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@Collective FoalHOLY SHIT ITS SO GOOD TO SEE YOU it's kind of surreal how i read your post ab shedding shame and immediately thought "oh you'd fucking love antonymph" and then seeing that you'd already posted it. that song makes me ugly cry. been cringe and free for a few years now and i've never been happier :33 (i realize i'm a little over a month late but shit's been crazy lately. moved to seattle, a suicide attempt, 2 psych hospitalizations) but i'm feeling great now and i've never felt happier to be alive love you and miss you, old friend :3

eating ice cweam :3

listening to the used lmao

logging in to see if scorpia actually posted... what the fuck? it's been years man how have you been

invite please.

Bain?

yeah obviously B)

invite me dork friend :3

the new mw2

based pointy anime shades haver. god i love dirk. also based king gizzard enjoyer.

All Tomorrows is fascinating to me both as a work of speculative fiction and also for the fact that it managed to spawn kind of a microfandom 15 years later. Shit's got fanfictions written about it, animators with posthuman OCs, it's really fascinating and I love being a part of it. Dixon's work I'm personally not a fan of, pretty much for reasons you've already highlighted. Man After Man doesn't work as a piece of speculative anthropology on account of feeling dated at best and ignorant at worst, and it doesn't work as a piece of fiction because it doesn't really feel like Dixon is trying to tell a particularly interesting story.

oh yeah i know, i kinda hold that as a positive feature of derse dreamers personally. i think my favorite track by far is probably unite synchronization though i'm biased because the end of act 6 act 3 is probably my favorite scene in HS.

i probably wouldve read homestuck a hell of a lot sooner if literally anyone had told me how fuckin hard the music goes

it's kinda wild to think that this game will have a winner, eventually.

yo fuckin samesies

genuinely can't wait for cia's post count to overtake BTG's just from baneposting

Most highly played I'd probably push back on, I can't imagine it's figures could line up to some of the AAA titans of the past decade, but it is without a doubt one of the most culturally impactful multiplayer FPS games.

The point of pointing out you're a layman is to highlight you have no clue how the complexities of a moon landing compare to the complexities of social sciences. Feel free to try to prove me wrong on that. Also, "professional" and "layman" are definitionally mutually exclusive. Sorry if I was mistaken but I was assuming your participation in this topic indicated that you at least had some intention of constructing sound arguments instead of just sharing conjecture. Worth keeping in mind that you don't need to type out a several hundred page essay to make a decent point by the way. Truly a nightmare scenario.

Which is why you're here arguing for or against the efficacy of different systems of governance instead of explaining all of the complexities of engineering and mathematics that went in to the moon landing, right? At the end of the day you're a layman, which makes comments like this all the more embarrassing: It's not an answer, it's a dismissal. If you want to explain why a political system wouldn't work you need to explain why in detail. First of all, all I can extrapolate from "it's got humans involved" that you believe there's some inherent tendencies people have that are fundamentally incompatible with certain systems of governance which is conjecture at best and essentialism at worst. Second, even granting you that notion, it's not enough to stop at "this fails when humans get involved", you need to be able to explain in detail why that is the case, what element of human behavior is incompatible with x system and why does it cause this system to fail? Selfishness? Again, conjecture at best and essentialism at worst. You'd be correct in saying that human behavior is very unpredictable in ways which may cause certain systems to failure but that's literally what political and social science is for, and in this respect, again, you're a layman. You're not the right voice to make a judgement call on what systems are or aren't doomed to fail.

Honestly I think it's a much bigger problem that car owners and manufacturers don't want car ownership to be disincentivized. HSR and Maglev could be massively beneficial to the economy everywhere except the automobile and airline industries.

high speed rail gang

Populism doesn't exclude fascism, the latter is a political ideology whereas the former is mostly marketing. That said, Trump is a proto-fascist. Not necessarily a fascist himself, but you'd have to be blind to not see how his administration lays the groundwork for fascism to grow in the future. His base is insanely cult-like and practically worship him, are willing to deny simple reality for their own comfort, and as mentioned previously, don't REALLY have much of a grasp on consequences. Racial tensions are growing in no small part due to conservative agitprop which has largely been littered with white nationalist talking points the past half decade. Theocratic policy aiming to restrict the rights of women and queer people are gaining increasing levels of support. The fact that peoples' immediate response to the notion that fascism is growing in this country is to act like fascism is too strong a word is extremely troubling, fascism doesn't happen overnight, it has warning signs and people are ignoring them. If any of this "seems normal" then that's a fucking problem.

Obligatory "part 1 bad" Phantom blood is only there to set up everything that follows it, which is part of why it's so short. It's kinda like a prequel of sorts, even though it literally came first. I feel like the point of early JJBA is to be kind of a silly over-the-top action/adventure story whereas part 4 onwards is where it starts to take itself a lot more seriously. Parts 2 and 3 were really fun to watch/read but parts 4 and 7 are unironic masterpieces.

Metroid Dread Just 100%ed it. I'm a long-time Metroid fan and have been waiting for this game for 15 years so I don't say this lightly, it's unironically the best game in the series.

it's a shame, honestly worst part of it all is the fact that reddit has largely replaced a lot of these forum boards which sadly means if you want to join a community like this one you're largely relegated to having to either put up with redditors or looking for one of the larger remaining forum boards. Tumblr was PROBABLY the next best thing but that's kinda been replaced by Twitter too at this point.