if that sort of voting prevented this situation at all we wouldn’t be here?

Is your stance that Harris would have been doing the same shit Trump is doing, had she been elected instead? That it wouldn’t have been any better? If that’s what you’re positing… I strongly disagree, and I really don’t know how you can even start to back that claim up.

Regardless, vote how you want. I’ve had this conversation with enough people with your exact stance to know that there’s nothing I can say to change your mind and there’s nothing you’re going to say to change mine, so continue doing you and I’ll continue doing me.

I’m not blaming them for dems losing, and they can vote however they want, I’m not stopping them. This isn’t about how you can and can’t vote, it’s about how to make your vote work to prevent situations like we’re in right now, while also pushing for longer-term outcomes, and we can all have - and share - our opinions on how to do that.

Personally, I think it’s counter-productive to refuse to actively vote to prevent our current situation in the name of ideals or whatever else. It’s going to take years if not decades to fix the damage being done right now, in all likelihood. But you’re welcome to have your own opinion on that matter.

If only they had voted for the candidates who wanted a strong social safety net, rather than the ones that wanted to fuck everyone who isn’t part of the 0.1%, maybe they wouldn’t have to worry now…

You can fight to install progressives at the local level while voting defensively at the national level. Local progressive movement are not only a LOT easier to pull off, but will help create widespread acceptance of progressive ideals as they get good outcomes. Then you expand to the state level and house, then the senate, then you’re well positioned to push for a progressive in the presidency.

We got one of these a few years ago and boy, is it a game changer. Highly recommend to anyone.

Well, in America, we use football fields, so I presume Canada uses hockey rinks.

Yeah, I don’t know about that. The top left one, on the other hand…

Well of course. You have to test it out and see if it feels like something you do. It’s the law.

The fact that they’re pushing for AI to be a utility when the fucking internet isn’t is just absurd.

If you’re gooning to the characters, you’d probably enjoy the movie, to be honest!

The romance novels are also a good starting point, they stand out like sore thumbs and it’s easy to pick out the sets of 3 from the sets of 10 when they’re on the floor.

The fact that it goes in the psychology section makes it even better.

The book series titled ‘The Psychology of Prioritizing Gaming Over Tidying Your Room’ felt like being personally called out.

IDK, WDYM?

Video game travel always has that weird feel to it, too. For instance, in the Morrowind / Oblivion / Skyrim, you can run from one city to another in roughly a minute. Even if we very generously assume you’re running at ~15 MPH (which would be crazy fast for any distance), that would put them about a quarter mile apart. At more realistic speeds, 1/8 or so.

Yeah, that’s more or less what I was getting at. Looking at the descriptions as a new player, being slaves sounds awful and the note about ‘Tip: Get into a cage when you spawn to avoid a beating’ makes it sound like it’s going to be a constant fight for survival, not one where any time you get injured there’s a hundred guards lining up to bandage you back to health. You basically have carte blanche to train some of the more obnoxious skills to level (e.g. assassinate, unarmed, etc.) without having to worry about getting eaten by animals or having bandits steal all of your stuff, and by the time you inevitably escape you’ll have 30+ in a lot of useful skills (or even more if you decide to stay long enough to do it). I had a really rough time on my first few characters until I tried that start, and then I played that save for 200+ hours off of the back of that free Rebirth skill training.

It also has a weird noob trap built in, where the “default” start is actually pretty bad, and one of the ones that as a new player sounds horrible is actually by far the easiest (that being the two slaves in Rebirth.)

Just thinking about how she would have had to be positioned to look that small under those pillows makes my back hurt.

“It’s unfair that you’re offering a better product that makes people prefer your storefront to other options” is definitely a weird argument to make.

I’d be more concerned if someone isn’t worried about the future, to be honest.