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What universally beloved videogame you just can't enjoy?
  • You're trying to dismantle the echo chamber by amplifying voices inside to the point that they think what they're saying no longer or has never made sense, and by extension alienate folks outside looking in.

    It sounds like an interesting strategy, and might be fun if that's what your about, but I doubt it's very effective. I think the risk of it backfiring is probably too high to see a very good return on your effort, especially without any way to verify positive outcomes. Maybe you're different, but I could also see the toxicity of the cynicism required to maintain the strategy decompartmentalizing and seeping into other parts of my life, potentially causing me to alienate my friends and family as well as affecting my mental health.

    I any case, I got respect for anyone willing to stick to their guns for what they think is right, especially if it's for positive social change. I just hope you've weighed the consequences of your method.

  • What universally beloved videogame you just can't enjoy?
  • Dude if you care at all about expanding your ideology beyond yourself, it behooves you to not be an insufferable jerk to literally everyone you talk to. Your demeanor completely undermines any effort you might make here to (perhaps even rightly) challenge the societal norms you deem inadequate, unjust, or otherwise bad. People will just assume you sit in a continuous state of masturbatory rage and dismiss anything you might have (even potentially of substance) to offer to the conversation. Frankly I'm not sure I've ever read anything in print which so clearly expressed an air of self-righteous smugness, save for perhaps something by Bill Maher or Richard Dawkins.

    Figure out how and when ad hominem is appropriate. Learn how to disagree tactfully. Try to exercise some empathy, at least to the point of being able to connect with folks long enough to rattle off whatever rhetoric you have in the ol' back pocket.

  • What universally beloved videogame you just can't enjoy?
  • By that logic any depiction of any form of supremacy, or otherism as a concept, regardless of intent, is detrimental. So, homogeneity only? Commentary is an excuse? Critiquing about the problem is as bad as endorsing it?

    It sounds like you're not mad at Fallout specifically, but one of the core tropes of literature as a genre, and basically the entire concept of social satire.

  • What universally beloved videogame you just can't enjoy?
  • The narrative structuring around ghouls generally paints them as being unjustly denigrated, so even if they are race stand-ins it wouldn't be for the purpose of promoting white supremacism.

  • Got a Point
  • Good for you.

  • Got a Point
  • They have water at the gym

  • Got a Point
  • Dawg it's 95°F out with 97%RH cmon

  • Louisiana's new "Ten Commandments" law actually contains eleven commandments
  • The Establishment clause has applied to state law since 1947.

  • Mug
  • Cold Barqs from a can is soda perfection.

  • What are your favorite openings to a book?
  • I love Neal. Im gonna put the Deliverator sequence from Snow Crash in there as well, just perhaps a bit more verbose over the opening of Seveneves.

  • Death In Fire by Amon Amarth
  • Given the (presumed) frost giant, the rainbow, spirits everywhere, and your hint of melodic death metal, I'm guessing it's something by Amon Amarth, but idk what song specifically.

  • Ctrl + Shift + A
  • I know it's a consequence of open source development, but I just absolutely despise the file picker. Everything else is dreamy.

  • Butt-friendly bike seat moves with your legs
  • Kansas roads have me empathically wincing with tailbone pain whenever I see one out and around

  • Checking and charging HVAC: Plausible DIY?
  • If the concept of a reversing valve is wholly alien to you, I cannot recommend you DIY your issue. Just hire someone, it goes beyond convenience or annoying risks, it's your safety that I'm questioning. Frostbite, electrical shock, poisoning, risk of explosion, severe burns, suffocation, there are so many ways that trained techs get hurt or killed when they don't respect the safety element. No way in hell am I going to tell a stranger on the internet to take that risk for themself or someone around them.

    Please just hire someone.

    Edit: just realized you're not the OP. Still gonna leave this up. This kind of work is simply not suited to being done by non-professionals.

  • Checking and charging HVAC: Plausible DIY?
  • If you live in the US you cannot legally purchase most domestic refrigerant without EPA Section 608 certification. Many supply houses will ask to see your cert card if they don't recognize you.

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  • I just moved instances last night but I can confirm this is just a guy, my dad, holding some kittens he found in his wall yesterday.

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