Not Waterloo ones. They literally pick a fight with you if you were already chilling at a picnic table for half hour

Civ2 manual was probably the biggest book I’d seen as kid apart from Bible

I mean the attention economy is essentially that considering an algorithm is the middle man

Yup, unfortunately people don’t understand that policies only change the equilibrium, but sometimes take longer than electoral cycles to see effect.

That’s why no party really gives a shit about bringing down the national debt, because twofold:

• people hate you in your term because that’s less money being spent for their benefit now
• the opposition can have more spending room to provide more benefits in their term, making them more popular.

Subway bread is considered cake in Ireland.

Meme abuse

May dear leader notice me

Nothing grosser then staying at a hotel in Brooklyn, adjacent to a highway and on the otherside of it is a sprawling parking lot and mall. No sidewalks, no pedestrian overpass, it’s like the thought of walking was unheard of

Maybe manbearpig is on the loose

I know you aren’t talking about GTA/GVA. At least in the last couple of years

You’re too geographically close to Russia.

I remember my vista experience was excessive amounts of prompts to confirm it was using some privileged access for literally anything I tried to do.

And then you play Xcom 2 and realize that Dota 2 was meditative by comparison

Let it be known that heat death is not the last event in the universe

I loved The Onion’s parody of TED Talks where an Idea guy is giving a presentation https://youtu.be/DkGMY63FF3Q?si=BBLyiYPCFSKwgxVY

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Ain’t that the truth.

Id never worked harder than when I was working retail as a HS student. And the worst part is interacting with assholes who thought you were beneath them, which I think it’s what this meme underlines.

was lucky to be well off to get an education which provided a way to land a cushy SW job. Mentally stressful at times sure, but I didn’t have to take shit from somebody and worry if I could afford my next meal. And I see the same ego on the other side here, where people sneer or condescend towards min wage workers.

So many things we take for granted are just down to luck, or lack thereof.

Now I don’t know how it would feel to be wealthy. Where money ceases to be something you need to think about on a day to day basis, but I think that’s when it just becomes a status symbol, and you have to make more only because the Jones bought their 4th yacht, so of course you can’t be seen with less than that! It never ends, and that’s why I think rich-ass capitalists can never have enough, because in their mind the competition never ends and no amount is ever enough.

How pathetic do you have to be to gatekeep a celebration?

Yea, what happens in SOMA fucks with me whenever i think about it.

Digitizing consciousness for use in simulations, and spun up and down in an isolated environment like they are some AWS service.

what a tool