Well that's a very healthy response.

It kinda makes me want you to get in touch and pick up where you left off to continue this story! My dopamine demands it, lol.

But I'm worried that if you are still in touch, she lives 1,000 miles away and/or has a family.

Damn it, I was just getting ready to sanitize my light year of lead and now I cannot find that damn thing.

Wow, is it too much to ask that our big evil movements to dismantle decent society and drag us into fascism have some decent leaders??

/s

Yeah, they seem to think we are like the drug addicts who will seek out the batch killing people with ODs because it must be strong.

Should we tell them that the free first hit is supposed to make the user feel GOOD? Meh, let's watch how much money they can burn before it all crashes down.

I mean, if you have enough hardware in the form of giant power-sucking data centers in every town, the latency could get pretty low! /s

Yeah, that's a good point. They did a lot more work on their own needs, their surroundings, and their family/tribe. They did zero work grinding away at some mind-numbing task to make somebody else rich.

Felony murder is used like that all the time, for any death that they say results or was influenced by your lawbreaking.

Unless it's something trivial, like storming the capitol of the country and getting a few folks killed along the way.

Yeah, don't compare them to the ideal in your head. Compare them to the best their competitors have put out there.

You know, like the assholes here in the US that would just have humans remote control them from the next room to get worse results. And yeah of course China can lie and fake shit too, but I think this would probably be just as impressive if they were all mimicking the movements of a mocap-suited athlete off stage.

I see the Postal series has gotten some mentions, but where is my Carmageddon Crew?

Goat Simulator 3 has up to 4p split screen co-op, and it's a big GTA-style sandbox game just loaded with hilarious stuff.

When I think about it, between emulators and various icon collections I have enough games to last me for the rest of my life. And that's a feeling of being free, not trapped.

I also have to do a shout-out for analog enjoyments. Interacting with the natural world and exercising all of your senses are just straight-up good for you.

In my anecdotal experience, the more Trumpy conservative somebody is, the more they are already miserable and complaining about everything all the time. If things get objectively worse for them then they might not act any differently day-to-day. The only question is how far things have to go before they will blame the correct people, if that is even possible for many.