I DMed a lot of shadowrun, and I really do love both of them equally. RP makes the world fun and meaningful, while combat gives it physicality, makes it real.

I miss it, if only I could afford to spend 10 hours on prep every week :<

So I heard a bunch of sexist shit (about men and women simultaneously which is very impressive) that aligns perfectly with my biases, but I wasn’t aware it’s ok to say out loud? Chat is this real?

I think you’re spot on with “young people dumb”. Takes a while to figure out… like, everything.

Generations will have different strong and\or weak areas because their environment changes, but our sum total of “competence” will stay the same IMHO.

It will be a big fucking fight, simply because that same ecosystem wasn’t built with power transition in mind. There’s no successor, no committee strong enough to fallback to, no independent power brokers.

The result is pretty much a coin toss, but I wouldn’t hold my breath for a better outcome.

Let me just pack my programming socks

This is “proud boys”-level OPSEC 🙄

Stand outside white house gate and give a press conference about how fucked everything is.

Join a protest crowd near a Tesla

Go to a trump/musk conference (or some of their top goons) and ask them some questions

When they chain up another department, show up with some boltcutters

Europe did not declare war on google afaik, what do mean “the enemy”.

Look I get the desire to stop an evil corp getting away with it, but restricting access for your citizens is the absolute last thing you should (if ever) consider. EU is a huge market for google, ergo, it has power over it. Continue to regulate, tax and penalize it for its misbehaviors. If it doesn’t comply, seize some if it money see how they like it. Tariff all of its services in favor of a local company.

But for the love of all that is holy stop trying to end the last vestiges of world wide web we still have.

I’ve been working on weekends for a few months not because I have to (or Im pressured into it), but because it’s a really interesting project and I’m having a great time figuring it out.

It’s nice to see you’re not alone in your thoughts, that the world is crazy not you.

But yeah that’s about it :(

They even scratched some eyelashes into it, so cute ❤️

Empathy is easily used for propaganda as well. All those “immigrants are going to r your wife” and “radical elites transing your children” are the appeals to empathy that work very well (there are examples from the left too lets be honest, they’re just less unhinged)

IMO you need empathy, rationality and introspection: empathy to feel for your fellow human, rationality to not fall for the grift, introspection to realize in what ways you were an idiot and self-correct.

The wave of scepticism that will inevitably come in 2030s will weed out the grifters, but I doubt it’ll last. Time is a flat circle afterall.

The real brain melter was the societal culture shift.

I grew up witnessing “the end of history” with my own eyes. People were getting wiser and kinder year after year, decade after decade. It was like a feedback loop of positive changes, the only way was up.

Then 2010s hit and I’m still processing the 180 degrees shift. I read dozens of books about nazis, authoritarianism, societal memory, cults, fucking roman empire. But I still have cognitive dissonance every time I open news feed.

That’s not “working saas” tho.

Its like calling hello world a “production ready CLI application”.

Serbia has like a quarter population of NYC.

I don’t know why there aren’t any mass protests in the US, but that ain’t it.

“Fediverse chick” has such a 2010 vibe

“Hi! This is Hobby X channel and Im the only woman with a decent follower count amidst an ocean of white dudes, I’ve accepted the need to pander to teen male audience so you can just call me the ActivityGirl/Chick/Babe”

Read some theory you capitalist stooge

>: |

In uncertain times people cling to rules even more. To contrast the insanity of the world with a something familiar. To just “do your job” even when your entire institution has been subverted and twisted. It was like that in Germany, too.

Ya, its a mode! There’s like 25 of those. This game has a lot of content if you love the format.

I think it’s less about sympathy and more about understanding what lead him to this point.

You can analyze why a “normal” person did monstrous things without shedding a tear for them. One day someone will make “Zone of Interest” about billionaires living in their bunkers, cleaning air filters from human ash.