They really will put them anywhere and everywhere lol.

And here we see this buffoon once again viciously attacking his political enemies...(Flips papers)...

..."Anyone with half a brain who works for a living."

This is partly true. Also, contrary to mall-ninja rhetoric, one doesn't and shouldn't primarily carry to go be a vigilante hero, but as a last resort for their own protection. I'll admit my original comment was coming from strong emotion. Lol

I think the discourse on self-protection has taken a bizarre turn during our lifetimes, where the right and the NRA turned firearms into an unhealthy fetish, and the liberal politicians turned them into frightening campfire stories by spreading fear and ignorance. Both just using it as another tug-rope to "Be opposite those other guys."

Shockingly, there are plenty of normal, responsible armed people who fit neither category. Even socialists. They're just quiet and respectable so they go unnoticed.

But on the whole, this cultural propaganda has resulted in a heavily skewed situation where those with the means to deter tyranny are in lockstep with it, and those with the will to deter tyranny get a bit flummoxed when clever signs aren't enough.

I'm very torn myself, because clever non-violent solutions are obviously preferred, but at the same time these thugs are bullies and cowards, who tend to be confused and frightened when they actually encounter resistance from their would-be victims.

Don't be sorry, it's a very apt metaphor I think. Perhaps this is why "Wargames" had such a lasting cultural legacy lol.

And yeah, I agree, it's rarely ever the people who have a problem with each other. It's leaders who want to dominate and write their name in history books with whatever blood they can get on their hands to do it with.

There's obviously a lot of disagreement about "Who gets what, when, and how", but anything's gotta be better than murdering each other over it...

This sounds just like all the ridiculously hollow propaganda Putin was dropping for justifying the attack on Ukraine.

"We're rescuing them from uh, really bad people, er... By invading them, yes. They wanna be Russian so bad!"

"That's why my client acted reasonably and dare I say heroically, when they saw these masked men dragging the witness into an unmarked vehicle, drew their legally carried sidearm, and engaged these individuals until they were no longer a threat."

Why hasn't this happened yet?!

This country should never be safe for predators who want to throw people into vans.

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Figures like that are still mind boggling. Like..."We put dudes up there!!!"

I'll never stop being awed and impressed by the vastness of space and just about anything humanity has done with it.

Especially because from the ground just looking up there, you can almost convince yourself it's not that far, and if you just believed hard enough, you could simply reach out and touch it.

Many don't turn around and try making a start-up game though, most just burn out of the industry forever.

I think a big reason for this is because they need to have some kinda airtight clandestine OPSEC if they want to work on anything themselves that they plan to show anybody.

It's been common practice for AAA's to say "Anything you make while you're employed here at all is ours." Sometimes even if you're not AT the studio when you do it.

They just simply assume entitlement to your creativity.

So, quit and make that indie darling, right? But then you need a financial "runway" set up, which sets a hard time limit on production and adds a ton of stress, and you'd better hope it sells well enough to make back the lost income.

The indie successes we've seen are nothing short of extraordinary, but also a textbook example of survivorship bias in action. For every success, there's a million projects that never got off the ground, much less sold successfully.

Facing all this...I celebrate the efforts that beat the odds, and love genuinely good games that simply didn't sell enough to keep the ball rolling.

But I don't fault anybody for just going into something more stable before burnout hits, and they would be destroyed from the inside out.

...mmm, Riot maybe?

Like thanking that dude for breaking up with Adele since her breakout album was basically a breakup album. If you're into Adele. Lol

This made me laugh way more than it should have rofl

A phallic jape