....smart. i like the way ya think lol
MrBubbles96
joined 2 years ago
Ace guy here, and I usually offer to pay. It's not a hard rule or anything, it's just something i was taught to do by my ma and sisters, but If it doesn't jive with them and they'd rather go half and half or pay for their own meal, that's perfectly cool too.
Some of em, yeah. Most of them are/were strictly homegirls tho.
Don't really wanna play the "no, YOU don't understand" game here, but I dunno, from what I'm seeing in both society and nature...the way the world works is that there is no objective good and evil in it. Those are labels humans made up to feel better about some actions we see around us that we don't like or find abhorant. Not saying some of the things we and animals have done onto others isn't straight up horrible, some of it ABSOLUTELY is (as someone who has deep roots down South of the USA, yeah, I've seen some of the horrible things the cartels have inflicted on others for various reasons), but I'm also not going to sit here and pretend it's something only humanity does or that they invented to be evil. Animals can kill and torture for fun and sport too, that's been documented several times over. Doesn't make em evil tho. The whole "but we more often choose to be cruel anyway" is a fairly narrow mind generalization that dismisses the fact that just as much people choose to do the exact opposite of what you claim, but don't get a spotlight on them because they're not stirring things up, and so nobody actually cares about what they do.
That the Trump Supporters "regret it now" kinda proves my point too, actually. If the people rioting really were these evil monsters like you want to claim they are, they'd have zero regret or remorse about their actions and would be proud of what they did. And yeah, i know there's always going to be that one handful of people that ARE proud of their stupidity, there always is and always will be these types of people for as long as people (and animals, because yeah, some animals display oddities that differ from known behaviors and patterns of their kin) are a thing. And it'll keep going long after we're gone and something else takes our place. But just because some of us act a certain way doesn't mean the entire species is deserving to be damned or automatically makes us a lost cause. That's actually a pretty narrow minded opinion to have, actually. And again, that's deliberately ignoring the Trump supports you yourself brought up (the 'truly kind or intelligent person [that] would have said, "Screw that. There's a line I'm not willing to cross, ethically or morally."' that you mentioned in your response), the ones who saw all that chaos and did just that: saying "this is both wrong and disgusting, and I'm not taking part in this". Because those people do exist. I know they do, because my brother in-law is one, so is one of my former coworkers, Hardcore Republican (almost cultish IMO, but that's neither here nor there), but was thoroughly disgusted at what she saw that day--and they can hardly be the only ones. Since you mentioned them, you yourself know they exist too. But well, nuance is nuance, i suppose. It's much easier to try and fit everything into a small little category and leave it at that vs actually acknowledging "life is simple, humans are complicated. Sometimes stupidly so".
I'm obligated to post this since Dragon's Dogma was mentioned:
Thanks for the good vibes, internet stranger. Also for spitting straight facts: world always seems to be "falling apart, for reals this time" every other decade since....forever, and yet we're still here doing the best we can.
From the lil bit that I actually played of it: it does take several steps in the direction of the older games, with a more parkour friendly area that brings to mind OG assassins creed (like, it's meant for you to move around from building to building), significantly reducing if not outright removing the RPG mechanics of the previous 3 games (thankfully, IMO), and even a bigger emphasis on stealth. It brought back social stealth as well, but just like in Valhala it just feels...there? Like it feels tact on instead of there for a reason--could be I'm not using it right tho. Albiet, it IS hampered because of both the limitations with the engine (that was built for the RPG games in mind, and that playstyle) and the fact that AFAIK, this was basically a DLC for the last game originally, before it became its thing. It's tied to Valhalla's DNA, even tho it really shouldn't be, basically.
Dunno, I feel the Devs REALLY wanted to make it more than they did, but didn't have the resources to do so. Regardless, IMO it's a solid first step that, while nowhere near perfect, can continue to become better with sequels if this is where the series goes from here. (And prove that "going back to the roots" can bring innovations to something, not regressions)
Dunno if I'd consider myself "younger" anymore (who am i kidding, i ain't THAT old lol), but...
If we count really old games: the OG castlevania's. Didn't grow up during that era, but thanks to handmedowns, i got to play pre Symphany Vania when i was super young. Love them, wish i was better at them tho. The collections are sitting in my steam library, and maybe some day, I'll beat at least one of the classics.
For something more recent(?) tho, i love me some Touhou. fangames, offically made games by Zun, fan games in the style of Zun, ya name it....but MAN do i suck at the actual bullethell Touhou games. i can make it past two or 3 stages, but then the boss destroys me and I'm like "I CAN choose continue, nothing but pride is stopping me...but also, if i can't manage this far without continuing, how bad is the rest gonna be??" and wuss out lol
We're evil, we're sick, we're all the same.
Screw that. Humans aren't "evil" or "sick" or "vile", but we can be cruel. We also aren't peaceful, but we can be kind, and at least give it the old college try more than most people like to admit we do. All we are is just animals, and slightly smarter or otherwise, we do as other animals do.
Enslaving and using others for our benefits like ants do to other ants, competeing for resources and territory for ourselves or own little group, without consideration for anyone outside of that group, just like chimp communities and various groups, and so on, and so on. It's not evil. Just nature being cruel and messed up, as it always is.
At the very least, (and why I abhor this take that humans are a buncha monsters and/or are worse than animals) for all our flaws, we can look at all the above and decide to NOT go through with it as hard as an incect colony wiping out their enemies to complete extermination, or even to forgo violence at all or show restraint when grabbing things for ourselves--Reptile brain be damned.
Something something "you're paid more for what ya know/your expertise on something vs just being an easily replacable cog in a machine".
Not saying I agree with it all that much, but I think that's the general idea, anyways.
Ditto. I've just never found the use for workspaces myself (like, i understand why they're there but they never really worked for me). I tried them, didn't like the flow of it, so i just ignored them (and Gnome for the most part, save Pop_OS, but I've a love/hate relationship with it cuz it's always caused me problems when i try it out. Hopefully the Cosmic Desktop they're making will run better on my systems) in favor of the windows philosophy myself
Agreed on Vanilla/stock XFCE being rough (and i love XFCE), and vanilla Gnome being divisive, but i'm the opposite of you and love to tinker with my stuff--even KDE, which lools good OOTB i can't just leave it alone lol
If you're fighting a one man war for privicy? Yeah, that's pretty much a lost cause. (Also, the "all or nothing" approach will leave you with a bitter taste in your mouth. Pick your fights, and accept that you'll never be able to keep all away from companies selling em, and that sometimes, sacrifices to your privacy have to be made. Complete removal shouldn't be the goal when it's just you going at it--it should be the reduction of what they get as much as feasibly possible without inconveniancing the user)
If you spread and bring that war to the collective? That's where things are gonna change. Slowly, yeah, but they'll change.