has repeatedly seen the outcome of what you're suggesting, you've pissed me off. I want you to read this and think about the outcomes for rape victims, especially ones who can't afford health care, that your nonsense would cause:
https://www.girlsnotbrides.org/articles/fistula-a-silent-tragedy-for-child-brides/
The government has no business, NONE, forcing people to endure this shit,especially when we have a non-universal for-profit health care system.

Yes, but that's because I seem to have, and have always had, some coordination problems that make me very clumsy, so I'm a bit slow to compensate

Just water atm. I had a burrito earlier, but I haven't had much of an appetite today.

I went to a pro-abortion event today, which counter-protesters attempted to shut down. Had to block their attempts to storm the stage, corral them off to one side, and distract them with conversation so they'd leave the main speakers alone- they had pictures of medical waste to traumatize people who were telling stories about how their friends died from untreated miscarriages and DIY abortions. I did not expect to have to intercede like that... ended up having to engage with them for about an hour and a half, which was most of the event. Frustrating, because I really wanted to pay more attention to what was being said.

It was interesting. You could tell where they had recited talking points, where they had practiced attempting to redirect conversations, and where they were completely unprepared. I don't think they were ready to be surrounded by a bunch of victims of CSA, medical professionals, history buffs, and folks savvy on the subject matter of bodily autonomy and the history of medical rights keeping them from harassing the key speakers. I'm not a very good public speaker (I sometimes accidentally say the opposite of what I mean and have to correct myself, which is annoying) but I think I did okay, trying to keep people from yelling while still distracting them. I've actually never engaged with counter-protesters before; we'd been told not to, but when we realized that they were trying to fuck with the primary speakers, well... that's not acceptable.

I didn't really like when very upset people yelled at the counter-protesters- it was mostly older women who did that, I think quite a few of them have some trauma from the pre Roe Vs Wade era and it made it difficult for them to control their tempers. The counter-protesters were clearly fishing for an excuse to call the police as well, which they ended up doing anyway. It didn't cause any problems, though; it's not like anyone attacked them. I guess they felt unsafe when so many people blocked them off away from the stage, which is understandable.

DocDelicious posted...

Only if you were to somehow cap inflation.

A "maximum wage" that adjusts with inflation seems fair, though it would need to be implemented with a bunch of additional changes to other facets of society in order to function well.

I guess it depends on the system in question whether or not such a thing is appropriate.

Like... in classic titles, dungeons and such were basically massive battles of attrition that tested not just whether or not you could win a fight, but whether or not you could manage your resources through a sequence.

A lot of modern systems seem to focus more on individual fights, and a regen system makes more sense when you do that, but it also means that you can't easily make a... "challenging dungeon" per se, since the attrition aspect of dungeons has been nerfed when you have a regen system.

I think there are ups and downs to both, though I do think I prefer it when regen isn't there.

Adam_Savage posted...

he thinks that there's more fake users than what twitter estimated

Obviously.

I came in here to ask what you sucked on, but you already answered my question, so... I guess I'll see myself out.

What an asshole.

Well, I guess you'd better stop talking then, friend.

We have not experienced a random, massive surge in flu deaths over the past couple of years despite taking more careful disease prevention measures that just so happens to magically coincide with COVID-19, or whatever other cause you are thinking of pointing at. That's absurd.

My dad once spilled coffee all over my books (accident, btw). That alone is enough for me to favor digital formats.

There's really no getting around the fact that we domesticated them, made them dependent on us, and spread them all over the world to places they don't really belong.

Humans have a responsibility to look after those that we've completely fucked over, imo.

... I think you could argue that ones that are horribly abused could be a form of slavery (I'm thinking of dog fighting and such), but it's a very particular type that really shouldn't be equivocated with human slavery. Edit: No, I'm being too generous. People were right to bring up children. It's abuse of a dependent, but I don't think it's slavery.

There's Bloodstained, Hollow Knight, Guacamelee, Shovel Knight, and the Ori games, of course.

Other than what's already been mentioned? I'll go down my library:

Alwa's Awakening
Blossom Tales
Bug Fables
Dandara
Darksiders (the first game) arguably?
Death's Gambit
Even The Ocean
Foregone
Momodora: Reverie Under The Moonlight
Raji
Skautfold: Usurper (this one seems pretty referential to Castlevania at a glance, though I haven't played it yet)
Skul: The Hero Slayer
Song of the Deep
Super Daryl Deluxe
TAMASHII (might want to check this one out for tone, at least.)
Teslagrad
Vampyr ???
Vigil: The Longest Night
Wuppo ??? Not what you're looking for, but it's cute.

