You have to be stupid to even become a cop these people don’t understand optics, they’re true believers

I so badly miss playing TF2 in the first few years it came out, still back in days when custom servers were king and you’d make friends with other random people who always played on the same servers. Games just don’t feel like that anymore smh

Big fan of this term going to keep it in mind

Jackmerius is a fucking killer name and I won’t hear otherwise

I love Lorde so much, this album blew my mind back when it came out

Liberals can’t make any media about resistance to exploitation that doesn’t do both sides bad.

Played Assassin’s Creed Mirage recently and the whole time the game was trying to make me think the rebels who wanted to free all of the slaves are actually kinda bad because they do violence sometimes. It’s not relevant to the main story really at all but they still shoehorn it in at every opportunity. Good luck convincing me that former slaves who want to kill their masters aren’t based.

Onson Sweemey has some pretty weak takes on China but I will chock it up to his old age, most of his stuff is well worth reading

I always have respect for people who have a hobby they really enjoy

Imagine walking across fucking Antarctica for 80 days just for the hell of it (and to see a nice statue of Lenin of course). So cool.

Also love the tidbit from the article AcidSmiley shared in other comment that mentions all of the buildings at the camp at the pole of inaccessibility have long since been buried/destroyed by the elements yet Lenin apparently remains unharmed and fully visible. Really makes you think.

Typing this out took me back to 2022 2011, when the Ukraine Libya movie was being presented as going well for them,

Good point as a general rule of thumb nothing works on a bus ever, and the longer the bus trip is the more shit doesnt work

If this is actually the guy and he actually waved at CCTV camera like this, sheesh

hope GOG never changes, they introduced me to so many classic PC games that were before my time that id otherwise never have gotten to play

I feel like the differences are negligible if you aren’t hardline about it. The complaints I have seen people make are fair but I definitely don’t think they detract from the game in a substantial way. Majora’s Mask is one of my all time favorite games and I’ve also played the original dozens of times and nothing about the 3DS version was an issue for me.

Civ 6 is good but as a life long civ player I can’t recommend it in good conscious without all of the expansions and DLC, it just isnt a complete game without that stuff. Not sure if netflix includes that but even then for free its a fun enough game to play around with, though if you know your civ you would quickly see how much is missing without the additional content

Havent read rest of the thread yet so maybe this has been brought up already, but biggest thing for me especially when younger is the stigma towards men having female friends. I’ve always been the sort of guy that finds it easier to connect and form friendships with women than men, and as such most of my closest friends throughout my life have been women.

It was always exhausting to explain to extended family or whoever that just because I’m close friends with a women doesnt mean that there is a romantic or sexual aspect to our relationship. It can be frustrating to be out in public with a female friend have it be assumed that you are in a romantic relationship of some sort by restaurant staff or similar. I would say it has also impacted my ability to actually have a relationship like that with someone as well because people assume that I’m not straight because of my close relations with various women, and it is frustrating to be asked if you are gay just because you are out at the club with your female friends. The stereotype of the “gay best friend” I really do not like because I don’t think sexuality and attraction is cut and dry like that and I feel uncomfortable trying to explain this to people, especially in the context of being at a club or party. I’ve also had a tough time in the past with women I’m trying to see in romantic capacity being upset that I have female friends that I want to spend time with as well, despite the fact that we’ve been friends for over a decade and our relationship has never been anything other than platonic.

Basically I’ve always struggled with the fact that many social forces make it seem like it is not acceptable for a guy to be close with a woman if they aren’t trying to fuck them. Really bothers me and has definitely made me doubt myself in the past, and sadly also caused me to drift away from some previously close friends.

Love to hear that, football is something that unites us all around the world. One day soon I hope there will be a league that encompasses all of Palestine, a country with great football culture and talent.

Anyone in this thread who likes some old school RCT and hasn’t heard of/tried openrct yet needs to do so asap, its the best. Maybe not if you have stuff to get done today though.

probably more reliable than hitting up anyone in my contacts honestly

Not sure if you’re into sports but I would love to hear about football in Gaza before the war. I am vaguely familiar that there is a football league in the west bank but what was it like in Gaza ? Thanks for your time !