It’s a very good game! I loved Subnautica too :)

Balatro!

Edit: inscryption is WASD +spacebar only, if you can do that with a slight seating adjustment. It’s great for planes. The post game content might be even better than the game content, haha.

Weren’t they sending soldiers to Ukraine to protect them?

And when is Ukraine gonna join the EU, as promised? If you are gonna promise things, you gotta do them. I’ll believe any of these when I actually see it. :P

Here’s your answer:

My friends and I categorically refuse to visit states in red. During the pandemic, their refusal to use masks and vaccines resulted in their hospital capacity reaching critical conditions, and they had to export a ton of their sick and dying to Washington and Montana, among other states. This deferred care for resident cancer patients in those states.

Guess how they thanked the states that bailed their asses out come November 5th? If you guessed “crushing tariffs”, you guessed right.

There are a few good souls there, but they have a disproportionately high number of extremely evil people.

This is mostly true, haha. Though…

I held open a door in Canada and got berated for it by someone in their 40s. He wanted me to slam the door in his face, which I get if it was an apartment on the east side of Vancouver, but this was not the case, lol.

I’m always amazed that Canada has more extreme personality types than where I’ve lived in the US. Generally people are more nice, but the mean ones are jaw-droppingly mean, lol. Always gives me a bit of culture shock whenever it happens, which is probably once every 10 visits or so (I visit often).

The most recent one was someone who was extremely bothered that we rented out a space for a wedding and admonished the groom that he was using a community space an hour before it was set to open (we got permission from the landlords to use it as such.)

All that aside, Canada is not for sale, Fuck those cunts in the Trump administration, and you guys were fully justified for what you did in 1812. 😎

Up there among the greats with Pokemon: The first movie and the classic Disney movies ;)

All my joycons have drift, and I have several sets. I’m not touching a switch 2 because of that, and the insane cost of games. Nintendo needs to make better hardware.

Clothes are a social construct!

I’m so glad I got my second ebike battery before the idiot did this shit. RIP the economy, the job market, and the housing market.

Yep, history is always important. Books on history also help you find solutions to today’s (annoyingly recurrent) problems, too.

DC is interesting in that it was a great mixing area because of all the postwar army bases. WW2 allowed many rural people from all walks of life to mix together, and people who were gay/bi/lesbian+ all had the chance to mix together for the first time in…well…perhaps ever, for everyone from small town Kansas to big city NYC. That opened doors for a lot of our ancestors.

And ironically, the lavender scare is what later precipitated into the gay rights movement, when everyone got sick of mandatory butthole inspections at work, and started suing and winning. (Embellishing a bit, but you get the gist)

Play them back to back! It offers a really nice juxtaposition. I did a whole half life playthrough with all the mainline games + VR and HL + BM :)

Black mesa is so insanely good.

Everyone loses. That’s the painful part.

I completely agree. Plus, it gives everyone an hour of light that would otherwise be wasted working.

This literally happened in the 1954 Lavender Scare. Coworkers could report you for being a “security risk” and you’d be fired because they assumed you were a lesbian.

It’s why we have pride parades, to exercise that muscle and stamp out the fear of “otherness” in society.

You can buy spike strips and caltrops, just fyi 😇

Oh, there are definitely protests here, you just aren’t hearing about them. They just aren’t making the international news. There are regular, frequent protests on the West Coast of the US, including Hawaii. Pro-federal worker protests, pro-union protests, anti-Trump/Musk protests, pro-canadian protests/celebrations. It’s on our local news often, but it rarely makes international news. People have been doing good work around here too, if you know what I mean. Stuff that enrages the fascists.

It’s because he’s a massive cunt. It’s been scientifically proven on multiple occasions. He also is a dirty little couchfucker. Don’t believe a word he says.

That, and gold actually has properties that make it useful, like not oxidizing and being a good conductor. It still has value even if it was otherwise worthless as a currency

Okay, this isn’t about the BS arrest, but if you are taking 30+ minutes to unsuccessfully take a shit:

Get yourself a Fleet enema, it will make you shit like a horse in 10 minutes, guaranteed. You can find them in drugstores and it will leave you clean.

Two, you really should be eating at least 30g of chia seeds a day, they are high in fiber and will help avoid bowel-distending events before they start. Put them in a smoothie or on yogurt. Or take metamucil if you can stand the taste.

Three, you should talk to your doctor about distended bowels and profound constipation. If you aren’t taking a shit for a few days to a week, you might be damaging your colon, which is bad on many levels.