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for alito especially, racism is fake, anti-LGBT bigotry is fake, and the only real discrimination is against conservative christians who can't make public school curriculum by decree

@morecivilized.bsky.social - the order given out to evacuate all imperial troops is listed as a “brand new” order - I think it’s clearly meant as a nod to the incoming Death Star so even though it’s a little extreme it worked for me

i may be unserious, hysterical and woke, but my strategy of “taking trump seriously no matter how insane he sounds” has paid more analytical dividends than the alternatives

I hate living

Everyone wants there to be a grand scheme behind all of this but the terrible truth is that extremely stupid people are in charge and they have a fanatical devotion to wrong, childlike concepts of society and economics cooked up by right wing radio hosts in order to sell tainted dietary supplements

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these are the dullest people alive

Someone at p*radox needs to get these other studios they’re publishing some art direction like … yesterday. We really are in the era of hooded horse.

Avowed coming out but it’s making me feel like I need to replay pillars 1 and 2 😭 see y’all in like hmmmm 150 hours

They just want change. They want someone they feel is going to do something. It’s such a low bar and the dems even now can’t clear it and I don’t see a future where they can.

It's striking the extent to which there's never any justification given for any of this beyond "it's too many people" or "it's actually fake" and no apparent planning behind any of it. It's the aesthetics of "move fast and break things" without any discernible direction or purpose. It's cosplay.

I think the hotfixes broke a lot of something inside civ vii cuz holy shit is stuff disappearing, or I’m being different legacy perks that don’t … give me what they said they would

Probably 2K wanting largest possible audience out the gate. Which is from a technical perspective feels like it was made to run on the lowest model Xbox (map size, path finding, etc)

Yeah. That’s like 90% of what the department does.

I feel launching simultaneously on console was perhaps not the best move. And then announcing VR for it like at launch too while there’s still a ton of problems

Hollowed out of most except the prep school rich kids who just like the office and plaque and cocktail parties.

I guess we’re seeing them install a fascist cybernetic state - but much more stupid this time

Folks are shocked that their institutions, after professing commitments to climate justice and DEI, are now caving to Trump and scrubbing all references.

It's brutal.

And it's the smallest taste of what our students felt when their universities called in the cops b/c they protested a genocide.

What’s wild about civ vii is I can see the old world, gladious, aow, and humankind mechanics all wound up in it.

I’ve been slowly transitioning from vegetarian to vegan and this certainly accelerated that lmao

The Trader Joe’s near me stopped selling eggs entirely

Tbh I just keep praying that the country Balkanizes quickly. There’s no way through for the country as it was.

Tbh really been radicalized by Gaza and relistening to old pods with Pat Blanchenfield to see this country is singularly a giant violence factory. It’s what underpins our economy, it’s what underpins our empire, it seeps through our media (cop shows, CoD). Once I saw it I couldn’t stop.

Civ vii - you should lose a number of your settlements between ages! Maybe legacy points should be used to get the perks *or* keep a settlement - or something. Idk. Maybe that’ll be a game mode like apocalypses in vi.

jd vance is that "what if the kid has bad vibes?" tweet personified

Civ vii: a lot of cool swings. Religion needs a lot of work and the UI needs to be uhhhhhh completely redone.

The fall of lead might have helped among the fall in violent crime. I think the rise of plastic in the brain probably has some effect on the present. Weird to be alive for a very brief window of time between the two.

Gearing up? They already harassed the game and team so much they had to nuke some of the steam community stuff pre-release iirc. Between that and shoved out the door between ck:d and mh:w I fear it’s not going to do well no matter how good it is 🥲

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one thing about the "where are the protests tho", coming from the "there are, you just haven't seen them" that i think doesn't get covered much is that there has been, over the decades, a shift in news *intentionally* not covering protests, movements. smothering with silence.