it's a bit like McDonalds rebranding the Big Mac as the Double Burger with Bread in the Middle
what were they doing before, dumping trash in the street?
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I said, facetiously, when in the replies it is apparent that yes, Noo Yawkers throw their trashbags on the street
i felt the game was a 10/10 until the end, then it became 9/10. all i needed was a witcher 3-style storyboard to cover the impact of my decisions on the wider world 
from Bank's Culture novels - FALGSC society
you're simply not allowed to name vessels after culture vessels unless you are an übercommunist. damn billionaire cultural appropriation must cease 
never take cough syrup; mix it up with iodine and lye,
never take the strike pads off a matchbook,
or go to a hardware store and then look,
near the paint thinners for muriatic acid,
never go bring a pot into a rapid
boil or get hydrogen peroxide,
never go to a farming store and then buy
pH strips and PVC pipes,
those fuel cans that make outdoor grills light,
'cause that's how you make crystal meth!
violent/aggressive discourse? i thought sticks and stones could break your bones but words could never harm you
That 'closest living relative' joke got a good laugh out of me.
I think people are too harsh on TOW's politics - if you were expecting an honest to god piece of revolutionary communist fiction, please invite me to whatever version of reality you inhabit.
At least it included some form of political radicals with good morals and nuanced issues rather than just portraying them as naïve misguided fools or mass murderers. Hell, it even has
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the leader of the 'Marxist' group being an undercover fed
the age of the ham sandwich race is waning
I don't think it's in their capacity to acknowledge that they can be outlefted. If you're fully sold on the democrat-republican dichotomy, then there's no room for left critique - you must be a republican.
Every single time, without fail, they assume, as though more certain than they are of their own existence, that the person raising the (valid) point is a republican. Despite the blatantly transparent fact that the statement in question never invokes 'the libs', 'triggered', 'maga', or tags all of the alphabet security agencies, they always fucking rattrap themselves into thinking that anything other than facile patronisation is tantamount to fully supporting whatever it is they're chastising.
How do they see something like "consequences of capitalism" and still think "Hurr, durr, REPUBLICAN! NEXT!"?
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