Check out those and see if anything catches your eye.

Alternatively, I know there are several Castlevania fan games.

It was funny. Dunno about the best, though.

Aren't conservatives slavering over the idea that Twitter might require being linked to irl identities because Musk suggested it?

Metalsonic66 posted...

As if it wasn't already

This.

I know a few, sure. I don't associate with them; my right to life-saving medical care would not be superseded by a fetus' right to my body to any real friend.

There are very few games that I have played and outright *hated* or felt that there was nothing at all I got out of it.

Tales of Zestiria is a clear exception. I found it almost unplayable.

They certainly seem to think they speak for the powers that be, at least.

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2022/05/10/1097734167/in-texas-abortion-laws-inhibit-care-for-miscarriages

How helpful, Nancy.

Your weight fluctuates throughout your daily life normally, so it's hard to say. Don't overfixate on hard numbers too much. What matters is if you feel better/healthier.

https://www.npr.org/2022/05/04/1096641003/republicans-in-michigan-have-replaced-election-officials-who-certified-bidens-wi
:-/

Haven't played that game in years, but I remember it being quite fun.

Legacy of the Wizard and Journey to Silius are other often overlooked NES games.

https://twitter.com/LolOverruled/status/1523145616250966017
*sigh*

I try to spend as little as possible at any given time. Sub 100.

Savage, ironically.

This is a very strange clip, what exactly is Oz talking about?

Wow, both of these...

First person: Not everyone is bisexual/pan. Grow up. It is completely understandable that a sexual/romantic relationship may not weather a transition.

Second person: Being trans is not an eccentricity. You don't seem to understand the actual problem with the first person's stupidity.

That said, it is not bad advice to say that people who are unsure of their gender might want to consider dating bi/pan people who support trans rights.

There were some parts that I remember being funny. Didn't Ross once whiten his teeth so much that they glowed in the dark? That was funny.

Jen0125 posted...

Also didn't Kavanaugh yell and cry during his hearings? Lmao that's not very professional

"I like beer... ;_;"

I cut them as short as I can to discourage what I think is a mild case of dermatillomania. Probably not healthy but the alternative is worse, so... *shrug*

mharbenedict34 posted...

this is utterly deplorable and you should be ashamed. I see more women working than men btw the idea that they are money leeches offends me as a reasonable man

My supervisor worked over 80 hours last week. Poor woman.

I like the part where they're trying to force people to carry ectopic pregnancies to term, presumably because they want them to die for having the nerve to get pregnant.

https://house.mo.gov/billtracking/bills221/hlrbillspdf/5798H.01I.pdf

Shoulda said "okay groomer" back to him.

You usually have like... 1-8 HP as the standard civ, as I recall.

St_Kevin posted...

For the collapse of the Russian Federation and the profit the American Generals are making through their investments in American Military Industrial Complex.

LoL

Ehm... depending on how that would play out, that could actually be extremely bad for everyone including the USA. Don't forget how many nukes Russia has. If, for example, Russia was so devastated that it ended up fracturing, it would mean a large number of nukes among multiple nations instead of one. That would... really suck.

At the very least it would be fun to watch on Halloween for the sheer horror.

I thought this was going to be about Madison Cawthorn.

Judgmenl posted...

Bernie is a communist and Russian asset.

A communist ally to the Capitalist Oligarchy that is Russia? Why, because he's been to Russia before? Yeah, what a Putin Pal.

Dude's not even that far Left, lol.

kind9 posted...

I believe there must be more intelligent life beyond earth. I have no reason to believe they've ever visited earth. UFOs are always birds, balloons, airplanes, etc. Never alien spacecrafts. Even the recent declassified videos of UFOs are clearly just birds, considering their size and distance.

This more or less.

There's no reason at all to believe that extraterrestrial life will visit us or vice versa. The universe is way too big for that, imo. It's just very statistically unlikely in the same way that the existence of that life is statistically very likely.

SpeedDemon is right. The poll is a bit vague. How much money? What kind of love? Are we talking about something reciprocated or what?

Huh, she's the reverse of me. I don't want to have biological children; my genes are pretty fucked up, and I think it would be cruel to pass them onto someone else. Beyond that I find pregnancy kind of horrifying in general and don't want to experience it. Adoption would be the only way I'd want to get a kid at all, and I would definitely consider that MY kid sort of in the same way that taking a cat into my house makes it MY cat.

Well, are her ova damaged? Could she get a surrogate? Not interested in adoption?